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Dannybex just posted an interesting problem in his very evocative story - kelp. http://forums.phoenix-cfs.org/showthread.php?t=318
After my mercury problems from eating a lot of fish I'm worried about everything in the sea. Mercury and heavy metals are dumped into the sea through the burning of fossil fuels. They disperse out through the waters - essentially they are everywhere - certainly in small amounts but still...I am wary about kelp and seaweed - although I love seaweed - it has a calming effect on me.
It's also possible that Danny cannot kelp from an area that had local pollution problems or that it is a potent detoxifier and it just pushed too many toxins out. That numbness and tingling reminds me very much of my experience with Mercury and fish.
Any ideas?
After my mercury problems from eating a lot of fish I'm worried about everything in the sea. Mercury and heavy metals are dumped into the sea through the burning of fossil fuels. They disperse out through the waters - essentially they are everywhere - certainly in small amounts but still...I am wary about kelp and seaweed - although I love seaweed - it has a calming effect on me.
It's also possible that Danny cannot kelp from an area that had local pollution problems or that it is a potent detoxifier and it just pushed too many toxins out. That numbness and tingling reminds me very much of my experience with Mercury and fish.
Any ideas?
I'd also like to discuss heavy metal issues, as both last year (for nine months) and then suddenly this year (in May) I developed strong tingling and numbness in my feet, almost overnight. Of course this can be due to so many different causes, but the most recent TinglePalooza came on after taking kelp capsules for about 2 weeks. I had read that kelp may contain high levels of arsenic, but didn't think about that when I started the kelp, as I was desperate to reduce my tinnitus (which had suddenly gotten very loud) and had read how it helped that annoying condition. And it DID help the tinnitus, but did I pay the price? My hair's been falling out at double the rate (as it did late last year) as well. And there are many other surprising sources of arsenic, but kelp is one of the biggies. After a woman developed arsenic poisoning in 2007 (from swallowing kelp like after dinner mints for months) they tested 9 different brands of kelp supplements and found elevated arsenic in 8 of the 9.
A blood test showed an arsenic level of "6". The labs 'normal' range was 2-30, kind of wide, don't you think? Double checking online, most sites suggested the toxic range starts at "7".
So I followed up with a hair mineral analysis from DDI. Again the arsenic was elevated, but more importantly the rest of my minerals were heavily skewed. Iron, copper very, very low, and potassium off the charts.