Cigarettes were like the ultimate age shortener because they'd shorten your telomeres,

and that, you know, shortens your lifespan drives yourselves in the senescence where you start

growing. And both the smoke aspect and the cadmium aspect, the cadmium unequivocally shortens

telomeres, and that and the smoke together, do that. And you can block that by having glutathione

system up but yeah

cadm damage even the eb a level in the blood of 0.7 parts per billion that and above you're

going to have a shorter life even the EPA says that

hey gang today i'm interviewing dr christopher shade dr shade is an expert on mercury, heavy metals, and human

detoxification. He's also the founder and CEO of a nutraceutical detoxification company,

supplement company called Quicksilver Scientific. Those of you who've been in my community for a long

time have heard me talk about Quicksilver. I think they make really, really fantastic detox supplements.

Got a great detox program.

And I've wanted to interview Dr. Shade for many, many years.

I first heard about him, and maybe we can talk about this, from Tony Robbins.

And he helped Tony Robbins, who had a serious mercury uh overload problem

and uh and anyway and that that piqued my interest and i went down the rabbit hole and learned

about his work and and so anyway dr shade thanks for taking the time to do this oh you're welcome

thank you chris it's good to be here as you said we'd met at fran dresher's a couple of years ago we did we met fran did an event and we both spoke at it and got to be here. As you said, we'd met at Fran Drescher's a couple of years ago.

We did. We met Fran did an event, and we both spoke at it and got to hang out a little bit

afterward. And yeah, that was cool. So I'd love to know how you got into detoxification,

like your career path. What led you down this, you know, down this path? Being toxic.

Yeah, you know, you don't always know what's leading you down some path.

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