Topic: My undoubtedly favorite topic: How does Mercury damage us?
GiGi
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 259
posted
My favorite topic: What creates a lot of this mess we got in? With me and my family, it started long before the tick or insect bite ever hit.
This is from my notes and recordings at various seminars years ago, where teeth and microbial infections - Lyme Disease - was discussed. Many "experts" did not chime in until years later to even mention the word toxic metals.
This is Dr. K. speaking (2004) ---
"Tubulin is one of the key elements in our body that you need to know a bit about when talking about heavy metal toxicity. Tubulin is the microscopic structural scaffolding along which the body is held up, held erect. It�s not the bones � it is the tubulin.
Tubulin is in the connective tissue inside the cells, inside the nerves, and it is primarily a structural molecule. But in the nerves it serves as a special, other function. Tubulin looks like a pipe. In the nerve, it's along the tubulin that all the neurotransmitters are piped from the nerve cell down in the periphery; and neurotransmitters are stored in the little bubbles, in the vesicles, in the synaptic knob. (Showed picture)
The important thing to know about tubulin is that Without tubulin, the nerve cannot transport neurotransmitters, but also to the end, the nerve cannot transport nutrients up from the nerve endings into the nerve cells.
Without tubulin the nerve starves to death and cannot function as a nerve which is highly dependent on producing neurotransmitters which are released when the electric impulse travels along the axon of the nerve. We know that one of the major sites where mercury attacks the nerve is the tubulin. Why is the nerve being poisoned with mercury � what is the property of the nerve that makes it more vulnerable to mercury? The answer to that question is one word -- curiosity. Nerve cells are curious. If you place anything in front of a nerve, the nerve gobbles it up like a child with their mouth � stick it in their mouth, taste it, feel it; and what happens with certain toxins that we call neurotoxins are those that the nerve gobbles up, but they cause damage inside the nerve. The nerve cannot get rid of it � like a child that eats something that�s bitter or doesn�t like, takes it in their mouth, spits it out and not much damage is done. However, the nerve when it takes in (through a process called penocytosis), if it takes in substances from its periphery then travel up inside the nerve and are transported to the center of the nerve. Substances that cause damage on the way up or in the nerve cells � they are referred to as neurotoxins.
Mercury has been found as being the only neurotoxin that causes damage to the tubulin. So when mercury is placed here, the nerve with its curiosity picks it up and immediately it travels within a very short period of time up the axon, destroys the axon, destroys the bridges over which it came into the nerve, and destroys several cell organelles in the nerve.
The toxins that are in the liver cell or in the connective tissue behave very different and cause very different symptoms than the toxins or the mercury that has made it inside the nerve.
Mercury has made it inside the nerve and causes neurological symptoms; (Evidence relating to Alzheimers was shown); the developmental disorders in children � especially autism; we know that the link to MS, ALS, and all the neurodegenerative disease, is mercury once it enters the cell. We know from the research and from the chemistry involved that no other metal can cause this damage to the tubulin.
All the other metals are co-factors. And what the government and other institutions make you believe � everybody focuses on the secondary things. How much have you heard about lead toxicity in children?
Lead toxicity is now a big subject because lead is forbidden now. So now that it doesn�t have any impact � the gasoline industry now is not allowed to use lead anymore � it has no impact because it is already done. So all the studies that the government funds now are on the things that are already outlawed. But they things that are still used, there is no funding for those studies. This is one of the big political issues behind mercury. Do not be deceived on that.
Some of the symptoms, each one of these has at least two articles in the medical peer reviewed literature in it: What I will show you is that there is not a single symptom in the human condition that is not caused by or exacerbated by mercury toxicity. Not a single one. It may be hair loss or pimples or premature aging, thyroid dysfunction, etc.
Depression � low grade depression is found in newborn children, like in 2-year 3 year olds; with having the most severe expression in the teenage years, especially in boys when the hormones kick in. Testosterone ( as Boyd Haley and other researchers showed) has a tremendous synergistic effect with mercury. That�s why autism is four times more common in boys than in girls. But also the suicide rate in male teenagers is far higher than in females. The moment the testosterone kicks in, the low grade depression that you had throughout childhood from the mercury will turn into suicidal depression and you jump off the bridge or put the bullet through your brain; and/or you murder a bunch of children in school and then shoot yourself.
And yet, the distribution of all the work that was done in this area is being suppressed.
More and more neurological things, people complaning about numbness and tingling of the hands; it is not carpal tunnel syndrome and it is not a deficiency of Vitamin B6 or B5 to start with � it is mercury that has disturbed the metabolism of those vitamins. Or it has disturbed the connective tissue.
Any tremors � any dentist that we test where we ask them to close their eyes and stand there long enough � you see the fine tremor, if they have been in the business long enough; unless they cut the corner and became mercury free dentists or cut the corner in other ways and are now TMJ specialists and have escaped.
Showed evidence of ALS and MS. We know now they are not just caused by mercury; but mercury is an important co-factor in all of the neurological diseases, because we know that the chronic infections are involved and especially the infections in the jawabone." (cont'd)
Take care.
[ 30. January 2006, 02:20 PM:
Posts: 9834 | From Washington State | Registered: Oct 2000
| IP: Logged |
tick battler
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 21113
posted
Thank you for posting Gigi.
tickbattler
Posts: 1763 | From Malvern, PA | Registered: Jul 2009
| IP: Logged |
chiquita incognita
Unregistered
posted
Fascinating! Love it.
Hal Huggins has seen a correlation with...cancer, ALS, MS, lupus, auto-immune diseases.
He has compiled a recovery database of 65,000 patients world-wide based on the patients of dentists who he has trained in his method of removing amalgams. To date, I still haven't seen any method that grants as much protection as the Huggins method, let alone one which surpasses it. I have zero commercial interest or investment, personal connections, etc.
He also has experimented on laboratory animals and done studies on consenting patients for 35 years, above and beyond the dbase of 65,000 patients above (that's positively HUGE!)
In his book It's All In Your Head, Huggins writes about cancer patients whose amalgams he removed from their mouths. And many of these patients would show signs of going into remission. Then with their consent, he would put the amalgams back in....relapse. Remove yet again with their consent....remission begins anew.
I no longer recall how many of these patients responded in this way, but it's in his book. www.drhuggins.com for protocol and other info.
~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Here are two studies showing which percentages of patients responded to various ills after amalgam removal.
This dentist's study shows which patients charted here reacted to which exact metals, and which percentages recovered in part, in full, or not at all:
The Foundation for Toxic-Free Dentistry compiled this study of 1500+ patients from various dentists who all contributed. There is also a second study listed here of people's recovery rates from amalgam detoxification after removal. This study does not detail exactly how many people had complete recovery and how many had partial, but lumps them together into the improvement category. Note the high improvement rates from neuro issues, applicable to Lyme:
Watch this very powerful testimony for the FDA! Patient Linda Brocato tells her true story of paralysis/MS from mercury fillings which partially improved after they were removed. No mention of any detox protocol. Note that the FDA continued to approve amalgam use and that according to Dr Mercola, Margaret Hamburg, MD on the FDA panel was one of the amalgam industry's top executives! COnflict of interest? Ha! See the video here, amazingly powerful:
Gigi, does Dr K say that lyme clings to mercury? A friend told me about that and I am wondering where she got the info, and would like to research/know more about this. It makes sense to me. If yes then to cleanse and detox mercury would be an important part of our recovery work, eh?
I *know!* it causes neuro issues so would be inclined to do that regardless.
But am wondering about its connection with lyme specifically. More info, anybody?
FYI Huggins says that after getting the fillings taken out, it's vital to detox. Mercury clings to fatty tissues (brain, spinal cord, as well as fatty tissue as we think of it, probably breast material too) and is stored in the bones, he writes. So it can hang around in those areas for decades after the amalgams are removed, unless a detox protocol is done thereafter.
My acupuncturist thinks the product by Metagenics called Metallo-Clear is the best one to use. His reason: It raises liver enzymes which break down the metals after they are pulled out of the cells. Other products which chelate metals don't raise the enzymes to break them down. So what's to protect us from re-exposure? His thinking makes sense to me. I think it's available at either www.vitacost.com or www.iherb.com
kam
Honored Contributor (10K+ posts)
Member # 3410
posted
Not able to read this yet this am.
but, saw an ND MD last month.
She wanted to test me for heavy metals but I did not have the funds.
I know i have touched mercury and taken vacines with mercury in them
And would clean up my fillings and two front teeth if I had the funds.
Bottom line is what do you do to clean up the mercury with a budget that doesn't supply enough food each month?
Posts: 15927 | From Became too sick to work or do household chores in 2001. | Registered: Dec 2002
| IP: Logged |
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:
The
Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey 907 Pebble Creek Court,
Pennington,
NJ08534USA http://www.lymenet.org/
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic