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 "Some fish contain high levels of a form of mercury called methylmercury that may harm an unborn child's developing brain if eaten regularly. These findings are controversial, since recent research suggests this mercury is not as harmful as usual mercury. Still, almost all fish contain trace amounts of methylmercury, through small quantities are not harmful to humans and it is eliminated from your body over time. But long-lived, larger fish accumulate the highest levels of methylmercury and pose a greater potential risk to you and your unborn child."- Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.) |
 "Some species of probiotics can reduce organic mercury into its less toxic form. As well, some probiotics can trap organic mercury, holding it captive so it cannot cause you harm. By trapping, neutralizing and binding toxins in the intestines, probiotics reduce the ability of these toxins to be absorbed into the blood and cause disease.
Why Is mercury a Concern?
Mercury harms the immune cells in the body and may play a role in autism."- Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
 "In older people, such an accumulation of heavy metals in the brain can lead to damage of the DNA, Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. mercury is already toxic at one in one billion-part quantities. That is about the same concentration of one grain of salt in one swimming pool.
It is a well established fact that mercury and other heavy metals such as lead are linked with neurological disorders such as autism. 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."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "In late 2007 Minnesota became the first state to ban mercury in cosmetics, with fines for retailers who knowingly sell mercury-laden cosmetics and penalties of up to $10,000 levied on manufacturers that fail to disclose mercury additives on product labels."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "Nearly all fish contain trace amounts of methyl mercury. In most cases, this is of little concern because the level is so low. The fish most likely to have the lowest level of methyl mercury are salmon (usually undetectable levels), cod, mackerel, cold-water tuna, farm-raised catfish, and herring. Certain seafood, particularly swordfish, shark, and some other large predatory fish, may contain high levels of methyl mercury. Choose from the low-mercury group and limit your intake to no more than four servings per week maximum."- Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.) |
| "Probiotics can trap and neutralize other toxins, including heavy metals like mercury and cadmium. Exposure to heavy metals may have bad effects on human health, even at low concentrations. Heavy metals can be found in our foods, drinking water and vaccines. Specific probiotics can bind toxins from food and water. Some species of probiotics can reduce organic mercury into its less toxic form. As well, some probiotics can trap organic mercury, holding it captive so it cannot cause you harm." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
| "In late 2007 Minnesota became the first state to ban mercury in cosmetics, with fines for retailers who knowingly sell mercury-laden cosmetics and penalties of up to $10,000 levied on manufacturers that fail to disclose mercury additives on product labels." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "One is the quicksilver mercury and the other is methylmercury, which is about fifty times more toxic. Although there is a general agreement that mercury in plants is a less toxic form, experts do not agree as to whether the mercury in fish is stored primarily in the form of the more toxic methylmercury. In any case, children and adults who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters in Minamata Bay, Japan, in 1953, along the Agano River in Niigata, Japan, in 1962, and other locations in Iraq, Pakistan, and Guatemala, all have suffered death, coma, or a variety of brain and neurological damage."- Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Conscious Eating (Get the book.) |
 "CONTRAINDICATIONS
Methyl mercury collects in the meat of fish, especially mackerel, shark, sword-fish and tuna. The best fresh fish to eat is salmon or herring, and younger fish with shorter lifespans may also contain less mercury. Pregnant or lactating women should avoid mercury in fish, as should small children. Fish oil supplements are not recommended for small children."- Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "Many people wonder about mercury contamination in wild fish. Some species, such as swordfish, have high levels of mercury. If you buy fish that are lower on the food chain, you'll have less exposure to mercury. mercury is toxic only in the absence of selenium, an essential dietary mineral. If you take selenium supplements or get 200 meg of it in a multivitamin-multimineral supplement, it should protect you. If you eat seafood judiciously, and you can do so two to four times weekly, the benefits outweigh the risks."- Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) |
| "Probiotics probably cannot treat high mercury levels in people but may be helpful in preventing the recycling of the mercury when the above therapies are being used.
Probiotics may play a helpful role in reducing the amount of toxins produced in the intestines by bad microbes and trap some toxins in the gut. All in all, probiotics likely reduce the amount of toxins in the blood and thus lessen the load on the liver. Probiotics may not be the most efficient way to detoxify the body, but they do offer some detox benefits." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
| "Certain seafood, particularly swordfish, shark, and some other large predatory fish, may contain high levels of methyl mercury. Choose from the low-mercury group and limit your intake to no more than four servings per week maximum.
Adding a high-quality fish oil supplement free of the mercury, PCBs, dioxins, and other contaminants often found in fish to your daily routine provides extra insurance that you are getting sufficient levels of omega-3 fatty acids. Take enough of the supplement to provide 1,000mg daily of the key omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.) |
| "Oily fish like salmon and herring from cold-water oceans contain the least mercury, so are best to consume frequently, and fish oil supplements ensure your omega-3s are mercury-free. Several clinical and laboratory studies suggest omega-3 fatty acids can reduce the risk of breast, lung, prostate and colon cancers.
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential fatty acids comprised of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA); fish oil contains high amounts of EPA and DHA." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
| "If you buy fish that are lower on the food chain, you'll have less exposure to mercury. mercury is toxic only in the absence of selenium, an essential dietary mineral. If you take selenium supplements or get 200 meg of it in a multivitamin-multimineral supplement, it should protect you. If you eat seafood judiciously, and you can do so two to four times weekly, the benefits outweigh the risks. Pregnant women and small children, however, should still avoid high-mercury seafood." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) |
| "The fish most likely to have the lowest level of methyl mercury are salmon (usually undetectable levels), cod, mackerel, cold-water tuna, farm-raised catfish, and herring. Certain seafood, particularly swordfish, shark, and some other large predatory fish, may contain high levels of methyl mercury. Choose from the low-mercury group and limit your intake to no more than four servings per week maximum." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.) |
 "Sounds reasonable, but while the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board recommends avoiding food with more than 2 parts per million (ppm) of lead and 1 ppm of mercury, there are no federal standards about lead and mercury content in supplements.26 Again, there are no federal standards about lead and mercury content in supplements. This is absolute insanity.
In adults, high levels of lead cause kidney problems and high blood pressure. In children, lead affects the brain and nervous system. It can also decrease hearing and cause hyperactivity and seizures."- Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) |
| "The best fresh fish to eat is salmon or herring, and younger fish with shorter lifespans may also contain less mercury. Pregnant or lactating women should avoid mercury in fish, as should small children. Fish oil supplements are not recommended for small children.
FINAL THOUGHTS
With the health-giving benefits provided by omega-3s, including the positive cancer-prevention link, consuming fish and/or fish oil supplements to boost your health and reduce risk of cancer and other conditions may be beneficial.
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 "While this is yet to be "proven" conclusively, most nutritional experts I know believe that selenium is a powerful chelator, meaning it attaches to metals like mercury and helps to remove them from the body. Japanese researchers have found that adding selenium to the diets of birds gave them "complete protection" from large amounts of mercury."- Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) |
| "Mercury can damage the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs and immune system.28 In its warning, the DOHMH referenced two supplements: Emperor's Tea Pill, which contained 5,400 ppm lead and 950 ppm mercury, and Hepatico Extract, which contained 1,100 ppm lead and 3,600 ppm mercury. Though the labels on both supplements claimed that the metals promoted the body's natural balance, they have been recalled and banned from shelves. But the reality is that both supplements still made it through the distribution channels and into the consumer marketplace.
How can a travesty like this happen?" - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) |
| "Probiotics probably cannot treat high mercury levels in people but may be helpful in preventing the recycling of the mercury when the above therapies are being used.
Probiotics may play a helpful role in reducing the amount of toxins produced in the intestines by bad microbes and trap some toxins in the gut. All in all, probiotics likely reduce the amount of toxins in the blood and thus lessen the load on the liver. Probiotics may not be the most efficient way to detoxify the body, but they do offer some detox benefits." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
| "It is a well established fact that mercury and other heavy metals such as lead are linked with neurological disorders such as autism. 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.) |
| "They have gone off full throttle against mercury silver fillings. And they are right. But what they have missed is far more important: undiagnosed infections that remain, no matter what kind of fillings are in your mouth.
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." - Sam Biser, Sam Biser's save your life collection: A Layman's course in curing last-stage diseases (Get the book.) |
 "Blood pressure is measured in units of millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), which is the amount of atmospheric pressure required to support a column of mercury 1 millimeter high. Blood pressure has a number for systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Your systolic pressure, the pressure in the vessels when the heart beats, should be less than 140 mm Hg. Your diastolic pressure, the pressure between heartbeats, should be less than 90 mm Hg.
Like heart disease, hypertension is a disease of modern civilization."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
| "If you buy fish that are lower on the food chain, you'll have less exposure to mercury. mercury is toxic only in the absence of selenium, an essential dietary mineral. If you take selenium supplements or get 200 meg of it in a multivitamin-multimineral supplement, it should protect you. If you eat seafood judiciously, and you can do so two to four times weekly, the benefits outweigh the risks. Pregnant women and small children, however, should still avoid high-mercury seafood." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) |
 "A Consumer Reports study found that tuna contains enough mercury to pose a risk to some women and children.
Mercury, in large amounts, can cause nerve and brain damage. It's especially dangerous for unborn babies and young children because it can hamper their development.
Whether through factories or natural sources, mercury finds its way into bodies of water ?and fish. The bigger the fish, the more mercury it has. That's because the fish got bigger by eating other fish, which also contained mercury."- Frank W. Cawood and Associates, The Folk Remedy Encyclopedia: Olive Oil, Vinegar, Honey and 1,001 Other Home Remedies (Get the book.) |
 "I would encourage everyone, but especially those with children, to avoid getting mercury amalgam fillings in their teeth. 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.) |
 "Despite this, some practitioners frighten patients by telling them the mercury in their dental fillings may be the factor making them sick. This issue has been examined, and there is no evidence to support the assertion. Nonetheless, I have several patients who were convinced of this and went through the long, expensive, and painful process of having all their amalgams removed. Unfortunately, they are still ill. 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."- Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "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.) |
| "These findings are controversial, since recent research suggests this mercury is not as harmful as usual mercury. Still, almost all fish contain trace amounts of methylmercury, through small quantities are not harmful to humans and it is eliminated from your body over time. But long-lived, larger fish accumulate the highest levels of methylmercury and pose a greater potential risk to you and your unborn child.
Importantly, fish is still a great food that is high in protein and heart-healthy oils—and so long as you choose the right variety, you are safe." - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.) |
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