Guest guest Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 MERCURY: More evidence of harm The use of mercury being ARRANT NONSENSE chrome google: epstein pink diseaseORhttp://archive.samj.org.za/1953 VOL XXVII Jul-Dec/Articles/03 September/3.10 PINK DISEASE AND TEETHING POWDERS.Dr.B.Epstein.pdf Epstein did some research back in the 1950's on mercury harm. Not so much a piece of research from the museum of science history as lost in the basement of the same science museum. His work is priceless to understand the MERCURY mess we are in today. His work showed 1 child in 5 excreted absolutely NO mercury and yet they were severely ill. But about the same number with the same illness were excreting such a large amount that it would be impossible not to be severely ill. The excretion rate was at the level of over 500 micrograms per litre in their urine. Conversely in his control group there were children excreting up to this amount of 500 and they were perfectly healthy. Another control group with absolutely no exposures to any mercury presented with more than half of them with measurable amounts of mercury. One in 10 probably had too much mercury to be fine and with no mercury exposure, a considerable worry then for their future health and more so today for all of us in a mercury polluted world. Is it surprising today if we live to a good age that 3 out of 4 will get Alzheimer Disease. Epstein explains clearly how his data implicates mercury harm despite the blur, fuzz and range of findings of health or illness inconsistent individually with the mercury amounts found. With a few exceptions of less than 1 child in 12; any single figure for mercury excretion would give no consistent and reliable indication of whether that child was well or ill. But put together with symptoms, mercury excretion and even with the small numbers tested the results were damning for mercury. Mercury did cause Pinks Disease and those who remained well with mercury had their immune system to thank for their health. The immune system built up over generations of ancestors. The challenge of why children with ZERO excretion of mercury were very ill is harder to answer. Today we have those who maintain that mercury is retained by sufferers and not excreted. But equally likely is that they have been exposed to mercury and are now sensitised to it. We know potential harm comes from very low levels of mercury exposure. The amounts of mercury in these children are staggering by todays standards and therefore not necessarily typical of illness from todays exposure. These children sweated as if they were hot but were actually very cold to the touch. They could have red skin literally falling off their backs. We do not tend to see these clinical signs today but this does not mean we are not being toxified by smaller amounts of mercury. Today, we would be surprised if people did not immediately think of a toxic cause for Pink Disease. But today we fall for the same mistake that held up the cause for a hundred years. We are so inbred with the modern ideas of Pasteur and of the even more modern ideas of the virus and today the protein illness (the PRION) that simple chemical poisoning is forgotten, not looked for and even bitterly resented when put forward. Why, waste time looking at NEUROTOXINS when searching for a neurological illness. Even when rates rise and the illness is higher in countries where children are exposed to mercury. The same objections prevented the real mercury cause for Pink Disease. When mercury exposure actually killed a handful of children before Pink Disease was identified we see doctors bewailing chemists when they find mercury but could not find the toxic cause of death to so many children. Talk about missing the boat. Today sadly this mentality is everywhere. Yes we know these autism children get exposed to mercury but it is important to find the gene responsible for their illness. How can genes explain illness when parents are both fine and the ratio of boys to girls fits no known theory of gene illness even if the mythical gene was identified. Meanwhile very toxic neurotoxins are in the clear with evidence more damning than shown here for Pink Disease. History does repeat itself. Thousands of tons of mercury pollution have turned once mercury free fish into holders of methyl mercury and this is now used to induce people to willingly and deliberately take that little bit more of mercury into their bodies. See the fish live with the mercury in them so your little child to be will love to swim in a mercury environment ready for when he or she emerges into a MERCURY ILLUMINATA world. The excuse that a microgram of mercury in a vaccine is minute compared to a milligram of mercury in our fish begs the question of why fish have that amount in them today. And it begs the question as to the fact that this amount is already a 100 times too much to take safely. But everything has a RISK today and we need to take risks especially if they only belong to others less able to defend themselves. We have to stand 10 lots of mercury so why not 11 lots tomorrow, 12 the day after and so on. But where and WHEN do we say ENOUGH. Since the time of Epstein we have increased by mans hand the amount of mercury in the environment more than a 100 fold. That 10 to 11 to 12 was but the start. Epstein shows us that those excreting very large amounts are not mercury toxified but SUR-toxified. They would be ill even with a hundred times less mercury. Other babies as mentioned are ill when mercury tests indicate they should be healthy. Practically ZERO mercury or too small to measure in 1950 but still VERY ill. Some babies with too much mercury are in good health. Nature has wonderful powers of defence not known to man. Man in fact insists we have to be saved from this mechanism by exposing us to just a little mercury (100 times too much in fact). The miracle is that out of 10 000 only 4 got mercury harmed and today this means only 60 or so are being harmed as the mercury stakes rise. This leaves a lot of people around ignorantly chanting. IT NEVER HARMED ME. Let them be EXPOSED. Then and today we can make sense of all these figures. Richet showed even simple molecules can induce ANAPHYLAXIS and clearly those with too much mercury and well may become ill later. Those with very little or even no excretion of mercury are now ALLERGIC to mercury in their bodies. Unable to excrete what is harming them. Mercury is a known cumulo-toxin. Mercury is also a known TERATOGEN and the increase since these times can explain the rise in cancer alongside other chemical toxins. Mercury doesn't just give us a risk of autism et al. Mercury was uniquely responsible it seems for Pinks Disease but this does not limit the harm of mercury simply to this illness. As said, other ills may have gone unnoticed including AUTISM. We know Pinks has been with us for 100 years unrecognised and for 150 years without knowing it was mercury. Autism too, goes way back into history and is not limited to the date given by Kanner. This just represents the date when it was recognised as this illness. Today, much debate goes into whether it has increased or decreased. In fact with changing exposures the illness will naturally change. We accept increase only when explaining away mercury cause. But otherwise we tend to hide the increase. Doctors are not only incapable of finding cause for autism they are incapable of determining the change in numbers. Chemists are clear valproate, thalidomide, viral toxins, lead metal all cause types of autism and mercury will be no exception. Pinks has 12 classic clinical features but no single case of Epstein showed all 12 or anything close. A character of a toxic illness apart from the bizarreness of test readings is the spectrumod signs and intensity. The fact autism is a spectrum disease should alert anyone to an obvious chemical cause. Also autism and even the wider spectrum will not include all illness cases. Boxes to put patients into is of mans making just as the cause is of humans making. The problem is finding what other illnesses are of mercury culpability. Alzheimer Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes et al. People in mental institutes will have autism in the past which went unrecognised. The use of past research and past solutions for illness is absolutely vital for us to understand new illness or recently recognised illness and the pitfalls to avoid when positive leads are scrapped for causation for being to embarrassing or whatever reason. Even if mercury did not cause some autism it is not a substance to increase in our environment more than a hundred fold over the past 50 years. There is good reason to believe that alongside fish and humans even the planet itself suffers from the MERCURY madness of man. When lead was eliminated from petrol the beneficial health effects were quickly noticed. For mercury this will be a harder task but even more necessary. And the rewards even greater. There is an urgent need to look back over the history Pinks disease and what happened to those who suffered. Long overdue. Not time to forget Pink Disease but to learn from the mistakes and errors. For Minamata we have an Institute and we belatedly need the same for Pinks. Epstein proves himself human when he mentions the benefits for a child from ASPIRIN but that as they say is another story. But he was spot on correct with his evaluation of mercury as a medicine ARRANT NONSENSE MERCURY: More evidence of harm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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