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~ Voici comment éviter que les métaux lourds ne pénètrent dans votre corps
~ Here’s how to keep heavy metals out of your body
~ Zo houd je zware metalen uit je lichaam
Wherever there are industrial areas, airplanes flying overhead, ships sailing and cars driving, there are heavy metals. It is practically impossible to avoid exposure. But it is possible to limit the concentration of heavy metals in your body.
By: Willem Koert
Science journalist
Ergo-Log
Heavy metals are found in drinking water, in dust particles that you breathe in and in food. They are invisible, tasteless and odorless. Only laboratories can detect them and measure their concentration. Heavy metals can accumulate in tissues and, if the concentration reaches a limit value, cause damage.[1]
For example, arsenic increases the risk of skin and lung cancer. Cadmium, like arsenic, can cause lung cancer – but also cancers of the pancreas, breast tissue, prostate and gastrointestinal tract. Cadmium can also weaken bones and damage kidneys. Lead, yet another heavy metal, damages the intestines, disrupts the hormone balance, reduces fertility and causes learning disabilities by damaging nerve and brain cells.
In every country, the government limits the amount of heavy metals that can circulate in the environment, but despite this, hundreds of scientific studies have found heavy metals in humans – and in almost all of these studies, high concentrations of cadmium, lead and other heavy metals are associated with reduced health.
Fortunately, there are non-medical ways in which you can reduce the amount of heavy metals in your body yourself. This is interesting for anyone who wants to protect themselves from heavy metals and does not want to blindly rely on the government.
Pectin supplementation
At the moment, supplementation with citrus pectins is the best-studied approach to reducing the amount of heavy metals in the body. It is not the only way and perhaps in twenty years or so it will turn out that pectin was not the best way either.
Moreover, most of the studies we mention below were paid for by manufacturers of pectin supplements. Because sponsored research is often less reliable than independent research, it is wise to exercise some skepticism.
With those two caveats, the scientific literature is promising when it comes to the impact of pectins on mercury, cadmium, and other heavy metals. To give a random example, after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, doctors successfully used citrus pectins to remove radioactive heavy metals from the bodies of local residents.[2]
What are pectins?
Pectins [simplified chemical structure above] are dietary fibers found in fruits and vegetables. The food industry extracts pectins from the peels of citrus fruits and apples and uses them as a gelling agent in jams, sweets, and pastries. Health scientists have been studying these same pectins since they discovered that in doses of 15-25 grams per day, they improve cholesterol balance[3] and can help with constipation.[4]
In doses of 15 grams per day, pectins usually have no side effects. Sometimes people feel bloated, but this disappears if they take the dose spread out over the day. For example, 5 grams with breakfast, 5 grams with lunch and another 5 grams with dinner.
Pectin users can also tolerate a higher dose of 20 grams per day, but this requires an adjustment period. If you have used 15 grams of pectin per day for a week without any problems, you can increase your intake by 5 grams if desired.
Incidentally, there are other types of dietary fibres besides pectins. But as far as is known, they cannot accelerate the loss of heavy metals.
Removal of heavy metals
Pectins can remove heavy metals from the body in quantities of 15-20 grams per day. Pectins form complexes with heavy metals, which the body can remove relatively easily. This happens in small quantities via perspiration, in larger quantities via urine and in even larger quantities via feces. A nutritional supplement optimized for this purpose is available on the market as MCP. MCP is an abbreviation for modified citrus pectin. In trials, daily administration of 15-20 grams of MCP increased the amount of arsenic, cadmium, and lead that subjects lost in their urine.[5] In other scientific publications, supplementation with MCP reduced the amount of mercury in the blood by seventy to eighty percent after several months.[6]
Combination with alginate
A substance that may enhance the effect of MCP is alginate. This is suggested by a small American study. According to this study, this combination, in a relatively small amount of 3 grams of MCP and one and a half grams of alginate per day, is even able to remove uranium from the body.[7]
Probiotics
Companies and researchers are conducting animal studies in which they are looking for other strategies with which people can get rid of heavy metals. A promising one is the administration of probiotics[8] such as Lactobacillus plantarum CCFM8610[9] or Lactobaccillus plantarum CCFM8661.[10]
(A lot of) exercise
The scientific literature reports yet another non-medical way to reduce the concentration of heavy metals in the body. That is exercise. For example, in 2020, Spanish exercise scientists published a study in which they followed a group of runners, who ran an average of 120 kilometers per week, for six months.[11] During that period, the concentration of a number of heavy metals in the blood of the athletes decreased. The researchers found no decrease in the blood of a group of inactive subjects.
It is not clear how exercise helps remove heavy metals. Some websites say that people who exercise a lot remove more heavy metals through sweat. That is true,[12] but even in active people, the amount of heavy metals in sweat is modest.
Animal studies suggest another and perhaps more important mechanism. Laboratory animals excrete more bile salts[13] and cholesterol[14] through their feces the more they exercise. Laboratory animals, but perhaps also humans, may also be able to get rid of more heavy metals via this route.
References
[1] Balali-Mood M, Naseri K, Tahergorabi Z, Khazdair MR, Sadeghi M. Toxic Mechanisms of Five Heavy Metals: Mercury, Lead, Chromium, Cadmium, and Arsenic. Front Pharmacol. 2021 Apr 13;12:643972.
[2] Hill P, Schläger M, Vogel V, Hille R, Nesterenko AV, Nesterenko VB. Studies on the current 137Cs body burden of children in Belarus–can the dose be further reduced? Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2007;125(1-4):523-6.
[3] Brouns F, Theuwissen E, Adam A, Bell M, Berger A, Mensink RP. Cholesterol-lowering properties of different pectin types in mildly hyper-cholesterolemic men and women. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2012 May;66(5):591-9.
[4] Xu L, Yu W, Jiang J, Li N. [Clinical benefits after soluble dietary fiber supplementation: a randomized clinical trial in adults with slow-transit constipation]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2014 Dec 30;94(48):3813-6.
[5] Eliaz I, Hotchkiss AT, Fishman ML, Rode D. The effect of modified citrus pectin on urinary excretion of toxic elements. Phytother Res. 2006 Oct;20(10):859-64.
[6] Eliaz I, Weil E, Wilk B. Integrative medicine and the role of modified citrus pectin/alginates in heavy metal chelation and detoxification–five case reports. Forsch Komplementmed. 2007 Dec;14(6):358-64.
[7] Eliaz I, Weil E, Schwarzbach J, Wilk B. Modified Citrus Pectin / Alginate Dietary Supplement Increased Fecal Excretion of Uranium: A Family. Altern Ther Health Med. 2019 Jul;25(4):20-4.
[8] Średnicka P, Juszczuk-Kubiak E, Wójcicki M, Akimowicz M, Roszko MŁ. Probiotics as a biological detoxification tool of food chemical contamination: A review. Food Chem Toxicol. 2021 Jul;153:112306.
[9] Zhai Q, Liu Y, Wang C, Zhao J, Zhang H, Tian F, Lee YK, Chen W. Increased Cadmium Excretion Due to Oral Administration of Lactobacillus plantarum Strains by Regulating Enterohepatic Circulation in Mice. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 10;67(14):3956-65.
[10] Zhai Q , Liu Y , Wang C , Qu D , Zhao J , Zhang H , Tian F , Chen W . Lactobacillus plantarum CCFM8661 modulates bile acid enterohepatic circulation and increases lead excretion in mice. Food Funct. 2019 Mar 20;10(3):1455-64.
[11] Muñoz D, Grijota FJ, Bartolomé I, Siquier-Coll J, Toro-Román V, Maynar M. Serum and urinary concentrations of arsenic, beryllium, cadmium and lead after an aerobic training period of six months in aerobic athletes and sedentary people. J Int Soc Sports Nutr. 2020 Aug 17;17(1):43.
[12] Kuan WH, Chen YL, Liu CL. Excretion of Ni, Pb, Cu, As, and Hg in Sweat under Two Sweating Conditions. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 4;19(7):4323.
[13] Yiamouyiannis CA, Martin BJ, Watkins JB 3rd. Chronic physical activity alters hepatobiliary excretory function in rats. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1993 Apr;265(1):321-7.
[14] Meissner M, Lombardo E, Havinga R, Tietge UJ, Kuipers F, Groen AK. Voluntary wheel running increases bile acid as well as cholesterol excretion and decreases atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolemic mice. Atherosclerosis. 2011 Oct;218(2):323-9.
Pectin autumn recipe: Sour fresh apples cut into small cubes, lots of cinnamon, real honey, black pepper, ginger, sel gris sea minerals in a pan of water with a large lump of real butter. Cook in and put on a slice of toast, for example.
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