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For me, the hand’s down winner is Non GMO foods.  That is, Non GMO foods.  In case you are wondering what GMO stands for, it’s “Genetically Modified Organisms”.

We are talking about what foods we should and shouldn’t eat.  My personal sense about this is that it is madness to be fooling around with modifying organisms.  Thus, it is madness to be eating unnatural foods.

Is GMO tinkering, tantamount to playing God with our food? Perhaps these things ought not be done.  With limited understanding, we tinker with genetics, not knowing whether we shall reap a whirlwind of problems from it.

Anyway, if you too think it is common sense to avoid genetically modified foods, here is a link to some of the common non-GMO (the good foods) and the GMO (the bad foods)…

GMO vs. Non GMO Foods

Hope this is a helpful resource for you.  I am going to print it out and take it to some friends today.

All the best to you.

Elemental Mercury, Hg, or simply, Mercury is most commonly used in thermometers, although such use is tapering off.

Personal note: I had a mouthful of amalgam fillings which are typically about 50% elemental mercury when they are new. When I suggested to a friend, an expert in the sciences, that my fillings may have poisoned me, he was skeptical to put it mildly.

However, when he discovered that I had some bacterial activity in an amalgam filled tooth, he mentioned that the bacteria could be methylating the mercury.

Since then, of course, we have discovered that mercury is constantly methylating off of these amalgam fillings at all hours of the day and night.

For visual evidence of that fact, go to www.iaomt.org and watch the video.

Inorganic Mercury Compounds or Forms are as follows:

HgS Mercuric Sulfide

HgO Mercuric Oxide

HgCl2 Mercuric Chloride

Organic Mercury (formed when combined with Carbon and other elements)…

Methylmercury (common) - an organic compound having known neurological toxicity effects tending to biomagnify up the food chain. A neurotoxin in humans.

DiMethylmercury is the same as methylmercury, but contains two methyl radicals (CH3)2 and is one of the strongest known neurotoxins .

Phenylmercuric acetate

Methylmercuric acetate

Let’s talk about Monomethylmercury as their seems to be evidence indicating that this particular form of Mercury is up to 1000 times more toxic than elemental mercury (to humans). For whatever reason, MeHg somehow seems to target the Advanced Central Nervous System (CNS).

The monomethylmercury form is known to participate in biochemical reactions which is one reason it is such a terrible hazard to humans.

Somehow, mercury is able to pass through and end up accumulating in the brain.

When we ingest mercury laden fish, some of the ingested MeHg passes through the intestines and into the bloodstream. From there it just gets more complicated, but some of it can and does go into the brain.

Suffice it to say, from my simple minded perspective, you need to have a treatment plan employing a mercury removing modality capable of passing the blood-brain barrier.

How else will you succeed at getting the mercury out of your brain?

Put don’t take my word, for it, find a Doctor that knows what he is doing and discuss your options with him.

There is a great video that has been well circulated showing the effects of mercury upon brain neurons. Of course, non human brain neurons were used in this experiment performed at the University of Calgary. Here is the link…

http://commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/

Bibliography:

Mercury Toxicity in the Human Brain

Scientific Facts on Mercury

Also used Google Define:(insert word) for some definitions which found some definitions at www.wikipedia.org.

What happens to the mercury poisoned chronically ill person and what are their nutrition requirements?

On the one hand, these are both great questions. I can only respond with what my own experience has been. Thus, please note this caveat.

My experience comes from having been chronically ill from mercury poisoning and then subsequently acutely ill from all the complications that go along with such long term poisoning.

My physiology got so bad that, in truth, I felt there was virtually nothing left of me. At my worst, I could still think, but barely. Making decisions became difficult in the extreme. Why? My physiology was just that messed up due primarily to malabsorption/gut problems.

You are what you eat and what you absorb. You aren’t what you don’t eat nor what you don’t absorb.

You see, I went 40 days without successfully digesting a cracker.

Once I was properly diagnosed as having chronic mercury poisoning of the gut, which took three years and the introduction to a Doctor that knew the cause of all my trouble, I was put on a nutrition regimen that was specific to my needs.

One thing I had to do was take about 2 grams of Hydrochloric Acid with each meal. If I didn’t do that, I didn’t digest my meal, pure and simple.
Following are some of the other nutrition supplements that I took:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B
• Vitamin C was basically intolerable to my system, so I avoided it like the plaque for a while. Now I take a little.
• Multi-Vitamin and Multi-Mineral Supplement from a particularly good source.
• SSKI (or Potassium Iodide)
• B12 daily

Trust me, their were other nutrition supplements (vitamins) that I took, but without digging through my file, I don’t recall them all.

The main point of all this is to mention that if I didn’t take one of the things that the exceptionally knowledgeable Doctor advised me to, I suffered ill consequences. In other words, these things were not optional for me.

The even bigger main point is that your physiology may require some of these things or more or different nutrition supplementation to get by (and hopefully thrive).

When you look for a Doctor that can help you deal with chronic illness, especially illness that has turned acute, find one that knows physiology like the back of his hand. It will make all the difference. At least it has for me in my pathway to wellness.

Mercury is a neurotoxin.

So what does that mean exactly? It means that if you have it in your system, it can/will affect your nerves/nervous system…adversely.

Doesn’t sound like fun does it? Folks are stressed out already these days even without a neurotoxin in their system.

So what might be the symptomatic effects of mercury on your nervous system? Well, I’m not a Doctor, but I have read about these effects and they include: tremors, personality changes, nervousness and dementia.

Not my idea of a good time.

If you’ve experienced these symptoms or know someone who has, you may want to suggest mercury as a possible culprit to consider.

Problems always have a cause. The trick is figuring out what that cause is.

Mercury is often overlooked as a culprit because of the “professional” use and thus endorsement of mercury in fillings. Nevertheless, many people have had these symptoms abate upon the removal of these fillings and for others the taking of an additional step cleared the problem.

That step is chelation.

I’ve written quite a bit about chelation (getting out heavy metals, etc.) and about mercury in earlier posts. If you are interested in reading more on these subjects, please know that those posts are available to you.

If you have a specific question about Mercury Poisoning, please leave it here…

http://app.sgizmo.com/surveybuilder/preview_survey.php?id=46782

The first 20 people to leave a question for me there, will receive the first chapter of my mercury book entitled: “Mercury Poisoning: A Story of Survival”. And thanks for participating!

Pleasant topic, no doubt.

But the fact is, there are lots of dear people that are struggling desperately with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s Disease and Colitis.

Am I positing that these are all the same thing. Not exactly.  I’m not saying they’re not either.  Truthfully, I am not sure one way or the other.   I am sure that most Doctor’s don’t know the cause of any of them.  These terms are convenient labels for a set of symptoms for which conventional medicine knows no cause.  They only know medications that temper some of the symptoms.  Sometimes at great risk to the entire body.

Now let’s see. What would be a source of mercury that could end up being utilized in our intestinal wall?

Fish? Amalgam Fillings (which constantly methylate? Given that both sources go primarily into your digestive tract, they are certainly two potential significant sources of mercury that your body might unwittingly use in constructing your gut wall.

How much research is there to back this up? Frankly, I don’t know. But I do like following a logical path. If you ingest a substance, isn’t it highly probable that your body will try to utilize it? Sure thing! Now shouldn’t your body know better than to use mercury to construct body parts? Well yes, but from the reading I have done, some forms of mercury can trick your body into thinking it is usable where it is in fact not healthful.

Mercury interferes with the enzymatic processes of digestion. So if your gut has a lot of mercury in the lining, how well do you think you will digest your food?

“Not well” is my conclusion.

We are tailoring a book on credit and finance to a particular group of people.

If you’d like to help me create a book that answers your questions about credit and finance, please post your question(s) here…

Post Credit Question

To show my appreciation, after the results are tabulated, I’ll give you the first chapter of our book, available at www.crimsonbooks.com/wealth.htm.

Thank you kindly,

Thomas

It seems I can’t get away from some strange sounding titles.

From my previous post on “Mercury Induced Anhydrosis“, you know that for several years I was unable to sweat at all. Obviously, that is a dangerous proposition if you live in a sunny clime.

I began sweating in June of last year, much to my surprise, fear and then delight. Yes, those were indeed my emotions. Since then, my body has had the opportunity to sweat for short periods of time.

We thought it was time to begin sauna treatment to utilize another method of detoxification - a good one at that…

• Day one - did 15 minutes at level 3 of a portable sauna.
• Day two - did 20 minutes at level 3.
• Day three - did 25 minutes at level 3.

Didn’t really sweat much on any one of the days, but by the third day, it seemed that my body had enough as I had a pretty tough IBS-type situation.

Fortunately, we caught it early enough. If you’ve read my posts from early on, you know that we’ve found that Oregano Tea will rout an IBS bout quickly (at least for me it does). Without it, I’d have to get I.V.’s to rehydrate. I still have to replace my electrolytes, but that is expected, especially after sitting in a sauna.

As best I can tell, it was the raising of my internal temperature and a lingering problem with anhydrosis that caused the internal flushing. However, it could also be that some toxins were released into my system which thus caused or exacerbated the flushing reaction.

In any case, thought it was interesting enough to post.

I am hoping that very few folks go through this sort of thing on their way to wellness.

But I’ve read enough to know that folks recovering from mercury poisoning go through all sorts of very difficult problems even along the path to wellness.

G’day,

You *might* be wondering what ‘credit’ has to do with mercury poisoning? Well, that is a story for another day.

In the meantime, I’m hoping you are doing well and you might be willing to help me out with a little credit ‘project’.

You see, the fact is, my company has published a book that deals with credit as a primary focus of the book.

And while we know our book answers many common questions people have about credit, we’d like it to answer even more of those questions.

The name of the book, in case you are curious, is “America, America”.

The questions about credit that are answered in our book are:

How to get credit?

How to keep credit?

How to repair credit? If you’ve lost it.

Here is a link to our website on a page where you can read more about it and purchase it if you can use the honest help right now…

www.crimsonbooks.com/wealth.htm

But what I really need help with is the following…

Please go to the following link where you can give me feedback about your most important question relating to credit. That will help me immeasurably with the book and to show my appreciation, after the survey is over, we will send you the first chapter of America, America. We will also answer your specific question.

Here is the link…

Post Credit Question

First of all, let me define anhydrosis for the non-medical readers. Simply put, anhydrosis is the inability to sweat.

Thus by my title, I am positing that mercury in your body can be a cause of anhydrosis.

This is a given where I am concerned. Thus, I am not trying to prove anything.

However, as many readers of www.healthmattersblog.com are aware, I have mercury poisoning. From June of 2002, until June of 2007, I was unable to sweat more than for just a fraction of a second. From 2005 until now, I have been doing some level or another of mercury chelating (to get the mercury out of my system). Thus, at some point, my body was able to begin sweating normally again.

Most healthy folks don’t like the effects of sweating. But I can tell you, I am thrilled with having the ability to sweat restored.

Dogs are air cooled.  That’s why they pant like crazy when it’s hot.

People are water cooled.  That’s why they sweat when the temperature rises.

Without the ability to sweat, my internal temperature would soar and I would go limp, like a rag doll in July.

Now, I can tolerate some heat. I don’t push it yet, but someday soon, I will.

That’s been my experience with anhydrosis. My ability to sweat has been restored as I have removed mercury from my body through chelation (DMSA and ALA primarily).

I’d be interested to hear what other people’s experiences with anhydrosis have been.

There are so many angles through which we could choose to view wealth.

I’d like to consider the angle that says, how do improve my credit?

What if I’m in debt?

Right.

My good friend, Jarrod Williamson, PhD, has written a book that deals with several credit related subjects. How to obtain credit, how to maintain good credit and how to get restore good credit if you damage it.

The book is entitled “America, America - How To Avoid The Pitfalls“.

This straightforward book written by Dr. Jarrod Williamson gets to the bottom of a lot of financial and credit related subjects you might know something about, but not to the level of detail that he gives. Jarrod is a very fact oriented person and doesn’t use a lot of fluff, like other popular writers. “America, America” is about 60 letter sized sheets or 105 in half size sheets. It is packed with useful information.

My wife edited the book and stated matter of factly, I couldn’t put it down.

I sold several (seven) copies to a local bookstore the day after the store manager’s wife read the book in one night! Apparently, she considered it more important to read the book than do anything else that evening.

Please click the link to America, America, where you can read more about it and order a digital copy through a secure link. We’d like to have feedback from you and hear about which part of the book helped you the most.