Toxic Metals and Heart Health

TOXIC METALS AND HEART HEALTH

A recent study in 2019 entitled: Environmental toxic metal contaminants and risk of cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis published in the British Medical Journal showed the role that toxic metals and heart health are related.

The study was a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies investigating the association of arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury, and copper with cardiovascular disease.

Studies reporting risk estimates for total cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke for levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury, or copper were included in the meta-analysis.

These findings highlight the need to tackle the problem of heavy metal exposure, which can occur through the environment or in certain jobs. The problem mostly affects people in low- and middle-income countries but can also affect those in high-income countries, the researchers said.

“It’s clear from our analysis that there’s a possible link between exposure to heavy metals or metalloids and risk of conditions such as heart disease, even at low doses — and the greater the exposure, the greater the risk,” lead study author Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury, an associate professor in global health at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, said in a statement.

In the new meta-analysis, the researchers analyzed information from 37 previous studies of heavy metal exposure involving nearly 350,000 people in more than a dozen countries. These studies assessed exposure to heavy metals through various means, including examining levels in drinking water; urine and blood samples; and toenail or hair clippings.

Overall, people with higher exposure levels to arsenic, lead, cadmium and copper were about 30 to 80 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, compared with those with lower exposures.

Arsenic, lead, cadmium and copper were all tied to an increased risk of coronary heart disease, while lead and cadmium exposure also increased the risk of stroke.

What’s more, the researchers found a linear relationship between the dose of heavy metal exposure and the risk of heart disease, meaning that higher exposure was tied to higher risk and lower exposure was tied to lower risk. But there was no clear threshold at which the link disappeared, suggesting that even low doses pose some risk of heart disease.

Accumulation of toxic metals in the body can lead to metal poisoning and what’s known as oxidative stress, said study co-author Sara Shahzad, also of the University of Cambridge.

As the body uses oxygen, it produces by-products called free radicals that can damage cells and tissues. The damage by oxygen free radicals is known as oxidative stress.

“Oxidative stress is essentially an imbalance between the production of free radicals and the ability of the body to counteract or detoxify their harmful effects through neutralization by antioxidants,” Shahzad said by email. “This can consequently affect the cardiovascular and nervous systems, kidneys, eyes and brain.”

Check your heavy metal levels

If you have concerns about your level of heavy metals there is now a simple Hair Tissue Analysis that you can do to determine a number of heavy metals that are circulating in your blood, as well as a full mineral profile.

Eliminating Heavy Metals Naturally

Reading this article, one can conclude that heavy metals are everywhere and very difficult to completely avoid these days – however careful we are with our food choices. The relationship with heart disease which is a huge cause of death is also interesting.

In order to prevent free radical damage from toxic metals, it is important to undertake a natural toxic metal detox. The question, is what is the best choice as there are so many detox products on the market?

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This can be used by all the family and there are also children’s dosages too.

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