This info was taken from Why Can’t I Get Better?

We breathe them, eat them, drink them, and absorb them though our skin.

Metals, industrial compounds and chemical by-products like plasticizers, pesticides, pollutants and additives in our food and cosmetics are some of the toxins that slowly accumulate in our bodies. Like Lyme, overloads of these substances can imitate just about any illness.

Metals as toxins

• Infectious diseases seem to overlap with heavy metal exposure.
• High levels of mercury, lead and cadmium cannot be metabolized effectively. As a result, various physiological functions may become impaired and vital minerals are depleted. If you have dental fillings, neuropathy, cognitive difficulties, tinnitus or neuropsychiatric symptoms, consider heavy metals as a possible contributor.

Heavy metals have become abundant in the environment:

• 84 percent of New York rain samples exceeded the EPA’s human health standard for mercury in lakes.
• The CDC published a study regarding 116 pollutants, including 13 heavy metals found in a sample of 2,500 citizens.
• The Environmental Working Group in DC found 167 chemicals, including flame retardants, in the breast milk of women living healthy (organic) lifestyles in California.
• A 1997 Mercury Study Report to Congress reported that 158 tons of mercury were released in 1994 alone.
• The EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances estimates that 4 billion pounds of pesticides are used annually in the US.

Mercury

Read more “Horowitz on Environmental Toxins and Lyme Disease”