I am interested in learning more about environmental toxins and their
effect on our kids.

Ashley, here are the last three paragraphs from a recent IMVA publication. I
am sure some people will just love the languaging in the closing sentences
and others no.

Mark

EPA experts acknowledge that there are tools available today that can
measure the toxic dangers in any locality, and they are finding mercury
everywhere. Studies have shown, for example, that breast milk of Inuit
mothers reveals some of the highest levels of modern chemical poisons
recorded anywhere. How do these chemicals get to pristine areas in the
Arctic Circle? Chemicals from industrial smokestacks are disseminated into
the air and from there; clouds carry these carcinogenic leftovers from
plastic manufacturing such as dioxins, PCBs and mercury into every crack and
crevice of the earth.



We have reached a milestone in human history. Awaiting each and every
child born on the planet is a life doomed to being poisoned. Since we cannot
detoxify all of the many chemicals we inhale and digest every day, they
bioaccumulate in our tissues. There is an army of heavy metals and other
highly dangerous substances in our environment now. Cadmium, aluminum,
antimony, lead, and arsenic in addition to mercury are some of the heavy
metals added to the food chain by industrial discharges, pesticide runoff,
incinerator emissions, manufacturing smokestacks, as well as from aviation,
auto and commercial vehicle exhaust. We concentrate on mercury because it is
the most potent and destructive heavy metal though they all act, in the
presense of each other, to amplify the toxicity of each other.



Though many of us can, through enlightened reasoning, protect our
children from the vaccine barbarians and the dental terrorists, who have the
audacity to plant mercury a few inches from their patients brains, we have
limited choices when it comes to mercury in the air our children breathe, in
the water they drink and in many of the foods they eat. There is a great
rising tide of mercury and many other toxic chemical substances and the only
answer we now have is individual treatment. Detoxification and chelation are
the key concepts in medicine and healthcare in the 21st century.