Comments on: Mercury amalgam whitewash

By: brian altman

brian altman — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:48:23 +0000

the most accurate research that could be done on amalgam would be to require all dentists who use it to place a generous research amount in their own mouths. then , with no measurable increases in their body burden of mercury, we can debate and ponder why they sometimes run their spouses over with their mercedes in fits of rage, a symptom associated with mercurialism.

By: Sandra N. Duffy

Sandra N. Duffy — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:24:38 +0000

Dr. Eades, you have honed it on the critical issue in these bogus studies: what is the data on the vulnerable subset of children.

Dr. Boyd Haley, former Chair of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky has done an excellent examination of these studies – especially as it relates to susceptible subsets of subjects. you can find it at: http://www.iaomt.org/documents/CAT_Haley_response.pdf

Dr. Haley has done a lot of research on mercury and its effects on the body. He is an expert witness for parents of autistic kids who were harmed by the mercury in vaccines. Dr. Haley also believes, based on extensive research, that mercury is the primary cause of Alzheimer’s.

There is a subset of people with a certain APOE genotype who cannot effectively detox mercury. In kids it shows up as autism. You don’t find much mercury in their urine or in their hair …. it is retained in their bodies. And in old people it manifests as Alzheimer’s.

The kids in the Children’s Amalgam Trials had an average amount of mercury in their urine which Diane Echeverria, et al, found in DENTISTS to cause measurable neurological deficits.

The investigators did porphyrin tests on these kids (a sign of mercury toxicity), but they didn’t publish the results. Dr. Haley thinks that is the smoking gun.

I am a public lawyer, but also a board member of Consumers for Dental Choice, a private non-profit working to abolish the use of mercury in dental fillings.

I have prepared a Freedom of Information Act request to be sent to the University of Washington (Portuguese part of the study) and National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research – which spent $11 million of taxpayer money to poison poor, mostly minority children in New England, and orphans and handicapped kids in Portugal, some of whom were the victims of sex abuse.

Thanks for passing the word.

Sandra Duffy
Lake Oswego, OR

My pleasure

Thanks for writing.

MRE

By: Michael R. Eades, MD

Michael R. Eades, MD — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:54:12 +0000

Thanks for the kind words about Protein Power. We do indeed have CDs now that we’re working on making available through our website. Keep watching.

By: carol basinger

carol basinger — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:43:02 +0000

Dr.s Eades, I purchased your diet plan about 6 or 7 years ago. I did well on it, but fell off of the wagon. I am getting started on it again now. I have one problem… my kit came with cassette tapes & I no longer have a cassette player. Is it possible for me to order the tapes on cd? I feel like my biggest problem with most diets is I quit before I get to maintenance. I want to go through the whole diet & do the maintenance so I can keep the weight off. I know I will need a lot of encouragement & I have set myself up a network of friends to help me. Thank you for your Protein Power Plan, it is a great plan.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:33:05 +0000

Hmmm….no cavities because low carb in low sugar. I never thought of that connection! I know I have quite a few cavities from a checkup I had several years ago, but because I am so afraid of the dentist I decided not to do anything about them unless they DID become a problem.

Yeah, I’m a wuss.

By: Esther Hoff

Esther Hoff — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:40:47 +0000

Hmmm, I saw the article in the paper and was suspicious about the findings and this just confirms it. Really makes me glad that I had no cavities as a little kid (my brother and sister were not so lucky.) Later on, my orthodontist capped some of my primary molars a few years before they fell out when they had some cavities starting rather than drilling and filling them. I don’t know if the fact that he was in Mexico had anything to do with that. Now I’m wondering if I should have the few mercury fillings that I got as an adult replaced. I’ll have to explore that with my dentist next month when I see him. My sister had all hers replaced because of her MS (I guess she figured that it couldn’t hurt.) Meanwhile, I really wonder just how healthy it is to have root canals done. The one root canel that I had eventually went bad with a very nasty abcess- an experience that I would wish on no one-and I finally had them pull the tooth rather than having it redone like they wanted to do. BTW, for what it’s worth, I am the only one of my siblings that hasn’t had peridontal disease.

Thanks, Mark, for posting the links as they should be interesting reading.

And I agree with Karen, I am glad that you did not become a rocket scientist as we do need you here!

By: Mark Levin

Mark Levin — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:29:09 +0000

I was unaware that there were acceptable subsitutes for mercury amalgram. It seems a no brainer that they (composites) should be used instead of amalgram just like we eliminated lead from gasoline (although from what I understand, its toxicity was well known when it was first used in gasoline in the 1920′s). Given the tendency for mercury to accumulate in the brain, I wonder if anyone has tried to link it to Alzheimer’s? An internet search found the following articles.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V74-3YMFSBR-6T-1&_cdi=5832&_user=2597482&_orig=search&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F1995&_sk=999699998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzb-zSkzk&md5=1247976390def14fb181aea041e38ec0&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

http://www.springerlink.com/(5zgkasa1usrky445smenxx45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,6,9;journal,85,406;linkingpublicationresults,1:101493,1

http://www.springerlink.com/(5lk3zi55olgucg55imo5zzjo)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,10,10;journal,20,73;linkingpublicationresults,1:100146,1

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1262739

http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/The_Three_Modern_Faces_of_Mercury-Clarkson.pdf

The last, The Three Modern Faces of Mercury, is a good summary article. It indicates that relationship of mercury to dementia is at this point uncertain. It does have some interesting items. Excessive gum chewing is linked to higher release of gaseous mercury from amalgram. Alcohol consumption inhibits absorption of mercury vapor. Selenium and some other antioxidants block the absorption of mercury. Some evidence has been found linking mercury levels in the body to heart disease. It is interesting that both antioxidant status and alcohol intake have been found to be negatively correlated to heart disease.

By: Karen Jenn

Karen Jenn — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:17:06 +0000

“When I had them in place, they didn’t seem to do me any harm, but who knows, without them I might have become a rocket scientist.”

Rocket science is NOT your forte. Your forte is what you are doing right now! Keep it up, you (and your wife) are brilliant. Please don’t become a rocket scientist, we need you here.

I am a person who has had mercury amalgam fillings in EVERY one of my teeth for my entire life. My entire diet (as a child) consisted of sugar, and I had at least 10-20 cavities per year to show for it. Giant dental bills.

In the scant 2 years that I have been eating low carb (40 yo), my severe periodontal disease has dissappeared. No cavities, no pockets, no fillings, no diseased teeth, and no surgery. My Dentist is not amazed, as they all do low-carb at their office and know that dietary glucose/starch/carbs is poison.

I have broken a few mercury thermometers in my day- mostly because I was trying to heat them up artificially to get a day off from school. I remember cleaning up those beautiful rolling blobs of mercury from our bathroom floor, hoping that I wouldn’t get in trouble.