Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 According to the Centers for Disease Control, 12 percent of women of childbearing age now have mercury levels that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency's safety standard. The 10 percent of women with the highest mercury levels tend to live in coastal areas, especially along the Atlantic coast, and carry body burdens of mercury at 5.9 parts per billion, way over the 3.5 parts per billion limit the EPA cites as a known health threat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mercury is a known neurotoxin, and elevated blood mercury levels may lead to retardation and deformities in children. Chest pains, dyspnea, coughing, hemoptysis, and sometimes interstitial pneumonitis leading to death may follow acute inhalation exposure to mercury vapor. In America, 1 in 6 children born every year have been exposed to mercury levels so high that they are potentially at risk for learning disabilities, motor skill impairment and short-term memory loss.
If Americans adopt the use of even more compact fluorescent light bulbs, this ratio is like to substantially grow. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Meanwhile, a 2007 New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey recently reported that a quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels. Similarly, in 2004, a study conducted jointly by the Environmental Quality Institute at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Greenpeace analyzed women's hair samples (one of several scientific means of testing for heavy metal exposure) and found that 21 percent of women of childbearing age have mercury levels higher than the EPA's safety limit of 1 microgram of mercury per gram of hair. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 The efficacy of EPA and DHA in primary prevention along with the
Methyl mercury levels (pg) EPA & DHA Levels (g)
120 80 40 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
FIGURE 8 Comparison of EPA and DHA content of fish with methyl mercury levels (3-oz serving) [10, 288]. cardioprotective effects of ALA need to be clarified and explored further via randomized clinical trials.
III. DIETARY CARBOHYDRATE
The RDA for glucose is 130g/day. This level of consumption is enough to prevent ketosis and provide enough glucose to the brain for proper function. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| The 10 percent of women with the highest mercury levels tend to live in coastal areas, especially along the Atlantic coast, and carry body burdens of mercury at 5.9 parts per billion, way over the 3.5 parts per billion limit the EPA cites as a known health threat. Meanwhile, a 2007 New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey recently reported that a quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| FIGURE 8 Comparison of EPA and DHA content of fish with methyl mercury levels (3-oz serving) [10, 288]. cardioprotective effects of ALA need to be clarified and explored further via randomized clinical trials.
III. DIETARY CARBOHYDRATE
The RDA for glucose is 130g/day. This level of consumption is enough to prevent ketosis and provide enough glucose to the brain for proper function. The AMDR for carbohydrate is 45-65% of total energy, with no more than 25% of total energy coming from added sugar [12]. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 The CDC acknowledges the value of hair mercury levels as a maternal and infant marker for exposure to neurotoxic methyl mercury from fish. One caveat, however, is that hair is vulnerable to external elemental contamination by means of certain shampoos, bleaches, dyes, and curing or straightening treatments. So a first step in the interpretation of a hair element report is to rule out sources of external contamination.
Liver The body continually attempts to eliminate chemical toxins in the liver. |
| Because mercury is one of those toxins that hide in fatty tissues, it buries itself deeply within your organs and tissues—including your brain, heart muscles, nerve endings, and bones—and it can be difficult to gauge your mercury levels through generic blood and urine tests. MercOut has designed a program for bringing mercury out to measure it, and then employs special compounds with vitamins, minerals, and herbs for effective removal. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| To measure how much mercury exists in our day-to-day environment, researchers tested mercury levels in fish, birds, and mammals across remote areas of New England and found that even animals far from industrialized cities carry disturbingly high amounts of mercury in their bodies, mercury that could be specifically traced back to power plants thousands of miles away in the Midwest. |
| Similarly, in 2004, a study conducted jointly by the Environmental Quality Institute at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Greenpeace analyzed women's hair samples (one of several scientific means of testing for heavy metal exposure) and found that 21 percent of women of childbearing age have mercury levels higher than the EPA's safety limit of 1 microgram of mercury per gram of hair.
This is no small thing: researchers know that mercury can cross the placenta and affect the developing brain of the fetus. Mercury, like lead, is a potent neurotoxin. |
Andreas Moritz
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 It is noteworthy to point out that patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Alzheimer's disease have up to ten times the normal mercury levels in their brains. Post-mortem studies show that the mercury level in some organs is directly proportional to the number of amalgam fillings in a diseased person.
The most vulnerable of all to mercury poisoning seems to be the developing fetus in pregnant women. A fetus accumulates more mercury than even the mother does, and in amounts directly proportional to the number of her amalgam fillings. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Yet when the child was tested, he had extremely high mercury levels. The rest of the family was tested as well. They, too, were poisoned, albeit less severely.
What, then, was the source of their toxic exposure? The answer lay in the seemingly innocuous house paint. As it turns out, it contained excessive amounts of an approved chemical additive intended to prevent mildew. That additive is called phenyl mercuric acetate, a form of mercury not previously associated with human illness. Nonetheless, enough mercury had vaporized from the paint to cause harm. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Measurement of mercury levels in concentrated over-the-counter fish oil preparations: Is fish oil healthier than fish? Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 127, 1603-1605.
127. Yu-Poth, S., Zhao, G., Etherton, T., Naglak, M., Jonnala-gadda, S., and Kris-Etherton, P. M. (1999). Effects of the National Cholesterol Education Program's Step I and Step II dietary intervention programs on cardiovascular disease risk factors: A meta-analysis. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 69, 632-646.
128. DeFronzo, R. A., and Ferrannini, E. (1991). Insulin resistance. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Blue marlin caught in the Gulf of Mexico contain up to 8 times higher mercury levels (over 12 parts per million) than the maximum the EPA allows! "The United States EPA and Florida Department of Health guidelines for fish consumption indicate that any specimen with a mercury level [greater than] 1.5 ppm in their muscle tissue should not be consumed in any amount."10
Organic mercury is usually found in fish and other aquatic organisms but can also be detected in produce, livestock, processed grains, and dairy products. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Mercury levels can increase CVD risk and were not controlled for in the analysis.
There have been three large secondary prevention intervention studies where patients with CHD were given dietary advice to consume at least two servings of fatty fish a week (20CMKX) grams of fish) or given supplemental fish oil capsules (850 mg EPA and DHA and 1800mg EPA). These interventions resulted in a 21-29% reduction in all-cause mortality [108], 45% reduction in sudden death from MI [108, 109], and 19% reduction in all coronary events [110]. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The DEP sent a specialist to Bridges' home who found that the mercury from one broken CFL created mercury levels in the child's bedroom that were greater than six times the state's "safe" level for mercury contamination. The specialist advised Bridges to engage an environmental cleanup firm; the firm gave her an estimate of $2,000 to clean up the broken CFL.
The child's bedroom has been sealed off while Bridges attempts to raise the money for cleanup. According to media reports, Bridges' homeowner's insurance refuses to cover the cleanup because mercury is a known hazardous material. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The mean level for women in this survey was ten times that of mercury levels found in a recent population survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some children tested were found to have mercury levels greater than forty times the national mean. In another study of sixty-nine subjects conducted at the Harvard Medical School, eleven were found to have blood mercury concentrations greater than 15 micrograms per liter. The EPA and the National Academy of Sciences recommend keeping the whole blood mercury level less than 5 micrograms per liter. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In Greenland, for goodness' sake, 16 percent of the population's blood mercury levels exceed the levels that could have toxic effects on people.
No one—I hope —denies that mercury is a powerful toxin and damaging to the brain. It impairs neurological function. And yes, there's a good chance it's in your fish. The questions are "how much?" and "does it really matter?" In 2004, two federal agencies that have traditionally disagreed about how much contaminated fish is "too much" were charged with issuing a joint warning advisory. Not surprisingly, the "compromise" position pleased few people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In America, 1 in 6 children born every year have been exposed to mercury levels so high that they are potentially at risk for learning disabilities, motor skill impairment and short-term memory loss.
If Americans adopt the use of even more compact fluorescent light bulbs, this ratio is like to substantially grow. Breaking one mercury light bulb in your home can contaminate your home to such a degree that hazardous materials experts are needed to remove the mercury. (At great cost, too. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Christopher Lam, chair at the department of chemical pathology at Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital, examined her skin whitening cream and found mercury levels 65,000 times higher than amounts allowed in the US. Follow-up product tests conducted by Lam found mercury in eight of 38 skin whitening creams made in China and Taiwan. Some of the products were labeled "mercury free. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| In a study conducted in San Francisco and published in Environmental Health Perspectives in April 2003, involving 123 subjects who consumed thirty different types of fish, frequent consumption of swordfish had the highest correlation with blood mercury levels exceeding the maximum recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Academy of Sciences.
The mean level for women in this survey was ten times that of mercury levels found in a recent population survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
KC Craichy
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 Avoid farm-raised fish, such as catfish or salmon, and other fish with high mercury levels, such as tuna.
Avoid hydrogenated oil found in commercially prepared baked goods, margarines, snacks, and processed foods.
Minimize all sugars (candy, cookies, cakes, and syrups) and chips. www. superhealth7. |
Patrick Holford
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 Researchers from the University of Basle, Switzerland, have also found high blood mercury levels, more than double those of the control groups, in AD patients, with early-onset AD patients having the highest mercury levels of all.42 Trace amounts of mercury can cause the type of damage to nerves that is characteristic of AD, according to recent research at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, strongly suggesting that the small amounts we are exposed to, for example, from amalgam fillings, may be contributing to memory loss. |
KC Craichy
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| A recent report by the Research Institute of Public Health in Finland shows a significant increase in heart disease in men with elevated mercury levels.35 Nearly all Americans are now known to harbor cancer-causing pesticides, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), and dioxins, not to mention toxic heavy metals, such as cadmium, lead, and mercury, in their fat cells. PCBs, although banned in the U.S. for decades, are still found prevalently in our environment, particularly in farm-raised salmon. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
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 Maternal mercury levels were highest in the kidneys, liver, g.i. tract, and thyroid gland at 16 days. At the same time sheep fetal levels were highest in pituitary gland, liver, kidneys, and placenta. By the 33rd day the mercury levels in the fetal tissues were higher than in the mother. At 73 days the mercury levels in the mother's tissues had continued to rise. These researchers felt this study showed that dental amalgam was probably the major source for human mercury exposure.
When mothers realize that their fillings can injure their baby's brains and that low I.Q. |
Patrick Holford
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| Researchers from the University of Basle, Switzerland, have also found high blood mercury levels, more than double those of the control groups, in AD patients, with early-onset AD patients having the highest mercury levels of all.42 Trace amounts of mercury can cause the type of damage to nerves that is characteristic of AD, according to recent research at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, strongly suggesting that the small amounts we are exposed to, for example, from amalgam fillings, may be contributing to memory loss. |
KC Craichy
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| EAT FISH [BUT ONLY FISH CERTIFIED TO BE FREE OF MERCURY]
Testing shows that unsafe mercury levels and other pollutants contaminate most fish, including farm-raised fish.29 Therefore, you may want to minimize your fish intake and take an antioxidant protected fish oil such as Living Fuel's Omega-3&E. If you choose to eat fish, the fish with higher levels of the essential fats EPA and DHA include Pacific salmon, summer flounder, haddock, anchovies, and sardines. Avoid commercial farm-raised fish, as they are fed pollutants and are virtually devoid of omega-3 EPA/DHA essential fats. |
Alex Steffen
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 Some of the undeniably human-made damage is less easy to spot: a fourteen-fold increase in the mercury levels of polar bears tested in Greenland over the past thirty years is one example. The poles may be incredibly remote, but they are far from untouched.
Above: Researchers say that warming temperatures in polar regions may be the cause of declining health among polar bear populations. Rising spring temperatures have led to earlier breakup of ice, leaving bears with less time to hunt for food. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 When we measured his blood for mercury levels, we indeed discovered Jerry had the highest levels of anyone we'd ever tested. We went forward with our treatment (which required intensive mercury-elimination therapy). Within six months, Jerry's mercury levels had dropped significantly and his mental functioning had improved.
Jerry and Dorothy were convinced that because Jerry had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he was going be sick for the rest of his life. |
KC Craichy
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| Testing shows that unsafe mercury levels and other pollutants routinely contaminate commercial farm-raised fish, and they are also fed health-destroying pollutants. These fish are also virtually devoid of the vital omega-3 essential fatty acids EPA and DHA. For instance, the farm-raised salmon in your freezer was kept in ocean pens for three years, fattening up on highly concentrated unnatural protein pellets. It was vaccinated and received antibiotics to survive the diseases that are so common in these feedlots. It may have been fed pesticides to repel bloodsucking sea lice. |
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