mercury and ADD/autism

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hello jagganath

 

could you explain more about how the mercury affects the brain in

autism and ADD? i am very interested on a personal level as i have

mercury fillings in my teeth and i would like to know more.

 

i wonder whether i was affected by these fillings - not drastically

but a little bit? how does it affect one?

 

i know as a child i was particularly bright, i was always top of the

class and still have (somewhere i think - or perhaps my mother does)

all the prizes i won from books to little awarded cups and badges and

so on and so forth - for coming top at the end of each year in the

classroom. and this even though i had already been made to " skip " a

year as i was too advanced for my age.

 

i know that it is extremely common for children who are very bright at

a young age not to retain that level of promise as they get older and

that has certainly been the case with me --- but at around age 11 or

12 or so I think I was given my first fillings (mercury) although my

memory is not that good so it could have been a little earlier --- and

i wondered whether it was also around that time that i became more

ADDled?

 

i have been diagnosed with adult ADD and given a prescription for

Ritalin which i haven't used or even taken to the pharmacist as i do

not want to start with prescription drugs at all.

 

but i would be more interested in hearing about how mercury generally

affects the brain.

 

i am not sure that i think it is the mercury that is my problem but it

would be useful to know more. thanks jagganath!