Mercury Forms
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Elemental 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/
Mercury Toxicity in the Human Brain
Also used Google Define:(insert word) for some definitions which found some definitions at www.wikipedia.org.