Zetox for Detox? What Is This New Supplement Called Zetox?

What is Zetox?

Zetox is a brand new supplement introduced to the health supplement market recently. The manufacturer claims this new product can remove heavy metals and toxins. Let us look at the Zetox ingredients to see if it has the potential to live up to this claim.

Zetox, it is claimed, will clean your body's cells of the toxic metals and chemicals that have accumulated. The main active ingredient in Zetox is zeolite. Although there is very little information about the Zetox product, there is much information regarding zeolite as a health supplement.

Zeolite has been used in many applications including pool and air filtration, industrial spill cleaning, and even to help clean up radiation at Chernobyl, and more recently Fukushima. Zeolite is a unique mineral that has a negative charge. It attracts positively charged ions, like a magnet. It has a strong affinity for mercury, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals and certain chemicals and toxins that have an opposite positive charge.

Why Zetox?

According to Eco Child's Play website there are 700 new chemicals developed, and released for use, in the United States alone, and they are not tested for toxicity. That means thousands of new toxins and chemicals are active in our environment.

Researchers of the zeolite mineral have shown that zeolite has the ability to trap many of these substances. More recently, zeolite has been crushed and used in nutritional supplements. The premise is that by ingesting zeolite, the properties of the mineral will allow it to trap and remove heavy metals and toxins from your body that have found their way there through environmental exposure.

There have been several scientific studies published that show that zeolite does indeed have the capability to act as a chelating agent, and detoxifier. When you take a zeolite supplement like ZETOX, the zeolite enters the body through the intestinal wall, as long as the particles are small enough, and it travels through your body in the blood stream. Whenever it passes by metals like mercury, foreign chemicals, viral particles or other things that shouldn't be there, it attracts that particle like a magnet, sucking it deep within the cage-like structure, and then exiting the body with the poisons in tow. Even if the zeolite particles have not been micronized small enough to enter the circulatory system, the zeolite has the potential to clean up toxins in the digestive tract.

Zetox Extra Ingredients

The Zetox supplement also has vitamins B12 and D3 added. Vitamin B12 is important for the metabolic function of the cells, and even a mild vitamin B12 deficiency can cause fatigue, depression and poor memory. Vitamin B12 is found in organ meats and eggs. Strict vegetarians must supplement with this vitamin in order to get adequate amounts. It is claimed that adding vitamin B12 can increase energy and raise the metabolic rate slightly.

Vitamin D is itself getting a lot of attention recently. Also known as the sunshine vitamin, our body makes Vitamin D when the sun hits our skin. Of course, in the Northern hemisphere, most people have very little sun exposure during the winter months. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to certain cancers, and is an important vitamin to supplement even if you think you are getting enough sun.

There is very little you can do to lessen your exposure to chemicals and toxins. You can eat organic food and filtered water, keep an air purifier running in your home. You can do other things to help clean the immediate environment that you live in, but you can not do anything about the exhaust fumes, factory run off, coal dust, lead paint, or any of the hundreds of thousands of toxins that exist in our environment.

Theoretically, it makes sense that if zeolite actually works as stated, that it would be good to add a supplement such as Zetox to your diet. If there is a drawback, it is that there haven't been enough scientific studies and clinical evidence to back up all of the claims. Before you buy Zetox, be aware that zeolite for human supplementation is still new. If you are sick, or unsure, you should check with a health professional before you try it.

Shelley Penney is a retired registered nurse with a continued, insatiable thirst for health and wellness information. Although Shelley hails from traditional medical training, she is always searching for ways in which the natural world of healing herbs, foods and supplements can intersect with traditional medicine and benefit us all.

For more information about zetox visit buyzetox.com For information about zeolite in general visit The Liquid Zeolite Book.