Guest guest Posted November 5, 2005 Report Share Posted November 5, 2005 Mercury: The Unsuspected Killer Part 1 of 2 10/28/05 Author: Greg Ciola & John Moore Source: Crusador *CRUSADOR EXCLUSIVE* © 2005 www.HealthLiesExposed.com MERCURY: The Unsuspected Killer! CRUSADOR Interviews John Moore, A Leading Mercury/Dental Health Researcher Who Exposes The Hidden Dangers Of The 2nd Most Toxic Material Known To Man In 1987 John Moore almost died from mercury poisoning caused by the dental fillings he had in his mouth. Although his health had been going downhill gradually for over five years, in 1987 he reached a low point where he was so weak and tired he could barely get out of bed. His brain was so foggy he could barely concentrate, let alone read. His short-term memory was lapsing and he had unexplainable irritability and bouts of explosive anger. Not knowing what to do and where to turn John had pretty much given up hope. After meeting some doctors involved in alternative dentistry that specialize in mercury toxicity and its link to disease, John discovered that mercury poisoning was the primary cause of his health problems. When John began to detoxify the mercury from his body and remove all the mercury fillings from his teeth, his health problems disappeared virtually overnight. Seventeen years later John Moore is still alive and, most importantly, full of vibrant health. After discovering that mercury had decimated his health and after seeing his health improve by detoxifying it from his body, John became a full time mercury/dental health researcher. He now spends all of his time assisting others on how to avoid this toxic poison and he shows people some of the things that can be done if they've been damaged. John has taught classes to dental and health professionals for three years, often to 100 persons per session. Our in-depth interview this month will go a long way in educating our readers about the highly dangerous side effects this toxic metal has associated with it. Greg: John, why don't you start by giving our readers a brief history of your background and tell us how you got interested in the subject of mercury toxicity. John: I spent 15 years of my life working at the Boeing Company as an industrial engineer. I had a fairly large crew working for me – about 35 people. We were primarily in the forecasting business at the time during the build-up on the 737's, 747's and so forth at the Boeing complex in Renton. I worked at Plant 2 in Seattle and I worked here in Renton. In 1987 when the mercury problem hit me, it hit me hard. I didn't understanding what was going on. About five years prior to `87, I was noticing that my energy levels were going down, and then continued to go down, albeit fairly slow at first. They began to accelerate in their rate of descent for the last three years of the five-year period. My problems didn't just happen over night, though that can happen to some people. It was a slow progression where I continued to get weaker and weaker and could do less and less each day. In 1987 my wife wanted to go listen to somebody talk one night, so I said: " Well, I'm going to be tired whether I stay here or I take you there, " plus she didn't want to drive at night, so I drove her. While we were there the speaker said to me: " You have mercury poisoning from the dental fillings in your teeth and you need to do something about it now. " I don't know if you're like me, Greg, but I was the typical American who said: " Right! Sure I do. Me and millions of other people have this stuff in our mouths and why would it be me? " I was in total disbelief at that time, and if other people are in disbelief that their dentists would put a highly toxic poison in their mouths, I can understand that because I totally related to that. This little voice had kept saying to me all the time, " You know John, you haven't been feeling that good, " and I would say: " Shut up and go away! " It wasn't until two weeks after that, that I finally said, " Okay, I'll check it out " just to quiet the voice inside me. Meanwhile I'm losing my energy and ability to do anything, so I wound up looking for somebody out here in the Seattle area that knew what was going on. I went to John Bastyr University, which is a naturopathic school and nobody seemed to know. I tried to get in to see Dr. Bastyr, who was still alive at that time, but he wasn't taking new patients so I couldn't get in to see him. So I went to my local health food store and I asked the owner: " Who do you know that can help me with mercury poisoning from the dental fillings in teeth? " He said: " Dr. Sandra Denton. " She was at the Tacoma Clinic, Dr. Jonathan Wright's clinic. You may be aware of his clinic here in the Renton area now – it was in Kent at the time. She was there for a two-year window, 1987-1989, then left and went to Alaska where she resides now. She had a handle on what was going on. She had been to see Hal Huggins (www.drhuggins.com) where she watched him for three months and saw the results he was getting with taking the fillings out and detoxifying people and basically cleaning out their mouths. She took one look at my mouth and just like the fellow at that conference I went to with my wife she said, " You have mercury poisoning from the dental fillings in your teeth and you need to do something about it now. " Greg: Did she do any tests on you to determine that or could she tell just by looking at you? John: She just looked at me first and said that was the case and then she did the testing. We did the blood testing, hair testing, and urine testing. The really bizarre part about doing those three tests was that they normally don't show anything. For example, if I were to pick you up and put you in a bucket of mercury nude and then take you out of that bucket and say, " Test Greg for mercury; " if we don't do it in the first minute or two minutes of time, the mercury will bind itself within your tissue and we won't find it. It won't be in the blood, urine, or the hair. It's very difficult to find unless you understand the footprint of mercury and what it looks like in the body once it gets in there, and how to read the reports. Fortunately, she had studied long enough and well enough to understand what she was looking at when we did get the reports back a month later. They were all there and she said: " Your first assignment is to read Dr. Huggins' book It's All In Your Head. The next thing you need to do is take these supplements and take the fillings out of your teeth. " I was virtually flat broke at the time. I had no money and no way of doing anything to earn money because I was so fatigued. I said to her: " I'll take your silly supplements but I'm not taking the fillings out of my teeth. " She wasn't happy when I said that. The amazing thing was that within two days I was clear enough (and I had been really foggy in my brain up until that time) to go ahead and start reading the book. After almost two months went by I went to see Dr. Denton again and she said: " I've never, ever seen anybody recover this quickly. " My test results were an absolute reflection of what Dr. Huggins pointed out in his book when a person is mercury poisoned. It was at that time that I started believing maybe there was something to this and that maybe I really had been poisoned. I was out of bed and functioning again to some degree. I could start thinking more clearly. I finished reading It's All In Your Head. Dr. Huggins has since written some other books: Uninformed Consent with Dr. Levy, his cardiologist, and Solving the MS Mystery. I got the message real clear that there was something going on with the mercury. The only thing I was doing at the time was basically detoxifying my body from mercury. All the while I still had the fillings in my teeth. If you detox the body while the fillings are in your teeth, it's kind of like standing in the shower while the water is still running and I toss you a towel and say: " Here, dry off! " Nothing is going to happen. You're just going to continue to get wet. Turning off the faucets to the shower amounts to taking the fillings out of your teeth, and that's 90% of the cost in most cases. The other 10% of the cost is in detoxifying the body. Greg: There aren't many dentists around the country that even specialize in mercury free dentistry. What's troublesome to many who contemplate doing this is that in some cases you have to get a lot of teeth pulled – it's not easy to just take the mercury out. What do you think about this because there are some cosmetic problems with alternative dentistry? John: That's absolutely true. Some of the amalgam fillings are so massive that when you drill them out, there's not enough of the tooth left to save it. In a lot of cases the tooth has to come out or it will come out later as a result of removing the mercury. I had one gold crown and when we removed the crown, underneath was a big hunk of mercury that had disintegrated and underneath that was rotted tooth. When he ground the rotted tooth down to where it was solid tooth again, you could see the black outline of where the mercury had gone down into the nerve chamber. Although there are some cosmetic concerns about removing mercury from your teeth the bottom line is this, would you rather suffer terrible health problems and possibly die by leaving this toxic mercury in your mouth or would you rather deal with some cosmetic issues that in most cases can be corrected? Greg: What are some mercury free alternatives to replace the fillings? John: There are over 250 composites in the marketplace today. There's no reason to put mercury in the mouth and there's no reason to use a highly toxic poison, the second most toxic material and the most prevalent toxic material on the planet known to man (the most toxic being radioactive plutonium). When mercury is put into the mouth it continuously releases poison. While we chew or take hot or cold fluids into our mouths, the mercury releases much faster. In either case, it's releasing poison into your body 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you place a mercury filling in your mouth today and pull it out five years later and re-assay it, which has been done, instead of it being 52% mercury, which it was when it was first placed in the mouth, it's now down to 26% mercury. The obvious question is: " Where did that other 26% go? " It went into the system. 80% went into your system and the other 20% went into your neighbors, friends, relatives, spouse, etc. by breathing second hand mercury. This can affect the spouse very significantly. If somebody decides to have their fillings removed but their spouse who has a mouth full of fillings does not, the first person can be `re-merced' from the spouse by just being around them and living with them. But you are absolutely right. There are very few dentists out there that can do it and do it correctly (remove fillings). What I found, having worked with a whole bunch of people for 17 years, is that many people hear this is a good thing to do and they run out and have their fillings removed and replaced and what happens is they get sicker. The reason they get sicker is that they go to their own dentist, typically, who is not in favor of taking the fillings out but he/she begrudgingly agrees to do it. The dentist doesn't protect the patient from the vapor as the fillings are being drilled out, and as a result the patient gets very toxic and some people have become quadriplegics and some have even gone into comas by inadequate protection during filling removal. It's mandatory that you go to someone who knows what he or she is doing. I say you need more than that, you need to have a nitrous oxide nosepiece taped to your nose and use it to bring in oxygen or outside air or a combination thereof and you need to insist on it. If the dentist won't do it, I submit to you that you want to get up and walk out the door – it's that important. Greg: With regard to the dentists that still use the mercury amalgam fillings, you said that 52% of the filling is mercury. Do the dentists know this? Do they know what they're telling their patients or are they just as clueless about it? John: They know exactly what's in the filling material because it comes in little capsules in two components – one full of mercury and the other, which is the alloy mixed in with it, copper, tin, zinc, and silver. The problem is these dentists become robots because of the mercury. They've been told all these years that the mercury doesn't go anywhere; that it stays bound up within the filling material, which is clearly not the case. There are pictures now showing 50-year old fillings still off-gassing mercury. Greg: What would you do if your dentist told you mercury fillings are perfectly safe to put in your mouth, as most dentists will tell their patients today? John: If I went to a dentist today and they told me that, I would vote with my feet – I would walk or run out the door. I would not have that man or woman do anything in my mouth. It's a very toxic poison and I don't think too many people even realize it, but the amount of mercury that's in one of the large molars is enough to pollute a 10-acre lake, making the fish too toxic to eat. Greg: That seems hard to believe. John: It's true. Greg: Isn't it true that even if you go into a dentist's office and get non-mercury fillings, you're still being exposed to mercury because they're using it so often in their practice? John: That's true. The worst place you can go in a dental office is the room where the hygienist does the cleaning because as they polish those old fillings, they release a whole bunch of mercury in the air. That is the most toxic room in the entire dental office and very few people understand that. I suggest to people that if they still have the fillings in their teeth, don't go in and have those fillings cleaned. You can have your teeth cleaned, but tell them not to touch those amalgam fillings (amalgam is a compound of mercury with other metals). Greg: How many dentists are still working with mercury? Is it still a common practice or are many of them waking up to the truth that this is a poison and they need to stay away from it? John: Some of them that still have a little bit of their brain left are waking up to it. The others are still so `merced-out' that they can't fathom the problem and they're not willing to change because of that. It's a mind problem and the mercury plays havoc with the mind, it blocks it so that you don't even want to hear about doing this. Greg: How long does the mercury stay in place in the filling? You mentioned that half of it went into the body and air – what happens to the other half? Does it stay in the filling indefinitely? Are we constantly being poisoned as long as we have the fillings in our mouth? John: We are constantly being poisoned as long as the fillings are in the teeth until the full 52% leaves and the filling breaks down or crumbles. The 50-year old filling I mentioned before was the old one that I call " low-copper amalgams " produced prior to the year 1974. This is a very important issue. Prior to 1974, that filling material was 52% mercury, 30% silver, 4% copper, 14% tin and zinc (these are approximate numbers, but they're very close). That particular formulation took 30-40 years to build up enough mercury in the system to cause a major system breakdown. After '74 they changed the material in the formula because the Hunt brothers were playing with the price of silver on the commodities market and the dentists didn't want to lose their margin of profit, so they switched the copper and the silver in the formula. When that happened that released the mercury and copper 50 times faster than before into the system. Instead of taking 30-40 years to build up enough mercury in the system to cause a major system breakdown, it can now occur in 3-5 years. It has tremendously accelerated the problem. The classic symptom of a mercury-toxic patient is unexplained irritability. Greg: Which is what you said you had too? John: Yes! I had terrible unexplained irritability. My wife would say good morning to me and I would verbally accost her. I knew it was wrong when I was doing it, but the thing with mercury is when you do something like that and you know it's wrong and you're powerless to stop it, that's the mercury in control. Greg: What are some of the other classic symptoms of being poisoned with mercury? John: Memory loss, endogenous depression, emotional instability, and chemical sensitivities just to name a few. If it takes 3-5 years to build up enough mercury in your system to cause a major system breakdown as opposed to taking 30-40 years like before, some interesting health problems begin to show up. If you go back to the year 1974 and you say nobody was using the new mercury and by 1980 nearly every dentist was using it, you have a window there of three years. At that point Chronic Fatigue Syndrome went right off the chart. Mercury vapor that off-gasses from the fillings in the teeth gets onto the oxygen sites in the red blood cells and it takes over. The red blood cells have a much more powerful affinity for mercury than does the oxygen. In fact, the oxygen has around a 1X affinity for the oxygen site (this is the gas oxygen). Carbon monoxide (I'm going to throw that in because it is also a factor) has a 500X affinity for that oxygen site. Mercury vapor has thousands X affinity for that oxygen site. It's absolutely impossible for oxygen on its own to kick either mercury or carbon monoxide off the red blood cells. Once they get on there, they're basically on there permanently. Greg: One of the things we've covered here at our company is that one of the leading contributors to disease is a lack of oxygen in the body – suffocating the cells of their oxygen. If what you're saying is correct, do you believe then that the reason why mercury is causing so many health problems is due to the oxygen being suffocated in the body? John: Well that's one of the main things it's doing. There were some very interesting studies conducted on sheep and monkeys at the University of Calgary in the late 1980s and early 1990s with mercury to see how it acted on these animals. They used sheep and monkeys in the studies. First they started with the sheep by putting mercury fillings in them. They had a radioactive trace element of mercury in the fillings so they could follow it in the system. Within 29 days it went through the entire system including crossing the placental membrane, going into the fetus and so forth. The whole reason for doing this study was to see if it was released into the system at all and, of course, they found a massive release. A lot of it went to the gastrointestinal area but it really went everywhere. I have the studies on that. It's very clear what happened and anyone can see this. They decided that since the mercury did go somewhere, they would do monkey studies. Had it not gone throughout the system of the sheep, they wouldn't have followed up with the monkey studies. In the study with the monkeys they only ate twice a day and again, in 28 –29 days, the mercury went throughout the entire system. Massive amounts were found in the gastrointestinal area. It's interesting to note that gastrointestinal ailments trouble millions of people. Not only does mercury affect your entire system, it affects your oxygen transfer capacity very badly. For example, we have the four oxygen sites on each red blood cell and it seems that for a man, if you block three and a half of those four sites (with mercury and/or carbon monoxide), he will basically `go to bed', not caring whether he lives or not. A woman, for some reason, seems to get by and function until three and three-quarters are blocked, which is just amazing to me. I don't know what the difference is, but there is some difference between male and female. Greg: What I also want to discuss with you, beyond what you're talking about with mercury coming from amalgam fillings, is how ubiquitous mercury is in the environment. Why don't you expound on that more so that our readers can understand that, yes, it's a serious problem with fillings, but it is also a serious problem with vaccines, fish and industrial products. John: I can talk about that to some degree. The biggest source of mercury exposure is from the fillings in the teeth. The second main source is from fish, albeit a much smaller source, but still quite significant. The next source is from all the vaccines that are preserved with a product called thimerosal. I will attempt to explain to your readers what thimerosal is. They start with elemental mercury and they hop it up 1,000 times by converting it to methyl mercury. They then increase it to ethyl mercury, which is even more toxic than the methyl, and then they add aluminum to the vaccine that has a synergistic effect with the mercury, causing it to have an effect that is 10,000 times more toxic than elemental mercury, which is already the most toxic, non-radioactive material known to man. It's really, really nasty. I've read some of the vaccine sheets. We're hearing a lot now that the new vaccines are mercury-free, however, if you get the MSDS sheet for the mercury- free vaccine you'll read thimerosal listed in the contents. Greg: Are you saying that this is a scam? John: I'm telling you that people need to get the drug sheet and read the drug sheet. You're going to find that thimerosal is still listed in there. Greg: Why do they even need to use thimerosal in the vaccines in the first place? John: In the beginning, a lot of people thought it was a preservative. Eli Lily came up with it in 1929. They gave it to a bunch of terminal patients who, of course, died. They said that since the vaccine didn't accelerate their deaths it was therefore all right to use and we've been using it ever since. It has been grand fathered in, essentially, through the FDA. When we were younger most of us only got two or three shots. Today, most children are given 22 shots by the age of two. This thimerosal is so toxic and there's so much of it in the system, it's absolutely unbelievable. For example, if a child could get rid of mercury under normal conditions, 80% would go out through the colon using bile and 20% would go out through other sources, such as the lungs, skin, urine, and so forth. The problem is that children cannot make bile for the first six months of their life, so there is a six-month window of time when these vaccines are applied that the mercury accumulates because children don't even produce the bile needed to help detoxify the body. Children with autism, for example, show very little if any mercury in the hair when they check the hair sample, and yet the children that don't have autism show mercury in the hair and everybody thinks that's the reason why they're smarter. The fact is that the mercury shows in the hair for those children who are excreting it. The only way mercury shows in the hair is if you are naturally excreting it or taking a detoxifying agent. Take a hair sample today and one six months after a detoxifying program and you'll measure how much mercury comes out in the hair. Greg: So the main reason they are putting mercury in vaccines is because it acts as a preservative? John: That's what Eli Lily came up with in the beginning, but I'm told by people who are quite close to the scene that what the story really is, is that the toxins in the vaccine are so toxic, they are so unsterile, that this is a way of sterilizing the vaccine so that it can be injected and not have the person die on the spot. Greg: If the drug companies really could come up with mercury-free vaccines, what would they use as a substitute? John: Well, I have not heard of a substitute yet. I was speaking to a vet who teaches at one of the major universities in the country and he said he was working with the West Nile Virus and saw a lot of animals die from getting the shot and he said he saw a lot others getting sick from it. He asked the rep from the pharmaceutical company why they hadn't removed the thimerosal from the vaccine and the rep said: " We don't have an adequate substitute we can use. " That was his answer and I guess it would be mine as well if that were the case. Greg: You touched on autism. This is a huge problem that has been getting a lot of press lately. How strong of a link is there between autism and mercury? Is it all mercury-induced? Are there other things in the vaccines that you believe are causing autism? John: The fact is the brain cannot handle this mercury with the aluminum in it that is 10,000 times more toxic, especially that of a newborn or in-vitro when the mother is still carrying a baby. To be putting this kind of mercury in vaccinations is unbelievable. Dr. Boyd Haley, the Chair of the Chemistry Department at the University of Kentucky, has gone on record saying that autism is caused only by mercury poisoning. I would suggest that anyone who is researching autism go look up his website www.altcorp.com or look up Dr. Boyd Haley at the University of Kentucky. Greg: Just recently some stories have come out in the UK papers saying that there is no link between autism and the MMR vaccine. Have you heard about these reports and do you have any input for our readers? John: I sure do. I recently read the January/February 2004 issue of Mothering magazine and in there they say they have taken information from The Safe Minds Organization that refutes the Danish autism study. What they found was that they had dropped out some of the senior children that had bad cases of autism. For some reason these numbers just dropped out of their study. When they did their study they said it wasn't a problem. At the top of the Mothering issue it says: " Denmark Has Good News: Autism Rate Declined after the 1992 removal of the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal from vaccines, from 1 in 150 before 1992 to 1 in 500 today. These statistics are the result of an analysis of the country's autism registry data conducted by Safe Minds, an autism advocacy group. The analysis follows on the heal of the study `Association Between Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines and Autism,' by Danish researchers who concluded that Denmark's autism rates rose after thimerosal was removed from vaccines. The Safe Minds analysis found a flaw in the methodology of the study, which was published in the October 1, 2003 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). " " In our review of the Danish data we identified a flaw that resulted in a substantial loss of autism case records from the registry, which essentially renders the findings from the JAMA study and by the Danish colleagues invalid, " Sally Bernard, Executive Director of Safe Minds. " The registry allows 10-25% of diagnosed autism cases to be lost from its records each year. The effect of this loss is such that the records will disappear from the older age groups to a much greater degree than from younger age groups in any given registry year. " So they've apparently done some mucking around with the results. The Mothering story goes on to say: " The results are based on finding fewer older children than younger ones in the researchers' 2000 registry cohort. Since the older children received thimerosal vaccines, and the younger ones did not, they falsely concluded that thimerosal is not a factor in autism. The Safe Mind analysis demonstrates, instead, that the decline is likely due to the loss of older children's records from the registry records, rather than a true decline from the autism rates in the older group. " There's more to it, but that's enough to give you the flavor of the Popsicle and what they're doing. The complete Safe Minds analysis is available at www.safeminds.org Greg: A lot of people this year have been coerced into taking the flu shot. How much of a problem is the mercury in these vaccines? Is the same amount of thimerosal used in all these different shots or does it vary? How bad of a problem is it across the board with all the shots? John: All the shots, as far as I can tell are preserved with thimerosal. Maybe some of them have changed but I haven't seen that change yet and I've read the drug sheets on those that claim they are " mercury-free, " even the children's vaccines and the flu shots, and they're all preserved with thimerosal. This even includes IV drips bags. Greg: What can you tell us about the lawsuits pending against the vaccine manufacturers? John: About two or three months ago there were 26 firms that banded together to go after the vaccine manufacturers as a force and sue them on the basis of the vaccines causing autism, in particular regarding the thimerosal as a cause of the autism. I would say that's fairly significant. There were some television ads asking people who had children with autism to join in on the lawsuit against the vaccine manufacturers. Greg: I got some information here from the Autism Autoimmunity Project out of Florida that said that 1 in 150 children or 1 in 68 families are affected with autism. Do you know anything about these figures? Are they accurate? John: I don't specifically know whether or not they're accurate but I did see the statistics on how much thimerosal is actually being placed in the body of these children through the vaccines. These vaccines, by the way, are not mandatory. Greg: Yet most people are led into believing that they are. John: That's correct. The fact of the matter is they get between and 0 per student at every school to administer the vaccines. Greg: Who pays the school this money? John: To my understanding it's Health and Human Services that's doing it. I'm also told through Dr. Jonathan Wright's newsletter that $1,000 is paid to the school district for every child that gets on Ritalin, again paid by Health and Human Services. Greg: What would be the benefit to getting these children vaccinated? Why are they paying for it? John: If you get down to the nuts and bolts of it what you'll find is they have a committee at the CDC, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and this committee decides how many shots the children are supposedly required to have, but if you press the CDC they'll say that none are required, they are recommended by agents who represent the pharmaceutical companies. Essentially it's a case of a fox watching the chicken coop. It was written up in Mothering magazine March/April 2001. It was issue 105 with a great 18-page article and I encourage anyone to get that and read it. You can find out more about this story and links to other sites for related topics by going to their website at: http://www.mothering.com/10-0- 0/html/10-8-0/10-8-mercury105.shtml In the 18-page article they talked about how this committee was set up by the CDC and the members that made up this committee were members from the vaccine manufacturers. They're the ones that tell you how many shots your child is going to have, and when they're going to get them, what the sequence is, and there are no independent studies that I know of that show that these things number one work, and number two are required. End of Part 1. 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