Lead in Bone and death
By Linda on Mar 26, 2010 in Toxins | comments(0)
Is lead more important that cholesterol levels? This research shows that higher bone lead leads to a six-fold increase in heart attacks.
Bone lead levels reflect LIFE TIME exposures and are clearly the best test, more accurate than blood, urine, hair, provoked levels etc. Adult bones take 15 years average to REMODEL, and we are born with 1000 times greater bone lead levels than existed a few hundred years ago. You will understand why I advocate daily lead removal for 15 years.
Chelation only removes lead from readily mobilized organs and soft tissues stores, not bone. This makes everyone function better, but when you stop, a new equilibrium is achieved and bone lead will download lead again. This means that the benefits from any form of chelation will be short lived.
You must have a long-term program such as Beyond Chelation-Improved, Zeolite or high-dose Vitamin C or Fiber that people will follow consistently for many years if you want to significantly lower the incidence of morbidity and mortality in any population. Lead has been shown to contribute to all causes of morbidity and mortality and your Mom always told you to “GET THE LEAD OUT” anyway.
We are all taking in more lead daily from our water, food and air, and thus we need a program that permits us to eliminate more lead and other heavy metals than we take in. That way, over time, we can all lower our total bone burden and keep it low, including bone lead levels.
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
Full article: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/short/120/12/1056
Excerpt:
From the Departments of Environmental Health (M.G.W., J.S.) and Epidemiology (M.G.W., J.S.), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass; Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (M.G.W., J.S.); Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (N.J.); School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind (H.N.); Department of Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Mass (D.S., P.V.); Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass (D.S., P.V.); Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Mass (D.S., P.V.): and Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (H.H.).
Received October 8, 2008; accepted July 31, 2009.
