Walter Last
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 Symptoms of mercury poisoning include: fatigue, lethargy, depression, irritability, shyness, loss of short-term memory, allergies, respiratory infections, decreased immune response, increased salivation, gingivitis, loose teeth, mouth ulcers, nervous heart problems, digestive problems, and dermatitis, as well as changes in hearing, vision, speech, and writing. Most prominent are nervous system disorders with serious mental disturbances. Many symptoms are actually the same as in multiple sclerosis. |
| Mercury: Chronic mercury poisoning can originate from certain pesticides and fungicides, calomel laxatives, predatory fish, and especially amalgam tooth fillings. Such fillings release mercury from broken-off pieces that dissolve in the stomach and also from evaporation in the mouth that is caused by pressure on the fillings during chewing. Old fillings are thus much lighter than new fillings because they have lost most of their mercury. Acidic foods increase the rate at which mercury fillings disintegrate. |
| The M to MM potencies have been used to remove heavy metals from the body either after an acute poisoning or from chronic exposure, as in the case of chronic mercury poisoning from teeth filled with mercury amalgam.
In addition to producing low-potency remedies from allergenic foods, you can also buy M to MM remedies of foods to which you are allergic. If you have had much X-ray treatment, buy and use an X-ray remedy (see www.gdr.org/drrita.html); if you are sensitive to electricity, fluorescent lighting, or house dust, use the corresponding commercial remedy. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| Public Health study conducted in 1941 found that more than 10 percent of felt workers in this country had chronic mercury poisoning. After scientists were able to document the toxic effects of mercury poisoning in felt workers, its use in felt manufacturing was banned in most nations.
Solvents
These are volatile liquid organic compounds that easily vaporize when exposed to air and dissolve other organic compounds. Solvents, such as benzene, carbon disulfide, methylene chloride, methyl »-butyl ketone, and »-hexane, to name a few, are extremely useful in many kinds of industrial processes. |
| THE MAD HATTER: mercury poisoning {continued) nineteenth-century felt worker whose occupation caused him to develop what was called hatter's shakes. The mercury used in the manufacture of felt was then described as producing neurological symptoms and, in its advanced stages, hallucinations and psychotic symptoms. Another well-known case was the outbreak known as Minamata disease (see Box 1.2, p. 25).
A U.S. Public Health study conducted in 1941 found that more than 10 percent of felt workers in this country had chronic mercury poisoning. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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 It is very likely that a depressed immune system from mercury poisoning can also predispose a person to cancer, not to mention the fact that mercury is, itself, a directly carcinogenic substance. One cancer story involving mercury amalgams was reported by the son of a dentist named Dr. Pinto. Dr. Pinto first learned about the dangers of amalgams at a conference in the 1920s. According to the story, Dr. Pinto was asked to treat a child who was complaining that her gums hurt. The child was also dying of leukemia. To try to save the child, Dr. Pinto quietly removed all of her amalgam fillings. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
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 Again, be aware of toxins these fish may contain due to industrial pollution of our waters. mercury poisoning as well as many other toxins are increasing in all fish species. Shellfish and larger saltwater fish are the worst. Knowing the source of the fish is helpful.
Fowl are the next best source of protein. Chicken and turkey are most favorable because the fat accumulates on the outside of the meat rather than on the inside. Since most toxins found in these animals accumulate in the fat, you can easily avoid them by removing the skin and fat from the meat. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| There are many ways that toxic mercury poisoning from dental work can bring about a gamut of illnesses. One of the ways this can happen is by weakening the immune system in general. Dr. David Eggleston of the University of Southern California measured T-lymphocyte levels in patients with mercury amalgam fillings. As an important contributor to health, T-lymphocytes normally comprise from 70 to 80 percent of the lymphocyte population in a healthy person's immune system. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 BAL is widely used for inorganic mercury poisoning (Roberts 1999), with D-penicillamine used as an alternative. Other treatments are activated charcoal for gastrointestinal decontamination unless there is evidence of conosive damage in the gastrointestinal tract (Ferner 2001), gastric and whole bowel lavage, and supportive measures. |
| When appropriate, emesis is induced in cases of acute arsenic or mercury poisoning (Dr. Joseph F. Smith Medical Library 2001).
§BuSUiSiM Contact a physician, emergency department, or poison center before using emesis.
Charcoal
Charcoal is administered in single- or multiple-dose regimens, either intravenously or orally. Single doses are most effective if administered within the first hour after ingestion. Multiple-dose regimens are often used in complicated cases and in children because the smaller doses (half of a single dose) appear be better tolerated than the larger single dose (Anon. |
Gary Null
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| We do know however that Parkinson's is being associated with mercury poisoning, aluminum overload, and exposure to pesticides. These three very toxic metals and chemicals may be the underlying cause of damage to the mitochondria and significant factors that we must eliminate both from the external environment and our internal body environment.
A multicentered study by the Parkinson Study Group researched the effects of coenzyme Q10 in early Parkinson's disease. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Herbs
Q Alfalfa contains valuable nutrients and helps the body to eliminate toxins.
Recommendations
Q Eat organically grown foods, especially beans, onions, and garlic, for added sulfur, which helps protect the body against toxic substances.
Q Drink water only if it is steam-distilled. Drink plenty of pure fresh fruit and vegetable juices.
Q Supplement your diet with plenty of fiber (oat bran is a good source) and pectin (found in apples).
Note: Always take supplemental fiber separately from other supplements and medications. |
Gary Null
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 Unfortunately, the mercury they are ingesting tonight will be with them for the rest of their life. mercury poisoning is not uncommon and this young couple and their daughter, if they don't change their eating habits, might suffer in ten years from tremors, irritability, fatigue, headaches, metallic taste in their mouth, kidney damage, even insanity. Do you remember the Mad Hatter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? He was a figment of Lewis Carroll's imagination. But real hatters did used to go mad from mercury poisoning. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 Symptoms of mercury poisoning include fatigue, headache, depression, irregular heartbeat, insomnia, high blood pressure, and allergies, among others.
If you have mercury fillings, what can you do to protect your health? Since the mineral selenium displaces mercury in your body and helps usher it out of your system, Dr. Kennedy suggests taking 200 micrograms a day.
A daily dose of 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C can also help protect your body from mercury poisoning from fillings, says James Hardy, D.M.D., a holistic dentist in Winter Park, Florida.
He also recommends eating a lot of cilantro. |
Gary Null
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| But real hatters did used to go mad from mercury poisoning. It wasn't uncommon for a hatmaker to lose his sanity after a lifetime of breathing fumes from mercury-treated felt. mercury poisoning is very serious.
THE DANGER OF NUCLEAR POLLUTION
In addition to chemical pollution, perhaps our friends are not aware of all the nuclear pollution that ends up in the world of the fish. The fish are attracted to the warm water near atomic reactors. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 Stortebecker, P. mercury poisoning from Dental Amalgam—A Hazard to the Human Brain. Orlando, FL: Bio-Probe, 1985-86.
-. Dental Caries as a Cause of Nervous Disorders.
Orlando, FL: Bio-Probe, 1982.
Taylor, J., D.D.S. The Complete Guide to Mercury Toxicity from Dental Fillings: How to Find Out if Your Dental Fillings Are Poisoning You and What You Can Do About It. San Diego, CA: Scripps Publishing.
Timbrell, J.A. Principles of Biochemical Toxicology, Second Edition. Bristol, PA: Taylor and Francis, 1991.
Upah, G. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| A daily dose of 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C can also help protect your body from mercury poisoning from fillings, says James Hardy, D.M.D., a holistic dentist in Winter Park, Florida.
He also recommends eating a lot of cilantro. "I think it's the best herb for removing heavy metals such as mercury from your system," he says. Every day, put about Vi ounce of the herb in salads, burritos, or wherever you use greens. (Make sure the herb is fresh, says Dr. Hardy.) Toss some garlic in those recipes, too. The sulfur in garlic binds to heavy metals and ushers them out of your system, he believes. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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 Other theories as to the cause include mercury poisoning (primarily from amalgam dental fillings), food or chemical allergies, heavy metal poisoning, intestinal parasites, hypoglycemia, hypothyroidism, anemia, viral infection, and chronic fatigue syndrome, which causes similar symptoms. In fact, fibromyalgia is so closely associated with chronic fatigue syndrome that many doctors simply assume that anyone suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome also has fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia affects more women than men, and usually arises first in early adulthood. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 An article by the Canadian Medical Association in 1976 reported that Indians in Northern Canada, who ate over one pound of fish per day, had symptoms of mercury poisoning. A1985 study in West Germany of 136 people who regularly consumed fish from the Elbe River found a correlation between the blood levels of both mercury and pesticides and the amount of fish eaten.
Fish and shellfish may also carry their own toxins. The most common of these toxins is ciguatera poisoning. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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 Lane recommends selenium supplements only to people who have been found to be deficient in glutathione peroxidase activity or in red blood cell selenium or who have been subject to mercury poisoning. Dr. Olson does not recommend individual selenium supplements but does sometimes recommend multivitamin/mineral products that contain selenium, such as leaps and Ocuvite (available in health food stores).
Doctors who recommend selenium supplements suggest 50 to 200 micrograms a day, no more. |
Kenny Ausubel
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 Higginson went on to record the horrid condition of American teeth, an unmistakable consequence of mercury poisoning: "One seldom talks to a dentist who did not despair of the Republic."19
An empiric critic of the period wryly cited allopathic treatments as "one of those great discoveries which are made from time to time for the depopulation of the earth."20 The public seemed to agree and was by now considerably less than enthusiastic about these "heroic" procedures. People migrated in droves to the diversity of empiric healers by the 1830s. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| Risk is greatest when exposure occurs between the sixth and eighth months of pregnancy; women with children affected bv mercury poisoning had blood levels of 9-27 parts per million.)
Stillbirth, swollen gums, hyperpigmentation, deformed nails, acne, central nervous system damage, and developmental disabilities. |
| There have been several incidences of widespread mercury poisoning with dramatic reproductive and fetal effects as a result of industrial pollution. The most famous occurred in Minimata, Japan, in the 1950s when a local manufacturing plant disposed of its inorganic mercury wastes by dumping them into the nearby bay. The inorganic mercury was converted to meth-ylmercury by aquatic microorganisms, resulting in the contamination of local seafood. |
Rebecca Wood
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 Health Benefits Spirulina lowers cholesterol, suppresses fatty accumulation in the liver, prevents tumor formation, enhances the immune system, protects kidneys from mercury poisoning, is useful in treating obesity, and aids digestion by increasing the levels of beneficial bacteria in the intestines. Spirulina is very cooling and therefore not advised for people who tend to be cold and have accompanying "damp" conditions in the lower body, such as water retention, candida-type infections, or cysts. |
David Brownstein
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 The number one source of mercury poisoning is dental fillings. Dental amalgams (i.e., fillings) contain approximately 50% mercury as well as other metals, including nickel. The World Health Organization estimates that the largest source of mercury in humans comes from fillings implanted by dentists. The amount of mercury from fillings is over ten times more than for all other environmental sources combined.
Mercury is also found in sources other than dental fillings. The following are some of the other sources of mercury:
1. Fish
2. Water-based paint
3. Polluted water
4. Fungicides
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Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg
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 The pathology of mercury poisoning is complicated because mercury binds to many different sites in the body. For example, mercury is especially attracted to sulfur and there are a number of "sulfur sites" in the body. Sulfur is found in red blood cells, heart muscle, and in portions of the cells that control genetic reproduction. Mercury will poison any enzymes containing sulfur, including those involved in the formation of insulin, the ability of blood to clot, and processes related to DNA. |
| Additionally, mercury suppresses thyroid function by poisoning the enzyme required to produce the active form of the thyroid hormone (T3) from the inactive form (T4). mercury poisoning has the curious talent of being able to mimic certain diseases, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis, scleroderma, and lupus.
Root Canals
Dental root canals were found to be extremely toxic as long as 100 years ago. |
John Heinerman
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 With all of the recent attention given amalgam fillings, which dentists have routinely used, the public mind has been confronted with the very real dangers attending mercury poisoning. In his classic work, Lehrbuck der Phytotherapie (Stuttgart: Hippokrates Verlag GmbH, 1985; p. 237, 6th Ed.), the late Rudolf Fritz
Weiss, M.D. highly recommended parsley juice as an excellent way to get rid of toxic mercury residue from the body. |
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| Rule out mercury poisoning. (Death rates from MS related to the numbers of decayed, missing, and filled teeth.)
MUSCLE ACHES
Allopathic control: Aspirin, acetaminophen, antispasmodics.
Natural control: Chiropractic care; add calcium, magnesium, vitamin E, and potassium. Useful herbs: Arnica, Ruta, Hypericum, Cimicifuga.
OBESITY
Allopathic control: Eat less. Cut out fat and cholesterol, exercise.
Natural control: Check for low thyroid and food sensitivities. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Finally, alpha-lipoic acid, as a metal chelator, has been shown to offer complete protection against mercury poisoning in mice when given in a high dose. Similar protection was also seen in cases of arsenite poisoning in animals. But, the dose had to be in a high ratio to the poison. Cadmium poisoning is known to induce cellular membrane damage, lipid peroxidation, and depletion of cellular glutathione. In rats, alpha-lipoic acid was found to completely prevent cadmium-induced lipid peroxidation in the heart, brain, and testes.
As you can see alpha-lipoic acid is truly a remarkable compound. |
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