blood lead – F.I.G.H.T for your health!

Lead in Bone and death

Linda — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:09:24 +0000

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.

Environmental Lead Exposure

Bryan Rosner — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:16:28 +0000

Linda’s comment: Dr Gordon’s FIGHT program will deal with helping to reduce and/or removing lead from the body that will help protect the kidneys. I have personally been on the FIGHT program for 1 1/2 years and it is the best thing I have ever done….Removing heavy metals from our bodies will help us to protect our immune from disease. I have posted on Mercury and all the things that it effects….this is serious, please read that post closely.

Regards,
Linda or Angel

Many may remember the NEJM article proving that patients with early renal impairment could often avoid renal dialysis if they routinely were maintained on CALCIUM EDTA infusions. Now there is new research finding that low levels of lead from the environment are adversely affecting renal function. By now, hopefully, all of you are aware that Lead levels have been tied to all causes of morbidity and mortality. However, remember the SYNERGISTIC toxicity effects where small amounts of other toxic metals like Mercury dramatically enhance the adverse effect of Lead.

Unfortunately NO test seems to be as accurate as BONE LEAD in determining risks of cataracts or heart attacks. But since we know we are all toxic today, this is just another indicator that may lead a few more patients to take preventive steps with a program using oral or parenteral chelators and or Zeolite, or even high dose oral vitamin c. Renal dialysis is not fun and kidney transplants are not easy to come by.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/715046

From Medscape Medical News

Low-Level Environmental Lead Exposure May Adversely Affect Renal Function
Laurie Barclay, MD

January 13, 2010 — Low-level environmental lead exposure may adversely affect renal function, according to results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, reported in the January 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

“Chronic, high-level lead exposure is a known risk factor for kidney disease,” write Jeffrey J. Fadrowski, MD, MHS, from Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues. “The effect of current low-level environmental lead exposure is less well known, particularly among children, a population generally free from kidney disease risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the association between lead exposure and kidney function in a representative sample of US adolescents.”

The study cohort consisted of 769 adolescents aged 12 to 20 years for whom whole blood lead and serum cystatin C were measured in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which took place from 1988 to 1994. The investigators evaluated the association between blood lead level and level of kidney function, reflected in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) calculated from cystatin C–based and creatinine-based estimating equations.

Median whole blood lead level was 1.5 μg/dL (to convert to micromoles per liter, multiply by 0.0483), and median cystatin C–estimated GFR was 112.9 mL/min/1.73 m2. Compared with participants in the first quartile of lead levels (<1 μg/dL), those with lead levels in the highest quartile (≥3.0 μg/dL) had a lower estimated GFR by 6.6 mL/min/1.73 m2 (95% confidence interval [CI], −0.7 to −12.6 mL/min/1.73 m2). Twofold increase in blood lead level was associated with lower estimated GFR by 2.9 mL/min/1.73 m2 (95% CI, −0.7 to −5.0 mL/min/1.73 m2). Although lead levels were also associated with lower creatinine-based estimated GFR levels, t

Lead in vinegar

Linda — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:25:27 +0000

Findings from a November 9, 2009, Environmental Health News report have revealed that many varieties of balsamic vinegar contain trace amounts of lead that are contributing to neurological and other damage in both children and adults. Ingestion of a single tablespoon of vinegar with the highest tested levels of lead was found to potentially raise a child’s blood lead level by 30% while two tablespoons a day would raise it by 55%.

Traditional balsamic vinegars have always been procured using time-tested methods of barrel fermentation that instill the rich balsamic flavor loved by many. However research is beginning to show that many of these vinegars, particularly those that are aged for the longest periods of time, contain dangerously high levels of lead that could be contributing to childhood behavior disabilities like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

In 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set the maximum threshold of lead exposure in children to 10 micrograms (mcg) per deciliter, a level that more recent research suggests is too high. The CDC itself recognizes that the toxicity of lead is so severe that there is no specific minimum threshold for which adverse effects do not occur.

In 2002, a California lawsuit concerning lead-tainted vinegar led to state mandates that established the maximum allowable daily level of lead at .5 mcgs per day, which translates to 34 parts per billion (ppb). Shelves in the state stocked with untested or threshold-exceeding balsamic vinegar must contain a warning sign indicating that the products contain lead and may be harmful to health.

Since not all balsamic vinegars contain lead, and some more than others, producers are expressing concern that balsamic vinegar is receiving a bad rap despite the fact that many other grape products also contain lead. They also allege that independent experts have verified that grapevines tend to absorb lead from the ground and that the occurrences are completely normal and to be expected.

Some toxicologists and others, however, oppose the idea that lead contamination is occurring due to soil conditions and rather suggest that production and storage methods are the culprits. Testing has revealed that vinegars aged the longest in wood barrels had the highest levels of lead contamination.

Many producers are now independently testing and verifying their vinegar products in order to meet guidelines and to assure customers that their products are safe. Many brands meet or exceed the California threshold requirements and some even print a stamp of approval on their labels.

Since trace amounts of lead can be found in all kinds of foods, it seems unfair to simply target balsamic vinegar. However it is best to practice caution and seek out those products that have verifiably minimal levels of toxic carcinogens like lead.

There are also a variety of heavy metal detoxification regimens that can be utilized in order to keep the body in tip-top shape, including supplementation with chlorella, spirulina, sulfur-rich foods like cabbage and garlic, and fresh juicing. While it is best to keep heavy metal ingestion at a minimum, nutrient-rich diets play an important role in continually purifying the blood and detoxifying the body.

Sources:

Special Report: Some vinegars – often expensive, aged balsamics – contain a big dose of lead – Environmental Health News

Clinically Proven Oral Chelation: Baseline’s Alternative Health Newsletter

OEHHA Proposition 65 – Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986