I think alcohol can temporarily mask a few of the typical mercury symptoms like social unease/fear, stress, etc. With mercury, when I drank alcohol, my shyness with others and difficulty opening up would temporarily "disappear" and I'd become very chatty. It makes you feel as though you can talk to people with more confidence, which for me was a total contrast with how I felt every other time.

But what would then happen after? Severe depression and toxicity is what I would be left with. Worst yeast and worst liver toxicity. That is what I had after a drinking bout.

I have never felt that alcohol has done anything positive for me healthwise. I believe that it can be used too easily as a temporary mask that can so easily become a crutch in someone's life. Someone close to me has become an alcoholic. Her life is now a mess because of it. It has taken a tremendous toll on her health, her life and she is now on unemployment.

Does mercury cause this? I don't know, but I'd hazard a guess and say in a number of cases it could well be a contributing factor at least. It causes one to reach for something to relieve the tremendous mental/emotional suffering that mercury is capable of creating (whether directly/indirectly).

I get my fats in the form of butter/lard//olive oil/fish oil (mercury free). I'd stay away from alcohol, lest you find you begin to rely upon it and wind up more toxic that before. It maybe ok in moderation, but what happens if one has a tendency to become addicted? or find they require more to ease their social fears etc?

In fact, I have found that I have quite an intolerance to alcohol and that my body treats it like a poison. Perhaps this is a good thing, because if I didn't get so ill after it, it may well have become a way of life for me as a means to deal with the mercury...