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In a recent article Mark Sircus, Acupuncturist and director of the International Medical Veritas Association, introduced us to the dangers of Depleted Uranium and Mercury on vulnerable human cells causing a Diabetes epidemic set to destroy the health of countless humans. This month we offer you some Nourishing options to heal your body from the effects of these toxins, toxins you have almost no way of avoiding, and ways to put a stop to depleted uranium and mercury pollution.

The end days are here. Faster than we can record, the incidence of chronic illness is swiftly, in epidemic proportions, covering our earth like a pestilence. “There have been tremendous increases in diseases resulting from the breakdown of the immune system in the last 20 years: diabetes, asthma, AIDS and others which may have an immune-system link, such as MS and ME. A whole spectrum of neurological conditions of unknown origin has developed” says Dr Chis Busby. His research into low-level radiation from depleted uranium and it’s link with chronic disease, especially increased incidence of such disease in direct correlation to Middle East bombing raids is frightening. If you have the stomach for it, you need only view some of the atrocious physical evidence of deformities in Iraqi babies to know something is terribly wrong. Warning: these are very disturbing photographs. Does the US think that Uranium gases won’t travel from where they are deposited in the middle east to affect the rest of the world, including home?

“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” - William
Shakespeare

Mercury levels in the oceans have risen to the point where it is no longer safe for us to eat from the sea. Dolphins are suffering poisoning as are whales. This is another, relatively unpublicized effect of coal burning. In an obvious attempt to hoodwink us into choosing the lesser of two evils, the Australian government and it’s opposition wishes to promote the use of Nuclear energy to “save” the planet from green house gases. Then we’re back to the old uranium story.

1. Take Action

“The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all
international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth including
the human species, and yet this country continues to do so with full knowledge
of its destructive potential.” - Leuren Moret

There are things we can do to stop this insanity. We can take action.

Globally

Stop DU is an organization that actively opposes depleted uranium weaponry. Depleted Uranium:The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War by Leuron Moret is an essay that will fire you up.

Beyond Treason is a film which expose the horrific underworld of the disposable army mentality and the government funded
experimentation upon US citizens conducted without their knowledge or consent. It unmasked secret military projects such as : Chemical & Biological Exposures,Radioactive Poisoning,Mind Control Projects, Experimental Vaccines,Gulf War Illness, Depleted Uranium (DU).

Get informed.

The Traprock Peace Centre has more resources.

Mercury Action

We can help stop coal burning, the highest source of Mercury pollution. Avaaz.org has an online petition you can sign. Read this article about pollution and this about seafood contamination. Tree Hugger, a leading environmental site and Earth Justice.org help also.

Australia

Locally, we have much to do. The biennial War Games “Talisman Saber” are the largest joint US exercises conducted in
Australia’s Shoal Water Bay and Rockhampton. Shoal Water Bay is a world heritage area. Recently the Australian Government changed the way it administers Environmental Protection Legislation, removing the usual need for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for all Australian Defence Force (ADF) and foreign military training and infrastructure development in Shoal Water Bay if the ADF deem it unnecessary. The EIS is replaced by a Public Environmental Reports (PER), commissioned by the ADF, paid for by the military, reviewed and released by the military. The public input and consultation process is controlled by military and has been privately described by ADF personal as embarrassing and a disgrace. The Capricorn Coast’s water catchment lies within the Shoal Water Bay and was one of the serious omissions of the incomplete and incompetent PER. A massive public relations and advertising campaign is being undertaken by the ADF and residents are being told of the huge benefits “military tourism “ will bring. What a crock.

The Peace Convergence is a nonviolent gathering in the Shoalwater region on 18 to 24 June 2007. The peak period of the Convergence will be on the weekend: Friday 22 June to Sunday 24 June. An invitation is extended to peace and social justice, environment, indigenous, women’s, secular and faith based groups and individuals to join with the local community:

• to nonviolently oppose the war games and the environmental destruction it
  will cause
• to voice our call for an end to the war in Iraq, and Australian
  involvement with illegal and unjust US-led wars.

They are collecting 655 shoes each pair representing a thousand deaths since the Iraq war began. The shoes will be made into an installation to build awareness on the ongoing war and TS07. Brisbane Friends of the Earth is the collection point. They are located at 294 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane. Call Kim for more info on 0413 397 839.

They are also organising a benefit concert in Brisbane Sat June 16.

Front line films have released a documentary on uranium in Australia entitled Hard Rain.

2. Avoid Poisoning

Unfortunately there’s not much we can do to avoid DU poisoning, other than demand it’s mining and use be stopped, to avoid the silent spectre of Depleted Uranium in our water table, in the air and in our food. Humans know no way of removing Uranium, which has a half life of 4.47 billion years, yet we are continuing to use Uranium waste in military ammunitions and machinery. Domestically we can avoid household fire alarms using DU and other household items.

Mercury can be avoided:

• Remove Mercury Amalgum from teeth by an environmental dentist. Be sure they use a Dam during extraction, refill with material that doesn’t effect you negatively and then support your system while you detoxify the Mercury. Two Australian Dentist are Eric Davis in Brisbane and Sydney Dental Clinic
• Refuse to Vaccinate yourself and your children with vaccines that are preserved with Mercury (Thimerosol). This includes Rh Negative Vaccine. Whether you vaccinate your children at all is worth deep consideration.
• Use colour tatoos which have not been preserved by mercury containing preservatives.
• Avoid all seafood, especially Tuna and other fish high on the food chain. The only fish I have found to be very low in mercury toxicity is Vital Choice Salmon and Fisherman’s Bounty Rainbow Trout from Victoria. Phone 0266779345 to find out more.
• Change your electricity bill to electricity from renewable sources. Make sure your electricity company doesn’t just plant a few trees for a few extra bucks a month but actually sells and invests in renewable energy.
• Check the industrial areas near you and find out whether they use mercury. Mining and Automobile industry are two but this EPA report will help you find more.
• Avoid buying anything made from PVC, mercury is used in it’s manufacture.
• Remove all flourescent lights from your household.
• Use digital temperature gauges.

3. Healing

There are many differing opinions about mercury detoxification. The following serves as an introduction.

Mark Sircus in his Survival Medicine for the 21st Century (due for release in July 07) shares his protocol
for dealing with heavy metal toxicity:

“The IMVA’s protocol is highly effective for uranium, mercury, arsenic, fluoride, and many other chemicals and heavy metals because it works with chelation and detoxification principles simultaneously. Chelation is much riskier and more problematic when detoxification channels are not opened as it is when there is a mineral derangement.

Magnesium Chloride and Iodine.

“Magnesium chloride (or sulfate) is used commonly in emergency rooms and even ambulances to save heart attack sufferers as well as stroke victims. Iodine - protect sour thyroids and maintains normal mitochondrial function. With increasing radiation levels and fluoride threatening our thyroids and the fact that iodine also helps eliminate heavy metals like mercury and lead, it has become extremely important. The IMVA protocol recommends a natural magnesium chloride from sea water evaporation and a new iodine product called Electrodine http://www.purehealthsystems.com/iodine.html, which has an extremely high bioavailability.

Sodium thiosulfate and Sodium bicarbonate

“Sodium thiosulfate is a natural substance found in hot water springs. It is one of the secret ingredients that gives hot springs their healing power. Sodium thiosulfate not only removes heavy toxic metals from the body, but also, with the help of magnesium, will cause children with autism to sleep restfully. Sodium thiosulphate offers protection against nephrocalcinosis
and renal failure. Sodium thiosulfate is emerging as a treatment for calciphylaxis. It is capable of donating its two unpaired electrons, is a scavenger of reactive oxygen - nitrogen species, and may generate glutathione.

Sodium bicarbonate

“Sodium bicarbonate injection is indicated in the treatment of metabolic acidosis which may occur in severe renal disease, diabetes, circulatory insufficiency due to shock or severe dehydration, extracorporeal circulation of blood, cardiac arrest and severe primary lactic acidosis. Sodium bicarbonate is further indicated in the treatment of certain drug intoxications, including barbiturates.

“The kidneys are usually the first organs to show chemical damage upon uranium exposure, military manuals suggest doses or infusions of sodium bicarbonate to help alkalinize the urine if uranium exposure occurs. This makes the uranyl ion less kidney-toxic and promotes excretion of the nontoxic uranium carbonate complex.

“Neither of these treatments mentioned above offers a complete treatment but they do offer almost instant respites from life threatening illness. A second chance is gained to correct causes in ways that are preventive of relapses. Iodine and magnesium though are substances that address causal factors.

“Selenium is also important when taking up iodine levels. A central pillar in the IMVA protocol is Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA). ALA and magnesium, are crucial substances for the treatment of diabetes. Together they are the ideal protocol for treating diabetic neuropathy, retinopathy, and other diabetic complications. ALA has the ability to salvage and recycle other antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, and glutathione. - ALA is a rate-limiting coenzyme for ATP production via the Krebs cycle and sensitizes cells to insulin.

“A full protocol has to include substances that increase glutathione levels inside the cells, agents that revive mitochondrial function, while at the same time chelating heavy metals and detoxifying toxic chemicals from both sides of the blood brain barrier. The central all in one formula that covers most of this territory is a formulation that contains selenium, magnesium,
zinc, vitamin C, E, ALA, cilantro leaf extract (coriander), chlorella, MSM, Acetyl-L-Cysteine, L-Glutamine, and Taurine. (Chelorex from Science Formulas - not available in Australia)

“This synergistic blend of ingredients enhances the body’s natural mechanisms for excreting the entire range of toxic metals and chemicals. Because the formula contains both hydrophilic chelators and lipophilic agents, which raise intracellular glutathione and pass through the blood brain barrier, it can remove toxic metals from intracellular locations and mobilize heavy metals from the central nervous system. Glutathione is the principle protective enzyme within cells that removes toxic metals, like mercury, and toxic chemicals from the body via the liver and bile excretion route.

“Several more substances round out the entire protocol giving it more depth, utility and universality. Spirulina, a second generation probiotics designed especially to reproduce rapidly, and calcium bentonite taken orally. Calcium Therapeutic Living Clay literally removes positive charged molecules that attack our bodies from our bodies. According to an article published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “Detoxification and Mineral Supplementation As Functions of Geophagy” (Johns and Duguette 1991), clay is a potent detoxifier, a catalyst that assists the body in removal of chemical poisons and heavy metals (positive charged ions) from the body.

“In Chernobyl, for instance, spirulina was used to help save many children from radiation poisoning. By taking 5 grams of spirulina a day for 45 days, the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk proved that children on this protocol experienced enhanced immune systems, T-cell counts and reduced radioactivity.

“Pure water is also a basic element in the IMVA protocol. Exceptionally pure water itself has a strong pulling power on the impurities in the body the problem is how to purify and then how to treat the water before drinking. Distilled and Reverse Osmosis water is thought not safe by many health care practitioners because they lack bicarbonates and minerals which leads to the formation of acid in the body. Part of the reason our bodies become acidic is the body lacks enough bicarbonate necessary to neutralize the acid. This problem is easily corrected in our protocol for the sodium bicarbonate and
thiosulfate is added to the water. Full hydration with pure water provides the very foundation of successful medical treatment.

“Dr. Tatsuchiro Akizuki, the head internist at St. Francis Hospital in Nagasaki, Japan says that when the atomic blast hit his city in August, 1945, he protected his patients and staff by feeding them a strict diet of miso soup, sea vegetables, brown rice and Hokkaido pumpkin. No one there succumbed to radiation sickness even though other hospitals much further from the blast suffered severe fatalities.”

This introduction is meant to serve as an impetus for deeper investigation. In Australia, Eric Davis is considered one of the world’s leading experts in mercury detoxification. His protocol stresses deep nourishment while detoxification takes place.

Some of his dietary recommendations are:

• Diet high in quality (grass-fed) animal fat to assist the body in transporting heavy metals from the blood.
• Do not fast in any way
• Avocado eaten daily as well as lamb and veal which have large amounts of glutathione
• Heal the Gut with gelatin rich bone broths, high animal fat and protein diet and rebuild the mucousal membrane with his mucous membrane rebuilder recipe. Replace bowel bacteria. Lactobacilis Bacteria has been known to swallow up mercury in the bowel and transport it from the body. Mercury is also known to interfere with replication of bowel bacteria.
• Supplementation and chelation designed specifically for each body

Please continue to educate youself. If you feel you may have been exposed to these toxins, be aware that some well meaning practioners and so called experts may lead you astray. Always back up their suggestions with your own research.

About the Author...

Joanne Hay, Editor of Nourished Magazine, Chief Nourisher and Mother of three is very grateful to live in Byron Bay and be able to share all she has learned about Nourishment. She has trained as an Acupuncturist (unfinished), Kinesiologist (finished) and parent (never finished). She serves the Weston A Price Foundation as a chapter leader. She loves sauerkraut, kangaroo tail stew, home made ice cream, her husband Wes and her kids Isaiah, Brynn and Ronin (in no particular order…well maybe ice cream first). Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas Association and senior editor of the Medical Veritas Journal of Medicine. Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston.