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"Heavy metal toxins such as lead, mercury, aluminum, arsenic and barium can cause intestinal and immune system abnormalities. Detection of heavy metals can be done using a hair mineral analysis. Some medical doctors use a chelating drug to bind heavy metals and then test the urine for their excretion. Vaccinations are thought to prime our immune system to recognize a virus so that we will not succumb to it. This is a good theory and has prevented many merciless diseases. However, some vaccines still contain toxic ingredients such as mercury and formaldehyde." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Once mercury vapor is dissolved in water, algae convert it into organic methylmercury, which is far more toxic. Because fish are relatively insensitive to mercury, they can accumulate toxic quantities in their flesh. Saltwater predators like swordfish and tuna are usually contaminated with mercury and daily consumption of tuna can quickly raise the mercury level in hair, suggesting an increase in total body burden of the metal." - Leo Galland, Power Healing: Use the New Integrated Medicine to Cure Yourself (Get the book.)

"The thyroid, hypothalamus and pituitary glands are very sensitive to mercury. I do not recommend that fillings containing mercury be used for any reason. I recommend that you take extreme care in their removal. If you have mercury fillings already in place, only dentists trained in proper detoxification techniques should remove mercury fillings. Also, your physician can work with you to ensure that mercury levels will not climb as the fillings are removed." - David Brownstein, The Miracle of Natural Hormones (Get the book.)

"According to the Physicians Desk Reference, within two weeks, they lower systolic and diastolic pressure, respectively, by 2-10 mm and 4—6mm mercury. Second, unfortunately, there is no evidence that ACE inhibitors are effective in primary prevention of congestive heart failure. In 2003, A meta-analysis of 42 clinical trials involving almost 200,000 patients concluded that they had little effect. Moreover, and to the surprise of all, low dose diuretics were more effective than ACE inhibitors in the prevention of cardiovascular morbidity or mortality. " - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Small reductions in diastolic pressure (5—6 mm of mercury) could reduce the incidence of coronary disease by 14% and the incidence of strokes by 42%.39 The Task Force recommends with a grade of "A" periodic blood pressure screening for all adults." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Reducing salt intake by six grams per day results in an average lowering of the systolic blood pressure by about four mm of mercury in people with high blood pressure. This may not seem like much, but over the entire U.S. population, this slight reduction could reduce the prevalence of heart attacks by 6 percent and the risk of strokes by 15 percent. With one million heart attacks and 600,000 strokes each year in the United States, a 6 to 15 percent reduction could save many lives. Certain people are more sensitive to high salt intakes." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"The silver is mixed with mercury, which makes it easy to mold. The question has arisen from time to time whether this mercury, a poisonous metal, could leach into the body. Some men have even had perfectly good fillings removed because of the mercury scare. That's a shame. Yes, some mercury is released from silver fillings when you chew, but only minuscule amounts. Even less is absorbed by your body. "Nothing to worry about," says Joel M. Boriskin, D.D.S., chief of the Division of Dentistry at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, California." - Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine, Age Erasers for Men: Hundreds of Fast and Easy Ways to Beat the Years (Get the book.)

"Blood samples from newborns contained an average of 287 toxins, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides and Teflon chemicals, according to a 2004 study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Teflon: This chemical in cooking pots is also carcinogenic. Food should never be prepared in Teflon cookware. Use glass, cast iron, carbon steel, titanium, and enamel cookware. PVC shower-curtains: They emit a strong smell can cause serious damage to your liver as well as to the nervous, reproductive, and respiratory systems." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"In a treatment called chelation therapy, the practitioner employs a chemical that's normally used to bind heavy metals (like mercury and lead) to treat people poisoned by these metals. Some doctors have the idea that unexplained fatigue and chemical sensitivity are due to heavy metal toxicity. While exposure to heavy metals can cause many symptoms, there is no good evidence that heavy metals have any role at all in CFS, fibromyalgia (FM), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "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. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) after his or her name, that practitioner can use intravenous chelation as a treatment. Using chelation as a treatment for CFS or FM is extreme even for believers in chelation. Its major suggested use in alternative medicine is as a treatment to clean out plugged arteries." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"These forms are sometimes contaminated with lead, arsenic, cadmium, or mercury. Absorption of these forms of calcium is usually well under 10 percent. These elemental forms of calcium can easily bind to dietary oxalates and phytates, which results in their excretion. Calcium in food is normally chelated to other nutrients. Minerals are chelated when they are bound to organic molecules. Calcium in supplements is often chelated to citrates, lactates, and gluconates. These forms are easily broken apart in the stomach, which limits their absorption." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"These fish concentrate mercury in their tissues, which is known to cause birth defects, psychomotor retardation, and severe cerebral palsy, especially in children whose mothers consumed large amounts of mercury-contaminated fish or grain during pregnancy. However, a recent study from rhe University of Rochester proposes that although mercury has not been exonerated, it might not be as dangerous as once thought. "We studied 700 children who were prenatally exposed to varying levels of mercury when their mothers consumed up to 12 servings of fish each week." - Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"However, some vaccines still contain toxic ingredients such as mercury and formaldehyde. What happens with those toxins when we are injected with them? How can we excrete something injected right into our blood without it being deposited into some of our tissues? Obviously we cannot. DIETARY MEASURES FOR CROHN'S DISEASE Crohn's Disease is a condition that has a great deal of individuality. Some may have a severe case and others may have a very mild one. Food restrictions are very individual as well." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"In 2003, the International Journal of Toxicology released a study that showed the hair of autistic babies contained significantly less mercury and other heavy metals. Autistic babies are not able to excrete the toxic metals via the hair and the body's other natural waste removal outlets (hair is a waste product containing excessive proteins and minerals, among other things). Hence, these toxic metals remain trapped in their brains." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"More important, what has been missed in the craze to replace mercury fillings is that many of the replacements are just as bad as the mercury they eliminated. The patient notices immediate improvement from mercury removal. Then, years later, he suffers even worse problems from infection and dental stress that were created by the dental work designed to eliminate the mercury. In this lesson, three dentists will discuss different aspects of dental infections and disease. The first dentist is Dr. Harold Ravins of West Los Angeles, who for many people is a dentist of last resort." - Sam Biser, Sam Biser's save your life collection: A Layman's course in curing last-stage diseases (Get the book.)

"When it became clear that workers could be harmed by more than physical force, such as by mercury and lead exposure or anthrax, new legislation provided a remedy for occupational diseases. Even so, the notion of "injury" was contentious from the outset, as was the inflexibility of the "schedules." Today, schedules are largely supplanted by a convoluted process in all jurisdictions, one that is paralleled in the Veterans Administration and the Social Security Administration. All invoke some medical determination of impairment, often going to great lengths and expense to quantify disease." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Pregnant women should avoid these and some other types of fish, since fetuses are particularly vulnerable to mercury. (See "Defensive eating," page 12.) Methyl mercury attacks human nerve cells, and can cause numbness and loss of coordination as well as hearing and visual problems. Clean fish Cod, haddock, and pollock are safe fish choices. Small tuna is OK, too, but large tuna may have high levels of mercury. Most major commercial brands of canned tuna are monitored to ensure that mercury is below the allowable levels set by the FDA." - Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland, Safe Food: Eating Wisely in a Risky World (Get the book.) "High levels of another toxic metal, methyl mercury, have been found in large predatory fish, including swordfish, large tuna, shark, halibut, and marlin. Pregnant women should avoid these and some other types of fish, since fetuses are particularly vulnerable to mercury. (See "Defensive eating," page 12.) Methyl mercury attacks human nerve cells, and can cause numbness and loss of coordination as well as hearing and visual problems. Clean fish Cod, haddock, and pollock are safe fish choices. Small tuna is OK, too, but large tuna may have high levels of mercury." - Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland, Safe Food: Eating Wisely in a Risky World (Get the book.)

"A normal blood pressure reading is 120/80 or less; in other words, the systolic pressure is 120 millimeters of mercury or less, and the diastolic pressure is 80 millimeters of mercury or less. Borderline high blood pressure falls in the range of 140/90 to 160/95. Hypertension is regarded as blood pressure greater than 160/95 in repeated measurements. Temporary or transient elevation in blood pressure can reflect anxiety, transient dietary factors, changes in exercise habits, and the like and may not reflect disease at all." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"If you ask your dentist about possible alternatives to these mercury amalgams, he does have much safer options. (Don't run out and have all of your mercury fillings removed, though. If it is not done properly, it may cause more harm than if you just leave them alone.) Coenzyme QIC Coenzyme QlO, as you will recall, is a very potent antioxidant as well as one of the most important nutrients for the production of energy within the cell." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"As well being bled through these general or local means, they were puked, purged, and poisoned; in some common diseases (for example, syphilis), patients were treated with mercury until their teeth loosened in their jaws. Medicated enemata offered another route to rebalancing the body's input and output, particularly in conditions such as hysteria, and disorders of the menses. And of course, there were the leeches." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Most important, don't drink and drive; and do work within your community to help cre- • As an unfortunate sign of the times, pregnant women and children must be cautious about mercury and PCB content of oily fish. ate a social climate that discourages those most at risk?young adults between the ages of 16 and 25—from drinking and driving. 7. Don't engage in unsafe sex. This may sound quite formidable at first, but two studies show just how simple and effective healthy habits can be." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Ubra fruits, Lorber said, are nine-foot-high mercury pouches that grow on branchless trees whose square trunks of green glass shine like mirrors, allowing passersby to check out their reflections. There are so many examples of fruits in mythology you can spend the rest of your life documenting them; in fact, that's kind of what happened to James George Frazer, author ofThe Golden Bough. He set out to explain an odd ritual involving forest-dwelling priests who attained priesthood by murdering their predecessor after plucking a certain sacred branch." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"While the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences found little conclusive evidence that eating fish would do your heart much good (and might hurt your brain, because so much fish is contaminated with mercury), a Harvard study brought the hopeful piece of news that simply by eating a couple of servings of fish each week (or by downing enough fish oil tablets) you could cut your risk of dying from a heart attack by more than a third." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Gray considered Mark's overall symptom picture and prescribed a superdilute dose of mercury. When Dr. Subotnick heard the word mercury, he flipped. mercury was poison. Superdilute or not, he insisted that Mark not take it. But it was too late. His son already had. "Shortly after Mark took the mercury, he got much sicker," Jan, now a hypnotherapist in Oakland, recalls. "He fell into bed and just slept. We were pretty worried. But when he woke up the next morning, he wasn't coughing and had no chest congestion. He was cured." "It was amazing," Dr. Subotnick recalls. " - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures (Get the book.)

"Environmental chemicals such as mercury and lead, many prescription drugs such as Dilantin and Accutane, recreational drugs including cocaine and alcohol, and even some illnesses including rubella, diabetes, and herpes are all potentially teratogenic agents and able to cause loss of a pregnancy, birth defects, or pregnancy complications. Pesticides and other contaminants found in the environment (including our food and water) can disrupt the hormonal and chromosomal cycles, leading to breaks in the DNA and a wide range of deformities and abnormalities in all animal species, including humans." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Canned alba-core tuna (or white tuna) and tuna steaks are generally considered to be higher in mercury than light canned tuna. The USFDA currently recommends that pregnant women eat no more than six ounces of fish per week. Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs Seemingly harmless over-the-counter drugs like aspirin, taken by mothers in the first half of the pregnancy, have been linked to lower-than-average IQs in their offspring.136 Valium oil administered to egg-laying chickens induced impaired muscle cell development, suggesting potential harm from the use of Valium in pregnancy." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

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