James L Flowers¹, Stewart A Lonky², Erik J Deitsch³

¹Eno Research and Development, Inc., Hillsborough, NC, USA; ²University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; ³Wellness Industries, LLC, Parkland, FL USA

Abstract: Effective treatment of chronic illness resulting from the long-term buildup of heavy metals in the body, such as chelation therapy, presents numerous clinical challenges, including undesirable side effects and unpredictable efficacy.

Use of a naturally occurring zeolite, clinoptilolite, to remove these toxic substances may offer an efficacious and safe alternative to the traditional approaches. This study was designed to evaluate the ability of activated clinoptilolite suspended in water (ACS) to remove heavy metals from the body through urinary excretion without the undesirable removal of physiologically important electrolytes.

The protocol utilized two treatment groups, each consisting of eleven healthy men aged 36 to 70 years. Volunteers were given a commercially available version of the study substance for seven days (Group 1) and 30 days (Group 2) and urine samples were collected at specified time points in the study. Changes in urinary concentration of the heavy metals were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and compared to the baseline.

Also, serum samples were obtained from five individuals in each group and serum electrolytes were measured prior to and after taking the product. Participants in both groups had increased concentrations of heavy metals in the urine with the peak excretion at around day 4. No clinically significant alterations in serum electrolyte levels were seen at either seven or 30 days on ACS. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that the daily use of an activated clinoptilolite suspension represents a potentially safe and effective way to remove toxic heavy metals from the body through increased urinary excretion without removing clinically detrimental amounts of vital electrolytes.

We’ll get to that later.

Whatever school of thought you’re in related to autism, or whichever traditional or alternative treatments you’ve read about or tried, there is hope.

Zeolite: That’s the word we’re talking about.

While there has been a significant increase over the past few years in the successful treatment of autism patients using chelators (substances that remove heavy metals from the body–metal toxicity suggests relation to autism), a more potent, natural geological chelator called zeolite, has shown extremely promising results.

A new study, published on May 15, 2007 in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health by Geier and Geier, clearly suggests there is a direct causal link between mercury exposure from Thimerosal-preserved vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Thimerosal (49.55% mercury by weight) is a highly toxic mercury compound used as a preservative in some OTC and prescription drugs, including most flu shots given to pregnant women, infants, children, adults, and the elderly.

In the June 2007 issue of the same journal, a study by J. B. Adams, titled “Mercury, Lead, and Zinc in Baby Teeth of Children with Autism Versus Controls” was published. According to the authors, “Children with autism have 3 times as much mercury in their baby teeth.” They continue with a recommendation: “…Removal of heavy metals may help reduce autistic symptoms, especially in young children.” The supplement is purified clinoptilolite, a type of zeolite, suspended in solution.

Zeolite is produced when lava meets ocean water. It is one of the few negatively charged minerals in nature, and has a microscopic honeycomb-like crystalline structure of cavities and cages. Waste water studies show that this structure has the ability to attract, trap, bind and remove various heavy metals and toxins such as mercury, lead and arsenic.

In fact, zeolite products, in one form or another, have been safely used for years to clean tainted drinking water (for example, at the Chernobyl disaster site). Zeolite molecular sieves are on the FDA’s GRAS List (Generally Recognized As Safe), and are harmlessly excreted from body after they’ve done their work. Zeolite filters waste and toxins harmlessly out of the body, naturally.

One particular website, zeoliteautismstudy.com , contains links to several case studies and anecdotal evidence supporting zeolite products. The site gives information about an upcoming study on children with autism, using this particular zeolite product (though at the manufacturer’s request, they’ve taken the name of the zeolite product from the site).

We live in society that’s growing more poison with each passing day. What else could explain the surge in cases of autism? Most experts agree on the toxicity factor when it comes to the disease.

There is hope! Read the many testimonies and case studies: the condition that we once thought to be a life-sentence may be on the horizon of a new frontier!

About the Author:

Angela L.Smith is a freelance writer and reporter who researches health issues and alternative treatments that affect us all. Visit her blog at http://www.zeolitequeen.com/blog , or e-mail her at angiesmith74@gmail.com .

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Zeolite Product May be Autism’s Last Stand

[To satisfy the manufacturer's marketing policies, all brand references in this article have been changed to generic terms.]

Toxins poison our air, our water, our food , and our bodies. According to the EPA, 70,000 chemicals are used commercially in the U.S., 65,000 of which are potentially hazardous to our health. The Environmental Defense Council reports that more than four billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment each year, including 72 million pounds of known carcinogens.

Cancer fatalities account for approximately 12 percent of all deaths worldwide each year. Across the globe, 10.9 million people are diagnosed with cancer annually and 6.7 million die because of it. According to the World Health Organization, global cancer rates could increase by 50 percent in the next 15 years. The U.S. ranks in the top three countries with the highest cancer rate in both men and women.

The toxic onslaught doesn’t stop with carcinogens. A joint study by Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Commonweal, and the Environmental Working Group in 2003 identified a total of 167 hazardous compounds in the blood and urine of American adults (with an average of 91 per person tested), including 76 known to cause cancer, 94 that are toxic to the nervous system, 82 that damage the lungs, 86 that affect hormone function, and 79 that cause birth defects. A study by the Environmental Working Group in 2004 found a total of 287 industrial chemicals in babies’ umbilical-cord blood, including 180 known to cause cancer, 217 that are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 that cause birth or developmental defects in animals.

As many as 25 percent of Americans are estimated to suffer from some degree of heavy metal poisoning, particularly from mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic. We are also exposed to a significant amount of radiation and increasing viral attacks. Our immune systems are further compromised by poor nutrition and unhealthy lifestyles, and most of us suffer from an excessively acidic pH level, which creates an internal environment in which cancer – as well as viral, bacterial, and fungal infections – can thrive.

In my work to develop a detoxification system for prospective mothers to enable them to bring non-toxic babies into the world, I have searched for a simple, natural remedy that could serve as a practical antidote for toxicity. Recently , I learned about zeolite, a naturally occurring, negatively charged mineral, with a unique crystalline structure. Zeolite is formed from the fusion of volcanic lava and ocean water, and combines the four elements – air, earth, water, and fire. It has been used for 800 years throughout Asia as a traditional remedy to promote overall health and well-being, and for 30 years in the U.S. in animal feed. It has also undergone 13 years of pharmaceutical research in the U.S. with humans. Zeolite is included on the Food and Drug Administration’s GRAS list (generally recognized as safe) and thus is considered to be “completely safe.”

A biochemist from a small pharmaceutical company in Ohio researched and purified zeolite, was amazed by its potential, and was granted a patent (U.S. #6,288,045). That patent is now held by a nutritional and research biochemist, who leases it to the company that markets purified zeolite.

Zeolite may well be one of the most potent natural preventatives and treatments for cancer ever discovered. LifeLink Pharmaceuticals recently completed a preliminary, 14-month, open-label study of 65 level-four, terminal-stage cancer patients. These people had various types of cancer, and all of them had been sent home to die. After taking purified zeolite, 51 of them (78 percent) experienced complete remission, which means that their cancer disappeared. This preliminary research suggests that purified and activated zeolite may be effective in treating all forms of cancer, leukemia, and lymphoma.

Zeolite’s mechanism of action against cancer cells is unique and unlike that of any other substance I have studied. Theoretically, it has the rare ability to take in a tremendous amount of positively charged toxins, indirectly neutralizing their effect in causing cancer. In the process, the zeolite develops a slight positive charge. It is then attracted to and pulled right into the negatively charged membrane of the cancer cell. When the zeolite moves inside the cancer cell, the cell’s P21 gene is activated. This gene acts as a tumor suppressor through its ability to control cell-cycle progression. The activation of P21 appears to halt the growth of tumors by directly suppressing growth signals.

During in-vitro studies using zeolite, all cancer cells tested were destroyed within 72 hours (LifeLink Pharmaceuticals, U.S. Patent #6288045, 2001). This is a claim that cannot be made about any other substance. However, because it is still in the preliminary research phase, it is too soon to declare that zeolite is a cure for cancer.
What we can say is that zeolite has a chelation-like effect in removing heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, and other positively charged toxins from the system. Zeolite’s negatively charged crystalline structure is what makes this possible. Its crystals act as “cages,” inside of which are positive ions. These positive ions switch places with positively charged toxins in the body, tightly bind them, and excrete them completely. One of the benefits of binding toxins in this manner is that they are 100 percent excreted. Heavy metals, pesticides, and herbicides all leave the system; they do not get deposited elsewhere in the body. Forty percent of zeolite binds heavy metals in the gastrointestinal tract, and 60 percent binds toxins in the bloodstream and at the cellular level. Zeolite’s binding power was proven during the Chernobyl disaster, when tons of it were used to remove radioactive cesium and strontium-90 before they contaminated local water systems. Acting primarily as a chelator, zeolite trapped these radioactive minerals within its crystalline cage structure.

Zeolite appears to remove toxins from the body in a hierarchical order. It first acts strongly to remove lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic. This first phase may take one to four weeks or longer. Zeolite then removes second-priority toxins, including pesticides, herbicides, and plastics. Zeolite appears to increase the rate of glucuronization in the liver, activating phase II of the glucuronidase function. This in turn removes pesticides, herbicides, and xeno-estrogens from the body, releasing them through the urine. Interestingly, it also appears to neutralize the aflatoxin poison.

A third function of zeolite is to trap pre-virus components, preventing the replication of viruses and their ability to make us sick. In this way, zeolite may play an important role as a broad-spectrum anti-viral. Viruses are produced in parts as on a production line, at the end of which the virus is fully constructed. Zeolite absorbs viral parts into the pores of the micronized zeolite aggregates (not into the chelating-like cages described above). This explains why zeolite seems to block the development of many viral infections , including herpes virus 1, coxsachie virus B-5, ecco-virus 7, and adeno virus 5. Forty anecdotal cases of herpes zoster have reportedly been cured, with sufferers becomingpain-free in one to three days after beginning to take zeolite. Anecdotal testimony also reports that it is effective in alleviating or curing the flu, colds, hepatitis C, viral or heavy-metal induced multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Zeolite’s effect as an anti-viral appears to be a preventative function that builds up over time, beginning after approximately four to six weeks of use, when heavy metals, pesticides, and herbicides have been mostly eliminated. There is anecdotal evidence, however, that in some cases its anti-viral effect seems to be immediate.

Zeolite also is a unique antioxidant. A traditional antioxidant works by absorbing excess free radicals into its system because it has an unpaired electron. In contrast, zeolite traps free radicals in its complex structure, inactivating and eliminating them. In this way, it acts as a complement to traditional antioxidants.

In addition, zeolite buffers the system towards slight alkalinity by establishing pH levels of 7.35 to 7.45, which is the optimum pH for the human body. The body’s pH level influences both immunity and brain function. An acid blood pH (7.34 or lower) creates a precondition for cancer. In an acid environment, brain cell function can also be impaired, causing depression, anxiety, stupor, paranoia, delusions, hallucinations, or even psychosis.

Zeolite also appears to balance the immune system , either up- or down-regulating it as needed. Although the precise mechanism for this is not entirely understood, this function is clearly very important in a world in which most people’s immune systems are seriously compromised.

Because zeolite so powerfully removes various types of toxins from the body, it naturally increases energy and well-being. Users report improvements in mental clarity and a sense of peace, wellness, and happiness. These are what we term positive secondary effects. For example, clearing out heavy metals allows the body’s magnesium stores to work efficiently with adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the biological source of energy in the body. When this interaction is occurring optimally, people have more energy and experience greater well-being. One study has demonstrated that zeolite also appears to increase serotonin level, which is known to help alleviate some forms of depression.

Zeolite shows promise as an effective detoxifier for women who plan to become pregnant . Recently, at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, it was added to the protocol for the 10-day detoxification program for prospective mothers. In two women who just completed the program, toxins in their breast tissue dropped significantly – from 12 in one and 13 in the other to only two – in seven days. Toxins in their liver and brain tissue also dropped to an average of only two.

Based on centuries of use in Asia and anecdotal accounts of its use by pregnant women, zeolite appears to be safe even for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. However, its safe use in pregnancy has not been tested in double-blind studies, and no claims for safe use in pregnancy can be made.

Zeolite is commercially available in a purified and activated form. There are no reports of side effects, except one: because of its natural action to absorb water, zeolite can cause dehydration. It is therefore important to drink sufficient water (approximately eight glasses a day) both before and while taking zeolite to ensure adequate hydration.

There is only one contraindication: Zeolite is contraindicated for anyone taking a medication containing heavy metals, such as lithium, or containing platinum, which is found in some cancer medications. Before taking Zeolite, check with your doctor to determine if your medication contains heavy metals or platinum.

Dosage: The product with zeolite is a clear, tasteless, and odorless liquid. The general adult dosage is 10 drops three times a day. It can be taken with or away from meals. As a support for cancer prevention or as an addition to a cancer treatment program, 15 drops three to four times a day is recommended. Zeolite remains active in the body for five to seven hours, and then needs to be replenished. After four to six weeks of use (at 10 drops three times a day), a maintenance dosage of three to five drops three times a day can be taken, with the amount increased if ever there is a viral, chemical, or other exposure. Children can be given two drops, three times a day, as a general dose.

Higher doses of 15 drops, three times a day, require about four bottles a month. Doses of 10 drops, three times a day, require about three bottles a month. And the maintenance dosage of three drops, three times a day, requires one bottle a month.

I take this natural product with zeolite, and I feel that everyone living in the industrial world should be taking it on a regular basis. This product is very different from supplements that add to well-being, but are not essential. Zeolite is simple, elegant, extraordinary, and vital for healthy living in today’s toxic world. I believe this most unique, natural substance is an alchemical gift from God to help us face our present-day health challenges due to ecological ignorance or, as they are called in Ayurveda, prajna prathara or crimes against nature.

I bless you all.
May your health, and joy, and awareness continue to improve as we heal ourselves and the planet.

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Gabriel Cousens M.D. is author of many books, including Conscious Eating, and is the founder of the Tree of Life, a world-renowned health clinic located in Patagonia, Arizona, United States.

©2006 Gabriel Cousens

Source: LiquidZeolite.org – a Review by Gabriel Cousens M.D.

Usually we treat that with nutritional support and traditional chelators. The introduction of liquid activated zeolite into my practice has radically transformed the outcome of many of these cases and also my whole level of enthusiasm and excitement in treating these children and being able to offer the parents a highly effective detoxifying agent that has such an incredible safety profile.

It has truly surpassed all my expectations. It is just a magnificent tool in this particular setting and in many other settings. This is not about treating a particular condition.

In fact I think it’s very wrong to think of liquid zeolite as being applied to any particular disease. It is a spectacularly effective detoxification agent and has usefulness in virtually every chronic disease .

I believe toxicity plays a part in the pathology of practically every chronic disease and to that extent, liquid zeolite can be a marvelous tool in helping people recover. In conditions where toxicity is primarily the concerns like developmental issues, it is spectacularly effective .

There was a follow up that I saw this morning, a four year old boy who I began working with at the beginning of February, and at that time he was still in diapers, was totally non-communicative, was grinding his teeth and temper-tantruming on an extremely regular basis.

I started him on some nutrients and liquid zeolite and within three days of starting the liquid zeolite, he was potty trained. Which completely blew his parents away, and me as well.

Over the next six weeks his speech literally exploded, his spontaneous emotional expression exploded, he came into my office today asking a whole raft of different questions, including “why’s”. He wanted to know “why this, why that” all of which indicates normal cognitive function was really starting up in him.

His temperament was vastly improved, his teeth grinding had completely resolved. His appetite and digestion had improved, it was just a truly spectacular response. Not every child responds in that spectacular a way, but certainly there’s an across-the-board response to this product in that group of children that I haven’t ever seen with any other single product.

I have another lady that I followed up with this week who was diagnosed six weeks ago with metastatic pancreatic carcinoma and it was involved in her spine, in her lymph nodes and her liver.

When she came in six weeks ago she was feeling very run down, and had a tremendous amount of back pain which is a characteristic and ominous sign of pancreatic cancer .

One month later she walked into my office full of energy. Her complexion looked great, her energy and mood was great and she had no back pain. Now, her story is certainly not over, but nonetheless there’s pretty convincing clinical evidence that her condition has improved tremendously and the only thing that she has been doing in that month is taking liquid zeolite.

So there’s two follow-ups I had this week that were both pretty impressive and powerful testimonies to the incredible ability this product has to pull toxins out of the body , and allow the natural healing mechanisms to operate fully and freely and the results speak for themselves .

With typical chelators, you simply do not see the quality of the response that I’ve been seeing with liquid zeolite. These kids seem to respond much more quickly and much more fully than with traditional chelating agents. It’s really a pleasure to use and it’s almost a delight to have a new child come in because I know that I have something that’s truly going to help this child in all likelihood. Previously there were things I could do and things that would help the children, but nothing to this extent. I would say that it is the most powerful tool that I have in my clinical arsenal to help this group of children.

At this point, I cannot think of a single child (out of 40) that I have used the liquid zeolite with, who has not responded to some degree.

This latest generation of children is probably the sickest generation of children in American history . The number of allergies, the incidence of asthma, diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, developmental issues and chronic conditions of every sort has literally mushroomed in this last generation. When you see this type of global, multi-faceted deterioration in the level of health in an entire generation – 30% of these children are on some kind of chronic medication – that is clearly an indication of tremendous environmental toxicity that’s impacted these children tremendously.

Liquid Zeolite is probably the single most effective agent that can favorably influence every single one of these conditions . This product is probably the single most valuable tool that a physician or a parent can use to help recover the health of their children .

I understand that that’s a very big statement to say, and I’m certainly not saying it glibly.

I truly believe that this product is a godsend and something that is vitally necessary for us to start recovering our health.

Systemic toxicity is probably responsible for 90% or more of all of the illnesses that doctors see in their offices every single day. There’s not a person on this planet who does not have some kind of ailment that is the result of some kind of toxicity.

Every single human being on this planet would benefit from taking liquid zeolite. I have not the slightest doubt about that and every condition that you could possibly mention in my opinion would benefit to some degree from reducing the toxic burden."

Dr. Peter Prociuk, M.D.
Homeopathic Physician
Pennsylvania

We are exposed on a daily basis to levels of toxins that would likely have killed our ancestors. Recent studies have shown that 100% of the people tested had 27 toxins present in their bodies, doing God knows what long term damage.

This runaway toxicity we are living with daily is taking it’s toll on our bodies in ways that you might not expect or believe. The air we breathe, the water we drink and the foods we eat all contain some levels of heavy metals, and when they build up, bad things happen.

The presence of heavy metals and toxins in our bodies has been linked to:

Fibromyalgia Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Lupus Osteo-Arthritis Rhemumatoid Arthritis Diabetes Autism and Aspergers Syndrome

ADD/ADHD Alzheimers Disease Heart Disease Dementia Obesity Cancer Many More

Mercury is not only one of the most toxic heavy metals that we can have in our bodies, but modern dentistry still uses it in amalgam fillings, foolishly believing that small amounts are safe despite mounting evidence to the contrary.  Don’t despair, however, if you do have amalgam fillings. They can easily be replaced over time with plastic or porcelain ones, and liquid zeolite can be used to effectively and efficiently remove even the tiniest traces of mercury that has leached into our bodies. (The other major source of mercury toxicity is tinned tuna and swordfish.)

Zeolite is a volcanic mineral that removes heavy metals and toxins from the body. It has a unique and complex crystalline structure that looks like a honeycomb and works like a magnet trapping toxins at the cellular level.

Zeolite is naturally negatively charged, so when ingested into your body, all of the positively charged heavy metals, toxins and harmful chemicals bond with the zeolite at the cellular level and are flushed out of the system naturally. A daily regimine of the Original Zeolite, Waiora’s Natural Cellular Defense will keep your system clean and operating effeciently, allowing your natural immune system to function as it’s supposed to.

Therefore, the safety of any particular brand of liquid zeolite will depend upon:

• How the zeolite is cleaned and processed
• The safety of any chemicals or other substances that are added during manufacture
• Cleanliness of the actual manufacturing site or laboratory.

The first category of liquid zeolite to strike off your shopping list is probably the ones containing humic acid. The reason for this is that raw material humic acid is extracted from the soil and tends to have a very high bacterial and fungal content. Much of these microorganisms are removed during manufacture but certainly not all, and two different companies trading humic acid varieties of liquid zeolite have already been closed down because of this issue.

Apparently, the real danger is not so much the bacterial contamination but the fungal contamination. So if you insist on buying humic acid based liquid zeolite, insist on third-party lab bacterial and fungal analysis. If the company doesn’t have one or delays in giving it to you, walk away.

Your health is more important.

We have seen third-party safety analysis of NCD brand liquid zeolite and the other leading liquid zeolite brand which is manufactured differently for the US market and the UK market (we will publish this online shortly). NCD and the US version of the alternative brand both had very low (<10) bacterial and yeast mold counts, although the latter had a trace of sodium benzoate in it which is a preservative. The UK version of the alternative liquid zeolite brand had a bacterial count of 147 and a yeast mold count of 283, but these are still considered low and safe to take. (For a more detailed comparison of zeolite brands, visit the brands section of this website.)

At this stage, from all the evidence that we have seen, we have to say that we have most confidence in the NCD brand of liquid zeolite. And whilst we will be publishing here comparative analyses shortly, we have the following NCD safety document for this particular product.