Mercury: Evidence Mounting for Autism and Alzheimer’s Disease

 

Mutter and Co 2004 also discredit various studies explaining that these have disregarded basic principles of mercury toxicity and that mercury levels in blood and urine do not necessarily correlate with body exposure or clinical signs of mercury. Mercury levels in blood only reflect the last 3 days of exposure or mobilisation from organs. (8)

 

Dentists can no longer hide behind the research of mercury studies carried out on sheep that grind their teeth. Similar studies have proven mercury IS released from monkey’s teeth that were implanted with fillings in the same way. Sheep do grind their teeth but monkeys and humans do not. (9) This research carries enormous weight as it was deemed well enough for inclusion in the science based journal FASEB rated 35th of importance of scientific circles.

 

This is impressive when you consider the BMJ (British Medical Journal) is acknowledged to be rated at approximately 4,000! (10)

 

 

An amalgam filling will contain approximately half a gram of mercury. This amount released into a ten acre lake will kill all the fish. If you break a thermometer containing mercury you have to immediately call the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) USA or (Environmental Health) UK, exit, and seal off the room of exposure. Yet the same amount in one of our fillings constitutes no danger according to all dental teachings, claiming that

mercury is safe when placed in the mouth (but is known to be toxic to ALL living form on earth!). The studies researched on monkeys comprehensively disproves that theory as high amounts of mercury were found it gum tissue, jaws and organs within days of amalgam placement.

 

Mercury sticks like glue to sulphydryl and selenohydryl groups’ cysteine, glutathione and amino acid groups on albumin in cell membranes. In fact, mercury will try it’s best to leave its storage site to bond with sulphur and selenium based supplements depending on the tissue or organ involved, the brain being the least responsive to this process.

 

When you consider that 0-1mcg is considered as the safe limit that is absorbed per kilo of body weight per day according to the EPA ((11) and mercury from one amalgam filling can release anything between 3 mcg and 17m

cg per day, one can see why it is likely we may have a serious health safety issue here.

 

Consider the average individual with 8 amalgam fillings can potentially absorb between 24 mcgs and 140 mcgs purely from vapourised mercury. The accumulative load is enormous. These figures substantiate anything up

to 60 mcgs of mercury being found in sewerage from daily excretion via faeces. (12)

 

Chewing, grinding the teeth and hot drinks can increase mercury release 15 fold for up to 90 minutes after stimulation and this happens over the entire life of the filling. (13)

 

 

Anyone who does not believe mercury leaks out of teeth can judge for themselves after viewing the IAOMT - International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology - “Smoking Teeth = poison gas” DVD. Now here , youtube or available via (14)

 

This clearly shows mercury vapour out-gassing from a 25 year old filling, in amounts that are one thousand (1000) times more toxic than the EPA will allow in the air that you breathe.

 

Doubters as to whether this is mercury, can further view the “Jerome Gold Film Mercury Vapour Analyser Device” readings  here of a filling being very gently scraped and see the vapour reading increase dramatically, even after

just a few seconds. “It really is Mercury” can be viewed here or on Youtube.com or IAOMT. (15)

 

The scraping occurs during the modest of dental check ups and is enough to register very toxic amounts. Without adequate dental safety procedures this amount of vapour is highly toxic to the brain. One can imagine the amounts released during the drilling of an amalgam filling without protection?

 

 

The other major cause of vapour release is due to galvanism. Amalgam fillings produce electric currents which accelerate the release of mercury vapour. This is a continuous process happening in the mouth via different types of metal corrosion and their ability to create an electrical current, aided by the salts and acids from saliva.

 

While these currents are small, they nevertheless contribute substantially to the oxidising of the filling surface. Corroding the metals (16)

 

Apart from the vapour release, oxidised particles break from the filling surface and combine with saliva and food, then enter the GIT (Gastro Intestinal Tract) and are likely to be the precipitating factor in Candida related leaky gut and food intolerances.

 

 

With the body containing 70% liquid, and our cells able to communicate with each other via electrical potential, we are a sensitive resonating organism. Therefore it is not unimaginable that certain disharmonic electrical frequencies have the ability to harm.

 

Research in as recently as May 2008 showed mercury containing fillings increased the release of vapour when exposed to MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanning. The study cited heating and electrical currents may present a risk to patients with mercury implants (amalgam). They also proved that exposure to microwave radiation via talking for 15 minutes per day on a mobile phone “significantly increased the release of mercury from

dental amalgam” using urine analyses. Urine is responsible for only a small proportion of the total release of mercury in the body, so this studies results show that if mercury analysis could be analysed via the liver, a much substantially

higher amount will have been released. (17)

 

The main aim of the study was to confirm with other research, the possibility that undersea welders with “The Bends”, suffer neurological damage due to exposure to electrical fields that release high amounts of mercury from their amalgam fillings.

 

Brain tumours are on a rapid increase in children and a vulnerable factor apart from the sensitive developing brain could be mercury that has been previously passed through the mother’s amalgam and the child’s exposure via vaccines. Mobile phone users must beware of being 240% more prone to brain tumours and a 400% greater risk of a tumour on their auditory nerve. (18)

 

 

The foetus does however have some protection by metallothionine produced in the liver. Mercury is bound up substantially by metallothioneine that acts as a kind of sponge to protect the foetus during this critical time of

brain development to stop the retoxification of mercury to other organs and tissues in the prenatal period. However, post maternally the mercury releases into tissues such as the brain and kidneys. (21)

 

Brain tissue absorbs up to 6 times more mercury than any other tissue in the body.

 

 

Mercury conducts electricity. It is used in switches and wires to help them operate efficiently and silently. Mercury vapour is emitted from fluorescent bulbs. Patient’s that suffer with CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) that have “Brain f

og” and notice they become tired working on computers or shopping in supermarkets, where there is an abundance of fluorescent lights, has most likely stored mercury in the brain.

 

Even the promotion of “energy efficient bulbs” will not reduce our mercury exposure as they contain between 3-5 milligrams of methyl mercury, much more than old fashioned light bulbs. A selenium based cloth covering, is at present, being patented to capture the mercury of the bulbs when they are disposed of because of their contamination to the environment. (22)

 

Ronnback & E Hansson contribute to the possibility of mercury and lead causing chronic encephalopathies with their research, reporting a high brain uptake of glutamate that happens as a result of metal exposure, that is cytotoxic to brain neurons. (23)

 

Leszek J & Co proof of extreme amounts of mercury are released into the jaw via the gums. Substantially more amounts enter both the bloodstream and brain in this way via the abundant amount of lymph in this area. Vapour

however, is absorbed into the airways and reaches the brain via the olfactory nerve to the hippocampus that controls memory. (24)

 

Mercury is still used in the influenza vaccine and the link to AzD (Alzheimer’s disease) is substantiated by the tenfold increase in the people who have these, even after only one yearly vaccine for as little time as 5 years. (25) They are not protected because of poor glutathione levels associated with aging.

 

 

The CDC (Centre for Disease Control) issued the statement warning of the dangers of mercury exposure, citing 10% of women of child bearing age have mercury levels that are putting the foetus at risk of Autism, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Neurodevelopmental delay, learning difficulties and behavioural problems. This is caused solely by mercury, via the daily consumption of fish and seafood (2-3mcg). (26)

 

If the CDC is warning women of the dangers of such a relatively small amount in fish, it is preposterous to think what up to 140mcgs of mercury vapour per day might do to the reproductive system of the mother, or the brain of the foetus. Particularly as in fish, mercury is mostly bound up in selenium and passes through the body much more easily than mercury from amalgams or Thimerosal from vaccines.

 

Mercury penetrates the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier) and enters the CNS. Once there, it binds to sulphydryl and selenohydryl groups where it becomes ionic and is trapped. It causes cells to malfunction, starving them of essential nutrients. It is a known neurotoxin and breaks down tubulin. Tubulin ensures protection by insulating neurofibrils in the microtubules of the brain. Degeneration is inevitable.

 

The IAOMT shows this process in an excellent DVD called How Mercury causes Brain-Neuron Degeneration

Watch the abbreviated version on Youtube “Amalgams & Mercury causes Autism and Alzheimer’s Disease”. (27)

 

The cell toxicity then causes membrane permeability, cell viability and DNA damage. When this process happens the cell is very vulnerable to further degeneration via chemical toxins and the attraction to the area of pathological micro-organisms commonly found in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and Dementia patients. (28) This will be discussed in more detail later.

 

The amount of mercury from amalgams of the mother has shown to correspond to the same level of mercury in the foetus during certain stages of gestation. (29) Following this research and other similar findings, the use of mercury in dental fillings has been banned, or has been gradually phased out by countries such

as Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In fact, in Germany, Degussa AG who was the largest producer of amalgams, announced it would no longer make them because of possible pending law suits.

 

In the United Kingdom Dr Bryan Hellewell warns that ‘In the face of mounting evidence of danger and an absence of safety, it is my duty to advise that the use of mercury dental amalgam in tooth fillings in the mouths of pregnant women should be discontinued.’ (The government’s adviser on toxicology in the year 2000) cites the danger to pregnant women and the foetus during pregnancy. (30)

 

One has only to see the levels of vapour released during the relative gentle action of scraping, to consider the potential toxicity of drilling the metal.

 

 

There is no doubt the effects are also caused by the accumulative load. Toxin metal load and inability to excrete mercury is passed down from generation to generation. That is why Bioresonance testing and challenge mercury protocols often reveal a mercury load in children with little or no amalgam. The baby becomes

the reservoir and absorbs mercury from the mother who has accumulated the same, from her mother.

Thimerosal from vaccinations and methyl mercury from amalgams via the mother and grandmother is potentially a lethal neurotoxin load, which puts the foetus and infant brain cells at risk of serious neurological damage. Despite a massive increase in funding by the UK government is there any wonder we have seen a vast increase in neurological deficits among our schoolchildren over the last 18 years with boys particularly falling behind and affected much more than girls suggesting an environmental trigger as a distinct possibility?  IQ has shown a 14 point increase from the year 1942. Unfortunately the same report concludes since 1979 there have been small losses particularly amongst teenage boys, most likely due to testosterone (31)

 

The IQ deficits have been noticed for years but interestingly increased considerably more with the amount in the volume of Thimerosal in vaccines from 1989 onwards. Even allowing for poor reporting, the rise in neurological deficits is vast in proportion to previous years.

 

A dose-response causal relationship in the severity of ASD (autism spectrum disorders) was found in research conducted by The Journal of Toxicology & Environmental Health 2007. The study of children with apparent mercury toxic encephalopathy’s manifesting in ASD. Symptoms of autism are induced by mercury exposure, especially prior to birth.

This means previous accumulative mercury load being a significant factor in autistic onset followed by vaccination exposure via ethyl mercury. (32)

 

Those born to older couples who are more susceptible to autism shows accumulative load to be considered, as amalgam fillings break down and corrode over extended time that correspond to low glutathione levels found in older parents.

 

The tenfold increase of autism in the UK in the last 20 years can no longer be ignored.

 

Autistic children have also shown to have a severely reduced metallothioneine deficiency suggesting this substance is being used by increasing amounts of mercury (33)

 

Low glutathione levels are also predominant in autism indicating either genetic predisposition or environmental overload from mercury and/or chemicals (34)

 

Thimerosal is toxic to all living tissue even in doses as little as nanomolar levels according to Baskin & Co. His team used fluorescent techniques to assess the toxicity and found neuronal damage, even at nanomolar

levels but were not able to assess the ongoing affects of damage easily. Nonetheless continuing nerve death cannot be ruled out and is most likely while mercury is still stored in the brain.

 

Ethyl mercury in the form of Thimerosal attaches to cell membranes and punches holes into the nucleus where the DNA exists. Though methyl mercury from amalgam stays in the blood longer than ethyl mercury, The affinity to nerve tissue is vastly higher with ethyl and the effects are not always seen immediately, as symptoms can begin to show as long as six months later and is typical scenario of continuing damage to the brain of children that have received vaccines months before. (35)

 

Vaccines containing thimerosal have 125,000 nanomolar levels of this mercury derivative.

A drastic oversight by Merck & Co regarding the accumulative amounts.

 

 

Studies have also shown a high preponderance of autistic children being intolerant to the protein casein in milk. Casein in cow’s milk is said to be 300 times higher than in breast milk. (36)

 

Dipeptyl peptidase is necessary for digesting casein and some autistic children have elevated levels of beta-casomorphine-7 in their blood. This is a potent neurotoxin. (37) Brain damage could occur if casein proteins combine with mercury and reach the brain via enteric pathways. Vitamin B12 has been used successfully as a mercury chelator and is essential for the myelin sheath that protects brain neurons.

 

Cow’s milk causes the retention and concentration of mercury and the infant’s ability to detoxify mercury lessens considerably. So in a baby, that has both mercury passed down from the mother, plus thimerosal from vaccinations, parents should seriously consider using alternative ways of heating milk for them other than a microwave. Microwaved milk given to these babies is nothing short of disastrous, particularly if heated in plastic bottles.

Autistic children that are intolerant to milk often have hyperplasia of their lymphatics, a condition that causes them to sweat profusely, particularly at night. These children have a habit of wanting to throw off their clothes, even in cold weather. Autistic children with asthma and associated night sweats due to blocked lymphatics who are milk intolerant, often test positive for the parasite ascaris larvae.

This is what makes the body produce copious amounts of mucus and methylmalonic acid and the subsequent Vit B12 imbalance. Chest infections are common here, but obviously fail to respond to antibiotics.

 

Thimerosal inhibits the body’s ability to produce vitamin B12 in another significant link to the autistic spectrum child who is already milk intolerant with lymph hyperplasia. The question remains, “Could Thimerosal containing vaccines given before the MMR (mumps, measles & Rubella) have been a trigger in undiagnosed milk intolerant children that are already carrying a heavy mercury load via their mother’s amalgam, trigger bowel disease”?

 

Ascaris, as a parasite, can be a strain found in many known types of bowel conditions including Crohn’s disease and Colitis as well as asthma. It is also a common cause of ileo-lymph hyperplasia.

 

Dr Andrew Wakefield may not have been too far away from the source of vaccination causing ileal-lymphoid hyperplasia (small intestine lymph spasticity) and bowel disease link after all. The live measles vaccine may have been the final trigger in these patients. (38)

 

CT scans were conducted on 24 children with hyperactivity suspected of allergies as far back as 1986. The study and findings revealed “significant higher frequency of cerebral atrophy” than in a control group. (39) Degeneration of the brains powers and impaired memory frustrate these children that can exacerbate ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)

 

Lack of sulphate has been implicated in autism by Allergy Induced Autism that links to mercury, may have some

substance after all. (40)

 

Associated food allergies with ADHD and behavioural problems may have mercury as the primary cause here, and particularly those with leaky gut based Candida as the gastro-intestinal tract has as many neurons as the spinal cord.

 

Milk free diets that have tended to show marked improvement in autistic tendencies in those children affected by mercury and PCB’s (poly-chlorinated-biphenyls) found in both cows and breast milk, as milk could potentially enhance mercury neurotoxicity due to its affinity to metals.

 

 

We are well aware of the effects of wheat opiates in the brain that act similar to the casein in milk. Experience though dictates that wheat intolerance can be mostly reduced or corrected by balancing blood sugar and repairing leaky gut permeability. Candida here plays a significant part in pancreas function. Methyl alcohol used

in the process to manufacture wheat directly affects secretion of insulin and the enzymes needed to balance blood sugar are quickly compromised as fungus proliferates along with the parasite eurytrema pancreaticum, but the

pancreas is particularly vulnerable to metal toxins and it is the leaky gut from Candida roots and giardia that destroy the villi of the intestine that allow permeability. Zonulin, newly discovered to be involved in gluten and carbohydrate metabolism is more likely to be a result of, rather than the cause of the intolerance and mercury’s link to diabetes, fungal problems and wheat is obvious.

 

 

 

The role of metals in neurological diseases is not uncommon, with the metal lead also implicated as a risk factor where three key genes were found to be 50-100% more active in monkeys with AzD. The lead caused a similar breakdown of amyloid plaques found in human brains. (41)

 

Pollutants have been suggested as a cause of the huge rise in degenerative neurological conditions in western societies in the last two decades (50%) but the more susceptible are those with poor detoxification pathways including Aplipoprotein-E4. This leaves us susceptible to chronic inflammation and oxidative damage and therefore opportunistic pathological infection (42)

 

Those with APO-E2 can easily break down metals including mercury due to having 2 sulphydryls groups in the form of cysteine. Those with APO-E3 have only one sulfhydrylgroup and more significantly APO-4 has a lack of thiol groups and loses its ability to break down mercury in the brain and liver.

 

APO-E2 proteins actually carry two atoms of mercury out of the brain, APO-E3 one atom and patient’s with APO-E4 are 80% more likely to develop AzD due to having a lesser ability to detoxify metals.

 

In fact, those carrying APO-E4 (5%) the onset is more likely to start much earlier, even before reaching seventy years old. (43)