Detox from Heavy Metals, with Wendy Myers

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Five Journeys podcast, Live like youe Matter. Our guest today is Wendy Myers. Of course we love her. A, because her name is Wendy, and B, because she's wicked awesome. She's the founder of MyersDetox.com she's a doctoral candidate, detox expert, functional diagnostic nutritionist, certified holistic health coach and bioenergetic practitioner, as well as the number one best selling author of Limitless Energy how to Detox Toxic Metals to End Exhaustion and Chronic Fatigue. Wende is the host of a top 100 rated podcast, the Myers Detox Podcast, about protecting your health with detoxification. Hi, Wendy. Welcome to the show.

How are you doing?

Thanks for having me.

Great to have you here.

Pleasure. All right, so your topic is kind of near and dear to our heart.

Your topic is our topic. Yeah, I'm all about detox.

Oh, yes. It's so important. It's something I think a lot of people miss. It's like that missing piece of the puzzle that so many people just aren't thinking of or it's like the last thing they get to. And so that's why for me, it was like such a huge thing for me that helped me turn around my health.

So where do you recommend people start when they're looking at detox?

Yes. Well, you know, detox can be very simple and very complex at the same time. So the simplest thing to do is taking minerals because minerals will displace heavy metals out of your body. So some people can cause too strong a detox. Like their, their bodies can't handle it for other reasons. But my favorite form of detox is something proactive. A protocol that you can do is an ionic foot bath. I think that's one of the most effective detox tools that people can use. About amazing results with that.

That's always been a question of mine, truthfully, because I don't know, Like, I've seen them and I see stuff come out, but how do you know what that is? And if. If it's effective, if it's doing your whole body or it's just your feet.

Just imagine you like, scooping what comes out and sending it for analysis.

It's been around for a while and it looks cool. And I've been in this world for like 20 years and I'm still around. You've been around for a while, but I can never tell, is it actually effective? Like, I can never say to patients, yes, this works. This is amazing. Go try it.

Yeah, in my experience, it's the most effective thing people can do. But it's. And it's also something that everyone can do. Like, not everyone can do an infrared sauna. A lot of elderly people, very sick people, children can't do an infrared sauna, but they can do an ionic foot bath. And so the company I really like is called amd. A major difference. They make one called Ion Cleanse. They have several studies that show dramatic improvements in different populations. But it's not the stuff coming out in the foot bath. And that's what everyone thinks. That's not what's happening. It dramatically increases the output of heavy metals through your urine and stool and even your skin following a few days after doing the ionic foot bath. And it's doing that by frequencies that are being put into the water, that are injected into the water. So it's not what people think. So they get kind of. It's easy to think, oh, it's what's coming out of the water. But it's not. But there is some stuff coming out of the water. There is, but even radiation comes out. People can have a gauss meter that's looking at the foot bath before and after. With a gauss meter, radiation is even coming out of you when you're doing a foot bath. A lot of stuff is coming out and it's very easy to do. I've had doctors, I have a really esteemed colleague, Dr. Michael Rankin. He's done everything. And he just had never done detox. So he did ionic food bath. And he had this huge black thing on his arm the size of a quarter. It disappeared within a few weeks of doing the foot bath. He lost 15 pounds. A lot of toxins are stored in your fat tissue. And it just. All that stuff started coming out. And so I personally use one for many years. And it's the first thing that I recommend. But you know, people need about 200 hours on average. Some people more.

200 hours.

200 hours. So how often do you do it? I mean, is it an hour a night? I mean I go in the sauna four or five nights a week, spend an hour there. Is it that kind of thing that you could just go, okay, I'm gonna go stick my feet in the ionic bath now? Or is it full body? What, how does it.

Yeah, and that's what's kinda nice about it. It's just, you just put your feet in it so you can do it while you're doing other stuff, working tv. So I did it pretty intensely. I did about four foot baths a day. So about a day for a period of time. And then now I do a maintenance, I do it just twice a week. So 30 minute sessions twice a week.

And how do you know when you're done?

You know when you're done. I mean you can do heavy metals testing. I mean you can, you can track this whatever method you want. I mean to look at all of your heavy metals, you need to do hair metal analysis, urine and stool. Because different metals come out in different exit points in your body. So there's no one perfect test that's going to tell you every metal. So but if you do those three tests, if you really want to get into the biohacking, you can do baseline and then do the foot bath or infrared sauna or both. You know, do a test every six months or a year to see kind of where you're at with your heavy metal load.

So you're saying, because the, this is my. A lot of people say the detox and there's a lot of supplements say the detox. And then when I've tried them, we tend to go towards the provoked urine test as our go to. They feel better. A lot of different supplements make you feel better. But when you do provoke tests before and after, you don't see much difference. So you're saying with the, just the ionic bath itself you can see a difference in a provoked test?

I can't say on a provoked test specifically because I don't use that one so much. I do hair mineral analysis and I have seen my metals go down significantly over a period of time. But I've been detoxing for about 10 years. I do have many patients that have been using foot baths and infrared saunas on a combination of things. So I can't attribute their reduction in heavy metallo to any like One particular protocol because I haven't personally done any kind of study on doing just that one fat. It's not my company, why would I do that? But that's just what I personally have found and working with patients for 10 years to be the most effective.

And you feel it's effect in terms of it makes people feel better. So like you've noticed it makes a difference for people?

Oh yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And I have seen their metal levels come down. But we have a whole program that we do that includes supplements and diet and the foot bath and bread sauna. So people do a different combination of things, whatever works for them. We recommend coffee enemas, which make a huge difference for a lot of different people if they have issues with their liver and facilitates detoxification. But there's just, there's too many variables going on to attribute it to the one thing. But that's for me, that's my favorite protocol that I recommend because it's, it's inexpensive, it's the easiest. I personally feel like it's the most effective.

Do you use fiber when you're doing this? You know, we were talking to Joe Pizzorno who helped found Bastyr University and, and he talks all about like he is a really simple detox protoc call that's all about do DMSA once every couple days and do fiber, fiber, fiber and nac. That's his protocol. It's like pretty straightforward. And so are you using fiber as you're doing the ionic footpaths? Because then you're dumping it into the gut. If your gut's dysfunctional, you're just going to recycle it and pick it up again?

Absolutely. I do a modified citrus pectin. I have a product I developed called Citra Cleanse that has grapefruit citrus pectin in it. So yeah, fiber is super important. And I have my daily detox supplement. It's a organic green superfood. It's got inulin and it has flaxseed powder in it as well. So definitely I'm a big fan of fibers. People don't eat enough fiber because you need that. You need to bulk up your stool. You need a lot of fiber to take heavy metals out of the gut and through the stool. And a lot of people don't do that. They're constipated. That's where coffee enemas can come in so that you don't reabsorb retox. I am not a fan of DMSA at all. I mean I'll respect the Dr. Joe Pizzorno, he's amazing. But I think DMSA is like dropping a nuclear bomb on someone when you can use something else that's more gentle. And a lot of people, very sick people, cannot handle dmsa, but they need ways to detox as well. For me, I'm just. There's much, much better ways to address detoxification and much gentle, natural ways that don't also chelate minerals like calcium, magnesium and other minerals out of the body.

It's so funny. I always say to people, you're going to feel one of three ways when you do a DMSA provoked test. You're going to feel nothing. In which case, I have no idea if you have metals till we get the result. You're going to feel awful, like a truck ran over you, or you're going to feel like amazing, best day you've ever had. Super productive. And I fall into that category that the days I do my provoked tests, I cleaned the house and feel amazing. But I have patients who feel terrible. My mom took it and slept for 24 hours.

Yeah, I mean, it's fine for a provoked test, but I mean, like long term for a detox strategy. Some people can become very, very ill from doing that for even a month or two. So everyone's different. You just have to be careful.

Yeah. I think that's the most important thing is everyone is different.

There has been a lot of, A lot of people come to us after being too. Going too fast and when you go too fast, it's a problem. And a lot of people do just DMSA without any support. And that by. No, we, we do use dmsa, but we have a lot of support around it. A lot of people use DMSA and don't have any support around it. And that's when you get into real, real trouble.

Yeah.

And I agree, you know, you have. People have to know what they're doing. There's a big difference between someone taking DMSA and doing, doing it themselves and being under the supervision of a doctor. That's a much different animal. But yeah, and it's not a race. Detox is not a race. It's more of like a lifestyle. And that's what I try to communicate with people. We're not trying to get to the finish line. There isn't really a finish line because you're. You have decades of toxins that have built up and you're exposed to new ones every single day. So you have to think of it more as a lifesty change is your diet and supplements and detox protocols. You kind of meet. You do it more intensely for two, three years, maybe more. If you're ill and you want to have a maintenance program or schedule that you're doing to kind of keep your body clean and healthy.

I think you bring up an amazing point because people think, yeah, two weeks, two months, they're done. And it takes years sometimes.

And people get impatient. They want to feel better fast. But healing and getting better, like the stock market, you don't have this upward trajectory. Like everything just goes up, and it's amazing. You, you, you kind of go up, you feel better, and then it crashes. And you go up and it crashes. But it's going in this general upward trajectory, but it's not happening on your timeline in two to three months. That isn't reality. When you have, you know, decades of toxins and lead and glyphosate and other other heavy metals that have been building up in your tissues and your fat in your brain, they're just not going to come out in two to three.

Months smiling because a patient yesterday said she's 64 and she's really sick. She has a lot of medical issues. I mean, she had a stroke at like 38, right. So she's not the healthiest, and she's come really far. But she's like, when am I going to be done? I'm like, dude, you're never going to be done. This is not an end. This is a journey, not a destination. You're never going to be done. And think about where you were three years ago when we started. You were a hot freaking mess. Now you're just kind of messy, distinct from, you're not a hot mess, you're just messy. It's different. It's an improvement on the messy scale. So she didn't like that answer.

Actually, now that you turned us on to this, give us the next three things that you love to do with detox.

You are shameless.

This is how we learn.

Yeah.

So another really cool one. I don't have the water right here, but there's a water called Wata. And that's a really easy detox as well. It's not super cheap. It starts adding up. But it's a water. You can get it on Amazon or aquanew.com so it's wat w a t t a h h. So it's a polarized Boston.

It's a Boston water, yeah.

It's a Boston water, yeah. So it's yeah. So it's a polarized water. So the, the guy that developed it, his name is Rob Gorley, he infuses hydrogen, oxygen and electrons into this water. And it is phenomenal. You have to be careful with it because it can detox you really, really fast. They have tons of studies on their website. The show they've had super, like, dentists were super crazy mercury and their metal loads come down super fast with this water, but you have to be careful with it. So you just need to drink maybe a couple of tablespoons a day of it to begin.

So it's not a chug it down.

No, do not chug it. But it also starts getting oxygen to your brain. So you get kind of like a high. Like, I started drinking, I had a high for about four days where I was just, like, skipping down the road. I was so happy because my brain was finally getting oxygen. So it's, it's in more hydrogen, which we all need. But a lot of people taking hydrogen tablets, they're great, but they also need oxygen with the hydrogen. So there's kind of, you know, you can't just take hydrogen tablets. You need oxygen as well. And a lot of people are ungrounded today because of emf, so their bodies just don't work properly. We need to be negatively charged, so our body just starts working better and detoxing better. When you have your, you know, drinking this water with lots of electrons, there's a lot of different ways to ground your body. But this water is particularly effective at grounding you and detoxing you.

I wonder if it's good for cardiovascular patients who have, like, microvascular disease and, and, you know, end, end organ and end peripheral vascular disease.

Don't forget, they're all toxic, too.

True, they're all toxic, but they also reduces calcifications as well. It will, it's. It's unbelievable, this stuff. I mean, I've had a girlfriend of mine, she had a stroke, a very pretty serious stroke. She was out of the hospital in two days drinking this water. I mean, it has phenomenal, phenomenal results, even with diabetic patients, because it's the oxygen, but the limb that has, like a sore on it that just won't heal. But the limit the limb under the water, it oxygenizes those tissues. It's really phenomenal. And they have, like I said, tons and tons and tons of studies and testimonials on aquaneu.com.

You want some water?

Yeah. I think water in general, H2O is severely underappreciated. As a unique molecule that we talk about getting rid of any toxins out of the water, of course that's needed. But what you're talking about there is different structured water. There's. Water has different potentials and energies that I think maybe the researchers out there, but nobody appreciates it.

Sound like Rodney Dangerfield. You just don't appreciate me.

No respect. No respect.

Yeah.

And that's how saunas work. I mean, they increase the easy water in your interstitial tissues. So that gel like water in your tissues. And that's why infrared saunas are so helpful to reduce your blood pressure. And other benefits that we get with the sauna is increasing that EZ water. So number three, infrared sauna. So that was. That's my number three kind of favorite.

Do you feel like something is better than nothing? You know, if you can't do it perfectly, better to do something a sauna, blink sauna blankets better than not doing anything in a sauna. Pods better than sauna blanket and then a full on, you know, near mid far. So basically do what you can in terms of infrared sauna stuff.

Yeah. When I started, I went to like my little Pilates place, had an infrared sauna and I just did that once a week. And then I had my handyman make a bulb sauna that I put in my shower. And then eventually I graduated to a nicer sauna. But I actually like both. I like the bulb, they call them near infrared, but actually the bulbs emit mostly far infrared. I like the bulb saunas and I like the regular far infrared saunas. So I kind of go back and forth between both of those, but they have little different benefits.

Cool.

And all detox is better than no detox. Just be gentle.

Yeah. As far as detoxification, like I mentioned before, it's not a race. And I really urge people to because of the level of toxins we have in our environment. You need to be thinking about this. This has to be part of your health regimen because you're not exempt from it. It's not possible. We have 140,000 chemicals in our environment. We have dozens of heavy metals. There's so much research out there to show how. And it's all on my website and yours as well, Wendy, how all these toxins contribute to every imaginable health symptom. So at one point your number is going to come up where you're going to reach this tipping point and the toxins are going to be affecting either your mitochondria or your brain. Or, or your pancreas or whatever your genetic weak link is. So you need to be thinking about this now before a diagnosis, not when you get sick. And right now a lot of people are, they're just tired a little bit, brain fogged, their hormones, they don't have any libido, or something is going on with them. That, and they're young, and that's your body sending you messages that you need to act, you need to figure out what's going on and do something. And the likelihood that toxins are contributing to these things are, are pretty high. Statistically, it's very high. So you have to be adding detoxification to your health regimen if you plan to be healthy and live a long, healthy life.

It's so hard, Wendy, when you talk about this, because I just read this great line. I don't know who said it, but it was, people have two lives, their first life and then the life that they start living when they realize they only have one. And so that moment that happens for people is usually because something's wrong. It's very rare. And I'm sure you see this in your practice too, that it's very rare. Someone comes in and says, I feel amazing. Do everything right. They say, I feel like crap. Untangle me. And so when you talk about detox, I'm like, absolutely. People need to be taking detox seriously, making it a part of their daily regimen. And unfortunately, if you feel amazing, you're probably not listening, you're not doing prevention because you haven't recognized that it's key to longevity and peak performance. So now we're talking to the sick people. Basically, if you have anything, if you don't wake up feeling amazing, you got something. Congratulations, you've got toxins. Yeah.

And then on another note, I worked with patients doing detoxification for over 10 years and studied it for much longer. But there's a lot of people out there doing everything physically for their health. There's a lot of people out there doing the diet, doing the supplements, doing the exercise, doing the stress reduction, the yoga, and even detoxification perhaps, and still wake up feeling like crap. Or emotionally. They don't wake up feeling good and can't really figure out why based on all their effort. And this is certainly me at a certain point. And so I started getting more into emotional detoxification and on my own personal health journey. And I discovered this bioenergetic program called Nest Health that helped me kind of open that door. But there's many ways to address trauma or emotional trauma or do an emotional detox. And for me, I found that I was doing everything right. I just didn't feel good mentally. I had 10 years of therapy and I read all the books and, and I started doing this, this bioenergetic program which is kind of just using sending frequencies to your body to release energetic blocks and clear your chakras and clear your meridians. And part of that involved releasing and addressing emotional traumas that we have. And I could not believe how much better I felt. I had bulimia and it literally stopped within two months of doing this program because the, the underlying impetus, whatever trauma was there or negative emotion or whatever was going on cleared. And so the resultant behavior or compulsion cleared as well. With that, it really took me aback and it really got me more interested in researching this. And that was about seven years ago, six years ago, and I started researching a lot more about emotional trauma and I created a course called the Emotional Detox Program that really delves into, it's a 30 hour course and delves into all the conventional medical research behind why we have emotional traumas, all the research behind this, and also the different tools like sound therapy and bioenergetics that can be successfully used. Anyone listening out there that has done everything for their health physically, and they just still are like, there's just something more out there. I know, I know it, I'm just, I'm missing something. It's usually emotional trauma because the research does show that 65% or more of physical health issues are caused by emotional traumas that we're carrying around with us.

That's a large percent. I mean, we can eat the best diets, we can do the best things in the world. And if we've got something that's running in the background, which all of us do, if we haven't worked through it and continue to work through it constantly, we talk about stress. That's stress. Like if we're living from our past, from whatever happened in our past and not living in the moment, then. Right.

I'm just thinking about this slide that I did for a presentation where, you know, on the top of it is your genetics and your epigenetics and the bottom of it is your environment, all the stuff you're exposed to. But the sandwich, the meat of the sandwich is eating, sleeping, pooping, moving your body, thinking, being related to others, that it's so often ignored that a critical part of your health is how you speak to yourself and think about yourself, how you relate to yourself, and then how you relate to others and where you exist in the fabric of society and that not existing and feeling like you belong is very toxic. And where can people find out more about you? Can you and we'll put everything in the show notes yes yes.

Emo-detox.com is if you want to learn more about addressing emotional trauma and or distress in general negative emotions releasing all that and my website is meyersdetox.com and you can find me all over social media YouTube at Meyers detox YouTube is Wendy Myers but everything else is Meyer C talks all the social media.

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