Dr. Gordon’s comments:

Mercury is seriously increasing in our environment from coal burning power plants, dentistry etc. How could you prove that mercury is not a contributor to anyone’s health problems, whether mental or physical?

Read this and realize that if treatment was free, and safe, probably everyone on the planet deserves mercury detoxification.

What is the dental component vs. the coal burning component? The answer to that will depend on the individual, as that is where the mercury in fish is largely coming from.

Here is an excerpt from this great well reference article by Mark Hyman MD:

“Whether your fillings are new or old, the mercury in them is constantly absorbed into your body. And even if you stop being exposed to that mercury, it sticks around. It takes up to 18 years for the body to clear half of the dose of mercury from the body. Once mercury is in the body it comes out only VERY slowly.

In fact, people with amalgam fillings have significantly elevated blood mercury levels, three to five times more mercury in the urine, and two to twelve times more mercury in their tissues than those without amalgam fillings.

However blood and urine mercury levels don’t necessarily relate to the mercury load in your body tissues or severity of clinical symptoms.

Research on sheep and monkeys with dental amalgams has shown that blood mercury levels remained low – even though their tissue mercury levels were raised.

Urine mercury levels aren’t much better as an indicator of your total mercury load. They mainly reflect the cumulative dose of inorganic mercury in the kidneys and there exists only a very weak correlation with levels in other target tissues”

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

Link: http://drhyman.com/mercury-get-this-poison-out-of-your-body-85/

Excerpt:

10 Truths and Tips about Mercury Toxicity
1.Industrial exposure to mercury is significant and mostly comes from coal burning (220 million pounds a year) and chlor-alkali plants. 
2.The main ways that humans are exposed to mercury are from contaminated fish and dental amalgams or silver fillings. 
3.Mercury can affect nearly all your organs, especially the brain, heart, kidneys, and gut. 
4.Many chronic diseases may be caused or worsened by mercury, including neurologic disease, ADHD, autism, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and more. 
5.Some of us are genetically better adapted to detoxify mercury than others, leading to variable effects within the population. 
6.You should reduce your exposure by avoiding large ocean fish (like tuna, swordfish, shark, and tilefish) and river fish. Eat only small wild fish. If it fits in your pan, it is probably okay. 
7.Blood tests are relatively worthless for analyzing mercury toxicity, unless you have had a significant recent exposure or eat a lot of sushi or tuna. 
8.Hair tests only check for mercury from fish, not from fillings so they only give you a partial picture. 
9.The only way to find out your total body load of mercury is to take a medication with sulfur molecules that binds to the mercury like fly paper. This is called DMSA or DMPS. This test should ONLY be done by a trained physician and involves taking one dose of this medicine, followed by a 6- or 24-hour urine collection to see how much comes out. (In my opinion, the most reliable testing is done by Doctorsdata.com). 
10.If you are toxic and sick, you may consider addressing your dental health by seeing a biological dentist who can safely help you deal with mercury in your mouth. 

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There’s been a flurry of activity by experts trying to suss out if the virus XMRV, which has been associated with chronic fatigue syndrome, poses a threat to the U.S. blood supply.

On Friday,  Louis Katz, executive vice-president of medical affairs at Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center in Davenport, Iowa, and a member of the AABB task force studying the issue, gave his own latest assessment of the situation: People who have been diagnosed by a doctor with CFS should not donate blood, at least not at this point. (The AABB is an association that includes the facilities that collect virtually all of the U.S. blood supply.)

Last October, a paper in the journal Science linked XMRV — first discovered in 2006 — to CFS, which affects an estimated 17 million people worldwide. Since then, public health officials have been racing to learn more. Although it still isn’t yet known whether XMRV causes CFS or any other disease, there are concerns that the virus might be transmitted through blood donations.

¶ Minnesota health officials last week reported the state’s first death from Rocky Mountain spotted fever, as well as the state’s second-ever case of brain inflammation from the Powassan virus _ similar to West Nile, but spread by ticks instead of mosquitoes.

¶ Officials are also watching to see if the lone star tick, which can spread a Lyme-like disease, establishes itself permanently. The tick until recently wasn’t often found north of southern Iowa, but about a dozen have been identified in Minnesota this year. So far, no infections have been reported.

¶ Scientists aren’t sure why tick populations are expanding, but many suspect one factor could be that subtle changes in the climate are tipping the ticks’ complicated ecosystems toward expansion. The Minnesota Health Department has applied for a grant to study how climate change is affecting the state’s tick population, and Wisconsin is seeking funding for its own study.

¶ “We think about climate change all the time,” said David Neitzel, a Minnesota department expert in insect-borne diseases. With climate change, he said, “There is going to be a change in all the diseases we work on.”

¶ Deer ticks are a well-known threat to infect humans with their bite. Lyme disease, the best known infection spread by ticks, can result in fever, headache, fatigue and rash, and if left untreated can linger and spread damage to joints, the heart and the nervous system.

¶ Rocky Mountain spotted fever is spread by the American dog tick, also called the wood tick. While the tick is common in Minnesota, the bacteria is considered very rare here. Nationally, most cases are in the southeastern U.S. The symptoms include fever, vomiting, severe headache and a distinctive spotted rash.

¶ While none of the Upper Midwest states do a comprehensive tick census, they track the spread of ticks by following up on confirmed disease cases, doing some of their own sampling and identifying ticks sent in by the public.

¶ In Minnesota, deer ticks have expanded to the northwest from the traditional high-risk areas of eastern and central Minnesota. Neitzel said he’s seen it personally on his property in Becker County.

¶ “I’ve been stomping around up there since the early 1970s, but in just the last few years we’re seeing black-legged ticks up there,” he said. Deer ticks are also known as black-legged ticks.

¶ Canadian health officials report a growing deer tick population just north of Minnesota’s northern border, where there were none in the early 1990s. In Wisconsin, the ticks are marching from the northwest to the southeast. And in Iowa, the deer ticks are moving from the northeast toward the southeast and the center of the state.

¶ “We’re watching it, and certainly we’re concerned,” said Dr. Patty Quinlisk, Iowa state epidemiologist.

¶ The number of Lyme disease cases has been climbing in each state since 1993, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of cases more than doubled from 2000 to 2007 in all three states, reaching 1,814 cases in Wisconsin, 1,238 cases in Minnesota and 123 cases in Iowa.

¶ In Canada, government health researcher Nicholas Ogden found that in the early 1990s there was only one area infested by the ticks. Now, there are tick populations all along the northern border of Minnesota and the northeastern United States.

¶ “Recent studies have suggested that the risk of exposure to Lyme disease is emerging in Canada because the range (of the black-legged tick) is expanding, a process that is predicted to accele rate with climate change,” he wrote in a June 2009 article of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

¶ Melissa Kemperman, an expert in tick-borne diseases with the Minnesota Department of Health, said a changing climate can affect many variables for the ticks. “It’s not just the heat and humidity,” she said.

¶ For example, if birds and mammals move into new territory their ticks could hitch a ride. If that new habitat has plenty of food and shelter _ and doesn’t get too cold in the winter _ the ticks could get established year-round, she said.

¶ Also, humans can change tick habitat. To cite just one example, Neitzel said, when timber companies cut down an older section of a forest the new growth is better for ticks. There are more ground-level shrubs to live in and more mice and deer on which to feed.

¶ Public health officials say the changes mean anyone who goes into the woods needs to be extra vigilant. It also means that more doctors need to be on the lookout for tick-borne diseases in their patients.