Dr. Robert Rowen's Second Opinion e-newsletter this morning was discussing lead poisoning as a cause of high blood pressure. My 79-year-old aunt in Colorado has persistent high blood pressure, controlled only by several drugs. She also has neuropathy in her feet and hands, although she's not diabetic. I was wondering if lead poisoning might be behind both of these conditions. Any thoughts?

Neuropathy is one complication of lead poisoningalso note Melatonin is safe and should help Only use TIME RELEASE forms and remember that elderly people will not be making much melatonin on their own so will probably need at lot more (particularly as you are also using it detoxify) It needs to be in conjunction with vitamin d3 (that also raises glutathione and that helps detoxify the brain.

The protective effect of flaxseed oil on lead acetate-induced renal toxicity in rats.

I wonder where we would get that much lead these days. If so, there should be fairly easy ways to chelate lead. Like EDTA, mega dose vitamin C, DMSA (really fast), cilantro (if you can tolerate the taste). I once took a cardio chelate supplement with EDTA. It spoke to the necessity of eliminating these heavy metals which were a cause of hypertension.

BTW, did not work for my hypertension. But I'm obviously not normal.

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Thank you for your input. How about PectaSol chelating complex that is supposed to be a good detoxificator?

I found pectasol to be too slow or too mild and too expensive. However, it might be very good for your elderly aunt. Slow might be best in her case.

She is already familiar with vitamin C and cilantro. She might welcome that kind of therapy. Cilantro can be used in cooking and vitamin C can be found as a crystal or powder.

Is Modified Citrus Pectin an Effective Mobilizer of Heavy Metals in Humans? Free full text at link.
It's a bit questionable.