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Elemental Mercury, Hg, or simply, Mercury is most commonly used in thermometers, although such use is tapering off.

Personal note: I had a mouthful of amalgam fillings which are typically about 50% elemental mercury when they are new. When I suggested to a friend, an expert in the sciences, that my fillings may have poisoned me, he was skeptical to put it mildly.

However, when he discovered that I had some bacterial activity in an amalgam filled tooth, he mentioned that the bacteria could be methylating the mercury.

Since then, of course, we have discovered that mercury is constantly methylating off of these amalgam fillings at all hours of the day and night.

For visual evidence of that fact, go to www.iaomt.org and watch the video.

Inorganic Mercury Compounds or Forms are as follows:

HgS Mercuric Sulfide

HgO Mercuric Oxide

HgCl2 Mercuric Chloride

Organic Mercury (formed when combined with Carbon and other elements)…

Methylmercury (common) - an organic compound having known neurological toxicity effects tending to biomagnify up the food chain. A neurotoxin in humans.

DiMethylmercury is the same as methylmercury, but contains two methyl radicals (CH3)2 and is one of the strongest known neurotoxins .

Phenylmercuric acetate

Methylmercuric acetate

Let’s talk about Monomethylmercury as their seems to be evidence indicating that this particular form of Mercury is up to 1000 times more toxic than elemental mercury (to humans). For whatever reason, MeHg somehow seems to target the Advanced Central Nervous System (CNS).

The monomethylmercury form is known to participate in biochemical reactions which is one reason it is such a terrible hazard to humans.

Somehow, mercury is able to pass through and end up accumulating in the brain.

When we ingest mercury laden fish, some of the ingested MeHg passes through the intestines and into the bloodstream. From there it just gets more complicated, but some of it can and does go into the brain.

Suffice it to say, from my simple minded perspective, you need to have a treatment plan employing a mercury removing modality capable of passing the blood-brain barrier.

How else will you succeed at getting the mercury out of your brain?

Put don’t take my word, for it, find a Doctor that knows what he is doing and discuss your options with him.

There is a great video that has been well circulated showing the effects of mercury upon brain neurons. Of course, non human brain neurons were used in this experiment performed at the University of Calgary. Here is the link…

http://commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/

Bibliography:

Mercury Toxicity in the Human Brain

Scientific Facts on Mercury

Also used Google Define:(insert word) for some definitions which found some definitions at www.wikipedia.org.

What happens to the mercury poisoned chronically ill person and what are their nutrition requirements?

On the one hand, these are both great questions. I can only respond with what my own experience has been. Thus, please note this caveat.

My experience comes from having been chronically ill from mercury poisoning and then subsequently acutely ill from all the complications that go along with such long term poisoning.

My physiology got so bad that, in truth, I felt there was virtually nothing left of me. At my worst, I could still think, but barely. Making decisions became difficult in the extreme. Why? My physiology was just that messed up due primarily to malabsorption/gut problems.

You are what you eat and what you absorb. You aren’t what you don’t eat nor what you don’t absorb.

You see, I went 40 days without successfully digesting a cracker.

Once I was properly diagnosed as having chronic mercury poisoning of the gut, which took three years and the introduction to a Doctor that knew the cause of all my trouble, I was put on a nutrition regimen that was specific to my needs.

One thing I had to do was take about 2 grams of Hydrochloric Acid with each meal. If I didn’t do that, I didn’t digest my meal, pure and simple.
Following are some of the other nutrition supplements that I took:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B
• Vitamin C was basically intolerable to my system, so I avoided it like the plaque for a while. Now I take a little.
• Multi-Vitamin and Multi-Mineral Supplement from a particularly good source.
• SSKI (or Potassium Iodide)
• B12 daily

Trust me, their were other nutrition supplements (vitamins) that I took, but without digging through my file, I don’t recall them all.

The main point of all this is to mention that if I didn’t take one of the things that the exceptionally knowledgeable Doctor advised me to, I suffered ill consequences. In other words, these things were not optional for me.

The even bigger main point is that your physiology may require some of these things or more or different nutrition supplementation to get by (and hopefully thrive).

When you look for a Doctor that can help you deal with chronic illness, especially illness that has turned acute, find one that knows physiology like the back of his hand. It will make all the difference. At least it has for me in my pathway to wellness.

Mercury is a neurotoxin.

So what does that mean exactly? It means that if you have it in your system, it can/will affect your nerves/nervous system…adversely.

Doesn’t sound like fun does it? Folks are stressed out already these days even without a neurotoxin in their system.

So what might be the symptomatic effects of mercury on your nervous system? Well, I’m not a Doctor, but I have read about these effects and they include: tremors, personality changes, nervousness and dementia.

Not my idea of a good time.

If you’ve experienced these symptoms or know someone who has, you may want to suggest mercury as a possible culprit to consider.

Problems always have a cause. The trick is figuring out what that cause is.

Mercury is often overlooked as a culprit because of the “professional” use and thus endorsement of mercury in fillings. Nevertheless, many people have had these symptoms abate upon the removal of these fillings and for others the taking of an additional step cleared the problem.

That step is chelation.

I’ve written quite a bit about chelation (getting out heavy metals, etc.) and about mercury in earlier posts. If you are interested in reading more on these subjects, please know that those posts are available to you.

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Pleasant topic, no doubt.

But the fact is, there are lots of dear people that are struggling desperately with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s Disease and Colitis.

Am I positing that these are all the same thing. Not exactly.  I’m not saying they’re not either.  Truthfully, I am not sure one way or the other.   I am sure that most Doctor’s don’t know the cause of any of them.  These terms are convenient labels for a set of symptoms for which conventional medicine knows no cause.  They only know medications that temper some of the symptoms.  Sometimes at great risk to the entire body.

Now let’s see. What would be a source of mercury that could end up being utilized in our intestinal wall?

Fish? Amalgam Fillings (which constantly methylate? Given that both sources go primarily into your digestive tract, they are certainly two potential significant sources of mercury that your body might unwittingly use in constructing your gut wall.

How much research is there to back this up? Frankly, I don’t know. But I do like following a logical path. If you ingest a substance, isn’t it highly probable that your body will try to utilize it? Sure thing! Now shouldn’t your body know better than to use mercury to construct body parts? Well yes, but from the reading I have done, some forms of mercury can trick your body into thinking it is usable where it is in fact not healthful.

Mercury interferes with the enzymatic processes of digestion. So if your gut has a lot of mercury in the lining, how well do you think you will digest your food?

“Not well” is my conclusion.

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