Are Heavy Metals Your Body’s Time Bomb?

What Are Heavy Metals?

There are 35 metals that can damage the body; 23 of them are called ‘heavy metals’. In order to be classified as a heavy metal the element must have a specific gravity of at least five times greater than that of water. The metals considered to be the most dangerous to the body are mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic and aluminum. In general, these metals are of no use to the body.

Specifics About Each Of The Five Metals

Strains, Sprains and Excruciating Back Pains

More often than not gravity is the back’s worst enemy. The low back area of the spine receives the brunt of damage from this downward force. Over time compression and ordinary wear and tear of the vertebrae and discs start to cause problems.

Eight out of ten Americans can expect to experience back pain during their life. The majority of problems occur because the back, stomach and buttock muscles become too weak to protect the spine from the jerks and bumps it receives.

Anatomy of the Back

Twenty-six bones make up the Spinal Column. There are seven in the Cervical (neck), twelve in the Thoracic (middle), five in the Lumbar (low), a sacrum and coccyx (tailbone). Of the 24 vertebrae the cervical and lumbar add the flexibility needed for ease of movement, but are also the most susceptible to injury. Along with the bones the back has 40 muscles, tendons which fasten the muscles to the vertebrae, and ligaments that hold the vertebrae together. There are 31 pairs of nerves attached to the Spinal Cord. The Spinal Cord is protected by a bony pathway created through the vertebrae.

Methods for Decreasing Physical Pain

Pain is the necessary evil the body perpetuates against itself, not to torture it, but to warn the brain an injury has occurred. And, it’s a darn good warning signal too. Who’s going to walk on a broken leg, or allow an open wound to bleed and bleed? Without pain many people would do just that. Pain protects the body from further damage. But, the problem with pain is it is perpetual. There is no turn off switch once the signal has been received. Hence, the demand for pain relief is something 1 out of 5 adult Americans need on a daily basis.

Arthritis: A Grating Pain With Little Relief

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Remember how the hair on the back of your neck stood on end when the kid with a sheepish grin dragged his fingernails across the black board. Grating wasn’t it? Well, take that sensation and magnify it into true pain to imagine the agony millions suffer with arthritis. Instead of fingernails on a blackboard it’s bone against bone resulting in inflammation, stiffness and joint deterioration.

Of the over 100 forms of arthritis there are two which the majority of people suffer, Osteoarthritis (OA) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The cause of either has not been found, but certain clues about both have been discovered.

Osteoarthritis (OA)

Remedies For Arthritis That Help Relieve Pain

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It is nearly mind-boggling the number of alternative remedies created for the treatment of arthritis. Many are peculiar, like the suggestion of filling a canvas bag with the chaff from the bottom of a horse trough, then taking a bath with the bag. But, this remedy leaves one wondering if the curative agent is the hay, or horse saliva left on the hay. Either way, most people would rather sit in mud, which may actually have more curative properties than wet horse hay.

Because everyone, and their pets, seems to have a favorite remedy many of them end up contradicting each other. For instance, aspirin has been used for years to help arthritis sufferers, because of its anti-inflammatory properties. However, new research has indicated that the drug, and ones like it, may actually contribute to osteoarthritis for it inhibits the bodies natural ability to repair cartilage.

Allergies: The Drama Queens of the Body

Allergies are like movies. If you have ever covered your eyes at something frightening on the big screen you have reacted in a similar fashion as the immune system does when an allergen enters its world. In both cases a reaction is launched because of a threat perceived to be real, yet is not. Which is not to say the immune system shouldn’t react to a bee sting, but killing the person in its response is definitely overkill, pardon the pun.

Of all the allergies the most common is dust mites. Most people are not even aware they are allergic to these microscopic insects. For them the symptoms generally only show up upon waking. For a few hours they suffer a runny nose, sneezing or itchiness.

A combination of actions can be taken to clean your living space from the majority of these spider-like creatures.

Bio Cleanse To Release New Ionic Foot Bath

For over a thousand years water has been lightly charged to create a therapeutic method of detoxifying the body. Bio-Cleanse Technologies has taken this concept and expanded upon it to create one of the best detoxification devices in use. Bio-Cleanse has two models, the Personal Bio Cleanse and during the month of June the new version of the Professional Bio Cleanse model will be released.

View the video Promolife produced on how to setup and use the Professional Bio Cleanse.

The Technology

There Is Now Holistic Help For Macular Degeneration

For acupuncturist Andy Rosenfarb the need to improve vision turned out to be the mother-of-invention for him. When his wife started losing a portion of her visual abilities Andy began searching for a holistic method to help her improve, then regain, her damaged sight. Through his research he was able to develop the Acu-Gen system of improving the eyes. This system has been reported to help Macular Degeneration, as well as other eye ailments.

Acu-Gen is a series of therapies which combine to stimulate blood and lymph flow through the eyes, detoxify their cells, increase oxygen in the area, then rebuild the cells through nutrition. One needs to understand the mechanics of Macular Degeneration before the full benefit of Acu-Gen can be grasped.

A Little Science About Macular Degeneration

Promolife Announces New Royal FIR Sauna Series

SaunaGen announces the release of their new SaunaGen Royal Far Infrared Sauna series. The overall comfort level of the Royal sauna series has been considerably improved. They have been redesigned to be more efficiently heated by pure ceramic far infrared emitters. The new angled wall design directs the heat more exactly toward the user. Along with this twice as many heaters/emitters of lower wattage have been placed within the sauna. This creates a more penetrating far infrared within the sauna without generating the excessive heat higher wattage emitters produce.

Self-Treatment of Hemorrhoids is Easy

By Cat Lowe

Hemorrhoids is the chronic health problem few people want to talk about. And yet, by the age of 50 nearly 50 percent of the adult population has suffered from them. Technically speaking hemorrhoids are varicose veins of the anal region. And though our lifestyle of improper eating habits, having difficult bowel movements, and pregnancy can be a major cause of hemorrhoids, it isn’t the whole story. Much of the inflamed veins can be attributed to the bodies design.

Unlike other veins in the body which has a check valve system that keeps blood always flowing toward the heart, the delicate veins in the anus area has no such system in place. So, when a person lifts something too heavy, strains when having a bowel movement, or even coughs the pressure of such action can cause the blood to compress into these fragile veins. This traps excessive blood in the area which inflates the veins. The swelling of these veins causes the pain, itching and bleeding associated with hemorrhoids.