No. 13

Detoxify Your Pineal Gland of Heavy Metals

The pineal gland is known as “the seat of the soul or third eye”.  This tiny gland hidden deep within the brain is what supports instinct, intuition, and spiritual knowing.  It is fragile and adversely affected by toxins, especially heavy metals like mercury and neurotoxins like fluoride.  When exposed to these toxins, the gland becomes calcified and damaged, it lies dormant and inactive.  Even though a lot is not known about the pineal gland, what we do know is disturbing considering how important it is to your wellbeing.  It is the gland that tells you “something is wrong” when everything or everyone around you is saying “everything is fine”.  But somehow you know to heed this warning or gut feeling.  The pineal gland is this messenger.

The pineal gland, pineal body, conarium or epiphysis cerebri, is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain.  It produces the serotonin a precursor to melatonin, which is the hormone which affects the modulation of sleep patterns and seasonal functions.  If through diet and exposure to neurotoxins, you have been affected by mercury, certain foods will help you to detoxify the pineal of heavy metals–

These natural products help to remove mercury from brain tissue-

• Bentonite
• Chlorella (cracked cell only)
• Spirulina
• Bladderwrack
• Bugleweed
• Wheatgrass
• Cilantro

Fluoride, a neurotoxin, calcifies the pineal gland.  You can avoid it with your choices in toothpaste and many body care products.  Never drink fluoride if your city adds it to the public water system.  I recommend the Berkey Water Filtering System.  If you don’t have one, come into the store and see ours.  It has an additional filter to rid your drinking water of fluoride as well as hundreds of other toxic chemicals used to make your water “safe”.  If you think this is an exaggeration, Google images-  pineal gland fluoride and take a look at the photos for yourself.  These pictures are sure to change your opinion on ingesting fluoride.  Many people do not know that fluoride interrupts iodine in the thyroid.  So thanks to fluoride, you can put on extra pounds.  Yes, fluoride makes you fat.

According to city authorities, fluoride is added to public drinking water in hopes of preventing tooth decay.  Fluoride is not fluorine.  Fluoride is the negative ion of the element fluorine—fluoride is a compound which contains the fluoride ion—it is a manmade toxin.  Fluorine is naturally occurring, Fluoride is manmade.

Fluorine is an essential hardening element for strong bones and teeth, remember that teeth are bones.  It prevents dental cavities by hardening enamel.  Fluorides do not have any health benefit for mankind.  Fluoride mimics iodine and chlorine.  It disrupts the balance of digestive enzymes, especially amylase which is responsible for digesting starches.  Starch is a conversion to sugar.  As fluoride dislodges iodine in the thyroid, it causes us to gain unwanted weight.  Many authorities now believe that fluoride in water may be responsible for people developing Hashimotos autoimmune thyroid disease. Fluoride is literally a toxic waste added into our water supply.  The government and entire world authorities, all know that fluoride, not fluorine, accumulates in our tissues and about ½ of what we ingest stays in us for our entire life.  The safe level determined by authorities is 1.2 ppm used in water.  The safe level recommended is actually ZERO. Because of the accumulation into the soft tissue, it is now present in every human at levels higher than any other neurotoxin. Fluorine naturally occurs in seaweed. Eating seaweed in your diet will help install proper fluorine into your tissues without disrupting iodine.  Fluoride is considered more toxic than lead and slightly less toxic than arsenic.

According to a chemistry professor named Dr William Hirzy from American University, it would be a “biological miracle” if fluoride did not cause harm prior to end-stage toxicity.  Research has proven that fluoride can and does cause arthritic symptoms and bone fracture prior to the onset of fluorosis.  Teeth and bones are not the only thing that fluoride affect.  This toxic manmade compound affects the brain and the thyroid gland. Clinical signs of fluorosis include chronic joint pain and the diagnosis of osteoarthritis, again, another autoimmune disease.

HOW TO AVOID THE Sources of fluoride; 

• Fluoridated water
• Fluoride-containing pesticides
• Bottled water
• Bottled tea
• Fluorinated pharmaceuticals
• Teflon pans
• Mechanically deboned chicken in manufacturing such as chicken fingers and nuggets, fast foods
• Toothpaste
• Mouthwash
• Chemical Fertilizers and Herbicides
• Infant foods processed with water containing fluoride, pesticides
• High levels in non-organic foods particular;  grape products, cocoa powder, dried fruits, dried beans, walnuts
• Non-organically raised tea plants—particularly old tea plants
• Soda
• Beer
• Sports drinks
• Bottled juices
• Processed foods
• The pharmaceutical drug Cipro
• Industry work-exposure to;  iron, aluminum, oil refining, fertilizer, semi conductor, and the steel industry;  all of these can be routinely exposed to high levels of fluoride which contributes to bone and respiratory diseases

Avoiding Fluoride—

Dietary choices can reduce your exposure to fluoride.  These are organically produced and should be consumed whenever possible. Remember as well, if you grow a garden and use city water to water your garden, without a filter in place, you are dousing your plants with fluoride.

Organically produced—

• Clean filtered or distilled water
• Unprocessed fruits and vegetables
• Eggs
• Milk
• Meats
• Seaweed
• Nuts and seeds

Eating a diet high in organic raw foods will help to remove heavy metals from your body.  Eating food which are antioxidant rich, like superfruits, will remove these toxic metals from tissue.  Avoid any foods with aspartame and any artificial sweeteners which are neurotoxins.

Removing Heavy Metals, Neurotoxins, Unmetabolized Hormones and Pharmaceutical Residue from the Liver

Foods, Herbs, & Nutrients for Detoxifying the Pineal Gland and Other Organs

• Cilantro
• Garlic
• Bugleweed
• Yellow Dock
• Lobelia
• Turmeric (mercury & aluminum)
• Chlorella
• Spirulina
• Wheatgrass or Barley Greens (mercury)
• Chlorophyll
• Bladderwrack (aluminum)
• Horsetail (lead)
• Potassium (excess copper)
• Vegetable glycerine (mercury)
• MSM or true Organic Sulfur also called DMSO2- all foods high in sulfur
• Cocoa
• Citric Acid
• Bentonite Clay (mercury, aluminum, radiation)
• Lemon (not reconstituted or pasteurized) and Lime
• Raw Apple Cider Vinegar with the mother
• K1 (green leafy vegetables)
• K2 (egg yolks, brick cheese, butter, caviar, fish oil, Natto, saurerkraut)
• Boron (use Borax)

Boron removed fluoride and is a detoxifier for the pineal gland. You can use Borax to help remove fluoride taking ¼ teaspoon of Borax in green tea.  It is an ingredient in organic beets which can be consumed raw or in organic beet powder.  Borax can also be added to water using 1/32 to  ¼ teaspoon of borax to 1 liter of water.  You can also use 1/8 teaspoon with a pinch of Himalayan salt . It is consumed in small doses throughout the day. If you eliminate fluoride and take iodine, you deplete calcium, so it is recommended in this case that you supplement a calcium-magnesium citrate supplement in a reasonable dose.

*Other symptoms of toxic accumulation of heavy metals is autism, aspergers syndrome, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, mental illness

If these toxins have damaged your liver, here is the list of health restorative herbs in addition to removal of the heavy metals-

• Barberry
• Milk thistle seed
• Pau d Arco
• Dandelion root
• Chaparral
• Oregon grape root
• Red clover blossom
• Burdock root
• Artichoke

Summary– 

Filtering your water, avoiding pesticides, vaccinations, fluoride ridden products like most toothpaste and many body care products, processed foods, be selective in choosing quality deodorant products, shampoos, etc. you will avoid as much contact with these toxins as possible. If you have a cracked or leaking mercury filling, have it replaced and  do not replace it with a mercury filling. Eat foods which are organic and include all of the foods in the list above on a regular basis.  These foods will help work for you even when exposed without knowing all of your sources.  Be selective in all of your household products and if gardening, use a filter to water plants or install a RO system for your own protection against many of these toxins.