This will destroy your health faster than you can say toxic overload

If the phrase heavy metal has you immediately thinking of Metallica, then, unfortunately, I am the bearer of bad news. Heavy metals are any relatively dense metal with a potential for toxicity. In short, heavy metals are to you what kryptonite is to Superman. Why is this important to know?

In one form or another, your body has already come into direct contact with a heavy metal. How well your body handled that exposure depends on the following three things.

1. The substance

2. The amount of time spend coming into contact with it

3. The individual’s ability to detoxify it

Alas, getting heavy metals into the body is the easy part. Trying to unravel the damage done now becomes a process. Not least because symptoms present themselves in many different forms. Before we look for solutions, lets first ask how did we get here?

The Industrial Revolution transformed the manufacturing processes, no question about it. But in our rush for progress, this era also brought with it a wide range of unnatural chemical compounds. Many of these compounds have a toxic element to them. Over the years these poisonous compounds have been quietly seeping into the water we drink, the air we breathe, and even the soil our food is…