Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
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 Even worse from a health standpoint, some cold-water Ash are contaminated with mercury. These include swordfish, shark, tilefish, and king mackerel. Avoid eating these fish.
Approximately 8 percent of women in the United States between the ages of 16 and 49 have mercury concentrations higher than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recommended reference dose. In general, haddock, tilapia, salmon, cod, pollock, canned albacore tuna, sole, and most shellfish are relatively low in mercury. See the FDA website: http://www.epa.gov/mercury/ fish. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Metal Magic cilantro / chlorella tincture from Baseline Nutritionals blocks the absorption of the majority of mercury found in fish.
Activated charcoal supplements can also protect against mercury in food sources. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It governs the nervous system and the physiological mechanisms of communication, including the senses of hearing and speaking, thyroid, respiratory system, lungs, bronchi, and vocal cords. mercury facilitates the ability to make associations and link concepts.
This planet rules mosses as well as plants that grow on trees or in the air. Mercury-governed plants often exhibit finely divided leaves or stems, resembling the bronchi of the lungs, and stems with an airy, grasslike nature. They may help relax the nervous system and improve respiration and often have a changeable flavor. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Follow-up product tests conducted by Lam found mercury in eight of 38 skin whitening creams made in China and Taiwan. Some of the products were labeled "mercury free."7
Nevertheless, the "thriving bihaku (white beauty) boom remains one of the most significant driving forces for overall growth as manufacturers cater to the Asian preference for a fair complexion," reported Euromonitor. "According to leading industrial sources, up to 60% of Japanese women use skin whitening products in their daily regime, presenting manufacturers with a strong opportunity for continued growth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the same thing with mercury. mercury is even more poisonous than lead. An infant is getting 150 times the dose of mercury than the EPA safety limits. A hundred times higher than the FDA safety limits. Here's a little baby that's getting 150 times higher a dose than the FDA says is safe for an adult.
Mike: What are the big points readers to take away? What do you think they need to remember in order to protect themselves?
Dr. Blaylock: You need to abstain from all of these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient, and neither is MSG. The weight of the evidence is overwhelming. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 While the widespread consumption of fluorescent lights may save our nation from wasting electricity on incandescent lights, it may also lead to a mercury contamination catastrophe. Never before in the history of our world has so much mercury been so widely distributed across the environment. The long-term effects of this contamination are currently unknown, but they can only be negative. The only unknown concerns the degree of harm that will emerge. |
Stacy Malkan
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| To find out there's all sorts of stuff in there: pesticides, mercury, lead ... I was up all night thinking about it."
Makeup Call
Michelle Hammond wasn't quite sure what to think. Hers was the first family in the United States to be biomonitored as part of a series of stories in the Oakland Tribune. "The results stunned even scientists," reported Douglas Fischer in the award-winning series.5
The tests found plasticizers, mercury, lead, cadmium and Teflon chemicals in the bodies of the two parents and two children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mercury is also released into the atmosphere from all the energy usage, thanks to the fact that much of the electricity consumed in the world comes from coal-fired power plants that emit toxic mercury into the air.
So the Total Cost of Ownership for a 100-watt light bulb is well over $500 for producing 50,000 hours of light.
In contrast, what is the Total Cost of Ownership for our 10-watt EcoLEDs light bulb? The LED light itself costs about $100 up front. It uses 10.8 watts of electricity, which adds up to 540 kilowatt-hours over 50,000 hours. That's about $54 in electricity, vs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The biggest thing they react to in the vaccine is the mercury, which acts as a stabilizer. We know there are species of fish with very high levels of mercury, depending on where they are caught. So, we made great strides in making that fishmeal, because it is very important to have that fishmeal. It provides flavor and vitamin A. It provides fatty acids, which in no way can you get from a vegetable. We went out of our way to shop the Manhattan fishmeal to get that lowest level of mercury.
Mike: Interestingly enough, there is another ingredient I like to see here -- kelp. |
| I'm one who is very concerned about mercury in our food chain and how we are exposed to it. We know as humans how much disease it can create. It does the same thing in our animals. One of the biggest problems is vaccinosis, which are reactions to vaccines. The biggest thing they react to in the vaccine is the mercury, which acts as a stabilizer. We know there are species of fish with very high levels of mercury, depending on where they are caught. So, we made great strides in making that fishmeal, because it is very important to have that fishmeal. It provides flavor and vitamin A. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Would you see mercury and cadmium?
Dr. Weiss: mercury, specifically. mercury for the sea stuff, lead for the land stuff.
Mike: Now, this is a fairly new brand for Enzymatic Therapy, correct?
Dr. Weiss: Yes, it is. It's been out [over a year], and it's doing very, very well. Everybody knows that getting more greens and vegetables is a good idea. The question is how to do it fast, keep it palatable and still keep the same feeling. Now people don't have to choke down vegetables and gag on them. They can enjoy it, which they should be able to. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Despite this, some practitioners frighten patients by telling them the mercury in their dental fillings may be the factor making them sick. This issue has been examined, and there is no evidence to support the assertion. Nonetheless, I have several patients who were convinced of this and went through the long, expensive, and painful process of having all their amalgams removed. Unfortunately, they are still ill. Any believer can act as an authority and state that heavy metals or mercury from teeth are responsible for your being sick. And if there is M.D. or D.O. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 These findings are controversial, since recent research suggests this mercury is not as harmful as usual mercury. Still, almost all fish contain trace amounts of methylmercury, through small quantities are not harmful to humans and it is eliminated from your body over time. But long-lived, larger fish accumulate the highest levels of methylmercury and pose a greater potential risk to you and your unborn child.
Importantly, fish is still a great food that is high in protein and heart-healthy oils—and so long as you choose the right variety, you are safe. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's the same thing with mercury. mercury is even more poisonous than lead. An infant is getting 150 times the dose of mercury than the EPA safety limits. A hundred times higher than the FDA safety limits. Here's a little baby that's getting 150 times higher a dose than the FDA says is safe for an adult.
Mike: What are the big points readers to take away? What do you think they need to remember in order to protect themselves?
Dr. Blaylock: You need to abstain from all of these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient, and neither is MSG. The weight of the evidence is overwhelming. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mercury is far more toxic than lead in many ways, yet the media has nothing to say about the mass poisoning of children through the outmoded dental work still being performed on children today. mercury fillings were invented before the Civil War, and they're just as toxic now as they were then!
Of course, if dental fillings were made in China, the U.S. press would be screaming about their toxicity! But since they're installed by crazed U.S. dentists -- many of whom still manage to seem convincingly sane -- there's zero coverage in the mainstream media. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gary Gordon was giving these RNA factors to autistic children and knocking out the viruses and then getting the mercury detox. It is a more complex story. It is not like just going in and grabbing something, because somebody is on the other side saying, "No, I want it, and I am staying here." How do you get them out? It is a bigger picture. You have to be in the position not only to chelate mercury, if you could, but to knock out the viruses that are grabbing onto it even stronger than the chelation therapy.
Mike: That is interesting. How does a virus sequester heavy metals?
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| You cannot get the mercury out with anything that is known. You try to and do DMSA and whatever, and they cannot get it out. They have found that viruses sequestered the heavy metals, and that the viruses were hard to get out of the body. Well, it turns out that RNA is a tremendous anti-viral substance.
Dr. Gary Gordon was giving these RNA factors to autistic children and knocking out the viruses and then getting the mercury detox. It is a more complex story. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And since coal-fired power plants release mercury into the atmosphere, the use of less energy means less overall mercury is being introduced to the environment. While this sounds sensible at first, it's still junk logic: How does harming the planet slightly less than before deserve a "green" claim of any kind? If I poke you with ten sharp sticks, and then reduce it to just five sharp sticks, I cannot claim that my actions are suddenly "good for your health!" It's still a harmful action with negative consequences. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 It interferes with the transmission of nerve impulses from the brain to the rest of the body, producing tremors, tingling sensations, and numbness. mercury also interferes with hormone function and can deactivate minerals such as calcium and magnesium, which are important for sound sleep.15 A recent study found that patients with dental amalgams had a significantly higher incidence of insomnia (as well as anger, depression, and anxiety) than those without amalgams, because of mercury's effects on neurotransmitters in the brain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mercury is far more toxic than lead in many ways, yet the media has nothing to say about the mass poisoning of children through the outmoded dental work still being performed on children today. mercury fillings were invented before the Civil War, and they're just as toxic now as they were then!
Of course, if dental fillings were made in China, the U.S. press would be screaming about their toxicity! But since they're installed by crazed U.S. dentists -- many of whom still manage to seem convincingly sane -- there's zero coverage in the mainstream media. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It means our products contain no mercury, cadmium lead or other toxic chemicals or heavy metals. As far as I know, we are currently the only consumer products company in the United States that has gone to the trouble (and expense) of manufacturing and selling RoHS-certified products.
Since these rules are not required in the United States, most retailers pay no attention to them and keep selling products made with mercury and other toxic substances. But because I'm such a proponent of protecting both nature and human health, I insist on sourcing RoHS-certified products wherever possible. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| On top of that, it produces a whopping 10,150 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions which directly promote global warming and climate change. mercury is also released into the atmosphere from all the energy usage, thanks to the fact that much of the electricity consumed in the world comes from coal-fired power plants that emit toxic mercury into the air.
So the Total Cost of Ownership for a 100-watt light bulb is well over $500 for producing 50,000 hours of light.
In contrast, what is the Total Cost of Ownership for our 10-watt EcoLEDs light bulb? The LED light itself costs about $100 up front. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Yet few people truly understand the health hazards posed by the mercury found in these lights.
Fluorescent lights are filled with a gas containing low-pressure mercury vapor and argon. The inner surface of the bulb is coated with a fluorescent coating made of varying blends of metallic and rare earth phosphor salts. When a high-voltage current is passed through this vapor, the electricity causes the gasses to "fluoresce" or emit light. |
Stacy Malkan
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| According to dermatologists, skin color is genetic and no chemical can permanently lighten skin — although hydroquinone can produce temporary whitening effects, as can the heavy metals chromium and mercury, both of which have been detected in skin whitening creams sold in Asia. After the SK-II incident in China, media organizations in Hong Kong tested a range of skin whitening creams and reportedly found chromium in products made by Clinique, Estee Lauder, Christian Dior, Max Factor, Lancome and Shiseido.6 mercury has also been detected in several products made in China and Taiwan. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 There was also a small correction to this law, which was utterly negligible for planetary motion, except in the case of mercury, the planet closest to the Sun. The effect of the correction was to cause a slow precession, or advance, of Mercury's orbit. Astronomical observations did in fact show a tiny precession, which remained unexplained in Newton's theory, but was in perfect agreement with Einstein's calculation. At this point Einstein was certain that the theory was correct. "I was beside myself with ecstasy for days," he wrote to his friend Paul Ehrenfest. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| What is the value of preventing the release of a kilogram of mercury from a power plant? You see, nobody has really put a price figure on these things because polluting the environment continues to be seen by most American consumers and politicians as a revenue-neutral event when, in reality, it is a huge hidden cost against future economic productivity. Every gram of mercury and every pound of carbon dioxide released into the air places an unknown future cost on the national economy. With this in mind, consider the REAL cost of burning incandescent lights. |
| They pay you back in 1-2 years in electricity costs alone (depending on how much you pay for electricity), not to mention the benefits of protecting the environment from more CO2 and mercury emissions. That's an environmental cost that consumers rarely factor into their monthly electricity bill, but it's a very real cost associated with wasting electricity.
What is the value of preventing the release of 10,000 pounds of CO2 into the air? What is the value of preventing the release of a kilogram of mercury from a power plant? |
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