With the increasing concern around environmental pollution, heavy metals are becoming a focal point for many health-conscious individuals. Heavy metals can be found in our surroundings and have severe and long-lasting effects. One area of concern is the disruption of our hormones. Hormonal imbalances can impact many health problems, including autoimmune diseases, cancers, and thyroid dysfunction. These issues can significantly impact the quality of life and overall well-being. Understanding how heavy metals disrupt hormones and protecting oneself from exposure is critical to maintaining optimal health and function. This article will dive into these topics and explore ways to mitigate heavy metal exposure for a healthier lifestyle.
Heavy Metal Accumulation Impacts
Heavy metals are toxic, dense metals that accumulate in our bodies starting at conception and then throughout our life grows through environmental exposure. These heavy metals include mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic, with many more on the list. They disrupt the delicate balance in our hormonal system by affecting hormones at the cellular level and inhibiting pathways for our cells to receive hormonal signals.
Some common effects include decreased sexual function in men and women, irregular menstrual cycle, uncontrollable moods, weight gain, reduced energy, and any other pathways hormones need for an individual to feel normal daily.1,2
Generational Toxicity
All heavy metals can significantly affect a person. Yet, it has been used in the past, and it takes four generations to fully remove any toxicity from the body (if in a perfect environment). This means that lead-lined paints, toxic fillings, and other toxins we as a society have been exposed to for the past 100+ years can still affect these hormones within the body.
Each heavy metal is known to be stored in the body differently. For instance, lead will typically attach itself to calcium molecules, but many tend to stay in the fatty areas of the body, such as the brain and can stay there for scary lengths of time.
Detox Options
While our bodies have a natural detoxification system for such things, they can only handle so much. This means being intentional about watching our bodies and finding effective ways to detox is essential today. Because as we age and lose bone mass (excreting lead into the body), along with many other changes, those toxic heavy metals will be moved around in our body, leading to hormonal and other systems being affected heavily.
The disruption in hormonal systems causes a cascade of effects, leading to various health problems. Heavy metal toxicity can cause autoimmune diseases, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases.
How can we protect ourselves from heavy metal toxicity? First, avoid or remove heavy metal exposure in our environment. Some common sources of heavy metals include contaminated drinking water, fish, and amalgam fillings. Avoiding these sources of exposure is crucial. It is crucial to undergo testing for heavy metal toxicity and actively participate in heavy metal detoxification programs when living in an area with high environmental pollution levels.
Cyto Detox
CytoDetox is a product that removes anything from the body with a positive charge, particularly targeting the heaviest charged molecules like mercury. It effectively eliminates substances with a positive charge and aims to promote detoxification. It incorporates a variety of “Cages” to pull out these heavy metals from the body, utilizes a liposomal delivery system to access the cells, and employs our patented cleaning process of the clinoptilolite to guarantee the purest product. The sizes of the cages vary from the smallest that penetrate the cell and can remove them without damaging the cell, to medium-sized ones that will enter the bloodstream, and then the largest cages move throughout the organs.
The variety of sizes all have different jobs. The larger can have more “cages” and are thus able to remove more of what is in the body, but they can’t go down into the cells and remove from the source as the smallest size can. This, paired with activated charcoal such as True Carbon Cleanse, can remove many toxins from the body if done consistently. This can mean fewer aches and pains, decreased inflammation, and a more effective body as those toxic substances no longer interfere with the body’s normal processes.
Conclusion
To summarize, heavy metals’ presence in the environment is a significant concern for our health, particularly our hormonal system. These toxic metals affect the hormone-producing glands and interfere with hormone signaling mechanisms, leading to hormonal imbalance. This imbalance, in turn, causes various health problems, contributing to the development and progression of diseases like cardiovascular, diabetes, and thyroid dysfunction.
Therefore, we need to protect ourselves by avoiding exposure to heavy metals in the first place and engaging in detoxification programs if necessary. Prevention is always the best approach to heavy metal toxicity and our health. The second is to find an effective detox that gets to the root cause in the cell and removes the source.
References:
- Liu D, Shi Q, Liu C, Sun Q, Zeng X. Effects of Endocrine-Disrupting Heavy Metals on Human Health. Toxics. 2023 Mar 29;11(4):322. doi: 10.3390/toxics11040322. PMID: 37112549; PMCID: PMC10147072.
- Rana, S. (2014). Perspectives in Endocrine Toxicity of Heavy Metals—A Review. Biological Trace Element Research, 160(1), 1-14.