hi Everyone,
This is a really interesting thread to me. I have often wondered about the mercury content in food.
Russ, I'd be very interested to hear any results that you find if you decide to test foods and such.
I was also unaware that the sulphur content in foods could affect mercury vapor readings. Dental Holocaust, my friend, I always learn something from your posts.
And Dr. Hesham's comments about candida killing:
From Dr Hesham El-Essawy.
He also made a very intelligent observation, which is that he felt more sensitive after following the Candida diet, and felt really bad when he took an anti-Candida drug. The reason behind that is that the yeast does absorb mercury and that is why the gut mucosa encourages the Candida to grow. This means that those with Candida should not start to fight it hard till after they get rid of mercury from their teeth (not just from the fillings) and as much as possible from their food. This observation will be labelled in my book as ‘the Richard sign’.
This seems to be true in my personal experience. That is, I became quite ill and weakened when I undertook aggressive candida-killing prior to removal of my amalgams. The theory that candida acts as a protective buffer for the body from mercury is also known as The Klinghardt Axiom. Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt has said that research and studies are now underway to scientifically prove this phenomenon that has certainly been observed clinically by holistic, biological dentists.
My own holistic, biological dentist told me that when I took antifungals that I should take sodium alginate along with it. This is to help protect my body from any Retoxing that could occur from newly-released mercury which would be freed when yeasts are killed. Specifically he said, "Yeasts wrap themselves around mercury in an effort to protect the body. When you take an antifungal, you kill the yeast, and the mercury is released."
Along the lines of the discussion pertaining to pesticides and fungicides, I thought I'd provide a link below. I've posted this elsewhere on the forum in months past. I just think it's important for food consumers to be aware of what has been done by the "Brainiac Industries" (sarcasm inserted) in the United States. That is, that toxic substances with heavy metals have been used as fertilizer on our crops.
In 1997, Duff Wilson, an investigative journalist, wrote an award-winning series of articles on the topic of industrial waste being used as fertilizer and sold to unsuspecting farmers and private consumers. There was a loophole in the waste disposal laws which allowed industries to dispose of their toxic and hazardous wastes by turning them into fertilizer. The fertilizer companies who bought this "recycled waste" then turned around and sold it to farming businesses and private consumers without disclosing the source of the fertilizer. These wastes under other circumstance would be federally-mandated to be stored in toxic waste or Superfund sites.
Under prevailing state and federal laws, polluting industries throughout the U.S. saved millions of dollars by sending hazardous waste to fertilizer makers who in turn recycled the toxic chemicals into a product sold to farmers and private consumers without disclosing what was in it.
Some of the industries which were taking advantage of this loophole and sending toxic waste to farms and fertilizer companies were companies that manufactured: Steel Works, Blast Furnaces, and Rolling and Finishing Mills; Electronic Components and Accessories; Industrial Organic Chemicals; Coating, Engraving and Allied Srvices; Secondary Smelting and Refining of Nonferrous Metals; Industrial Inorganic Chemicals; Meat Products; Metal Forgings and Stampings; Agricultural Chemicals (including the scary ones from Monsanto); Nonferrous Foundries (castings); Petroleum Refining, etc.
Crops died, animals died, and people died.
Here is a link to the articles and further reading on the topic:
http://www.bioethicscourse.info/onlinetextsite/fearinfields.htmlFor a more detailed recounting of this story with excellent sources read Duff Wilson's book on the topic: "Fateful Harvest."
To be honest, I have completely forgotten whether EPA has re-written it's regulations (or which States might have taken action to prevent this practice from occurring once the whistle was blown). But, we know that this was occurring back in 1997. These metals remain in the soil for a long time.
As to organic food -- here is just a snippet from the Epilogue of Wilson's book:
"But the unregulated toxics in fertilizer also affect organic growers, not only from the cadmium in rock phosphates . . . but also from unlimited mercury in some fish fertilizers. Just last month, an organic farming advisor told me about growers being offered fly ash as a substitute for limestone. Some of this ash, from coal combustion waste, was high in arsenic, mercury, chromium, and cadmium that release into the soil when the liming effect wears off."
"Fateful Harvest," by Duff Wilson, page 273. Published 2002.
For those of you interested in monitoring the news and movement in the Organic Food sector, as well as exploring Biodynamics, Genetically-Modified Foods, Nanotechnology, Irradiation, etc. this is a really helpful website:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/SomedaySoon (Sharon)
