Lead and Thallium

Things have been busy in the last month. I've been trying to keep up with work. My stomach hasn't been 100%. It's gotten to the point that I cannot have fruit or foods with sugars without feeling like I'm being stabbed in my lower left abdomen. It's very frustrating. I took a full course of Nystatin and still was not able to tolerate fruit.

I decided to go back to a phase 1 diet as much as possible. I'm now on a phase 1 diet without exceptions. I asked my doctor to test me for heavy metals, and he happily agreed. Yesterday I got my results back. I have high levels of lead and thallium. Lead is pretty easily explained. I've lived in old buildings and my family used a well. The thallium is a little harder to explain. It was banned in most products in the US in the 1970's because it was a very effective poison. It's odorless, tasteless, and dissolves easily. I've never had a heart stress test or MRI, the medical procedures that the metal is still used in. I suppose it could be used in the high tech industry and I could have been exposed some other way, but I really wonder why or how it happened.

My doctor is concerned about me taking chelation drugs because he's not sure if my kidneys will hold up well. He is completely supportive of me taking Adya Clarity, a precurser to zeolites. I'm doing one "super shot" per day and will work up to two. Detox symptoms haven't been too bad. I've felt a little flu like off and on. No bad headaches so far. I feel like I'll be ready to move up to two doses in a week or two. I'm tired, but I feel like we're finally getting to the cause. It's exciting to think so many of my symptoms can be explained and I might be able to gain a lot of my health back.

It took a while to kick a lot of the sweet cravings. I've been eating a lot of salads and soups and am thinking I need to widen the repertoire.

Rosemary Garlic Hemp Dressing
1/3 cup hemp
1/2 clove garlic
1/3 tsp salt
1/2 tsp rosemary
1/4 tsp basil
1 TB olive oil