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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://articles.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx</link><description>If you’ve ever questioned just how dangerous mercury is for your brain, this short film from the University of Calgary will put your suspicions to rest. The film shows, in vivid detail, exactly what happens to your brain cells when they’re exposed to</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9290</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:56:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9290</guid><dc:creator>Hathorhetep</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;BP dumps mercury in lake&amp;quot; is the headline on the front page of the Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2007.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The largest and wealthiest oil company in the world is given an exemption from pollution by one state, Indiana.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Great Lakes, including Lake Michigan are international waters. &amp;nbsp;They provide drinking and cleaning water for millions of people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They supposedly put 'only' two POUNDS of mercury into the lake each year. &amp;nbsp;Does anyone believe that they limit themselves to what they report?! &amp;nbsp;A minute amount can cause sickness or possibly death in many creatures, from the fish we eat to the fish they eat, to the microscopic lifeforms dying or mutating because of the exposure to this. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't BP recycle its sludge and toxic elements, investing in recovery of expensive and poisonous substances?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't it sell off its ammonia to industries that use it, instead of dumping it in the water we drink?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why does Indiana compromise the health of millions in order to add 80 new jobs to a pollution giant?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even if 'protecting' a few thousand jobs, how can they damn us all with these poisons?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If it's so safe, why don't they show us their executives laughing and splashing in the lake near the plant that's dumping?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the character of the general played by George C. Scott in &amp;quot;Dr. Strangelove&amp;quot; should have been worried about mercury as well as fluoridation in the water. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9290" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9287</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:04:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9287</guid><dc:creator>curious7</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Remember the scare several years ago concerning the pesticide commonly used on apples? &amp;nbsp;Big chemical companies stepped up the pressure on the FDA to change the warnings put out by FDA as to what safe toxic levels were. &amp;nbsp;Now we are faced with yet another toxin, and one already knows what the FDA will say. &amp;nbsp;Instead of erring on the side of caution, they say we have nothing to worry about, science has not proven there is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When we hear about flouride, mercury, and dioxin, are all played down by the so called FDA, for the protection of the public at large. &amp;nbsp;From whom or what are they trying to protect us from? &amp;nbsp;Oh I get it the FDA is actually trying to protect us from good health. &amp;nbsp;A healthy America, is not a good thing for Big Pharma. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9287" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9286</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:12:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9286</guid><dc:creator>alfalfa</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;What about putting a crown on an already damaged tooth. &amp;nbsp;Removing the amalgum completely makes sense, but what is in the crown itself? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9286" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9285</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:59:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9285</guid><dc:creator>Sandra60</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Oh,btw, Dr. M, love the new format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9285" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9284</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:53:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9284</guid><dc:creator>Sandra60</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;czarowka, now that your teeth are gone, you can remove the other toxins through chlorella and seaweed. &amp;nbsp;KatyB recommends CellPower. &amp;nbsp;Dr. M sells chlorella. &amp;nbsp;Get some, take it and watch yourself improve. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have a question for all of you. &amp;nbsp;Polio vaccine was the last &amp;quot;cure&amp;quot; ever discovered. &amp;nbsp;(That's another topic). &amp;nbsp;I got a shot of it when I was six...almost 60 now. I never got polio. &amp;nbsp;Was there mercury in that, too? &amp;nbsp;In '47, my 6 yr old brother came down with measles. &amp;nbsp;Mom took him and me to the dr and he treated Rich and told Mom the vaccine for measles would prevent it happening to me. &amp;nbsp;It did. &amp;nbsp;This was a long time ago. &amp;nbsp;Did they not use mercury as a preservative back then? &amp;nbsp;I have several amalgam fillings that have been in my mouth since my teens. &amp;nbsp;CAN they be safely removed? &amp;nbsp;Doesn't just the act of taking them out of the teeth release the toxic gas? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add here, I don't say much but I've been readingyour posts for months. &amp;nbsp;Thank you all. &amp;nbsp;Even the pharma reps. &amp;nbsp;I've learned so much. &amp;nbsp;I now question everything that goes into my body, I read labels all the time and have started making my own cats' food. &amp;nbsp;The drug commercials I watch on the tube are now funny because I understand the marketing behind them. &amp;nbsp;They're sad, too, because so many don't know what we have learned. It's getting better, though. &amp;nbsp;Dr. M, Dr. Blaylock, Dr. Ben Kim, Dr. W C Douglas and www.hsibaltimore.com are all helping to educate us. &amp;nbsp;If we listen and learn. &amp;nbsp;Again, thank you all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9284" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9283</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:33:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9283</guid><dc:creator>Bernadette Grabowska-Kirk</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I began to become very very sensitive during the menopause and I suffer from chronic fatigue, foggy brain, concentration problems, memory loss amongst quite a few other things. &amp;nbsp;It was when my teeth also became very loose that I decided to see an acupuncturist who advised me that my body seemed to be trying to remove toxins continually and was very challenged. &amp;nbsp;On his advice I saw a dentist who told me my symptoms were of mercury toxicity and that menopause often highlights anything our body should reject, hence the loose teeth. &amp;nbsp;I had many mercury amalgam fillings plus 5 crowns and the combination of the metals was contributing to toxicity. &amp;nbsp;I had all my teeth removed and slowly my health has improved. &amp;nbsp;But my thought process is still slower, it takes time for things to register whereas before my mind was very sharp. &amp;nbsp;My memory has improved a lot since the teeth were removed and the fatigue is also improving. &amp;nbsp;My symptoms were so bad that I really didn't care if I never woke up again because everything was such an effort. &amp;nbsp;However, I had to see a private dentist and other health advisors as my NHS doctor refused to entertain the notion of mercury poisoning at all. &amp;nbsp;I'd like to know if there are any complementary medicines that I can take to improve my brain function now and remove the mercury from my system. &amp;nbsp; Six months ago, I couldn't even concentrate for long enough to write this comment. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9283" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9282</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:13:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9282</guid><dc:creator>MsLainie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;It sucks that we have to be paranoid just to be healthy in this world. I think I'll just stop eating, drinking, and breathing alltogether. That should cover it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9282" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9281</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:30:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9281</guid><dc:creator>Young Health 4 Life</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Chelating mercury out of the body is crucial and yet I caution you all to do it slowly and make sure you are using a product that encapsulates the mercury while removing it from the body. Some research seems to show that detoxing it too quickly without making sure your avenues in the body through which it is eliminated are able to actually remove it from the body, could cause it to be deposited in the joints, organs, muscles, brain etc. causing more damage!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Take a look at products like NDF or NDF Plus or maybe PCA-RX. Do your own research, Call the companies. Get some answers and work with a holistic health practitioner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9281" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9280</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:07:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9280</guid><dc:creator>HappyDaze</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The difference in my health after having mercury amalgams removed was astonishing! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even more astonishing was to learn from Dr Russell Blaylock (Neurosurgeon) that brain tumours he disected were filled with aspartame! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Seems that too much of the food we eat these days is barely food at all, or laced with &amp;quot;beneficial&amp;quot; additives that someone can make money from! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What about Fluoride? And WAXED fruit? And we wonder why more and more people have &amp;quot;allergies&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I always loved the quote: &amp;quot;In a Supermarket, once you are out of the fresh food section, you are in the NON-FOOD ZONE!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alas now it pays to be suspicious, even in the fresh food section! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn how to grow your own if possible!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9280" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9279</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:03:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9279</guid><dc:creator>capricorn</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;At the end of this interesting article there is a link to a so-called &amp;quot;User-friendly vaccination schedule.&amp;quot; While this &amp;nbsp;vaccination schedule may help to avoid some of the horrendous damage caused by vaccinations, it must be pointed out that because all vaccines are inherently harmful and therefore dangerous, the term &amp;quot;user-friendly vaccine&amp;quot; is quite misleading. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All vaccines contain highly dangerous biological substances as well as neurotoxins which may include mercury and/or &amp;nbsp;aluminium compounds. According to Australian scientist and vaccine researcher Viera Scheibner, &amp;quot;these ingredients are so noxious they should not ever be injected into human beings.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If only people realised that it is a complete waste of time to get their children vaccinated, because so-called &amp;quot;vaccine-preventable disease&amp;quot; are a figment of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment's imagination.Vaccines do not prevent diseases, never have and never will. Graphs based on official statistics of mortality rates from infectous diseases clearly show that most (over 80 percent) of the remarkable decline in the number of deaths from infectious diseases over the past century occurred BEFORE vaccinations were intorduced, and that their introduction did not make the slightest bit of difference: the decline simply continued as if nothing had happened! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dr. A Kalokerinos MD, holder of the 'Australian Medal of Merit for outstanding scientific research' was interviewed by the editor of the 'International Vaccination Newsletter' Dr K Gaublomme MD in 1995. He said: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When I looked further into the vaccination issue, I found that this whole vaccine business was indeed a gigantic hoax. Most doctors believe that vaccines are useful, but when one looks at the proper statistics one finds that this is not so.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vaccinations should be avoided like the plague because they ARE today's plague! Also, unvaccinated children are generally much healthier, happier and more intellgent than vaccinated children. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9279" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9278</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:00:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9278</guid><dc:creator>capricorn</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;At the end of this interesting article there is a link to a so-called &amp;quot;User-friendly vaccination schedule.&amp;quot; While this &amp;nbsp;vaccination schedule may help to avoid some of the horrendous damage caused by vaccinations, it must be pointed out that because all vaccines are inherently harmful and therefore dangerous, the term &amp;quot;user-friendly vaccine&amp;quot; is quite misleading. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All vaccines contain highly dangerous biological substances as well as neurotoxins which may include mercury and/or &amp;nbsp;aluminium compounds. According to Australian scientist and vaccine researcher Viera Scheibner, &amp;quot;these ingredients are so noxious they should not ever be injected into human beings.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If only people realised that it is a complete waste of time to get their children vaccinated, because so-called &amp;quot;vaccine-preventable disease&amp;quot; are a figment of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment's imagination.Vaccines do not prevent diseases, never have and never will. Graphs based on official statistics of mortality rates from infectous diseases clearly show that most (over 80 percent) of the remarkable decline in the number of deaths from infectious diseases over the past century occurred BEFORE vaccinations were intorduced, and that their introduction did not make the slightest bit of difference: the decline simply continued as if nothing had happened! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dr. A Kalokerinos MD, holder of the 'Australian Medal of Merit for outstanding scientific research' was interviewed by the editor of the 'International Vaccination Newsletter' Dr K Gaublomme MD in 1995. He said: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When I looked further into the vaccination issue, I found that this whole vaccine business was indeed a gigantic hoax. Most doctors believe that vaccines are useful, but when one looks at the proper statistics one finds that this is not so.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vaccinations should be avoided like the plague because they ARE today's plague! Also, unvaccinated children are generally much healthier, happier and more intellgent than vaccinated children. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9278" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9275</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:49:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9275</guid><dc:creator>kare4u</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Ok so now I am really nervous. I do suffer from some brain fog, short and long term memory loss, etc. I have a few amalgram fillings &amp;nbsp;in my mouth. I had all my childhood shots plus some since my father was in the military. I also do eat wild fish. Can you please give me suggestions on what I should do? I am so nervous all the time about all the amalgrams in my mouth. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9275" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9274</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:56:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9274</guid><dc:creator>minnie-me</dc:creator><description>Oh, but the vaccine lovers stand by the "absolute fact" that mercury does not cause autism or other neurological damage.&amp;nbsp;They insist that no study supports a causal relationship. Meanwhile, these pro-mercury people continue to discredit anyone who dares to prove otherwise. They try to assure parents that the mercury is out of all childhood vaccines, which is a lie. Then, they push flu shots on pregnant women and babies from 6 months old...which still contain the same amount of thimerosal as before! Then they tell us that autism&amp;nbsp;can't be caused by&amp;nbsp;mercury, because&amp;nbsp;the numbers are&amp;nbsp;still on the rise despite the fact that vaccines no longer contain it???? WHAT????&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;Mercury is toxic and injecting it into babies is an outright&amp;nbsp;crime!!!!&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9274" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9273</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:34:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9273</guid><dc:creator>goldeneagle</dc:creator><description>Is it not amazing that all of the "advances" to lessen the burdens of mankind are now coming back to "over burden" the next generations.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I know in the community I live, Mercury is a by product that is released into the air by the electric power plants.&amp;nbsp; The coal burning plants, through the process of producing energy, creates poisons that weaken society physically.&amp;nbsp; We spend less time in phyical activity,&amp;nbsp; using machines to washing clothes and dishes, vacuuming instead of &amp;nbsp;manually sweeping floors and other tasks because of the energy produced by power plants.&amp;nbsp;However, we are killing ourselves by lack of physical activity and toxins that this "advance" makes in our busy lives.&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9273" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: How Mercury Damages Your Brain</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/17/how-mercury-damages-your-brain.aspx#9272</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:16:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:9272</guid><dc:creator>Russ Bianchi</dc:creator><description>Mercury &amp;amp; Lead contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire, and they apparently will contribute to the American Empire's down fall, if not corrected.&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9272" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>