Due to the constant increase in environmental pollution from harmful substances, more and more people today exhibit chronic heavy metal contamination.1 Heavy metals accumulate in our blood vessels, connective tissue, bones, nerves, and even in the brain.
Toxic metals like mercury, cadmium, lead, or aluminum are dangerous because, through this accumulation and deposition, they increasingly weaken our immune system and can profoundly disrupt biological processes even in the smallest amounts.
Heavy metal detoxification with natural remedies is therefore one of the central aids for human health and well-being in naturopathy and an integral part of regulation therapy.
In this regard, find answers here to the most frequently asked questions about heavy metals and heavy metal detoxification.
What are heavy metals? Where do they occur?
Heavy metals form a group within metals whose characteristics are not uniformly defined – more correctly, one should speak of toxic metals, but for simplicity, the common term heavy metals is used here.
Some metals are toxic even in small amounts, while others – the so-called essential trace elements such as iron, copper, and zinc – are even necessary for the body; here, only the dose determines the toxicity. When we speak of heavy metal contamination, we mean a toxic type or amount of metals that, when absorbed into the organism, can lead to various damages.
The most important and common heavy metals
The most important or common metals in the context of detoxification and regulation therapy are:
| Heavy metal | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Aluminum | Cookware, deodorants, toothpaste, white flour, baking powder, etc. |
| Arsenic | Tobacco, pesticides (until the 1980s), wood preservatives (until 2004), component of some medicines, electronics industry, metal alloys, glass manufacturing, etc. |
| Lead | Shipbuilding, radiation protection, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, construction, pyrotechnics, many areas of the chemical industry |
| Cadmium | Contamination of soils and groundwater by fertilizers and atmospheric deposition, used in batteries, as corrosion protection, in plastics, and contained in fossil fuels |
| Mercury | Large amounts of mercury continue to circulate in the air, water, soils, and ecosystems. As a result of human extraction and use of mercury, hundreds of thousands of tons have entered the environment over the years. Today, the mercury content in the atmosphere is up to 500% higher, and in the oceans up to 200% higher, than natural levels. |
What health problems can heavy metals cause?
Heavy metals2 are among the most toxic substances in our environment and pose a major problem for humans because they can significantly damage our organism even in vanishingly small amounts.
In general, heavy metal contamination can lead to fundamental problems such as:
- Damage to cell structures
- Damage to tissue structures
- Inflammation throughout the body
- Degenerative aging processes
Specifically, heavy metal contamination can also cause many different complaints:
Physical complaints
- Rheumatic complaints
- Infections
- High blood pressure
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Chronic fatigue and exhaustion
- Headaches
- Chronic pain
Psychological and cognitive complaints
- Nervousness
- Psychological changes
- Cognitive disorders such as problems with mental performance, increasing forgetfulness, attention deficits, and concentration problems up to memory loss
- Anxiety, depression
- Hormonal imbalances
Depending on individual health predisposition, many other specific complaints may occur.3 Furthermore, many chronic complaints or therapy resistances are partly or primarily caused by heavy metal contamination.
Therapy resistances due to heavy metal contamination
Because heavy metals as a possible cause of complaints are often overlooked, affected individuals repeatedly experience that treatment for their complaints is unsatisfactory or even useless – their body does not seem to respond to therapy.
Of course, not every therapy resistance is due to heavy metal contamination. Nevertheless, complementary medicine has shown great success with detoxification cures and heavy metal elimination, especially for therapy resistances as well as chronic complaints.
Why do heavy metals harm health so much?
The toxicity of heavy metals in the human body is based on their ability to interact with biomolecules: they displace essential trace elements from their binding sites in enzymes, thereby damaging their molecular structure, so that the enzymes' often vital functions are inhibited or even paralyzed.
In this way, heavy metals penetrate microscopically small, elementary structures of our body and damage them sustainably or often permanently. Since the body usually cannot adequately free itself from these heavy metals on its own, a combination of very specific remedies is required to achieve the mobilization and elimination of these heavy metals from the body.
How can heavy metals be eliminated?4
Heavy metal elimination with natural remedies has 3 stages:
- Mobilization of heavy metals: existing heavy metals are released from the tissue, especially from the nerves.
- Binding of heavy metals: In so-called chelation therapy, the mobilized metal ions are bound by means of chelators.5
- Excretion of heavy metals: The mobilized and bound metal ions are ultimately eliminated from the body, known as decorporation6, primarily via the kidneys, lymphatic system, and intestines.
The Jorinde program for heavy metal elimination was developed to optimally support the body in these processes with natural remedies.
Support for heavy metal elimination
You can support a heavy metal elimination treatment by increasing your body's detoxification capacity – especially by supporting the liver and cleansing the intestines.
We therefore recommend the following to support heavy metal elimination:
- for general detoxification performance: Jorinde Detox Cure
- for the liver: Jorinde Liver Cure and Jorinde LeberStark
- for the intestines: Jorinde Intestinal Cleansing (if possible in combination with Jorinde Right Lactic Acid)
We also recommend the restoration of the intestinal flora after heavy metal elimination through the Jorinde Intestinal Flora Rebuilding Program.
Acid-base balance
In general, it holds that:
- the body detoxifies much better in an alkaline state;
- heavy metals can cause stronger reactions in an acidic body environment.
An alkaline metabolic state therefore supports heavy metal elimination; many experts recommend a four-week acid-base cure for latent hyperacidity before starting heavy metal elimination. The appropriate Jorinde preparations for regulating the acid-base balance can be found here: Jorinde Acid-Base Balance.
What can heavy metal elimination achieve?
Firstly, the complaints caused by heavy metal contamination can subside. Often, the body's general ability to excrete other toxins also increases afterwards, as certain detoxification systems and, above all, antioxidant enzymes are reactivated, and the body can generate more ATP – thus, detoxification capacities that were previously bound by heavy metal contamination are freed up.
Experience shows that the most common health improvements from heavy metal elimination include:
Physical improvements
- Alleviation of various complaints caused by heavy metal contamination
- Regulation of circulation
- More energy and motivation in everyday life
- Strengthening of the immune system
- Regulation of hormone balance
Mental and general improvements
- More stable emotional state
- Faster and more pronounced improvements through positive impulses (dietary changes, exercise and sports, relaxation, meditation, etc.)
- Increase in cognitive performance (concentration, learning ability, mental endurance and clarity)
- General personal well-being
- And much more
All Jorinde preparations for heavy metal elimination can be found here:
Jorinde Heavy Metal Elimination
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Due to numerous generally known environmental pollutions from air pollution, car traffic, chemical industry, water pipes and contamination, aluminum-containing dishes, deodorants, cosmetics, cleaning agents or medicines, and especially in smokers, it has become practically impossible in today's world to avoid these harmful substances. Heavy metals are deposited in our blood vessels, connective tissue, bones, nerves, brain, and in every one of our body cells. ↩︎
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The World Health Organization, WHO, lists ten chemical substances that are considered a threat to human health. Among them are four heavy metals: cadmium, mercury, lead, and arsenic. ↩︎
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We refer to the typical signs of heavy metal contamination as non-specific symptomatology, meaning that the symptoms of the affected person depend on their individual predisposition and could also be attributed to other causes; the symptoms are typical, but not specific to heavy metal contamination. ↩︎
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Note: Acute poisoning always requires conventional medical clarification and treatment. ↩︎
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Chelating agents have the ability to form stable compounds with certain metals, depending on their type. These chelates can then be excreted by the body through renal elimination, i.e., via the kidneys. Incidentally, the administration of alpha-lipoic acid, which is a component of Jorinde's heavy metal elimination, can enhance the detoxifying effect of these chelating agents. ↩︎
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Removal of harmful substances, especially metals, absorbed into the organism. ↩︎
