-------- Forwarded messages -------- 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. ~~~~~~~ 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. ~~~~~~~ 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. ~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~ 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 ---------------------- Metals and Human Health - An E-mail Discussion Forum Sponsored by CFS Nutrition - "Feed Your Health"TM http://www.cfsn.com . <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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