We are tailoring a book on credit and finance to a particular group of people.
If you’d like to help me create a book that answers your questions about credit and finance, please post your question(s) here…
To show my appreciation, after the results are tabulated, I’ll give you the first chapter of our book, available at www.crimsonbooks.com/wealth.htm.
Thank you kindly,
Thomas
It seems I can’t get away from some strange sounding titles.
From my previous post on “Mercury Induced Anhydrosis“, you know that for several years I was unable to sweat at all. Obviously, that is a dangerous proposition if you live in a sunny clime.
I began sweating in June of last year, much to my surprise, fear and then delight. Yes, those were indeed my emotions. Since then, my body has had the opportunity to sweat for short periods of time.
We thought it was time to begin sauna treatment to utilize another method of detoxification - a good one at that…
Didn’t really sweat much on any one of the days, but by the third day, it seemed that my body had enough as I had a pretty tough IBS-type situation.
Fortunately, we caught it early enough. If you’ve read my posts from early on, you know that we’ve found that Oregano Tea will rout an IBS bout quickly (at least for me it does). Without it, I’d have to get I.V.’s to rehydrate. I still have to replace my electrolytes, but that is expected, especially after sitting in a sauna.
As best I can tell, it was the raising of my internal temperature and a lingering problem with anhydrosis that caused the internal flushing. However, it could also be that some toxins were released into my system which thus caused or exacerbated the flushing reaction.
In any case, thought it was interesting enough to post.
I am hoping that very few folks go through this sort of thing on their way to wellness.
But I’ve read enough to know that folks recovering from mercury poisoning go through all sorts of very difficult problems even along the path to wellness.
G’day,
You *might* be wondering what ‘credit’ has to do with mercury poisoning? Well, that is a story for another day.
In the meantime, I’m hoping you are doing well and you might be willing to help me out with a little credit ‘project’.
You see, the fact is, my company has published a book that deals with credit as a primary focus of the book.
And while we know our book answers many common questions people have about credit, we’d like it to answer even more of those questions.
The name of the book, in case you are curious, is “America, America”.
The questions about credit that are answered in our book are:
How to get credit?
How to keep credit?
How to repair credit? If you’ve lost it.
Here is a link to our website on a page where you can read more about it and purchase it if you can use the honest help right now…
www.crimsonbooks.com/wealth.htm
But what I really need help with is the following…
Please go to the following link where you can give me feedback about your most important question relating to credit. That will help me immeasurably with the book and to show my appreciation, after the survey is over, we will send you the first chapter of America, America. We will also answer your specific question.
Here is the link…
First of all, let me define anhydrosis for the non-medical readers. Simply put, anhydrosis is the inability to sweat.
Thus by my title, I am positing that mercury in your body can be a cause of anhydrosis.
This is a given where I am concerned. Thus, I am not trying to prove anything.
However, as many readers of www.healthmattersblog.com are aware, I have mercury poisoning. From June of 2002, until June of 2007, I was unable to sweat more than for just a fraction of a second. From 2005 until now, I have been doing some level or another of mercury chelating (to get the mercury out of my system). Thus, at some point, my body was able to begin sweating normally again.
Most healthy folks don’t like the effects of sweating. But I can tell you, I am thrilled with having the ability to sweat restored.
Dogs are air cooled. That’s why they pant like crazy when it’s hot.
People are water cooled. That’s why they sweat when the temperature rises.
Without the ability to sweat, my internal temperature would soar and I would go limp, like a rag doll in July.
Now, I can tolerate some heat. I don’t push it yet, but someday soon, I will.
That’s been my experience with anhydrosis. My ability to sweat has been restored as I have removed mercury from my body through chelation (DMSA and ALA primarily).
I’d be interested to hear what other people’s experiences with anhydrosis have been.
There are so many angles through which we could choose to view wealth.
I’d like to consider the angle that says, how do improve my credit?
What if I’m in debt?
Right.
My good friend, Jarrod Williamson, PhD, has written a book that deals with several credit related subjects. How to obtain credit, how to maintain good credit and how to get restore good credit if you damage it.
The book is entitled “America, America - How To Avoid The Pitfalls“.
This straightforward book written by Dr. Jarrod Williamson gets to the bottom of a lot of financial and credit related subjects you might know something about, but not to the level of detail that he gives. Jarrod is a very fact oriented person and doesn’t use a lot of fluff, like other popular writers. “America, America” is about 60 letter sized sheets or 105 in half size sheets. It is packed with useful information.
My wife edited the book and stated matter of factly, I couldn’t put it down.
I sold several (seven) copies to a local bookstore the day after the store manager’s wife read the book in one night! Apparently, she considered it more important to read the book than do anything else that evening.
Please click the link to America, America, where you can read more about it and order a digital copy through a secure link. We’d like to have feedback from you and hear about which part of the book helped you the most.
Provocative title I suppose.
Well, not chock full o’ mercury, no. But many popular types of fish do have a significant quantity of mercury.
Tuna Fish.
And what a shame too. Tuna fish was one of my favorite lunches when I was a kid. Confession: with plenty of unhealthy mayonnaise.
When I eat fish now, as often as every few days, I eat it plain. Nearly plain that is, just with a wee bit of salt. And it is delicious.
My preference would be to eat less fish and more vegetables, but I have learned, by experimenting, that I am at my best and feel my best if I make sure to eat a fair amount of high protein foods. I suppose that means I am a protein type.
Anyway, I eat veggies and I eat one kind of fish that has been tested for mercury. The mercury levels are so low that, as my chemical engineering friend says “it nearly amounts to nothing”. I probably get more from walking down the street a few blocks than I do from eating this particular Salmon.
Back to the question: Are Fish Full of Mercury?
The short answer is no. But we ought to ask another question after we answer this one…
Fresh or Frozen Tuna Fish contains 0.38 ppm of mercury on average
Canned Tuna Fish contains 0.20 ppm mercury on average
Swordfish and Shark contain much higher levels.
So, perhaps the average person doesn’t have to be overly paranoid about mercury levels in the average fish. However, some folks are more sensitive than others, I being one of them.
So, while I do eat fish, I am highly selective about which type and from where I get it.
The other question, we should probably ask is: Just How Much Mercury Do You Want In Your Body Anyway?
That will be good for another post.
If you want to know what fish I eat, it is Wild Alaska Sockeye Salmon. If you want to know where I get it, click here and you can help support my blog and if you do, thank you very much.
1 Mercury levels came from http://www.fda.gov/fdac/reprints/mercury.html
Great question.
One I promised to answer two or three posts back.
The simple way to find out whether you have mercury in your body is to find a Doctor knowledgeable about heavy metal poisoning. He or she will likely do a Mercury Challenge Test. Oftentimes this test is referred to as a DMPS Challenge Test.
As mentioned in a previous post, I did both a pre and a post challenge test. It isn’t necessary to do a pre challenge test, but while you are at it you might as well.
In my case, I was so toxic and ill that my body couldn’t remove mercury in significant enough quantities to do me any real good. The mercury was leaching out of my amalgam fillings faster than my body could get rid of it. For me, it was instructive that the pre challenge test showed nearly no mercury coming out of my body via urine sample (pre DMPS). However, the post DMPS sample showed massive amounts of mercury coming out.
The logical conclusion being that my body had plenty of mercury to get rid of and little to no ability to do so without the introduction of an aiding substance to “challenge” or “tease” the mercury out.
Once you have these results from your own tests, your general direction will be clear. That is to say, that if you have a lot of mercury in your body and particularly if you have some significant health challenges, you will want to get rid of the mercury as a matter of high priority. How you go about doing so is another matter altogether.
Some people use DMPS, DMSA, EDTA, ALA while others swear by various products, typically having some herbs or features that would seem to aid in the removal of mercury. This will be a subject of a future post.
Hope this is helpful to someone trying to understand the Challenge Test and what it might mean for you.
What?
After we stopped laughing, that is what my wife and I said to our delightful seven year old son.
You see, our son is trying to figure out ways to earn money because he wants violin lessons. We’ve got the violin rental figured out and we’ve got a good instructor chosen.
He (Tommy) just needs a wee bit more money to get started in a couple weeks.
We did some brainstorming and decided he could help us with a particular cleaning effort. He has chores, but this isn’t one of them. We added up the rooms that he would be performing this cleaning feat in and informed him that he would earn $X once a week. He instantly said “plus tax”.
After we stopped laughing, we tried explaining tax and government and so on to which his seven year old mind simply rejects the consideration of such a thing. He then tells us that it will be $2 in tax. In his mind, this is obviously going to help him get his violin lessons much faster.
His whole face lights up when he tells us he is charging us tax.
Just thought this was humorous enough to pass along. And we all know that laughter is good medicine.
First, we ought to understand what chelation is. Chelation is, generally speaking, the act of taking an agent (orally or intravenously) to aid in removing toxic metals from your body.
As promised in my last post, not only will I talk about DMPS, EDTA & DMSA, but I will also talk about ALA.
Secondly, we ought to know what these acronyms stand for. Ready?
DMPS stands for 2,3 dimercaptopropane sulfonate sodium.
EDTA stands for ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. Boy, I sure hope you can say that better than I can.
That reminds me of a large word that denotes other large words that have little or no meaning. The word? Floccinaucinihilipilification. My English 1 Professor would be proud. Back to the work at hand…
DMSA stands for meso-2,3 dimercaptosuccinic acid.
And now for the bonus. ALA stands for Alpha Lipoic Acid. This is probably the one that the most number of people are already familiar with.
DMPS doesn’t pass the blood-brain barrier. DMSA and ALA both do.
EDTA is generally used to chelate lead out of the body.
From my experience, DMPS was administered first and my test results showed that the DMPS “teased out” a substantial quantity of mercury from my body. DMPS is generally considered a reasonably chelating agent to use first, since it does not cross the blood-brain barrier.
Initially, when you first discover you are mercury poisoned, there is a lot of mercury that is what could be considered “low hanging fruit” or easy to get. It is preferable to gently go after that mercury while minimizing the possibility of redistributing some of it to your brain. DMPS seems to serve that purpose well.
After several months of slow DMPS pushes (10 or so minutes of a slow release of DMPS intravenously), we switched or ‘graduated’ to DMSA taken orally. That meant that I didn’t need a Doctor or Nurse to assist me with the chelation any more.
This process was an ‘up and down’ exercise, between the stress at work, the stress of not being well and the stress of life and then the chelation itself, it was tough. It reminds me of something that Doctor Lorraine Day said “if you want to get well, quit your job”.
A couple years into that chelation routine and I finally decided that it was best to work from home and focus on getting well. I have not regretted that decision and I believe that God is making a way for me to do so. I am working on my website at crimsonbooks.com and letting people know about the resources there. Nothing is more exciting or rewarding for me than to help people learn information that can save or otherwise improve their lives.
For the last many months, I take both DMSA and ALA simultaneously, both of which do pass the blood-brain barrier. Another way to say this is that we are now pulling mercury out of my brain.
There is a dosage amount that I do not exceed as if I do it makes me feel awful. If I stay under that amount, the chelation itself is relatively easy.
However, my body does seem to have a bit of a back-lash days after the chelation is over. I just have to roll with the punches on that one. Being alive and having lots of good days sure beats being dead or ill the way I had been.
There’s some of my experience with mercury chelating elements.
I did experience EDTA once as well.
It made my lungs feel strange and that was a sign that it was “working”. Since I was on an I.V. where the EDTA was dripping in, the Doctor tapped in some magnesium which relaxed my lungs and made the time in the Doctor’s office enjoyable again.
Wishing you the best of health.
One last thing, if you have had an experience with chelation, please use the comment feature to share your perspective and experience.
Simple. Really.
How best to explain might not be, but here is how it went for me.
My Doctor saved my life, in part from being able to interpret the data from two Hair Analysis Tests and a fair amount of other data. I can’t tell you how important the ‘other data’ were, but the Hair Analysis Test results were definitely important.
A Hair Analysis Test shows relative amounts of elements in your body. It will show that your body is excreting a significant amount of a particular toxic element, such as lead, for example. Or it could show that you are not excreting a lot of lead through your hair.
In my case, the Hair Test Results, which were analyzed by ‘Doctor’s Data’, showed that I was not excreting much mercury through my hair.
Most folks might say, well then, that ruled out mercury poisoning.
Well, not so fast. Another equally viable interpretation is that my body was so poisoned, that it had lost the ability to excrete mercury through this particular avenue.
What to do?
That is where we come to the “Challenge Test” or “Mercury Challenge Test”.
So, if you and your Doctor want to look into the possibility of mercury poisoning further, you can use the DMPS Mercury Challenge Test. I’ll talk about DMPS more extensively in a later post. Suffice it to say that DMPS “teases” or “Coaxes” mercury out of your body.
There is a pre-provocative aspect of this test, whereby you will provide a urine sample before you take any DMPS intravenously. Then you will take the DMPS via I.V. and for the next 24 hours collect all your urine.
Both of these urine samples are sent out to a highly qualified lab for analysis. The results are analyzed and you hear back from them a week or so later.
In my case, the pre-provocative test showed that I was not eliminating much (if any) mercury through my kidneys (my urine). So, this test result was similar to my Hair Analysis test results. Not much mercury.
However, when you see my post-provocative DMPS mercury challenge test results, it was amazing. The bar went all the way from the left of the paper to the right side of the paper.
I had lots of mercury in my body. Undeniable evidence of lots of mercury in my body. Even a little bit is not good for a chronically ill person. Since I was nearly dead when I did the test, it was obvious that I needed to get the mercury out. At the very least, it wouldn’t hurt to get some mercury out and at best, I could get better.
Because my body had lost the ability to remove mercury, I needed a way to get it out.
How did I go about getting it out? Primarily DMPS initially, then DMSA and the DMSA and ALA.
My next post dealing with DMPS, EDTA & DMSA.
I am happy to report that I have been getting better and it correlates very strongly with the removal of mercury from my body.
By the way, the challenge test didn’t do a thing to me in terms of how I felt. There are people that react to DMPS, but I definitely wasn’t one of them.