Re: Magnolia

Hi Maggie,

It was a doctor who told me that...he uses Humet-R (fulvic acid, humic acids, minerals). He said it protects against the effects of metal toxicity, not chelate, though I know its promoted as a chelator. He's very knowledgeable doc, seems quite clued up, he's worked in nutritional medicine for 15+ yrs. Also what I learnt from Andy Cutler, a PhD chemist (www.noamalgam.com) is that a chelator should have 2 thiols (sulphur compounds) (so DMSA, DMPS, ALA). He's been researching mercury for over a decade. He's also had great results with autistic kids, and seriously poisoned people for whom nothing else worked. He recovered himself too. I asked him and he said it doesnt chelate. Maybe they're wrong...to me it sounds like there is something in it... but as we know comes to chelation, there are contradictory opinions about everything...cilantro, chlorella etc...some people are fine with them, others get more ill. There are lots of different variables with every individual. I'm sure it does have a lot to do with blocked elimination pathways.

Thanks for offering to send me some, thats really good of you. I dont think I'll risk it though, at least not until I'd looked into it more. If it does move mercury about, then I should probably avoid it! So it actually brought your nephew's lead levels down? Were there changes in his behaviour/health or was it measured through tests eg hair analysis?

No it's not the same over here in terms of in yer face TV health marketing. Everything's much more low-key re marketing health supplements, not that manipulation doenst go on, I'm sure it does. Those guys that you talk about....they obviously havent been through it themselves, are just lazy, greedy but I think that's also partly the down side to individualist free market culture, social values seem to go down the pan. As with the US we have very much a fear based culture around illness with pharma and brainwashed docs at the centre encouraging dependency on them...its much easier for people to go to their doctor and get a drug for 'free' than tackle the underlying issues. We're getting more multi level marketing schemes over here, even what they might be selling is good, they're often expensive and the whole way in which they operate I find really creepy.

Anne