About April of this year, my 83 year old mother was informed she had high mercury levels. She is in very good health even travels abroad alone. She was ordered by her physician to stop eating fish. This was difficult because her staple diet was a canned tuna at lunch and fresh salmon at dinner. She certainly had a lot of variety but these were her staples.
This woman follows the doctors orders. She stayed away from fish and began to lose a lot of weight. She felt it was because she was not getting her daily Omega3 but her doctor did not see the need to do anything. Even something as simple like adding flax seed to her morning porridge (another staple) so she felt she was compensating for that loss. I had other opinions and ways to reduce mercury levels but she followed her doctors order and stayed off fish. Her doctor told her not to worry about the weight loss even though she is clearly underweight now. She just had a blood test and was told that her mercury levels had returned to normal. Does this sound right? ~Norine Norine Twaddell CDBC, CPDT www.dogventures.com
