Natural Recovery Plan Article Archive

Announcing: The Mercury Issue Presentation

What every therapist needs to know about mercury poisoning from dental amalgam fillings   What is it about? The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for a global phase-down of amalgam fillings to start in 2015 to be followed by a complete ban. See WHO Report: Update for Dentists for more.  This means that the issue of mercury toxicity from dental amalgam is going to be a very large concern in the coming years and with millions of people affected,...

Dr Alison Adams: My Story of Mercury Poisoning

This article accompanies the video of the same name below. My name is Dr Alison Adams and I am a UK and US trained dentist who got mercury poisoning. As a result, I had to sell my dental practice and quit dentistry and it was only when I retrained in natural medicine that I began to piece together how my health had totally collapsed in just 4 short decades.  I am going to share with you some of what I figured out about my own descent into chronic and debilitating ill health beca...

The Health Status of Dentists Exposed to Mercury

This article reports on the findings of a recent Yale University study conducted by T.G. Duplinsky and D.V. Cicchetti entitled The Health Status of Dentists Exposed to Mercury from Silver Amalgam Tooth Restorations which was recently published in the International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research.  And for those of you who are thinking that this information might not be relevant because you are not a dentist or chair-side dental assistant - thin...

Occupational Mercury Poisoning of Dentists and Staff

Dental amalgam has been in use as a filling material for 180 years now and contains approximately 50% liquid mercury along with a variety of powdered metals. In fact, an estimated 150 tonnes of mercury are used in dental restorations each year, with the average dentist inserting 1 to 1.5 kg (2 or 3 pounds) annually into their patients' mouths. The mercury has been shown to vaporise from the amalgam filling and pass directly into the brain via the nose and to be inhaled...

Dental Staff: Mercury Poisoning Testimonies

As a brief introduction to the subject of mercury toxicity from dental amalgam, you may wish to view this trailer for the documentary You Put What in My Mouth? (currently in production). If you do nothing else, watch the footage starting about 2 minutes in which makes the mercury vapour produced during amalgam filling removal visible using a special technique (refer to Visualising Mercury Vapour for an explanation) from which the images below have been captured. In the firs...

Microbial and Parasitic Infections

Many practitioners involved in treating fatigue syndromes recognise that infective organisms play a significant causative role and so they seek to eliminate them as they are identified. However, this approach does nothing to address the underlying cause which is a toxic system particularly undermined by metal toxicity.  An alternative way of looking at the whole issue of infective agents is discussed in detail in: Chronic Fatigue, ME and Fibromyalgia: The Natural Recovery Plan. This ...

Platinum Use in Dentistry

The name platinum is derived from the Spanish platina, meaning 'little silver'. It is a silvery-white, malleable and ductile noble and heavy metal. There are six naturally occurring isotopes of platinum of which only the least common is weakly radioactive. Like gold, platinum is very resistant to corrosion and tarnishing and will not oxidise in air no matter how strongly it is heated. However it reacts with some other chemicals such as the halogens, cyanides,&n...

What Kierkegaard Knew

On life   "The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."   "Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."   "Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."    "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."    "Listen t...

Mercury Poisoning from Dental Amalgam: Anniversary Request

The Natural Recovery Plan website is celebrating its third anniversary! And since these last three years have included two near-fatal road traffic accidents, recovering from a broken leg and further elective surgery to remove the metal rod placed, in addition to overcoming no end of technical problems I consider it an occasion worth marking. I can see nothing more important than to repeat an earlier request to publicise the issue of mercury toxicity from dental amalgam fillings ...

Early Life Reflexes

What are Primary Reflexes? Humans need to move through a series of primary or early life reflexes during development in the womb and infancy in order for their neural system to become fully integrated and function efficiently as adults.  Primary reflexes are defined as being innate, stereotyped, automatic movements directed by the brain stem that are intended to promote survival during the early years of life. Each reflex is in turn initiated, integrated and then inhibi...

Services Offered by Dr Adams

This content has recently been permanently posted under 'Services' under the 'About' menu tab.    'Modern' dentistry: A broken paradigm The conventional model sees the mouth as being separate to the body with doctors knowing little about the mouth and dentists evidencing little interest in the health of their patients. In addition the adverse effects of dental treatment are often delayed and take different forms in different people so that the cau...

HealThy Mouth: World Summit

Exciting news! I have just found out about the first ever HealThy Mouth World Summit taking place from the 13th to the 20th of January 2013. This is a FREE online event which brings together 21 leading experts from 6 different countries in the field of the relationship between oral and whole body health. Many of those taking part will be familiar to regular readers of this website including biological dentists such as Dr Mark Breiner, Dr David Kennedy and Dr Hal Hugg...