Re: Mercury

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Don't panick. Nothing has changed since you found out, has it? You probably

have mercury in your tissues. If you cook with cilantro, take chlorella with

the food. Knowing what you face makes it easier to prepare for it. There are

many ways to detox mercury, none are fast and you don't want them to be. Speed

detox causes secondary symptoms. If it makes you feel any better we are all

likely to have mercury toxicity to some degree. I know I did/do. Bernie will

surely be along to help you through this. Mercury is everywhere!

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> I've just found out that my mercury levels are off the scale.

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> I don't know if this is the norm these days with so much fish containing it.

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> I had my amalgams removed (badly) a few years ago, have done one Detox and use

cilantro in cooking a fair bit.

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> Any suggestion about what is best to get rid of it?

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> Apologies for not reading through the files here which might indeed have the

answer. If no one replies I'll know to look at the archives but I'm panicking a

bit.

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> Janet

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> I've just found out that my mercury levels are off the scale.

I agree with , you need the chlorella. Cilantro only mobilizes the

mercury by making your cell membranes more porous. You need chlorella to bind

it and actually move it out of your body so that it doesn't just re-settle in

other cells.

Crystal

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Hi Janet,

Was this through a provoked urine test? I've read that those are unreliable

(some people with high mercury show low, and vice-versa), and can also be

dangerous in stirring up mercury symptoms.

Hair tests that show low mercury can also be meaningless if the mercury has been

pushed deep into the organs and brain through long term exposure, such that it

isn't excreted into the hair.

Andy Cutler (author of the books Amalgam Illness and Hair Test Interpretation)

proposed that a hair test (especially one from Doctor's Data Inc, with which he

developed his " counting rules " ) showing statistically unusual patterns of the

minerals (calcium, magnesium, zinc, etc) can indicate a high probability of

mercury toxicity. My own hair test met 2 of his counting rules, indicating a

VERY high probability of mercury toxicity. And the mercury in my test was low. I

had 15 mercury fillings (most of them for decades), so no surprise!

But there is also evidence that chlorella can be harmful to a mercury toxic

person, by dragging around the mercury and not excreting it. (It's

tecchnical,and has to do with monothiols and dithiols.) I felt worse several

years ago after taking lots of chlorella. Here's a post of Cutler's regarding

chlorella:

http://onibasu.com/archives/am/27356.html

Cilantro, he says, can actually bind tighter to mercury than chlorella and help

excrete it, but not enough studies have been done to determinee safe dosages and

dosing frequency, so he recommends avoiding it for now.

I'm using the Cutler protocol for chelating the mercury out. I trust his info as

he's a PhD chemist who has studied the medical and scientific literature

extensively. He stresses the importance of low and frequent doses of chelators

(based on the chelator's half life in the body). Otherwise too much mercury is

dropped somewhere in the body when the chelator is excreted.

And I believe he's right. Several years ago I took alpha lipoic acid 250-300 mg

twice a day for peripheral neuropathy in my feet. (Cutler says ALA is actually

the best mercury chelator overall, but I didn't know that at the time, or that I

was even mercury toxic.) It did improve the neuropathy greatly for several

months, then suddenly stopped working and I got a lot more symptoms, and was

subsequently diagnosed with MS.

There are a lot of other people who have gotten bizarre symptoms after taking

ALA in high doses like that, but the bad symptoms don't usually start until the

person has been taking it for awhile, so the connection is often missed. It also

seems to have been missed by researchers, who haven't apparently done any long

term studies on it. I believe the German studies were only 6 months.

I had no idea that the ALA may have been exacerbating my neurological symptoms,

so I kept taking for more than a year longer. But it turns out ALA's half life

in the body is only 3-4 hours, so taking it only once or twice a day can drag

the mercury around a whole lot, and, since it can cross the blood brain barrier,

deposit a bunch of it in the brain.

For more info, I suggest joining the Yahoo groups adult-metal-chelation and

frequent-dose-chelation, where there are many people dealing with mercury

toxicity, and quite a few there have been diagnosed with MS, including one of

the moderators of both groups. The groups have very extensive files, links, and

archives.

BTW, the cheapest way to get Cutler's books (they're still not cheap!)is usually

through his own website, noamalgam.com. Amazon charges outrageous prices! His

website also has excerpts, and Google books also provides portions to read.

You can contact me privately for more info. Hope this helps.

Alice

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> I've just found out that my mercury levels are off the scale.

>

> I don't know if this is the norm these days with so much fish containing it.

>

> I had my amalgams removed (badly) a few years ago, have done one Detox and use

cilantro in cooking a fair bit.

>

> Any suggestion about what is best to get rid of it?

>

> Apologies for not reading through the files here which might indeed have the

answer. If no one replies I'll know to look at the archives but I'm panicking a

bit.

>

> Janet

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Hi ,

There are lots of possibilities. Receiving a lot of injections (flu shots,

allergy shots) containing thimerosol. Other cosmetic items containing it (such

as contact lens solutions during the 80's and early 90's, and some women's

makeup items. Some ear and nose drops. Eating lots of tuna or other high mercury

fish. Your mother having a lot of mercury fillings in her mouth when she was

pregnant with you. Being exposed to mercury from broken thermometers or

fluorescent light bulbs. Mercury has been used as a preservative in paints to

prevent mold. It used to be used in dentures to provide the pink color.

Antiseptics like mercurochrome or merthiolate (very popular when I was growing

up.) Lots of industrial applications. And lots of kids liked to get hold of

liquid mercury and play with it.....

With exposure to several of these, it's possible to build up quite a toxic

load.....(I personally was exposed to 5 of those, in addition to 15 mercury

fillings.)

Alice

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> Ive been reading a lot on here recently about mercury being a cause or

> factor in MS. I dont have any fillings in my mouth, metal or otherwise.

> So I'm wondering what else may be the cause for mercury to be in the

> body?

> Thanks for any help,

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Hi,

In addition to broken cell-wall Chlorella, I would suggest Modifilan, an extract

of brown seaweed. It is available here:

http://tinyurl.com/modifilan

It is also a good source of organic iodine.

All the best,

Dudley Delany

http://profiles.yahoo.com/dudley_delany

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Another article on mercury chelation orally.

http://user156418.websitewizard.com/files/unprotected/ZE-DHQ---HDS.pdf

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> Hi,

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> In addition to broken cell-wall Chlorella, I would suggest Modifilan, an

extract of brown seaweed. It is available here:

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> http://tinyurl.com/modifilan

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> It is also a good source of organic iodine.

>

> All the best,

>

> Dudley Delany

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> http://profiles.yahoo.com/dudley_delany

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Here is a link to where mercury is used. It surprises me that so much of it is

in the air and in the soil.

I live at the base of a volcano and the aquifer here is encased in lava yet I'm

the only person in the area with MS. We all have well water. There are people

here with other diseases but those may or may not be related to mercury.

Incidentally, Hal Huggins claims that Charmin is the only toilet paper made

without using mercury. You may think that you're helping the ecology by using

recycled paper but you are being bombarded with toxins including mercury.

Dental amalgams are the worst source for mercury toxicity in most people because

of the proximity to the brain and the continuous electical charges from grinding

your teeth. Vaccinations are a close second. The combination could be

disasterous. I think toxic paint combined with amalgams was a bad combination

for me.

http://www.mercury.utah.gov/sources.htm

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> Hi ,

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> There are lots of possibilities. Receiving a lot of injections (flu shots,

allergy shots) containing thimerosol. Other cosmetic items containing it (such

as contact lens solutions during the 80's and early 90's, and some women's

makeup items. Some ear and nose drops. Eating lots of tuna or other high mercury

fish. Your mother having a lot of mercury fillings in her mouth when she was

pregnant with you. Being exposed to mercury from broken thermometers or

fluorescent light bulbs. Mercury has been used as a preservative in paints to

prevent mold. It used to be used in dentures to provide the pink color.

Antiseptics like mercurochrome or merthiolate (very popular when I was growing

up.) Lots of industrial applications. And lots of kids liked to get hold of

liquid mercury and play with it.....

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> With exposure to several of these, it's possible to build up quite a toxic

load.....(I personally was exposed to 5 of those, in addition to 15 mercury

fillings.)

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> Alice

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