I've been gaining interest in heavy metals lately. After doing the complete b12 protocol for a while, I've been getting urine and stools that smell a bit swampy / funny, and I've heard that may be a sign of heavy metals.
I've been sooo tempted to just flat out buy an infrared sauna and try it out, but I want to get more educated before spending $350 Canadian on amazon.
One of the main reasons that I'm worried about heavy metals, mainly lead and arsenic, is that my house is around 10 km from a lead and zinc smelter.
Around 35 years ago, much of the vegetation in the area died.
Teck Metals to plead guilty over pollution in Trail, B.C.
B.C. smelter spewed heavy metals into Upper Columbia River valley
The main pollutants from the smoke seem to be lead and arsenic.
The soil in our property was tested a long while ago, but there's still a chance that our water well is contaminated. We live in a rural area.
Questions
I've been sooo tempted to just flat out buy an infrared sauna and try it out, but I want to get more educated before spending $350 Canadian on amazon.
One of the main reasons that I'm worried about heavy metals, mainly lead and arsenic, is that my house is around 10 km from a lead and zinc smelter.
Around 35 years ago, much of the vegetation in the area died.
Teck Metals to plead guilty over pollution in Trail, B.C.
B.C. smelter spewed heavy metals into Upper Columbia River valley
The main pollutants from the smoke seem to be lead and arsenic.
The soil in our property was tested a long while ago, but there's still a chance that our water well is contaminated. We live in a rural area.
Questions
- What is the best place to get hair analysis done? Are there any in Canada? (preferably low cost)
- Are there any low cost places to get tap water tested?
- Are there any studies/reviews on heavy metals, chelation etc? All I can find is anecdotal evidence. I can accept stuff without proof because research can be lacking, but ideally my foundation is in solid science.
- I've experience extreme fatigue, itching, dry skin, terrible feeling after heavy exercise or hot water. One time I went to a hot springs with my family, and I felt utterly exhausted and terrible for 1.5 days. I've always just thought this was a form of cholinergic urticaria, but could this be a form of detox? I started getting this symptom 2 years before I got CFS.