Dear Parents: Our children are our most valued human resource. Nevertheless, we live in a city that has high levels of toxins in the environment that threatens their very lives. The toxin that has done the most damage to our children is lead. I knew about the problems of lead by way of reading the news. Also I have worked as a mentor in the public school system for 11years. However, I did not understand the profound negative affects that lead has on our children until I and my wife adapted a child who had a very high level. As you know a level of 25 'g/dl (micrograms per deciliter) is considered to be “lead poisoned.” But any contamination that reaches the level of 5 'g/dl is considered cause for concern. My daughter's level at the time of our adopting her was 17. She exhibited all of the symptoms that children with this problem exhibits. Her behavior was so disruptive that we could not keep a babysitter nor could she stay in daycare. My wife and I had to alternate time spent watching her. Doctors we talked to put her on drugs. After questioning them, I learned that the drugs would not take the lead out of her body nor did they believe that her system could be restored. Their approach was to control the behavior with drugs such as Ritalin. Their contention was that once a brain cell is destroyed there is no chance for it to be restored. Unlike other parts of the body, brain cells do not renew themselves. The ones you have you must treat them in a special way. We agree, but my question, however, was "WHAT ABOUT THOSE CELLS THAT ARE NOT DEAD, THEY ARE JUST UNHEALTHY AS A RESULT OF BEING CONTAMINATED BY THE TOXINS". It was at this point that I joined with my friend and now business partner, Saleem Hasan, affectionately known as the Herbman, with the task of discovering a SAFE, ALL-NATURAL YET EFFECTIVE, approach to this problem.
We had to first get an understanding of the disease process. What we discovered was that lead deposited itself in the bone matrix, which the body recognizes the same way it recognizes calcium. But unlike calcium, which works to make the body strong, lead disrupts the body's ability to absorb nutrients, leaving the child weak at the cellular level. This has devastating implications for brain development. Therefore our first task was to find a way to detoxify the body of lead. Not just the lead that was in the blood, but at the cellular level all the way to the bone matrix. Our research lead us to the mineral EDTA used as chelator. What this means in essence is that it acts to bind with toxic heavy metals and allows for elimination by route of the stool. In our detoxification formula, we included other herbs and minerals to create a synergistic effect, bringing healing to the body. By giving the body the nutrients it was deprived of, the body's intelligence works to heal itself. Once we were able to find the answer for detoxification, we had to then look to bring restoration to the once-deprived cells, especially the brain cells. Our primary goal here was to increase cell to cell capacity and neurotransmission activity. |