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Nutrient-Toxic Metal Antagonisms
Mineral Tolerance: Understanding the Symptoms of Healing
Cadmium has a stimulant like effect that artificially raises sodium levels on a hair test and thus increases the adrenal gland function. It’s not that zinc makes people tired. But instead, that it encourages the detoxification of cadmium. The detoxification of cadmium, makes people fatigued.
Biological Replacement of Elements Theory
The basic premise of the Biological Replacement of Elements Theory is that the body has a preference for the elements which it uses for optimal biological functions. The body is intelligent and goal-orientated and the accumulation of toxic elements in the tissues occurs for a reason or purpose…
…When the preferred elements are not available through the diet, the body makes compensations by substituting the shortcoming with a less preferred, so-called toxic, element to maintain biological functions and to sustain homeostasis.