Garden of Lead Alternatives?

Can someone ease my mind about this. I found out from this board that Garden of Life organic meal shakes now contain lead and arsenic. I've been drinking this crap for over a year. I did some internet research, and of course there are for and against responses. Garden of life even put up a page standing by their product with what looks like stock photos of scientists in clean lab coats. Maybe that's why I gained weight with this stuff. I'm full of lead. I'm sorry I recommended GOL on this board. Their package is funny too, it says "made in the USA with foods grown in the USA (and other countries)"

Even though arsenic sounds real bad, it takes very high levels to cause health issues.

Odd note: Years into the past some white women of the "laboring class" who were out in the sun actually took arsenic to make their skin whiter. Apparently if you had a tan in the past, you were looked down to as a laborer who was out in the sun all day. The Arsenic didn't kill them.

As someone who has arsenic toxicity I would not consider even casual arsenic exposure inconsequential, BUT. Everyone is not me, so my suggestion would be to join the Frequent-Dose-Chelation Yahoo group and ask some questions there. The mods there would be much better at allaying your fears about the GOL exposures. You might also consider getting a Doctor's Data Hair Elements Test (not the toxic elements test), post the results at https://www.livingnetwork.co.za/chelationnetwork/ send a link to the FDC group and the mods will tell you the percentage chance you have a heavy metal problem. NO one can tell you if your consumption of the GOL product was a problem for you, but you can find out IF you have a heavy metal problem, regardless of it's origin, and go from there.

Serfr said...
Can someone ease my mind about this. I found out from this board that Garden of Life organic meal shakes now contain lead and arsenic. I've been drinking this crap for over a year. I did some internet research, and of course there are for and against responses. Garden of life even put up a page standing by their product with what looks like stock photos of scientists in clean lab coats. Maybe that's why I gained weight with this stuff. I'm full of lead. I'm sorry I recommended GOL on this board. Their package is funny too, it says "made in the USA with foods grown in the USA (and other countries)"

I would not use chlorella or glutathione. Someone mentioned sauna and that is completely safe, but is limited to excretion of extracellular metals. There are a number of supplements that can help with mitigation of some of the free radical pathology associated with heavy metal toxicity. Vitamin C, E, and selenium at the top of the list. Selenium binds pretty tightly to mercury preventing some of the damage Hg causes (it does not increase excretion though). Because of selenium's affinity for mercury, a person may have a functional deficiency because all their Se is bound to Hg and there is not any left for use in enzyme production. There are some minerals that may or may not help-molybdenum, magnesium, and zinc. I have also found some of the herbs Buhner recommends for mitigation of cytokine cascade helpful as well.

Serfr said...
Thanks all,
Seems like my symptoms overlap with mercury poisoning. Chelations out, my mouth is full of amalgam fillings. Is there other things I can do, I noticed that site mentioned chorella, glutathione, etc. are those safe with fillings?
Just wondering how much crap is inside me drinking 32g of GOL everyday for 500 days.

Alternatives (?)=

Nutridyn-fruits-greens, $41 at chiros and licensed resellers. Some amazon prices are way overblown though , shop wisely. I used it in the past and never paid more than normal price.

Natural Healthy Concepts has it for 41 online. Link is 1/2 page long for some reason.


/nutridyn.com/nutridyn-fruits-greens-2032

Purely Inspired Organic Greens, USDA Organic, Super Greens Powder, Unflavored, 8.57 oz, 24 servings $15:

/www.amazon.com/dp/B01MPXM7YK/ref=psdc_3773751_t3_B00XLZQIJI

Post Edited (astroman) : 9/11/2018 12:28:29 AM (GMT-6)

I feel slightly less worse after someone smarter than me posted this on the CR site:

"Honestly, even the raw data seem kind of shady. Let’s just look at arsenic:

The average arsenic content of the “samples” (they were not labeled in the data section) were around 15 micrograms of arsenic per kilogram or 15 µg/kg. I looked at a few references/brands to find that an average scoop serving of protein powder is around 30 grams.

So to translate that ( I used an online converting website to turn micrograms to grams) it is about 0.000015 grams arsenic per 1000 grams of sample, or 0.000000015 grams of arsenic in each gram of the sample, or 0.00000045 g arsenic per average serving size of protein powder.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) established limits for rice products distributed in the European Union, which went into effect in January 2016. These limits are 300 ppb for rice cakes and rice crackers, 250 ppb for brown rice and parboiled rice, 200 ppb for white rice, and 100 ppb for rice destined for the production of food for infants and small children.

In April 2016, the FDA proposed an action level, or limit, of 100 parts per billion (ppb) for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal.

Since 1 ppb equals 1 µg of substance per kg of solid, the same measurement used in the Clean Label testing, I would have to conclude that the range of products tested, from 4-50 µg/kg arsenic each, would not be a level that would cause harm. Also, there is a big difference in levels of harm between organic vs inorganic arsenic - most tests don’t distinguish between the two.

I’m just a dietitian, though, so my math could be wrong! I just wanted to call out what I saw as fear mongering and data manipulation."