The Environmental Working Group estimates that more than 100,000 chemicals are used commercially, with more than 84,000 chemicals used in household products, cosmetics, food and food packaging.  And most of these have never been tested for safety.

These are alarming figures, and the reason why I believe that toxicants are the biggest problem that we face on the planet today.

There is no sense of balance within these figures. We are living within extreme times, where an extreme measure to counter this over-whelm has now become a necessity.

Even our grandparents born into the industrial revolution didn’t have 80% or more of the toxins that we have now saturated into our biology.  Back then our cows were grass-fed and organic and pasture-raised, but now dairy products must present a special label saying ‘organic’! which is then sold for extra £’s.

In any given day you may encounter a noxious mix of benzene from petrol files, bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S (BPS), all found in food cans and plastic packaging, chemical-laden paints, Scotchguard-treated clothing, carpets and furniture, wood-floor finishes, cosmetics and toiletries, household cleaning products, printing ink, heavy metals in food-water-air-and many of the above, the list goes on and on (and on).

Compound these facts with a quadrupling of the total number of vaccines added to children’s vaccine schedules containing heavy metals, preservatives and human-albumin contaminated with viruses HHV6 and EBV.  Compound that with glyphosate where there is 300 plus million pounds of it being added to the soil every year. Compound that with aerosol sprays, and glyphosate being dumped into our atmosphere each day, compound that with geo-engineering and weather modification from the planes.

Well guess what, we all share the same contaminated planet, and there is simply no escape, nowhere to go, we are all chock full with this stuff.

So our bodies have a natural affiliation with heavy metals, that’s why our body draws them in.  Heavy metals are structurally the same as minerals, only heavier. Therefore when a mineral is lacking, our body will go looking for an alternative, and make use of the structurally similar heavy metal, when available. Using the structurally similar heavy metal to bridge the metabolic pathway, and fulfilling its task in the short term.  In the longer term, the heavy metal disrupts metabolic functions whilst blocking the minerals from entering the receptor sites once again.

With the overwhelming number as well as the dose of toxicants that we are exposed to daily, it’s easy to understand that we are now up against a herculean task. Expecting your body to keep up, is in my view a very unreasonable expectation.

This is why I take a stand for: ‘Detoxification Not Just For a Weekend, But a Way Of Life.

I like to do period weekly liver cleanses with a once a year intensive detox.  But this is On-Top of the intensive oral chelation work I did for 18 months. Because THAT is what it takes.

How do you know that you have a build-up of Toxins?

Well, I heard someone once say, ‘Let me tell you, but first let me feel your pulse? ‘  ‘Yep, you’re alive – which by definition means you have a build-up of toxins!’

Symptomatically

When you experience toxicants building-up in your system you can feel perpetually run down.  As if you have the flu – the flu that never breaks into a fever.  In short, this is your liver, chocking on toxins and hampering your immune system.  Feeling perpetually run down in this way is depressing and soul-destroying and something I put up with for over a decade.  Never having quite enough energy. Dragging yourself out of bed in the morning, and in my case also dragging my body up a hill three times a week in an attempt to do some exercise.

When you wake up in the morning more tired than you do before you go to bed, that is also another clue.

The aetiology of known health conditions associated with toxin exposure:

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Fibromyalgia
• Artherosclerosis Myalgias
• Arthralgias
• Cognitive dysfunction
• Gulf War Syndrome, now widely believed to be the result of massive expose to organophosphate pesticides couples with the effects of nerve gas protection tablets.

In the early days of my clinical practice, one of my dear clients passed away after falling over, in his flat.  He was an ex-veteran with a huge heart, gravely disabled from Gulf War Syndrom.  He always wore a huge smile, but suffered greatly every day, trapped and condemned within his body.

His death affected me for years, and to this day.

I am more passionate than ever, about exposing the biological weapons we seem to accept as normal within every day produce, within our farming industries, within our government agendas, when these poisons are not acceptable, not on any level.

The fact is clear, heavy metals and chemicals will always negatively impact your immune system. So it makes sense that when you remove them you’re removing the toxic load which hampers your immune system, off from your immune system too.

But sadly, the layers go far deeper than just toxicants in our systems.

Viruses & Heavy Metals

Viruses are dependent on metals in order to exist within our biological terrain.  Our nerves are the electrical wires within our system, which require a high content of conductive metals such as iron, copper, aluminium in order to conduct electric impulses.

When a neuron doesn’t have enough minerals such as copper, iron or zinc, for instance, it will draw in heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead to substitute, because of the neuron functions better with toxic metals than with no metals at all.  Viruses attach themselves to free-floating heavy metals that are floating in our serum. These heavy metals then become the transport system for the viruses as they are drawn up into the nervous system. This is where neurotropic viruses all end up!

We know through studies the link between Alzheimer’s Disease, aluminium toxicity, viral loading in the brain and parasites in the brain.

If we stop to consider for one moment these co-morbidities: Viruses that we already know that we are dealing with HSV1 and other herpes strains, HHV6, Coxsackie, EBV and many more, contributing to the plague of 21st-century auto-immune conditions, and then add in a COVID-19 pandemic, together with WIFI and 5G to suppress the immune system and therefore perpetuate viral virulence.  With so much interconnectedness, it’s easier than ever for bacteria and viruses to spread across the world. And we have a Perfect Storm!

So what do we do about it?

If you don’t keep up with the constant flood of toxins, they’ll overwhelm your system and accumulate in your cells, gradually sapping your energy, mental clarity, and immune health.

That’s why you need a long-term strategy, to build detoxification into your routine daily.  That way you get to reduce all the symptoms from fatigue to hormone disruption issue, to fibromyalgia and cancer, and keep your immune system strong in the middle of a viral pandemic.

In addition to damaging specific cell lines, heavy metals also take a toll on our energy production, with the optimal mitochondrial function being central to the powering your immune system.

It’s no coincidence that heavy metal toxicity and immune system challenges both results in fatigue. Once the heavy metals embed within our mitochondria, we are no longer able to create clean energy from the source.  Therefore heavy metal toxicity is one contributing factor in dysfunctional mitochondria.

Let’s now learn a bit about mitochondria

Your mitochondria are the powerhouse of your cells.  That’s were creating energy is at!  They’re the cell part that produces the energy your body uses to power it’s myriad of functions — and they’re particularly vital for a strong immune system.

In fact, your mitochondria are intimately tied to immune activity — regulating the activation, movement, and survival of your immune cells.

Issues occur when heavy metals attack the membranes of your mitochondria, resulting in dysfunction of these essential cell parts and a decrease in energy production.

Arsenic and mercury have a significant impact on the structure and function of mitochondria. They impact something called mitophagy, which is the mitochondria’s ability to remove damaged cell parts and pathogens. With an impairment in mitophagy, the mitochondria are unable to carry out their role in energy production.

Other metals such as cadmium and copper can damage mitochondria and initiate cell death by causing injury to the cell membranes and directly interfering with the process of energy production.

The Top 4 Heavy Metals Sabotaging Your Immunity

There are a number of heavy metals that can damage your immune system, but the top four that we should focus on reducing or removing from our system include:

1 Mercury

Mercury toxicity contributes to a wide range of chronic health conditions including, brain fog, chronic fatigue, acne, hair loss, weight gain, autoimmune disease, and cancer. Some of the most common sources of mercury include amalgam fillings, fish, coal-burning, vaccines, and cosmetics.

2 Arsenic

Toxic levels of arsenic can cause havoc to your mitochondria — the energy powerhouse of your cells. Symptoms of arsenic toxicity include fatigue, aches and pains, brittle nails, burning feeling in the digestive tract, diarrhoea, oedema, weakness, dizziness, and more.

Arsenic can be found in non-organic chicken, cosmetics, drinking water, paints, insecticides, rice, and seafood (shrimp and oysters).

3 Lead

Lead toxicity causes damage to the nervous, reproductive, and renal system, and often results in fatigue and potential liver damage. One of the most common symptoms of lead toxicity is high blood pressure due to high levels of lead depositing in the kidneys.

Lead is everywhere in our environment but can be found in the following places in particular: auto exhaust, candle wicks, ceramics, cigarette smoke, gasoline, pipes, milk, paint, pencils, and toothpaste.

4 Cadmium

Cadmium is a known carcinogen and is involved in many chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, arthritic conditions, heart disease, kidney disease, depression, and adrenal fatigue.

The primary sources of cadmium in the environment include air pollution, paint, automobile exhaust fumes, coffee, cigarettes, contaminated soil, hydrogenated oils, plastics, and rubber.

These four metals inhibit the function of three vital components of your immune system

1 Macrophage

Arsenic and lead, in particular, can inhibit the function of macrophages.

Macrophages are specialised cells of the immune system that are involved in the detection and destruction of harmful bacteria. Through a process called phagocytosis, macrophages essentially consume harmful bacteria and dead cells to remove them from your system.

In addition, macrophages can elicit an inflammatory response by releasing chemicals called cytokines that activate other immune-related cells. These immune cells can be found throughout your body in different tissues acting on a wide range of various pathogens to clear them from your system.

When macrophages come into contact with arsenic and lead, their structure becomes altered — rendering them unable to carry out the process of phagocytosis. Without the proper clearing of pathogens via phagocytosis, they may accumulate in your system and cause further toxicity.

2 Neutrophils

Neutrophils are your body’s first line of defence against foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses. They are the primary cell type involved in inflammatory responses — both acute and chronic.

These essential immune cells make up more than 50% of your white blood cells, and during infection can increase to 80% or more.

You can think of neutrophils as the security guards of your immune system — sweeping through your bloodstream scanning for infections or other potential sources of inflammation.

Metals such as lead, copper, mercury, and cadmium have all been shown to impact the immune-protective activity of neutrophils.

One of the crucial roles that neutrophils play in immunity is called cell signalling. Cell Signaling is a process that alerts other components of the immune system to become active in an effort to fight foreign substances.

Research shows that when cells are exposed to mercury, the receptors on the surface of neutrophils that send and receive signals become damaged — rendering their signalling capabilities ineffective.

When exposed to lead, the ability of neutrophils to follow chemical signals and travel to areas of infection is impaired, along with their phagocytic ability.

3 Natural Killer Cells (NK cells)

Natural killer cells are vital to your immune system’s response, especially when it comes to viral infections and tumours. As the name suggests, these cells not only help to contain viruses, but they destroy the entire cell, extinguishing the virus completely.

These cells respond rapidly to a wide range of pathological challenges in your body. They survey the environment around them, and depending on molecules expressed on the membranes of the cells that they come into contact with, they either attack or leave them alone.

The heavy metal cadmium is of particular concern for the health of natural killer cells. Research shows that when NK cells are exposed to cadmium, it inhibits their immune activity.

But immune inhibition isn’t the only detrimental effect that heavy metals have on NK cells. In pregnant women, high levels of NK cells have been correlated with miscarriage, which is likely due to the impact of heavy metals on ovarian, pituitary, as well as immune health.

What type of diet should we all be eating right now? 

• Organic, of course – or with as least pesticides as possible.
• Foods that provide our bodies with nourishment and strength, which includes nutrient density.
• Remember that what you eat today will directly alter your immune system within your gut microbiome tomorrow.

Gifts to get you started

MegaSporeBiotic

Kiran Krishnan is a microbiologist and who co-founded Microbiome Labs a decade ago. Their flagship product is called MegaSporeBiotic.

MegaSporeBiotic is a unique product, one that I would like to bring to everyone’s attention because unlike many of the probiotics sold today, this product has science rather than marketing to back up its claim. Most people are unaware that the strains of probiotic presented within the most popular brands, were popularised in our health industry, health magazines and the internet, because they became interested in the earliest studies, back in the 1960s.  What is under-reported, is that these studies from the 1960s were embarrassingly poor studies, with zero scientific backings.

So, Lactobacillus Acidophilus is in the fourth percentile of bacteria in the gut. Meaning 96% of the bacteria in the gut is more important and more abundant than Lactobacillus Acidophilus! But, it’s in virtually every probiotic product you can find.

And then we find claims behind products that 10 billion or 50 billion, 100 billion, 200 billion is better than those with lower numbers. But guess what, there is not a single study to back this up! It’s all marketing with zero substantiation, which is what happens when you have marketing running science.

It was Kiran’s background as a microbiologist that made his flagship product MegaSporeBiotic so unique.

With only 5 strains, when combined with spores, within only three weeks it diversifies the gut up to 50%. Literally doubling the diversity! Meaning there is an increase in both the number and the uniformity of bacteria was by 50%. Uniformity being just as important as the number.

This has never been done before. No probiotic product has ever before been shown to increase the diversity of the rest of the microbiome.