ENVIRONMENTAL medicine
Environmental Medicine is a specialized field focused on diagnosing, treating, and preventing illnesses caused by exposure to environmental, chemical, and physical factors in homes, workplaces, and communities. It analyzes how contaminants in air, water, and soil, along with allergens and toxins, impact human health, often focusing on "total load" and chronic, multi-factor, or unexplained diseases.
Why do Chelation?
It is well known that toxic metals have detrimental effects upon the body. After diagnostic testing identifies elevated levels of heavy metals, and if appropriate for the individual, a suitable chelation protocol will remove them from the body. Once the body is free from the toxic metals it is better able to function and thus many health conditions improve.
What are the toxic metals?
The most common toxic metals found in the body are mercury and lead, but elevations in arsenic, aluminum, antimony, cadmium, gadolinium, thallium are also found.
Testing
Blood work- based on exposure
Environmental Exposures Profile -
Heavy Metal Testing -
Who can benefit from Chelation?
Unfortunately most people have some degree of toxic metals in their body, and these metals negatively effect health in different ways. If diagnostic testing shows significant elevations in toxic metals, then chelation may be appropriate. Chelation can improve many current health conditions and can also be preventive in removing metals that have not yet begun to cause disease
What are the health symptoms?
The effects of heavy metals on the body are diffuse and effect multiple body systems. Anxiety, irritability, high blood pressure, fatigue, thyroid dysfunction, diarrhea, constipation, depression, headaches, memory problems, chronic infections, and joint pain are some of the possible symptoms.
What is Chelation?
The word "chelation" comes from the Greek word "chele" meaning claw and means to grab out or remove an unwanted substance. Chelation is the process in which a medicine binds to toxic metals in the body which are then excreted.
How do I know if I have heavy metal toxicity?
Exposure to a relatively large amount of a toxic metal in a short period of time produces extreme symptoms and is called acute metal toxicity. This is rare.
It is much more common to be exposed to small amounts of metals over a long period of time, like years. Because of the slow accumulation, the health is slowly affected and the failing health may not be attributed to the toxic metal bio-accumulation. It can only be detected by specific diagnostic testing.