Kris Homme, MPH retired engineer turned science writer was interviewed by host of the Anxiety Summit, Trudy Scott, Food Mood Expert and Nutritionist, author of The Antianxiety Food Solution.
Your hidden mercury burden: A likely root cause of the other root causes of anxiety – part 2
- how to get rid of your mercury burden: dental amalgams, mercury in fish
- how a special diet can help
- important supplements to include: antioxidants; essential fatty acids; minerals
- foods and supplements to avoid
- concerns around chelation
- chronic mercury poisoning resources
Here is a snippet from our interview:
I’d really like to emphasize the toxicity of mercury and just how insidious it is and how important prevention is because, once you have toxicity, it can be pretty hard to get rid of. The first thing to do is address your exposures, and one big one is dental amalgams. If you are inclined to think you may have a mercury burden, then consider safe dental amalgam removal. It’s not an emergency, but put it into your five-year plan. You can read about this on IAOMT/ International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology web site. They’re the pro-science dental association that has been working to fund and disseminate the science since 1983. They have developed a safe amalgam removal protocol. You can find a dentist who appreciates the toxicity of mercury and takes every precaution. Your old dentist may have an office full of mercury vapor, so you may want to find a new dentist and discuss the details of the procedure with the new dentist and decide for yourself whether the procedure is adequate. You got into trouble by trusting your old dentist to do what the old dentist thought was right, so it’s a good idea not to trust, but to figure out what you think is the right protocol for amalgam removal
Kris asked the following in the interview:
if you believe that your dental amalgams have affected your health, please report this to the FDA on the FDA MedWatch web site. They have a form to report adverse events, and dental amalgams are considered a medical device, so if you’ll use that form, it may help. In the last go-round against the FDA’s amalgam rule, the 2009 statement by the FDA said that they had received very few adverse event reports on amalgam, so let’s not let them say that again.
Here is the Environmental Working Group January 2014 report we mentioned: US Seafood Advice Flawed on Mercury, Omega-3s
Kris has some additional fish information here – Fish mercury: Some inconvenient truths
Here is short video of Kris talking about genetic susceptibility to mercury toxicity
This was a 2-part interview – here is the link to the blog for part 1
Here are links to the resources Kris shared:
Amalgam Illness by Andrew Cutler
DAMS – Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions
IAOMT/International Association of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
Kern 2012 article on brain pathology in mercury poisoning: Evidence of parallels between mercury intoxication and the brain pathology in autism
Kris’s website MercuryandMore
Kris’ paper published earlier this year: New science challenges old notion that mercury dental amalgam is safe
Here is a link to part 1 of this mercury discussion – chronic mercury poisoning effects at the molecular level, the cellular and organ level, effects on hormone imbalance and neurotransmitters and how to test.
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