How to Detox from Heavy Metals

You probably know that heavy metals are bad for you.
The research out there about the effects of heavy metals on the body is astounding. The most common heavy metal contaminants can cause harm to every single part of your body. We’re surrounded by these metals all the time—we’re putting them into the air, our drinking water, and our food. So let’s talk about it.

How to Avoid Heavy Metals

Eat organic – Since a lot of heavy metals are found in chemicals sprayed on crops, it’s a no-brainer. Those harmful chemicals exist to kill living things, they’ll kill you too in high enough doses.

Filter your water – Even just a Brita Filter with activated charcoal does a pretty good job of pulling out heavy metals. While we’re on the topic of filtered water, drink it. A lot of it.

Filter your air – Surround yourself with plants that filter the air, get an air purifier, and use a diffuser with essential oils like mint, lavender, and eucalyptus.

How to Detox from Heavy Metals

Antioxidants, antioxidants, antioxidants – Heavy metals create free radicals in our bodies, which wreak havoc on our health. Antioxidants scavenge your body for those free radicals and bind to them to get them out of the body. Green tea, blue/red/purple berries, and dark green veggies are all high in antioxidants.

Eat garlic everyday – It’s a miracle plant. It helps protect your body from all things anti-you, like viruses, bacterias, heavy metals, fungi, and vampires.

Eat Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum) – Add a quarter cup of cilantro to your daily diet. Yum! I know! Studies show that the herb helps remove mercury, aluminum, and lead (and maybe more) from your body primarily through your urine, SO DRINK WATER.

Take Chlorella – These single-celled freshwater algae are one of the most ancient life forms on our planet. They are also one of the most nutrient dense supplements that you can take for your overall health and they bind to various toxins in the body to help you detox heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, cadmium and lead.

Drink horsetail (Equisetum spp) tea – Horsetail is a well documented and oft-studied heavy metal chelation herb. It is known to pull heavy metals from the earth and remineralize the soil, and it works much the same way in our bodies. It’s a great source of bioavailable silica and helps our body get rid of aluminum and other heavy metals.

Adapt (Eat mushrooms) – This one might not seem like it’s necessary here, but it is. Mushrooms are the first organisms to return to sites that have been devastated by nuclear destruction and heavy metal contamination. It’s an unfortunate reality, but we live in a world that is finding it increasingly difficult to stay clear of heavy metals and other toxic ingredients; mushrooms are great for helping our bodies adapt to the world around us. Eating mushrooms not only gives you energy, it helps protect and build your immune system.

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