what are the natural remedies to detoxify mercury/led from the body?

There is nothing in alternative medicine that will ‘detox’ mercury or lead. ‘Detox’ in this respect is a scam. You don’t have mercury or lead poisoning anyway. Garlic will have no ‘speed up’ effect on liver or kidney function.

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EDIT: I should have mentioned to beware of detox scams, the internet is abound with them. First they alarm you that you are full of accumulated ‘toxins’, they they will try to sell you some quack remedy with no proper science to support it. Stay skeptical.

From Wiki:
"Body cleansing and detoxification have been referred to as an elaborate hoax used by con artists to cure nonexistent illnesses. Most doctors contend that the ‘toxins’ in question do not even exist.[16][17] In response, alternative medicine proponents frequently cite heavy metals or pesticides as the source of toxification, however no evidence exists that detoxification approaches have a measurable effect on these or any other chemical levels. Medical experts state that body cleansing is unnecessary as the human body is naturally capable of maintaining itself, with several organs dedicated to cleansing the blood and gut."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_cleansing

If you had mercury or lead poisoning, you would be extremely sick.

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EDIT: These things have been mentioned below:

Ionic Detox Footbath = SCAM! Read: http://www.chem1.com/CQ/FootBathBunk.html

Bentonite clay for detox = SCAM! Read: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4083

@Janie – you don’t need to be an expert in alt med to identify scams and lack of evidence!
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I suggest looking at curezone.com

I have read cilantro but one must do something first. They have a lot of info on this and it explains what you need to do in addition to cilantro.

The remedies you suggested are foods so they should have no interactions with your SSRI drug.

I know Dr Schulze says his intestinal cleanse #2 draws out heavy metals (herbdoc.com)

The great healer and master herbalist, Dr John R Christopher has several suggestions. Be sure all herbs you use are organic or wildcrafted and in the form of tinctures (herb teas made with distilled water 2nd best)

He also addresses using garlic for this.

see first –heavy metals

http://www.herballegacy.com/search.php?zoom_query=%22heavy+metals%22

I remember he spoke of this herbal bath and how after some time using, the bathtub was full of shiny metals that came from the body in one of his videos or books

a little bit on that here

http://www.herballegacy.com/Bugleweed.html

mercury

http://www.herballegacy.com/search.php?zoom_query=mercury

lead-

http://www.herballegacy.com/search.php?zoom_query=lead&zoom_per_page=10&zoom_and=0&zoom_sort=0
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Garlic/cures, personal stories/histories and antibiotics etc
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one must use at least 3 large cloves of garlic minimum for any health benefit/curative powers. Just because one person says they did not have any results does not mean there are no benefits to eating garlic.

I have talked to and heard of people who achieved amazing results from huge amounts of garlic (an entire bulb not just a few cloves).

One was a old lady who I met when she was handing out flyers at the grocery store about her story. Twice she was told she would soon die from her diseases. Desperate, she prayed and then suddenly remembered a new bride she had known who was dying from the old country when she was a girl who recovered eating large amounts of garlic and so she decided to try that..

She ate one whole bulb a day and reversed her diseases on two separate occasions..one much later when she had stopped eating the garlic and after a time got sick again. Her cart was full of a bag with several bulbs of garlic and she was passionate to tell others what it had done for her as she said she had a heart for suffering people who might be in her shoes.

She did say the garlic was too strong and burned her badly and when she prayed again, it came to her to take it with dairy. She took it with blueberry yogurt or cottage cheese and then could do it.

I once tried it but even with the dairy found it burned too badly to take that much.

They do not call it "Russian penicillin" for having "no benefits".

I have fixed vaginal yeast infections and dental infections myself using garlic which is a potent anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-protozoan agent.

Unlike prescription antibiotics, it also works on viruses.

Unlike prescription antibiotics, it is germ specific. That is, antibiotics kill ALL bacteria, good and bad, which is why people get yeast infections and diarrhea after a course with prescription antibiotics. Prescription antibiotics are also killing the good bacteria in the gut and vagina etc which maintains the right balance. It takes a long time to rebuild this healthy bacteria after one uses these drugs. Garlic only kills the bad bacteria. eliminating some of the problems prescription drugs.

Also garlic is 100% effective whereas prescription antibiotics only kill 99% of the bad bacteria. The remaining unkilled bacteria mutate to superbacteria (supervirures) resistant to that particular antibiotic.

This is what is happening from the overuse of antibiotics in filthy factory farms where disease is rampant and conditions often unsanitary. The more this happens the more the chance of there being infections that no known prescription antibiotics can help or ones that help minimally. This takes away the use of these when it may be lifesaving as the effective ones lose effectiveness due to over-prescribing them. I am not against antibiotics when needed.

Let me share a personal story of the effect on these on one girl’s life..my mother–Newly discovered penicillin available only in American hospitals in Italy for the American soldiers during world war two and its aftermath are what saved my mother’s very badly injured legs hanging from threads of skin and crushed from amputation after she and an American soldier stepped on a land mine (she never found out what happened to him).

Her getting sent there when the Italian hospitals could not help her saved both of this 14 year old’s girl’s legs for use in the next 65 years she lived. If not for them, my mom’s life would have been far different.

For all I know she might never have met my dad–an American soldier- and eventually married him and had 6 kids including me. One might say that her 16 heirs may not be here if not for prescription penicillin (or a land mine) for I do not blanketly deny their use and effectiveness by any means but they did not over-prescribed them then, nor did they have factory farms and rampant antibiotic use in the 40s that they do now.

Concerning garlic, another case I heard of in Dr Schulze’s clinical practice was a lady who cured herself from diabetes by consuming an entire bulb of organic garlic a day. Garlic does have effects on diabetes although, one in my opinions would be better able to reverse it with a comprehensive lifestyle change such as the full incurables program, a mainly raw, vegan, whole food diet and exercise and emotional work etc.

I was able to so far see my diabetes where I was getting readings in the 300-600 plus range reversed with a normal a1c and fasting blood sugar test weeks ago. I am still working on getting my lifestyle changes better.

My brother-in-law swears his daily garlic intake gives him more stamina and energy which garlic is said to do.

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plants/animals/skeptics and current living conditions
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Animals do not use doctors in the wilds and yet they really do not get diseases that much (modern agriculture/corporations though do now impact the water and soil so this may be changing. But when animals get sick they seem to instinctively know what plants to use. this is how people learned to experiment with different plants for curing their own ills.

To imply that the vast array of plant life on this planet has no use to help people and be of service in disease is very close minded and naive and to think man who is constantly learning new things knows everything is pretty arrogant.

Often medical science has to reverse what they insisted was true or helpful (or nonhelpful for that matter) in years past is now the reverse of what they thought as they gained more info and knowledge or honestly looked at results.

When Dean Ornish talked about the effect of diet on the heart, none of his colleagues believed it, but now many studies have validated his work. Diet and plants, toxin removal/avoidance, negative emotions, coping skills, exercise, water, hydrotherapy, etc all modalities used by alternative medicine have a big impact on health, Nearly every week, I see some new article confirming things that healer Doctor Schulze has said for years.

I would be very careful in listening to people who blanketly affirm one school of thought and all about it (ie–allopathy/alternative health/herbs/foods etc) and dismiss another school of thought.

Things are not so clearcut…one cannot dismiss thousands of plants and hundreds of various schools of thought that fall under the umbrella word "alternative health" or "natural healing" the same way they cannot say that nothing doctors do is valid. They are just too broad a field. In truth things are not so black and white.

Let us look for a moment at the people who both apparently thumbed down my answer as they have opposite views and the authoritative words they use that seem to imply they know everything.

He says "There is "nothing" in alternative health…." this implies the person has all the knowledge in the world and all the data to make such a sweeping statement as this which he does not have.

He claims to know that you have no problem with either heavy metal without knowing anything of your personal history. My mother for instance is loaded with shrapnel from stepping on a land mine in world world two that in addition to all the metal was loaded with poisons to affect the unfortunate victim who stepped on it.

She had so much metal in her body especially her legs yet the doctors said having an MRI on her legs full of metal shards etc would not harm her and yet a lot of the metal was pulled from her bones into her flesh by the MRI magnets leading to massive infections that their drugs could not fix and much suffering. It was me who who able to reverse this with herbs and natural treatments that I learned from great natural healers with clinical experience treating real people. When the ones she trusted who lack of knowledge caused this and could not fix it, she finally turned to me and alternative health which she did not believe in as a last resort and it worked.

They also said this metal could have caused her kidney disease. I am talking allopathic doctors who is all she believed in told her these things. I do not see how this user can say my mother had no toxins or effects from having all this shrapnel in her body for many decades, the same as I do not see how he can say you do not have any poisoning knowing nothing about you, your life and story.

We do know that things like mercury must be disposed of carefully by doctors/dentists and to think that
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once in the body they pose no danger is to my thinking odd.

Look at the definitive way he makes statement with absolute authority in such a black and white way

"You DON"T have mercury or lead poisoning anyway. Garlic will have NO ‘speed up’ effect on liver or kidney function." He talks in absolutes to try to convey ultimate authority.

He concludes because some people scam you, all of it is scams.

The modern body though still amazing is NOT capable of completely cleaning itself as he states from the article. Never in history have we been so exposed to so many pollutants and chemicals etc, never had we eaten such an unnatural diet or been so sedentary as a group. Nor did they have fast food restaurants on every corner.

Yes, given the optimal, real and healthy diet grown in excellent soil (as the soil is everything–when commercial farmers do not farm organically, they do not feed the microorganisms that help the plant to assimilate the minerals from the soil to make them into an organic form we can use from the plant as if we take the minerals straight from the soil they are not assimilated but if we take them from the plant that makes them into a usable form to the human and animal body then we can assimilate them and do not have to struggle with trying to get rid of unnatural substances to the body.

When commercial agribusiness farmers do not put down hummus etc into the soil to help feed these microorganisms ion which the plant depends, the plants have little to no nutrients. When they replace only the three elements, nitrogen etc, then they are feeding the plant but not the microorganisms on which the plant depends, so much of the plants we use today from the average supermarket are not healthy like they were in centuries past (nor of course as fresh) or as wild plants that grow in soil rich in nutrients and dead plant matter that feeds the microorganisms, worms etc that the plant depends on, so our soil in modern foods are often bad nowadays.)

On top of real plant based foods often growing in poor soil, we often do not that often eat real food that the body was designed to live on..living foods, raw foods, plant foods but rather eat many chemicalized and processed foods that have been changed in order to last longer and make more profit etc.

We eat large amounts of saturated and trans fats and sugars and grains with the real nutrients stripped out. Even our natural produce have been waxed, colored, picked unripe and other things.

In addition to not getting anywhere near an optimal diet, we do not breath the same clean air or drink the same pure water as our ancestors who had few pollutants to deal with.

Past generations did have heavy metals though. It is thought that the Romans had several health problems due to their exposure to lead

I quote from this link http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/perspect/lead.htm

"Lead was a key component in face powders, rouges, and mascaras; the pigment in many paints ("crazy as a painter" was an ancient catch phrase rooted in the demented behavior of lead-poisoned painters); a nifty spermicide for informal birth control; the ideal "cold" metal for use in the manufacture of chastity belts; a sweet and sour condiment popular for seasoning and adulterating food; a wine preservative perfect for stopping fermentation or disguising inferior vintages; the malleable and inexpensive ingredient in pewter cups, plates, pitchers, pots and pans, and other household artifacts; the basic component of lead coins; and a partial ingredient in debased bronze or brass coins as well as counterfeit silver and gold coins.

Most important of all was lead’s suitability as inexpensive and reliable piping for the vast network plumbing that kept Rome and the provincial cities of the Roman Empire supplied with water. Indeed, the very word "plumbing" comes from the Latin word for lead, plumbum. The lead pipes that were the vital arteries of ancient Rome were forged by smithies whose patron saint, Vulcan, exhibited several of the symptoms of advanced lead poisoning: lameness, pallor, and wizened expression."

why would lead etc not affect us nowadays when it finds it’s way into our bodies like it did then,.

Our organs today are overtaxed due to all the factors of modern living and find it a challenge to cleanse themselves as they once did due to man’s called advancements and improvement over what god made messing things up from how they were designed to be originally,

the other skeptic uses the same kinds of techniques and terms

Making blanket, across the board authoritative statements that claiming complete knowledge (though he does make one disclaimer at least) as in

”Detox pills, and detoxification and cleansing in general, ARE NEITHER useful nor necessary unless you have had long-term narcotic use or are chronically constipated.

Detoxification and cleansing HAS NO proven medical benefits for the average person WHATSOEVER (again this statement is way too broad and since he does not possess complete knowledge I assume too sweeping and too black and white.

It will NOT help you lose any significant amount of fat. Your intestines are clean unless you use large amounts of muscle relaxers, or have serious digestive illness. (again how does he know this and how does he know you are clean without some kind of testing of your specific body)

You DO NOT have mercury poisoning, and if you did garlic WOULDN’T help you..again making long distances diagnosis’ and assumptions.

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Watching how the skeptics word things/trusting your gut

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I trust if you watch how they words things this pattern of black and white thinking and inherit claims to have all knowledge is abundant in the posts of the skeptics.

also to conclude, might I point out that the asker of this question asked for NATURAL REMEDIES not your opinions on if they work or not. they stated the word natural three different times on an alternative health board..why are you guys even answering a question you have no intention of answering but just trying to stir up things like you always did they want to know if it is a alleged scam or useless, I am sure they will ask that or use another section of the health segment than alternative health.

You may be experts in allopathic medicine but are not in alternative health. You make blanket statements like never, no, useless etc with little documentation to back it up and you discard the thing people often believe most..what they see with their own eyes or experiences with their own bodies…the personal experiences and witnesses of the effects of alternative health (or allopathic for that matter) on themselves and people they personally know or trust.

You ask them to discard that for some vague scientific study somewhere. Science is often discovered from personal experience, observation and testing of hypothesis. I suggest people listen more to their guts than to so called experts. If something resonates, be it allopathic or alternative, trust your instincts. they are usually right. don’t give your power away.

Detox pills, and detoxification and cleansing in general, are neither useful nor necessary unless you have had long-term narcotic use or are chronically constipated. Detoxification and cleansing has no proven medical benefits for the average person whatsoever. It will NOT help you lose any significant amount of fat. Your intestines are clean unless you use large amounts of muscle relaxers, or have serious digestive illness.

You do not have mercury poisoning, and if you did garlic wouldn’t help you.

I eat 2-3 raw garlic cloves a day minimum, if it had ANY curative powers i would be the first to know.
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Garlic, bentonite clay, diatomaceous earth. the last two are very effective clays that can be taken internally and draw toxins and metals out of your body. You can find them at morethanalive.com and bulkherbstore.com
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A great way to detox every day heavy metals such as aluminum, mercury, lead and cadmium is doing an Ionic Detox Footbath and using a Far Infrared Sauna. We have both of these at the clinic I work, and it’s truly amazing how these work. Make sure you do your research though, because not all footbaths are the same.
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