Ashley, from Niagara, Ontario, Canada, asked:
Hi Julie,
I have had problems with my reproductive health for a solid year and the last month has pushed me over the edge.
My menstrual cycle is now out of whack and I’m feeling all kinds of uneasiness.
Please help. I’m so tired of fighting with my body to feel normal.
Thank you for your time, Julie.
Hi Ashley,
Sorry you’re feeling so punky.
Once I got you on my radar, I found you were full of inflammation from what looks to me like heavy metal toxicity. This condition can affect your menstrual cycle and cause lots of other symptoms.
In particular, you seem to have an excess amount of iron and cadmium in your system. I believe you’re ingesting both from your water supply and additional cadmium from cigarette smoke.
I “got” the iron was primarily from rusty pipes (do you live in an old house?) and the cadmium, a metal used to make batteries, could be leeching from waste sites into the ground and then into the water supply. Cadmium and other toxic metals can also get into our water in the form of road runoff. And then there are those cigs. Are you around a lot of smoke?
In any event, here’s what may help. Eat foods that will help you detox the heavy metals from your body. Some of those foods are: pears, green apples, citrus, grapes, cabbage, spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts, beets, garlic and cilantro. Here’s a more complete list and here’s a link to what other foods will help you feel better … the Bulletproof Diet.
In addition, find a functional medicine physician and work with them to heal your body. A functional medicine doctor is trained to reverse engineer your symptoms to find the cause of those symptoms and help you fix it. Just go to functionalmedicine.org, put in your city, province, and country, and choose from the list that will be displayed.
The best news is, I truly believe you can and will heal from this.
Thanks for your question.