Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!113!Chris.Brown
From: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: MS/Mercury fillings/sensitivities
Message-ID: <16702@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 91 19:01:41 GMT
Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP
Reply-To: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org
Distribution: misc
Organization: FidoNet node 1:163/113 - Alternet, Ottawa ON
Lines: 64
Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP

Index Number: 12770

There is definitely something to this, but only for some people.  The 
thing that confuses some doctors about these kinds of problems is that 
people are not machines.  Most research published by medical journals, 
and most of the "understanding" of science that doctors have is based on 
the idea that human beings are more or less the same as each other.  They 
think this way about chemical sensitivities, even though they usually 
have a lot of experience with drug sensitivities, and should know that 
unique sensitivities are the norm, rather than the exception.  Everyone 
, at least almost everyone, has sensitivites to some substances, whether 
the problem produces only mild discomfort, or a real and severe 
disability.  The problem with a lot of discussion on this dtopic is that 
medical associations, such as the American Dental Association, are given 
scientific credibility, when usually their prime motivation is the 
promotion of the interests of their members.  The information regarding 
mercury outgassing fromdental fillings is decades old, just like the 
information about aluminum affecting people's health in certain 
circumstances.  The problem people who are affected have is that not 
everyone is affected.  It's sort of like smoking.  Not everyone who 
smokes gets lung cancer.  Some pople get other cancers, and some don't 
get cancer, they get degenerative heart disease, or some other problem. 
There are even a few rare souls who don't seem to be affected by tobbacco 
smoke.  But most studies are based on a statistical analysis that 
obliterates finding any effect if only a small per centage of persons get 
one specific problem as a result of being exposed to either a toxin, or a 
another substance they are individually sensitive too.
Several members of the Allergy and Environmental Health Associatin of 
canada have experienced improvement when their mercury amalgams have been 
removed.  These improvements have often seemed to be a reduction in 
destructive auto-immune attack on organ tissue.  In somecases they are 
poepl who have previously been diagnosed as having MS.  But there is no 
way of determining, amongst people who have chronic health problems, who 
would benefit by avoiding any particular substances, except trial and 
error, and, in some per centage of cases, by some tests which have a 
limited accuracy.  Some poeple who have their amalgams removed do not 
experience an improvement in their chronic health problem.  Some do.  Our 
organization recommends a comprehensive approach to chronic health 
complaints, including internal medicine, neurology, psychology, 
immunology, toxicology (including mercury removal and detoxification of 
metals in the body), and environmental medicine.  Out national health 
department is about to release a report suggesting the same approach to 
chronic health problems, and they have even stated that chemical 
xsensitivities should be ruled out BEFORE extensive psychiatric analysis 
and rtreatemnt is embarked on, which could cover up the symptoms of 
sensitivities.
I personally think a wise consumer checks out all his/her options, and 
does not get tangled in the medical politics that have been so 
destructive for people with epilepsy (possessed by the devil), MS, 
chronic fatigue, post-polio, lower back pain, stress, chemical 
sensitivites, and so on.  Doctors have not demonstrated a high degree of 
professionalism when discussing that which they know very little about. 
health consumers don't demonstrate, usually, as much wisdom when 
considering health options as we do when making other purchases of less 
significance.  
Mercury is a known toxin.  Amalgams release mercury.  Some people will be 
more sensitive than other people.  Symptoms of toxin-related health 
problems are often non-specific, that is, unique to some people.  use 
your own judgement, and be aware that dentists have a vested interest ins 
tating that mercury is no problem.

--
Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!113!Chris.Brown
Internet: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org