Ty Bollinger: Did you know that there may
be lead lurking in your drinking water?
Or that some natural medicine from China and
India are heavily contaminated with lead?
Unfortunately, the lead amount found in some
ayurvedic is astonishing .
Charlene Bollinger: Mike Adams, an outspoken
consumer health advocate, award winning investigative
journalist, and science lab director,
is talking in this video about how you may
be exposed to heavy, toxic medals in drinking
water and how the government is covering it
up.
Ty Bollinger: Make sure to watch this video
to the end to discover which lead sources
you should be avoiding.
Mike Adams: So, let’s go through the metals now and talk about routes of exposure and
how you can avoid these in order to protect
your health.
Arsenic is the first one.
Now, arsenic is typically known in two different
forms called organic and inorganic.
Organic simply means that arsenic is one element
in an organic molecule, which typically means
it has carbon chains.
Organic molecules are more complex molecules
such as pesticides, herbicides, or vitamins;
you know vitamin C is a big complex molecule,
for example.
Inorganic arsenic is in its what you might
call a metallic form, or isolated form, and
inorganic arsenic is very, very toxic to human
physiology, whereas organic arsenic is not
very toxic.
So, the form that you’re getting matters
quite a lot.
In other words, if you’re getting arsenic
that has been grown into apple seeds by an
apple tree—and apple seeds do contain organic
arsenic.
That is not nearly as harmful as inorganic
arsenic that you might get from something
like a water well.
So, the form of arsenic really, really matters.
In certain forms it’s safer, in other forms
it’s very dangerous.
Now, mercury is a bit of an exception of this
because it’s toxic in every form.
There’s no such thing as a safe form of
mercury, not ethylmercury, or methylmercury,
or organic, inorganic, and so on. Now arsenic,
let’s talk about what it’s
linked to in terms of its cancers.
Arsenic causes lung cancer, and bladder cancer.
There are hundreds of thousands of people
that die every year around the world from
drinking arsenic out of a water well.
Now, that arsenic is “naturally occurring,”
but it’s very toxic and it causes cancer
and it kills hundreds of thousands of people,
and studies have shown that arsenic continues
to raise the risk of cancer many, many years
after initial exposure.
So, if you’ve ever consumed water from a
contaminated well, your risk of cancer is
high even if you’re not consuming that arsenic-tainted
water today.
This underscores the importance of having
a good water filter system.
If you have well water, you need to have your
well water tested.
If you’re drinking city water it’s probably
relatively safe in terms of arsenic because
federal mandates require testing, required
to meet certain limits but, it’s not a bad
idea to test your city water as well for other
contaminants.
Nobody is telling the public that most of
the municipal water piping systems east of
the Mississippi are all made out of lead.
I mean there’s lead in all those pipes,
so if you’re drinking water in Boston, New
York, Baltimore, you know especially the east
coast region, the early cities of America,
you’re probably drinking lead.
And yes, they can cover it up and they do,
and sometimes they get charged with felony
crimes, and sometimes the public never hears
about it.
So, if you’re not filtering your tap water,
then you may already be brain damaged by lead.
That’s all I’m saying.
You need to get a water filter, you need to
filter water, don’t trust your city, don’t
trust your local government, your local water
source.
More often than not, they’re lying to you
about the actual contaminants that are in
the pipes.
Even when they conduct tests they will typically
turn on the faucet and run the water for some
period of time to clean out the lead residue
that has been sitting and gathering in the
still water.
So, they’re getting an artificially low
result that’s not really indicative of what
you would be exposed to if you consumed that
water yourself.
Be very careful about natural medicine from
China and India.
The lead that’s found in Ayurvedic herbs
is astonishing.
It will blow your mind, the mass poisoning
that’s taking place in some of these systems
of medicine where the production of herbs
is not carefully monitored, or they’re doing
no testing via ICP-MS.
That’s the instrument that I use for heavy
metals testing in my lab, CWC labs, and we
have consistently seen herbs from China, the
traditional Chinese medicine herbs, as well
as Ayurvedic herbs, as well as dietary supplement
roots, such as turmeric, garlic, and ginger,
all heavily contaminated with lead.
Now, a lot of those products are grown in
India, and India has a lead contamination
problem, but so does China.
So, if you’re getting these traditional
Chinese medicine herbs from China and you’re
not making sure you have lead-tested sources,
then there’s no question you’re getting
heavy contamination of lead.
It’s in almost everything.
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