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Attention Deficit Disorder Help Center.
Do You Have ADD or Lead Poisoning?
Lead poisoning remains a top environmental
health hazard for US children. More than one in 25 children in
the U.S. have lead levels high enough to lower IQ, cause
learning disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, hyperactivity
and/or disruptive behavior.
Solid evidence links lead exposure / lead poisoning to
disruptive classroom behavior, reduced ability to pay attention
and failure to graduate from high school. Lead poisoning is also
linked to a tendency toward violence, addictive behaviors and
other behavioral and emotional problems. Consider these studies
and reports concerning lead poisoning and its effect on learning
and behavior;
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The government's "acceptable" blood
lead level is 10 micrograms per deciliter. A September 2006
study by the Center for Children's Health and the
Environment found that children with blood lead levels of
just 2 micrograms per deciliter or more were four times more
likely to have ADHD than children with levels below 0.8
microgram per deciliter.
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University of Pittsburgh researchers
tested the lead bone concentrations of teens convicted in
Juvenile Court against high school students without
behavioral problems. This 2003 study revealed that
delinquent children were four times more likely to have
elevated concentrations of lead in their bones.
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Herbert Needleman, pediatric
psychiatrist and lead expert at the University of
Pittsburgh, also found that children with elevated lead
levels were seven times more likely to drop out of high
school and six times more likely to have a reading
disability.
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Needleman's first lead study, published
in 1996, showed that boys with elevated lead levels were
more likely to engage in vandalism, arson, bullying,
shoplifting, and other delinquent behaviors.
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Ruth Ann Norton, executive director of
the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, estimates
that lead poisoning is to blame for up to 30 percent of
urban special education children.
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The Environmental Protection Agency
estimates that 1.7 million children (4.4 percent of
children) are affected by lead from old paint, water pipes,
soil, and other sources.
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The Centers for Disease Control
estimates that 2.2 percent of U.S. children have elevated
lead blood levels high enough to damage their developing
brains, cause learning disabilities, seizures and even
death.
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A 2000 National Academy of Sciences
report stated that toxic chemicals and other environmental
factors cause about 3 percent of all developmental and
neurological disorders in U.S.
Children are especially susceptible to lead
exposure. Because the child's body is small and even small
amounts of lead, mercury and other heavy metals can produce high
concentrations in the blood. This exposure is especially
damaging to a child's still developing brain.
If your child has learning or behavioral issues, removing heavy
metals and other toxins can greatly improve symptoms.
EDTA chelation therapy is widely recognized as an effective
treatment for people with lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, and
other metal toxicities. EDTA (ethylene diamine tetra-acetic
acid) is the most commonly used chelator for removing lead and
other heavy metals. EDTA attaching itself to heavy metals and
carries the metals from the body.
Health professionals have used EDTA for over 50 years for heavy
metal removal. EDTA is completely safe, FDA-approved for
treating lead poisoning and toxicity from other heavy metals.
TriCardia, an EDTA oral chelation therapy, is designed to
cleanse and detoxify the body of toxic heavy metals and wastes,
cleanse the cardiovascular system and cleanse and detoxify the
liver, kidneys, gallbladder and lymphatic system. TriCardia uses
1.2 grams of free form EDTA along with 31 other free form amino
acids, a series of ascorbate complexes and phytomedicinals to
aid the removal of heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium,
arsenic, nickel and aluminum while supporting the heart, liver
and other organs.
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