Re: Mercury On The Mind

From: Jan (jdrew63929_at_aol.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: 15 Oct 2004 08:00:52 GMT

>Subject: Re: Mercury On The Mind
>From: "John Chewter" john@LESS_SPAMchewter.f9.co.uk
>Date: 10/14/2004 8:45 PM Pacific Standard Time
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>News :)

Yeah!!!

Bad news is the denial of a buch of liars.

In the meantime this denial is causing much suffering.

There is much of that denial right here.

But you don't wanna talk about that, do you John????

>"Jan" <jdrew63929@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:20041014232715.03961.00004873@mb-m19.aol.com...
>> (more than enough reason to STOP installing amalgams)
>>
>> Mercury on the Mind
>> by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
>>
>>
>> Although they afflict widely different age groups, autism and
>> Alzheimer's disease share a common cause: mercury. Dr. Boyd Haley,
>> professor and chair of the chemistry department at the University of
>> Kentucky, and Dr. Bernard Rimland, founder of the Autism Research
>> Institute, presented evidence at this year's Doctors for Disaster
>> Preparedness meeting that connects mercury with these diseases.
>>
>> This heavy metal is highly poisonous. A Dartmouth professor studying
>> the chemical characteristics of an organic form of mercury - dimethyl
>> mercury - spilled two drops of it on her gloved hand. The first sign
>> of mercury poisoning occurred four months later when her speech began
>> to be slurred. This was followed by difficulty walking and loss of
>> vision. She then fell into a coma and died. Another person, attempting
>> to smelt the silver in dental amalgams he obtained (they are 35
>> percent silver, 50 percent mercury, and 15 percent tin, zinc, and
>> other metals), heated them in a frying pan. The mercury vapor thus
>> generated killed him quickly. The two other family members in the
>> house at the time also died.
>>
>> Mercury is one proton (neutron and electron) heavier than gold - the
>> atomic number of gold is 79; mercury, 80. It is distributed throughout
>> the earth's crust. Unlike other metals, mercury, in its elemental
>> state, is liquid (molten) at room temperature. And it releases a
>> steady stream of gaseous mercury atoms that linger in the atmosphere
>> for months (eventually falling back to earth and its oceans in an
>> inorganic form in rain drops). Even when in a solid state, combined
>> with other metals as an alloy, mercury atoms continually escape into
>> the atmosphere. Once added to latex paint, put in teething powder,
>> used in making hats, as a fungicide on seeds, as an antiseptic
>> (Merthiolate), and as a treatment for syphilis (the cure was worse
>> than the disease), human exposure to mercury today comes principally
>> from three sources: dental amalgams, vaccines, and fish.
>>
>> Elemental mercury when released by a dental amalgam is inhaled and (80
>> percent of it) absorbed by the lungs and retained in the body. Vaccine
>> makers add thimerosal (which is half ethyl mercury) to vaccines to
>> prevent bacterial contamination. This injected organic form of mercury
>> is readily taken up by brain and heart muscle cells. Fish harbor
>> another organic form of mercury - methyl mercury, which is obtained
>> from plankton that synthesize it from inorganic mercury extracted from
>> the sea.
>>
>>
>> Currently the two most important sources of mercury exposure for
>> Americans are dental amalgams and vaccinations. The Federal
>> government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food
>> and Drug Administration (FDA), for reasons not explained, have chosen
>> to ignore this fact. These agencies and the National Institutes of
>> Health (NIH) focus exclusively on mercury in seafood, to the extent
>> that the NIH will not fund studies that address mercury in amalgams
>> and vaccines.
>>
>> In lockstep with the government, the American Dental Association (ADA)
>> claims that amalgams are safe, and the mercury in them poses no
>> problem. The (government-funded) Institute of Medicine (IOM) and
>> various specialty societies, notably the American Academy of
>> Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and
>> the American Medical Association (AMA), say the same thing about
>> mercury in vaccines. There is growing evidence, however, that mercury
>> in vaccines and amalgams cause both autism and Alzheimer's disease.
>> The CDC and the FDA and the medical establishment, led by its
>> specialty societies, discount or ignore this evidence - evidence that
>> includes privately funded epidemiological studies; research on how
>> mercury damages brain cells grown in culture; animal studies in
>> rodents, sheep, and primates; and clinical studies in children and
>> adults.
>>
>> Autism was discovered in 1943, in American children, twelve years
>> after ethyl mercury (thimerosal) was added to the pertussis vaccine.
>> (The disease was not seen in Europe until the 1950s, after thimerosal
>> was added to vaccines used there.) In a typical case, shortly before
>> his 2nd birthday a normally developing, healthy boy stops
>> communicating with others and withdraws into himself. He avoids eye
>> contact and becomes strange and aloof. His vision becomes blurred; and
>> he develops various motor disturbances, such as involuntary jerking of
>> the arms and legs and walking on his toes. In addition to these
>> manifestations, Dr. Sallie Bernard and her colleagues, in a study
>> titled, "Autism: A Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning," describe the
>> speech difficulties, unusual behavior (such as unprovoked crying
>> spells and head banging), various degrees of cognitive impairment,
>> gastrointestinal difficulties, and immune difficulties that these
>> autistic children can have. Mercury is most likely a causative factor
>> in other developmental disorders as well, such as delayed speech and
>> attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
>>
>> Investigators have shown that there is a direct relationship between
>> increasing doses of mercury in vaccines and autism. In the 1950s, with
>> an immunization schedule limited to four vaccines (against diphtheria,
>> tetanus, pertussis, and smallpox), 1 in 10,000 children developed this
>> disease. As vaccines for other diseases were added, health care
>> providers began injecting increasingly larger doses of mercury into
>> children. Those born in 1981 were given 135 micrograms of mercury (on
>> average), and one case of autism occurred in every 2,600 children born
>> that year. With the addition of hepatitis B vaccine (injected on the
>> day of birth) and one for Haemophilus influenzae Type b, providers
>> injected 246 micrograms of mercury into children born in 1996. Autism
>> occurred in one out of every 350 of these children. Today, providers
>> follow an immunization schedule, prepared by the CDC and approved by
>> the AAP and AAFP, that includes 13 vaccines given, with variable
>> numbers of booster shots, 33 times before a child reaches the age of 2
>> (when the development of the brain is completed). Autism now afflicts
>> 1 in 100 boys and 1 in 400 girls, and physicians diagnose 100,000 new
>> cases of this disease every year in the U.S (using diagnostic
>> criteria, in the DSM-IV, that is more restrictive than the previous
>> DSM-IIIR). Over the last 30 years more than one million children have
>> come down with this disease, and currently one in every 68 families in
>> America has an autistic child.
>>
>> Mainstream medical journals, like Pediatrics and The New England
>> Journal of Medicine, only publish studies that claim thimerosal is
>> safe. And it turns out that these articles are written in large part
>> by researchers in the pay of vaccine makers, as the Coalition for Safe
>> Minds (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury-Induced Neurological
>> Disorders), a private nonprofit organization, has shown. Editors of
>> these journals will not publish studies that show a link between
>> thimerosal and autism like "Thimerosal in Childhood Vaccines,
>> Neurodevelopment Disorders, and Heart Disease in the United States" by
>> Mark and David Geier, which documents a strong association between the
>> amounts of mercury injected in vaccines and autism. Such articles can
>> only find acceptance in alternative (i.e., "politically incorrect")
>> journals like the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, where
>> this one was published.
>>
>> The amount of damage a given dose of mercury can do to the brain (and
>> also the heart) depends on one's age, sex, and genetically determined
>> ability to excrete mercury. Young children with still developing
>> brains are more susceptible, and males are more vulnerable to a given
>> dose of mercury because testosterone enhances its neurotoxicity. Most
>> important, however, is one's genetically programmed ability to rid the
>> body of mercury. The brain has a house-cleaning protein that removes
>> dangerous waste products, which comes in three varieties: APO-E2,
>> APO-E3, and APO-E4. The APO-E2 protein can carry 2 atoms of mercury
>> out of the brain; APO-3, one; and AOP-E4, none. The genes we acquire
>> from each parent determine which two we have. People with two APO-E4
>> proteins (and thus no APO-E2 or -E3) have an 80 percent chance of
>> acquiring Alzheimer's disease. And according to one study, autistic
>> children have a huge preponderance of APO-E4 protein in their brains.
>>
>> Alzheimer's disease was discovered in 1906, again in America, where
>> dentists used mercury-laden amalgams to fill cavities (dentists in
>> Europe largely avoided them). Today, more than 4 million Americans now
>> have Alzheimer's disease. It afflicts half of people over the age of
>> 85 and 20 percent aged 75 to 84.
>>
>> The first symptoms of this disease are difficulty concentrating and
>> variable degrees of memory loss, leading ultimately to devastating
>> mental deterioration. The brains of people with Alzheimer's disease
>> shrink by 25 percent and have distinct pathologic hallmarks
>> (neurofibillary tangles, amyloid plaques, and phosphorylation of tau
>> protein). Brain cells grown in the laboratory develop the same three
>> pathologic findings when exposed to nanomolar (3.6 × 10-10 molar)
>> doses of mercury, an amount approximating that found in the brains of
>> people who have a lot of amalgam fillings.
>>
>> Dental amalgams are the main source of mercury in an adult's brain. An
>> average-sized amalgam filling contains 750,000 micrograms of mercury
>> and releases around 10 micrograms a day. Researchers put radiolabelled
>> mercury amalgams in the teeth of sheep and determined where escaped
>> mercury went with a scanner. They showed that mercury atoms exhaled
>> through the nose travel up filaments of the olfactory nerve to the
>> hippocampus, which controls memory, and to other critical areas in the
>> brain. In another study, rats given the same concentration of mercury
>> that people inhale from their amalgams develop the pathologic markers
>> of Alzheimer's disease. People with Alzheimer's disease have mercury
>> levels in their brains that are 2 to 3 times higher than that seen in
>> normal people.
>>
>> The mercury in flu vaccines also plays a role in this disease. One
>> investigator has found that people who received the flu vaccine each
>> year for 3 to 5 years had a ten-fold greater chance of developing
>> Alzheimer's disease than people who had zero, 1, or 2 shots.
>>
>> Another important factor with regard to mercury on the mind, which
>> officials at the CDC, FDA and the professors in the IOM do not
>> consider, is synergistic toxicity - mercury's enhanced effect when
>> other poisons are present. A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100
>> rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when
>> combined have a striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury
>> that have a 1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate
>> if some aluminum is there. Vaccines contain aluminum.
>>
>> Why do officials at the CDC, FDA, and leaders of the medical and
>> dental establishment discount or ignore all these important facts?
>> Some of them being in the pay of vaccine makers is one reason. The
>> specter of litigation for having sanctioned thimerosal and amalgams
>> and, in the case of the FDA, not doing appropriate safety studies on
>> them is another. But it is more complicated than that. The hypothesis
>> that mercury causes autism and Alzheimers disease is a new
>> truth. And as Schopenhauer points out (see my article on him), each
>> new truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second,
>> it is violently opposed. And third, it is accepted as self-evident.
>> The mercury truth is now in the second stage.
>>
>> In the 1790s Edward Jenner observed that milk maids did not have pock
>> marks on their faces, like people did who had contracted and survived
>> smallpox. Milking cows with cowpox rendered them immune to smallpox.
>> He took fluid from the pustules of infected cows, injected it into
>> children, and found that it protected them, when exposed, from
>> contracting smallpox. The medical establishment of the day dismissed
>> the idea of vaccinating people with cow pus as nonsense; and Sir
>> Joseph Banks, president of the British Royal Society (the IOM of the
>> day), told Jenner that he would ruin his reputation if he tried to
>> publish these findings, which were so much at variance with
>> established knowledge. When other doctors and informed individuals
>> like Thomas Jefferson recognized that "vaccination" did indeed work,
>> its value was, in time, accepted as self-evident. Jenner's vaccine
>> saved millions of lives and eradicated a disfiguring disease that has
>> a 30 percent mortality rate. (But laboratories in the U.S. and
>> U.S.S.R. preserved the virus that causes smallpox, and we now know
>> that Soviet microbiologists grew vast quantities of it in chicken eggs
>> for use as a biological weapon of mass destruction.)
>>
>> Today the medical establishment, led by the AAP, AAFP, AMA, CDC, and
>> IOM, has gone to the other extreme. The accepted wisdom now is that
>> vaccines are a panacea. Health care providers start injecting them in
>> infants on the day of birth, and government officials seek to have
>> them made mandatory for all Americans. But some little-discussed facts
>> belie their value. Deaths from diphtheria, for example, declined 90
>> percent from 1900 to 1930, due to better sanitation and nutrition,
>> before there was a vaccine for this disease. Likewise, the death rate
>> for measles declined 95 percent (13.3 to 0.03 deaths per 100,000
>> population) between 1915 and 1958, before the vaccine for measles
>> vaccine was introduced in 1963. Viewed from a risk/benefit
>> perspective, providers and government officials downplay the
>> deleterious effects that vaccines can have on one's health and inflate
>> their benefits. The top medical textbook on the subject is Vaccines,
>> edited by Drs. Plotkin and Orenstein. In the 1999 3rd Edition that I
>> reviewed (a slightly longer 4th Edition was published last year), its
>> authors confine their discussion of mercury in vaccines to two short
>> paragraphs in this 1,230-page book. They do not address concerns that
>> have been raised about its neurotoxicity.
>>
>> Vaccine manufacturers have started removing thimerosal from vaccines.
>> And for the first time since the state began keeping records on this
>> disease, California has had a decrease,of 6 percent, in the annual
>> number of children over the age of 3 who have been diagnosed with
>> autism. This occurred in children born in 2000, when the phase-out of
>> thimerosal in vaccines began. Iowa has passed a law banning thimerosal
>> in that state, and California has done the same thing for pregnant
>> women and children under 3 (the bill awaits the governor's signature).
>> But pharmaceutical companies still add thimerosal in their Flu
>> vaccines; and pediatricians are vaccinating children with their
>> remaining supply of thimerosal-containing vaccines, which the FDA has
>> chosen not to recall.
>>
>> Taking mercury out of vaccines would substantially reduce the
>> incidence of autism, but this alone will not eliminate the disease.
>> Giving too many vaccines over too short a time to infants whose
>> nervous system is not yet fully developed can also trigger autism and
>> its spectrum of disorders. As Dr. Blaylock has shown (see Recommended
>> Reading below), multiple vaccines given close together over-stimulate
>> the brains immune system and, via the mechanism of "bystander
>> injury," destroy brain cells.
>>
>> Much more research needs to be done on the neurotoxicity of mercury
>> and excessive vaccination. Dr. Haley terms autism Mad Child Disease.
>> Finding one cow in the U.S. with Mad Cow Disease, from Canada,
>> prompted the Federal government to spent millions of dollars examining
>> other cows to see if they had contracted it. With regard to Mad Child
>> Disease, however, the government spends $59.00 in research for every
>> case of autism diagnosed in this country.
>>
>> Avoiding flu shots that contain thimerosal, and having dentists stop
>> implanting mercury amalgams in people's mouths would lower the
>> incidence of Alzheimer's disease. If you have amalgam fillings,
>> particularly if there is a family history of Alzheimer's disease, you
>> might consider having them removed. Be sure to have a dentist do it
>> who follows the protocol established by The International Academy of
>> Oral Medicine & Toxicology for safely removing them.
>>
>> For the third source of mercury, follow the CDC's advice and don't eat
>> mercury-contaminated fish, especially if you are pregnant because
>> mercury in your bloodstream crosses the placenta and is concentrated
>> in the fetus' brain.
>>
>> Recommended Reading - in addition to the online links provided above
>>
>> An excellent review of thimerosal and autism, titled "Mercury in
>> Medicine - Taking Unnecessary Risks," is to be found, of all places,
>> in the Congressional Record. Prepared by its Subcommittee on Human
>> Rights and Wellness, this report was presented to the Committee on
>> Government Reform, chaired by Congressman Dan Burton (who has an
>> autistic grandson). Congressional Record, May 21, 2003, E1011-E1030.
>>
>> SafeMinds president, Lyn Redwood, presented testimony at a
>> Congressional hearing held on September 8, 2004 that exposes
>> malfeasance by the CDC and FDA related to thimerosal. It is titled
>> "Truth Revealed: New Scientific Discoveries Regarding Mercury in
>> Medicine and Autism" and is posted on their website, safeminds.org.
>> See also this organization's 84-page Report to Congress titled, "A
>> Brief Analysis of Recent Efforts in Medical Mercury Induced
>> Neurological and Autism Spectrum Disorders" (September 8, 2004).
>>
>> "The Three Modern Faces of Mercury"  in fish, vaccines, and
>> dental amalgams  by Thomas Clarkson in Environmental Health
>> Perspectives Volume 110 | Supplement 1 | February 2002 | pages 11-23.
>> This study provides an current-day perspective on mercury exposure,
>> post Calomel, Merthiolate, and Mad Hatters.
>>
>> If your dentist parrots the American Dental Association stance on this
>> subject and says that "silver" - i.e., mercury - amalgams are
>> perfectly safe, insist that he or she read Dr. Boyd Haley's response
>> to the president of the ADA on his defense of dental amalgams. It is
>> posted on this website. I sent it to my dentist who I had been going
>> to for a number of years. When he chose to ignore it, I changed
>> dentists - to a mercury-free one and had him remove all my amalgam
>> fillings.
>>
>> "Mercury: the Silent Killer," Chapter 3 in Health and Nutrition
>> Secrets That Can Save Your Lifeby Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. As a
>> board-certified neurosurgeon, Dr. Blaylock, like me, is a member of
>> the medical establishment. He now, however, studies and writes about
>> wellness and complementary/alternative medicine on a full-time basis.
>>
>> Are Vaccines Safe and Effective? by Neil Z. Miller (2002). This
>> 78-page (paperback) book is well worth reading, especially if you have
>> children or if you are being pressured to get a flu shot.
>>
>> For a comprehensive review, with 167 scientific references, on how
>> vaccines damage infants - and soldiers' brains (Gulf War Syndrome)
>> when given too close together, see Dr. Blaylock's "Interaction of
>> Cytokines, Excitotoxins, Reactive Nitrogen and Oxygen Species in
>> Autism Spectrum Disorders" in the Journal of the American
>> Nutraceutical Association (JANA 2003;6[4]:21-35). See also his study,
>> "Chronic Microglial Activation and Excitotoxicity Secondary to
>> Excessive Immune Stimulation: Possible Factors in GulfWar Syndrome and
>> Autism" in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JAPS
>> 2004;9[2]:46 - 52). Dr. Blaylock has written a simplified version of
>> these studies for the general public titled "Vaccines: the Hidden
>> Dangers," in his Blaylock Wellness Report (Vol. 1, No. 1), which is
>> published monthly and can be purchased online.
>>
>> September 29, 2004
>>
>> Donald Miller (send him mail) is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of
>> Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle and a member of
>> Doctors for Disaster Preparednessand writes articles on a variety of
>> subjects for LewRockwell.com, including bioterrorism.His web site is
>> www.donaldmiller.com.
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