Note: If you are a new visitor to this website please read about the causes of fatigue syndromes first and you may also wish to read about The Natural Recovery Plan before proceeding. An article and video detailing the many Symptoms of Mercury Poisoning is also available.
The unvarnished truth!
I can't lie to you - the process of restoring health after suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), fibromyalgia or other autoimmune diseases is tough - extremely tough, but it IS possible.
Which has to be good news doesn't it?
However, a complete restoration of health may require some serious professional involvement, and it is possible that your body has sustained some irreversible damage from which it may not be able to recover.
Most chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia sufferers though, can vastly improve their health and wellbeing by following the programme of combined microbial and mercury poisoning detoxification outlined in Chronic Fatigue, ME, and Fibromyalgia: The Natural Recovery Plan and for many that is much more than they had hitherto dared hope for.
A whistle-stop history of mercury poisoning
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I don't know if you will take any comfort from the fact that you are by no means the first victim of chronic mercury poisoning.
In fact, you have some very august company!
Ironically, the First Emperor of China was poisoned by the mercury tablets he took for immortality and - a tragic loss the world - Amadeus Mozart died a young man of the 'mercury cure' he was given for syphilis by his physician.
Poisoning your enemies with mercury has also proved popular throughout history - being odourless, tasteless, extremely deadly, hard to reverse and still to this day apparently - very difficult to detect!
King Charles II of England was thought to have been killed in this way and it is highly probable that intentional or unintentional mercury poisoning could account for the outlandish behaviour of King George III as depicted in the film The Madness of King George.
There have also been two huge cases of industrial mercury poisoning in Japan in the last century and and one massive case of mercury poisoning with contaminated grain in Iraq. Both incidents killed thousands and affected many tens of thousands more for generations after the initial incidents.
People working in industries that traditionally used mercury such as the hatting industry and, of course, those involved mercury mining have also historically died prematurely, gone mad or suffered serious physical illnesses in their thousands as a result of occupational chronic mercury poisoning too.
And, sadly, dentists and their chairside assistants continue to be exposed to occupational mercury poisoning to this day. This is borne out by their health record including the fact that, compared to the general population, dentists have:
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High levels of chemical dependency
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Compromised manual dexterity, emotional and cognitive ability
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A higher incidence of brain, heart and lung cancers
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More kidney, heart and lung disorders
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7 times the suicide rate and
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Female dentists are 3.5 times more likely to suffer infertility, miscarriage or still birth.
Oh, how I wish I could tell you that yours is the last horror story in this particular episode of misadventure by humanity - but sadly, that is unlikely to be the case!
For more on this topic, see the article and associated video entitled A History of Mercury Poisoning.
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How the body heals
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Following the detoxification programme outlined in The Natural Recovery Plan you will begin to pull potent toxins out of storage deep in body compartments pretty much continuously. This can make you feel at best, mildly under the weather on a 'good' day and may make you feel a lot worse than that on a 'bad' day!
When you finally start to reduce your body of its accumulated mercury toxicity by following the programme outlined expect a bit of a bumpy and unpredictable ride!
As the body gains strength it appears to expel toxins in 'layers' or 'waves' almost as though it gathers strength or nutrients for the next 'big push'.
For more information on this topic see How the Body Heals.
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Patience is definitely a virtue!
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And, because the half-life of mercury in circulation is several months, it can take quite a while to feel the benefit of your detoxification. For this reason it is possible that you won't appreciate the progress you are making for some months - or until you stop detoxifying. You may even feel worse - temporarily.
However, over time you will start to notice a gradual improvement in your fatigue syndrome symptoms and perhaps encouraging signs that your detoxification is working for you.
Whilst it is true that there are going to be some days following the detox when you will feel absolutely awful - that happens now anyway, doesn't it?
This time though: it will be because those potent toxins are on their WAY OUT of your body rather than endlessly being shunted from organ to organ in the circulation!
For this reason, The Natural Recovery Plan offers Lifestyle and Symptom Assessments that help you to monitor your progress during detoxification.
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Is the Natural Recovery Plan for you?
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In all honesty, I fought so hard to recover because I was still relatively young and had the prospect of so much life left to live before me when I became degeneratively ill.
Would I recommend my detoxification strategy to someone in their twilight years? Well, that has to be a personal decision and if they want to do it - I say go for it.
At the other end of the scale, would I recommend my strategy to someone - especially women - who have not yet had children and hopes to some day?
Unquestionably: YES.
You will increase your fertility and spare your future children all sorts of misery. However, you must finish the plan BEFORE you plan to try for a baby and it expressly should NOT be done if pregnant, trying to become pregnant or breastfeeding.
On a personality basis, whilst this detoxification will work for anyone with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), ME, fibromyalgia or an autoimmune disease, not everyone has the determination, staying power or level of self-responsibility required to see it through. And frankly, there is not much point starting if you are going to be half-hearted about it.
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Symptoms of detoxification
Ultimately, our bodies are designed to be self-healing and nature has equipped us and all our forbears to survive in some pretty harsh and uncompromising circumstances. The body has its own wisdom and, after all this time, I still can't totally fathom it, but I do have huge respect for it.
Listed below are just some of the symptoms you can expect whilst following the combined programme of microbial and mercury poisoning detoxification detailed in my strategy:
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Flatulence
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Soft bowel movements and/or diarrhoea
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Cold and flu-like symptoms such as a runny nose and swollen glands
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Intensely itchy rashes and flaking skin
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Headaches
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Darker and/or pungent urine
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If female and menstruating, your menstrual bleed may change to become heavier or darker
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Generally feeling non-specifically lousy
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Mood swings and feeling emotional
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Although none of these symptoms of mercury poisoning detoxification are pleasant you most probably experience some or all of these symptoms on and off anyway. And whilst there are unpredictable risks and disagreeable symptoms involved in attempting to recover from your fatigue syndrome, I think you will agree that staying sick has an all-too predictable outcome!
My history of exposure to mercury poisoning
For many years I had blamed my body for doing what I perceived were crazy things all the time and not being able to function on even an adequate level. Now I think it did an absolutely remarkable job of keeping me alive under very extreme circumstances and I am extraordinarily grateful to it for all its sterling efforts over the decades.
You see, there really wasn't ever anything terribly wrong with my body per se - it was just massively toxic from the environment that it had been subjected to from the womb onwards. And the odds were heavily weighted against restoration from my fatigue syndrome as this brief history of my exposure to mercury poisoning will attest:
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I came from a family with a big history of autoimmune diseases which I now understand relates to an inherited inability to excrete mercury
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I had a stressful childhood for a variety of reasons
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I was born to a mother who, at the age of forty and with teeth heavily filled with dental amalgam, had accumulated 40 years of toxins and in particular - mercury. Perhaps not surprisingly my mother had serious lifelong mental health problems!
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My mother had dental treatment whilst pregnant with me
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I had all the usual vaccinations (containing a mercury preservative)
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I had approximately 20 dental amalgam fillings by adulthood - 13 of which were placed in short order when I first went to dental school and it was found that my dental health had been neglected by my hometown dentist
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Over time several of my larger dental amalgam fillings were replaced with metal-based crowns of different compositions (thus creating galvanic currents between the different metals in the mouth and accelerating the rate of release of mercury vapour from the dental amalgam fillings)
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I had regular vaccinations for flu along with the hepatitis B vaccinations required for health professionals in addition to a number of other vaccines such as yellow fever for foreign travel (more mercury preservative!)
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I had a total of 25 years of occupational exposure to mercury vapour as both a dental student and a practising dentist
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I lived in my dental practice at one stage for 7 years and so was exposed to mercury vapour 24/7 for the duration
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I had an accidental spill of liquid mercury in my dental office at one stage which could not be located (an amalgam cartridge flew out of the mixing machine, hit the wall and scattered) and I continued to work unwittingly in this mercury toxic atmosphere for several years afterwards
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If it will give you any encouragement, I was definitely in the antechamber for the great hereafter when I started to turn my health around using methods similar to those recommended in Chronic Fatigue, ME, and Fibromyalgia: The Natural Recovery Plan. And as you see, I had a tremendous amount of mercury toxicity and if I managed to restore my health - you can too!
Back from the brink
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Once I was ABSOLUTELY certain that chronic mercury poisoning was my underlying problem and that what I was doing was working, I was prepared to stick with the rough patches to get to the other side.
I do have pictures of me during my restoration, but they are not a pretty sight and I don't want to put you off totally!
As you already gather, I've managed to make huge inroads into my fatigue syndrome following a combined programme of detoxification from mercury toxicity and microbial invasion. I won't be running any marathons - but I can live with that!
As trying as my detoxification strategy is, I genuinely believe that there is no other way to restore your health. How can there possibly be once you understand the nature of the problem?
My wish for you is that you find all the inner and outer resources you need on your own path to recovery.
And that just leaves you to get on with the rest of your life - and what could be better than that?
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