Category: Vitality Blog

History

Niels Finsen was the first scientist that discovered the healing effects of light in 1896. He first started treating lupus vulgaris and tuberculosis by using electrical light up to 15 times concentrated. The treatments included daily time with the light for up to two hours and found it was successful in clearing the diseases.¹

Niels Finsen later won a Nobel Prize in 1903 for his discovery of light therapy. In the beginning, it was called phototherapy. In the 1960s, it was referred to as LED light therapy and was used all around Europe to treat chronic pain, arthritis, associated conditions, joint rehabilitation, and soft-tissue injury along with other medical ailments.
In the 1980s, it expanded to more clinics and medical institutions using LED light therapy. Many studies came out finding that the tissues themselves were healing and cosmetic conditions were improved with using this light.
In the 1990s professional sports teams and athletes started to use LED lights to heal their sports injuries. It also began to be popular with physical therapists and they found that the time of recovery was 50 times faster with this light therapy.²

Today light therapy is used in clinics, hospitals, physical therapists, cosmetology, chiropractors, and more because of its amazing benefits in healing the body.

What is LED light good for?

Skin and Hair Regrowth

The most well-known condition that light treats are skin and it causes no damage to the skin. Red light can heal sunburn damage and helps reduce wrinkles, fine lines on the skin, acne, and sagging eye bags. The light works with an inside-out approach by causing regeneration at the cellular level.³

Research in 2013 found “there is a wide range of applications of use in dermatology, especially in indications where stimulation of healing, reduction of inflammation, reduction of cell death and skin rejuvenation are required”.⁴

In 2007, placebo controlled and the double-blinded study was produced showing how effective LED light is in rejuvenating the skin, especially wrinkles.⁵

There is a study that shows the effectiveness of LED light on the skin.
Not only is it good for the skin but also for hair. Light stimulates dormant hair follicles into entering the growth phase, it increases blood flow and increases collagen production to restore normal hair growth.⁶

Inflammation and Pain

Another thing that this therapy is good for is the reduction of inflammation which qualifies for most people. A study published in 2017 proved that LED light is effective in reducing inflammation in the brain, abdominal fat, wounds, lungs, and spinal cord.⁷

Red light is effective in penetrating the muscles and promoting healing, reduction of inflammation, and blood flow. In a 2016 research, it was found that red light reduces hypersensitivity.⁸ And in a study from 2014, the conclusion was found that it was effective with neuropathic pain.⁹ Yet another study from 2003 found that there was a significant reduction in pain in chronic joint disorders.¹⁰

Weight Loss

The next benefit is weight loss; red light has a stimulating effect on the metabolism and causes fat cells to shrink. A study from 2015 shows: that “combined with exercise was effective in controlling the lipid profile, reducing the mass of adipose tissue, suggesting increased metabolic activity and changes in lipid metabolism.”¹¹A 2015 study found that red light is beneficial with exercise and red light therapy in losing fat.¹²

Performance

Red light activates the mitochondria to produce more energy and this leads to quicker regeneration and growth. The light also helps with recovery because of the way red light helps with inflammation.
Research in 2015 shows that red light lessens oxidative stress and is also beneficial in cases of muscle fatigue and injury. The conclusion found was that “it can improve muscle performance, reduce muscle fatigue during exercises, and benefit muscle repair”.¹³

It was found in a 2016 study that athletes that got hurt and used red light therapy greatly reduced the time it took for them to heal and get back to playing.¹⁴

Wound Healing and Scar Reduction

There is a lot of research that shows how red-light heals wounds. It works by activating stem cells, reducing inflammation, and supporting the formation of collagen and density in the tissues. Research showed that the light accelerated healing and infection.¹⁵And it helps to prevent scarring and optimize wound healing.¹⁶

Sleep

Good sleep is of vital importance for the body’s and mind’s wellbeing. There has been a spike in the number of sleep disorders in the past years. Blue light is known to affect the sleep quality that we get, but red light counteracts the blue light and promotes good sleep. It was tested in 2012 with elite female basketball players to improve the quality of sleep and prevent sleep disorders.¹⁷Another study showed that red light doesn’t suppress melatonin and “can be used to mitigate sleep inertia upon waking.”¹⁸

Brain injuries and Brain Disorders

The awesome thing about red light therapy is that it penetrates through bones.¹⁹This is a huge discovery and could be revolutionary for healing the brain and progressing forward with solutions for mental illness.²⁰

Conclusion

There are also many more applications that can be used with the red light laser in treating physical and mental problems. Red light works at the cellular levels so many sessions and constant use is needed to see results. It may take several weeks to notice a difference or a few months but it will be worth it. The results from thousands of studies show that this red light laser is effective if you are consistent in using it.

Sources

1. https://www.theralight.com/a-brief-history-of-red-light-therapy/ 
2. https://www.inbmedical.com/history-of-led-light-therapy 
3. https://platinumtherapylights.com/blogs/news/red-light-therapy-research 
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126803/ 
5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1011134407000632?via%3Dihub 
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7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5523874/ 
8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000419/
9. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10103-014-1552-1
10. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12775206/
11. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26220050/ 
12. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769994/
13. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/plm-2012-0032/html
14. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846838/
15. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3799047/
16. https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-019-3546-6
17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3499892/
18. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6506010/
19. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4552256/#b9-ndt-11-2191
20. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066074/

In the 20th century, it was first found and used to test polio patients’ muscle weakness. In 1949 two physiotherapists, (Kendall and Kendall), used it to test neuromusculoskeletal conditions. 15 years after that discovery, George Goodheart developed a technique that didn’t only test the muscles alone, but figured out how the nervous system controlled the muscle function. He was the founder of the practice that over 40% of all chiropractors use today. Later his technique emerged into a different kind of style that is used by millions of practitioners all over the world.¹

Kinesiology is related the to one of the principles of Isaac Newton:
“For every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”²

Applied Kinesiology utilizes this principle in the human body. If there is stress or abnormal nervous system input in the body, a muscle will go weak when tested. The same thing applies to testing without using the patients’ muscles, but with the practitioner using a belt or their hand to test without touching the patient. The non-touch concept is the same but when a belt or hand that the practitioner uses, it will “stick” or “slide” which means that there is a weakness.
This type of testing is based on the theory that various muscles are linked to particular organs and glands, and that specific muscle weakness can signal distant internal problems such as nerve damage, reduced blood supply, chemical imbalances, other organ or gland problems. Applied Kinesiology can also evaluate nutritional needs and supplementation, and identify allergies.³

There have been several studies testing Applied Kinesiology. The first study in 2013 tested if there was validity to kinesiology. In this study, they had two kinesiologists and one person who wasn’t a kinesiologist test a set of vials on participants. The vials were diluted saline, except for one vial that was hydrochloride which is a toxic solution. The results found in this study are that the kinesiologists found with significant accuracy which vial was toxic.⁴

The second study showed that when testing with applied Kinesiology with true or false statements that when the participant said a false statement that their arm went weak.⁵

Another study found that experienced kinesiologists found 98% accuracy in muscle strength.⁶

Yet another study took students with phobias and recorded a baseline, pre-intervention, and postintervention of their pulse. It was found, that the students that got their spines manipulated significantly decreased the intensity of emotional arousal reported by phobic subjects.⁷

The last study tested if kinesiology could find if participants were allergic to certain foods. The conclusion was found, that the practitioners were able to predict with 90% accuracy the allergies.⁸

So if you don’t believe in kinesiology now go look at the research yourself. If that still doesn’t convince you go test it on a friend by asking them yes or no statements that are false or true and see if their muscles go weak or hold strong.

Sources

1. https://theconversation.com/muscle-testing-kinesiology-panacea-or-placebo-11075 
2. https://www.healthline.com/health/muscle-testing 
3. https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/balanced-living/wellness-therapies/applied-kinesiology/ 
4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830713003418?via%3Dihub 
5. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10407911/ 
6. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11065332/
7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9436145/ 
8. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10069623/ 

So you come in, we give you glasses, we ring a tuning fork, and then we hand you some vials. 

What are these vials?

There is actually a good reason why we hand you these vials believe it or not. Let me explain.

First, let’s take a look at water; water is the universal storage device, water holds frequencies. If you don’t believe me check this video out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qQUFvufXp4

Frequencies create water clusters and this is how water stores information. This is powerful because our body is largely made up of water. If you don’t think that what you say, the environment you are in, the music you listen to, or the food you eat affects your body, think again. We are deeply affected by frequencies. 

Did you know that the nervous system turns everything in our world into vibrations?

This is the very means of how our body tastes, smells, sees, and hears, it is all through frequencies that the brain interprets. So the water we have in our body remembers and it holds onto frequencies. Many times, the body holds onto trauma, injury, and stress in the tissues through the water clusters and creates a blockage. 

This is where the vials come in and play an important role. The vials that you hold in your hand contain clusters of water that are similar to the clusters of water that are held in the tissues causing the blockage. The vials that you hold are found out by muscle testing which is based on frequencies. The frequencies held in the vials activate the water clusters that hold the trauma, injury, and stress in the specific tissues. By holding the vials in your hand when we tap down the back, it harmonies your body to the vials and eliminates the blockage. 

And that is the power of the vials. 

What is this tuning fork?

It is all about frequency. Tuning forks vibrate different types of specific frequencies and this is what we call sound therapy. 

History 

Tuning forks were invented in 1711 by John Shore. Tuning forks were originally used as musical instruments played in churches in Europe, and it was also used to tune instruments. 

Later in the 20th century, doctors used it to test muscles and bone’s neural pathways. In the 1960s, an osteopath called Sir Peter Guy Manners found that sounds stimulate the human body’s ability to heal itself. 

How does it work? 

Through the frequency that the tuning fork rings, it increases the energy flow in the body. What this does is it improves circulation and eliminates blocked energy in the body. It is based on the principle that everything is made up of vibrations. 

Did you know that sound resonates 4 times faster in water? Our bodies are made up of water and water conducts sound, and because our body is from 55-78% water the body resonates the sound produced by the tuning forks. ¹

Natures Sound Retreat summarizes it as this: 

“This is the use of sound and vibration to balance the body’s energy. It reduces tension and promotes emotional harmony, and works in a similar way to acupuncture. Instead of needles, sound frequencies are used to stimulate points in the body.”²

Using the different forks affects our biological rhythms. When we synchronize to the tunes it enables the body to find balance and homeostasis. If you don’t know, homeostasis is essential for healing of the body, mind, and spirit. 

Benefits of Tuning Forks

The sound waves produced by the forks travel into the body along the energy pathways, this affects the body’s balance, space, memory, and healing. 

Some of the benefits that are listed: 

• Tunes natural cycles of the body
• Unites passages, aids digestion
• Natural anti-inflammatory
• Increases bone density and promotes healing of strained muscle, tendon and ligaments
• Nervous system balanced
• Chronic pain
• Headaches
• Pain caused by physical trauma
• Insomnia or low-quality sleep
• Cramps³

Tuning Forks therapy facilitates:

• Balance and homeostasis in the body
• Opens energetic pathways, alleviating stasis and relieving pain
• Relaxes muscle tension
• Keeps stress and anxiety balance⁴

Sources 

1. https://www.stateraintegrated.com/post/what-are-tuning-forks-and-how-can-they-help-me 
2. https://naturesoundretreat.com/tuning-fork/ 
3. https://www.allbodycare.com/tuning-fork-therapy-sound-healing/ 
4. https://meinlsonicenergy.com/en/topics/tuning-fork-therapy 
5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/tuning-fork#:~:text=Tuning%20forks%2C%20typically%20aluminum%2C%20consist,air%20conduction%20and%20bone%20conduction). 
6. https://science.howstuffworks.com/tuning-fork3.htm 

Simply put this therapy uses colors to treat certain mental and physical health conditions. The idea is that they subtly change mood and biology. Color therapy comes from a long history that originated hundreds of years ago in ancient Egypt, Greece, China, and India.

“Color as the manifestation of light held divine status to many. Egyptian healers wore breastplates of blue to mark their sacredness. In Greece, Athena wore a golden robe to signify her wisdom and holiness,” says Al Muhaiteeb.1

A study in 2005 describes color: “Chromotherapy is a method of treatment that uses the visible spectrum (colors) of electromagnetic radiation to cure diseases. It is a centuries-old concept used successfully over the years to cure various diseases.”2

Color therapy is simple and doesn’t require any effort. It helps balance the physical and emotional by putting the color of glasses and looking through them. 

How does it work? 

Chromotherapy and chakras go hand in hand. 7 chakras correspond to different organs and colors. Each color has different photons with its wavelength and frequency. The way we see these colors is because of the vibration that it holds and our body reacts and responds to them. The human body is composed of all the visible light colors and each color affects the mind, body, and emotions differently. 

 Samina T. Yousuf Azeemi gives the summary:

 “Light is responsible for turning on the brain and the body. Light enters the body through the eyes and skin. When even a single photon of light enters the eye, it lights up the entire brain. This light triggers the hypothalamus, which regulates all life-sustaining bodily functions, the autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, and the pituitary (the body’s master gland). The hypothalamus is also responsible for our body’s biological clock. It also sends a message, by way of light, to the pineal organ, which is responsible for releasing one of our most important hormones, melatonin. The release of melatonin is directly related to light, darkness, colors, and the Earth’s electromagnetic field. This necessary hormone affects every cell in the body. It turns on each cell’s internal activities, allowing them to harmonize with each other and nature. The pineal gland is believed to be responsible for our feeling of oneness with the universe and sets the stage for the relationship between our inner being and the environment. If that relationship is harmonious, we are healthy, happy, and feel a sense of well-being. An imbalance in this relationship makes itself known in the form of disorders or diseases in our physical, mental, or emotional states. The pineal is our “light meter”, and receives information from the heavens above, to give us that sense of oneness with the universe, and from the Earth’s electromagnetic field below to keep us grounded. A perfect balance is necessary to maintain our health and to keep us in harmony with the environment.3

Research

A study was done in 2019 and found the results that chromotherapy reduced anxiety and provided relaxation among students who had anxiety taking tests.4

More research from the National Institutes of Health states: 

“Several studies have elaborated on the relationship between the human body and colors. We also show the possibility of carrying out diverse research into chromotherapy that is pertinent to deciphering the quantum mechanical dipole moment of water molecules. The quantum mechanical dipole moment as a result of the absorption of different colors, we conjecture, produces charge quantization phenomena.”5

Sources

1. https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/the-mood-boosting-benefits-of-color-therapy#What-is-color-therapy?
2. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297510/
3. https://www.sweatboxsb.com/blog/2018/october/what-is-chromotherapy-/
4. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1175/1/012183/pdf
5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297510/

I was hit today with the an enormous synchronicity and I’m compelled to write this post in regards to addressing this pandemic situation. Having heard this podcast with Dr Tom Levy which I reference here, having met Dr Levy and talked with him about Vitamin C therapy I trust him completely. In this discussion he says this whole thing would be over if the media would be honest for 24 hours, then went on to describe the techniques put forward by Dr Brownstein and others in regards to the use of nebulized hydrogen peroxide, personally not even worrying about using a food grade form in the short term ( I have more then one colleague who has done it with regular stabilized H202) however I have been recommending and using the food grade version at about 1.5% mixed with saline, the saline strength can be greater than the 0.9% that is congruent with our blood all the way up to evidently 7% which can be good for sinuses as well. Inhaling it through the nostrils, one nostril and then the other holding the breath slightly and then also inhaling in the mouth. This can be a monotherapy, meaning a single therapy that by itself can reverse almost all Covid cases. For more severe cases of course we add the protocols associated with vitamin D (Which incidentally is not very good at treating the infection but very good for prevention so everyone should be taking their vitamin D.) Add to that zinc, vitamin C, perhaps quercetin, ivermectin, NAC, and others. In a severe case we might add major autohemotherapy, or other form of ozone therapy, followed by IV vitamin C. This protocol outlined by many others, including Dr Frank Shallenberger, who at a recent seminar I attended said he sent this protocol on to the CDC and the Biden administration only to be ignored. The straw on the camels back for me is this recent rumble interview from a Canadian guy interviewing a doctor Ardis, of course it no longer looks like a conspiracy, conspiracy theories now have become spoiler alerts in the face of this unpredictable and unprecedented time.

The takeaway for me is it is definitely time for all people to rise up to the fullness of their consciousness connecting to their infinite self and the God who created them so that they may be directed in discerning the truth, then caring for themselves and their families and their communities as they fight against the obvious tyranny and the obvious onslaught of nefarious forces that seek to enslave men once again. We may ask ourselves what is my role in standing for and teaching truth and preserving Liberty? I have long tried to see both sides of every issue and not take a stand. I have always sought not to offend but rather to build bridges as a peacemaker in my family. Hence my voice may not be as loud as others. Nevertheless when I have friends who have died for lack of knowledge, and the hidden truth. I am compelled to speak at least a piece so that the tragedy of a young man leaving behind small children never has to happen again, not for my family, not for those under my care, not for their friends and families that they care for, when there are such easy simple powerful answers to the mess we call this pandemic.

Enjoy these links and implement and share as you see fit.
With Infinite Love and Gratitude, Dr. Alexander Gilmore.

After listening to this podcast I immediately ordered and now just finished a profound book that I know has and will continue to change my life for the better! (podcast Ben Pakulski and www.the1thing.com). Check this out it can help you too. The principle increases productivity and will remind you that doing the small thing can lead to the big change.  Find the smallest thing you can do such that by doing it everything else becomes easier or unnecessary. Transform any area of your life by asking this focusing question. Here’s how I got the answer.. 

I was riding in my truck on the way to a moving job with a young man who just moved up from Alabama, he has been in a foster family there since he was very young.  He is now in his late teens and came to live with his biological mother.  I asked him the question as I am always trying to support people in being their best.  His answer came down to his memory, he felt if he could improve his memory that his life would be better.  So the process has you ask the question again and again until you find that small thing you can do preferably right now, or on a daily habitual basis.  The lesson is that you decide your habits you decide your future. What’s the one thing you can do that would improve your memory? Well in this case he was talking to me and I could guide him in some great options.  There are of course hundreds of things you could do, but we were looking for something he CAN do.  Now taking a tablespoon or 3 of coconut oil each day is a simple action that can have a profound result, making the small incremental change in eating habits will influence the future for the better. (pause for a sec and go get some coconut oil right now) …….me getting up walking back to my shelf and opening up a jar of coconut oil to eat it right now…… Me sitting back down writing the above and realizing I can also do some oil pulling with it for oral health etc…(a topic for another day).

Eating coconut oil and other healthy oils including MCT (medium chain tryglycerides and such) can encourage a ketogenic state in the body, pushing some crappy carbs out of your diet and offering more clean burning ketones. I recently learned that eating more omega 3s can also improve performance and energy. I knew it could help this indirectly by lowering inflammation but they literally burn cleaner and more efficiently and have been proven to increase endurance.  Back to the optimal body fat % and weight loss topic, Dr Shallenberger recently shared this article… The summary is 3 tablespoons a day  of coconut oil is a Silver bullet for weight loss.

Till next time.. Stay in Infinite Love and Gratitude!

Have you experienced breath work?  Occasionally I will find a patient who I haven’t taught about Wim Hof. I often tell them you should fire me! This technique is one of the best I have seen in years, free to use and profoundly powerful.

If you needed a reminder of just how much you can do with breath, don’t hesitate to check out these links,  including some of my favorites on Wim Hof, Joe Dispenza and Tony Robbins on breathing.

How to NEVER Get Sick Again – The WIM HOF “Iceman” Method – #NeverSick

This dudes passion and enthusiasm is unparalleled!  I integrate this with a little Tony Robbins morning ritual  and  some 4 minute workout principles from Zac Bush and supernatural breathing ala Joe Dispesnza.  Enjoy and transform your life to the next level!

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast #36 – Wim Hof with Jordan Peterson

Tony Robbins Guided Morning Routine (Watch This Video EVERY MORNING)

Guided Wim Hof Method Breathing

I often add a little 4 minute workout with the breath work ala Zach Bush, your welcome to level up the intensity on any of these exercises as well.

It seems each of my children have come to teach me something about how to be a better father and a better doctor. As you would expect, helping to heal their health challenges has been a great motivation for me. It seems each one taught me something different and how to be better. I also feel like every person I touch, even in the office can present a new set of problems and challenges that support the growth of each consciousness involved.

When my son was just four years old he contracted an illness of a mysterious nature that seemed to last longer and more intense than it should. After having been fatigued and lethargic for 3 days in a row, running high fevers and just not even moving,  my level of concern was escalated. I was consistently checking and treating him, primarily finding a virus infection that would not stay cleared. Each time I checked it would be back even after making my greatest attempts to awaken his  immune system and use acupuncture energies and more to help clear the condition. So I finally made a commitment to myself in the interest of protecting his life to take him to another doctor and get some outside help. I told myself that I would check him one more time and if he didn’t turn around quickly then I would pull the trigger and get some help, somewhere, anywhere even an emergency room or whatever it took. (At this point in my life none of my children had been to another doctor when I was around.) I knelt silently beside him and began to check him over using kinesiology to ask his body what the real issue was; it came up as an allergy,  inhaled, and lead. I thought, “Inhaled lead where does that come from? There’s lead in our air?” And a thought came to me in the back of my head or perhaps from outside me “China”. I thought, “Bio- Warfare from China? Is that what this is?… Nah!” I dismissed it immediately. I cleared him for allergy to lead,  along with the virus and he responded almost immediately. The fever broke and he began to show signs of life again. I wondered where this inhaled lead would have come from. The very next day however I was treating a patient in the office whose body told me; allergy to inhaled cadmium. I knew that came from cigarette smoke but then I realized it also came from coal smoke and coal burning. I thought it was just local coal burning in our valley where an inversion would happen and the neighbor above us would burn coal and our house would get surrounded with a smoke cloud so thick you could almost see it, but certainly smell it. Not only  lead and cadmium, but also arsenic, thallium, mercury and other toxic metals. Later that summer however a miraculous happening in my life occurred at a simple seminar. Dr. Dan Murphy was teaching and he said that if we all stopped driving our cars today it would have little to no effect on pollution levels on our planet. The majority of pollution comes from burning the cheapest dirtiest fuel we can find which is coal. And new industrialized nation like China, (China I thought I heard this somewhere else.) A new industrialized nation like China puts up a new power plant every week, and the air currents land in the Western United States. This is why mercury levels on top of 14000 foot mountains are hundreds of times what they used to be. I was amazed and grateful and knew that we were onto something when we were treating inhaled allergy to toxic metals. Toxic metals seem to open the doorway for infection in the body especially when it is an allergy and not just a toxicity. The difference is in the quantity that causes a reaction. And in an allergy case the smallest amount can cause a significant reaction in the body. Which we know heavy metals do anyway with small amounts being very poisonous. But then add the allergy component to it and you really have something catastrophic. At this point I’m super grateful that we had my father-in-law  help make a homeopathic remedy that winter. I requested that he crawl onto his roof because he burned coal as well. He took a quart jar with a little water in it and began to capture some smoke over and over again and then shake it up in the jar with a little water. From these beginnings we developed an antidote, a homeopathic remedy that would help program people’s bodies, reminding them to remove the toxins from coal smoke.
In addition to the long list of problems caused by toxic metals in and of themselves, to our mitochondria, energy production systems, and as I have mentioned immune systems. We also have the genetic component as lead toxicity can block an enzyme known as GAD, this enzyme converts the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate into the calming, relaxing, I’m no longer overwhelmed, neurotransmitter GABA. You may have heard of monosodium glutamate and many of its negative effects, including as an obesogen, used in studies to make mice fat to study obesity. It is also excitatory to the nervous system and the glutamate excess can cause microglial activation (damage to supportive brain cells). Inflammation and pain can also be associated with excess glutamate along with extreme anxiety and sleep problems including insomnia. Thankfully there are strategies we can use to optimize the function of the enzyme, the mineral manganese can help the function of the GAD enzyme. In addition removing lead from the body can also help, as lead specifically blocks this enzymes function. Other issues associated with lead were taught to me by none other than Gary Gordon some have called him the father of chelation therapy on the planet. He said that we all have 1000-2000 times the amount of lead in our bones as our ancestors 700 years ago before the Industrial Revolution. This lead contributes to all causes of morbidity and mortality and is the highest predictive value of any test. This means that if you want to predict if someone will die or catch any disease you simply measure the level of lead in their bones and the higher the number the more likely it will be. Lead is specifically associated with heart disease and cataract formation. Removing toxic metals from the body is of utmost importance for optimal function, prevention of disease, and healing. 

Removing Toxic Metals

I have learned at least eight strategies that can help remove these metals. One of the simplest and most powerful is to use specific homeopathics according to your body and its priorities. Many times a year you may find the coal smoke remedy that we have developed is that priority. As a general recommendation I think everyone should take it for three weeks in a row to begin with and then take a week off and cycle back on again for another week or so. Homeopathics are always best with cycling and this allows the body to replenish its ability to detoxify the metals and not just have them recirculate throughout the system. 
In addition to using homeopathics, replacing minerals is extremely important in this day of depleted soils and rampant mineral deficiencies. Most notable perhaps being magnesium and then zinc for men and iron for women, also important minerals like manganese and other trace and ultra minerals as all trace minerals are deficient in our diets which can be attained through high quality salts (SOLE). I mention manganese once again because of its ability to support the GAD enzyme, I’ve seen sleep improve and calmness come again just from this one mineral. It also helps in the rebuilding of cartilage in the body and the pituitary gland and prevention of glaucoma. However one need not take it in large amounts if it is not indicated by their body and it’s genetics. Mineral replacement will also push out and dilute out the toxic metals. The solution to pollution is dilution according to one philosophy. Also enough of the healthy minerals in the binding sites of co-factors and enzymes in the body will not allow for the absorption and detrimental effects of toxic metals which clog binding sites and disrupt enzyme function. 
A third important strategy for detoxifying metals is taking healthy oils ensuring that the gallbladder liver bile flow is optimized as we know 90% of methyl Mercury is detoxified through the bile duct. Other pathways of detoxification are the skin, the lungs and the kidneys. High levels of healthy fiber can bind metals and ensure colon function, preventing the reabsorption of those metals through enterohepatic circulation. When the liver releases something into the intestines that is later reabsorbed.
A fourth important strategy can be the allergy elimination or desensitization process that is performed in the office as a practitioner harmonizes your body to a substance that causes disharmony when introduced into your field. This can program your body to selectively release and detoxify that substance. 
The fifth strategy is the utilization of oral and or IV chelation agents such as EDTA (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) for lead, DMSA (dimercapto succinic acid) for mercury and other things that support glutathione pathways and other detoxification; a favorite of mine is heavy metal support from Thorne research. This has been frequently matched to eliminate aluminum and also supports nickel, tin and other metals that can be toxic to the body that are not quite as heavy as lead and mercury. On the topic of lead we should mention the concept of Base toxin as discovered by a good colleague of mine, this concept applies to the lowest heaviest toxin that is clogging the pathways for the body. This base toxin is commonly lead and he frequency matched a simple herb known as Gambier leaf for the removal of lead in a gentle and powerful way. It seems to work very well and I am currently looking for a good source of Gambier leaf.  I personally have also seen that flaxseed oil is often indicated when lead is the priority metal.  A sixth strategy is an energy foot bath to put negative ions into the body, these ions can neutralize and potentially pull out the positive ions that metals are within the body. This energy foot bath can also be used while in an infrared sauna which is a sixth strategy to remove toxic metals through a parasympathetic sweating that happens in a meditative or relaxed state inside a sauna much more effectively then when sweating in other ways as through exercise for instance. In addition, infrared saunas can penetrate the body 2 to 3 inches and reach deeper into toxic stores of metals within the body to liberate them. This is better than the use of a typical sauna you might find in a gym where the air is very hot but the penetration is very little. That’s why I do recommend home use of infrared saunas. 
An eighth strategy is the use of cold laser therapy to energize and support the release through increased circulation to detoxify heavy metals, possibly through nitric oxide optimization. Get scheduled today to find out how to optimize your health call 970-856-3545.  In a future article we will address some of the specific toxic effects of these metals.

As Always… May Your Day Be Filled With Infinite Love And Gratitude.

Dr Alexander Gilmore.