Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

How to prove Mercury’s relationship to health problems in the population? Is it more crucial than the lead toxicity we all have today? If treatment was as affordable as food or water, is there anyone who would not benefit from Lead and Mercury lowering therapy?

What is the determining factor in who gets treatment since total body
levels of lead are now understood to require tissue testing such as bone lead levels to really appreciate? Is there any affordable safe way to really know how much total mercury is in specific tissues or how much more toxic mercury becomes when we have low levels of selenium or high levels of lead? What about the fact that some genetic types hold on to new mercury ingested, as when eating fish, 4 times as long as others eating that same serving of fish?

This IAOMT announcement about upcoming FDA hearings about dental mercury is useful, as the link at the bottom of this email provides you with a heavily referenced and quite current report from a large Canadian company SNC Lavalin on mercury toxicity. It is clearly very authoritative and worth you knowing more about particularly since the world still believe the nonsense that cholesterol lowering is a far more worthy goal for our nation’s healthcare dollars than meaningful effort to lower lead or mercury. SNC-Lavalin has maintained its momentum in internal development, acquisitions and affiliations and has become a world leader in a number of sectors such as agrifood, aluminum, biopharmaceuticals, chemicals and petroleum, the environment, facilities and operations management, infrastructure, mass transit, mining and metallurgy and power.

Since medical boards too, like the general public, have little or no interest in the adverse effects we are all suffering today from these and other toxins in our water food and air, this report makes it clear they need to learn more! It is sad that anyone with most mental health problems is seen as drug deficient. No effort is made by any major medical center to look for either environmental toxicities or nutrient deficiencies, while they prescribe dangerous drugs like antidepressants to already toxic and poorly nourished patients where even simple use of OMEGA 3 supplements would make a meaningful difference.

This gives you a detailed analysis of mercury, which focuses more on the dental implications of mercury amalgam sources and less on environmental sources like power plants and industry but nonetheless mercury issues are rampant in our country and almost no one is doing anything meaningful about it. If you read this carefully you will see how difficult it has been to tie down exactly the difference between adverse effects discernable in children’s health receiving porcelain filling vs. mercury amalgam fillings. Maybe they need multifactorial analysis and must recognize the adverse effects from Lead and Omega 3 deficiencies and even adverse effects of GMO foods and excessive prescribing of antibiotics. Once they factor all of that in, they will have a realistic understanding of what has happened to our children’s health and will see that in unhealthy people, the effects of dental amalgam alone may be hard to tease out without significantly extending the length of the study and the number or participants and that all costs money.

SNC-Lavalin’s report still leaves many questions unanswered. What if you read the report by Mark Ulman about increasing levels of mercury in our environment?  How do you assign blame for the mercury toxicity? Is coal burning more the chief culprit or, as in the case of lead, is it just industrialization causing the lead to leave the earth’s surface and wind up entering our bodies with a big increase due to Ethyl Corporation with leaded gas?

But when will we have the data that will enable everyone to conclude that lowering lead and mercury is far more vital for the preservation of life as we know it, than wasting billions on lowering cholesterol with a minor anti-inflammation side benefit? What price would a therapy have to drop to, for us to start taking lead and mercury out of everyone?

Would zeolite, or some advanced forms of fiber (I prefer Beyond Fiber) 
or Vitamin C that was well enough tolerated to be taken in regular doses of 8+ Grams, like BIOEN’R-G’Y C, all be contenders if you were the surgeon general of the head of HHS/NIH/CDC/FDA/EPA what would you be willing to recommend to seriously change the health of our nation?  Maybe to keep big Pharma happy, we could develop other chelators that could be patented?

The question I am asking is IF THE THERAPY IS ENTIRELY SAFE, HOW CHEAP
WOULD IT HAVE TO BE for it to be made as widely available as say salt
and pepper? If something that would lower the levels of heavy metals were cheap would all this nonsense about who needs chelation for heavy metals be mute?  As if the treatment were as affordable as milk or bread, is there anyone that would not be getting a benefit?  The
Archives Of Internal Medicine published years ago their study
documenting that ALL causes of morbidity and mortality are directly tied to how low your lead levels are over a lifetime. So, in the final analysis, whose job is it to define treatment levels for a population the size of the American public?

Someone at NIH, who we later discovered was on the take, was willing to set the recommended levels of cholesterol for our entire population. Now the issue is if treatment is going to cost say $3000 per person
then the answers to who is going to get treatment to lower lead and
mercury becomes more complex. Then, we all want someone else to pay for
it.  Maybe the ADA or power plants or health insurance?  Now we get the game going who needs treatment and for how long? The answer still is EVERYONE and for a LIFETIME but obviously cost is what is making this topic have proponents and opponents and therein we can have controversy for many more years. 

I am convinced we all need to get the lead and mercury out and this
reference may assist you in coming to your conclusion, along with the
many others I have sent to FACT members in past and incorporate into my
lectures around the world and into a webinar on heavy metals.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com 

Link: http://iaomt.org/articles/category_view.asp?intReleaseID=329&catid=30

Excerpt:

Amalgam Risk Assessments 2010

On December 14 and 15, 2010, the FDA will convene a scientific panel to re-examine the issue of mercury exposure from amalgam dental fillings. Two private foundations, assisted by IAOMT, have commissioned G. Mark Richardson, PhD, of SNC Lavallin, Ottawa, Canada, formerly of Health Canada, to provide the scientific panel and FDA regulators with a formal risk assessment using the latest information from the scientific literature.  Previously published risk assessments dated from the 1990’s.  Meanwhile, newer studies have uncovered more toxicity produced by lower levels of mercury exposure, and various government agencies have been reducing their allowed exposure levels. 

The final work is presented here in two parts.  

Part 1 is titled UPDATING EXPOSURE, REEXAMINING REFERENCE EXPOSURE LEVELS, AND CRITICALLY EVALUATING RECENT STUDIES.  “…it was determined that some 67.2 million Americans would exceed the Hg dose associated with the REL of 0.3 ug/m3 established by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1995, whereas 122.3 million Americans would exceed the dose associated with the REL of 0.03 ug/m3 established by the California Environmental Protection Agency in 2008.”

Part 2 is titled CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT AND JOINT TOXICITY: MERCURY VAPOR, METHYL MERCURY AND LEAD.  “A large proportion – 1/3rd – of the US population is concurrently exposed to Hg0, methyl Hg and Pb on a daily basis. The weight of available evidence suggests that risks posed by concurrent exposure to combinations of these 3 substances should be assessed as additive.”

Regards,
Linda

What about mercury and amalgams? Good progress continues to be made legally by eliminating amalgam fillings using a multi-pronged approach, as explained here in the article below.

Eventually when the public realizes the danger and that they can not pull all the fillings out in less than 10 years, they will want to know more about some form of protection and or treatment.

Heavy Detox (DMSA) is without question the best product for a focused intense Mercury detox but it is better with Advanced Cellular Zeolite (ACZ) and EZ Defense chewing gum. The more broadly based the treatment the better results will be and something is needed for life for all of us but particularly for all those who will not be able to afford to remove all their amalgam fillings.

We know that we all need to diminish the ongoing increases in brain mercury levels occurring by breathing and eating and now we have more exposures by chewing food with amalgams.

Although EDTA is not the perfect mercury chelator, at least the EDTA GUM (EZ Defense) can tie up the most recent mercury released before it has time to become fully absorbed by chewing it after each meal. We know it lowers lead, which makes mercury far more toxic.

Ideally our patients will need to also be taking several things, not just ACZ and the Heavy Detox, but also the Beyond Fiber, as found in the POWER DRINK with the BIOE’NR-G’Y C, Dr Gordon’s Greens etc. Just by living we suffer from unavoidable increasing and ongoing exposures to mercury and other heavy metals so we need to continually lower total body burdens of Mercury etc for the years it takes to detox it.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

http://www.toxicteeth.org/mercury_dental_fillings_toxic_tort.pdf