Blood and circulation

[Carrie Naturalway]

Curios, during the 8 years I did yearly HTMAs, the only heavy metal really high was for 2 years uranium, short after the Fukushima accident.

Wow. That is interesting. I've wondered what effect the Fukushima accident had and if uranium traveled through the air for long distances or just through the water and is it still there. California was concerned as the water from the accident moved east. But I never heard anything more about it. Were you living near the accident? If so, could your hair have been externally exposed? If not, what are your ideas about it?

 

[Carrie Naturalway]

Maybe because the test hair wasn't growing within the detox timeframe, when released old mercury was circulating? Did you use a regular blood test detecting the mercury detox?

Yeah, the mercury would have been stored and not able to be detected in any test. When I had the detox I got a urine test and that detected the mercury. The symptoms were intense and pointed to some heavy metal but I'm glad it was confirmed. Too bad I didn't know about taking binders since surely some of the mercury was reabsorbed. I've worked to try and detox any I still had, over the years. I had two mercury fillings, now I have one so I'm still having the release of mercury vapor from that one. Even though the mercury may have been from long term storage, I also wonder what effect getting a mercury filling out incorrectly a few years prior to the detox had, as well as the thimerosol from a series of flu shots I took in the late 90's early 2000's. I also ate a lot of sushi during that time.

Ethylmercury (organic mercury )is in thimerosol, methylmercury (organic mercury )is in fish, and in coal combustion in which the inorganic mercury has been converted into methylmercury by organic matter it comes in contact with, elemental mercury (inorganic) is in silver fillings and coal combustion and industrial sources, and rocks in the Earth's crust. They're supposed to have different effects, and some are supposed to be cleared from the body easier but mercury is mercury and if you don't detox well, whether because of an illness like ME CFS which can cause a methylation block, or you have trouble detoxing for whatever reason including genetic errors, you may have a problem with it.

Regarding hair testing and organic and inorganic mercury, Andrew Cutler in a paper for the January 2017 Townsend letter entitled 'Hair Testing for Mercury and other toxic metals' said in part:

"Blood and urine tests for mercury, arsenic, antimony, and lead are often normal in poisoned people. Hair tests are hard to interpret because one poison – mercury – affects how the body transports minerals. This leads to results in hair, urine, and blood that often do not reflect the body's inventory of each element.

[...]

Acute exposure to mercury results in high blood and urine levels for some
months. Organic mercury partitions strongly into hair, inorganic and metallic
mercury do not. Even in modest exposures to fish (methyl) mercury, hair levels are much higher than those typically seen in inorganic or metallic mercury poisoning. Organic mercury also partitions strongly into red blood cells and is not excreted in urine. So in acute, recent exposure, the amounts of hair, urine, RBC, and whole blood mercury are informative. This is irrelevant in chronic toxicity where blood, urine and hair levels are low; all the organic mercury has long since converted to the inorganic form. High levels still prevail in the brain and other organs – which are not amenable to sampling and have poorly understood
kinetics."

 

[pamojja]

High levels still prevail in the brain and other organs – which are not amenable to sampling and have poorly understood
kinetics."

Yes again, stored mercury in deep tissue, like brain, from old exposures can't show in hair. Thanks for all the other informations. But HTMA still will show recent exposure from supplements. For which I used them for. After 8 years. HTMA got expensive, and I concluded: if my herbs from India were still contaminated with heavy metals, my digestive tract must have been able to handle it well.

I've got good luck, in very bad luck with my teeth. At my birth, I've got treated with Tetracycline IVs against a pneumonia. Nowadays, they don't do this to newborns, because it causes chalk-teeth. So in my youth I got a whole mouthful of amalgam, all those crumbled till early adulthood. Only 12 teeth without amalgam remained.

Had to repair one 18 years ago, but instructed the dentist to pull it out, if repair with root canal treatment would become necessary. Against my explicit will, he did a root-canal anyway. Right then my health Odyssey with PAD, COPD and ME/CFS started. Coincidence or not, the year I let this tooth pull, my PEMs ceased.

Fukushima accident had and if uranium traveled through the air for long distances or just through the water and is it still there. California was concerned as the water from the accident moved east. But I never heard anything more about it. Were you living near the accident? If so, could your hair have been externally exposed? If not, what are your ideas about it?

One part of my life-style changes was extensive sun-bathing and swimming, for which I flew every deepest Winter for 6-7 weeks to a south Indian beach, too. Only 20 miles from there, an atomic power plant, which I first suspected. But when I found absolutely no reports of leaks there, it dawned on me.

Meanwhile, found out only strontium and the like, was internationally monitored after the accident. How convenient? - they simply didn't follow up on the much more dangerous uranium and plutonium. In the oceans, never tested for, nothing reported, and thereby forgotten already.

Uranium started to rise after 2 years of vacations on that beach (started in 2012), and 4 years later decreased again. 2 Years in between very high, along with 1 year in strontium

 

[Carrie Naturalway]

One part of my life-style changes was extensive sun-bathing and swimming, for which I flew every deepest Winter for 6-7 weeks to a south Indian beach, too. Only 20 miles from there, an atomic power plant, which I first suspected. But when I found absolutely no reports of leaks there, it dawned on me.

Meanwhile, found out only strontium and the like, was internationally monitored after the accident. How convenient? - they simply didn't follow up on the much more dangerous uranium and plutonium. In the oceans, never tested for, nothing reported, and thereby forgotten already.

Uranium started to rise after 2 years of vacations on that beach (started in 2012), and 4 years later decreased again. 2 Years in between very high, along with 1 year in strontium

South India is not that close to Japan so that's concerning. I remember reading that radiation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs circulated in the air for years afterwards before falling to earth. They said that the ocean is so vast it diluted the radioactive materials from Fukushima. That doesn't seem reassuring somehow.

One of the well known CFS doctors, can't remember who, said that something happened in the late 1980's that caused a surge in CFS cases. Chernobyl happened in 1986, which was way worse than Fukushima, and some of the workers there exhibited ME/CFS like symptoms. There is some talk about there being a connection between Chernobyl and ME/CFS. And here's an article about a possible connection between radiation and CFIDS (aka ME/CFS): Radiation exposure and mitochondrial insufficiency in chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome - ScienceDirect https://share.google/1qrNeXiHucVmOUWpT

 

[pamojja]

Radiation exposure and mitochondrial insufficiency in chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome - ScienceDirect https://share.google/1qrNeXiHucVmOUWpT

It is, as with CVD: damage to the endothelium can be caused by dozens' things, to get it started. Mitochondrial insufficiency likewise. For me, it was most probably mainly many infections (malarias, bilharzia, tubercles, spondilodiscitis..) from a ruck-sack world travel as young adult.

South India is not that close to Japan so that's concerning.

You are right, though surface currents usually start eastward, 2 loops later already reach South India.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/physical/atmospheric-effects/ocean-surface-currents It takes about 54 months for water to travel the circuit of the North Pacific gyre, while only 14 months in the North Atlantic gyre.

From blood circulation to those of oceans.. 54 months or 4.5 years. From March 2011 till end of 2014 it could have made already a full cycle. 2015 uranium in my hair was for the first time elevated.

 

[Nicole H Martin]

Has anyone tried anything to improve their blood and circulation? I've been trying to figure out why I feel so much better in the summer and I can't find out anything or figure out why but I do get cold so easily and just love the heat. Sun, fresh air, more oxygen, something plants give off, I don't know but I am exploring the circulation idea because I think it suffers in the winter. I know we have low blood volume, hypoperfusion, dysautonomia, orthostatic intolerance, pots, the sodium/dehydration issue. I have read that in Chinese Medicine winter is considered a time to tonify and nourish the blood because the cold makes blood vessels constrict and blood can stagnate. I have herbs all ready to try in the winter and a red light device to try but I am curious to know if anyone has explored this and tried anything. It seems like some people with CFS feel better in the summer but most feel worse so I'm not sure if this will be a helpful route to take.