The Best Strategy for Detoxifying Heavy Metals (SAFELY)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Unfortunately, our environment is very polluted, and we are bathed in toxins on a daily basis. Heavy metals are one type of these toxins. Today we're going to talk about the best strategy for detoxifying heavy metals.
Heavy metals can accumulate in our tissues and can cross the blood-brain barrier. Heavy metal poisoning can affect different parts of the body, including the heart, digestive system, neurons, red blood cells, and certain proteins.
Exposure to heavy metals also creates a lot of free radicals and oxidation and forces our antioxidants to work harder. Heavy metals even block our endogenous antioxidants.
Our bodies have a very powerful detoxification system, but heavy metals block this important system.
While you can avoid heavy metals to a certain degree, you really need to strengthen your detox enzymes: glutathione and SOD. These enzymes help break down chemicals and help prevent oxidation and free-radical damage.
The best foods to support heavy metal detoxification:
1. Sulforaphane (broccoli sprouts or broccoli microgreens)
2. Cilantro
3. Allicin (garlic)
4. Curcumin (turmeric)
5. Cruciferous vegetables
Two of the best ways to avoid heavy metals:
1. Consume organic foods
2. Get a water filter
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I like to find really effective strategies to increase your survival, |
| 0:06.1 | your health, without spending a lot of money. And that's what this video is about. |
| 0:10.6 | Unfortunately, our environment is just very, very polluted. We are being bathed in chemicals. |
| 0:17.0 | And heavy metals is one of the toxins that we're exposed to. I'm talking about mercury, |
| 0:22.9 | lead, cadmium, arsenic. And these heavy metals can accumulate in our tissues. They can cross |
| 0:29.1 | the blood grain barrier. They can affect the heart, your digestive system, your neurons, |
| 0:35.6 | your red blood cells. They can make you anemic. They can attack the ATP and make you tired. |
| 0:41.5 | They actually affect certain proteins. And they block certain proteins like, for example, |
| 0:46.6 | the proteins that allow you to grow hair. So one of the side effects would be hair loss. |
| 0:51.2 | And these heavy metals also create a lot of free radicals, a lot of oxidation. And they force |
| 0:57.9 | our own antioxidants to work harder. But not only that, heavy metals tend to block |
| 1:05.4 | our own is called endogenous antioxidants. Now, our bodies already have a very powerful |
| 1:12.4 | detoxification system. It comes from within the same thing with our immune system. We have an |
| 1:17.3 | immune system that can actually fight off things. But of course, so many people are trying to |
| 1:21.3 | sterilize the environment and ignoring their own immune system. Well, the same thing occurs with |
| 1:26.2 | heavy metals. You can avoid them to a certain degree, for sure. But you should also know about |
| 1:32.2 | how to strengthen as a really smart strategy. You're at detox enzymes. Okay, I'm talking about |
| 1:38.7 | glutathione. I'm talking about SOD, which stands for super oxide, dysmutase. These are enzymes that |
| 1:45.2 | help you break down chemicals. They're also going to help you prevent oxidation and also prevent |
| 1:51.9 | free radical damage. And the problem is that heavy metals block these systems, just like for |
| 1:58.0 | example, antibiotics greatly reduce your immune system. And I'm talking about the chemicals from |
| 2:04.1 | pollution, water, air, food, certain fish, shellfish, loaded with mercury. And the younger you are, |
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