by Wendy Myers
August 28, 2022
Barium is a metal used in medical tests and makes its way into your body from pollution. Reduce your exposure to this toxic metal and, with Myers Detox, detox your body from this dangerous element!
Toxic elements, like barium, replace nutrient minerals in enzyme binding sites. When this occurs, the metals inhibit, over-stimulate, or otherwise alter thousands of enzymes. An affected enzyme may operate at 5% of normal activity. This may contribute to many health conditions. Toxic metals may also replace other substances in other tissue structures. The replacement weakens these tissues, such as the arteries, joints, bones, and muscles. Toxic metals may also simply deposit in many sites, causing local irritation and other toxic effects.
Sources of Barium
Barium is found in compounds like barium sulfate, barium oxide, barium hydroxide, barium carbonate, barium chloride, and barium nitrate, just to name a few.
Exposure to barium and its compounds can happen a number of ways, including through groundwater contamination, ingestion of insoluble barium, inhalation, exposure to environmental pollution, cigarette smoke, occupational exposure, or even from certain medical procedures (3).
More specifically, barium can be found in such things as (3, 4, 6, 8, 9):
- Cigarette/tobacco smoke
- Paint pigments
- Pyrotechnics (signal flares, fireworks)
- Petroleum production
- Cathode-ray tubes in plasma TVs, LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs, LCD computer monitors, and laptop computers
- Flat panel display devices (FDPs), such as TVs, computers, and smart phones
- Manufacturing of ceramics and some types of glass
- Filler for rubber, plastics, and resins
- Clay slurries used in drilling oil wells
- Paper filler
- Barium sulfate beverages (used in certain medical procedures)
- Rat poison
- Contaminated groundwater
Now let’s talk about a few of the compounds more specifically.
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