Research: An Overview of Mercury-Caused Health Conditions
1. Dental Amalgam Fillings are the largest source of mercury in most people, and the largest source of methyl mercury since inorganic forms of mercury are methylated to form methyl mercury in the body by bacteria and yeasts.
2. Most people with several fillings get significant daily exposures to mercury that exceed Government Health Guidelines for Mercury Exposure.
3. The main reasons for common high exposures of mercury and other toxic metals from amalgam are mercury's negative vapour pressure which means that it is constantly vaporising plus the galvanic currents (battery effect) created in the mouth by mixed metals that pumps mercury into the gums, jawbone, oral mucosa, and systemically is carried throughout the body by the blood and nerves.
Additionally electromagnetic fields (EMF) from appliances such as computer monitors and motors create currents in metal in the mouth that increases galvanism and exposure to metals such as mercury.
4. Mercury is extremely toxic and the most toxic substance with common significant exposures. No safe level where there are not measurable adverse effects has ever been documented. However not all people receiving the same exposure are equally effected and mercury toxicity effects depend on susceptibility factors such as immune reactivity, systemic detoxification and metal excretion ability and other synergistic exposures as well as dose.
5. Mercury vapour or organic mercury readily crosses the blood-brain barrier and the placenta to a foetus, and accumulates to significant levels in the brain, CNS, motor neurons, hormone glands, and major organs such as the heart, kidneys, and liver in direct proportion to the number of amalgam filling surfaces. Mercury is documented to be extremely cytotoxic (kills cells), neurotoxic, and immunotoxic, as well as inducing immune reactivity in large numbers of people.
6. Mercury and other toxic, immune reactive, and carcinogenic metals like nickel form strong bonds with the hydroxyl radical (SH) in amino acids which are the body's main building blocks and cellular level fuel, disrupting the basic metabolic processes such as the conversion of cysteine to sulphates, taurine, and glutathione. The incomplete conversion of such amino acids results in toxic metabolites such as beta casamorphine and sulphites as well as immune and autoimmune conditions.
Mercury also accumulates in the brain and CNS and damages nerve cells involved in Parkinson's disease and ALS through free radical formation and oxidative damage.
Some of the autoimmune conditions documented to be commonly caused by mercury (and other toxic metals) include oral lichen planus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia (FM), MS, Lupus, Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS), Parkinson's disease and diabetes.
7. Thousands of medical studies on humans and animals have confirmed the mechanisms by which mercury (and other toxic metals) cause over 40 serious or chronic health conditions including neurological, hormonal, reproductive, immune, autoimmune, cardiovascular, and birth defects and developmental effects on infants.
8. There are many thousands of clinical cases of cure or significant improvement in these conditions after proper amalgam replacement and treatment, as followed and documented by doctors.
Some of the conditions that mercury has been documented to cause and which people have been documented to recover from after proper amalgam replacement or treatment include:
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Periodontal disease
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Oral keratosis (pre-cancerous lesions)
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Immune dysfunctions and susceptibility to infections
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Autoimmune problems
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Allergies
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Asthma
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Lupus Erythematosus
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Sinus problems
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Chronic headaches and migraines
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Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
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Epilepsy
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Blood conditions
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Crohn's disease
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Stomach problems
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Dizziness and vertigo
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Arthritis
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
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Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)
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Parkinson's disease and muscle tremors
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Alzheimer's disease
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Muscular and joint pain and fibromyalgia
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Infertility
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Depression
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Autism
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Schizophrenia
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Attention Deficit Disorder
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Insomnia
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Anger, anxiety & mental confusion
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Antibiotic resistant infections such as MRSA
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Endometriosis
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Tachycardia and other heart problems
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Memory disorders
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Cancers such as breast cancer and leukaemia
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Neuropathies and paraesthesias
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Alopecia and hair loss
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Tinnitus
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Chronic eye conditions including: inflammation, iritis, astigmatism, myopia, cataracts and macular degeneration
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Vision disturbances
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Eczema
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Psoriasis
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Skin conditions
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Urinary and prostate problems
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Hearing loss
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Candida
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Premenstrual syndrome
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Diabetes
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Leaky gut syndrome
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Cancer and other
The majority of those treated for most of these conditions showed significant improvement for most of these conditions.
9. Root canals and cavitations (incompletely healed tooth extraction sites) have been documented to often over time accumulate extremely toxic anaerobic bacteria which give off toxins that can have similar toxic effects in disrupting enzymatic processes as mercury and to be a factor in some autoimmune cases such as Parkinson's, MS, ALS and Alzheimer's disease.
Clinical trials have found infections of locally asymptomatic root-canalled teeth and cavitations to be extremely common, occurring in over 50% of root-canalled teeth and wisdom tooth extraction sites tested. New tests are available for testing for such conditions, which are commonly factors in chronic health conditions. Many are documented to have recovered from such conditions after treatment.
Please explore the subjects covered above in more detail in the many research articles available through this site that contain thousands of documented scientific and medical references. A wide range of research PDFs covering many other ailments and environmental concerns is available on the Research page with excerpts listed under archive articles and searchable.
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