When you research across specialized boundaries, sometimes it is easy
to see patterns that you never see when sticking in one area of science.
Back when I decided to research what was causing my ADD/ADHD symptoms
and other health problems, it didn't take me long to determine the
problem. In fact, I'd say it was one of the most obvious (and
depressing) conclusions from a research project I ever had. I
determined quickly that most of the health issues being experienced
today where the methods of treatment are largely ineffective, such as
Autism, Cancer, ADHD, AIDS, EMF Sensitivity, Multiple Chemical
Sensitivity, Wilson's syndrome, hypo and hyperthyroid and other
emerging Indigo Child issues are primarily due to mercury disrupting
the body and the highly misunderstood and critical ways that iodine is
used.
When I tried to communicate that Autism, AIDS and other problems were mercury related 12 years ago I also got to understand the politics of medicine better and it is not pretty scenario. Now at least others are making the connections and the problem is becoming known. The bad news is that figuring out the problem was easy, but figuring out the solution, which is detoxing mercury and restoring the correct iodine function of the body is not so easy.
Unfortunately, all methods of mercury detox are dangerous and risky. Doctors and companies that sell products will tell you otherwise, and that it is safe to do DMPS, DMSA, EDTA, NDF, NDF+, BTM, etc but it isn't true. They all can have very serious side effects.
The two best protocols I have researched are Biorays BTM (http://www.healthydetox.org), which uses NDF, NDF+ and liverlife as it's primary metal drainage strategy, and the Andy Cutler protocol (http://www.noamalgam.com), which uses sulphur chelators like DMPS, DMSA and ALA on a strict timed dosage schedule in an attempt to minimize redistribution of metals.
Both Bioray and Andy Cutler imply it is easy to detox mercury, or that there are no side effects, which simply isn't the case. You can and probably will have severe reactions to either protocol, and both can have life threatening results. Really.
For example, you can't use a sulphur based chelator without recirculating mercury. It is not possible because of the way iodine works in the body. When the body iodates cells any mercury bound between cysteine di-sulfide bonds will be broken, released, and then reused.
Most doctor protocols that use sulphur chelators (DMSA and DMPS) are to be avoided at all costs. Without consistent timing or determining if phase1 and 2 detox pathways are open these can cause severe damage due to recirculation.
Better sulphur chelator protocols like the Andy Cutler protocol that time dosages do a fair job of minimizing recirculation and can be beneficial, but they can't stop recirculation. That is why mothers of autistic children using his protocol go through round after round of alternating between pulling mercury, and then fighting yeast as the mercury is unbound in a more inorganic form in the body where candida can form on it. Read the mercury-autism group on Yahoo to see what these poor parents go through.
In either the BTM or Andy Cutler protocols, I have found it is critical to add zeolites and iodine supplementation to the protocol. Zeolites can keep the mercury from being recycled and reused via the small intestines. I have seen good results using the zeolite called Natural Cellular Defense (NCD) from Waiora, but there is little useful data on this supplement, and it is one of those distributed marketed items, which means it comes with a barrage of bullshit marketing and is also greatly overpriced, as are most products from these companies.
Even if the products are good, they require huge profit margins to support these pyramid marketing models. Also distributors of NCD quote a patent quite often, but the patent I have seen does not cover taking NCD orally, so once again it is just more BS.
What it boils down to is we still need to a lot of research and work to figure out how to detox mercury effectively and restore the iodine function of the body. We need to find a zeolite that has a very high or specific affinity for mercury when taken orally that doesn't distrupt the uptake of other essential nutrients in the intestines.
Supplements like NDF and NDF+ also unbind and chelate iodine and disrupt how it is used in the brain, which can cause seizures and other VERY serious problems. NDF+ can also methylate mercury when the body burden is high with deadly results.
In many cases a person might decide the risks of trying to detox mercury outweigh the alternatives. I have been forced to do it personally and I certainly would if a loved one had a serious health problem or I had autistic or highly ADD/ADHD children or ones with some other mercury related problem. But just remember there are a lot of risks.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone besides me are getting tired of all these "experts" telling you they have all the answers when they don't. The health stores are full of pathetically researched books and supplemenets by people that "have all the answers". I figure its about time to honestly look at what we do and don't know. Stay tuned. Gary
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