Posted by JLx on November 2, 2003, at 11:26:39
In reply to Re: remover of mercury, etc » Wolf Dreamer, posted by Larry Hoover on November 2, 2003, at 7:36:11
>Just this week, I read an article that investigated the health of a particular Inuit community in Canada. The population has adopted many of Western society's worst behaviours, including smoking, alcohol abuse, junk food, sedentary behaviour, and so on. At the same time, this population was exposed to a huge toxin burden, because they are at the top of the Arctic food chain. Similar populations had huge problems with coronary heart disease, and mercury toxicity from natural foods. They wanted to find out how bad this particular population was doing. Surprise! Surprise! No evidence of coronary heart disease. Low blood cholesterol. Low triglycerides. Better than the average for all Canadians, in fact. They said to themselves "We've got to figure out why!" And, they did. The answer was muktuk, beluga whale skin, a local delicacy. It contains huge amounts of selenium. When people from this group were hospitalized, they quickly developed all the signs of mercury toxicity. The reason is that the half-life of mercury in the blood is three months, whereas the half-life of selenium is one day. By day three, the mercury began to do its dirty work. The treatment? They had some muktuk shipped to the hospital, and the mercury poisoning immediately reversed itself.
Fascinating and heartening to see such a dramatic and clear example. Is there any reason why the supplementation form of selenium wouldn't be as effective? I have amalgam fillings and worse yet as I understand it, also a gold crown. I've just started taking 200 mg/day of selenium.
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