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Thomas Nissen N.D.
The Influence of Heavy Metals on the Biological Terrain
What is Biological Terrain?
The biological terrain refers to the vital balance of biochemistry and biophysics that determines the ideal environment for cellular function and therefore maximum health. It is the internal environment of the body. This all relates to the fact that a virus, bacteria or fungus (and optimal health) can only thrive in specific environmental conditions conducive to their development.
Every living thing needs a very specific terrain in order to survive. Healthy bacteria in some other terrain, multiply into pathological germs; viruses in turn need a terrain that is completely different from the bacterial disease-causing agents.
The idea of a biological terrain began over one hundred years ago in France, where two French doctors were debating the cause of sickness and disease.
Louis Pasteur, the father of inoculation, held to the theory that microbes were the only culprits, whereas Claude Bernard believed that pathogens and disease occurred when the biological terrain was disturbed / de-stabilised / when an imbalance was present in the biological terrain. Unfortunately, Pasteur’s theory prevailed and is prominent in mainstream medicine today. On his deathbed, however, Pasteur admitted that “Bernard was right; the pathogen is nothing; the terrain is everything.” The prevalence of viral illnesses like SARS and West Nile combined with the greatest microbial resistance to antibiotics ever seen leads us to seriously question the validity of Pasteur’s approach. After all, pathogens must not be allowed to prevail over humanity!
A good gardener knows the importance of well-balanced soil; if a healthy plant is transplanted to poor, demineralised or highly-acidic soil, it will weaken and fail to thrive. Likewise, if a weak plant is transplanted to good soil, it will flourish and produce fruit. When a plant is doing poorly, the gardener tries to fortify it, not by removing the undesirable elements from the soil it is growing in, but by adding essential nourishment that enriches it.
Jean-Claude Vincent, a contemporary of Pasteur and Bernard, was a hydrologist who tested the quality of French water sources. In performing over ten thousand tests, Vincent drew parallels between the quality of the water and the health of those who drank it. By 1936, he stated that “Death tolls and disorders of all sorts, namely Tuberculoses, Cardio-vascular troubles and Cancers are directly related to the quality of the water delivered to the population.” Vincent eventually refined the results of his water tests into three parameters:
1. The pH, or proton concentration (acid /alkaline)
2. The rH2, or electron concentration (oxidized / reduced)
3. The ‘r’ (resistivity) or the mineral concentration.
According to the value of these parameters, water could be categorized as perfect, too acidic, too alkaline, too oxidized or too reduced, with either too high or too low a mineral concentration. (See table 1)
If water is too alkaline, it becomes the perfect terrain for brown algae and the proliferation of bacteria. Chlorinated water is completely oxidized and is no longer rich in electrons. Someone drinking such water on a regular basis is, in effect, drinking ‘dead’ water.
Since our bodies are 80% water, in applying the same parameters we can thus analyze our individual biological terrains. (See table 2)
If the pH is balanced (neither too acidic nor too basic), the body is not too oxidized (loss of electrons), too reduced (too many electrons) and the mineral count is well-balanced, we call this perfect health.
It has been established that ideal pH for humans is around 7.0. When the body is too acidic, the kidneys don’t fully function and digestion is sluggish. All bio-chemical processes are slowed and chronic inflammation sets in. If the pH is normal, there are no chronic illnesses. In other words, chronic illness only develops if the terrain that is too acid or alkaline.
What Affects Our Biological Terrain?
Based on personal experience, there are two major causes. The first is a combination of emotional stress and poor diet (too much sugar, caffeine and simple carbohydrates; not enough live food). The second, which is more insidious is environmental pollution, specifically, heavy metal intoxication.
Ever more present in our environment, this pollution has considerably elevated the production of free radicals (oxidation). It is fairly commonplace today to hear mention of anti-oxidants for countering the deadly effects of free radicals coming mainly from harmful chemicals, electromagnetic fields, radiation and heavy metals. This over-production of free radicals (oxidation) has had serious consequences. There is a direct link between oxidation and bloods’ pH level, and so it is not surprising to find the blood alkalized. And the more blood is alkalized, the more acidic urine becomes! Because the kidneys have difficulty eliminating the acids (often due to being bogged down with heavy metals themselves), the entire organism (conjunctive tissue) becomes too acidic.
At the turn of the century, blood had an average pH of 7.35. Today it is about 7.45. As table 2 shows, you’ll observe that the more alkaline blood becomes, the more the stage is set for bacteria, viruses and degenerative diseases to develop.
Oxidation is the principal cause of this expansion. Of the many producers of oxidants, heavy metals are among the most menacing. They are present in our air, water, food, in our mouth (amalgams, braces, crowns) and our medical drugs (e.g. vaccines like flu shots, eye drops, etc.
Heavy Metals are so dangerous because they not metabolized or broken down but instead accumulated in the body tissues
To remedy the situation, we first need a more alkalizing diet; plenty of raw vegetables, whole grains, healthy proteins and less sugar and some alkaline mineral buffers( e.g. potassium, magnesium). Emotions and stress should also be managed. As for heavy metals, a good start would be to replace slowly your amalgam fillings with composite material. A heavy metal screen test should be taken (now available in health food stores) in order to evaluate the level of the body’s heavy metal toxicity or source of oxidation. If heavy metals are detected, detoxification (chelation) is recommended in order to slow done the overall oxidation process.
Finally, to help a person attain his/ her optimal health, a pH reading of the saliva and urine should be performed. To do so the first morning urine pH should be around 5.6 to 6.0 and the first morning saliva should be between 6.5 and 6.8. If the urine is below 5.6 and the saliva above 7.0 or below 6.5 the body is too acid and should be treated or rebalanced in order to regain perfect health parameters.(Note: An ongoing oxidation process makes saliva and blood ph more alkaline, whereas the urine becomes more acid).
By balancing the biological terrain of the body like the gardener does the soil, we’ll be sure to come out on top.
So check your heavy metal(oxidation) concentration and pH and become your own healer.
