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From: Steve Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "metals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000
Subj: [metals] Re: Alcoholism/Mercury?
TITLE: MERCURY, THE ROOT OF DEPRESSION, ANGER, ANXIETY AND VIOLENCE
SOURCES: Psychological Reports, 1994, 74,67-80, Psychometric
Evidence That Mercury From Silver Dental Fillings May Be An FBI
Factor In Depression, Excessive Anger, Anxiety, by Robert L.
Siblerud, John Motl, Eldon Kienholz ... and Chicago Tribune,
Probing the Violent Mind, Experts Monitor Chemical in Wake of
U.S. Crime Wave, by Ronald Kotulak ... and Mental Illness Hits
Half of Americans, by Brenda C. Coleman, Associated Press.
SEROTONIN
Risks at Low Levels Risks At High Levels
Depression Shyness
Suicide Obsessive compulsion
Impulsive aggression Fearfulness
Alcoholism Lack of self confidence
Sexual deviance Unduly dampened aggression
Explosive rage
ABSTRACT
In a startling recent breakthrough, researchers at the Rocky
Mountain Research Institute, led by Robert L. Siblerud, made the
most profound discovery that amalgam mercury effects the
neurotransmitters' uptake of dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine,
and norepinephrine and provides a biochemical basis for why people
who have amalgam dental fillings experience significantly higher
levels of depression, excessive anger, and anxiety than controls
without amalgams.
Underlying the scientific quest, which has revealed links to
abnormal brain chemistry, is the growing suspicion that dentistry
unwittingly may be feeding the nation's growing epidemic of
depression, anger, anxiety, violence, alcoholism, the need to smoke
and other impulse disorders.
Serotonin is the brain's master impulse modulator for all of our
emotions and drives. It especially keeps aggression in line.
When serotonin levels fall, violence rises, like some long-subdued
monster breaking free of its bonds.
Paralleling the Rocky Mountain study, several other studies have
shown that when serotonin levels decline impulsive aggression is
unleashed.
Normal aggression has a set point, like body temperature, which is
regulated by brain chemicals.
Most people are born with a balance of these chemicals that enables
them to react to events in reasonable ways. But changing that set
point can increase or lower depression, anger, anxiety or violence.
Researchers are learning how this set point can be altered and they
have found that the mechanism for change, and imbalance of
neurotransmitters, is shared by humans and animals and can be
successfully manipulated to increase or decrease violent behavior.
While low serotonin levels increase impulsiveness, normal levels
are associated with clear thinking and social success. One reason
we may mellow with age is that serotonin levels increase.
A low serotonin level also can dry up the wellsprings of life's
happiness, withering a person's interest in his existence and
increasing the risk of depression and suicide.
A growing body of evidence indicates that low levels of serotonin
are implicated in a lack of control, the kind of behavior that
typically manifests itself as irritability, loss of temper and
explosive rage. It is the type of impulsive aggression that is
escalating at an unprecedented pace in the U.S.
According to the FBI, while the U.S. population increased by 40%
from 1960 through 1991, violent crime increased 560%, murders
increased 170%, rapes 520% and aggravated assaults 600%. But the
dramatic statistics tell nothing of what is going on inside the
brain.
Almost half of Americans experience mental illness at some time in
their lives, and almost one-third are afflicted in any one year,
according to a University of Michigan study, published in January's
issue of the Archives of General psychiatry.
In addition, alcoholism, sleeplessness, sexual deviance,
firesetting, obesity and other impulse-control disorders also have
been laid at the doorstep of low serotonin.
Alcohol initially raises serotonin levels so that a person feels
more mellow for a brief time, however, continued drinking
precipitates a drop in serotonin. Several Swedish studies also
suggest that exposure to mercury from amalgams may be linked to
alcoholism, which may explain why some people have reported a
lessening desire to drink following amalgam removal.
A previous study at the Rocky Mountain Institute associated dental
amalgams and smoking. Nicotine increases the levels of dopamine,
serotonin, acetylcholine, epinephrine and norepinephrine which have
highly desirable effects on the brain. Since mercury reduces the
function of neurotransmitters, people will smoke more to relieve
their anxious feelings.
In all these recent studies, the lowering of serotonin, a potent
brain chemical, is the key factor that may trigger depression,
anger anxiety, aggression, violence, alcoholism, a need to smoke,
insomnia, obesity and other impulse disorders.
Mercury from amalgam dental fillings has the capacity to reduce the
function of serotonin and other neurotransmitters and may possibly
be the root cause behind the dramatic statistics quoted by the FBI
on violent criminal behavior and the University of Michigan on
mental illness.
Until now, scientists have been stymied. The possible answer may
lie in the biochemical changes triggered by exposure to mercury
from silver amalgam dental fillings.
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From: Steve Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000
Subj: [metals] Re: Has anyone tried...
The problem is... who are you going to sue? The mercury is being
used by dentistry around the entire world, across multiple
generations, and it is difficult to find even someone in the
general population who does not find the idea of mercury poisoning
from fillings far-fetched. Even if you show them the studies and
facts they refuse to think rationally. That question "why isn't
EVERYONE poisoned" is a strange refusal to think and is idiotic
but a very common response from people.
It is as if modern civilization -- in this one area -- has some
kind of primitive ritual which is harmful but the natives cannot
amend their ways and see the danger in them. It's like the Romans
trying to find someone to sue for their lead poisoning from lead
pots and pans.
The ADA is just an association of dentists. It's a professional
society. Societies have committed heinous crimes against humanity
in the past, but in this case not only dentistry but also the
world's population has difficulty accepting that the poison leaks
from a solid and then accumulates in the body.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000
Subj: [metals] Re: Why are some unaffected by amalgams?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> I was having a conversation with a doctor at a social function,
> and I mentioned my mercury poisoning diagnosis. Being a mainstream
> establishment doc, he was skeptical, of course. But he asked a
> question I could not answer: "Just about everybody has amalgam
> fillings, so why doesn't everyone have these fatigue problems ?"
1) Some people don't process mercury as well as others or are just
more sensitive. Note, mercury is a toxin. It is poisonous to
everyone, but some people are just more sensitive, just like some
people get a sunburn alot easier than others.
2) In the 70's dentists started using amalgams with higher copper
content which some argue allows the mercury to escape faster.
3) Maybe different amalgams from some manufacturers leak faster
than others.
4) Some people say it's generational. If a grandparent had
amalgams, and the parent had them, then the grandchild gets them,
the mercury is passed on and at some point the descendant starts out
with so much that when he/she gets amalgams too, it's too much and
they can't handle it.
5) Some people might be exposed environmentally to other toxins as
well (especially in our toxin filled industrial world), and they
are unable to process all these toxins so the mercury gets stored
vs getting detoxified.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000
Subj: [metals] Re: Why are some unaffected by amalgams?
There is a much longer answer which I don't have time to write at
the moment. The shortest comeback would have been, "Why don't all
smokers get cancer?" When the doctor said, "I don't know," the
next question would have been, "And because you don't know, do you
conclude that smoking does not cause cancer in some people?"
Kip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000
Subj: [metals] Re: Why are some unaffected by amalgams?
Also, the doctor that asked the question "if amalgam illness is
real, how come there aren't more people that have it?" ... Another
answer is... There are a ton of people who have it and don't know
it because they feel bad, and they go to their ignorant family doc
who doesn't know anything, nor does he have an open mind to
learning anything knew once out of med school... and since mercury
isn't in his cookbook of existing medical conditions, he just says
nothing is wrong, or I don't know, or it's all in your head!!!
~~~~~~~
From: "Charles Hobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000
Subj: [metals] RE: Why are some unaffected by amalgams?
You should have asked him back: "Just about everybody has exposure
to the sun, so why doesn't everyone get malignant melanoma?"
It is the very rare disease that has a 100% correlation with some
exposure or risk factor. Most diseases, even the ones that we
think of as strongly correlated with some risk factor, have a low
"relative risk". And furthermore, how do we know that many of the
people with amalgam are not in some way affected, even if they
aren't aware of it? Perhaps many people with amalgam fillings,
even if they don't suffer from any specific illness, would feel
better if they were removed. The unhappy reality is that there is,
as yet, no good data correlating amalgam with specific illnesses.
So we have to rely on anecdotal reports, experience of providers
who take a special interest in mercury toxicity, and theory.
I would advise your doctor read up on his epidemiology.
Charles Hobson MD
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From: Ingrid High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000
Subj: [metals] Re: Why are some unaffected by amalgams?
Dear Kevin,
I think that there are several reasons for this,
The human body has a system for coping with moderate amounts of
mercury as well as the other heavy metals. In some people this
is stronger, in others it is weaker. And it is for most people
not designed to cope with a continuous feed like you get with
amalgam-fillings.
The amount of mercury released does also vary from person to
person. In some people the amalgam-fillings remain shiny as
new which means no corrosion, while in others they corrode
very quickly. The body chemistry varies.
Also medical science is not very good at medical history and
keeping an eye on long-term developments. People as a whole
are more ill, more tired and earlier in the age than they were
50 years ago even. But since everybody follows the same pattern
it is not noticed. It has become normal.
One thing that got me to open my eyes was a film I saw from
happenings in the Norwegian mountains in the early war-years, it
was filmed in the early 1950's. The strenuous mountain skiing
ordinary people did, would hardly be done by even the most
well-trained athletes today.
greetings,
Ingrid High
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