Greetings iMedDo Congregation! Prayers for the hurricane and flood victims and for our country that we persevere over those who are interfering with our election come this November. For this month’s October Halloween special, I’m talking about Nickel Detox where Nickel (Ni) is a mischievous metal named after the Devil. The topic of Ni Detox is the topic of Devil Detox which is what Halloween is all about. Get all the evil of cowardice out of your system, as you steel yourself against fright this Halloween, so that you can be courageous to do what is right for the rest of the year. In this episode I’ll explain how Ni is used to make fake silver, for trickery, is toxic to the human touch, can be a nutrient to bacteria but a toxin to humans, and how our bodies can deal with Ni to detox it, and how Ni detox is facilitated by iMedDo detox system.
THE ELEMENT NICKEL IS NAMED AFTER THE DEVIL
Nickel which is abbreviated as Ni, is the 28th element on the periodic table, and it was named after the devil by Swedish miners who were attempting to mine copper. They found a greenish ore that should have yielded copper, as copper turns green upon oxidation, but were never able to get any copper out of it! So they named the ore KuperNickel i.e. the Devil’s Copper after the devilish sprite in Germanic mythology & folklore. When chemists later figured out the new element in the ore the name Nickel stuck and thus the 28th element on the periodic table was named after the Devil! Also check out the word pumpernickel a type of Germanic bread is the “Devil’s fart” lol.
The best way to imagine the Nickel devil the miners were thinking about is to learn about the Nixie mischievous sprite of Germanic folklore and mythology which is of humanoid nature, can be male or female, and often depicted as a shapeshifting water spirit. A good way to imagine a male Nixie is Beetle Juice Ghost/Demon in popular Halloween cinema. Betelgeuse is a red star in the Orion constellation, and the Nixie/Nickel/Nickar devil is an Orion constellation reference. Ni is not just an abbreviation for the 28th element whose name will not be mentioned without protection, it’s also the abbreviation for Nike the Goddess of Victory, so you can say Nickel or Ni 3x like Beetle Juice without fear don’t let Nickel scare you. It scared me but I’m good now lol.
VICTORIOUS PROPERTIES OF THE ELEMENT NICKEL
Nickel is a metal which has some special electrical and hardness properties which make it useful for many engineering and marine applications such as for armor alloy and corrosion resistant propellers. Nickel metal was scarce during WWII as it was needed for submarines, and thus the nickel 5 cents coins of the USA were replaced temporarily during wartime with silver during WW2. A property of note is that Nickel is one of only 4 metals that are ferromagnetic at room temperature (iron, nickel, cobalt, gadolinium) which means it has some useful engineering properties related to electromagnetism, and different amounts of nickel alloy can be used in to modulate magnetic properties of of other metals. American nickel coins are not ferromagnetic at only 25% nickel proportion, so you can’t stick your nickel coins to the fridge unfortunately. I’m not an electrical engineer so I don’t really known the details on this but I gather the nickel was useful in WW2 submarines, and is used in store theft prevention. A cool property of nickel is that it can slightly change size in magnetic field allowing it to be used in sensors such as store theft prevention sensors and their detection. The most widespread use of nickel as an iron alloy is in making stainless steel.
TRICKSTER PROPERTIES OF NICKEL TO MAKE FAKE SILVER & GOLD
Because nickel metal is silvery white in color with a slight golden tinge, and is easily alloyed with other metals giving them enhanced harness and corrosion resistance, it was a perfect metal to be used to make fake silver and gold. This aesthetic special property of nickel is what humans throughout history seem to care the most about is that you can use nickel as an alloy to make cheaper metals look more like silver and gold. Because humans have mined for copper and gold since very ancient times it is believed that humans were using nickel ore found while looking for copper ore with oldest documented usage for sure coming from ancient China where they had cupronickel they called “paktong” which to make an imitation silver. These imitation silver which contain copper and nickel and sometimes zinc but not actual silver in them were also found in ancient Bactria Greece likely from Chinese origin and were rediscovered in Europe in the middle ages during alchemy experiments. People throughout history have been scammed using nickel as “nickel-silver” instead of real silver and gold. Nickel-silver does not contain any actual silver and it’s composition is typically 60% copper 20% nickel and 20% zinc. Copper has been alloyed with zinc since ancient times to make brass a fake gold, and copper, nickel and zinc makes a fake silver. High nickel content alloys because of its golden tinge color can also be used to fake gold.
NICKEL STAINLESS STEEL AS FAKE SILVERWARE
Nickel is alloyed with iron to make stainless steel which has widespread use as fake silverware i.e. utensils made of silver. Sadly, stainless steel lacks the health properties of real silver, and is even mildly toxic because of the nickel content.
NICKEL TOXIC FAKE SILVER & GOLD JEWELRY
Nickel is a toxic heavy metal to humans which when your body gets too much of you develop a sensitivity to the nickel which manifests as a contact dermatitis skin rash. If you’ve ever worn costume jewelry which contains nickel such as fake silver “nickel-silver” you might get an allergic reaction from touching the jewelry from the nickel.
THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS
The word Christ comes from the Greek word for Gold. The concept of Christ is the concept of “real gold”, “real good”, “real God”. The opposite of Christ/Gold/Good/God is Fake Good/God/Gold is the Devil. Nickel which can be used for faking silver and gold definitely can be used for Devil energy when used to trick people, but Nickel is not inherently the devil it just is. Nickel is even a nutrient to early life but just not humans. Nickel is not nearly as bad as other heavy metals such as lead or mercury, and the real devil element is not nickel it’s fluoride, and the real Christ element is not just silver & gold it’s iodine.
THE REAL DEVIL ELEMENT IS FLUORINE AS FLUORIDE
The English word for a Nixie is Nicker or Neck. Neck as in the neck anatomy is the most correct word for the devil in terms of being the thyroid anatomy, the seat of the soul, where iodine is used for energy and where it is disrupted completely by fluoride poison. For more information on thyroid mythology read article Thyroid Quickening, and for how fluoride completely disrupts the body’s two energy systems with iodine and calcium read article Calcium: Thyroid & Osteoporosis.
NICKEL THE TRICKSTER ELEMENT
NICKEL TRICKS: SKIN ALLERGY
The problem with making faking silver out of nickel is that if you plate jewelry with nickel it causes a tricky skin rash called Nickel allergy! It’s the most common form of identifiable skin contact dermatitis which is caused by coming into contact with nickel containing items such as nickel plated jewelry or nickel containing coins, or zippers, belt buckles, metal buttons, or nickel alloyed utensils. Nickel allergy is proof that nickel is toxic to humans, and by definition if it is toxic then in nutritional sense then it’s a heavy metal. So nickel is a toxic heavy metal, but it is much less toxic than other heavy metals like mercury or lead. However nickel has another toxicity trick which is that it can feed other pathogens.
NICKEL TRICKS: FEEDING BAD STOMACH BACTERIA
Nickel is not a nutrient for humans but it is a nutrient for many ancient forms of lower life bacteria an archea. Relevant to human health is that some forms of bad stomach bacteria can actually use nickel as a nutrient for them which allow them to better survive stomach acid making nickel heavy metal a pathogen enabler. Most well studied is H. Pylori bad stomach bacteria which can use nickel metal in a urease protein which allows it to make basic ammonia which allows it to neutralize stomach acid and survive and grow better in humans which can result in problems such as stomach ulcers and stomach cancer. Also the nickel can allow the bacteria to increase the pH of other fluids such as blood an urine which can result in proteins falling out of solution creating stones such as kidney stones.
COUNTERING JEWELRY NICKEL TRICKS WITH IMEDDO
If you get a an allergy to a jewelry its typically of one of two forms either your skin starts turning green from too much copper, or with fake silver nickel jewelry, your skin can turn red and irritated with contact dermatitis. Stop wearing the offending jewelry immediately. If you have to much copper with skin turning green, you need to take more gold with iMedDo NeuGold and also supplement zinc. If your skin is turning red from the jewelry from nickel, stop wearing the jewelry and then you need to use the iMedDo Detox system to detox nickel out of your system as when you start getting contact dermatitis from nickel it correlates with your body already having too much nickel. When you detox you will eventually be able to wear nickel jewelry again at least temporarily and your contact dermatitis will be lessened if not gone completely after you detox. Still, I don’t recommend ever wearing fake silver “nickel-silver’ which is about (20% nickel, 20% zinc and 60% copper & 0% actual silver). Instead wear real silver such as sterling silver which is about (92% actual silver and 8% copper). It’s okay to wear jewelry with copper or copper in it so long as the copper does not start to turn your skin green. If you skin starts turning green from the jewelry it means your body has too much copper. Nickel-silver with 60% copper and 20% nickel can both turn your skin green and make it inflamed from the nickel allergy at the same time!
COUNTERING NICKEL STOMACH TRICKS WITH IMEDDO
The normal trace amount of nickel in your diet does not hurt you. But if you are getting extra nickel from eating off stainless steel utensils or some other way, it’s possible that you the extra nickel inside your gut can feed bad bacteria such as H. Pylori which can cause stomach ulcers and stomach cancer. Fortunately, when you are using the iMedDo detox system, the NeuSilver is a potent anti-bacterial which kills bad stomach bacteria so such problems even if you are eating off stainless steel shouldn’t ever be a problem. Normally you do 1 drop of NeuSilver a day, but for a gut reset you can do 7-10 drops a day for a few days to kill off bad gut bacteria. Normally your body only absorbs about 10% of the nickel you eat, but you still should consider switching from nickel containing stainless steel to actual silver, silverware utensils if the problems of the H. Pylori keeps coming back but likely it won’t if you doing your 1 drop of NeuSilver a day as part of the iMedDo detox system.
HOW NICKEL DETOX WORKS IN THE BODY AND HOW IMEDDO FACILITATES
Nickel as Ni2+ ion in the body can be absorbed by human serum albumin (hSA) protein in the blood and most of the nickel is broken down in the red blood cells and excreted out of the urine using glutathione detox pathway. Nickel as the Ni2+ ion like more toxic heavy metals lead Pb2+ and mercury Hg2+ ions can also interfere with other +2 cation pathways in the body in classical manner such as potentially interfering with Ca2+,Mg2+,Zn2+ signaling pathways. But fortunately, Nickel is much less toxic than either mercury or lead because since nickel is a nutrient for lower life forms which higher life forms evolved away from using, it gave biology plenty of opportunity to develop pathways to negate the toxicity of nickel. hSA proteins can absorb calcium and thyroid hormones and many other things including can bind to any free nickel toxin floating around in the blood. As such if you get overloaded with nickel it can interfere with your calcium and iodine (as thyroid hormones are iodine transport molecules) which can interfere with your energy as calcium and iodine are the two main energy systems controlled at the thyroid as I’ve talked about in a previous article. Getting NeuIodine is very important for nickel detox because as long as you are getting plenty of iodine, your body will have plenty of energy to detox nickel. NeuSilver is very important as will protect the gut from nickel using bacteria. NeuGold is very important as will protect the +2 signaling pathways as I discussed in previous article on lead detox. The Ca2+ pathways are protected by human blood serum proteins which make up up to 50% of the protein in the blood and can provide a large buffer for nickel toxicity. And it seems the older evolutionary pathways using Mg2+ are somehow protected from nickel though I don’t know how exactly, because if they weren’t you would experience much higher toxicity from nickel like you get from lead and mercury. So the main problem with nickel toxicity is that the Ni2+ can imitate Zinc Zn2+ pathways. So taking a zinc supplement in addition to doing iMedDo detox system is also advisable. But it really doesn’t matter if you don’t because of the power of NeuGold. The reason is that when Nickel imitates zinc it messes up the copper/zinc balance in the body and the body will try to compensate by increasing copper levels where the body can use gold as a superior copper to restore the balance. The copper(gold) / zinc balance is controlled by iodine. This energy control in monitored at the thyroid using iodine containing thyroid hormones and calcium, and is enacted in the blood by the human serum albumin proteins which can bind calcium, thyroid hormones (iodine), and nickel to buffer the toxic effects of the nickel until it can be excreted in urine from red blood cell glutathione detox pathway. NeuSilver and NeuGold are coated in glutathione which also facilitates the detox.
THE IMEDDO WAY
The iMedDo detox system is based around iodine which like oxygen can oxidize and eliminate any unwanted element in your body thus detoxing nickel is not a problem. Used with anti-inflammatory silver and gold to protect your body and brain from toxins as they come out, the iMedDo detox system is particularly powerful for detoxing nickel because both the iodine and the silver are also germicidal i.e. anti-bacterial which means not only will the iMedDo detox system detox nickel, but it will also kill the bacteria using the nickel further reducing nickel toxicity.
NICKEL DETOX SUMMARY AND FINAL THOUGHTS
Nickel really isn’t that toxic, but still I recommend you switch to real silverware not nickel containing stainless steel, and real silver and gold jewelry not nickel containing fake silver costume jewelry. When you already using iMedDo detox system, it’s unlikely you ever going to be bothered by bad nickel eating gut bacteria like H. Pylori and even if you were you could easily increase NeuSilver dosage to do a gut reset and then do probiotics afterward to gut replenish. It’s very beneficial to think about how nickel was used and is even being used today with current USA coins to make fake silver because the quest to find real gold is the quest to find God.
American Nickels (25% Nickel and 75% Copper i.e. Fake Silver).
NAMASTE,
DrBenGo Healthwarrior
PS In the appendix I have a little more information on nickel which can be skipped for the average reader, but I included for historical buffs and for my more advanced biology audience.
APPENDIX: HISTORIC USES OF NICKEL: METEORIC WEAPONRY
Nickel has been used by humans long before it was officially discovered from 3500 BC. Nickel is naturally found with iron in meteoric iron so meteor iron daggers like the one found on King Tut contain nickel alloy. King Tut was also found with a golden dagger, and the golden and meteor dagger on Tut correspond to stars on the Orion Constellation where the golden one is the belt of Orion and the meteor dagger is the vertical stars below. So for example Thor’s magical mythical hammer Mjolnir made from meteor iron for example would have presumably also contained nickel in it making it harder, and possibly giving a nickel allergy to many who touched it!
APPENDIX: NICKEL IN CHINA
The oldest written documented use of ore now known to contain nickel is from ancient China that suggest that “white copper” known as Baitong which is believed to be cupro-nickel was used 1700-1400 BC! The ore is now known to be a nickel arsenide so that stuff was extra toxic with the arsenic in it! The introduction of nickel in steel production in 1889 increased the demand for nickel; the nickel deposits of New Caledonia, discovered in 1865, provided most of the world’s supply between 1875 and 1915. The discovery of the large deposits in the Sudbury Basin in Canada in 1883, in Norilsk-Talnakh in Russia in 1920, and in the Merensky Reef in South Africa in 1924 made large-scale nickel production possible. Nickel is believe to compose much of the earth’s core alloyed with iron, though accessible nickel on earth surface is typcially from meteoric origin also as iron-nickel alloy.
APPENDIX: NICKEL & IRON IN EARLY LIFE
Nickel is used with iron in hydrogenase enzymes in early life forms. Prokaryotic cells which include bacteria and archea use nickel-iron hydrogenase to convert molecular hydrogen into protons H+. Protons can be used to make energy gradients, and to modulate pH where making more H+ decreases pH. The earliest life forms which might have had access to Iron & Nickel alloy from the earth’s mantle such as at ocean geothermal vents likely used both Iron and Nickel to process hydrogen gas into energy. Nickel is widely found alloyed with iron in meteorites that hit earth. I wrote an article called Iron: the Firestone of Life talking about the importance of iron for early life. Iron was critical for early life because it was used in nitrogenase enzymes which “fixed” nitrogen changing nitrogen gas N2 to more biologically usable form NH4+ (ammonium ion an acid). Nickel though not used in nitrogenase instead is used in an enzyme called urease which can break down urea into ammonia (NH3 a base). Because ammonium ion and ammonia are an acid/base pair possibly early life used iron and nickel in combination to modulate pH with NH4+ for more acid and NH3 to make more basic. Early life getting iron from earth’s mantle such as sea floor vents would have encountered and used nickel in addition to iron as they still do today. So nickel could be used in hyrogenase to decrease pH and used in urease to increase pH making nickel a useful nutrient for early life.
LATER LIFE EVOLVED AWAY FROM NICKEL
At some point higher life forms stopped using nickel. From what I gather, the split was between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells where the former could both import and export nickel whereas the later only exports nickel. So, for most higher life forms, nickel is not wanted or needed, and so the body only detoxes it by exporting nickel rather than importing nickel as a nutrient. Somehow iron and copper became more preferred usage than nickel. Perhaps it was because nickel was mostly needed for processing hydrogen gas whereas later life learned to use oxygen gas instead where life learned to rely on iron and copper instead of nickel chemistry. There is also some evidence that some early life, which used to rely on nickel for some proteins such as for superoxide dismutase and glyoxlase proteins, now relies on zinc instead in mammals and humans. Looking at how life went from iron + nickel to iron without nickel is the starting point for further education on this topic.
APPENDIX: SERUM ALBUMIN IN BLOOD CAN BIND NICKEL
There is a protein in vertebrate blood including humans known as serum albumin (SA) which gave me a big clue as to what is going on as SA binds many things but it turns out it can also bind nickel! SA is produced in the liver, occurs dissolved in blood plasma and is the most abundant blood protein in mammals including humans. SA is like the carry all protein of the blood as it can seemingly carry almost anything around including steroids, fatty acids, thyroid hormones, and a variety of metals including calcium & SA regulates blood oncotic pressure and buffers pH. Among the variety of metals that SA can carry, it turns out it can even carry Nickel as Ni2+ ion. Because SA can carry iodine containing thyroid hormones, SA is a possible spot where the body is able to bind and deal with Nickel toxicity by delivering iodine to strip nickel of electrons to form Ni2+ ion, to bind the Ni2+ ion, and to excrete it into the kidneys for exit out the urine. SA itself is negatively charged and does not exit the blood into the urine, so looking at how nickel could be dumped from SA into urine is of interest. Because SA can also carry calcium as well as Nickel it means Nickel can potentially disrupt calcium in the body and the 25k+ calcium pathways but the main thing it would interrupt by disrupting calcium and thyroid hormones is that nickel can disrupt the two energy systems of the body which are regulated by thyroid hormones and calcium at the thyroid.
APPENDIX: RED BLOOD CELLS DETOX NICKEL USING GLUTATHIONE
Ni binds to -SH groups (sulphur-hydrogen) as are found in sulphur containing amino acids such as glutathione [from combination of glutamate and cysteine amino acids] and methionine amino acid. It is detoxified and excreted by glutathione conjugation in red blood cells by glutathione-S-transferase (this can be measured by glutathione-S-transferase studies).