Toxicity Evaluation & Detoxification Programs

Toxins, various elements of heavy metals and chemicals, are a major contributor to a variety of abnormalities and illnesses within the human body.

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, thousands of new chemical agents have been introduced into our environment. Many different chemicals and toxic metals are now used in food processing, preservation, industrial manufacturing, numerous consumer products and common dental materials. And here’s the scariest fact of all from a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) scientist, Dr. James Pirkle: "If you gave a sample of blood or urine to us, we could find all sorts of things you didn't think you had. We are regularly, every day, exposed to 50,000 chemicals." The startling fact is that only a small fraction of these chemicals have been studied for their effects on humans. There have been no studies at all showing the consequences of using these agents in varying combinations with each other. Living in such a toxic environment places our bodies under constant bombardment from every conceivable angle.

Toxic chemicals and heavy metal toxins enter our bodies in the form of unhealthy and refined foods, consumer products, chemical additives, and environmental pollutants. These harmful molecules can be found in great abundance in our air, drinking water, food supply, as well as in pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines and amalgam dental materials. Toxic elements also wreak havoc on our environment, poisoning our lakes, oceans, soil, and as a consequence, our bodies. Since our bodies are not able to process or eliminate these “modern” toxins, they become stored in our glands, tissues and cells.

Chemical toxins poison the blood and are carried throughout the circulatory system, affecting every organ. Consequently, cells and tissues are literally “swimming” in contamination. Heavy metal toxins can also be present in the blood stream, but their most significant impact is to cell structures and neurons impacting even critical DNA structures and processes.

In fact according the recent statistics, medical costs are expected to double. Looking at these astonishing figures, the fact that every second person in the U.S. is chronically ill should come as no surprise. Examples of chronic conditions are cancer, heart disease, diabetes, glaucoma, etc. By 2020, the number of people living with chronic conditions is expected to rise to 157 million and direct medical costs are expected to double to more than $1 trillion (80 percent of the nation's health care spending). Source: Partnership for Solutions - Chronic Conditions: Trends and Projections, 2001

The daily bombardment of toxins demands, more than ever, our assistance in aiding our body’s detoxification processes. These cell damaging deadly toxins are invisible and insidious. Like a remorseless killer, they break down all body systems at the cellular level. This takes place slowly, day by day, undetectable, until finally the onset of disease signals their presence. The first sign may appear as just a harmless rash but could also manifest as a deadly type of cancer.

Detoxification is a natural health-preserving strategy, which helps remove harmful toxins from the cells and tissues, restoring their normal functions. In today’s world our body’s detoxification system is overloaded and unable to function like it did in the past. Certain people seem to have better coping abilities and rarely become sick despite the unimaginable stress on their system. Then there are others whose body had surrendered to the attacks and are not able to fight sufficiently.

Since 1975, we have followed several protocols for chemical and heavy metal detoxification. Detoxification is a process that purifies the blood and removes toxins from the entire body. Extensive study, conferring with other respected professionals, review of outside research and experience within our practice has produced highly effective all natural detoxification methods.

These methods not only provide optimum detoxification, but also provide exceptional nutritional benefits that restore human life energy. We begin this process prior to any dental modification procedure. The use of vitamin supplements that are made of real food greatly helps the process more than any thing else we have evaluated over the years. It’s the difference between natural and synthetic.

This analytical validity and basis for this fact is really quite simple. The biochemical make-up of food stimulates the biological receptor sites in the body to nourish the body. The synthetic (pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical) version of any vitamin is a fractionated, Isomeric compound whose biochemical configuration is a mirror image of the true vitamin and does not couple with the receptor site properly and thus does not nourish the body, but acts similar to a drug by over-powering the body. The synthetic version may exert a therapeutic effect, but does not nourish. The synthetic versions have low potency and thus require high dosage, while the natural food source product has high potency with low dosage. Natural food is a complex of many synergistic nutrients. Therefore, the vitamin C made from food is vastly superior to the synthetic, nutraceutical version.

As it turns out, approximately 90% of the vitamin products found in health food stores, drugstores, multi-level marketing companies, or vitamin supply companies test as being non-biocompatible (i.e. takes away LIFE FORCE), and the remaining 10% are generally not efficacious and generally do not strengthen the body. THIS IS VERY ALARMING!!

AS STARTLING AS IT MAY SEEM, IT REALLY APPEARS THAT WHOLE FOOD SUPPLEMENTS ARE VASTLY SUPERIOR TO NOURISH THE BODY AND TO DETOX THE CELLS OF THE BODY OF THE HEAVY METALS AND HARMFUL CHEMICALS THAT ARE PRESENT.

Through our consultation process patients vividly experience the difference through our utilization of using Muscle Response Testing. This is one of the most effective and simplest ways of effectively determining the influence of these toxins upon our patients personally. Here are a summary of how we apply the MRT process:

• to determine biocompatibility of substances.
• to determine quality of substances.
• to determine indication or need for substances.
• to determine efficacy of substances.
• to determine dosage of substances.
• as an highly effective and simple aid in diagnosis processes.

At DeFelice Family Dentistry we use mostly Standard Process ® whole food supplements. The following is a list of the whole food supplements that we use. Some people are found to need all of these; with some people only a few are indicated. The Zinc Liver Chelate supplement is considered one of the most important since we are all so deficient in zinc. Zinc is needed as a catalyst in our bodys’ enzymatic reactions, but is almost gone from our soils and rarely concentrated in our foods.

The 1-10 scale is an effort to find out how important each supplement is to the total program. The scale is determined by MRT. The best results are obtained when the full supplement regimen is utilized. However this also may vary depending on the burden of heavy metals and other health issues.

Oddly enough, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most important or effective, once in awhile something will test to a "12". We would interpret this as something that is really, really important.

SUPPLEMENTS

Typically a complete detox program requires a total period of 5 months. A patient must typically be on our detox program for 4 weeks before a Dental Revision program begins plus there should be a minimum of 3 days between quadrant amalgam removal.

The vegetarian protocol (regimen) needs to be determined individually also, but will usually take much longer to detox the body, e.g. twice as long.

Since we know the original "monitor" number of the various toxins, we can check progress of the detoxification process whenever patients come in for the Dental Revision, and especially when the patient has come to the time for the detox protocol to be ended. If the reflex does not indicate a "zero" or "Strong", the patient continues with it and then is checked again.

Usually, when we then check the patient, everything tests "Strong". When asked, "How are you feeling? They usually say, "Gosh, I really have been feeling good." – and they look good too!

Often times, with the advent of Dental Revision, patients observe creepy crawly things in their bowel movements – PARASITES are being "expelled". Also, in stubborn cases of Candida infection that have resisted eradication by other means, the Candida infection disappears with no other intervention.

The presence of a virus, yeast, or parasite can be determined also, as well as a "monitor number" to determine the severity of the involvement. The specific treatment can then be determined as well.

We have a "priorities" list that can be MRT in this way. Of the people tested in our practice, 99% test that HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IS THE #1 PROBLEM, and the #2 problem is Dominant Focus. The Dominant Focus problem is treated by our PROCAINE/DMSO/DMPS solution applied topically, while the Heavy Metal problem is treated by Dental Revision and Detoxification of the cells of the body.

When we test to determine what percentage a patients body’s cells functioning?" – the answer most often determined is @ 50%; i.e. the cells of the body are functioning at only 50% of what they could and should be functioning at (because of the presence of those heavy metals).

OBVIOUSLY THEN, THIS HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IS HAMPERING THE FUNCTIONING OF THAT BODY TREMENDOUSLY, RESULTING IN ANY NUMBER OF DIFFERING SYMPTOMS THAT MANIFEST IN DIFFERING WAYS IN DIFFERENT PERSONS.

Thus the confusion in health care by the labeling of many syndromes as "Auto-immune" with various names – names that describe symptoms but have no true treatment, because the cause is not known! holistic dentists know the cause --- and know how to stop the epidemic!!!

With proper detoxification, the prevalence of so-called "auto immune disease" will be greatly reduced. Optimally we encourage our patients to implement a simple natural nutritional maintenance program that insures that the detoxification process continues to minimize the impacts of future toxic encounters.

Change is constant – knowledge keeps expanding. Our fervent prayer is that this knowledge published at this site will be helpful to our patients and other readers who may be seeking for alternative health information.