Hi All,

I've just clicked to something again. I want to post it here and see if anyone else has experienced anything like this.

Briefly - I've just recently joined the forum. (I only established about a week ago that mercury intox is likely the cause of an array of health problems I've experienced over the past decade.) Although I hadn't been aware of what the cause of my problems actually was, I have, for the last 6 months, been doing a detox programme involving a cocktail of vitamin c, alpha lipoic acid, multiminerals and glutathion timed in with visits to the sauna of about 1 1 /2 hours.

Now this is the interesting bit: - almost after every detox cocktail , about the time I would get home from the sauna, my partner and friends would commented frequently that my breath smelt "metallic". I queried this and one of them best described it as "your breath smells like the taste of a tarnished spoon." Apparently it only ever smelt like this directly after the detox cocktails. Only 2 hours later and apparently it was gone.

A brief anatomy/physiology refresh: what you sometimes smell on some ones breath doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what they've eaten, food traces left in the mouth, oesophagus or the like. Often, such as the case with alcohol or garlic, what you are smelling is actually the presence of these compounds in the person's blood - you are smelling it via the gas exchange taking place over a very large surface area of lung tissue (the alveoli). This is the reason why breath testing is used as an indicator of blood alcohol content.

Getting back to it - I of course dismissed it totally at the time, "metallic", what metals, rubbish. As far as I was concerned, I was detoxing some amorphous pesticide residues, carbon compounds or goodness know's what. Cause I certainly didn't.

Now that I've learned a LOT more, not only about mercury and amalgam but also about exactly how the products I was taking interact with heavy metals, it all, I think, makes crystal clear sense. My hypothesis, (I may be wrong, but I don't think so) is: the ala and also perhaps the chlorella I was taking were latching onto the mercury in my tissues and then merrily racing around with it in my system, while I was attempting to sweat it out in the sauna. What my friends smelt on my breath was, I think, the heavy metals (mercury etc) bound to the chelators still in my blood at the time. That the metallic odor then vanished within a couple of hours also makes perfect sense - ala (and perhaps chlorella also??) only bind mercury for 3-4 hours before getting sick of it and dumping it back into the tissues.

Has anyone else had this experience?

I find it quite worrying, putting it mildly, if I have that degree of heavy metals intoxication that it can be smelt on my breath after a high dose of ala. I only had 4 amalgams and I wouldn't have thought that they could be responsible for this. However I also grew up on an orchard in the 70's and 80's and was exposed to a lot of industrial pesticides, which are of course loaded with mercury, nickel and many other goodies. Plus I also live on an island now and tend to eat a reasonable amount of fish, which doesn't help.

Well, I've ordered Algin this morning which I'm really pleased about. Can't wait to start on it. I've got mercury symptoms 24/7 right now following the reaction to a composite filling put into my mouth by a dentist about ten days ago. Have decided to go off ala and chlorella for the moment, cause although helping in the past, I have the feeling they're aggravating more than anything else in this acute situation.

Keen for any feed back.

Cheers
steve

Hi Steve,

I found all that very interesting. I can't comment on the science as this is all very new to me, but I can comment on a couple of things.

I only have 5 amalgam fillings (one root) and I definitely believe I have symptoms of poisoning - mainly anxiety, light sensitivity, candida and tinnitus (sp).

Interesting what you say about the environment. I live next to a factory. What they make there, I don't know, but they do release some vapours into the air. I doubt it's mercury because I don't think they would be allowed to release it in a residential area - or maybe they would. But I don't think they deal with mercury. We do have some crematoriums in the area, though. But I wouldn't be surprised it I get some metal and other bad chemicals into me from where I live.

I'm a vegetarian so I don't eat fish. I do live by the sea, though, and it's not a very good sea, so I don't know if I breathe in vapours of mercury. I had fish when I was younger, but only once a week.

There is also a hospital very close, and I don't know what they release into the air. Also there are some busy roads around here.

Environment is definitely an issue that should be taken more seriously.

I remember when I had the fillings put in as a kid, there would always be a metallic taste in my mouth for a whiie afterwards. I hated it. One time I chewed on some foil and it caused like "shocks", which I didn't understand at the time. I also had braces, and friction of metal can't have helped. And I'm sure I've swallowed pieces of filling - I've had at least one fall out and then replaced (with more amalgam) over the years.

metallic taste in the mouth is one of the very definitive symptoms/signs of mercury poisoning. I have it big time.

Sandra

Strange thing is, I don't even know if I have a metallic taste now. I remember it being there for a while when the fillings were put in, but as I've had fillings since I was 9 years old, I don't know whether I got used to the taste or if it went.

FYI: I had the metallic taste in my mouth and wrote about it in my "mercury" store on this page:

http://herballure.com/HotTopics/MercuryAmalgam/MercuryBattle/Story_Chapter_04.html

Russ, would you think I was mad if I asked: could someone with a mouthful of amalgam fillings and Mercury toxic(which therefore are giving off Mercury vapour) pass on their symptoms to someone else through close contact (who also has his mouth full of fillings) but who is not Mercury toxic as far as we know?

That's a good question, Tracy. I think that most of the mercury vapour released is inhaled by the host (i.e. the one with fillings) but if someone is close to them (or kissing etc) then I think it quite possible (or likely) that they might get some exposure. However, I don't know if would be enough to make them sick (unlike the host who has exposure 24/7). Babies can get mercury from their mother while in the womb and from breastmilk. But it's an interesting question whether someone with amalgams releases mercury into the air.

Tracy,

We just completed a study of mercury being released from amalgams from people's mouths and are astounded at what we found.

We will be posting this information on this forum in a couple months when the numbers are crunched and we get back from our convention.

The answer to your question is: Yes. There is what I consider a substantial amount of mercury being emitted into the air from people with amalgams in.

Because many are now realizing that Gulf War Syndrome is linked with mercury, they are taking notice to the fact that sometimes, entire families get sick when a military family member returns.

U.S. military personnel are exposed to countless undisclosed shots (vaccinations) while serving.