Longevity & Health Optimization Series: Are Heavy Metals Impacting Your Vitality, Brain Health, Longevity? A Simple, Cost-Effective Test To Find Out
One of my favourite of our 7 Naturopathic Medicine Treatment Principles is about removing the obstacle to cure.
Our body’s innate healing force and energy is what I as a Naturopathic Doctor I am taught to work with and be guided by. Your body’s natural healing force has a wisdom and power and knows what it takes to heal anything and everything. The ease of us in our natural state of delicious well-being tells us this force is flowing freely!
AND, factors can block/interfere with it . This can include everything from continuing with a job we hate, to not creating space in our lives for our dreams and desires o be engaged, to eating foods we are sensitive to, to having accumulated heavy metals or toxins in our bodies.
Wherever we can free up blocks to vitality and support the natural flow will benefit the quality and richness of our lives.
The Urine Toxic Metals and Elements test I use with clients evaluates exposure to potentially toxic elements.
I use it to see if heavy metals are a factor that is now or could in the future impact his/her quality of life. I have clients use a metal detoxification agent to help us effectively see what’s in their system. Acute heavy metal poisoning is thankfully rare these days. However, chronic, low-level exposure to toxic metals is more common, which can lead to substantial retention in the body over time that can be associated with various adverse health effects and some terrible chronic disease processes like dementia and Parkinson’s disease.
Toxicity occurs when net retention exceeds physiological tolerance. The difference between the rates of assimilation and excretion of metals determines net retention. To evaluate net retention, you compare the levels of metals in urine before and after administering a pharmaceutical metal detoxification agent such as EDTA, DMSA, or DMPS. Different compounds have different affinities for specific metals, but all function by sequestering "hidden" metals from deep tissue stores and mobilizing the metals to the kidneys for excretion in the urine. Performing both pre- and post-provocation urinalysis helps us distinguish between ongoing exposures to metals (pre-) and net bodily retention (post).
In my practice with individuals who are not having current exposure but wanting to be proactive in their health or shift a familial disease pattern I am often solely doing the post-provocation tests where I give them a test agent and they collect their urine in the sampling container for 6 hours that we then send to the lab for testing.
There is value in analyzing essential elements in urine to evaluate nutritional status and the effectiveness of mineral supplementation during metal detoxification therapy as well which is included in this test. Metal detoxification agents can significantly increase the excretion of specific nutrient elements such as zinc, copper, manganese, and molybdenum. In addition, an early indication of renal dysfunction can be gleaned from urinary wasting of essential elements such as magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium in an unprovoked specimen.
This testing can be helpful to address a health issue or proactively to optimize wellness - here are some areas/situations clients run the test for:
Pre-Pregnancy so Can Safely Clear Body of These Beforehand
Have Toxic Element Exposure in Workplace
Bone Density
Mood Disorder (Depression)
Brain Health Optimization
Hormone Issues
Monitor Detoxification Therapy
Low Energy
Gut Health Symptoms
Immune Function
Unexplained/Hard to Shift Weight Gain
Inflammation
Nutritional Deficiencies
Parkinson's-like Symptoms
Family History of Heavy Metal Associated Conditions
What the Urine Toxic Metals and Elements Test tests:
Aluminum | Antimony | Arsenic
Barium | Beryllium | Bismuth
Cadmium | Cesium
Gadolinium
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Palladium | Platinum
Tellurium | Thallium | Thorium | Tin | Tungsten
Uranium
If you think this test would support you book in to se me as a patient and we’ll get you set up,
To you at your best … feeling your aliveness, joy and clarity of mind and spirit all your days!
xo, Dr. Monika 🦋
(If you are a client who I have referred here this gives you an idea of the cycling I talked about to clear the heavy metals that have showed up with your assessment: 1000 mg/day DMSA on weekends and 15 - 30 Prime Chlorella (1/2 - 1 tsp) the other 5 days. 1 cup cilantro tea in Chlorella days. Glutathione liposomal 1 pump every day. This is repeated 3 times which constitutes 1 cycle. Then take 2 weeks off and take 2 Tbsp of Colloidal Multi Mins per day. Follow the individualization I laid out for you.)
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