Heavy metal toxicity is more and more common these days. The sources are polluted environment, drugs, mercury dental fillings, and so on. Mercury, lead, aluminum, and other metals are now known to cause a variety of diseases and syndromes including chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, retardation, ADD, different types of dementias, and other illnesses.

There are a number of useful nutrients that we use in naturopathy that have been successfully used in both diminishing secondary symptoms of metal toxicity as well as diminishing the heavy metal toxicity itself. Naturally, in holistic medicine, we always address the whole person and we don’t treat the disease. The following nutrients have been historically used to diminish metal toxicity and its' efforts: Pinus maritima (OPC), bioflavonoids, vitamin C, vitamin E, Gingko biloba, Hawthorn berry, Co-Q10 , L-cysteine, L-methionine are examples of such useful nutrients.