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YES, the brain can heal! as can many other tissues inside the body, but of course you need to remove the amalgams (safely with a biologic dentist with full protection and not rushing it). And changing your diet to support detox and aid healing (main things to eliminate for a mercury toxic person seem to be sugar, wheat/gluten (wheat is treated with mercury fungicide), fish (due to mercury contamination), caffeine and milk (apparently interfere with mercury detox). Cheese may also be an issue.

Those are the main things to eliminate and it isn't easy because you can get enough detox just in giving those things up, but it is well worth it. When you eliminate them, your body can start to shove out toxins as well as reduce any high yeast levels (which many have with mercury). If you have serious case of candida? You may also need to give up all grains, fruit and high carbs (even potatoes, corn, peas etc). But this is more serious cases and does depend on you.

Supplements to take usually are antioxidants (becuse mercury uses them up) like vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, milk thistle etc. Minerals like zinc and magnesium and B complex also usually is required. It does depend on the person though. mercury also depletes iodine and can block the action of it in the thyroid gland, which can also cause big problems. You might be wise to make sure you get enough iodine in your diet (you can take it as a supplement).

The other is replacing essential fatty acids which mercury uses up big time. Fish oil (mercury free) can help, but in order to really replace what mercury uses, you'd be taking piles of it and that is hardly possible financially. Some decide to use Flaxseed oil, because it's cheaper and you can take much more (e.g. 1-2 tablespoons a day). You can mix it in plain sugar free yoghurt (acidophilus).

antioxidants and essential fats are what mercury seriously depletes. Fats help heal up the brain. Animal fats are the best ones for the human body. Butter, lard, (fat on meat), and olive oil is a good oil also to use. Flaxseed too, but some might not respond to it that well. But it provides essential fatty acids.

Aside from that, you'd be wise to find out a good chelation protocol to get the mercury out of you in a manner that doesn't make matters worse. Different protocols suit different people. Some find that sulfur foods (e.g. eggs, garlic, onions etc) can stir up their symptoms too much because sulfur can mobilise mercury. Others find it makes them feel better, it depends on the person.

But sulfur foods are not true chelation agents, because they don't grip strongly enough to mercury. I woudl recommend, if you can, to get a book called "Amalgam Ilness, Diagnosis and Treatment" by Andrew Hall Cutler, as I feel this is probably one of the best books on mercury and how to chelate it and what to do and what to take. The protocol for me was one of the safest and most effective I ever used. The book is available on here.
http://herballure.com/Products/AmalgamIllness_DiagnosisAndTreatment/index.html

It sounds a lot, but it's just stage by stage. I'd start by diet and supplements first, which is a good way to prepare yourself for dental work. And go from there!

I hope this helps a little bit.
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