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www.AbbysHealthFood.com | # 45 | Page 19 five to 10 minutes. If you're really, really ill, you'd want to start with a low amount and then slowly work your way up; like maybe each week add a couple of minutes to your sessions. You ought to do what works for you. It doesn't ma er what I say or what I recommend. I want you to listen to your body and do what works for you. If you start to feel nauseated, lightheaded or unwell in any way, it's me to get out of the sauna." Dry brushing your skin prior to the sauna is also helpful as it will get your lymph moving. Then, as soon as you get out of the sauna, be sure to shower right away. The last thing you want is for those excreted toxins to dry out on your body a er you've sweated them out. I will typically jump into my pool right a erward. The water being a cool mid- 40s in the winter to 80s in the summer, it gives me the added advantage of cold thermogenesis in the winter, but also helps remove the toxins excreted through the skin in my sweat. Also be sure to use some kind of binder when detoxing in a sauna. You need something to mop up all the toxins mobilized from your ssues to keep them from your vital organs. The Importance of Magnesium Myers also has an online program called "Mineral Power," which focuses on replenishing minerals lost during the detoxifica on process. "There's always a cost to any kind of detox protocol you do," Myers says... But the benefits far outweigh the cost. We're willing to sacrifice some minerals for the benefits. But there are other minerals, like magnesium, which 80 percent of people are es mated to be deficient in. Magnesium is incredibly important to facilitate all of your body's enzyma c processes, your metabolism… including facilita ng detoxifica on." Earlier I men oned the importance of avoiding EMF as it affects your voltage- gated calcium channels. In studies on calcium channel blockers, researchers discovered these medica ons mi gated and nearly eliminated the EMF effects. Now, magnesium is a calcium channel blocker, which means that not only will magnesium help your detoxifica on process if you're deficient, but it may also remediate some of the inevitable EMF exposure we're all subject to. "I can't tell you how many clients have told me that they just started taking magnesium alone and they start feeling be er within a week or so," Myers notes. "I had the same experience when I did my first hair ssue mineral analysis a long me ago. I started taking magnesium. I couldn't believe how much be er I was feeling. I had to become a prac oner and tell more people about this, about the importance of minerals." The Importance of Zinc Zinc is another important mineral required for detoxifica on. Minerals help push out metals, as many metals bind to receptors that would normally be occupied by minerals. When you're deficient, metals can easily take the minerals' righ ul place. Zinc helps push out cadmium, a metal that causes more cancers than all of the other metals combined. Myers explains: "This is why cigare e smokers get cancer. It's why my dad got esophageal cancer. He smoked for 40 years… You get cadmium from cigare es… our environment air… shellfish and fish. It's not only mercury that's in fish. It's cadmium as well. Cadmium interferes when DNA copies. When a cell mul plies or divides, cadmium interferes in the DNA copying properly, so you get this mutated cell. We have about 100 million cancer cells in our body at any one me. But if your immune system is malfunc oning, say it's damaged by metals, EMF or it's nutrient-deficient or just doesn't have the energy to func on, that's when that mutated cell caused by cadmium will be allowed to grow and manifest into a tumor, be it malignant or benign. That's the mechanism by which cadmium causes cancer." Cadmium is also a significant contributor to hardening of the arteries. If you are zinc deficient, your body is forced to accumulate cadmium to repair the arteries. However, cadmium is hard and bri le, so when it deposits into your arteries, it reduces the arteries' ability to expand and to contract, thereby contribu ng to high blood pressure and heart disease. This is also the mechanism by which smoking leads to heart disease. The good news is you can reverse this process by taking proac ve steps to remove cadmium from your system. It is a slow, long process, however. Other Important Minerals Other important minerals include: • Selenium. Most people have insufficient levels of selenium, and you need this mineral to repair chromosome damage. Selenium is also needed for the conversion of thyroid hormone, from T4 to T3. You need it to make glutathione in your body — a master an oxidant made by your liver that is important for heavy metal detoxifica on. Selenium also prevents viral replica on, and helps detoxify arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, mercury and silver. The daily recommended dose is 200 micrograms (mcg) per day. • Potassium, while not a primary detox mineral, does help push out thallium. • Iodine can also be beneficial. Thyroid disease is extremely common, especially in those drinking fluoridated water, as fluoride displaces iodine. Chlorine and bromine also displaces iodine, and they too are added to your water supply and/or food. Iodine helps push out halogens that compete with iodine uptake in the thyroid. To facilitate detoxifica on of halogens, you will need to take much higher amounts of iodine than typically recommended for general health. All these supplements are classified as Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS), so there are no toxicity concerns. One excep on is selenium. You do not want to take excessive amounts of it, and it has a very low therapeu c ra o. So, don't take more than the recommended 200 mcg per day. More is not be er in this case.

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