RE: Question on metals -- Cilantro Metal Detox Info

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Here's the rest of the info,

Sharyn

*****

Mercury Detox

 

A best kept secret is that to detox for mercury poisoning (if you ever had

amalgam fillings, your body likely stored up more then it can handle),

Cilantro will do the trick nicely. Be sure to have done a general cleansing

first, an overloaded or un-functional intestinal tract could bring

unpleasant surprises when the mercury is hitting the system:

 

Coriander has the same qualities as the plant, however the leaf has a

stronger effect but the fruit has some things that the leaf doesn't have.

Use on a 3 to 1 ratio: 3 parts leaf, 1 part fruit. Dose Cilantro, Two 650mg

capsules/3 times a day.

 

Most of the information mentions using it fresh-It is believed that the

active component in cilantro are easily destroyed during processing. I have

a tendency to believe this, especially since my experiments with cleaning

stainless steel only works with the fresh plant.

 

Studies have shown that cilantro or CORIANDER (Chinese parsley) can help

move mercury and other toxic metals out of the central nervous system for

excretion through the urine or feces. To increase your intake of cilantro,

Dr. Klinghardt suggests making this pesto to increase your intake of

cilantro: Start with fresh, organic cilantro and wash it thoroughly. Place

the cilantro in blender, along with water, sea salt and olive oil. Blend the

ingredients until creamy. Dr. Klinghardt recommends taking 1-3 tbsp of this

cilantro pesto, three times daily with meals. For those suffering from

neurological problems, such as Alzheimers or brain fogginess and difficulty

concentrating, the pesto may be taken more often, he says.

 

Mercury Detox Source: Author: David G. Williams, DC

Title: The Poor Man's Chelation Therapy

 

Theres nothing I like more than learning about inexpensive, common herbs or

spices that exhibit unusual healing properties. Historically, the use of

herbs and spices in cooking evolved as a method to preserve foods and make

them safer to store and eat. While we've grown accustomed to using these

items to enhanced or accentuate flavors of food, researchers continue to

discover that they have much more to offer than just good taste. A recent

example involves the work of Dr. Yoshiaki Omura.

 

Dr. Omura recently informed us that he discovered almost by accident, that

the leaves of the coriander plant can accelerate the excretion of mercury,

lead and aluminum from the body. He had been treating several patients for

an eye infection called trachoma (granular conjunctivitis), which is caused

by the micro-organism Chlamydia trachomatis. Following the standard

treatment with antibiotics. Dr. Omura found that the patients symptoms would

clear up initially, then recurwithin a few month. He experienced similar

difficulties in treating viral related problems like Herpes Simplex types I

& II and Cytomegalovirus infection.

 

Cilantro Helps Flush Out Heavy Metals

After taking a closer look, Dr. Omura found those organisms seemed to hide

and flourish in area of the body where there were concentrations of heavy

metals like mercury, lead and aluminum. Somehow the organisms were able to

use the toxic metals to protect themselves from the antibiotics.

 

It just so happens that while he was testing for those metals, Dr. Omura

noticed the mercury level in the urine increased after one consumed a

healthy serving of Vietnamese soup. The soup contains Chinese parsley, or it

is better known in this country, cilantro. (Some of you may also know it as

coriander, since it comes form the leaves of the coriander plant.) Further

testing revealed that eating cilantro also increased urinary excretion of

lead and aluminum. And when cilantro was used concurrently with antibiotics

or natural anti-viral agents and/ or fatty acids like EPA with D.A., the

above infection could be eliminated for good. (Acupnct Electrother Res.

95:20 (3-4): 195-229.)

 

Dr. Omura has made a remarkable discovery. He's found a novel technique

which greatly increases our ability to clear up recurring infections both

viral and bacterial. And perhaps more exciting, he's discovered an

inexpensive, easy way to remove toxic metals from the nervous system and

body tissue - one that anybody can use.

 

This is Great News for Amalgam Sufferers

Chelation therapy using chemicals like EDTA has long been used to help

remove these heavy metals, ut cilantro is the only natural substance I'M

aware of that has demonstrated this ability. This will become news for

people suffering from the ill effect of amalgam dental fillings, which

contains approximately 50% mercury. Dr. Omura recently performed another

study in which three amalgam filling where removed from an individual using

all of the precautions available to prevent absorption of the mercury from

the amalgam. Even with strong air and water suction, water rinses, and a

rubber dental dam, significant amounts of mercury were later found in the

individual's lungs, kidneys,, endocrine organs, liver and heart. There was

no mercury in these tissues prior to the amalgam removal. Remarkably,

without the help of any chelation agents, cilantro was able to remove the

mercury in two to three weeks. Since some of the patients didn't like the

taste of fresh cilantro, Dr. Omura had a pharmaceutical company create a 100

mg cilantro tablet. In the above dental study, one tablet was taken four

times a day. As of yet, I haven't been able to find a tested commercial

tablet of cilantro. It is believed that the active component in cilantro are

easily destroyed during processing. For this reason, I recommend sticking to

fresh herb. It can be eaten raw in soup or salad, on tacos, or as garnish

with practically any dish. Recipe for Cilantro Pesto (Make That Chelation

Pesto) I would think it should also work if the cilantro were juiced, but

perhaps the easiest and tastiest way to use the herb would be as the main

ingredient in a home made pesto sauce. You can start with the basic recipe

below and add other nuts and spices to suite your taste.

 

Cilantro Pesto

1 clove of garlic

1½ cup of almonds, cashews, or other nuts

1 cup packed fresh cilantro leaves

2 tablespoons lemon juice

6 tablespoons olive oil

 

Put the cilantro and olive oil in blender and process until the cilantro s

chopped. Add the rest of the ingredients and process to a lumpy past. (You

may need to add a touch of hot water and scrape the sides of the blender.)

You can change the consistency by altering the amount of olive oil and lemon

juice, but keep the 3:1 ratio of oil to juice. (If freezes well, so you can

make several batches at once.) In light of the ever-worsening quality of our

water and soil and the widespread use of metals in everyday items like

deodorant and cans, I would seriously suspect that all of us have some toxic

metals in our body. And unless they are carried out by a chelating agent,

things like lead, aluminum and mercury remain in the body forever. Besides

associated with arthritic condition, depression, muscle pain and weakness,

memory loss and deterioration, and maybe even Alzheimers disease. Summer's

here and cilantro is readily available across the country. It is very

popular herb in Mexican cooking, and due to their large Mexican populations

is easy to find anywhere from Texas to California. In other areas, you may

need to visit an Oriental market or specialty supermarket. (Remember, it's

also called Chinese parsley.) I would highly recommend that you take

advantage of this poor man's chelation treatment. I'm in the process of

doing it now myself and intend to do so at least once or twice a year from

now on. All it takes is adding fresh cilantro to your everyday foods or

eating a couple teaspoons of cilantro pesto a day for two or three weeks;

either will give the dose Dr. Omura used in his research. Judging by the

price around here, that means you'd be spending less than a dollar for two

weeks of cleansing! Of course, if you really don't like cilantro, you can

always spend a thousands times that much on a series of intravenous

chelation treatments...

 

Zookies report upon using this detox: DAY 3 of my test - so far so good,

this should be the day that I would start noticing it, although I noticed

the diuertic effect of it on the 1st day. That hummer REALLY makes ya pee!

Have noticed a slight reduction in some of my many aches-n-pains, but I've

been there before. Too early to chalk that up to the cilantro and no idea if

that's just temporary or what. It's fixed (or fixing) all kinds of chronic

ailments I've had for the last 5 years, or so. The actions of cilantro are

many and varied, so it's difficult for me to say that the problems have been

mercury related and/or its other actions are what I needed (maybe a combo of

both?). Matters not. I sure as heck wouldn't have thought of using cilantro

for anything else, it just got my attention because of the connection to

mercury removal. All the rest is a welcomed bonus (if the problems were not

related to mercury). I'm making a fresh batch of cilantro. Doing it a tad

differently: 3 parts Cilantro (leaves-n-stems), 1 part Coriander (fruit of

Cilantro) and 1 part Parsley (for the kidneys).

 

Two forms of mercury are of interest here: Inorganic elemental mercury, and

organic methylmercury.

 

What is methylmercury?

 

Evidently a highly dilute vapor of inorganic mercury covers much of planet

Earth's atmosphere. Though this gaseous metal is toxic to a wide range of

animals, the minute quantities in air ”and washing out in rain” are usually

too small to be hazardous. However, once this metal enters water, it becomes

more susceptible to methylation, which is the attachment of one carbon and

three hydrogen atoms.

 

Methylation creates an organic compound that evidently can move more readily

through biological systems than can the inorganic element by itself.

Evidently since methylmercury is more fat soluble than inorganic mercury, it

can more readily cross the blood-brain barrier or pass through the placenta

of an unborn child, for example.

 

Mercury toxicity problems in lakes seldom develop unless microbes or

chemical conditions within a lake transforms elemental mercury into

methylmercury. Nature has probably had this problem since the beginning of

time, but man-made pollutants have greatly escalated the effect. For

example, a combination of acid rain plus the flooded vegetation, trees, etc.

from newly created reservoirs less than 30 years old, can greatly stimulate

the various bacteria which create methylmercury.

 

For example, an article in SCIENCE NEWS tells how fish are relatively

unaffected by low-level methylmercury concentrations, compared to humans or

other fish-eaters, and thus can accumulate substantial amounts in their

flesh without visible effect. When animals or humans eat these contaminated

fish, however, they run the risk of methylmercury poisoning. And, as noted

by Thomas W. Clarkson of the Univ. of Rochester (NY), since this pollutant

is a neurological poison, species having the most advanced nerve/brain

development ”such as humans” tend to be the most vulnerable. (Mercurial

Risks From Acids Reign, SCIENCE NEWS, Vol 139, No. 10, March 9, 1991, Pp.

152-156)

 

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration forbids the sale of fish having more

than 1 part-per-million of methylmercury, while some individual states have

even more strict regulations. For example, Wisconsin is 0.5 ppm, and

Minnesota is 0.16 ppm.

 

The predator hazard: Some bass caught in the Florida Everglades contain up

to 4.4 ppm of mercury, enough to threaten predators such as eagles and

osprey. Dead loons found in Florida have had potentially lethal amounts of

methylmercury found in their brains.

 

The human hazard: Adults eating large amounts of methylmercury-contaminated

fish can suffer irreversible nerve damage, starting with a chronic numbness

or tingling around the mouth or in the arms and legs. Children exposed in

the womb to low doses of mercury can develop a range of more serious

problems, from delays in speech or walking, to birth defects involving brain

damage.

 

Because of the special vulnerability of children and developing fetuses,

state health advisories on the consumption of local fish typically emphasize

the risk to pregnant women and youngsters, but methylmercury also threatens

adults, especially Native Americans living on subsistence diets in which

their protein comes mostly from eating possible tainted fish.

 

In broad epidemiologic studies of residential communities poisoned by

illegal industrial-mercury discharges, Thomas W. Clarkson of the Univ. of

Rochester (NY) and others have detected a risk of fetal brain damage among

pregnant women who received daily exposures of just 0.6 to 1.1 microgram of

mercury, per each kilogram of their body weight. FDA diet surveys indicate

that the average American adult normally consumes only .05 micrograms of

mercury per kilogram of body weight.

 

However, communities that depend on fish for their dietary protein

”including from the pristine waters in Canada and Sweden” have diets that

apparently can provide 200 times the federally permissible mercury limit for

fish sold in the U.S. This has led to regular fish-eating advisory warnings

being issued by 21 U.S. states plus two Canadian provinces, which name the

affected lakes & rivers. For example, a recent New York advisory (early

1991) recommended that women of childbearing age, and all children under 15

years old, not eat ANY fish from the waters listed therein.

 

Researchers who study the methylmercury problems point to industry

combustion pollutants in the air as the primary source of mercury in most

highly contaminated lake fish. The direct deposition of mercury from acid

rain accounted for approximately half of the mercury, according to more

sensitive breakthrough modern mercury-testing procedures which weren't

available even in the early 1980s.

 

Microscopically small quantities of inorganic mercury are enough to cause a

major problem. Biophysical ecologist Greg Mierle, of the Dorset (Ontario)

Research Center said that the scary thing is that very low levels of mercury

typically found in acid rain can cause such dramatic contamination.

Industrial mercury fallout, generally measured at only a few parts per

trillion in rainwater, could add as little as 300 milligrams of mercury a

year to a 25-acre lake, according to an August EPRI report.

 

Yet Mierle says this is more than enough to account for all the mercury that

we're seeing in fish and other animal and plant life. For example, fish

retrieved from 90 to 95 percent of Ontario lakes tested so far, have proven

so heavily tainted with methylmercury that they have triggered health

advisories. One-third of Floridas rivers, lakes, and streams have had recent

fish-consumption advisories issued.

 

Minnesota has published consumption advisories for 285 bodies of water, more

than half of those sampled, and Wisconsin has done the same for 154.

Michigan has extended a blanket warning on methylmercury-tainted fish to

cover all of its estimated 10,000 inland lakes.

 

According to a report by researchers from the Swedish Environmental Research

Institute in the September 1990 issue of Environmental Toxicology &

Chemistry, more than 9,400 Swedish lakes should be blacklisted due to the

toxic levels of methylmercury in fish found to be higher than 1 milligram

per kilogram.

 

Some people are dead-wrong, in trusting mercury vapor. In 1990 newspapers

carried the story of a man in Chicago who attempted to melt down silver

amalgam fillings and thus recover the pure silver. He had gathered a

quantity of scrap dental amalgam from various dentists and then proceeded to

melt the substance down, over an open flame in his basement. Escaping

mercury vapors subsequently killed that man and three other members of his

family, and OSHA/EPA was forced to condemn the entire house as a toxic waste

area, since the entire structure was permeated with toxic mercury vapor

fumes. The house had to be carefully dismantled and hauled off to a toxic

waste disposal area. That man obviously had a fatal misunderstanding of the

definition of the word amalgam, which literally means " mercury, plus

something else. "

 

In Sweden it was determined several years ago that one

previously-unsuspected high source of environmental mercury poisoning from

silver amalgams was downwind from crematoriums. In Leicester, England,

Geologist Allan Mills wondered how mercury from dental amalgam fillings

might be contributing to the rise in airborne mercury in the UK. He set out

to calculate the annual release of mercury from a single major crematorium

in his city. Based on government data, he figured that the average Briton

carried 5 amalgam fillings to his death, which averaged 3 grams of mercury

per person. He calculated that the 3,723 cremations carried out by that one

crematorium in 1989 alone, released 11 kilograms (24 pounds) of vaporized

mercury into the air.

 

These findings, as reported in Nature, and then in the 9/24/91 issue of the

Wall Street Journal, prompted his conclusion that a ruling is immediately

needed either for the safe disposal of extracted filled teeth before

cremation, or the removal of just the fillings alone, or at least that

charcoal filters be installed in the smokestacks of crematoriums before they

are licensed. (Mercury-Free News, Vol. 3, No. 3, p.19 800-243-2782.)

 

 

am happy [raindanceblue]

 

I would be very gracious if you share that recipe. I'm still trying to find

the other herb when I hopefully find it I'll share the info. And on the

pesto do you need to do a fast to make it more effective? Thanks Corrine

 

 

 

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Love it, thanks for your effort and time. Corrine

 

 

 

--- " Sharyn E. Cerniglia "

<sharyn.cerniglia wrote:

 

>

> Here's the rest of the info,

> Sharyn

> *****

> Mercury Detox

>

> A best kept secret is that to detox for mercury

> poisoning (if you ever had

> amalgam fillings, your body likely stored up more

> then it can handle),

> Cilantro will do the trick nicely. Be sure to have

> done a general cleansing

> first, an overloaded or un-functional intestinal

> tract could bring

> unpleasant surprises when the mercury is hitting the

> system:

>

> Coriander has the same qualities as the plant,

> however the leaf has a

> stronger effect but the fruit has some things that

> the leaf doesn't have.

> Use on a 3 to 1 ratio: 3 parts leaf, 1 part fruit.

> Dose Cilantro, Two 650mg

> capsules/3 times a day.

>

> Most of the information mentions using it fresh-It

> is believed that the

> active component in cilantro are easily destroyed

> during processing. I have

> a tendency to believe this, especially since my

> experiments with cleaning

> stainless steel only works with the fresh plant.

>

> Studies have shown that cilantro or CORIANDER

> (Chinese parsley) can help

> move mercury and other toxic metals out of the

> central nervous system for

> excretion through the urine or feces. To increase

> your intake of cilantro,

> Dr. Klinghardt suggests making this pesto to

> increase your intake of

> cilantro: Start with fresh, organic cilantro and

> wash it thoroughly. Place

> the cilantro in blender, along with water, sea salt

> and olive oil. Blend the

> ingredients until creamy. Dr. Klinghardt recommends

> taking 1-3 tbsp of this

> cilantro pesto, three times daily with meals. For

> those suffering from

> neurological problems, such as Alzheimers or brain

> fogginess and difficulty

> concentrating, the pesto may be taken more often, he

> says.

>

> Mercury Detox Source: Author: David G. Williams, DC

> Title: The Poor Man's Chelation Therapy

>

> Theres nothing I like more than learning about

> inexpensive, common herbs or

> spices that exhibit unusual healing properties.

> Historically, the use of

> herbs and spices in cooking evolved as a method to

> preserve foods and make

> them safer to store and eat. While we've grown

> accustomed to using these

> items to enhanced or accentuate flavors of food,

> researchers continue to

> discover that they have much more to offer than just

> good taste. A recent

> example involves the work of Dr. Yoshiaki Omura.

>

> Dr. Omura recently informed us that he discovered

> almost by accident, that

> the leaves of the coriander plant can accelerate the

> excretion of mercury,

> lead and aluminum from the body. He had been

> treating several patients for

> an eye infection called trachoma (granular

> conjunctivitis), which is caused

> by the micro-organism Chlamydia trachomatis.

> Following the standard

> treatment with antibiotics. Dr. Omura found that the

> patients symptoms would

> clear up initially, then recurwithin a few month. He

> experienced similar

> difficulties in treating viral related problems like

> Herpes Simplex types I

> & II and Cytomegalovirus infection.

>

> Cilantro Helps Flush Out Heavy Metals

> After taking a closer look, Dr. Omura found those

> organisms seemed to hide

> and flourish in area of the body where there were

> concentrations of heavy

> metals like mercury, lead and aluminum. Somehow the

> organisms were able to

> use the toxic metals to protect themselves from the

> antibiotics.

>

> It just so happens that while he was testing for

> those metals, Dr. Omura

> noticed the mercury level in the urine increased

> after one consumed a

> healthy serving of Vietnamese soup. The soup

> contains Chinese parsley, or it

> is better known in this country, cilantro. (Some of

> you may also know it as

> coriander, since it comes form the leaves of the

> coriander plant.) Further

> testing revealed that eating cilantro also increased

> urinary excretion of

> lead and aluminum. And when cilantro was used

> concurrently with antibiotics

> or natural anti-viral agents and/ or fatty acids

> like EPA with D.A., the

> above infection could be eliminated for good.

> (Acupnct Electrother Res.

> 95:20 (3-4): 195-229.)

>

> Dr. Omura has made a remarkable discovery. He's

> found a novel technique

> which greatly increases our ability to clear up

> recurring infections both

> viral and bacterial. And perhaps more exciting, he's

> discovered an

> inexpensive, easy way to remove toxic metals from

> the nervous system and

> body tissue - one that anybody can use.

>

> This is Great News for Amalgam Sufferers

> Chelation therapy using chemicals like EDTA has long

> been used to help

> remove these heavy metals, ut cilantro is the only

> natural substance I'M

> aware of that has demonstrated this ability. This

> will become news for

> people suffering from the ill effect of amalgam

> dental fillings, which

> contains approximately 50% mercury. Dr. Omura

> recently performed another

> study in which three amalgam filling where removed

> from an individual using

> all of the precautions available to prevent

> absorption of the mercury from

> the amalgam. Even with strong air and water suction,

> water rinses, and a

> rubber dental dam, significant amounts of mercury

> were later found in the

> individual's lungs, kidneys,, endocrine organs,

> liver and heart. There was

> no mercury in these tissues prior to the amalgam

> removal. Remarkably,

> without the help of any chelation agents, cilantro

> was able to remove the

> mercury in two to three weeks. Since some of the

> patients didn't like the

> taste of fresh cilantro, Dr. Omura had a

> pharmaceutical company create a 100

> mg cilantro tablet. In the above dental study, one

> tablet was taken four

> times a day. As of yet, I haven't been able to find

> a tested commercial

> tablet of cilantro. It is believed that the active

> component in cilantro are

> easily destroyed during processing. For this reason,

> I recommend sticking to

> fresh herb. It can be eaten raw in soup or salad, on

> tacos, or as garnish

> with practically any dish. Recipe for Cilantro Pesto

> (Make That Chelation

> Pesto) I would think it should also work if the

> cilantro were juiced, but

> perhaps the easiest and tastiest way to use the herb

> would be as the main

> ingredient in a home made pesto sauce. You can start

> with the basic recipe

> below and add other nuts and spices to suite your

> taste.

>

> Cilantro Pesto

> 1 clove of garlic

> 1½ cup of almonds, cashews, or other nuts

> 1 cup packed fresh cilantro leaves

> 2 tablespoons lemon juice

> 6 tablespoons olive oil

>

> Put the cilantro and olive oil in blender and

> process until the cilantro s

> chopped. Add the rest of the ingredients and process

> to a lumpy past. (You

> may need to add a touch of hot water and scrape the

> sides of the blender.)

> You can change the consistency by altering the

> amount of olive oil and lemon

> juice, but keep the 3:1 ratio of oil to juice. (If

> freezes well, so you can

> make several batches at once.) In light of the

> ever-worsening quality of our

> water and soil and the widespread use of metals in

> everyday items like

> deodorant and cans, I would seriously suspect that

> all of us have some toxic

> metals in our body. And unless they are carried out

> by a chelating agent,

> things like lead, aluminum and mercury remain in the

> body forever. Besides

> associated with arthritic condition, depression,

> muscle pain and weakness,

> memory loss and deterioration, and maybe even

> Alzheimers disease. Summer's

> here and cilantro is readily available across the

> country. It is very

> popular herb in Mexican cooking, and due to their

> large Mexican populations

> is easy to find anywhere from Texas to California.

> In other areas, you may

> need to visit an Oriental market or specialty

> supermarket. (Remember, it's

> also called Chinese parsley.) I would highly

> recommend that you take

> advantage of this poor man's chelation treatment.

> I'm in the process of

> doing it now myself and intend to do so at least

> once or twice a year from

> now on. All it takes is adding fresh cilantro to

> your everyday foods or

> eating a couple teaspoons of cilantro pesto a day

> for two or three weeks;

> either will give the dose Dr. Omura used in his

> research. Judging by the

> price around here, that means you'd be spending less

> than a dollar for two

> weeks of cleansing! Of course, if you really don't

> like cilantro, you can

> always spend a thousands times that much on a series

> of intravenous

> chelation treatments...

>

> Zookies report upon using this detox: DAY 3 of my

> test - so far so good,

> this should be the day that I would start noticing

> it, although I noticed

> the diuertic effect of it on the 1st day. That

> hummer REALLY makes ya pee!

> Have noticed a slight reduction in some of my many

> aches-n-pains, but I've

> been there before. Too early to chalk that up to the

> cilantro and no idea if

> that's just temporary or what. It's fixed (or

> fixing) all kinds of chronic

> ailments I've had for the last 5 years, or so. The

> actions of cilantro are

> many and varied, so it's difficult for me to say

> that the problems have been

> mercury related and/or its other actions are what I

> needed (maybe a combo of

> both?). Matters not. I sure as heck wouldn't have

> thought of using cilantro

> for anything else, it just got my attention because

> of the connection to

> mercury removal. All the rest is a welcomed bonus

> (if the problems were not

> related to mercury). I'm making a fresh batch of

> cilantro. Doing it a tad

> differently: 3 parts Cilantro (leaves-n-stems), 1

> part Coriander (fruit of

> Cilantro) and 1 part Parsley (for the kidneys).

>

> Two forms of mercury are of interest here: Inorganic

> elemental mercury, and

> organic methylmercury.

>

> What is methylmercury?

>

> Evidently a highly dilute vapor of inorganic mercury

> covers much of planet

> Earth's atmosphere. Though this gaseous metal is

> toxic to a wide range of

> animals, the minute quantities in air ”and washing

> out in rain” are usually

> too small to be hazardous. However, once this metal

> enters water, it becomes

> more susceptible to methylation, which is the

> attachment of one carbon and

> three hydrogen atoms.

>

> Methylation creates an organic compound that

> evidently can move more readily

> through biological systems than can the inorganic

> element by itself.

> Evidently since methylmercury is more fat soluble

> than inorganic mercury, it

> can more readily cross the blood-brain barrier or

> pass through the placenta

> of an unborn child, for example.

>

> Mercury toxicity problems in lakes seldom develop

> unless microbes or

> chemical conditions within a lake transforms

> elemental mercury into

> methylmercury. Nature has probably had this problem

> since the beginning of

> time, but man-made pollutants have greatly escalated

> the effect. For

> example, a combination of acid rain plus the flooded

> vegetation, trees, etc.

> from newly created reservoirs less than 30 years

> old, can greatly stimulate

> the various bacteria which create methylmercury.

>

> For example, an article in SCIENCE NEWS tells how

> fish are relatively

> unaffected by low-level methylmercury

> concentrations, compared to humans or

> other fish-eaters, and thus can accumulate

> substantial amounts in their

> flesh without visible effect. When animals or humans

> eat these contaminated

> fish, however, they run the risk of methylmercury

> poisoning. And, as noted

> by Thomas W. Clarkson of the Univ. of Rochester

> (NY), since this pollutant

> is a neurological poison, species having the most

> advanced nerve/brain

> development ”such as humans” tend to be the most

> vulnerable. (Mercurial

> Risks From Acids Reign, SCIENCE NEWS, Vol 139, No.

> 10, March 9, 1991, Pp.

> 152-156)

>

> The U.S. Food & Drug Administration forbids the sale

> of fish having more

> than 1 part-per-million of methylmercury, while some

> individual states have

> even more strict regulations. For example, Wisconsin

> is 0.5 ppm, and

> Minnesota is 0.16 ppm.

>

> The predator hazard: Some bass caught in the Florida

> Everglades contain up

> to 4.4 ppm of mercury, enough to threaten predators

> such as eagles and

> osprey. Dead loons found in Florida have had

> potentially lethal amounts of

> methylmercury found in their brains.

>

> The human hazard: Adults eating large amounts of

> methylmercury-contaminated

> fish can suffer irreversible nerve damage, starting

> with a chronic numbness

> or tingling around the mouth or in the arms and

> legs. Children exposed in

> the womb to low doses of mercury can develop a range

> of more serious

> problems, from delays in speech or walking, to birth

> defects involving brain

> damage.

>

> Because of the special vulnerability of children and

> developing fetuses,

> state health advisories on the consumption of local

> fish typically emphasize

> the risk to pregnant women and youngsters, but

> methylmercury also threatens

> adults, especially Native Americans living on

> subsistence diets in which

> their protein comes mostly from eating possible

> tainted fish.

>

> In broad epidemiologic studies of residential

> communities poisoned by

> illegal industrial-mercury discharges, Thomas W.

> Clarkson of the Univ. of

> Rochester (NY) and others have detected a risk of

> fetal brain damage among

> pregnant women who received daily exposures of just

> 0.6 to 1.1 microgram of

> mercury, per each kilogram of their body weight. FDA

> diet surveys indicate

> that the average American adult normally consumes

> only .05 micrograms of

> mercury per kilogram of body weight.

>

> However, communities that depend on fish for their

> dietary protein

> ”including from the pristine waters in Canada and

> Sweden” have diets that

> apparently can provide 200 times the federally

> permissible mercury limit for

> fish sold in the U.S. This has led to regular

> fish-eating advisory warnings

> being issued by 21 U.S. states plus two Canadian

> provinces, which name the

> affected lakes & rivers. For example, a recent New

> York advisory (early

> 1991) recommended that women of childbearing age,

> and all children under 15

> years old, not eat ANY fish from the waters listed

> therein.

>

> Researchers who study the methylmercury problems

> point to industry

> combustion pollutants in the air as the primary

> source of mercury in most

> highly contaminated lake fish. The direct deposition

> of mercury from acid

> rain accounted for approximately half of the

> mercury, according to more

> sensitive breakthrough modern mercury-testing

> procedures which weren't

> available even in the early 1980s.

>

> Microscopically small quantities of inorganic

> mercury are enough to cause a

> major problem. Biophysical ecologist Greg Mierle, of

> the Dorset (Ontario)

> Research Center said that the scary thing is that

> very low levels of mercury

> typically found in acid rain can cause such dramatic

> contamination.

> Industrial mercury fallout, generally measured at

> only a few parts per

> trillion in rainwater, could add as little as 300

> milligrams of mercury a

> year to a 25-acre lake, according to an August EPRI

> report.

>

> Yet Mierle says this is more than enough to account

> for all the mercury that

> we're seeing in fish and other animal and plant

> life. For example, fish

> retrieved from 90 to 95 percent of Ontario lakes

> tested so far, have proven

> so heavily tainted with methylmercury that they have

> triggered health

> advisories. One-third of Floridas rivers, lakes, and

> streams have had recent

> fish-consumption advisories issued.

>

> Minnesota has published consumption advisories for

> 285 bodies of water, more

> than half of those sampled, and Wisconsin has done

> the same for 154.

> Michigan has extended a blanket warning on

> methylmercury-tainted fish to

> cover all of its estimated 10,000 inland lakes.

>

> According to a report by researchers from the

> Swedish Environmental Research

> Institute in the September 1990 issue of

> Environmental Toxicology &

> Chemistry, more than 9,400 Swedish lakes should be

> blacklisted due to the

> toxic levels of methylmercury in fish found to be

> higher than 1 milligram

> per kilogram.

>

> Some people are dead-wrong, in trusting mercury

> vapor. In 1990 newspapers

> carried the story of a man in Chicago who attempted

> to melt down silver

> amalgam fillings and thus recover the pure silver.

> He had gathered a

> quantity of scrap dental amalgam from various

> dentists and then proceeded to

> melt the substance down, over an open flame in his

> basement. Escaping

> mercury vapors subsequently killed that man and

> three other members of his

> family, and OSHA/EPA was forced to condemn the

> entire house as a toxic waste

> area, since the entire structure was permeated with

> toxic mercury vapor

> fumes. The house had to be carefully dismantled and

> hauled off to a toxic

> waste disposal area. That man obviously had a fatal

> misunderstanding of the

> definition of the word amalgam, which literally

> means " mercury, plus

> something else. "

>

> In Sweden it was determined several years ago that

> one

> previously-unsuspected high source of environmental

> mercury poisoning from

> silver amalgams was downwind from crematoriums. In

> Leicester, England,

> Geologist Allan Mills wondered how mercury from

> dental amalgam fillings

> might be contributing to the rise in airborne

> mercury in the UK. He set out

> to calculate the annual release of mercury from a

> single major crematorium

> in his city. Based on government data, he figured

> that the average Briton

> carried 5 amalgam fillings to his death, which

> averaged 3 grams of mercury

> per person. He calculated that the 3,723 cremations

> carried out by that one

> crematorium in 1989 alone, released 11 kilograms (24

> pounds) of vaporized

> mercury into the air.

>

> These findings, as reported in Nature, and then in

> the 9/24/91 issue of the

> Wall Street Journal, prompted his conclusion that a

> ruling is immediately

> needed either for the safe disposal of extracted

> filled teeth before

> cremation, or the removal of just the fillings

> alone, or at least that

> charcoal filters be installed in the smokestacks of

> crematoriums before they

> are licensed. (Mercury-Free News, Vol. 3, No. 3,

> p.19 800-243-2782.)

>

>

> am happy [raindanceblue]

>

> I would be very gracious if you share that recipe.

> I'm still trying to find

> the other herb when I hopefully find it I'll share

> the info. And on the

> pesto do you need to do a fast to make it more

> effective? Thanks Corrine

>

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