If you need more energy, try getting the heavy metals out of your system. It might also save you from cancer, Alzheimer’s and chronic fatigue syndrome and a host of other chronic conditions.

We all live in a world that seems more toxic everyday. I can’t even eat fish without wondering how much mercury I am putting into my system. Could my healthy heart meal be leading me to other illnesses instead?

And what about my organic fruits and vegetables? How safe can they be really be with so much mercury and cadmium in the soil and water? I guess that’s why I now have an advanced water filtering system. At least I can rinse them with cadmium free water.

Lead, mercury, and cadmium are dangerous though lead is not the threat to the world that it once was. Thank God for the inventors of unleaded gasoline and lead-free paint. There are still some stories of lead being in toys made in China, but the problem is not what it used to be.

Cadmium and mercury, however, are a very different story. Just walking through the downtown section of a major city exposes you to cadmium. How so? Because it is released into the air you breathe every time a driver hits the brakes of the car. Brake pads contain cadmium. When they become heated, the cadmium is released.

That’s just one of 60 sources of cadmium. Cigarette smoke is another. Smokers take in about one microgram of cadmium per cigarette. Cadmium batteries are another. At least we can recycle our batteries.

Heavy metals like cadmium accumulate in the body. Over time, without proactive steps to remove them, they turn the body into a walking toxic waste dump.

And then there is mercury. According to Dr. Laszlo Meszaros of Budapest, Hungary, there are over 80 different sources of mercury in our environment. The main concern in the past was certain types of preservatives used in the food industry, chemicals used in cosmetics, and even some medical products like vaccines.

Many of these are banned but not all of them. One big source of mercury in the environment is electric power stations. I have read reports of small towns in the United States near electric power plants that had much higher rates of autism than the rest of the nation.

Another source of mercury poisoning for many people is amalgam fillings used in dentistry. I know my health has improved since I have removed six amalgam fillings. The last time I went to the dentist I had a major confrontation with him on the issue when I refused to let him put one in my tooth.

Today I read one story of a sufferer of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome who recovered his health when he removed all the amalgam fillings. Great story.

And there’s one more major source of environmental mercury that will surprise a lot of your readers—computers. All that circuitry contains mercury, which is slowly released by the heat generated when the computer runs. When you put many computers together, as you see in large companies, there’s a considerable amount of mercury entering the air.

The danger of mercury became obvious in the hat maker industry back in 19th century America. Back then, hat makers used a mercury solution to treat fur and turn it into felt. They couldn’t help but inhale the fumes, which led to widespread mercury poisoning among hatters.

They developed neurological problems and, in severe cases, became psychotic. This was really the first time that metals like mercury were recognized as being toxic, and although we’ve come a long way since the late 1800s, it’s still a concern. Mad Hatter Syndrome is still used by doctors today to describe mercury poisoning, even though the exposure comes from different sources.

There is also plenty of evidence to suggest a link between mercury and Alzheimer’s disease. Autopsies of Alzheimer patients regularly show high mercury levels in their brains.

One scientist who took up the challenge of ridding heavy metals from the body was Dr. Laszlo Meszaros, whom I mentioned earlier. He found remarkable results with Humifulvate. Humifulvate is a combination of humic acid and fulvic acid molecules that are nothing more than decomposition products of plants.

You find these molecules in peat and in coals like lignite, for example. Currently, according to Dr. Meszaros, the only pure Humifulvate in the world comes from a unique peat deposit in the valley of Lake Balaton, Hungary. He says the peat deposits in this region have extraordinarily high concentrations of Humifulvate.

The lake there is like a fountain of youth. This is where Hungarian women go to get beautiful skin. The legendary rejuvenative powers of its waters owe their reputation to the peat through which the water passes as it enters the lake.

Humifulvate was invented in the 1960s by a veterinarian who noticed the cattle in the Lake Balaton area eating peat. He observed that they were bigger than average and not as vulnerable to sickness as herds in other areas. His name was Dr. Elek Csucska.

The farmers too knew that their animals seemed to thrive better on the land near the lake. Thanks to Dr. Csucska’s work in the 1970s, science began to lend credence to these legends and to explain the benefits people previously accepted on faith. There have been over 60 studies on the efficacy of Humifulvate.

What makes Humifulvate so interesting is that it has both the ability to attract, trap and remove heavy metals and the ability to bond with dietary minerals and facilitate their absorption. This dual activity is quite remarkable.

Here is how it works. Humifulvate is a combination of humic acid and fulvic acid, and this leads to dual benefits.

Humic acid is a large molecule, while fulvic acid is a much smaller molecule. The humic acid component is too large to be absorbed into the bloodstream, so it stays in the digestive tract where it acts literally like a heavy metal magnet. Heavy metals are attracted to the humifulvate molecules, which bond with them through ion exchange and then carry them along when expelled from the body.

The fulvic acid, on the other hand, is small enough to be absorbed into the bloodstream where it can bond with valuable essential minerals like magnesium, for instance, and facilitate bioavailability. The humic acid has a stonger influence, a much tighter affinity, than the fulvic acid, however, which is what makes Humifulvate so attractive as a detoxifying supplement.

One researcher who showed the effectiveness of Humifulvate is Dr. Sallai Eva, an attending physician at a large ornamental leaded glass factory. She utilized Humifulvate to help the workers defend against the exposure to lead they received day in and day out. She wanted to prevent the all too common occurrences of lead poisoning, and she found Humifulvate to be extremely beneficial in this regard.

How to Get It?

Dr. Meszaros, in working with with Swanson Vitamins, created a product called Metal Shield, one of this month’s New Products at Swansonvitamins.com. It features Humifulvate and other ingredients that are especially effective when combined with Humifulvate.

As Dr. Meszaros explained in an interview with Lee Swanson:

“First of all, it’s important to protect the integrity of the Humifulvate as it progresses through the body in order to ensure that it remains active. Vitamin C does this very well, so there’s a bit of that in the formula.

“Next, we know from studies on the physiology of heavy metals in our bodies that mercury, for instance, binds to the amino acid L-cysteine. The free amino acid L-cysteine also displays this affinity, so it makes a useful adjunct to Humifulvate. It’s like a helping hand for trapping certain metals.

“I was pleased to learn that Swanson was partnering with Ajinomoto Corporation, the world’s recognized quality leader in pharmaceutical grade amino acids. Ajinomoto is one of Japan’s premier pharmaceutical companies, and their amino acids are vastly superior to the cheap Chinese products so many supplement companies use.

“Moving on, cilantro is included because there is preliminary evidence that it helps mobilize heavy metals and brings them out of the tissues in which they’re deposited. The mechanism is not understood, but the scientific evidence is very compelling. The formula also contains chlorella, about which we have lots of evidence for its cleansing and detoxifying effects.

“Finally, Spanish black radish is included to encourage peristalsis, the wave-like contractions that move the bowels. As I said, the humic acid binds heavy metals in the GI tract, so we need something to help move them out and black radish accomplishes this nice and gently.”

Recommendations: One capsule daily. And it is safe for everyday use. If you have heavy metal toxicity, it will take between 8-12 weeks to cleanse the heavy metals out of your system.

To view a series of interview Dr. Meszaros did with Raena Morgan, go to www.iHealthTube.com.