Hidden Toxicities In Your Cells Are Making You Sick | HOMe Podcast Special Episode

Jup Kuipers (0:00)

Toxicities accumulate over maybe a decade already, and you don't have to start optimizing your health or correcting these deficiencies and solid toxicities when symptoms arise. But you can already do it years before and measure these metabolites that aren't traditionally seen as like a clinical toxicity, but are slowly damaging all your cells with all these downstream effects, all these different organ systems.

Scott Sherr (0:33)

Welcome back everybody to the Health Optimization Medicine Podcast. We're your hosts, Dr. Yuff, Dr. Ted, Dr. Allen, and myself, Dr. Scott. Today, we're going to talk about how what's toxic to the cell is toxic to every organ. This is such an important piece for all of you listening.

There's a foundation that everything lies on, and Dr. Ted saw this in clinical practice very, very amazingly and terribly with one of your visions.

Ted Achacoso (0:59)

I had a patient, late 60s, and he suddenly collapsed and was brought to the emergency room.

I told them that that looks like an acute exacerbation of a subclinical mercury poisoning because I have been monitoring his mercury levels over the past few months.

And being a very, very important person, he had a lot of specialists. So during the time, he manifested several things.

He manifested itchiness of the skin, right? Which is, of course, unknown to the dermatologist.

Actually not to the dermatologist, but didn't bother to measure it. That's not benign. Yes. And so there was that one specialty that was consulted. And then he started having premature ventricular contractions. And so had a cardiologist. And the cardiologist actually at the end point recommended ablation. Then he had two neurologists, right? One for muscle weakness, and the other one is for electrical conductivity testing. So those are by two neurologists. So you could see here already an entire group of specialists. The dermatologist was just saying pruritus, right? And then the cardiologist said, you know, PBCs, blah, blah. Neurologist said, you know, well, this is just, you know, weakness from old age and so on. And when he went to the emergency room, I actually sent all the testing data. I said, this is, you know, an acute disarmation of his subclinical mercury. It was ignored, right? All the specialists were called. And then when, what's nice is that some of the specialists, especially the cardiologist, when I spoke to him, I said, you know, this can be all covered by mercury toxicity here at these levels. And he actually said, you know what? I take back my recommendation for an ablation and so on. He said, because all of these signs and symptoms they're having are actually due to mercury toxicity. Right? So at least there's one shining light over there. And what I had to do was I actually had to take the, and the toxicologist was called LAS and told me, you know, I am the last person to be called in these kinds of cases. So it's actually quite interesting, the kind of medical care that we have right now. And I actually, since the hospital had no experience in actually detoxing a patient from, from mercury, I, the patient had been taken home and I had to actually create a protocol for the elimination of as much mercury as I could, right? Which took several sessions. But that shows you how not monitoring for our heavy metals, you know, in our, in our blood, they can accumulate there. And so, you know, and illness medicine will look at it from their own special lens. And they're not wrong with their diagnosis. It's just they're wrong with, with the etiology of the disease, right? Here you hit one and you hit everything else. And that's the, there's a sad story of what we have right now in terms of heavy metal toxicity.

Scott Sherr (4:23)

And Allen, you see this on a regular basis in the year, right? When somebody comes in with a syndrome or some symptoms, what do you typically do?

Allen Bookatz (4:33)

Well, fortunately, in the ER, we're not really cast with figuring out what's actually going on with them. It's just stabilize the airway, the breathing, the circulation, and any systems that are immediate threat. And then we hand it off to someone who's much smarter than us. And then unfortunately, those people that we're handing it off to are specialists, and they look at it through their own lens, and they're trying to ask, what can we do? Right? So it might be a cardiologist saying, the heart is having irritability.

Let's singe, burn off the pathways that are causing it to be more irritable. The kidneys might be failing, so let's put them on dialysis and replace that. Those aren't wrong. From learning from Dr. Ted, and going through the Health Optimization Modules, and the more I change my frame of reference, when I do see a constellation of symptoms, yes, it's important we treat the organ that is being affected, that is a threat. But we can also sit back and go, all right, how did they get here in the first place? So actually a good example that more on an acute time frame, we had this lady who came in and she had itching of the skin, she had strange rashes that were showing up, she had a waxing and waning cognition that was-