You don’t need a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology to know that we’re exposed to a ton of junk every day!
From the pollutants in our air, the pharmaceuticals and agricultural runoff in our water, to the herbicides and pesticides sprayed on our food, playgrounds and parks—all of these toxins accumulate in the body over time, often making us sick.
That’s why binders have become “the new multivitamin” in the holistic, foundational medicine world.
In order to experience optimal health and wellness, it’s becoming even more important to cage up and bind toxins in your body than it is to just input supplemental vitamins.
Of course, putting the correct nutrients in your body is important. But part of getting to the root of chronic symptoms and illness involves taking out the trash!
And that’s what the better binders help us do so well! I take them when I need them and so does my family.
So let’s first take a look at what binders are…and how to choose the right one.
What are binders and what do they do?
Binders are made from natural compounds and designed to help the body “bind up” and eliminate toxins in the body (through bowel movements).
These accumulated biotoxins can contribute to chronic health issues. Some examples of biotoxins include:
- environmental pollutants
- heavy metals
- pesticides and herbicides
- parasites
- mycotoxins from yeasts and molds
- pathogens
- radioactive elements
- other toxicants
Binders are usually taken in capsule or pill form, but also come in powders and tinctures that you can mix with food or water.
While different types of binders have been used for hundreds of years, not all binders are created equally. Nor do they work the same way, either.
Two of the most common “old school” binders you may have heard of include activated charcoal and bentonite clay. Activated charcoal is a fine black carbon powder and bentonite clay is a natural clay that comes from volcanic ashes.
While these options can be beneficial at times, their ability to help detox the body in an effective way are limited.
One major limitation of most binders, including activated charcoal and bentonite clay, is that they only work in the digestive tract.
So they can be helpful in cases of food poisoning, which is why some people choose to keep these on hand in their wellness cabinet, just in case.
But toxins don’t just hang out in your digestive tract. They travel.
Another problem with activated charcoal is that it’s non-discriminant, meaning it binds everything, including good nutrients too. So if you take charcoal with other supplements, it’s going to bind and move out the good along with the bad. And you don’t want to kick out the good stuff!
That’s why I recommend better binders that work beyond your digestive tract, and are more discriminant to go after different things, so you can also take them along with other supplements too.
Spent vs. Unspent Carbon
Regular binders, such as bentonite clay and activated charcoal, are made up of “spent carbons”—that means their chemical energy has already been used up by the time it gets to your body.
BioActive CarbonⓇ binders, which CellCore Biosciences makes, are “unspent carbons”—meaning that once they’re in the body, they still have the energy to do what they need to do! They can start necessary biochemical reactions while also stopping negative ones.
The way I see it, if I’m going to spend my money on a binder, I want to spend it on a binder that has “unspent carbons.” And so have my clients…
How do you know when you need a binder? And which one do you choose?
This is where having a holistic kinesiologist who does muscle response testing comes in handy—because it takes out the guesswork!
In a healing session, we can muscle test to determine if or when a binder is needed in your current protocol. And if so, which binder is best suited for the job!
In my clinic, I have three favorite, go-to binders that are built to move out different types of toxins. Cellcore Biosciences, a high quality line of nutritional supplements that I carry in my clinic, makes several BioActive CarbonⓇ binders that go after different types of toxins.
For example…
A binder a day…keeps the rashes and joint pain away?
A client in her early 50s came to me dealing with aching joints. Her joint pain tested as environmental toxicity from glyphosate, one of the most commonly used herbicides. CellCore’s HMET Binder (which stands for Heavy Metals and Environmental Toxins) is designed to help bind up several heavy metals and environmental toxins, including glyphosate, which has a tendency to collect in the joints and connective tissues.
After just 2 weeks of taking the HMET binder, she said her “hands feel young again!”
I’ve also seen several toddlers in the summer months dealing with itchy rashes on their legs. In their healing sessions with me, many of those rashes have come up as glyphosate toxicity, due to the continued exposure from running around in the herbicides that are sprayed in parks and around playgrounds.
Being on the HMET Binder each day helps keep their rashes (and itching!) away!
Mold exposure symptoms went away with BioToxin Binder
Another client who was exposed to mold in her apartment came to me because she was dealing with brain fog and debilitating fatigue, and unable to make it through a work day. She started taking Cellcore’s BioToxin Binder to bind up the mold and mycotoxins, which helped reduce her symptoms even while she was still having the exposure in her living environment. Then once she moved out of the apartment and into a clean environment, her energy came back and brain fog lifted!
Detoxing x-ray radiation exposure with ViRadChem Binder
A woman came to see me with lingering fatigue and brain fog that started after she had a hospital stay. While in the hospital, she had imaging tests done, including a CT scan with contrast dye.
The ViRadChem Binder (which is short for Viruses Radiation Chemicals) helped her body clear the post-imaging radiation exposure, which produced her symptoms.
ViRadChem is also a handy binder to take with you on your next airplane travels, to help deal with the fatigue that comes from unavoidable exposure to the radiation in airports and in the airplane.
If you want a deeper dive into binders, check out this article from Cellcore: 9 Old-School Toxin Binders (Plus Meet a Better Binder) that rates 10 types of binders and the pros and cons of them.
