I have dealt with heavy metal toxicity all my life, due to exposure and bad genetics.
My mother had been pretty toxic already when she was pregnant with me. She had many amalgam fillings, and she struggled all her life with severe mental health issues as well as extremely bad eczema, digestive problems and allergies.
So I was born with already a pretty high load of metals and imbalances. I wasn't breastfed which is not helpful for developing a healthy gut flora. I got vaccines (aluminium and mercury). And then I got amalgam fillings in my milk teeth. That was the final drop when my already fragile health spiraled down. Back then in the 80's topics like heavy metal toxicity or even autism were not very common, so nobody really paid much attention when I sank into a deep cloud of brain fog with autistic like behaviors around age 9. ( Anybody doubting the connecting between vaccinations and autism should do some serious research. Or watch some of the many Before/After vaccination videos on youtube from parents, showing how their healthy and normal interacting child shuts down after a vaccination).
From then on I got constant throat infections and bronchitis, as well as bad digestive issues, mostly painful constipation. I had sensory overload, I couldn't cope with other people, I felt an immense tension, fear and stress inside. Everything stressed me out. Going to a friend's house I wouldn't even say Hi to the parents. I was in my own world. I couldn't look anybody in the eyes. I kept my eyes glued to the ground when I was walking to school. I also was pretty sensitive to light. I couldn't focus in class, as my auditory system was overstimulated. I stopped participating in class, I sat frozen on my chair and couldn't wait to go home and hide in my room. My grandparents said I talked like a little professor, very precocious and I was very serious and rather sat with the adults than the other kids. It was as if my brain aged rapidly. I was severely depressed.
I had red flushed cheeks all the time, and in puberty I developed keratosis pilaris on my upper arms. My period was very irregular so they put me on the birth control pill (which leads to more toxicity). I later got diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
To top it off, I got 4 hepatitis B vaccinations when I was around 16, which contain more mercury. I developed eating disorders, mainly with phases of hardly eating, followed by binge eating. I managed to get through school and even made it to university. In uni in my early twenties I had massive panic attacks where I was hyperventilating. I didn't socialize much, and still couldn't focus much in lectures. How I managed to get a Master's degree at university is still beyond me. In my mid twenties I finally started learning what was causing all of this.
A case of severe diarrhea made me research healthy eating, and I came across Candida, food intolerances etc. I found a self-help forum on the internet which would become my main focus of study for the next years. I learned so much from these people and I am forever grateful for them! I also had a colleague at work who had studied naturopathy and offered me a free kinesiology session which revealed that I was super high in heavy metals. Back then I didn't know much about this. She prescribed me chlorella and cilantro, which was the worst thing I could have done. Cilantro is a super powerful mobiliser of heavy metals, and since I was extremely toxic, this stirred things up massively and crashed my adrenals. I felt like an 80 year old woman. I could hardly walk to get my groceries. Really bad times.
So I continued my battle and studied studied studied. I learned about autism and asperger's and found myself very much on the spectrum, and I read that heavy metals can cause it and that many kids respond very well to a gluten- and dairy free diet. After one week being off gluten and dairy the brain fog lifted for the first time and I felt like a new person. I added in some grapefruit seed extract to kill off Candida and felt even better.
Since then I have done many (MANY) things and methods of natural healing and detoxing. Whatever I could afford I tried. Whatever diet was out there, I tried it. I got better and better, and then I thought I had found the holy "heals all" grail Raw Veganism, and I ate raw foods only for 2,5 years. I had left my home country Germany to move to Spain. I felt good, and stopped all other detox methods and just soaked up the sunshine and nature and ate raw foods.
But some symptoms remained, and I also depleted my body of nutrients with this way of eating. I finally realized that my lack of sex drive, my brittle hair and my weak muscles told me something. It's quite brain washing following veganism and raw veganism, and it puts a massive load on your copper toxicity because most plant foods are high in copper and low in zinc. I started eating cooked foods again and later on animal products. I gained a lot (LOT) of weight but I slowly recovered, gained back some strength and lost most of that weight eventually.
I moved to Italy and later to Malaysia, not really focusing on detox, as I was stable enough to just live my life.
Still, I wasn't at my optimum health, and during a travel around the world in 2017/2018 I met up with other detox folks in California (check out Josh Macin) which brought me back to my healing journey. I realised that I still needed to do the detox work because heavy metals don't leave the body by themselves really. I learned about the things I had been missing out and how to detox in a safer way.
I dedicated my life to detoxing, healing my gut, taking plenty of nutrients, supporting my adrenals with adaptogens, meditating daily.
These days I am not depressed anymore (although I do have short bouts of it when I overdo the detoxing, but they get less and less). I have energy and am able to build muscle (I had very weak muscle tone as a child). I learned that I have the MTHFR 1298 mutation which reduces the body's capacity to detox to about 20 %, so I will need to keep up my detox game. I found gentle and effective ways to chelate the heavy metals from my body and slowly getting better and better.
My heart goes out to autistic and vaccine-injured kids and their parents. Even though I had never full-blown autism, I feel I had been on the edge, and I will forever support those parents who take action to help their kids recover.
So I was born with already a pretty high load of metals and imbalances. I wasn't breastfed which is not helpful for developing a healthy gut flora. I got vaccines (aluminium and mercury). And then I got amalgam fillings in my milk teeth. That was the final drop when my already fragile health spiraled down. Back then in the 80's topics like heavy metal toxicity or even autism were not very common, so nobody really paid much attention when I sank into a deep cloud of brain fog with autistic like behaviors around age 9. ( Anybody doubting the connecting between vaccinations and autism should do some serious research. Or watch some of the many Before/After vaccination videos on youtube from parents, showing how their healthy and normal interacting child shuts down after a vaccination).
From then on I got constant throat infections and bronchitis, as well as bad digestive issues, mostly painful constipation. I had sensory overload, I couldn't cope with other people, I felt an immense tension, fear and stress inside. Everything stressed me out. Going to a friend's house I wouldn't even say Hi to the parents. I was in my own world. I couldn't look anybody in the eyes. I kept my eyes glued to the ground when I was walking to school. I also was pretty sensitive to light. I couldn't focus in class, as my auditory system was overstimulated. I stopped participating in class, I sat frozen on my chair and couldn't wait to go home and hide in my room. My grandparents said I talked like a little professor, very precocious and I was very serious and rather sat with the adults than the other kids. It was as if my brain aged rapidly. I was severely depressed.
I had red flushed cheeks all the time, and in puberty I developed keratosis pilaris on my upper arms. My period was very irregular so they put me on the birth control pill (which leads to more toxicity). I later got diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
To top it off, I got 4 hepatitis B vaccinations when I was around 16, which contain more mercury. I developed eating disorders, mainly with phases of hardly eating, followed by binge eating. I managed to get through school and even made it to university. In uni in my early twenties I had massive panic attacks where I was hyperventilating. I didn't socialize much, and still couldn't focus much in lectures. How I managed to get a Master's degree at university is still beyond me. In my mid twenties I finally started learning what was causing all of this.
A case of severe diarrhea made me research healthy eating, and I came across Candida, food intolerances etc. I found a self-help forum on the internet which would become my main focus of study for the next years. I learned so much from these people and I am forever grateful for them! I also had a colleague at work who had studied naturopathy and offered me a free kinesiology session which revealed that I was super high in heavy metals. Back then I didn't know much about this. She prescribed me chlorella and cilantro, which was the worst thing I could have done. Cilantro is a super powerful mobiliser of heavy metals, and since I was extremely toxic, this stirred things up massively and crashed my adrenals. I felt like an 80 year old woman. I could hardly walk to get my groceries. Really bad times.
So I continued my battle and studied studied studied. I learned about autism and asperger's and found myself very much on the spectrum, and I read that heavy metals can cause it and that many kids respond very well to a gluten- and dairy free diet. After one week being off gluten and dairy the brain fog lifted for the first time and I felt like a new person. I added in some grapefruit seed extract to kill off Candida and felt even better.
Since then I have done many (MANY) things and methods of natural healing and detoxing. Whatever I could afford I tried. Whatever diet was out there, I tried it. I got better and better, and then I thought I had found the holy "heals all" grail Raw Veganism, and I ate raw foods only for 2,5 years. I had left my home country Germany to move to Spain. I felt good, and stopped all other detox methods and just soaked up the sunshine and nature and ate raw foods.
But some symptoms remained, and I also depleted my body of nutrients with this way of eating. I finally realized that my lack of sex drive, my brittle hair and my weak muscles told me something. It's quite brain washing following veganism and raw veganism, and it puts a massive load on your copper toxicity because most plant foods are high in copper and low in zinc. I started eating cooked foods again and later on animal products. I gained a lot (LOT) of weight but I slowly recovered, gained back some strength and lost most of that weight eventually.
I moved to Italy and later to Malaysia, not really focusing on detox, as I was stable enough to just live my life.
Still, I wasn't at my optimum health, and during a travel around the world in 2017/2018 I met up with other detox folks in California (check out Josh Macin) which brought me back to my healing journey. I realised that I still needed to do the detox work because heavy metals don't leave the body by themselves really. I learned about the things I had been missing out and how to detox in a safer way.
I dedicated my life to detoxing, healing my gut, taking plenty of nutrients, supporting my adrenals with adaptogens, meditating daily.
These days I am not depressed anymore (although I do have short bouts of it when I overdo the detoxing, but they get less and less). I have energy and am able to build muscle (I had very weak muscle tone as a child). I learned that I have the MTHFR 1298 mutation which reduces the body's capacity to detox to about 20 %, so I will need to keep up my detox game. I found gentle and effective ways to chelate the heavy metals from my body and slowly getting better and better.
My heart goes out to autistic and vaccine-injured kids and their parents. Even though I had never full-blown autism, I feel I had been on the edge, and I will forever support those parents who take action to help their kids recover.
