Re: 12 POINTS on MERCURY TOXICITY

Harlygirl, let's slow down. I'm sure you're a very nice person, and I know you have given a great deal of constructive advice on Curezone, and helped a lot of people here. You also know much more overall about Amalgam removal and the various types of fillings and so forth than I do.

I'll add also that I've yet to hear anything negative about Dr. Morales. I would have used him if I was near that part of the world.

The problem is that you manage a forum specifically on Amalgam removal, and are looked to as an authority on this topic. As part of this, you are here giving advice on chelation, and it's apparent that you don't know enough about it.

While I follow Cutler protocol, I believe that most or all of my critical comments towards what you have written are things that many other authorities on this would have agreed with. You don't have to agree with Cutler, but you should recognize what treatments that other authorities, including ones that you otherwise appear to agree with such as Huggins, consider to be dangerous. Above all else, do no harm.

Here, for example, you are criticizing redistribution effects themselves. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I think Huggins for one would strongly disagree. In fact, I think anyone who rightly pointed out how dangerous DMPS injections or DMSA challenge tests are would strongly disagree. If you don't consider redistribution to be a hazard, I'm not sure how you would account for the really negative side-effects of something like DMPS injections.

As for porphyrin tests and the woman in question, she already noted that her brother had been taking valproic acid, for one. And I have yet to see any evidence that these tests give a good indication of mercury in the brain and central nervous system, which would be of the most importance to somebody with MS. Porphyrin tests and so forth can be valuable, but like many or most medical tests, they don't test precisely what you want to know, but serve as indicators of broader disfunctions that can hopefully be pinpointed with some reliability. This is the lynchpin of my earlier comments where I noted that there is no really good test for mercury toxicity.

If somebody has lupus, MS, hypothyroidism or some other officially incurable disease that has been associated with mercury toxicity at some point, and that person also has amalgams, then they should at be removed via a skilled dentist using the protocol from Huggins or the IAOMT: http://iaomt.org/ regardless of what the tests show, because the tests can not conclusively rule out mercury toxicity in the brain.

The main real-world obstacle for most people getting their Amalgams removed is money. Doing one or more of the tests you mentioned beforehand in these cases usually just uses up funds that could have gone to Amalgam removal.

If you have the extra funds, then you can go for it. Or if you are in fear of acute mercury toxicity, as opposed to chronic mercury toxicity, which is what is most common amongst amalgam patients. Or if your doctor recommends these tests for some other reason.