Gentle Detox: The Natural Detoxification Program

By Dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch PhD

In the last decades, toxic metal syndromes have been described. Chronic overexposure to lead, mercury and other potentially toxic metals can affect body and brain, causing a wide variety of diseases, including skin and heart problems, contributing to Alzheimer, cancer and depression. International research has accumulated a large body of evidence linking chronic disease to environmental problems and some of it is listed here. Today, doctors and patients alike are more concerned about the diagnosis and treatment of chronic metal exposure and with this booklet we help them through the jungle of information. We explain what diagnostic tests are useful, and why and how the individual genetic make-up predisposes people to accumulate metals, where toxins are hidden.

Medicine utilizes synthetic agents to detoxify acute and chronic metal intoxication. However, such chemical treatment may not be appropriate for sensitive patients, the very young or elderly. Nature has provided us with nutrients that are similarly capable of ‘chelating’ metals and this book explains not only the toxicity of metals, which symptoms they may cause or which organ systems they affect, nature also provides nutritional alternatives to synthetic chelation. We explain how natural detoxifying agents work, and provide nutritional self-treatment protocols.

Nutritional detox requires more recovery and healing time. When it comes to chronic metal exposure, we need to admit that our organ systems did not get overburdened in one week or month. The body gradually adjusted to toxins, and it will appreciate a gradual and gentle elimination of the burdensome load so natural healing can take place.

Reading The Gentle Detox leads the reader on to the safe road of natural detoxification.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch PhD
• Release date: Jul 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310590511

Dr. Eleonore Blaurock-Busch PhD

E.Blaurock-Busch PhD is research director of Micro Trace Minerals Analytical Laboratory Germany and Trace Mineral International Laboratory of Boulder, Colorado and was Assistant Laboratory Director at King James Medical Laboratory, Cleveland, OH. Her specialty is metal toxicology and human nutrition.She is a founding member and co-chairman of the International Association of Trace Element Research and Cancer, and organizer of the first East-West World Congress on Trace Element and Cancer, held in Beijing, China in 1996. As scientific advisor to the International Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology (IBCMT) she lectured worldwide at medical meetings and universities. As scientific advisor to the German Medical Association for Clinical Metal Toxicology (Deutsche Ärztegesellschaft für Klinische Metalltoxilogie – KMT), she continues to be involved in teaching toxicology to German physicians.She is instrumental in environmental and laboratory research projects in metal toxicology, including epidemiological studies that evaluated the toxic burden of people of various countries, including India and Saudi Arabia. In 2005, she received the IBCMT (International Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology) Award for Outstanding Service.She was a guest speaker at radio and TV shows in the US, Germany and elsewhere.She published several books in German and English at reputable publishers including Prentice Hall (later Simon and Schuster) and Hugendubel. Her many articles were published in various languages in medical and lay journals around the world.She is a member of the European Academy for Environmental Medicine and the British Society for Ecological Medicine. She continues independent studies at Exeter College, Oxford University, UK.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Toxins are all around us

Toxic Metals and Symptoms of Metal Intoxication

Chapter 2 - Diagnosing metal exposure

Hair mineral analysis to define past and/or chronic exposures

Urine metal analysis to define chronic metal exposure

Saliva and Dental Metals

Fecal Metals and Diet

Chapter 3 - The Genetic Connection or why some people are more affected by toxins than others

The detoxification pathway

Phase 1 Enzymes

The Cytochrome P450, specifically the CYT 450 1A1

Superoxide Dismutase 1 (SOD1)

Superoxide Dismutase 2 (SOD2)

Phase 2 Enzymes

Glutathione S-Transferase M1 (GSTM1)

Glutathione S-Transferase T1 (GSTT1)

Glutathione S-Transferase P1 (GSTP1)

N-Acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2)

Apolipoprotein E (Apo E)

Summary: Why genetic testing

How to test?

Chapter 4 - Water - a source of metal exposure

Information about drinking water

Aluminum (Al)

Antimony (Sb)

Arsenic (As)

Barium (Ba)

Beryllium (Be)

Boron (B)

Copper (Cu)

Iron (Fe)

Lead (Pb)

Manganese (Mn)

Uranium (U)

Zinc (Zn)

Bottled Water- how safe is it?

Water Testing Information

Chapter 5 - Natural Detoxification Treatments

Nutritional Chelation

Nutritional Treatment Protocol for Adults

Evaluating the type of exposure

Urine Analysis Protocol

Detoxify metals nutritionally

Nutritional Detox Treatment Program

Words of Caution

Starting your 6-month treatment program

Buying nutrients

Nutritional Detoxifiers

Ascorbic acid or Vitamin C

Vitamin E (Tocopherol)

Cysteine, N - Acetyl Cysteine (NAC)

Glutathione

Nutritional Detoxification Protocol for Adults

Chapter 6 - Patient Stories

Oliver’s Case and how Hair Analysis helped to locate the source of his problem

Mercury and Skin Problems

Lead as a Cause of Alopecia areata

References

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Aluminum

Lead

Uranium

Zinc

Bottled Water

Chapter 5

Vitamin E

Cysteine

Glutathione

Chapter 1

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Toxins are all around us

Any metal capable of disrupting essential physiological processes is considered toxic and while potentially toxic metals have always been present in the earth's ecosystem, the Industrial Revolution caused a massive redistribution of metals on the surface of the earth. It affected our environment, changed our food, water, animal and people’s health. It changed the relative availability and the forms in which metals are being dispersed.

The problem with heavy metals is that they tend to form very stable and long-lasting complexes, which disrupt important biological functions. While the World Health Organisation (WHO) tries to oversee the regulation of toxins, heavy metals increasingly have impacted all countries, particularly India. Cadmium in rice and mercury in fish directly affects the health of people in Asia and other parts of the world.

During 2008 and 2009, Micro Trace Minerals Laboratory under the direction of Dr. E. Blaurock-Busch tested hair and urine samples of 150 persons in Punjab, India. Included in the study were physically and mentally challenged children, many suffering from cerebral palsy.

Picture 1: Mentally and physically handicapped Punjabi child.

Unusually high hair levels of manganese, strontium and uranium were seen in the hair and urine of over 80% of the patients.

During 2012 and 2013, we evaluated hair samples of Punjabi cancer patients and compared test results with healthy people living in the same household. Nearly all test persons showed unusually high levels of barium, lead, strontium, manganese and uranium. Is that a coincidence? Most likely it is a reflection of an increasingly toxic environment, affecting people of all ages.

During 2013, we tested blood and spinal fluid of children living in Mexico City. Again, we found unusually high levels of barium, lead, manganese and other metals.

We have evaluated people of all ages from South Africa, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, South America and Europe. We can honestly say that today multiple toxic exposures are common everywhere.

If you live in an industrial area or near a toxic dump,