For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:
Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).
- Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
- Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for five product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
- Please check out our press page to see some of the amazing coverage of our work so far this year!
June 27, 2022 — Monday
Many of my readers have asked about what sort of levels my own heavy metals test might reveal — and I was curious as well (I hadn’t been tested for Lead since Charlie was born — and his 14th birthday is in two weeks!). Click the image below to see the full four-page heavy metals panel test result and report for the provoked urine test I had done earlier this month (June 2022) at Dr. Salerno’s clinic in New York City.
I will also publish a video of my discussion with Dr. Salerno (a zoom convo we had after getting these results in, discussing metals testing in general, as well as reviewing in detail my specific results and the implications of the levels for each of the metals I tested positive for). Stand by for that. To read some of my additional writing on this subject, click here or here. Thank you for checking this out! (Scroll down for a short video about how this came about, too — in case you missed it!)
Elisa says
Hi Tamara, I’m new in your website and I found it very useful, thank you very much for all the information.
One question, about the heavy metal test, why do you think it is best to do it provoked? And do you recommend to do IV or OV chelation and with what exactly?
Katie says
Hi Elisa,
Here are some posts about detox/chelation on Tamara’s website:
https://tamararubin.com/detox/
https://tamararubin.com/2019/07/click-the-link-to-learn-more-wait-what-is-this-click-bait-what-are-you-selling/
https://tamararubin.com/2017/01/natural-chelation/
As well as a post about urine and hair tests:
https://tamararubin.com/2020/05/i-heard-that-urine-and-hair-tests-for-heavy-metals-including-lead-were-not-real-or-useful-test-results-why-is-this/