O/T Mercury

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Posted by FULLOFJOY on the Candida Forum

This is a website that shows how mercury hides, you may want to read the whole thing for yourself. I also will include a website that shows how heavy metals and candida are related.


http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/HOW_TO_hair_test.html


"Introduction: Mercury poisoning is difficult to determine; mercury "hides"
Trying to figure out whether someone has mercury poisoning is not an easy, direct thing to do. You cannot just test the level of mercury to find out. That is, one cannot simply test someone's hair, or blood, or urine, or feces, and measure how much mercury is there, and go by that.
Why not? The body's tissues are selective about how long they keep mercury inside themselves. Mercury will stay in some body tissues (such as the brain and liver) which are very attracted to it, for a long time. Other tissues (such as blood), will clear out the mercury pretty quickly. Blood will keep mercury for a few months. The brain keeps it for a lifetime. Other tissues are in between.

At first (soon after exposure), mercury is present in hair and blood. This means that soon after someone is poisoned, their blood and hair will probably show high levels of mercury. But later, in most cases, the mercury is "hidden". It is no longer present in the blood or hair or urine or feces. If the person is poisoned, it is still present in other areas (such as the brain) and is still doing damage. For people who have been exposed to mercury through vaccines (thimerosal) or through Amalgam (dental fillings), the exposure is usually too far in the past and/or too slow and chronic for mercury to show up in hair or blood or urine or feces.

THIS IS IMPORTANT: A PERSON WHO IS MERCURY TOXIC will usually (in most cases) have a NORMAL reading for mercury on tests of hair or blood or urine or feces. You cannot go by that. The most recent edition of many medical textbooks tell physicians that mercury poisoning cannot be ruled out based on the urine or blood level of mercury. This is also true for hair levels of mercury. Only about 1 poisoned person in 10 shows up with a high level of mercury on these tests. The other 9 poisoned people have normal readings for mercury.

If the reading for mercury is HIGH (red) on a hair test, this probably indicates the person has mercury poisoning. On the other hand, if the reading for mercury is normal (or even very low), this indicates nothing one way or another about whether the person has mercury poisoning. Mercury can still be present in the brain and organs, doing lots of damage there, and NOT be present in the hair. THIS IS VERY COMMON.

Blood, urine, feces and hair are all relatively easy to test. But, the mercury level there is not a good indicator of past mercury poisoning or slow chronic mercury poisoning. Because of this, measuring mercury in blood, urine, hair or feces is often not helpful in determining whether a person is poisoned."

This other website shows how candida is related to toxic heavy metals and why one needs to rid body of heavy metals to rid body of candida.


http://www.drrandy.org/


"There is growing evidence that one of the primary factors that determine our susceptibility to infection is heavy metal toxicity. There is evidence that the average person alive today has 1000 times as much lead in their body as the average person who lived 500 years ago. An even more dangerous toxin is mercury, which many people accumulate secondary to silver Amalgam dental fillings (which mostly contain mercury) and from seafood such as tuna and swordfish. When metals such as mercury accumulate in our tissues, enzymes become damaged and blocked, acid/alkaline balance is disrupted, electrical conductivity is altered, mineral balance is disrupted and cell membranes become dysfunctional and hyperpermeable. Microbes thrive in this altered mileu. Some microbes may even protect our bodies. For example, candida and molds have a strong ability to bind mercury. Often people with mercury toxicity develop yeast overgrowth, and the yeast may soak up much of the mercury within them. Killing the yeast releases mercury back into them, and may thus do more harm than good unless one is actively doing treatments to detoxify metals. While we are all exposed to heavy metals, some individuals do a good job of excreting them while others tend to accumulate them. About 15% of the population has genetic deficits interfering with metal detoxification (for example, most autistic children have such deficits). However, Dietrich Klinghardt MD PhD has found that psychoemotional trauma resulting in unresolved psychological issues interferes with our ability to eliminate heavy metals. Trauma causes abnormal limbic systen activity in brain, leading to imbalances in the hypothalamus, leading to autonomic nervous system dysfunction that allows metals to accumulate in specific organs related to the nature of the unresolved emotions. For example, a history of fear and shock leads to metals accumulating in the kidneys, whereas unresolved anger leads to liver toxicity, while lack of nurturing in childood leads to intestinal dysfuntion. Thus, one will not successfully treat chronic infections without addressing the underlying metal toxicty, but can not fully clear metal toxicity without adressing both the microbes that may store the metals and the unresolved emotional issues that prevent the body from releasing the metals. This requires a truly integrative approach involving a variety of carefully applied modalities. Dr. Klinghardt theorizes that in general, the level of microbes in one’s body is roughly equivalent to the level of heavy metals in one’s body, which is equivalent to the amount of unresolved emotional trauma a person holds. While I feel this is a sound general concept, the level of heavy metals in our system is certainly also related to the degree to which we have been exposed to them in our environment (for example, people with several silver-mercury Amalgam fillings tend to have higher body burdens of mercury than those who don’t), and genetics also influences how well we excrete these toxins. Also, having chronic infections and high levels of metals can adversely affect our mental and endocrine function, contributing to emotional distress."
These are just 2 websites found in a few minutes time. Info is available for those who want to find the cause of candida and address that, rather than addressing the symptoms (candida). There are a few dentists that will not put silver mercury fillings in your mouth. I go to one. My candida overgrowth did not go away till I started chelating these heavy metals. I still continue to chelate mildly with garlic and sea vegetables,selenium, sometimes cilantro and chlorella etc. There are a lot of natural things to use other than intraveinous chelation. I like the milder forms.