Detox

It is important for the woman to detoxify before becoming pregnant so the foetus doesn’t inherit the mothers toxic load.

 In the month leading up to a baby's birth, the umbilical cord pulses with the equivalent of at least 300 quarts of blood each day, pumped back and forth from the nutrient- and oxygen-rich placenta to the rapidly growing child cradled in a sac of amniotic fluid. This cord is a lifeline between mother and baby, bearing nutrients that sustain life and propel growth.

Not long ago scientists thought that the placenta shielded cord blood — and the developing baby — from most chemicals and pollutants in the environment. But now we know that at this critical time when organs, vessels, membranes and systems are knit together from single cells to finished form in a span of weeks, the umbilical cord carries not only the building blocks of life, but also a steady stream of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides that cross the placenta as readily as residues from cigarettes and alcohol. This is the human "body burden" — the pollution in people that permeates everyone in the world, including babies in the womb.

In a study spearheaded by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in collaboration with Commonweal, researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born in August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals. Tests revealed a total of 287 chemicals in the group. The umbilical cord blood of these 10 children, collected by Red Cross after the cord was cut, harbored pesticides, consumer product ingredients, and wastes from burning coal, gasoline, and garbage.

This study represents the first reported cord blood tests for 261 of the targeted chemicals and the first reported detections in cord blood for 209 compounds. Among them are eight perfluorochemicals used as stain and oil repellants in fast food packaging, clothes and textiles — including the Teflon chemical PFOA, recently characterized as a likely human carcinogen by the EPA's Science Advisory Board — dozens of widely used brominated flame retardants and their toxic by-products; and numerous pesticides.

Of the 287 chemicals we detected in umbilical cord blood, we know that 180 cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests. The dangers of pre- or post-natal exposure to this complex mixture of carcinogens, developmental toxins and neurotoxins have never been studied.

Chemical exposures in the womb or during infancy can be dramatically more harmful than exposures later in life. Substantial scientific evidence demonstrates that children face amplified risks from their body burden of pollution; the findings are particularly strong for many of the chemicals found in this study, including mercury, PCBs and dioxins. Children's vulnerability derives from both rapid development and incomplete defense systems:

• A developing child’s chemical exposures are greater pound-for-pound than those of adults.

• An immature, porous blood-brain barrier allows greater chemical exposures to the developing brain.

• Children have lower levels of some chemical-binding proteins, allowing more of a chemical to reach “target organs”.

• A baby’s organs and systems are rapidly developing, and thus are more often vulnerable to damage from chemical exposure.

• Systems that detoxify and excrete industrial chemicals are not fully developed.

• The longer future lifespan of a child compared to an adult allows more time for adverse effects to arise.

The 10 children in this study were chosen randomly, from among 2004's summer season of live births from mothers in Red Cross' volunteer, national cord blood collection program. They were not chosen because their parents work in the chemical industry or because they were known to bear problems from chemical exposures in the womb. Nevertheless, each baby was born polluted with a broad array of contaminants.

U.S. industries manufacture and import approximately 75,000 chemicals, 3,000 of them at over a million pounds per year. Health officials do not know how many of these chemicals pollute fetal blood and what the health consequences of in utero exposures may be.

A developing baby depends on adults for protection, nutrition, and, ultimately, survival. As a society we have a responsibility to ensure that babies do not enter this world pre-polluted, with 200 industrial chemicals in their blood. Decades-old bans on a handful of chemicals like PCBs, lead gas additives, DDT and other pesticides have led to significant declines in people's blood levels of these pollutants.

In light of the findings in this study and a substantial body of supporting science on the toxicity of early life exposures to industrial chemicals, we strongly urge that federal laws and policies be reformed to ensure that children are protected from chemicals, and that to the maximum extent possible, exposures to industrial chemicals before birth be eliminated. The sooner society takes action, the sooner we can reduce or end pollution in the womb.

Source: Environmental Working Group analysis of tests of 10 umbilical cord blood samples conducted by AXYS Analytical Services (Sydney, BC) and Flett Research Ltd. (Winnipeg, MB)

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I had myself tested for toxins in the body with Bio-resonance and the result was alarming. I found this safe way to detoxify myself with Zeolite before becoming pregnant for the second time.

Zeolites are fine powdered volcanic ash.

They consists of Aluminium Silica where aluminium is firmly bonded in a lattice structure. Thus they do not release aluminium, but attract for example aluminium ions. The zeolites are completely negatively charged particles, which means that they attract positive ions. Aluminium is a trivalent positive ion and most heavy metals are divalent positive ions.

The zeolite particles are even formed so that there are many holes in the latticework, which gives it a large surface where the ions can bind. A zeolite particle can attract up to 15 000 metal ions, to compare with for example EDTA where every molecule bind or chelate maximum 2 metal ions.

Of course the zeolites also attract the non-harmful ions but they have a predilection for ions like arsenic, lead, mercury and cadmium. This can be explained by the fact that these ions has a similar strength and bind harder to the lattice.

The healthy ions, for example zinc, selenium and magnesium are probably also bound to the zeolite but they have a lower ion-strength and are thrown out when the zeolite-particle encounter a heavy metal ion.

An easy way to detoxify is with volcanic ash, Zeolite.

To prevent the body to be depleted from trace minerals, the producers have added trace minerals in the liquid that the zeolites are being kept in so that the zeolites are full of ions. When they encounter the heavy metal ions, they throw out the ions present and take in the heavy metals.

In addition, Fulvic acid is added which help to carry the zeolites into the cells.

It would be appropriate to check levels of trace elements in the body after a period of using zeolites and to take high doses of magnesium during the detox. Magnesium is a counter ion to mercury which means that when there is mercury in the body, often there is magnesium-deficiency. Some form of multi-mineral and vitamin supplement is also advisable.

Zeolites stays in the body 5-6 hours after ingestion therefore it is not advisable to take it together with mineral supplements.

I offer analysis for heavy metal toxicity with Bio-resonance and advice for detoxing with Zeolite. Please contact me for further enquiries.