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[Music] how to detox or chelate heavy metals i've been foreshadowing this episode for a long time and finally here we are this is going to be a very practical episode really i should have put this episode behind a paywall because of how much research has gone into the content here and how life transforming it can be for you but precisely because i have a soft spot for helping people i decided to put out put it out there for free this is five years of my research and trial and error figuring this stuff out figuring out my own health problems and how it's related to heavy metal toxicity and other factors and just trying a lot of different stuff and then figuring out and perfecting these some of these techniques now of course it wasn't just me i was also using other experts and i've done a lot of research by studying the work of other people who i'll be crediting later on in this episode but anyways let's get started so i've personally done over 30 rounds of heavy metal chelation using supplements like dmsa and alpha lipoic acid otherwise known as ala i'll be referring to it and there are other supplements that i'll be talking about here so i'm going to be giving you an entire protocol a step-by-step protocol that i've perfected for how to do this chelation and how to do it safely uh but before we get into that and i'll also be showing you the supplements that i use i'll be telling you which brands i use and i'll be even doing some demos about how i organize all my pills and the schedule that i take them on so this is very technical stuff here um so if you're looking for how to do heavy metal chelation you've come to the perfect spot this will explain everything for you all right so but before we get into that uh why detox heavy metals at all what's the point uh well the reason i got into it is because i've been dealing with various kinds of health problems for the last i would say 15 years of my life uh they really began even before i started actualize.org um sometimes people think that oh well leo started doing psychedelics and that's why he's having these health problems like no i've had thyroid problems and autoimmune problems long predating any use of psychedelics so it's not about psychedelics um basically i have a hypothyroid condition hashimoto's it's called um and a slew of other related autoimmune conditions that have left me with fatigue problems i had serious sleeping problems where i was tired all the time i would sleep for eight or ten hours and i was still tired at the end of that i started experiencing cognitive performance problems which was the biggest and scariest problem that i experienced because my work you know my life's work is is wrapped up with actualize that org and doing spirituality and talking about self-development right and contemplating a lot the work that i do here involves a lot of contemplation you know philosophy and all this sorts of stuff and um what i noticed is that my cognitive performance gradually decreased and decreased more and more and more after i came out of high school and university um and it was it wasn't too bad when i started actualize at work but maybe four or five years into doing actualize at org my performance my cognitive performance decreased to such a bad level that i was not even able to sit and contemplate for two hours straight on some topic it got to the point where i was worried that i wouldn't even be able to continue doing my work so i was basically forced with with that situation to look for various kinds of solutions and i've troubleshooted many different solutions and so this heavy metal detox was just one of the things that i stumbled upon i did other things as well that i'll talk about maybe at some other point but this is one factor now as a caveat i'm not telling you that heavy metal chelation will solve all your problems i'm just saying it's one potential factor and for me really i mean to be honest it saved my life i had saved my career because after i did x number of rounds of this chelation a couple of things happened for me um my sleep problem disappeared so i i had real difficulty waking up early like for example if i had to wake up on only six hours of sleep i would have these like bad headaches and i would just feel terrible and i wasn't able to function now i can function like on four hours of sleep not that i would normally do that but you know in an emergency situation if i need to only get four hours of sleep and then for some reason get up and do something i can do that whereas before that was impossible for me to do before the chelation so that was a huge shift that happened i got more energy less fatigue i experienced less dark circles under the eyes i've had that problem not to say that all this is fixed for me but i've seen improvements i've seen a huge lift in my brain fog and my mental clarity i feel like my cognitive performance is back to where it was when i began actualize that org maybe it's not as good as it was when i was like in high school or university uh but that just might be you know age related as well because of course as you age your cognitive performance will slow down and i also haven't finished all of my heavy metal chelation yet it takes a while to to do it even though i've done over 30 rounds of it um another problem that i had that i almost forgot about now because it's it's been completely resolved is i started getting uh this nerve um this kind of tingling nerve sensation in my hand it was only i forget if it was the right hand or the left hand one of the hands um it almost felt like there was some sort of nerve damage going from about this point in the wrist through um to the pinky and it was like on this side and i also had it on my foot so analogously on the same side where my ankle is down to my foot also on the pinky and i went to various doctors telling them about like why is this happening it just sort of came out out of the blue i started getting this kind of like very it wasn't it wasn't painful just like this very irritating annoying constant chronic um uh like i don't know like like a tingling sensation and it got very uncomfortable to the point where it was difficult to sit and meditate because this was very distracting and annoying and then the more you focus on it the worse it gets and so i had this i went to various doctors told them about it and they were clueless they didn't know what to do about it they basically gave me no solutions but after i did about 10 or 15 rounds of this chelation that problem completely resolved itself and went away and i've never experienced any recurrence of it for about five years now uh and uh to the point where i even almost forgot to tell you about it um so um so yeah this can be very powerful stuff i mean i don't know where i would be honestly i i might even like even be dead uh because of how bad also what happened was that when i was having this severe brain fog it also came with a depression uh and so i got i got a good insight into what like a chemical sort of induced depression is like because you know you can't do your work and then your brain is functioning poorly you can't focus very well and then just depression comes with that it gives you bad mood it makes you irritable and so i went through a year or two of that as well and then that has lifted two for me so that's my personal story now you know there's a lot of variability i'm not saying you're gonna have the same results as me i'm not saying you have the same problems as me you have to judge for yourself what kind of you know situation you're dealing with but as a general list because i've researched this very well and there's a lot of people there's a sort of a underground heavy metal detox community on facebook and elsewhere people are doing this stuff and they're fixing many of their health problems that that traditional doctors and western medicine does not know how to diagnose or how to properly treat and so uh who should consider heavy metal detox people who have chronic fatigue problems sleep problems insomnia problems uh problems if you're sleeping for eight or ten hours then you're still tired and you're not able to function you don't feel refreshed people like that people with autoimmune conditions if you have brain fog if you have add autism headaches hair falling out fibromyalgia cold hands and feet gut problems depression anxiety low sex drive anger irritability skin problems dark circles under eyes even people with cancer and other such conditions now again be careful here because i'm not telling you that heavy metal detox is the cure to all of these problems many of these problems have multiple factors and multiple potential causes and so if you have one of these problems i empathize because they can be very stubborn and what you have to do is you have to troubleshoot and you have to eliminate all the possible causes and try various sorts of solutions until you find something that hopefully works of course there's no guarantee that anything will fix your problem but uh it doesn't feel very good to be a victim about it you might as well try stuff and see what works and you might get lucky and so um you know i'm not i'm not promising you that that this this process will cure your cancer um but maybe it'll help so again i'm not a doctor this is not strictly speaking medical advice you have to consult your own doctors and think critically for yourself about what of the things that i'm saying is going to apply to your particular health condition and your situation factoring in your genetic history and your diet and all the other factors right so don't approach this lightly this is your health this is important stuff on the other hand precisely because it is your health and it is so important and it is the foundation of all personal development work and all spiritual work if you don't get this stuff handled then you're not going to be able to follow along with my other content which is why i want to release this episode is because a lot of you guys are just stuck suffering from depression or add or some you know brain fog or sleep disorder or whatever or fatigue and then you're not able to really go and self-actualize because the foundation of self-actualization is just basic fundamental good health so where does heavy metal toxicity come from there's actually so many sources you'll be shocked once you start to study the sources at how common it can be and then it's no wonder that you're potentially toxic so the problem with heavy metal toxicity is that heavy metals which is really what we're talking about here is lead mercury and arsenic these are the top heavy metals although there's of course potentially other ones as well that you can test for um i'll be showing you how to test for them in a minute here um but these are the big three mercury lead and arsenic and our environment over the last hundred years has been crazy polluted from heavy industry and mining and other you know manufacturing and electronics and results you know bad recycling practices and oil and gas industry all these sorts of you know plastic manufacturing um gold mining like there's a lot of these industries which have polluted because we have very bad regulations uh have have polluted the rivers the oceans the lakes the fish the animals the uh the farms because you know where do they get the water for all the for all the vegetables and fruits that are grown they get the cheapest water from the cheapest sources which is contaminated by industrial pollution and then you eat that stuff and it gets absorbed into the soil it gets absorbed into the plants and it stays in the ecosystem for hundreds of years so it's serious stuff so here are the biggest sources of heavy metal toxicity first of all dentistry if you have metal amalgam fillings those silver fillings which are par mercury and part other metal you need to get those removed as soon as possible and that's a whole process i'm not going to go into explaining how to do that but you need to get that removed because that mercury the vapors from that mercury is leaching into your gums and into your mouth and your lungs and it's slowly toxifying you and that's the thing with heavy metal toxicity is that it happens very slowly it's not necessarily that i'm telling you that some incident happened in your life where you got a giant dose of mercury no it's just that you know as you're getting past your 20s into your 30s 40s and 50s and so forth you know every little bit of food you eat every drink of water you take that is contaminated with a little trace amount of mercury or lead or arsenic it all adds up think about it if you're not detoxing it which most people aren't over 10 20 30 years that's gonna all add up and the worst thing about it is that it's it feels like you're slowly being boiled alive like you know that proverbial frog being slowly boiled alive because it's so subtle it happens you know over years so gradually that you don't even notice its effects on you you just slightly become a little bit more depressed every year a little bit more depressed a little bit more irritable a little bit more fuzzy in your thinking your cognition declines your memory worsens you get a little bit more anxious your sex drive and performance decreases you have start to have a little bit of skin problems you get a little bit of more dark dark circles under your eyes you start getting acne you start getting gut problems and all this slowly adds up and it's so subtle and then you go to a doctor and you ask them you know what's wrong with me and they can't give you a straight answer and there's no obvious cure or solution there's no pill you can take if your if your brain and your organs are filled with heavy metals there's no pill you can take that will solve that for you because it's not a problem of adding something new to your body it's not a matter of eating more green vegetables i mean that's good but that's not going to remove the heavy metals from your brain you got to remove what's causing the problem in this case see and because our culture doesn't talk about this stuff you don't see this advertised on on tv you know heavy metal toxicity nobody talks about it really so you don't even know that this could potentially be the root source of many of your health problems so dentistry food seafood organ meats the water that you drink the pipes that your water runs through there's a lot of lead piping still for example in the u.s there's an initiative right now in the byte administration to actually remove a lot of old lead pipes there's especially a lot of lead piping on the eastern half of the united states on the west there's less lead piping but you know you gotta check to make sure your water is not coming from lead pipes paint used to contain lead in it fluorescent lights if you've ever broken a fluorescent tube light and you breathe in those fumes it contains mercury it's very very toxic makeup can contain lead and other heavy metals spices are a hidden source of heavy metals we'll talk about those later in the episode tea potentially many supplements are contaminated with heavy metals protein powders are a huge offender if you're taking whey protein powders or even if you're taking vegetable protein powders those vegan warrior protein protein powders those are filled with toxic heavy metals did you know that even the organic stuff you might say oh leo but i only eat the organic whey protein and only the organic all-natural vegetable proteins those organic ones they contain even more toxic metals than the inorganic ones they've done tests on this you can find websites with detailed breakdowns of the heavy metals in your favorite brands of protein powder traffic pollution if you're living near a highway you're breathing in heavy metal fumes every single day heavy industry if you live near any kind of industry if you work near heavy industry plants if there are coal-fired plants in your city or where you work that produces a lot of heavy metal pollution waste water of various kinds mining operations and the the water runoff from those so there's a lot of potential sources of heavy metal toxicity but uh the biggest ones you should be worried about is dentistry food seafood and the water that you drink these are huge and then any kind of supplements or protein powders you consume i mean that's part of what i would call food um anything you take on a chronic daily basis you want to make sure that it's very clean and just because it says organic on the box or on the bottle that does not guarantee that it doesn't have heavy metal contamination in it because that's not really checked for when they talk about organic versus inorganic okay so now you might say but leo isn't this heavy metal chelation sort of like some sort of new age thing actually not at all there is very good hard chemistry and science that has been done on the effects of mercury-led arsenic and other heavy metals on um human neurology psychology mental development and performance criminality levels and so forth this is all very well documented proven science which is why there are strict regulations in most countries especially in europe and elsewhere most developed countries have very strict regulations on mercury-led and and so forth but even with those strict regulations it's usually not enough because lead and mercury are neurotoxins this is very very well known i will be citing various studies throughout this episode i will be reading some quotes to you here in a minute about some of the effects of these neurotoxins on human brain development and so forth and i think that the full effects the full health effects of these toxins these neurotoxins is not even fully understood yet we're only just beginning to do the science and to understand how bad these chemicals are and if you go and look at the description box below this video on youtube you're going to find a list of various links to serious well-documented research studies on the effects of lead and mercury on children and on adults and also you're going to find i'm going to list studies about the the various supplements that i'll be talking about to detox heavy metals which have also been proven to work and are very effective for doing that so there's very solid science behind this all right so speaking of which let's talk about a little bit of some of the quotations here about some of the effects of these neurotoxins on human development for example the epa says quote children exposed to methyl mercury while they are in the womb can have impacts to their cognitive thinking memory attention language fine motor skills and visual spatial skills end quote uh another quotation here from the uh ncbi from a study called aggregate level lead exposure gun violence homicide and rape i'm going to be quoting extensively from this study this is a study that tried to correlate lead levels in one's blood with criminality basically and they found a pretty solid correlation between these two so this study says quote lead absorption early in development has been prospectively associated with reductions in total brain volume into reductions in gray matter these differences by extension are thought to impair impulse regulation and to reduce general intelligence for exposed individuals across the remainder of the life course end quote and further in this study it says quote increased lead exposure was associated with lower lower overall intelligence in adulthood as well as lower scores on measures of perceptual reasoning and working memory several lines of evidence have found that diminished functioning in the prefrontal cortex is associated with impulsivity as well as antisocial and violent behavior end quote and lastly it says quote aggregate blood lead levels were statistically significant predictors of violent crime at the census tract level end quote so there was actually a spike in crime in the united states in the 1970s i believe and 80s if you look at the crime statistics there was a very significant spike and then it quickly dropped off and it's been dropping off ever since in the 90s and 2000s and so forth and what they've basically found through various studies and research is that the reason that happened is because we passed regulation for unleaded gasoline before that regulation was passed gasoline was leaded gasoline which means it had lead in it which means when it was burned and exhausted that lead was breathed into your lungs and it literally led to more murders and homicides and other kinds of violent crime so this just shows you how serious this stuff is now for this to have a very significant impact on criminality you need you need probably a significant exposure to it but but i think that lead mercury and some of these other chemicals they have more subtle effects and i think that they could be responsible for a lot of the autoimmune disorders and other sorts of subtle disorders that when you go to a doctor and tell him about it he says oh well maybe you're just imagining that or we don't really know what causes it it's like oh well you just have to live with it there's nothing we can do about it you know what i'm talking about if you had one of these disorders and you've gone to various doctors and they just kind of like shrug their shoulders and they don't know what to do about it well that's because there's hidden factors that have not yet been researched very well by current science which we will discover in the next 50 or 100 years all this stuff will be figured out but right now we still don't really understand the full effects so basically here's a list of some of the symptoms and conditions and disorders that could be caused by heavy metal toxicity emotional changes such as mood swings irritability nervousness excessive shyness social anxiety insomnia neuromuscular changes such as weakness muscle atrophy and twitching and various odd nerve sensations and dysfunctions which i started having headaches migraines disturbances in sensations changes in nerve responses poor performance on tests of mental function lower iq and lower intelligence learning disorders memory loss brain fog add autism higher rates of criminality violence and anger anxiety problems problems socializing depression bad mood fatigue reduced motivation energy problems dark circles under eyes thyroid disorders skin rashes and disorders autoimmune disorders now again i'm not saying that all of this is caused by heavy metals heavy metals are just a factor there could be other factors and for everybody it's going to be a bit different so you have to do research and try stuff out and see what is true for you and your specific situation now some people are more sensitive than others to heavy metals you might wonder like well leo i have these disorders but i'm drinking the same water and eating basically the same food that my friend eats or that my brother or my mother eats so how could i be toxic but then they're not toxic and yet they're all healthy and they might even eat junk food and yet they're still healthy how can that be and why am i sick in this case well because you have different genetics and genetics determine how well you detox heavy metals naturally the body has certain natural mechanisms for detoxing certain amounts of heavy metals for example in the research that i've looked at depending on your genetics and various kinds of detox pathways and methylation pathways that exist within the human body potentially for some people if they consume some let's say fish you consume a pound of salmon that will have heavy metals in it some people will detox 80 of that mercury just naturally due to their good genetics for other people they're they're only going to be able to detox 20 of that so compare maybe your mother or your brother is eating the same salmon you're eating every day but they're detoxing 80 percent of it every time and because of your genetics which is a little bit different than theirs you're only detoxing 20 of it do you think that makes a difference when you multiply that by 20 years by hundreds and hundreds of meals of this salmon that you're eating yeah it makes a big difference it's going to add up in a different way and also how your body deals with and stores these heavy metals could also vary due to genetics these heavy metals are not just floating around in your bloodstream they then get absorbed into various organs fat tissues and then especially problematically is the brain because your brain is mostly fatty tissue it's a lot of fat in your brain and then the heavy metals get stuck in there and heavy metals basically have the effect on the brain of what i would call anti-psychedelics if psychedelics raise your consciousness if psychedelics increase the neuronal interconnections and your cognitive performance which they do heavy metals have exactly the opposite effect they are like a an obstacle to the proper functioning of the neurons in your brain and your ability to think and to reason and to remember things and to visualize things and to use your prefrontal cortex to think about things to be logical about things and this is why it can lead to stuff like increased criminality so you can do some research into the genetics it's a bit complicated and technical i won't go into it here but you can research the mthfr gene and various methylation pathways you can even do a genetic test on yourself doing something like 23andme which i've done and then you can actually find the specific mutations you have of this mthfr gene you can find specific snippets and you can see based on your genetics you can actually take a look at how susceptible are you to uh heavy metal toxicity and so i've actually looked at my own mutations and what i found is that i have a few of those mutations which make me more susceptible than let's say the average person and so that would explain for example why i have these problems more than maybe other members in my family or maybe the general population so that is possible for you to do now let's talk about how to actually test for heavy metals it is important to test yourself because you don't want to just be sort of assuming that you're toxic in heavy metals maybe you're not in which case don't waste your time and money doing chelation so there's various tests that are possible you can do blood tests you can do hair tests you can do urine tests what i've personally found is that blood tests and hair tests are unreliable and that the the best test is called a provoked urine test what is this provoked urine test basically it's a at home test kit that you order online there's various brands available i'll be showing you here a demo of the brand and test kit that i use but basically it's a small test kit that they mail to your house you can use it in the convenience of your house uh over over a period of three hours basically what you do is you consume a fairly large quantity of a supplement called dmsa which is what detox is the heavy metals you consume uh a certain amount of that that provokes your body to release heavy metals like lead and mercury and then you drink a lot of water for the next three hours you collect all your urine into a bottle and then you mail some of that in this test kit you collect some of it and then you mail it back to the lab they test it and they give you a report and uh i'll be showing you some results from my own report here in a second and um and so you do this test kit and this gives you an idea of how much heavy metal you're excreting by consuming dmsa so this shows you whether anything bad is coming out of you and so this is a pretty reliable test because if you didn't have heavy metals in your body then nothing would be getting excreted by the dmsa but probably something will be this test costs about 110 in the u.s i don't know about other countries so here i'm going to show you a demo of what the test kit looks like check that out so here we have the urine collection test kit this is an at-home test that you can order online and they will mail it to you they will mail you the urine collection container that's what this is we'll set this aside for now and then the kit here itself and i'll just quickly show you how this works there's a cup that you use to pee in there's the actual sample that you're going to send back to the lab here i'll show you how to use that in a second and then there's some paperwork you have to fill out and then there's a fedex prepaid envelope and a stamp that you were going to package all this into and then you're going to drop it off at your local fedex location so let's show you how this works so basically the way it's going to work is you're going to wake up in the morning you're going to pee the first time you're just going to do a normal p and then you're going to take your bolus dose of dmsa so for this you're going to need to separately purchase some dmsa that's what this is and then you have to calculate the proper dosage for you whatever that is i give you the calculation later on in the video but for me it's about 18 of these 100 milligram pills so in total it's a thousand eight hundred but of course this is for my body weight you're going to adjust that for your body weight so you calculate x number of these pills you take them all at once you set a timer for six hours on your alarm you set a timer for six hours and that's how long you're gonna be collecting your urine so you're gonna make sure you're gonna drink a lot of water in the next six hours and every time you have to pee you're gonna pee in this cup don't forget and then you're gonna pour the contents of this cup into this container every time you pee you're gonna keep pouring it in here and you store this in the refrigerator and you keep pouring in and pouring in for six hours and then once you got six hours of urine collected then you're going to have a lot of urine here you're going to shake this whole thing up to mix it all together and you're going to pour from here into your sample vial you're going to pour in there once this is full then you're going to close it up and this is what you're sending back to the lab so you're going to put it into the box here you're going to put the paperwork in here into the box and then you're going to put the box into this fedex envelope with this shipping label and you're going to mail all this off via fedex and then the lab will send you the test results in about one to two weeks via email or wherever you ordered your test kit from maybe some online portal or from your doctor and that's it so when you purchase this test kit it's not going to come with dmsa dmsa is what you need to provoke the heavy metal chelation so this you have to purchase separately and you have to figure out a proper dose for yourself in order to do this test um i'll be talking about where to purchase it and how that works and what the dos dosages are in a minute here so basically once you have the dmsa you take it you collect your urine for three hours or so you collect it and then you send it to the lab so what i recommend is that before you begin doing your detox protocols if you decide to do it is that you do two urine tests the first test is going to be an unprovoked urine test which means you're just going to get sort of a baseline a control you're going to use one test kit without dmsa and just see how much heavy metals you're excreting naturally through your urine then you do a second test right away at the same time you do a second test where you take the dmsa and then you you collect your urine and this test shows you the difference between how much you're excreting without dmsa versus with dmsa this shows you what the dmsa is doing now what's the proper dose of dmsa it should be about 30 milligrams per kilogram of body weight so for example usually if i'm doing a urine test i will do about 18 pills 18 pills and each pill is 100 milligrams and then my body weight i don't know it in kilograms but in pounds it's about 170 pounds um so that just gives you sort of an idea and then you have to do the calculation and adjust it for yourself now you'd have to be careful with these provoked urine tests because if you're very very toxic and for example you have metal fillings or you're actively exposed to heavy metal toxins at your workplace or wherever and then you take a a large dose of dmsa the problem is not that the dmsa is toxic or is going to cause you problems the problem is that the dmsa is a very safe molecule but it's going to cause your body to release all of the heavy metals that you've been storing up for years and this can have some dangers to it so you do have to be careful when you're doing these provoke tests on the other hand this is really the only reliable way i i feel like to test yourself so there's a bit of a kind of a a risk reward trade-off there and you have to decide for yourself you know whether you want to take that risk because otherwise how are you going to know if you're toxic or not so here i'm going to show you an image of my actual test results that i got these are test results this is the first provoked test that i did about five years ago and you can take a look here and so basically what what this test showed me is that i had an elevated mercury level you can see here it's in the yellow sort of the out of reference range yellow column and then i also had a fairly high amount of lead as well it's it's within reference range but uh basically the conclusion i came to here is that things like lead and mercury and arsenic they should all be at zero there really is no safe amount and uh part of the problem is that if you look at government websites they will give you sort of like safe levels of fda and epa approved safe levels of how much mercury is okay to have in fish how much mercury is okay to have in water and lead and so forth and basically i call [ __ ] on all these uh first of all because the fda and the epa they're um they're filled with a lot of group think and basically their their responsibility is to avoid like the most severe cases of toxicity they're not looking out for very subtle cognitive performance problems that can come about from you know consuming heavy metals for years and for decades and honestly they're also lobby very heavily by these industries which are big polluters they're lobbied by oil and gas industries they're oil lobbied by pharmaceutical industries they're lobbied by farming industries and so forth and you know if the epa and the fda were truly concerned about you know optimizing your cognitive performance and your level of consciousness and so forth then they would have much much stricter levels and on top of that not only are the levels not strict enough furthermore they're not enforced nearly enough so a lot of products out there in the market that you are consuming supplement bottles and protein powders and vegetables you're eating and meat you're eating and whatever else water you're drinking they actually have way higher levels beyond what the fda and the epa recommends but you don't even know about it because who's really checking this stuff the government is not checking this stuff very rigorously so um a disservice is happening there so you have to be careful you can't really rely on their safe numbers those numbers are not necessarily safe and maybe they're safe enough not to cause an acute toxicity okay but what we're talking about here is health problems chronic health problems that add up over years and decades which are not an acute toxicity they're a mild grade low-grade toxicity which still can destroy your life now with this urine test the problem with the urine test is that it doesn't really show you how much lead or mercury or arsenic you have stored in your organs all it shows you is how much you're excreting within three hours of taking this dmsa your body is only going to excrete so much at a time and so this test we don't really have any tests that will show you how much heavy metal is stored in your brain or in your other organs and so really what you have to do is you have to do rounds of chelation i'm going to be talking about how to do around here in a minute rounds of chelation you do 10 20 rounds then you retake the test and you see are you still excreting as much as you were before if you still are that basically tells you that you have a lot stored up and then you do 10 or 20 more rounds of chelation then you take another test and you see are you still excreting as much or maybe now you're excreting half as much that shows you that okay so maybe you've decreased but not entirely eliminated all of the load in your organs so you keep doing that and doing that and doing that until eventually your tests come back very very low and in this way you can you can know that you're detoxing properly and also of course you can just anecdotally feel what's happening with you you might see improvements and symptoms you might see improvements in your sleep in your cognitive performance in your ability to focus in your memory in your you know dark circles under the eyes and other things like that so basically what you have to realize is that there are no safe levels of these heavy metals in your body any amount decreases your performance so the question is how much decrease in performance are you willing to tolerate and if you have a kind of a job that like that i have where my cognitive performance to me is like everything my entire life hinges on my cognitive performance basically uh i can make millions of dollars if i have good cognitive performance or i can lose that potential money if i'm unable to perform cognitively so for me it's very worthwhile to optimize my cognitive performance as well as i can now i don't know what it's like for you maybe you have sort of a mindless job where it doesn't matter to you but then again you know it's not just cognitive performance it's other health stuff it just could be how how good you feel in your own body you might have even forgotten how good it you can feel what good mood you can be in so another thing you have to realize is that these heavy metals literally put you into a chronic state of bad mood you could just be anxious depressed fearful in a sort of low consciousness days uh you know sleep walking through life like a zombie not sure what's wrong with you and you could be blaming yourself for like well maybe i'm not being spiritual enough maybe i'm being lazy maybe i'm doing something wrong maybe i need to read more books and it's like but maybe it's not that maybe it's simply because your neurochemistry is screwed up maybe it's just that and then when you fix that problem you realize that all of a sudden your depression lifts you're you're happy for no reason whatsoever like you were when you were a kid remember how that was when you were just happy for no reason uh yeah that's possible and you might experience that if you do some of this chelation again i'm not guaranteeing it's going to happen i'm just saying these are possibilities and these are some of the benefits that you should be considering so uh now how to do the detox basically you're going to be doing rounds of dmsa alpha lipoic acid ala and or potentially dmps dmsa versus dnps these are two analogous molecules uh we'll be talking about the the pros and cons of each here in a minute they they both detox slightly different kinds of metals but you can use them interchangeably in different ways and basically you're going to be using a protocol developed by a doctor named dr andy cutler so i'm borrowing heavily from his protocol and then i'm adjusting a little bit to suit my own experiences so you can go purchase dr andy cutler's book which talks about his protocol and it's a very good book if you're going to be doing chelation i recommend you purchase it and read it in addition to all the information that i'm giving you here so detoxing heavy metals is safe when you're using the right protocol but otherwise it can be dangerous so it is important that you understand the caveats and warnings and the things not to do when using these supplements to do the detox most importantly you have to understand that you can't do this chelation if you have mercury in your body most likely from metal teeth fillings or if you are actively exposed to heavy metals because what's going to happen is that if you have metal fillings and then you start doing this chelation it's going to start leeching the mercury from your fillings into your body so it's going to make your problem worse you're not going to be removing all the mercury from your teeth by pissing it out through your urine that's going to take 100 years that you're just going to be leeching from your teeth into your organs and into your brain and in this way you could really damage and harm yourself so you have to make sure that you first remove all your metal fillings if you got them and then you can start doing chelation and you should wait some number of weeks or months after removing your fillings or after a recent heavy metal exposure and then only then begin chelation just to be safe so here's the actual protocol of how to do this basically a single round of chelation is going to last about three to four days this means for three to four days you have to be taking these supplements on a very regular schedule and here are the the schedules for each substance so dmps you have to take it every four hours for three to four days that means you have to set a timer and on the dot every four hours you have to be taking a new dose i'll be giving you dosage recommendations here in a few minutes as far as alpha lipoic acid ala this you have to take every three hours and then with dmps you have to take this every eight hours so for example if you're going to combine dmps and alpha lipoic acid and take them together which is my preferred protocol i take them at once you're going to be taking it on the shortest on the shortest schedule so in this case every three hours so basically my round looks like this for four days straight every three hours i am taking a certain dose of dmp of dmsa and ala let's say i might be taking 200 milligrams of dmsa and then 100 milligrams of ala every every three hours and this includes in the middle of the night when you're supposed to be sleeping so literally i'll set a timer and every three hours that means i'm gonna be waking up probably two times a night it's a bit of a pain in the ass but you have to do it very rigorously and the reason you have to do it this way is because these supplements and chemicals have a half-life so what happens is you take you take the substance like the msa it has a half-life about four hours that means in four hours much of it is excreted from your body and the the key here is that once you activate and you start to leech the heavy metals from your organs now it's it goes into your bloodstream now it has the potential to go through your liver and your kidneys and to get pissed out and excrete from your body but once it goes into your bloodstream from your organs you know if four hours passes and you don't take a second dose then what's gonna happen is that this chemical it acts like a sponge like this dmsa it's like a sponge basically which if it if it comes into contact with any heavy metal in your bloodstream it's gonna it's gonna lock on to it and then those molecules together that combination of molecule is gonna get excreted in your urine but if you don't have sufficient dmsa on a regular basis what's gonna happen is that the mercury is gonna collect in your blood and then through the blood it's going to circulate and deposit itself into various kinds of organs so if you're not taking it on a regular basis every three or four hours essentially what's going to happen is that you're going to start redistributing the heavy metals in your body from one place to another place and you can actually cause yourself more damage by doing that so it's very important to observe these half-life time frames and the minimum length of around should be three days although you could go longer i usually go about four days and the way you want to do it ideally is you want to take three to four days of of these pills and then you want to take another three or four days off to let your body recover because this can be stressful on your body there can be various kinds of side effects as is happening give your body time to rest if you want give yourself a whole week to rest and then begin a second round so what constitutes a single round is is that three to four day period of taking the pills plus four to seven days of rest and recovery that is one round and then you can keep doing more and more rounds uh and how many rounds should you do in total well that depends on how toxic you are um if you're pretty toxic this whole process will take you several years to complete i recommend doing at least 10 20 rounds personally i want to get to like 50 or 60 rounds because i'm really serious about optimizing my health and so i still have yet to to complete that i may be halfway done and i've been doing this for about five years of course on and off i haven't been doing it five to five years straight i've taken many breaks in between so in order for this process to work in order for you to do it very consistently that's the key is you must pre-sort all your pills and doses you can't be fumbling around with bottles in the middle of the night it's not going to work so we have to pre-sort everything i'm going to show you a demo of how i do that in a second i use these sort of pill containers i use four containers for for the four days that i'm doing this everything is pre-sorted and then it becomes very easy to just set a timer and then to take you know from each pill box the amount of pills that i need very easily at the right time you must also use timers so i use digital timers with alarms that i set around the house to make sure that i don't forget to take these doses it's important you don't skip any doses throughout this three to four day period and uh yes even during the night you must take them which is a little bit of a pain in the ass in addition to taking the main supplements of dmsa and alpha lipoic acid i also add additional support supplements which i'll be showing you in the demo here in a minute so i take vitamin c that's buffered 500 milligrams and i sprinkle those out throughout the day i take vitamin e 250 milligrams and i also sprinkle those out throughout the day i take zinc picolinate 50 milligrams sprinkled throughout the day and magnesium citrate 210 milligrams also interspersed through my pillbox throughout the day now here's stuff that you should not take when you're doing this chelation you should not take chlorella spirulina or cilantro these are sometimes considered effective chelation for heavy metals in sort of a natural you know in the natural way and um this is problematic we don't really have a good idea of how chlorella or spirulina or cilantro work maybe they do detox stuff but maybe they don't really if you're going to be doing the dmsa and ala combination you don't need to add this other stuff to it it could screw it up other things you shouldn't take other supplements is knack nac glutathione and iv treatments sometimes you can get iv infusions of glutathione this actually can redistribute heavy metals in your body in a in a weird way which can backfire on you it's also important that you don't take alpha lipoic acid as a daily supplement some people take it as a daily supplement some people have it in their multivitamin this is bad because ala redistributes heavy metals and you don't want to be taking it only once per day if you're taking alpha lipoic acid you've got to be taking it on that three hour half-life and you're going to be taking it for three or four days straight as part of a chelation protocol otherwise don't take it because it's going to be redistributing heavy metals in unknown ways in your body and the other thing not to take is um there's a sort of analogous supplement to dmsa called edta which has a sort of a worse profile of chelation than dmsa and dmps so avoid edta now as far as dosages how much should you take of this stuff well when it comes to dmsa i purchase it in 100 milligram pills that's very convenient for me and the dosage is 30 milligrams per kilogram per day and then you divide it into those three or four hour segments so for example i will take 2 200 milligrams per day for my body weight and then i take 2200 milligrams and divided by eight because there are eight chunks of three hours and 24 hours so uh that means 200 milligrams every three hours 200 milligrams every three hours for eight times is 24 hours and that adds up to 2 200 milligrams per day which is ideal for my body weight now you're gonna have to adjust that number for your body weight and also if you're extremely toxic you might lower that dose because the higher your dose is and the more toxic you are the more side effects you're gonna experience from the from the detox so for me personally that dose is very reasonable and i handle it relatively well now with alpha lipoic acid what's the dosage for that here it's a little trickier the dosage will range anywhere from 25 milligrams to 250 milligrams per three hour period so every three hours you would basically take let's say if you want to start very low you start at 25 milligrams now alpha lipoic acid is unique in that it it crosses the blood-brain barrier so the reason you're using alpha lipoic acid specifically is because dmsa and dnps is not actually going to leech the heavy metals from your brain which is the most important really um in my personal opinion is to detox your brain not just your body but your brain specifically and really the only way you're going to do that is with alpha lipoic acid because it crosses the blood-brain barrier uh the problem though is that alpha lipoic acid can cause some fairly severe detox symptoms as it's leaching out and chelating the heavy metals depending on how toxic you are so with alpha lipoic acid you want to start very low and feel how well you can handle it and if you can handle it then on the next round you can increase your dose and then increase some more and increase and just keep increasing it until you get to something like 250 milligrams that would be probably the maximum you should take every three hours uh it'll probably take you 10 20 rounds or more of chelation to get to the point where you can actually tolerate 250 milligrams of alpha lipoic acid so to be safe i'd say start at 25 milligrams and then maybe bump it up to 50 bump it up to 75 bump it up to 100 see how you do at 100 maybe try 150 maybe try 200 and just keep ramping it up and and see how you feel you got to go by how you feel and then as far as if you want to use dmps instead of dmsa you can do that i would purchase 250 uh i mean sorry 25 milligram pills and with dmps the dosage is going to be about 200 to 500 milligrams per day that's the maximum you'd want to take and then you divide that up um with dmps you're taking it um every eight hours so you only need to divide it into basically um three doses so the idea here is that you want to start low and you want to gradually ramp up you have to be careful not to just blast yourself with a bunch of dmsa and lala all at once because this can cause some pretty severe redistribution of heavy metals and and various kinds of side effects so be patient with this process don't try to you know reach the finish line too soon because you might end up back it'll backfire on you you have to go by how you feel um it's recommended that you basically do four rounds at a certain dosage and then if you're still feeling good everything's okay the side effects aren't too bad then you can increase on the next four rounds and then do four more rounds on the higher dose and then see how you feel if you still feel okay then increase for four more rounds and then keep doing that and just kind of ramping up be careful more is not necessarily better what you want here is a slow steady even keeled approach rather than a sort of a yo-yo effect where you're taking large doses you're experiencing horrible symptoms and then you have to stop you have to recover for a long time then you try it again and this sort of up and down yoyo thing is is not very wise all right so now i'm going to show you a couple of demos of how my supplements look and also how i organize them okay now i'm going to show you the most crucial part of this protocol which is all the supplements that i use and specifically how i arrange them into pill boxes for this entire three to four day duration that you're going to be taking and chelating all right so let's start off by introducing our chelating agents and chemicals so we have the dmsa this is 100 milligrams here and these pills they just look like ordinary white pills like this this particular brand is from living supplements i like this brand but you can use whatever brand of dmsa you can find out there that you like same brand living supplements this is dmps 25 milligrams they also just look like white pills nothing special about them and then this is the life alpha lipoic acid uh ala otherwise known as ala 150 milligrams now you can get this in different dosages 150 milligrams is pretty high if you're just starting this protocol you probably want to start something lower like 50 milligrams and then work your way up but for me these work fine and they're also kind of like a yellowish white pill so we've got that and then these vitamins and supplements here these are just supporting supplements so basically these are gonna do the work of pulling the heavy metals out into your bloodstream and through your kidneys and your liver and out of your body and then as that's happening your body is detoxing and it needs some support vitamins and nutrients which are those like vitamin c we have vitamin c 500 milligrams here we have zinc picolinate 50 milligrams we have vitamin e uh 268 milligrams and this is magnesium citrate uh about 210 milligrams per pill on this one and so these are just to support your detox pathways and to lower any kind of detox symptoms you might be feeling any negative side effects from the chelation and now here's how i organize everything and it's crucial that you do this because if you don't every three hours remembering to open all of these and to take them in the right combination it's going to be way too much work and you're going to forget and it's just not going to it's not going to fly so what you do is you buy four of these sort of week-long pill boxes you can find at your local pharmacy or on amazon or order it online i think i bought these at like walgreens or cvs and then i put a label on each one so see here it says this is number one this one says number two and so on and then so what i do is i fill them all up at once like this i won't do all of them because it'll take too much time i'll just do one day's worth so you can see but normally i would fill all four of them up at once so what i would start with is let's say i'm this is my sort of standard protocols i'm going to use dmsa and i tell you how to calculate your proper dose basically your dose is going to be roughly 100 milligrams to 200 milligrams every three hours with the dmsa so for me i do 200 milligrams so i'll put two pills so each of these containers basically counts as three hours and you're gonna have eight of them per day so like this so normally i would keep going but just for the sake of brevity here i'm only showing you one day's worth so that's one day eight times three um then i would take my apple alpha lipoic acid and i would do one of these per three hour period so like this and of course you're going to adjust these dosages to whatever you know is suitable for you now the dmps i'm not going to take because usually i'll either take dmps or dmsa but not both of them at the same time so that's for some other you know another another time um so we got that and then i will take the vitamin c and i will add one per three hour period so quite a bit of vitamin c this just helps with the detox uh symptoms and kind of gives you the antioxidants and nutri nutrients that you need while you're detoxing and then as far as vitamin e and the other ones go with this what i do is i put it into every fourth one so one two three four because i don't want it you don't want to take too much of some of these vitamins you can overtake some of these vitamins so you want to be careful and then the zinc i will also do just once every four and then the same for the magnesium these pills are pretty big so like that and that's basically it now i would i would fill all four of them up and so this is going to be equivalent to about three and a half days worth which is about what you're shooting for with this protocol and so all of this constitutes one single round of chelation and you're going to be doing 10 20 30 50 of these rounds you know depending on how how toxic you think you are and depending on your urine test results what those show and depending on how you feel if you feel good after doing five or ten rounds you know keep doing more also what you should know is that you're not necessarily always going to feel better after a round it might be the case that you do five rounds and you actually start feeling worse and it's important that you actually continue to do more chelation because what that means is you're feeling worse because you're detoxing and you have a lot to detox and you're in the middle of a detox cycle and so just because you do five rounds and you feel bad that doesn't mean it's not working or that something is going wrong it just means you got to keep going and finish it you know go to 10 rounds go to 20 rounds and then you're going to start to feel much better that's usually how it works so there tends to be a dip in this whole chelation process you might feel better after the first few rounds of chelation then maybe between round 10 if 10 and 15 and 20 you feel worse there's a dip and then after you complete you know 20 rounds then you maybe start feeling better again so it's important that you keep going even though you might not feel good after each round and then after some rounds you might feel really good so it tends to vary don't expect it to always be positive some rounds can feel great some rounds can feel bad and so that's just the nature of the beast so that's how that works and then um the final part of this which is crucial is you need a high quality digital timer which is what i use here so i'll put three hours on here i'll set it for three hours and i'll leave this here and when the three hours is up it's going to ring and then that that tells me i got to come here and take the next dose and so i'll be doing that every three hours for the next three to four days as i'm finishing this whole round including in the middle of the night so you need something that will wake you up in the middle of the night so that you can do this there you go uh on the one hand it can seem a little bit complicated on the other hand it's actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it and it's actually really effortless one once you have this timer it's very effortless to take it on a schedule and you can be working you can be you know doing whatever chores you got to do around the house and really it it doesn't it shouldn't affect your life too much unless you start to experience some severe detox symptoms which means that your doses are too high that means you've got to lower your dose of dmps or dmsa or alpha lipoic acid lower your doses to the point where the side effects you can maybe feel some of the negative side effects but they're not debilitating and they don't prevent you from living your life and doing what you got to do throughout the day okay so you've seen the demos you kind of know what it looks like you have a good idea of how to organize your pills it's very important that you have a organized system because if you don't you're not going to be taking them consistently and the whole thing is going to is gonna implode on you you're not gonna be able to basically follow through on the protocol so make sure you invest in the pill boxes and you organize everything very well you have the timers and all that stuff all right now you might be wondering well leo is dmsa ala and dmps safe or might these molecules harm me how do i know they're safe well actually there's good science on all these molecules i'm going to link some of the studies down below you can search for studies yourself all these chemicals and molecules are very safe they're not going to harm your body in fact they're safe enough for children to take and they've been used on children effectively however we have to be careful with is that the heavy metals that are being leached and absorbed by these molecules and moved around in your body those are not safe so it is important that you take this detox protocol seriously and you don't just play around with it's not a game ordinarily you'd want to do this under the supervision of your doctor the problem is that a lot of doctors are very clueless about these protocols and so they simply won't be able to help you and if you have a you know a stubborn health problem is better to take it into your own hands than not do anything at all about it i have not been able to find doctors i've gone to many doctors i've i've found some even alternative doctors and some expensive doctors and most of them have no idea about how this protocol works i've only found like one doctor and i only found him after years of figuring that this stuff out for myself so most likely your doctor is not going to know about these protocols and even if he does know about a little bit of it um he's not going to be able to actually show you the safest protocol which is what we're talking about here this takes a lot of of research that they don't simply teach to traditional doctors uh so how many rounds of detox are required well really it's not possible to say because your toxicity you know can vary you can be very low toxicity or very high toxicity anywhere in between it might take 10 to 20 rounds and you might need 50 plus rounds if you have serious health problems if you have a combination of all these various problems maybe 50 rounds or more that's what i intend to be doing personally but you know start with 10 rounds and just see how you feel and how it goes and if it's going well for you keep keep doing it if your test results are coming back better your urine test results keep doing it if your symptoms are improving keep doing it now what about the side effects of detox how will you feel during the detox process while you're taking these supplements well i can explain to you some of my own uh experiences generally i've felt very few side effects however sometimes when i've taken a lot of alpha lipoic acid i have felt some negative side effects which hindered my performance for those three to four days that i was taking it so you can feel fatigue you can feel depression you can feel sleepiness you can feel brain fog you can feel a bad mood or a temper or sort of anger arising within you you can also have maybe sleeping problems or bad sleep or even like nightmares i've had a little bit of that on detox in fact right now as i'm sitting here i'm in the middle of my protocol and so right now i have dmsa and ala coursing through my system but right now i'm like i've found my dosage you know a a nice moderate dosage where i can still function i can still think uh right now i don't feel fatigued i don't feel depressed i feel pretty good although last night when i was sleeping i did have some like weird dreams and nightmares that i probably associate with taking this stuff but overall i feel pretty good i've had other weeks where i would do a protocol or a round of chelation and i would feel miserable and so that generally depends on your dosage range and also how much you've already detoxed right if you're very toxic and you're just starting off with a large dose you will feel more of these symptoms the symptoms can get so bad that they will actually inhibit your ability to work and to relate to other people in which case that tells you that your dose is too high and you just have to lower your dose next time that's all that tells you the the side effects should be bearable if they're not bearable then lower your dose your dose is too high and then after you do 10 to 20 rounds of this chelation redo that urine test and see where you're at and then keep doing it like that slow and steady every 10 20 rounds re-test yourself to see your progress and then save all your test results on your computer so that you can track yourself over the months and years all right now let's compare the pros and cons of these various chelation chemicals so dmsa what's it good for each one of these chemicals has certain heavy metals that it has a higher affinity for so for example dmsa is especially good for detoxing lead so if you do a urine test and you you see you have a lot of lead in there then you want to focus on using dmsa it'll be very effective for that it's less effective against mercury although still it will detox mercury it will also detox cadmium antimony and arsenic now dmps is more effective against mercury lead it's less effective at but it'll also do lead it'll do arsenic it'll do nickel and also antimony so if you have a lot of mercury maybe consider dmps instead of dmsa or if you have more lead then consider dmsa instead of dnps and then with alpha lipoic acid uh it's most effective against mercury and then also arsenic and cadmium and it doesn't do lead but additionally what you have to understand about alpha lipoic acid is that it it's the only chemical here that's going to cross the blood-brain barrier and actually detox heavy metals from your brain so that's what that's what makes it so good it'll it'll it'll suck the mercury out of your brain it'll suck the arsenic and the cadmium and um personally i think that's that's one of the most valuable things so what i've done is i've combined dmsa with alpha lipoic acid that's my personal combo although i also have purchased dmps that i in the future i plan to test out dmps as well so i'm going to test out a combo of dmps and alpha lipoic acid and try those in tandem and just see how that compares i haven't tried it yet but i will in the months to come so you know you find your combo if you want try both you can also just start with dmsa or dmps without alpha lipoic acid you don't have to include alpha lipoic acid in fact that is what andy cutler recommends he recommends that you only add alpha lipoic acid after maybe six or 12 months of chelation with simply dmsa or dmps the idea being that first you want to detox your other organs and then once you've sufficiently detoxed the other organs then you can add in the alpha lipoic acid which is going to work to cross the blood-brain barrier and detox your brain you sort of want to leave that one for last because it's like the most sensitive and that might give you the most problems if you haven't detoxed other areas of your body yet so i recommend you buy dr andy cutler's books and read them to get a deeper understanding of how chelation works and also the books are great because he outlines the various dangers and the the things you should not be doing in this process because there could be certain things you're doing in the wrong way which are going to actually harm you chelation is serious business at the same time it's not very difficult and if you follow the protocol here it's uh it should be very safe these protocols have been used on children and adults not just by some new age quacks but by by medical researchers and doctors these chemicals like the msa dmps these have been very well researched specifically for the purposes of chelating heavy metals usually they're only used when you have very acute exposure like in heavy industry if somebody gets exposed you know to a lung full of very toxic chemicals then they will give them dmsa and dnps to chelate that stuff out and so these are very well known chemical chemicals and molecules and they're reasonably safe now it's very important that you understand that you should not expect your traditional doctor to support you in this detox process in fact what i found is that doctors traditional doctors will gaslight you if you go to a traditional doctor like your you know general practitioner physician or family doctor and you tell him that you're going to be doing this process he's probably going to discourage you from doing it he's going to tell you oh you don't need to worry about that that's only for people who are like involved in heavy industry he's going to ask you like well were you exposed to a lot of mercury or lead and you're going to say well not that i can think of and he could say well then you don't really need to do it he doesn't know what he's talking about you have to understand that the traditional medical industry is very conservative they're extremely conservative because otherwise they can get sued so the only things they generally recommend are the things that are like proven beyond you know a shadow of a doubt uh methods and protocols that are 50 years old or 100 years old that's the kind of stuff they recommend they don't recommend more cutting edge stuff um they're not really looking at the fringes of science they're also not interested in optimizing your cognitive performance they're not interested in optimizing your health they're basically just interested in helping you with like the most severe conditions that you have and a lot of these doctors they're just not interested in in the cutting edge newest protocols and medicines that have you know been found in the last 10 or 20 years um they're they're just not really serious about health period a lot of them are very corrupt a lot of them will only do things and treatments that are covered by insurance and your insurance is not going to cover this um most likely and so um i'm not telling you to ignore the advice of your doctor obviously take into account what your doctor tells you but at the same time don't be stupid and gullible and think that your doctor is some you know all-knowing health expert he's not i've had so many doctors that just gave me completely wrong advice complete horseshit um i could have found better advice at just looking at articles on the internet honestly or on a on a [ __ ] forum on a health forum i could find better advice than i got from these doctors to whom i paid hundreds of dollars just for a single appointment um so in general i'm very disappointed by the quality of of the doctors here in the united states i don't know how it is elsewhere i assume it's not that much better in europe and so really if you're serious about optimizing your health you're gonna have to take it into your own hands the doctors we have they're good at treating conditions that are very well known and very well understood but they're terrible at treating conditions like thyroid conditions autoimmune conditions and other subtle conditions that have to do with like brain fog and chronic fatigue and dark circles under your eyes and skin conditions they're just they're clueless about treating these these conditions uh because these conditions have many possible factors and honestly these doctors are not getting paid enough money and they don't have enough time to sit down with you and carefully diagnose for hours you know diagnose every single problem and possible cause and troubleshoot each one this takes hours and hours and hours to do they're not going to do that with you in a 15-minute appointment so um i recommend you do your own research uh i am not a doctor and this is not medical advice uh at the same time you should also understand that this advice could be better than anything you hear from your traditional family doctor i find most family doctors are idiots uh but with that said if you uh decide to use this protocol and you harm yourself don't hold me liable i'm not responsible for how you misuse this protocol you have to do your own research you have to be very careful about it and only if you take full responsibility for what you're doing should you attempt this protocol now you might say but leo isn't there some natural way to detox heavy metals like cilantro chlorella spirulina activated charcoal zeolite juicing you know people talk about celery juice or green smoothies or fasting or taking saunas what about these natural methods it sounds like the method you're recommending is a very kind of artificial chemical method and i want to do some sort of new aging natural method it sounds like it's going to be healthier well be careful with that it might not be healthier because what these various natural methods might do is first of all they just might not work at all there's not very good science on any of these chemicals or any of these natural methods of effectively chelating lead mercury arsenic and so forth um you know there's various kind of whisperings and things in various kinds of like new age health communities alternative medicine communities that some of these things are effective but there's there's no hard science with the stuff that i've talked about there's very good hard science on that um so you just might be wasting a lot of money in time and not getting any benefit with these natural methods and um and also even worse than that is that this cilantro this chlorella the spirulina activated charcoal what it might be doing is it might be actually just moving heavy metals around in your body but not fully effectively chelating them what's unique about dmsa dmps and alpha lipoic acid is is that these are very special chemicals which have like this special double bond that bond very tightly to lead mercury arsenic and so forth to fully uh excrete them from the body whereas some of this other stuff like spirulina chlorella cilantro and whatever else it might partially attach it might partially move these heavy metals around in your body but not fully excrete them which can actually make things worse so be careful in general i consider these natural methods to be weak sauce and i would not rely on them i would much rather rely on dmsa and ala because they're they're proven to work they're proven to be safe so why why mess with the formula that has been proven to work and the other problem is that some of these natural methods they're not going to cross the blood-brain barrier your cilantro your activated charcoal your zeolite your celery juice it may not crust across the blood-brain barrier and it may not detox your brain in the same way that alpha-lipoic acid will now you might be wondering where is the proof that dmsa works at all for example well i'm going to post some links down below you can go to pubmed or go to google and search for studies search specifically for something like you know dmsa mercury and lead detox or chelation search for these kinds of phrases or if you want to search for dmps you can search that as well you'll find various kinds of articles on government websites that are well researched and sourced which explains to you the effectiveness of these chemicals and also their safety you could find studies on children that they've done this with now is chelation worth doing you might wonder because it seems like it's a lot of work costs some money and so forth so should you really be doing it well if you're very healthy then no it's probably not worth doing but if you have various kinds of vague and otherwise untreatable health problems then it's definitely worth looking into if you have metal fillings or you've been exposed to heavy metals it's definitely worth doing once you get those middle fillings out if you have stuff like chronic fatigue brain fog cognitive performance problems problems focusing add memory problems sleep problems depression anxiety then i think it's definitely worth trying out and just feeling it for yourself ultimately the proof is in the pudding ultimately the proof is not in the urine tests or in any kind of research studies the proof is in how it makes you feel if you do 10 rounds and you feel better about yourself and your conditions improve then that's the ultimate test that's the ultimate proof which means that you have to become your own test subject you have to become your own guinea pig now will heavy metal talk detox solve all your health problems no because there exists many other factors for example there are other toxins that are not covered by this detox particle there are pesticides there are plastics there are things called pfes is there are phthalates there are pcbs there are dioxins all of these are present in your food and the things you consume in your water and in your makeup and other things in your soap in your shampoo in your uh you know contact lens solution in your shaving cream uh so there are a lot of toxins in the environment a lot of toxins in our food that go way beyond just heavy metals and this protocol i'm talking about here is not going to rid you of all those toxins some of those toxins might not have any way to be detoxed on the other hand maybe there are ways we just haven't found them yet or i don't know about them yet i'm always interested in finding new protocols so this is just one factor another factor of course is that um your health problems might stem from things like just poor diet or the fact that you're eating foods that you have sensitivities and allergies to that you're not even aware of yet so you're eating the wrong foods you've got to change your diet that alone can improve many of your health problems maybe a lack of exercise is the cause of some of your health problems genetics is a very huge component to your health problems now the thing is that it's not that genetics necessarily cause most health problems is that genetics make you susceptible and then that opens the door for food sensitivities and other toxins in your environment coming in there and combining with your sensitive genetics to create these various kinds of autoimmune disorders and other kinds of conditions right so it can be very disempowering to think like oh well you know i have a thyroid problem because of my genetics it's all of my bad genetics or i have sleep problems because of my genetics or i have autism or add because of my genetics that's not usually the case you should assume that your genetics are actually pretty good the problem though is that your genetics can make you susceptible and sensitive to various kinds of triggers in your environment these triggers can be food you know genetically modified plants uh various kinds of pesticides plastics toxins phthalates dioxins heavy metals pollution god knows what else is out there um and then it's that combination that causes a lot of these sort of subtle vague difficult to diagnose health problems of course also your health problems could be caused by lifestyle problems it's the way you're living your life maybe you're a workaholic maybe you're over stressed maybe you're stuck in a depressing job for a decade and this can all create health problems and maybe there's even a spiritual component to your health problems maybe it's the way you're using your mind maybe it's the kind of weird thought patterns that you have and you got to retrain some of that maybe you're constantly overthinking or you're you're anxious and you're scared or you have depressive thoughts so maybe it it so you see it's very complicated because there's multiple layers here there's like the the raw physical chemical layer you got to get that right which is why we're talking about heavy metals once you get that right then there's the next layer of like your diet you got to get that right which kind of foods are right for you you know some people can have sensitivities to to very common types of foods like gluten or wheat or certain kinds of vegetables certain kinds of meat eggs shellfish dairy nuts you know whatever uh just because you don't have an acute allergy where you take a you know you eat some eggs or you eat some dairy and you have a you know full-blown you know reaction to it that doesn't mean your body isn't having sort of a more subtle autoimmune response to these foods that you're generally not aware of but that are causing long-term problems especially if you consume these foods chronically all the time every day like a lot of people do um so there's the diet level once you get that sorted out then there's like the lifestyle level you got to get your lifestyle sorted out and then there's maybe the highest level which is sort of like the spiritual level you got to get that sorted out so a problem with your health can exist on multiple levels and part of the challenge here is diagnosing which level it exists at and one of the mistakes is trying to um attribute a problem to the wrong layer like you might think that well i'm depressed because i have a spiritual problem but is that really true or maybe you're depressed because you have a chemical problem because the water you're drinking is filled with lead because there's lead pipes where you live you see and so you might be trying to solve that problem by like meditating a lot but no amount of meditation is going to fix that for you because the problem exists at a lower deeper level than you thought it it did on the other hand i mean it can work in the reverse way too you might think that the problem is heavy metal toxicity and it's chemical but really it's not chemical maybe the problem is just that you're you're sensitive to certain kinds of foods that you shouldn't be eating that you should eliminate from your diet but you just keep eating them because your culture tells you it's okay and because you know they serve you pizza at work so you just eat pizza all the time and uh but maybe you're you know you're sensitive to gluten in the pizza or to the cheese dairy or whatever else so all this takes a lot of experimentation to figure it out for you and it's different for different people so you can't just read a book and i can't just tell you what the solution is because every solution is going to be custom tailored to each person and so this takes many hours of research and experimentation to figure this out now let me give you some preventative measures if you're going to be detoxing yourself and taking heavy metals seriously you got to take some preventative measures to prevent yourself from getting re-toxified once you finish detoxing and really once you finish detoxing remember there's always trace amounts of mercury and lead and so forth in all the foods you eat and all the water you drink even if it's healthy and you know as clean as possible there's still going to be trace amounts and over 10 20 years it's going to add up again so you want to be doing these rounds of detox you know every couple of years you want to be detoxing a little bit to to keep yourself clean because it all adds up you're breathing in pollution from the street outside from the cars that you know from the gas station when you're pumping fuel you know those gas fumes are entering into your lungs and who knows what's in those gas fumes or the exhaust from the giant 18 wheelers that are driving around on the streets let's go all going into your lungs imagine 10 20 years of sniffing those fumes inhaling those fumes what that does to you so here are some preventative measures never again drink tap water only the purest reverse osmosis water this is huge if you're drinking your city's tap water trusting that it's free of the mercury lead and arsenic and so forth you're you're a [ __ ] fool stop eating seafood and organ meat seafood contains a lot of mercury and organ meat god knows what's in that organ meat if you're eating liver and things like this even if you're eating organic liver from grass-fed cows or whatever you have no idea the kind of water that these cows receive even if it's organic cows grass-fed cows they still probably get you know toxic [ __ ] cheap ass water they're not drinking pure spring water they're drinking some sort of industrial sludge that you know saves pennies on the gallon for the companies for the farmers and you know they don't care about your health so and then you're eating that organ meat you're eating that liver that that liver collects and stores all the toxins in the in the cow's body and you know and so forth with other organ meats be very careful with supplements spices protein powders teas and really any kind of powders especially protein powders i've read some very scary research where they actually took some of the most popular brands of protein powders not just whey powders but also vegan powders vegetable powders all organic and what they found is that the organic powders have even more heavy metals than the inorganic ones so just because it says all natural vegan organic does not mean it doesn't have heavy metals in it don't be a fool this is just marketing talk there's also been a recent research on spices certain spices are very contaminated with heavy metals i'll be actually posting on my blog over the next week on my blog i'll be posting an article about the worst most toxic spices be careful about that that's a hidden source of heavy metal exposure supplements a lot of supplements have also been found to be contaminated with heavy metals so don't take supplements that you don't really need only take the most essential supplements and be very careful about the brands try to find the most trusted brands in general be suspicious of any kind of powders that you're consuming on a daily basis those powders when you when you powder down a food and you concentrate it like you do with a protein powder right with the protein powder you're basically taking like uh five gallons of milk and you're condensing it all down to like a little cup of whey protein powder think about that concentration process how it distills and concentrates all the heavy metals because those are not getting evaporated and the same thing if you're talking about vegetables you know you take 10 pounds of of kale and spinach and other stuff and then you you grind it all down into a cup of powder think of all the pesticides they all get concentrated in that little cup and then you consume that every single day in your smoothie you're basically poisoning yourself every day thinking that you're being healthy when you actually aren't also be very careful with store-bought bone broths bone broths are sort of like a hip trendy health trend i guess you could say these days they're supposed to be very healthy and so forth these bone broths because they also concentrate you know you're taking a bunch of meat boiling it all down some vegetables boiling it all down to a single cup and then all the heavy metals are getting concentrated in there and then you're drinking that on a daily basis thinking it's healthy for you when you're just poisoning yourself baby food has been notoriously found to be filled with heavy metals and this is especially egregious and bad because for babies with developing brains this is much much worse than for adults and and by the way if you have children you should be taking this episode extra seriously if you care about the health and cognitive performance of your children a lot of children i think develop add autism and other sorts of you know learning disabilities and disorders because a lot of the the food the baby food and other sort of packaged food that is given to kids this is the most atrocious low quality literally poisonous food that you could imagine so be be very careful about this and even with your pets if you have a dog or a cat that you love and you're feeding it the cheapest kinds of cat and dog food which is definitely contaminated with the worst kinds of heavy metals it's going to add up and kill your [ __ ] cat or your dog especially because they're so they're so small compared to humans that that affects them even more than it does humans so be extra careful there if you want to know what the worst spices are the most contaminated spices that it's been recently found is oregano and thyme stop using those they are filled with heavy metals even the organic versions of those spices remember that organic and all natural does not mean it's free of heavy metals it also does not mean it's free of pesticides organic food is filled with organic pesticides and organic pesticide is not good for you in many cases people people overlook this because they get just brainwashed with this sort of marketing and branding a lot of so-called organic and natural products a lot of the vegan products a lot of the products that look like they're you know very healthy products that you buy at the health food store when you do testing on it it's found that that product contains even more heavy metals than just your normal supermarket product so there's no guarantee that just because you're eating something organic or very expensive or all natural or from a health food store that is not contaminated it's not horrible for you be careful also with makeup makeup can notoriously have lead and mercury and other heavy metals in it that can get absorbed through your skin if you're using a lot of makeup for you ladies um be careful with the toxic fumes solvents chemicals and paints like maybe you're using glue around your house some sort of like epoxy that has fume toxic fumes coming out of it maybe you're doing some work around your house using chemicals cleaners bleaches uh various kinds of paints you know especially doing a lot of like housing work construction work be careful uh breathing in those fumes when you're considering your living situation don't rent apartments and don't buy a house near any major highways there's research that basically says that if you live within a mile of a major highway that this increases your risk of cancer and other kinds of health problems just simply from the pollution that comes from that highway so try to live at least a mile away from any major highway be careful with ammunition and gun ranges if you are someone who likes to go shooting at a shooting range and you're using lead ammunition every time you fire that lead ammunition that lead gets vaporized small particles of that bullet gets vaporized and then you're breathing that in and everybody around you standing there firing they're also breathing it in and causing a giant smog invisible smog cloud of vaporized lead pretty disgusting so what do you do well either stop going to the gun range or at the very least you can find gun ranges actually there's a gun range in vegas here which is completely lead free they force you to use lead-free ammunition and i recommend you purchase lead-free ammunition it costs more money but you can find ammunition that's coded in copper or i'm i'm not that familiar with the different kinds there are but there are lead-free ammos that you can purchase so definitely go with that and make sure that you remove all fluorescent lighting from your house or from your place of work because the fluorescent lighting if it breaks it's filled with toxic fumes and heavy metals and it's a it's a giant pain in the ass to clean that up it's very toxic uh nowadays it's very easy and cheap to to purchase led lights they last for a decade they're super energy efficient there's no need to be purchasing fluorescent lights at all in fact i think they should be banned because they're so toxic and recycling them is a big pain in the ass you can't just throw fluorescent lighting into you know a garbage can so let's talk about the cost of chelation you might be wondering leo what's all this going to cost me well i can give you a very precise estimate so dr andy cutler's book costs 50 you can purchase it on amazon the urine test like i said costs 110 a piece you'll probably be doing half a dozen of those so that's like six or seven hundred dollars in urine tests a bottle of dmsa costs about thirty five dollars a dollar a bottle of dmps costs about seventy dollars but you need less of it remember than dmsa um just volume and weight-wise a bottle of alpha-lipoic acid is very cheap about 15 the other miscellaneous supplements and vitamins that i recommend are going to be about 50 so here's how this works one round of dmsa at 200 milligrams per round um you know i mean a dose every every three hours this is gonna cost you about um it's gonna be about 35 dollars plus 10. so about 45 so basically to do a single three to four day round of dmsa in total that's going to cost you about forty five dollars ten rounds of that will cost you four hundred fifty dollars twenty rounds nine hundred dollars and thirty rounds one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars so you're looking at about a let's say a thousand dollar investment here to do maybe 15 rounds 15 to 20 rounds will cost you about a thousand dollars including the urine tests and supplements and dmsa and all that about a thousand dollars and within those 15 rounds you should get a sense of whether this is helping you and whether you want to continue doing it now is it worth that i would say given the improvements that i've experienced personally is it's totally worth that it would be worth ten thousand dollars it would be worth maybe even a hundred thousand dollars given the improvements that i've personally experienced but you know that's just me one anecdote um i have no way of telling uh well it'll be worth it for you but i mean even if you can improve your cognitive performance by 10 let's say and or if you can improve your sleeping maybe cut an hour off your sleep uh every day or if you can you know stop your hair loss or you know get rid of some of your acne problems or maybe increase your memory by 20 percent any of these basically would easily be worth thousands of dollars if you can get any of these benefits um and also not to mention of course uh i think you know we have we have an epidemic of cancer happening around the world and scientists still don't really have a good handle on what causes these various cancers i think a factors i'm not saying the only factor but i think a factor is is these various toxins and heavy metals honestly when they build up over 10 20 30 40 years could that result in cancer of course of course it could um obviously it could um it's not a you know one-to-one correlation but it's a factor and so i think i think that honestly plenty of people just die prematurely needlessly prematurely or get horrible cancers that then they have to go spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in chemotherapy to treat you know see experts and doctors and go through whole ordeals just to cure that cancer when you know if they just did some of this chelation when they were younger they could have eliminated that you know that horrible ordeal so you can treat this as a sort of a long-term investment into your health now if you're a parent you might be wondering leo you know my kid has autism will heavy metal detox cure my child's autism the answer is it's complicated and that maybe it can help but there are no guarantees uh with that said it's worth a try you don't really lose very much you can do chelation on children just follow the protocol and it'll work on children as well as adults of course you have to adjust dosages to their weight and all that but i actually have a doctor i have a really good doctor who has made his whole career treating children with autism using chelation using dmsa ala and the andy cutler protocol and he's had hundreds of successful clients so personally i don't have a lot of experience in this because i don't have children i've never treated a child with autism or whatever and i'm not saying that autism is only caused by heavy metal toxicity i think there's many factors that contribute to autism including genetic factors of course it's not it's not purely environment it's also genetically related as well but you know it's really the combination of environment plus your genetics which leads to many of these disorders and so just based on the anecdotal evidence that i've heard from my doctor and the success he's had with many of his clients is that he says that you know 10 20 rounds can um can cure a lot of these kids or can reduce their symptoms significantly to the point where they're able to you know to be normal again same thing with stuff like add we have epidemics of add and autism right now and if you think about you know where is this coming from uh one theory is that well we're just diagnosing kids more we're better at diagnosing autism that's why there's more of it we're better at diagnosing add that's why there's more of it i think there's some truth to that but i don't think that explains all of it i think that a lot of it has to do with the with the toxins that that is present from the you know basically from the last 100 years of heavy manufacturing and pollution that has been mostly unregulated all around the world um and also the horrible practices that are happening within the food industry food food is filled with toxins the food you get at fast food places a lot of children's food junk food snack food candy you know pizza potato chips burgers the kind of food they serve at school to children all this stuff i mean it's it's basically poison we're poisoning our children and we're acting as though nothing is wrong and then we're acting surprised like why is there all this autism and add and learning disorders and problems focusing and then you know kids being juvenile delinquents and being aggressive and becoming school shooters and being depressed and being suicidal a lot of it is simply the horrible food practices that we have and the toxins in the water in the food in the environment pollution all of it it all adds up it's you know small things they add up especially over 10 20 years it adds up and it even begins in the womb most mothers are completely clueless about these things and they consume horrible food filled with toxins which of course starts to affect and ruin the development of the child's brain while the child is still inside the mother and so many children start off life already at a disadvantage right from the very beginning and they're never ever going to overcome that no matter how much they meditate or do self-help or some of these other things or how many doctors they go to on the other hand your body is also very resilient so don't feel like you're a victim and that if you had some sort of you know a bad childhood or you know bad food that you ate for a long time you know i horrible food for the first 20 years of my life i used to be overweight i i ate the worst food my family didn't care about health and nutrition at all and and really i'm paying consequences for that now as an adult i think um and one of the things that that's made me much more you know um careful about what i eat these days precisely because i felt some of the horrible consequences of it but don't don't don't get stuck thinking that you know you're a hopeless cause be positive stay positive try some of these protocols and keep troubleshooting it is possible for your body to recover from the damage that's been done over the years your body can be incredibly uh resilient and it has the capacity to heal itself the biggest thing is just you know reform your lifestyle so that you stop consuming these toxins and these poisons that's the number one thing is even before you start chelating and detoxing just stop poisoning yourself to begin with so just to reiterate heavy metal detox is safe for children but again that responsibility is on you it's only safe if you do it properly if you do it improperly it's not safe i'm going to post a study specifically about children this study is from pubmed it's called safety and efficacy of oral dmsa therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders that's the full title of the study i'll post a link down below if you're interested in that now you might be wondering leah where do i purchase dmsa and dmps i looked on amazon and it's not sold there how come well because even though you don't technically need a prescription for dmsa or dmps in the u.s i believe the fda has sort of cracked down on selling this supplement and so you can still purchase it without a prescription but you have to purchase it from overseas so i've purchased dmsa and the mps from canada i've purchased it from south africa you can order it from the uk and maybe from europe so you can find various kinds of websites that are available or you can go to a doctor and get a prescription for it and get it at your local pharmacy i'm not sure what the regulations are in europe i assume that it's probably is more easily available in europe than it is in america actually there's a website that i like to use to get my dmsa it's called livingsupplements.com they ship from south africa it takes a while to arrive it takes about a month to get your shipment in the u.s but they have very high quality dmsa and dmps that i've used and that i can vouch for and i have no affiliate relationship with them i get no sponsorship i get no money from any supplement company when i talk about these various websites or brands if i'm showing you a brand of a certain supplement that i use that's only because that's the specific supplement that i use it's not because anybody is paying me to to show you these supplements where do you buy alpha lipoic acid this is available in any supplement store you can buy it on amazon very cheaply and easily or wherever you get your supplements that one is easy in conclusion heavy metal detox is not a magic cure for all disorders we should be clear about that it's just one tool in your toolbox it's one thing to troubleshoot and to try and to see if it works and if it doesn't work for you keep on troubleshooting and trying other solutions with the hope that you can get to the bottom of your health problem heavy metal detox is not particularly difficult but it does require some research you have to know what you're doing if you understand this process you have to understand the dangers and it does require a serious long-term commitment this is not something you do for a week or for a month this is something you're going to be doing for the next couple of years it's not going to take you that much time once you know how to do it it's actually very easy to do but setting it all up and figuring it all out that does take some time and then you have to be consistent about you have to do it on a weekly or bi-weekly basis and you have to do that consistently for months and months and months to get to you know 20 rounds 30 rounds 50 rounds of chelation and that's where you should really start to feel the full potential of this protocol so that means you have to have a long-term vision of why you're doing this you have to treat this as an investment in yourself it's going to be a financial investment it's going to be a time investment it's going to be investment of your emotional labor and so forth um you know a lot of times i just sort of forgot to do it like for the last few months i should have been doing chelation but i just sort of forgot because i was busy with life and you know i didn't want to wake up every every in the middle of the night you know taking my pills all the time so you do have to kind of force yourself into it but you know lately i kind of re-remembered i'm like oh yeah i forgot i should be doing my chelation because it's going to improve my health long term and my performance long term and also the reason i stopped is because some of the rounds i did recently they gave me some negative side effects and i'm like i don't know if i want to experience those side effects for the next week or two and you know so if you're experiencing negative side effects remember that that's actually a sign that it's working you're detoxing something so especially if you're experiencing negative side effects you have to you have to persist and continue if you're having serious negative side effects lower your dose and then tell yourself okay that means that this is actually a good sign it's not bad it's good this means that i can i have toxicity if i do 30 rounds of this protocol i can slowly rid myself of all this in a safe manner and then that should give me increased health and increased performance one warning that i want to give you is that it is possible for you to destroy your life if you take very large quantities of ala or dmsa and you're also very toxic there's actually one case that of a guy i found who was doing this chelation this example was posted on my forum um the guy actually shot a video where for some reason he was doing this chelation process and he ingested he was like trying to i don't know he was like making his own supplement pills i think with alpha lipoic acid and he got like this very concentrated giant bag of this alpha light book acid powder and he was like somehow mixing it up in a blender or something like that i forget exactly the details of it and he got like a giant uh something happened with the blender like it slipped it broke and this giant like cloud of alpha light bulk acid just like blasted him in the face and he absorbed it in his lungs and so he just got like a super massive dose of alpha lipoic acid accidentally and he also happened to be very toxic with heavy metals and so what this did is it sort of like just dumped a bunch of um heavy metal like redistributed in his body in some sort of weird way to the point where all of his symptoms became very much worse and he entered such a deep state of like depression and mental fog and insomnia and so forth that he was like unable to sleep unable to function eventually he he killed himself but before he killed himself he recorded a video explaining the dangers and of what happened to him exactly and why he killed himself so um he put it out there just to warn you guys that you know be careful about how you're doing this now with that said you know that was some sort of very rare situation you're not going to encounter this if you're just taking pills of alpha lipoic acid he took like a super super super mega dose that you would never take under any normal circumstances but you do have to be careful um now you might say but but leo i went to my doctor and my doctor told me i don't need any of this heavy metal detox stuff yeah a traditional doctor will probably tell you that i've had a lot of doctors tell me that i've actually literally taken my test results i've taken my test results and i've shown it to doctors and they just look at it and then they just hand wave it and say oh well that you know that elevated mercury yeah it's still within it's it's within a reasonable range it's not a big deal don't worry about it that's what doctor have told me and then when i did the chelation my symptoms improved my my weird nerve tingling improved my my my sleep problems improved my cognitive performance improved and then you know good luck going and convincing a doctor that the chelation did that the doctor's not going to believe you a lot of these doctors just [ __ ] stupid right they're they're deeply uh they're deeply stuck in a sort of a conservative medical um capitalism like echo chamber a lot of these doctors are very corrupt because they're dealing with insurance companies all the time and the only things that they research or care about are the things that insurance is willing to pay for because most patients are not going to pay out of pocket a thousand dollars to do you know 20 rounds of heavy metal chelation so just keep that in mind on the other hand this is not medical advice either right so i'm not your doctor figure out for yourself what's right for you again to reiterate i did not have any sponsorships or financial relationships to companies selling supplements or heavy metal detox protocols or to dr andy cutler so i really just wanted to put out this video because i know that many of you guys who are trying to do self-actualization work actually will not be able to achieve it because the base layer the chemical layer of your entire life your brain your body your health there are serious problems there and until you fix those you're not going to really be able to do the kind of work that i'm talking about with the rest of my content actualizer content assumes that you have the foundation of your life the chemistry of your brain sorted out and if you don't it's not going to work for you and you're going to be very frustrated because you'll be like wondering why is some of the stuff leo not talking about why doesn't it work for him why does meditation not work for me why does psychedelics not work for me and so forth and that's because there are deeper problems that you got to fix at that very base layer which usually i don't talk about because i mostly i talk about spirituality and psychology i don't talk about like chemistry and physics that much unless i'm talking about maybe psychedelics speaking of psychedelics actually by the way my trips and my insights and my consciousness has all skyrocketed uh again this is anecdotal has all skyrocketed and become much clearer and more powerful and more stable after this chelation now i don't know if there's a direct one-to-one correlation uh i suspect that that it helped me but i can't prove it because the reality is that i've done probably close to 200 trips at this point on over 20 different chemicals in psychedelics um and but what i've noticed is that after the chelation basically after my brain fog sort of lifted um my trips just become deeper and more clear and more lucid um to like scary frightening degrees um and so if i trip these days like god damn the clarity and the consciousness in those trips is is just incredible it's it's indescribable how powerful it is how clear it is how pristine it is how lucid it is how conscious it is it's it's incredible uh and so i think it helped me in that regard as well and so uh what i want to end on here is just to underscore that health and mental performance is the foundation for all self-actualization work and for all spiritual work if you don't have this sorted out you're not going to succeed with spirituality and actually and this is what a lot of gurus and sort of traditional spiritual teachers don't tell you is that it's impossible to awaken without a clean brain i think a lot of people are very toxic because of the kind of junk food that they've been eating for the last 20 years of their life and the kind of dirty water and pollution that they've been consuming breathing in and drinking and so forth that then they go to like some sort of eckhart tolle seminar or they go to a vipassana retreat or maybe they even try to take a psychedelic thinking that oh well i should be able to get enlightened or awaken or realize god or some of these other you know cool things that these spiritual teachers talk about or that i talk about because i should be able to experience infinite love and all this sorts of beautiful stuff right and then you sit there and you try and you try and you try and you try for for months and for years and it doesn't work and one of the reasons it doesn't work and and and you don't feel happy you feel depressed you feel miserable you feel anxious and then and then that only worsens the situation because you're trying so hard at the spiritual work self-actualization but it's not working you feel unmotivated you feel lazy you feel depressed you feel anxious your hair is falling out and you're getting skin rashes and other things are happening to you um you're stuck in negative thinking and you're wondering like well why isn't the spirituality stuff working well maybe it's not working simply because you don't have the health and the chemical layer figured out your brain is not clean your brain is toxic when your brain is toxic you can't even sit in focus for five minutes and a lot of spiritual teachers won't tell you this they act as those like oh well just meditate harder and self-inquire a little bit harder and you'll figure it out you're just kind of being lazy or something no maybe you're not just being lazy maybe there's actually a problem with your brain maybe there's a problem with your body maybe there's a problem with your hormonal system maybe there's a problem with these anti-psychedelics remember heavy metals are like anti-psychedelics they are retarding the massive interconnectedness that is necessary within your mind and brain in order to have the highest realizations about the nature of self other and reality and love and god and so consider that as a very important factor and finally if you're interested in the studies that i've been talking about go to youtube check the description box below and you will find links to all of that all right good luck take 100 responsibility for whether you're going to apply this protocol and i wish you the best of health and then once you get your health sorted out then come on back to me and we'll talk about how to figure out your um self-actualization work and your inner work your consciousness work and ultimately get you to realize god and love and all that beautiful stuff you