Turning Lead into Gold: How Heavy Metal Poisoning Can Affect Your Child and How to Prevent and Treat It [Paperback]

Nancy Hallaway (Author), Zigurts Strauts (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1995

Nancy Hallaway's life was turned upside down when her infant twins were diagnosed as hyperactive with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and severe autistic tendencies. While searching for answers, and help for her children, she never imagined that the cause of their condition lay in their own pleasant suburban backyard.

Then Nancy met Dr. Zigurts Strauts, the first doctor to suggest that her children might be suffering from heavy metal poisoning. Dr. Strauts found high levels of lead, arsenic, aluminum, and cadmium in their bodies, and his treatments lead to immediate improvement in both children.

Hallaway and Strauts have written this book to help other parents whose children may be showing symptoms of autism or ADD, or whose development is delayed, because of metal poisoning.

Editorial Reviews

Review

I urge all parents and personnel involved in childcare to read this book and absorb its message. -- Dr. Abraham Hoffer, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

About the Author

Nancy Hallaway, RN, lives in North Vancouver, BC. Dr. Zigurts Strauts practices in Surrey, another suburb of Vancouver.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: New Star Books (June 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0921586515
• ISBN-13: 978-0921586517
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,049,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific!, March 20, 1999

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This review is from: Turning Lead into Gold: How Heavy Metal Poisoning Can Affect Your Child and How to Prevent and Treat It (Paperback)

Turning Lead Into Gold was a book I couldn't put down! It opened my eyes to lead and other metals that are harmful to us all. Nancy goes into great detail about the harmful effects of toxic metals and what you can do to prevent it. She also goes into how to treat lead poisoning. I bought this book because my son has an elevated lead level but I am recommended it to everyone I know! Because of all the facts in this book about metal poisoning I am getting my whole family tested.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration for parents of kids with heavy metal poisoning, March 13, 2002

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Elizabeth L O'Brien (Summer Hill, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turning Lead into Gold: How Heavy Metal Poisoning Can Affect Your Child and How to Prevent and Treat It (Paperback)

I talk to parents of lead poisoned children everyday as Manager of the Lead Advisory Service Australia and I have only received extremely positive comments from other parents about this book. Some doctors would argue that the book gives false hope to parents because the book details very positive outcomes for children with heavy metal poisoning when they undergo chelation treatment. Interestingly, one of the book's authors, Dr Strauts, apparently does not carry out chelation therapy on children any more - according to one of the parents from Australia who contacted his office in Canada. Also, unfortunately, I was never able to obtain a copy of the protocol for chelation treatment that is mentioned in the book - this would have been useful.
However, despite all the above, I would highly recommend this book and wish someone would write a follow-up, seven years on, outlining similar success stories that are happening today.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth to Autism, ADHD, PDD and Lead Poisoning, February 26, 2010

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Steph Seeker "LeadandMe" (Australia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Turning Lead into Gold: How Heavy Metal Poisoning Can Affect Your Child and How to Prevent and Treat It (Paperback)

THIS BOOK IS THE BOOK YOU NEED TO READ AND IT EXPLAINS THE CAUSE and describes how our children are poisoned by metal everyday. you dont have to eat paint chips to be lead poisoned and get ADHD, APD or any other acronym, or suck on a mercury thermometer to get Autism. We feed out children minute bits of heavy metals every day. all the metals are described in here because they work together to BE WORSE than if alone in the system. THIS BOOK ID 15 years old YET the statistics since that time ARE DOWNRIGHT SHOCKING TODAY. 1 in 57 boys become autistic. 10-12% become ADHD or other. The message and explaination to our sick kids is here. I have purchased 3 copies and will be buying more for OTHERS so you better be quick :). If you buy one book buy this one. If you want to sell it back afterwards I will take it off your hands. Read it. It is uncomplicated, straight forward and enables the reader to wrap their minds around the problem identified many years ago.

My son was lead poisoned. My doctor thought i was crazy. my husband was poisoned and i was pregnant and poisoned. I have been working against my son becoming Autistic for 5 years. I have succeeded due to my first hand knowledge of his lead poisoning. Had I not figured this out i might not have fought for so long for him. GET THE METAL OUT, find out how it gets in, and for god sake read this book. THIS BOOK GIVES HOPE and recovery from poisoning is possible. And it isnt as complicated as it is made out to be once you understand.