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Metals and the Mind

By Theresa Vernon, LAc

he one thing we can say about the effect of toxic

metals on the mind is that we don’t know much.
TThese metals are hard to detect and difficult to get

rid of once you know you have them. That is why you don’t
hear much about this subject. I certainly didn’t, even after

studying nutrition, herbs and all kinds of natural therapies
for years and years. You often hear, “Well, you could have

heavy metal toxicity,” but what does that mean? What do
you do about it? All I had ever heard about for heavy metal

toxicity was chelation and I didn’t like what I heard.
Fortunately, about seven years ago I was contacted by Analytical Research
Laboratories, which was founded by Dr. Paul Eck, a biochemist and nutritionist
who addressed these issues in a very specific and unusual way. At that time,
I had a patient who was not recovering, and I became convinced that she had
serious metal problems, so we began doing his protocols, which included hair
analysis. It turned out she had the biggest amount of aluminum I had ever
seen in anybody. I now know that aluminum causes a lot of chronic pain; you
often see it in fibromyalgia. The key fact about the metal toxicity is that it is
always related to chronic fatigue and chronic adrenal fatigue.

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