More info on selenium in relation with dental-amalgam

>Not being a chelating agent, selenium is safe to take while fillings are
>still in. In fact, it is extremely helpful since it passivates mercury and
>also promotes the formation of more of certain selenium containing enzymes
>that mercury poisons. Mercury toxic people should take at least 200 mcg of
>selenium as selenomethionine daily regardless of whether their fillings are
>in or out.
>Andy Cutler


Like Peter Doedens already pointed out, the above advice from AC is
scientifically incompteent, not based on facts, as usual, as science has shown that
selenium INCREASES brain organic mercury uptake ... ( incompetent advice, just
like Cutler claims of LA as chelator, while recent science posted on this list from
medline,m 1991, proved that LA is not a chelator, but instead an antioxidant, and
it has also been show how Cutler's touted dmps+la is dangerous pro-oxidative mixture
for iron and copper poisoned, and it has also been presented that his
protcol has damaged people such as Vanessa, now this selenium advice from Andy
Cutler may be really additionally brain damaging to those do not want their
brains damaged with increased brain intake of mercury selenium causes ... Just feel
sorry for all those who become senile before their time because of following Cutler's
dangerous advice.

Following a reference of solid mercury research pioneers :
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"The effect of selenium on the brain uptake of methylmercury.
Magos L; Webb M
Arch Toxicol, 1977 Sep, 38:3, 201-7
Twenty-four h after the subcutaneous administration of 0.5 mumoles
selenite labelled with 75Se to rats of 200 g body weight, the
retention of selenium at the injection site was significantly increased
by the presence of equimolar amounts of methylmercury in the
injection solution. The retention of Me203HgCl was not affected by the
presence of selenite. The most significant shift caused by
interaction was a decrease in the blood content and an increase in the
brain content of 203Hg. The brain content of 75Se
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was also increased to a lesser extent. The shift in the
distribution--which was the same whether the two metals were injected at
the same site or separately--continuously decreased from 6-48 h. The same
interaction pattern was observed when methylmercury and
selenite were administered by gastric gavage and differences in
distribution increased when the dose was increased from 1.25
mumoles/kg to 2.5 mumoles/kg. The increase in the brain content of
mercury caused by selenite was not restricted to

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simultaneous administration and occurred when selenite was given 2-7
days after methylmercury. "
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I.E. Concomitant Selenium intake in high with hg like Andy Cutler
suggests ( just like his LA+DMPS advice ) as is the case when
amalgams are still, will INCREASE BRAIN ORGANIC MERCURY uptake from
blood ( amalgam mercury converts to organic in blood in vivo all
the time ) , and only real fools would want to increase their brain
uptake.

Therefore, the above advice to take selenium while amalgams are still in
is not very cool, especially for those who have more than non-existing
organic mercury component in their blood.

For additional support, MD Daunderer's decades long experience showed
that selenium was a no-no for amalgam patients with amalgams in,
and even for some time after, as quite many got worse from selenium,
and he warns against the selenium in his material.

I personally tried selenium in the early days of being
poisoned and sometime after removal even, and got
severe heart arrythmias from the selenium, also in the
form of selenomethionine, and it took me years to recover
enough from the dmps damage and amalgam poisoning to tolerate
any selenium in any form, and I have never tolerated more than
200 ug, but never actually want to take that much at a time,
most I would take is 75 ug at a time, and only a few years post
removal, unless, one was not significantly poisoned to start with,
and not poisoned with any organic mercury at all, in that case,
selenium may be more tolerable to those little poisoned, and those
with practically no organic mercury load.


Regards. Ray S.

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