Petrol Fumes

I have been spending time recently looking into the health effects of petrol fumes. It wasn't something that I had ever thought too much about before, but the other week I was talking to a MD who specialises in nutrition and he mentioned that high levels of cadmium, lead etc can inhibit the body's absorbption of essential nutrients.

This is because the toxins if present in your body will bind onto certain nutrients and be eliminated from the body. It is good that the toxins are eliminated, but it means we don't get to absorb the nutrients.

There are treatments that can be done to help you eliminate these toxins if they are stored in the body, and so if you and your health care provider think that you have symptoms of poisoning, it is worth while getting tested.
Lead poisoning can be established via a blood test.

It is also worth being tested for heavy metal poisoning if any of the following apply to you-

you have lived in, renovated or lived next to any one renovating an older house that may have had lead paint on its walls. If this was sanded, for example then you would almost certainly have breathed in a lot of lead and it is easily absorbed through the lungs.

If you or someone you were sharing a house with haved worked in an industry where chemicals containing lead, or lead products themselves were used. Lead poisoning can occur from the chemicals or dust brought home on the clothes, even if you did not attend the place of work yourself.

If you have lived in an industrial area or near a large high way. Lead does not break down, so it can be found in the dust, in roof cavities of buildings, in the very air in these areas. It is also a risk for child centers to be placed on busy roads where lots of fumes are released.

I am still researching this and hope to have more information shortly, but it is worth thinking about when deciding where to live - avoid main roads!

The deficiency caused by this poisoning undermines the health of the body, including the digestive and immune systems, which could make the body more likely to suffer from yeast infections, and less able to fight them off if one is encountered. It will also make the body more prone to many other infections and medical conditions, by undermining general health.

Immune System Health and Yeast extract

Keeping balance and times and seasons can be very important in keeping our bodies healthy. I came across an article that talked about the immune system benefits of taking 1-3, 1-6 beta glucans. Beta glucan is a supplement derived and purified from the cell wall of common baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)

When you have a Candida infection problem that is related to yeast it is a good idea not to take a supplement that is extracted from yeast. Although there is an argument that says that the types of yeast are different.

The article which can be found at www.drpaulclayton.com. Dr Clayton explains that the world is currently dumping 250 million tons of waste products into our environment each year in Europe alone. With toxic levels increasing people are at greater risk to health problems, cancer, depression, diabetes etc

Because these threats are beyond our control the best we can do is to try and safeguard our own bodies against threats by building up our internal reserves. Dr Clayton says that beta glucan helps prime the main elements of the immune system which are macrophages, neutrophils and natural killer (NK) cells. It then helps these cells move quickly to an area in the body where an invasion is taking place. It also helps our immune cells to be able to eat the invading pathogen as well as aids them in the ability to release chemicals that will kill microbial, fungal, viral or cancer-related pathogens.