Does Your Child Own This Toy?

By Angie Smith
We all know about the recent publicity that toys imported from China have warranted…and it’s not good PR. The word this time though, is asbestos, not lead, found in a toy that was relatively popular this past holiday season: a forensic-type kit modeled after the popular TV series, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigators”.

Looks like someone didn’t do their homework. High levels of asbestos were found in the fingerprint dust that comes with the kit.

Here is an excerpt from a news article from www.ewg.org (the environmental working group):

“The tests were commissioned by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), which last month announced the results of it’s exhaustive 18-month scientific study testing hundreds of consumer products for deadly cancer-causing asbestos fibers. The findings were extremely troubling. One product, the popular children’s toy – Planet Toys CSI: Crime Scene Investigation™ Fingerprint Examination Kits– had high levels of asbestos in some samples of the fingerprint dust children put directly on their fingers and likely breathe into their lungs when the dust goes airborne. Children are directed to blow the asbestos contaminated dust to reveal the fingerprints.

“Major retailers stepped in when the federal government failed to act. They should be congratulated. Their actions will protect an untold number of children from the very real danger of asbestos-caused cancer later in life,” said Richard Wiles, Executive Director of Environmental Working Group. “Today’s action would not have been possible, without the courage of ADAO and Senator Murray in confronting the ongoing dangers posed by asbestos,” Wiles added.

“Given the grave health risks associated with asbestos exposure, ADAO acknowledges Planet Toys voluntarily issued a ‘stop sale’ this morning,” said Linda Reinstein, ADAO Executive Director and Co-Founder. “Once asbestos is inhaled or swallowed, the damage is irreversible. Prevention is the only cure.”

Particularly troubling about this toy is that children are directed to blow the asbestos contaminated powder after dusting for fingerprints, which makes it much more likely that children playing with this toy would actually inhale potentially lethal asbestos fibers. Any amount of asbestos fiber in a children’s toy, particularly in a powder that is certain to be inhaled, is unacceptable and unnecessary.

The type of asbestos detected in these kits, tremolite, is one the most lethal forms of asbestos, and a single day’s exposure is sufficient to cause lung cancer later in life.

Earlier this year Senator Murray’s bill to ban asbestos passed the Senate unanimously. Under the Murray bill the levels of asbestos found in this toy would have made this product illegal in the U.S.”

Folks, asbestos is a notorious toxin, in the proper (or improper, however you want to look at it) environment. You or your child would need a safe, complete detox after coming into contact with this known carcinogen. See my other articles for information on how liquid zeolite can do this!
Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite.

Nurses At Much Higher Risk For Toxin Exposure, Study Says

by Angie Smith

WASHINGTON – A first ever national survey of nurses’ exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages and children’s birth defects and the duration and intensity of these exposures. The survey included 1,500 nurses from all 50 states

The results were released online at ewg.org/reports/nursesurvey by the Environmental Working Group, the American Nurses Association, Health Care Without Harm, the Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. The survey was extremely detailed and is the first of its kind, but it was not a controlled, statistically designed study.

Every day, nurses confront low-level but repeated exposures to mixtures of hazardous materials that include residues from medications, anesthetic gases, sterilizing and disinfecting chemicals, radiation, latex, cleaning chemicals, hand and skin disinfection products, and even mercury escaping from broken medical equipment. There are no workplace safety standards to protect nurses from the combined effects of these exposures on their health.

“Nurses are exposed daily to scores of different toxic chemicals and other hazardous materials whose cumulative health risks have never been studied,” said Jane Houlihan, Vice President for Research at Environmental Working Group. “Nurses ingest, touch or breathe residues of any number of these potentially harmful substances as they care for patients, day after day and face potential but unstudied health problems as a result.”

“This survey is a call to action for nurses to demand the use of safer products and protective measures to control exposures to hazardous agents in the workplace,” said Anna Gilmore Hall, RN, executive director of Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition working to reduce the environmental impact of the health care sector.

The Centers for Disease Control proposed a National Occupational Exposure Survey for the health care industry in 2002. To date, no such survey has been initiated to better understand the range of potentially hazardous chemical exposure in the health care industry and related illnesses.

“For many of the toxic chemicals in hospitals there are safer alternative or safer processes. We must make these healthier choices for the sake of our patients, nurses and all hospital employees,” said Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH, FAAN, Professor and Director of the Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.

“ANA is dedicated to ensuring the health and safety of nurses and their patients,” said Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR, President, American Nurses Association. “We are pleased to work with our partners to bring attention to the growing concern over chemical exposures in the workplace, and ANA will continue its efforts on behalf of the nursing profession to create healthier working environments.”

Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite. 

Nursing Among Most Toxic Professions

By Angie Smith

Health care workers wash and disinfect their hands sometimes 100-plus times per day with chemical-laced cleansers. They are exposed to housekeeping chemicals, latex, anesthetic gases, and radiation. The people who take care of us when we’re unable to…nurses…may have some of the highest toxin levels of any occupation, according to a just-released study.

The Environmental Work Group (EWG) released the results of a recent study which showed that nurses and other health-care workers who are exposed to housekeeping chemicals, drug residue, radiation, and other toxic substances, reported higher rates of miscarriages, cancers, and birth defects. 

And it doesn’t affect only our caregivers: it affects their offspring as well. The study also showed a 36% higher cancer rate among their children, even though the government does regulate the amount of radiation doses for pregnant nurses.

But just regulating it doesn’t appear to be enough: children born to nurses reporting high exposures to these chemicals (at least once a week for nine months) were up to two times more likely to be born with a congenital defect than children born to nurses with low or no exposures to these agents, and up to nine times more likely to suffer from musculoskeletal defects at birth.

Disconcerting? Here are some more poisonous points to ponder: nurses get a double-dose of toxins. “What do you mean by a ‘double-dose’?” you might ask. The same group, EWG, conducted studies on average Americans and found the presence of 469 chemicals in the blood, urine, and breast milk of 94 test subjects. These contaminants are found in the regular food, air, tap water and house dust we inhale and ingest every day. We also absorb chemicals through the skin. Nurses not only fall into this category, but they appear to be at at least a “double-risk” because of their work exposure to these toxins, plus those found in the health care environment.

Is anything being done?

Well, yes, and no. There is a growing awareness of the problem, and several groups, like EWG and the American Nurses Association have started a knowledge-based campaign. But currently, no safety testing for nurses is required. And while some health care products, like chemicals and drugs, have been tested for safety, that’s not so for industrial chemicals used by consumers and found in people everywhere.

In the meantime, it would seem prudent that health-care workers, especially the most hands-on employees (nurses, CNAs, and nurses’ assistants) go through a comprehensive detox program. This can be done relatively inexpensively and very effectively using a breakthrough mineral called zeolite.

In its liquid form, it is ingested tastelessly into the body and traps toxins, free radicals, chemical traces, and yes, even viruses. Nothing could benefit our health care workers more!

No one may know the full scope of this troubling outcome for years. Do you know a nurse or other hands-on healthcare worker? Show him or her this article. This time, it’s our turn to do the care-taking!

Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite. 

“Lead” Astray: My Toddler Was Toxic

By Angie Smith

I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Marshall, in 1996.

My baby was perfect…well, at least to me he was! He talked very early. He walked very early. Marshall held fairly reasonable conversations by 18 months. I crowed at his every accomplishment, and I felt like he was an extension of my soul toddling around. Surely he was the smartest kid in the world!

 

Almost three years later, I gave birth to a second (surprise!) son, Michael, who was just as wonderful and beautiful. He started out on the fast track developmentally. But after about one year of age, I began to notice slight differences in his development. He didn’t talk. He didn’t show signs of walking, though he still managed to scoot or roll wherever he wanted to go. He was prone to ear infections, skin infections, and developed terrible allergies and eczema. While Mikey eventually talked in very short sentences at around age two, I knew something was, well, just not right. We didn’t bond as easily, though I was really the only person he would have anything to do with. Dropping him off at the sitter’s was a nightmare. It was as if he was trying to tell us something, but we didn’t know what. It was as if he was in another world. Mikey’s uncle nicknamed him “The Tank”, or “Sherman”, due to his habit of pushing his way over or through anything in his path. He was, ahem, rather destructive and demanding and inconsolable.

All this while my four-year-old was beginning to recognize words and write.

At first I chalked this up to being “the second baby syndrome”. Any mother of more than two children knows what I’m talking about!

When Mikey was nearly two, I took my children to be screened for lead poisoning.

My youngest son showed higher-than-normal amounts of lead, “but not life-threatening”, they told me. And the levels were “not enough to treat him…just find the source and clean it up”. How naive I was.

At the time, we lived in a home that was built in the 1920s and had been remodeled on several occasions. It had also been painted a number of times since the late 1970s when lead was first banned in paint, so at first I was skeptical that the lead came from the paint indoors, which was not peeling anywhere (I found later this really doesn’t matter).

But the paint and siding on the exterior of the home was older, and was starting to decay and chip off around the bottom. I began to check outside near their play area. Upon close inspection, I discovered innumerable tiny white chips of old paint in the dirt and sandbox where my sons played. Decades of rain and exposure to the elements had no doubt washed away old paint into the dirt all around our home.

No doubt, this was the main source of my son’s “minor” lead problem. And he ate everything, apparently including dirt. On several occasions, I fished more than one less-than-savory thing from Mikey’s little mouth.

Immediately, I moved my sons’ play equipment across the driveway. A short time later, we moved into a brand new home.

My little son blossomed. It was as if someone had flipped a switch. Then three years old, he began speaking clearly, potty-trained within days, and surprised us all with something new every day. He wasn’t sick again for months. He formed friendships at preschool, and, more importantly, the child/parent bond began to strengthen.

Knowing now what I didn’t know then, my son was toxic. My children’s pediatrician was schooled in traditional medicine, though I will give her kudos for some of her non-standard recommendations, and she often snubbed by-the-book parenting. But she never recommended any kind of detox treatment for my son, nor did the local health department. 

Today, with reports of lead found in commercial toys, makeup, and still leaching out of older homes, there are probably countless children who are being poisoned by so-called “minor” levels of lead.

A breakthrough in the removal of heavy metals from the body occurred about three years ago. It didn’t arrive in time for my son and his situation, but it could help someone you know.

Have you ever heard of zeolite? It’s recently been patented and is produced in a liquid form. It’s extremely effective in removing heavy metals from the human body, and is completely safe.

Luckily, I’m not so naive anymore when it comes to heavy metal toxicity. I know that even a little lead is detrimental. I attribute a number of my son’s toddlerhood troubles to the lead problem and living in a toxic, old house.

Happily, my youngest son shows no signs of having been poisoned. He’s now in the second grade and is a straight-A student. He plays soccer and baseball, and says that when he grows up, he’s going to be a professional football player AND a scientist that designs robots. Now those are some ambitions!

Are your children walking chemistry labs? I hope not. My goal is to inform as many parents and grandparents as possible about the dangers of heavy metals (which, by the way, also come from vaccines—that’s another article though) and how to remove them with liquid zeolite.

Zeolite shows so much promise in so many areas. I only wish we had known about it then. Now here’s your chance to get educated.  

Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite. 

Gulf War Syndrome: A Valid Disease, A Treatable Disease

By Angie Smith

Sleep disturbances, body aches, memory loss, and mysterious aches and pains. No, that’s not describing my 85-year-old grandmother’s medical chart. Those are just some of the symptoms Gulf War Syndrome, a real and treatable (we’ll get to that in a moment) disease.

 

Gulf War (and to an extent, more recent veterans) are battling a war they thought they left behind. There are thousands of men and women in their 30s and 40s — the primes of their lives — fighting a disease that the VA and the government say they probably don’t have.

So, the “official” verdict is still out on Gulf War Syndrome, a name coined to describe the mesh of symptoms from which ex-soldiers suffer. But tap into the countless blogs and veteran forums out there and one will likely come to the conclusion that most of our veterans are experiencing painful, life-altering changes that that began soon after they returned home.

While no one would argue that a soldier of war has the most traumatizing occupation on Earth, stress and anxiety alone don’t seem to explain away the disease and illness being reported among Gulf War Veterans.

The characteristic symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome include aching muscles, irritability, thick saliva, weight loss, skin rashes, and memory loss, along with chronic fevers, labored breathing, and headaches. Additionally, an excess of birth defects and stillbirths among children of soldiers have been recorded as well as cases of motor neuron disease and leukemia.

They Were Poisoned…

Veterans of the first Gulf War were exposed to environmental toxins (such as oil fires), chemical and biological weapons, low-level uranium, an immune reaction to a drug administered to protect against attacks of soman (a nerve gas), dust, and even the immunizations (specifically, the anthrax vaccine and polio booster) given to the troops prior to deployment.

As if the above factors aren’t a noxious enough cocktail in and of themselves, detections of sarin, a potentially fatal nerve gas; tabun, a neuroparalytic toxic agent; and sulfur mustard gas were reported in the air during the period of January 19-21, 1991.

Detox Now!

The very likely solution is detoxification; i.e., removing the contamination. These troops’ bodies are literally walking toxic waste containers! Detoxing seems simple enough, but how? 

Liquid zeolite has been proven to safely remove toxins and chemicals from the body.  

It’s a unique mineral that’s formed when volcanic lava flows into ocean water. Zeolite has been used in homeopathic medicine for hundreds of years. 

The zeolite structure, which is honeycomb-shaped, traps toxins and removes them safely from the body. 

If the general public can benefit from detoxification with liquid zeolite, how much more could a Gulf War vet, who was exposed to toxin levels hundreds, or even thousands of times greater than that of a civilian?

Soldiers and their loved ones haven’t been getting the right answers, so it’s been left up to them to look for a solution. The armed forces and government both deny there’s an issue simply because Gulf War Syndrome doesn’t fit the medical establishment’s traditional definition of a “disease”.

Because of this rejection, veterans and their loved ones are looking into alternative treatments (which is usually a good thing anyhow!). Many out there have found relief through detoxification with liquid zeolite. Let me help you!

Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite. 

‘Autism Speaks’??? It’s Practically Screaming!

By Angie Smith

Have you noticed those Ad Council announcements on TV lately…the ones about autism? While many facets of the campaign seem disconcerting (we’ll get to that in a moment), its numbers are accurate: one child out of every 166 is now diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 10,000 just over a decade ago.

 

With stats like that hitting us so hard, even parents with normal, healthy children (like myself) wonder what this unprecedented surge in cases means, and why it is happening.

However, parents of autistic children started asking tough questions years ago.

A visit to the Centers for Disease Control’s website to look for answers to those tough questions doesn’t yield much help.

Moreover, the site’s FAQ page for autism seems to dodge and duck those questions instead of answering them. What is unsettling is that the CDC appears wishy-washy on the subject of increasing cases, and practically denies that the surge in autism cases has anything at all to do with vaccines.

And who is collaborating with the Ad Council on the above-mentioned PSA project, called “Autism Speaks”? Why, it’s none other than their big-brother-in-government, the CDC.

How ironic, given the proverbial duct tape that seems to being placed over the mouths of the concerned.

Yates’ Story

I picked up a local paper, The Jackson Sun, a couple of Sundays ago, and read about the Hazelhurst family. The oldest of the couples’ two children, seven-year-old Yates, was diagnosed with autism shortly after his first birthday.

The Hazlehursts have filed a lawsuit, alleging that the vaccinations Yates received after his first year of life caused a gastrointestinal condition and his autism, according to the Sun. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Charlotte, N.C. agreed to hear the family’s claim, which was also filed on behalf of 5000 other families.

The Hazelhursts were fortunate that Yates’ father, Rolf (who is an attorney), documented the first year of Yates’ life with new-dad fervor. The ”proud papa” videos made excellent fodder for the family’s case. That video documentation made the Hazelhursts the ideal to family to represent the other plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Videos of Yates’ infancy show a healthy, brighter-than-average baby. He made eye contact. He said several words like ”please” and “thank you” before age one, and was videoed jabbering into a pretend phone while riding in the back of his cousins’ toy car.

Yates changed drastically, however, immediately after receiving the MMR, Hib, Hepatitis B and Prevnar vaccination in February 2001.

His mother, Angela, says in the Sun interview, “”Three days past his vaccine, at his birthday, he’s dazed,” Angela said. “Twelve days after, he had a red, bumpy rash. We didn’t recognize it as a reaction. A month after that, in the bathtub, I’m saying, ‘Yates, Yates’ and he won’t look at us anymore.”

Yates was diagnosed with autism.

On the flip-side, Angela Hazelhurst, Yates’ mom, said she wanted to clarify her stance on vaccines: ”I’m not a mom who’s against all vaccinations….but the rise in autism cases has parents worried about what to do,” she said.

Do Our Kids Have Heavy-Metal Poisoning? Is It Vaccines? 

According to the Florida-based watchdog group K.N.O.W. Vaccines, the mercury-containing MMR was added to the vaccine schedule in the late ’70s. In 1988, the mercury-containing HIB vaccine was added. Mercury-containing Hepatitis B for newborns was added in the early 1990s. Children receive all these vaccines, plus mercury-containing DTP, in three to four doses during the first year and a half of their fragile lives, and the vaccines are usually administered simultaneously (multiple mercury-containing vaccines on the same day).

It makes one wonder, at what point does a child’s immunity reach a saturation point for toxic chemicals in the body? The body will try to process mercury. When it can’t get rid of the excess, it travels to the brain where it clings to tissue in the cerebellum (the part of the brain affecting movement and balance), and in other parts of the brain that control emotional processing and the sorting and storage of information.

The vaccine/autism theory gains even more credence when the disease characteristics for both autism and mercury poisoning are compared: sound and touch-sensitivity, inability or difficulty understanding abstract ideas and symbols, clumsiness, rocking back and forth, speech and hearing problems, self-injury, social isolation, gastrointestinal problems…you get the idea.

Removing The Mercury, Reversing Autism?

Many doctors who treat autistic children seem to be aware of the mercury/heavy metal issue in relation to the disease. This is why chelators, substances that remove heavy metals, have become a popular alternative treatment; albeit one that is gaining wide-stream acceptance as well.

Recently, a different kind of chelator was patented, called liquid zeolite. A study is currently being conducted using the liquid mineral, and remarkable anecdotal results have been recorded.

Zeolites could be called “super-chelators”, in that they are extremely efficient in removing heavy metals from the body. Zeolite is formed when lava meets ocean water, and it has been used in Asia for hundreds of years as a treatment for overall good health. The unique honey-comb shape of the mineral traps toxins and other wastes from the body and safely removes them, without stripping the body of vital nutrients and minerals.

Lucas’ Story

In one testimonial, available to read online, a little boy named Lucas recovers completely from autism.

Lucas’ family had spent $300,000 over three years, and he improved somewhat, having progressed from extremely severe autism to mild autism. But after seven weeks on liquid zeolite at 45 drops per day (5 drops, 9 times per day), combined with several complementary treatments, most of Lucas’s autism symptoms just vanished. (The full report can be read at zeolitesource dot com.)

Lucas’ pediatrician and the general traditional medical establishment had ignored the fact that he had over six times the toxic level of mercury in his system. And that same pediatrician called Lucas’ parents “bleeping morons” for implying that his toxicity levels had any connection to his autism.

At last report, Lucas was a normal, healthy little boy with no signs of autism.

Why Isn’t More Being Done?

The name, by the way, of the CDC’s “autism awareness” program is “Learn The Signs; Act Early”. What kind of lame, contrite slogan is that? Any parent with more than noodles for brains would know when something is wrong with their child, and they’d act upon it immediately. The CDC’s program almost seems to imply that citizens need the government to tell us what is happening to our kids, and not to worry because they’re doing something about it.

As long as the CDC refuses to see the link between autism and vaccines, sugar-coated public service announcements will do no good.

Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite. 

Hey Mom! Give Me Some Lead While I String These Lights!

By Angie Smith

This morning on tv, I heard a warning about lead in a product that we all usually come in contact with this time of the year, especially children.

 

“Not again,” I thought.

Lead in makeup, then toys, now this? For years, it seemed all we parents had to worry with was keeping our tots from eating old paint chips. (Coincidentally, I had a child to do this.)

As it turns out, one of the very things that brings holiday cheer to families all over the world could be very dangerous for the littlest ones.

China And Lead…

At least three different brands of holiday lights, it’s been announced recently, have been tested and extremely high levels of lead were discovered. Consumers are being warned not to let their children handle them due to lead poisoning potential (lead is used in the manufacturing process).

I write this out of concern on a personal level; I had a lead poisoning issue with one of my boys (see “Lead Astray” in this blog).

And in case you didn’t know, the toys that have recently been recalled because of lead content aren’t dime-store off-brands, they were made by big-name companies like Mattel, who, like many toy manufacturers, has many of their products made in China.

Now where are the majority of our holiday lights made?

I checked mine, and they all (three different brands) were made in China.

At least 80% of most popular toys are made there as well.

Notice a trend here?

I don’t want to get into politics or possible trade embargoes here, but something must be done, since no one realistically sees the banning of Chinese imports. However, they should be required to meet U.S. standards; quite a no-brainer there.

Brand Names Don’t Mean Squat  

In the meantime, we all need to realize that just because we buy something from a major retailer does not guarantee its safety.

We’re all toxic, to a degree. After doing extensive research and interviews, I’ve come to the conclusion that any random citizen of a developed country could have toxicity tests performed and would then be extremely startled at the results, especially with lead and mercury. We are exposed to household chemicals, pesticides, and other toxins our entire lives. Our children are no different; they’re just as toxic as the rest of the population.

What is especially frightening is that children cannot handle nearly the amount of lead exposure that an adult can.

There is a safe way to improve overall general health and safely remove toxins, including lead, all at the same time.

Get The Lead Out!

A mineral called liquid zeolite has recently been brought to the world’s attention and it is highly recommended by many physicians and scientists. It can safely remove lead and other toxins even from a child’s body.

Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite. 

Balance Your pH, And You’ll Be ‘pHine’

by Angie Smith

Ok, corny title there.

I’m going to tell you something about your body that you might not know.

You’ve heard of “ph balance”…right? But with the phrase injected into so many cosmetic and beauty product commercials, sometimes I think it has lost its “punch”. Flies right over our radar, that “pH balanced” thing, doesn’t it?

It shouldn’t. Your body requires a delicate balance of acidity and alkalinity (the definition of pH). It’s optimum level is 7.36. Many doctors (yes, even traditonal ones!) will agree that a body with the correct pH will be very unlikely to succumb to illness.

I was sitting in the doctor’s waiting room a few months ago while little kids sniffled, old folks wheezed, and I tried hard not to breathe! Back then, I didn’t know the importance of having a balanced pH. I didn’t know disease thrives in acidity. Our bodies need to be in an alkaline state. Acidity is the very beginning of decay itself. A decomposing body is in an acidic state. It’s not a pleasant thought, but death itself begins with acidity.

Liquid zeolite has been shown to balance pH in the human body. It has many other benefits, including detoxification. Coming soon, I’ll give a complete rundown on everything that liquid zeolite is, and isn’t.

I urge you to give me an e-mail and let you read a free report on liquid zeolite and how it has changed so many lives.  

Peace, and hope y’all all have a happy holiday season!

-Angie

Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite. 

Pregnant? Like Fish? Read This First!!!

By Angie Smith

Becoming a parent is no small choice. If you and your partner are planning this life-changing event, then congratulations! Planning in advance is an ideal situation for more than one reason. It gives a wannabe-mom plenty of time to detox. How important is this? Why do it? Is it safe? We’ll get to that later.

Nutrition Alone Is Not Good Enough!

What we know today is that nutrients aren’t the only things passed from mommy to baby through the umbilical cord and placenta. Some of the first things modern medicine advised against were the consumption of alcohol and smoking, while also avoiding secondhand smoke. For obvious reasons, even centuries ago, women were advised against drinking during pregnancy. Old Doc giving a pregnant woman the go-ahead to light up seems ridiculous now, but just a few decades ago, some doctors simply told their patients to “cut back” and just not smoke as much. I heard of one case where the doctor lit up while examining a pregnant woman, and after her exam, they both smoked together during the end of the visit! I know, it sounds insane, but it happened. So, humanity has progressed….or has it?

What of our “normal” environment? Each person has what’s called the “body burden”, or the collection of chemicals and toxins we accumulate over a lifetime. How does this affect the unborn? We now have years of research and findings to back up the theory that not-so-nice things, like toxins, heavy metals, and other unwanteds, reach the unborn fetus. We’re just now discovering the results of this disturbing occurrence.

What Do Studies Say About Toxicity In Pregnant Women?

Harvard University’s Medical, Dental, and Public Health Schools recently concluded an 18-year study of more than 800 children. Their mothers ate seafood containing mercury while pregnant. The study concluded that the toxic effects of exposure to mercury in the womb were permanent, and affected brain function. Even very low levels of mercury consumption produced slower hearing-related signals in the brain in children who were tested at age 14. The teens also had irregular heart rates, which is a sign of mercury toxicity in the brain stem.

Some the other nasty effects of mercury on the human body are:

• Psychological Disturbances (Remember the “Mad Hatter” character in “Alice in Wonderland”? He was called so because hat-makers oftentimes eventually “went mad”. Later, we found out that the cause was the mercury used in the hat-making process.)
  
• Oral Disease
  
• Heart Conditions (irregularity, low pulse, pressure or chest pain)
  
• Neurological Problems (headaches, slowed motor skills, ringing in ears)
  
• Immune Disorders (allergies, asthma, eczema, swollen lymph nodes)
  
• Endocrine Disorders
  
• Memory Loss
  
• …And too many more to list here. 
  

Where Does The Mercury Come From?

So having said the above, it’s safe to say that an informed expectant mother would want to cut back on seafood and/or fish during her gestation period. But why is there mercury in our fish to begin with?

It goes something like this:

Mercury gets into the air from industry, garbage incineration, coal power generation, metal recycling, and among others, mining and manufacturing processes. Then, the airborne mercury deposits on land and in water, where microorganisms convert it into a more biologically active form, methylmercury. The methylmercury then works its way up the food chain, and since organisms tend to store mercury instead of excrete it, concentrations of mercury get higher as larger, longer-living creatures gobble up smaller ones. By the time you get to a top predator fish like a swordfish, albacore tuna, or shark, the concentrations are quite high. So when you open up a can of albacore tuna (like I did yesterday….yikes!), you are likely getting a pretty hefty dose of a nasty toxin, mercury.

Not only is the mercury bad for you, it can wreak havoc on baby’s delicate, forming brain.

I got conflicting advice when I was pregnant with my first baby over 11 years ago. The Internet was in its infancy, only a select few in my rural town had access, and the information that was out there in cyberspace was probably a 1000th of what it is now. So, I relied on my doctor’s advice and that of pregnancy books. My doctor told me to eat lots of tuna (“protein….it’s brain food…” he said), while the few pregnancy books I had did mention the mercury connection, and how a woman should be cautious about fish and seafood intake. I went with my gut instinct and almost entirely avoided fish while pregnant. Today I have two strong, healthy boys.

Leap ahead to the latter part of the first decade of the new millennium. Moms-to-be are so blessed now to have the wealth of information available at their fingertips!

Many women are now choosing a detox program before they take the plunge into mommyhood. And some moms who got a surprise visit from the stork are wondering how they can safely detox while pregnant.

Most obstetricians would advise against a colon-cleansing-type detox program for mothers who are already pregnant. This is not the most pleasant way to detox, as you can imagine!

A Better Way To Rid Your Body Of Heavy Metals Including Mercury

A newer, better way to detox with a patented mineral called zeolite has been making waves in both traditional and holistic medicine circles as of late. If you have read any of my articles or blog entries, you already know all about zeolite and its amazing properties.

Dr. Gabriel Cousens M.D., a doctor who wrote an amazing report on liquid zeolite, said, “In my work to develop a detoxification system for prospective mothers to enable them to bring non-toxic babies into the world, I have searched for a simple, natural remedy that could serve as a practical antidote for toxicity.” He goes on to recommend liquid zeolite for anyone wanting to start a detox routine, but especially for moms-to-be. Liquid zeolite has been shown, in anecdotal testimonials, to have also been safely used in women who were already pregnant.

Angie Smith is a Freelance Journalist who lives in Kentucky and has a keen interest in keeping her family in good health. Angie can be contacted by e-mail at angiesmith74@gmail.com and she will be glad to personally answer any questions you may have about liquid zeolite.