Detoxing and Amalgam Removal

Dear Garry,

Thanks for including me in this discussion group e-mail blast. I have a quick question regarding mercury detox, actually a couple of quick questions:

1. I have a patient who is detoxing (mercury) and reports a tremendous amount of itchiness. Do you have any ideas or suggestions as to what might help give her some relief from this?

2. What are your latest thoughts regarding the timing of detoxification relative to mercury amalgam removal?

Thanks and keep up the great work!

For the mercury detoxing patients, we will need to really review EVERYTHING we think we know. It is amazing but when I get Dr. Gerhard Schrauzer involved with spreading the word, SELENIUM is, for most patients, the MAIN answer. I know some are going to say, well that is fine, and yes SELENIUM is permanently taking MERCURY out of circulation so that all of the bad things HG does can not happen, BUT it is still left in the body, would it NOT be better to get it out?

Of course, that answer MIGHT be YES but we must look at benefit to risk ratio and throw in COST. It seems that there are healthy people living full active lives as miners where they have 20 PPM of mercury in their brains. Yet they happened to also get adequate selenium and it appears that the selenium has ELIMINATED the toxicity. Of course, this can be attacked and will be and that is the practice of medicine. We are all entitled to our opinions, but the evidence even suggests that the SELENIUM-MERCURY pool is NOT inert and that it is still being eliminated, although slowly.

However, we live in the day and age when, depending on our field of interest, every patient can be proven to also have CHEMICAL OVERLOAD and serious chronic INFECTIONS and, most of the time, significant hypercoagulability, leaky bowel, endocrine abnormalities, nutrient deficiencies, food sensitivities, high stress and relationship difficulties etc.

Now, with all that going on in every patient, and from my own personal experience in owning and operating one of the largest clinical labs in the world devoted exclusively to trace element analysis where I found that the average Japanese had the same Mercury level in HAIR as the average dentist in our country, then where is the truth in what is most important to treat?

We know that the average fish intake in Japan is 3 times that of the U.S so their Mercury is coming from fish, which of course has some good things like OMEGA 3 oils and some other useful nutrients including some selenium. So it appears that the Japanese are the longest living people on earth and somehow we would look crazy to start chasing every one of them to get ALL THE MERCURY OUT! We would not prosper in our practices, since although they have a lot of Mercury on board that is not their primary issue! Of course, we do not want our patients having a BATTERY in their mouth, so yes we will remove, WHEN it fits the overall program for the patient and then I will use LOTS OF DMSA like 500 mg nightly for 120 # patients or more (I developed HEAVY DETOX as the product for this with the correct form of SELENIUM to really BIND MERCURY). I would also have these patients getting 1 cap per 10 # or more of ESSENTIAL DAILY DEFENSE as that has the ORGANIC GARLIC, which supplies Thiol groups for effective HG chelation as well as EDTA, 133 mg per capsule.

If possible they can benefit from IV ascorbic acid, 30-60 GM at least, given within hours of the proposed dental work before or after along with lots of oral BEYOND vitamin C at the same time - 10- 20 GM - 2 1/2 tsp to 5 tsp DURING the IV and then 4 tsp daily for 1- 2 days before and 1 week after the dental work.

I believe, however, that chewing EZ Defense to get sublingual and oral EDTA, 125 mg per wafer of chewing gum, and spit out the gum AFTER the pleasant taste of the Xylitol is gone. Do not talk for 2 minutes while the juice is generated to permit maximum sublingual absorption of the EDTA in this gum. This is a useful protection for patients UNTIL they can afford to arrange for the safe, planned, slow removal of the amalgam fillings, based probably on galvanic readings for optimal protection.

The world's expert informs me that anyone weighing 100# or more is safe to consume 800-mcg daily of Selenium everyday of their life. Those consuming the Multiple in the new Beyond Chelation IMPROVED are receiving 150 mcg in 3 and the suggested dose is 2 packets daily, which is 6 tablets daily giving 300 mcg daily divided as selenomethionine and sodium selenide as these have different functions in the body. Then when you add the HEAVY DETOX you are getting an additional 100mcg of Selenium, 36% from a 50/50 blend of Sodium Selenite and Methyl-selenocysteine, for MAXIMUM selenium binding with Mercury and thus maximum protection for your patients.

Sincerely,
Garry F. Gordon, MD,DO,MD(H)

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