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Dow Chemical, Aramco Finalize Venture

By Anees Al Qudaihi and Jeffrey Ball

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and Dow Chemical Co. cemented one of the largest deals among a recent wave of Western corporate investments in the Middle East.

The Saudi state-run company, known as Aramco and the world’s largest oil company by production, and Dow signed a long-awaited agreement on developing a large-scale petrochemicals complex in eastern Saudi Arabia. Aramco and Dow didn’t release details on the project’s cost, but industry estimates have put the figure as high as $22 billion, more than double earlier projections.

Middle Eastern and international companies, including Chevron Corp. of the U.S. and Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical Co., …

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Saudi Aramco and Dow Announce the Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding to Develop One of the Largest Grassroots Plastics and Chemicals Production Complexes in the World

May 12, 2007 6:00 a.m.

The project will facilitate the development of downstream conversion industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Saudi Aramco, a fully-integrated, global petroleum enterprise and the world’s leading energy supplier, and The Dow Chemical Company, the world’s leading science and technology company, providing innovative chemical, plastic and agricultural products and services to consumers around the globe, today announced the signing of a detailed Memorandum of Understanding regarding the construction, ownership and operation of a world-scale chemicals and plastics production complex in Saudi Arabia, named the Ras Tanura Integrated Project. The parties will now enter the final negotiation phase for the formation of a joint venture company to build, own and operate the facility to be located near Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The Ras Tanura petrochemical joint venture will be operationally integrated with Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura Refinery complex and its Ju’aymah gas processing plant, two of the largest facilities of their kind in the world. The latter two facilities will supply feedstock to the joint venture and continue to be owned and operated by Saudi Aramco.

The proposed JV partnership will bring together the world’s largest oil company with the world’s leading chemicals and plastics producer and marketer. The Ras Tanura integrated complex will produce an extensive and diversified slate of plastics and chemicals and introduce new value chains and performance products to the Kingdom. When fully operational, the new complex will be one of the largest grassroots plastics and chemicals production facilities in the world and will be ideally positioned to serve major world markets.

“This project will leverage our largest refining asset and enhance its profitability by capitalizing on the value addition opportunities and synergies existing between refining and petrochemicals,” said Saudi Aramco President & CEO Abdallah S. Jum’ah. “The wide range of chemical materials and plastics to be produced by the joint venture will help spawn other downstream chemical conversion industries, thus strengthening the role of the chemical sector as a key enabler of many other future investments in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” Jum’ah added. “The downstream industries to be fed by the materials to be manufactured by the joint venture will assist in further expanding the national economic base while promoting economic diversification and capitalizing on the vast job creation potential of these industries.”

“We are extremely pleased to be selected by Saudi Aramco as their joint venture partner to help build the Ras Tanura petrochemical complex. This joint venture will further strengthen Dow’s presence in the Middle East and add to our already vast capabilities worldwide,” said Dow Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris. “Furthermore, the complex will have a long-term, secure and reliable feedstock position with integration to the adjacent refinery and gas processing plant, while positioning the new enterprise to grow its product sales.”

The Ras Tanura petrochemical complex will produce a broad range of both basic and performance products, including ethylene, propylene, aromatic and chlorine derivatives. Initially, the project scope includes world-scale production units for polyethylene, ethylene oxide and glycol, propylene oxide and glycol, chlor-alkali, vinyl chloride monomer, polyurethane components, epoxy resins, polycarbonate, amines and glycol ethers. 

About Dow 

Dow is a diversified chemical company that harnesses the power of innovation, science and technology to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. The Company offers a broad range of products and services to customers in more than 175 countries, helping them to provide everything from fresh water, food and pharmaceuticals to paints, packaging and personal care products. Built on a commitment to its principles of sustainability, Dow has annual sales of $49 billion and employs 43,000 people worldwide. References to “Dow” or the “Company” mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at http://www.dow.com.

About Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco is a fully-integrated, global petroleum enterprise, and a world leader in oil and gas exploration and production, refining, distribution, shipping and marketing. The company manages proven reserves of over 260 billion barrels of oil, the largest of any company in the world, and manages the fourth-largest gas reserves in the world. Saudi Aramco operates one of the world’s largest integrated gas gathering, processing and industrial distribution systems. These strengths, combined with the massive resource base of oil and gas, have allowed the company to fuel and feed the Kingdom’s burgeoning petrochemical business over the past three decades. Saudi Aramco, which is also among the top ten refiners in the world, also owns and operates one of the world’s largest tanker fleets to help transport its crude oil production, which amounted to over 3.2 billion barrels in 2006. In addition to its headquarters in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province city of Dhahran, Saudi Aramco has affiliates, joint ventures and subsidiaries spanning the globe, with presence in the United States, Europe and Asia. More information about Saudi Aramco can be found at http://www.saudiaramco.com.

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Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health

Expert links additive to cell damage

By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Published: 27 May 2007

 

A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA. The problem - more usually associated with ageing and alcohol abuse - can eventually lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s.The findings could have serious consequences for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who consume fizzy drinks. They will also intensify the controversy about food additives, which have been linked to hyperactivity in children.Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the £74bn global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent mould in soft drinks such as Sprite, Oasis and Dr Pepper. It is also added to pickles and sauces.Sodium benzoate has already been the subject of concern about cancer because when mixed with the additive vitamin C in soft drinks, it causes benzene, a carcinogenic substance. A Food Standards Agency survey of benzene in drinks last year found high levels in four brands which were removed from sale.Now, an expert in ageing at

Sheffield
University, who has been working on sodium benzoate since publishing a research paper in 1999, has decided to speak out about another danger. Professor Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology and biotechnology, tested the impact of sodium benzoate on living yeast cells in his laboratory. What he found alarmed him: the benzoate was damaging an important area of DNA in the “power station” of cells known as the mitochondria.He told The Independent on Sunday: “These chemicals have the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the point that they totally inactivate it: they knock it out altogether.“The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it - as happens in a number if diseased states - then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA - Parkinson’s and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of ageing.”The Food Standards Agency (FSA) backs the use of sodium benzoate in the
UK and it has been approved by the European Union but last night, MPs called for it to investigate urgently.Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat chair of Parliament’s all-party environment group said: “Many additives are relatively new and their long-term impact cannot be certain. This preservative clearly needs to be investigated further by the FSA.”A review of sodium benzoate by the World Health Organisation in 2000 concluded that it was safe, but it noted that the available science supporting its safety was “limited”.Professor Piper, whose work has been funded by a government research council, said tests conducted by the
US Food and Drug Administration were out of date.“The food industry will say these compounds have been tested and they are complete safe,” he said. “By the criteria of modern safety testing, the safety tests were inadequate. Like all things, safety testing moves forward and you can conduct a much more rigorous safety test than you could 50 years ago.”He advised parents to think carefully about buying drinks with preservatives until the quantities in products were proved safe by new tests. “My concern is for children who are drinking large amounts,” he said.

Coca-Cola and Britvic’s Pepsi Max and Diet Pepsi all contain sodium benzoate. Their makers and the British Soft Drinks Association said they entrusted the safety of additives to the Government.

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Dentists Split Over Amalgam Fillings: The Wealthy Dentist Survey Results

Dentists Split Over Amalgam Fillings:

Half of dentists are still placing amalgam fillings, while the other half no longer do, according to a survey conducted by The Wealthy Dentist. Many dentists expressed concerns over the possible toxic consequences of mercury amalgam and prefer to place newer composite fillings. Other dentists pointed to the superior performance of amalgam fillings and raised questions over the safety and durability of composite materials.

Tiburon, CA, May 07, 2007 –(PR.com)– Dentists are deeply divided over the issue of mercury amalgam fillings. In a recent dental marketing survey conducted by TheWealthyDentist.com, 52% of dentists reported they are no longer using mercury amalgam. The other 48% are still placing amalgam fillings. Some dentists criticized amalgam for its possible toxicity and tendency to fracture teeth; other dentists defended amalgam’s long history and superiority to more modern composite fillings.There is a significant difference between general dentists and specialists on the issue of mercury amalgam. Though about one out of two general dentists still uses dental amalgam, fully four out of five specialists are using amalgam. In support of amalgam, specialists cited the lack of scientific evidence proving its toxicity and its superiority in certain situations.“Amalgam is a durable and cost effective restorative material,” said one Colorado prosthodontist. “I believe dentists who refuse to use mercury amalgam are misinformed.” A prosthodontic colleague from Kentucky agreed: “Dentists who advocate elimination of dental amalgam are building their practice at the expense of the rest of the profession. Dental amalgams are perfectly safe.” As one California dentist said, “As long as ADA and FDA say it is safe, then that is good enough for me.”Suburban dentists were least likely to use amalgam. “I practice in an affluent town,” said a general dentist from suburban New Jersey. “Amalgam fillings would not be acceptable to my patients.” Commented an Idaho dentist, “Amalgams are great; they just look so bad that nobody wants them.” A Virginia doctor agreed, saying, “Patients just don’t want them any more, regardless of the higher cost of resins.” A California dentist was even more blunt: “Amalgam is very unaesthetic and boring to do.”Even dentists who preferred composites acknowledged the benefits of amalgam fillings. As one Nebraska doctor wrote, “Amalgam is my friend. Larger composites after three to five years usually look worn and leaking.” A New York dentist defended the dental material: “Although we place amalgam restorations rarely, there are occasions where this is truly the most appropriate restorative material. Dentists who have completely eliminated it from their practices are really doing their patients a disservice by not giving them a safe, reasonable option.”Some questioned how mercury, a known toxin, could possibly be a safe material for dental work. “It’s a toxic waste when I remove from someone’s body, but not when it is in a human body?” asked a Washington dentist. “Mercury is one of the most powerful neurotoxins known,” said a Pennsylvania doctor. “We can’t put it in landfills, and any excess has to be picked up by hazardous waste haulers. Yet we can bury a filling that is 50% mercury three inches from a person’s brain?”A number of dentists also questioned the safety of composites, a material far newer than amalgam. “Composite is not inert; it releases formaldehyde. What foreign material would you rather have in your mouth?” asked a Connecticut dentist. “There are big concerns with bis-phenol A components of resins,” mentioned a Wisconsin doctor. “Unlike composite… amalgam does not release estrogen as a byproduct,” warned a New York dentist.

Many dentists pointed out that amalgam works better in certain situations: on posterior teeth, in wet situations, on elderly patients, for children’s primary teeth, for patients prone to cavities and/or with poor dental hygiene, for uncooperative patients, for large or subgingival restorations, and in areas of the mouth that are difficult to reach or isolate. Amalgam’s lower price was also a factor for poorer patients or those whose insurance will not cover composites.

The durability of amalgam fillings was cited by a number of dentists. “For all those who say this is a horrible material: how many 20, 30 and even 40 year old amalgams do you see out there?” asked a Florida doctor. Commented a Louisiana dentist, “They are the most durable of all restorations, with the exception of gold, that are available at this time.” A Texas doctor agreed, saying, “Until I find posterior composites that can last fifteen or twenty years, I will continue to offer the amalgam as a restoration.”

Amalgam fillings can lead to fractured teeth, a problem cited by many dentists. “While it may still be a safe material for use, its long-term use leads to cracked and broken and often devitalized teeth,” said an Arizona dentist. “In my 30 years of practice, I have observed the failure of amalgam to adequately restore teeth; 99% of the time it is the source of fractured teeth,” agreed a Kansas doctor.

Many respondents mentioned that it had been five, ten, twenty, or even thirty years since they had placed an amalgam filling. “I stopped using amalgam in 1984. The 3M composites I placed then are still serving my patients today,” said a Colorado dentist. “I haven’t used it for over 12 years,” commented a North Carolina doctor. “Even if it was a beautiful, tooth-colored material, it would still suck… big-time!”

“Mercury is a toxin,” wrote a Missouri dentist. “We all seem to be concerned about the welfare of the patient, but I worry about the long-term effect of exposure to mercury to dentists and staff. For the last ten years, I have been conducting a research study on this very topic. I have discovered that all dentists and staff who either place or remove mercury fillings have extremely high levels of mercury in their systems. Some of the offices, like mine, do not place mercury fillings; they only remove them.” A Texas dentist agreed, saying, “I have high levels of mercury in my system based on testing with my doctor.”

Though the survey’s wording was designed to be neutral, the usage of the term “mercury amalgam” was criticized by some doctors as biased terminology. Although the word “amalgam” has come to mean any mixture, it originally referred only to mercury-based metal alloys. According to the older definition, “mercury amalgam” is a redundant term, and “silver amalgam” more accurately describes the mixture of mercury, silver and other metals used in dental fillings.

Said one Wisconsin dentist, “When we were in dental school we were taught they were ‘Silver Amalgam’ fillings. ‘Mercury Amalgam’ is a term invented by the media.” A Pennsylvania doctor agreed, saying. “Were you to list all of the ingredients of either material, nobody in their right mind would want them in their mouth.”

“Dentists are so passionate about the controversy over amalgam that we received a record number of responses to this survey,” said The Wealthy Dentist founder Jim Du Molin, a dentist consultant and dental website design guru. “The ADA says amalgam is safe, consumer groups insist it’s dangerous, and the FDA still hasn’t made an official ruling. It’s been used in dental work for over a thousand years and saved untold numbers of teeth. But they used to say it was okay for pregnant women to smoke, so really, how are you supposed to know what’s safe?”

For additional information on this and other Wealthy Dentist surveys, as well as more dentist comments, visit www.thewealthydentist.com/survey.

The Wealthy Dentist is a dental marketing and dental practice management resource featuring dental consultant Jim Du Molin. The site’s weekly surveys and dental newsletters are viewed by thousands of dentists across the United States and Canada. The Wealthy Dentist is a sister company of the Internet Dental Alliance, Inc. (www.internetdentalalliance.com). IDA is the largest provider of dental internet marketing websites, email patient newsletters and dental directories in North America.

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Root Canals Cannot Be Sterilized

There is no way to disinfect a root canal. No matter how clean the area is or how free of bacteria, there are always bacteria in the tubules and they will grow. And, the more antibiotics taken or applied, the more antibiotic resistant, and stronger, they will become.

Hal Huggins, D.D.S., M.S. answers questions about root canals

Why should I not have a ROOT CANAL done?

Root canals are recommended when a tooth has been fractured, or when decay has entered the nerve chamber and created much pain. Often the body calcifies the tooth membranes, and allows it to remain. Unusual as it sounds, the body does not like dead structures in it, and a healthy body will try to reject it. Pain requiring antibiotics and pain pills are frequently used until the immune system stops working in that area. Root canals produce toxins that can increase or create many autoimmune diseases.

Is laser treatment for cleaning of root canals and cavitations considered a safe treatment?

In both root canal sockets and cavitation linings, the big concern is the anaerobic bacteria. These are ones that live in the absence of oxygen. Botulism and gangrene are examples of anaerobic bacterial action. Bad bugs. If laser can kill all the bacteria, who is going to remove the dead bacteria, or the dead bone lining the sockets? There is no blood supply here. Laser only kills, does not clean debris. Other techniques are required to leave a clean area that can fill in with bone and new blood vessels.

Jerome, Frank, D.D.S. (812) 376-8525, Columbus Indiana, Author of “Tooth Truth”

Root canals are the most toxic most damaging procedure dentists can do. You have two options: a root canal or an extraction. Dentists usually fill root canals with gutta percha. Some use the Sargenti method, a popular treatment used by 25% of dentists, but denounced by the American Dental Association because it contains formaldehyde compounds. There have been a lot of problems with those. They used to contain lead. The current formulas are said to have removed the lead, but millions of root canal treatments using the old formulas are still in people’s mouths. Gutta percha is 15% barium so that it will show up in the X-ray. Gutta percha shrinks and leaves gaps and the tooth can never be sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile root canal. During a root canal, the main canal is filled and possibly some of the small side canals, but the other smaller canal-like structures in teeth called dentinal tubules are too tiny to be filled during treatment and these tubules become home to bacteria instead. Since there are millions of these tubules there is room for enough bacteria to challenge the immune system. The waste products from these nasty germs include some very toxic substances called thio-ethers, and your body has to deal with these toxins 24 hours a day. They contaminate the bone around the tooth and they are picked up by the immune system and carried to the liver for detoxification. Unfortunately, the liver can be seriously damaged by them. Weston Price conducted research on root canals and wrote two books about how toxic they can be. So you have to make up your mind what is more important to you. I believe no tooth is worth destroying my immune system.

ROOT CANALS POSE HEALTH THREAT AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE MEINIG, D.D.S.

Dr. Joseph Mercola

1443 W. Schaumburg Rd.

Schaumburg, IL 60194-4065

phone 847-985-1777

MJ You’re assuming that ALL root-filled teeth harbor bacteria and/or other infective agents?GM Yes. No matter what material or technique is used - and this is just as true today - the root filling shrinks minutely, perhaps microscopically. Further and this is key - the bulk of solid appearing teeth, called the dentin, actually consists of miles of tiny tubules. Microscopic organisms lurking in the maze of tubules simply migrate into the interior of the tooth and set up housekeeping. A filled root seems to be a favorite spot to start a new colony.

One of the things that makes this difficult to understand is that large, relatively harmless bacteria common to the mouth, change and adapt to new conditions. They shrink in size to fit the cramped quarters and even learn how to exist (and thrive!) on very little food. Those that need oxygen mutate and become able to get along without it. In the process of adaptation these formerly friendly “normal” organisms become pathogenic (capable of producing disease) and more virulent (stronger) and they produce much more potent toxins.

Today’s bacteriologists are confirming the discoveries of the Price team of bacteriologists. Both isolated in root canals the same strains of streptococcus, staphylococcus and spirochetes.

MJ Is everyone who has ever had a root canal filled made ill by it?

GM No. We believe now that every root canal filling does leak and bacteria do invade the structure. But the variable factor is the strength of the person’s immune system. Some healthy people are able to control the germs that escape from their teeth into other areas of the body. We think this happens because their immune system lymphocytes (white blood cells) and other disease fighters aren’t constantly compromised by other ailments. In other words, they are able to prevent those new colonies from taking hold in other tissues throughout the body. But over time, most people with root filled teeth do seem to develop some kinds of systemic symptoms they didn’t have before.

MJ It’s really difficult to grasp that bacteria are imbedded deep in the structure of seemingly-hard, solid looking teeth.

GM I know. Physicians and dentists have that same problem, too. You really have to visualize the tooth structure - all of those microscopic tubules running through the dentin. In a healthy tooth, those tubules transport a fluid that carries nourishment to the inside. For perspective, if the tubules of a front single-root tooth, were stretched out on the ground they’d stretch for three miles!

A root filled tooth no longer has any fluid circulating through it, but the maze of tubules remains. The anaerobic bacteria that live there seem remarkably safe from antibiotics. The bacteria can migrate out into surrounding tissue where they can “hitch hike” to other locations in the body via the bloodstream. The new location can be any organ or gland or tissue, and the new colony will be the next focus of infection in a body plagued by recurrent or chronic infections.

All of the “building up” done to try to enhance the patient’s ability to fight infections - to strengthen their immune system - is only a holding action. Many patients won’t be well until the source of infection - the root canal tooth - is removed

In 2001, Dr. Mark Breiner, of Connecticut, author of Whole Body Dentistry:Discover the Missing Piece to Better Health, was disciplined and fined $5,000 in December 2001 for advising patients that their mercury fillings and root canals could be contributing to their health problems. His disciplinary actions were categorized under fraud/deceit/incompetence/negl… in his consent order. Now tell me who is practicing fraud? A dentist who tells his patients that the fillings are not just silver, but mostly mercury, or the American Dental Association and the Connecticut Department of Public Health who doesn’t want the public to know about the harmful effects of mercury fillings?

In his consent order the DPH also told him you “shall not remove teeth that have undergone root canal treatment that cannot be corrected by treatment of the root canal itself, retrograde filling or surgical apioectomy, or in which the root canal is fractured, without first providing the patient with the names and telephone numbers of two medical professionals approved by the Department with whom the patient may consult as to the traditional medical position on the planned treatment.”

So if a root canal was causing health problems in a patient, Dr. Breiner was not to remove it, but to put in a retrograde filling. That means he was to put mercury down under the gumline and surgical apioectomy means he was to put mercury down in the root of the tooth, after cutting into the gums down at the root. Can you imagine mercury, not just on top of your teeth, but also down in the meat of your gums, down at the tip of your roots where it is in contact with your flesh?

Manufacturers of amalgam fillings warn against the placement of retrograde fillings. But that is what dentists do to “save” a root canal. We have testimonies at DAMS of severe poisoning by mercury used in a surgical apioectomy.

Dr. Breiner got in trouble again with the Connecticut Department of Public Health when he wrote an editorial to the Connecticut Post newspaper warning against mercury fillings when there was a mercury spill in a local high school. According to a press release from Consumers for Dental Choice. http://www.mercurypoisoned.com/dentists_disciplined/dentists_gagged.html

Hal Huggins, D.D.S., M.S. in a lecture to the Cancer Control Society 1993:

Then we get into the root canal business, and that is the most tragic of all.Isn’t there something you can put in the centre of the canal that is safe?

Yeah, there probably is, but that is not where the problem is. The problem with a root canal is that it is dead. Lets equate that. Lets say you have got a ruptured appendix, so you go to the phone book, and who do you look up? Lets see, we have a surgeon and a taxidermist, who do you call? You going to get it bronzed?

That is all we do to a dead tooth. We put a gold crown on it, looks like it has been bronzed. It doesn’t really matter what you embalm the dead tooth with, it is still dead, and within that dead tooth we have bacteria, and these bacteria are in the absence of oxygen. In the absence of oxygen most things die except bacteria. They undergo something called a pleomorphic change…like a mutation. they learn to live in the absence of oxygen…now produce thioethers, some of the strongest poisons on the planet that are not radioactive.

These get out into the body and you may notice in the medical literature of 1900 they mentioned a few heart attacks, so it wasn’t a big deal in 1900, but by 1910 2% of the US population, which is a lot of folks had had heart attacks. By 1920—10% of the population had had heart attacks, and we are up to about 25% about 10 years ago, and everywhere you go you see joggers running around. Menus in the restaurant have this little heart over it because we are on low cholesterol diets …….so what has it done. It has dropped the 25% down to around 43% . We are going in the wrong direction and root canals are going up. In 1990 we did 17 million of them. This last year we did 23 million, and the ADA hopes by the year 2000 we reach 30 million a year.

Weston Price knew this back in 1920 - he would take a person who had had a heart attack, take out the tooth with the root canal, take a little segment of it, put it under the skin of a rabbit.

We have done this with guinea pigs, and in about 10 days that rabbit would die of a heart attack. And you could take it out and put it under the skin of another rabbit, and in 10 days he would die of a heart attack……he would do this to 30 rabbits and every one of them in 97% of the cases would die of heart disease. What if they didn’t have heart disease? If they had something else, the rabbit picks up the something else, but all of them that we have tested in this way have ended up with an auto immune disease in the kidney, and if you look at the work of Joseph Issels in Germany who for 40 years treated terminal cancer cases. He started on them when they had already had their chemo, surgery, radiation, then they came to him. That is having 3 strikes against you and a fast ball down the tube there before you get up to the plate. He turned around 24% of 16,000 patients over a period of 40 years. What is the first thing he did? Have a dentist take out the root canal teeth.

…I have this shirt tail relative down there [Texas] about 24 years old, and she has brain cancer, so what do they do? They take out half her brain. Then it comes back so they take out the other half of her brain. Then it comes back a third time, and there is not much left to take out. Now they probably didn’t take out half, I may have stretched the point there a bit, but she was still fully functional, but it was right smack full in the middle of the brain. Three tumors growing, three root canals, and she is pregnant, and it is hard to overcome the stress to the body that pregnancy does, much less trying to overcome cancer, much less trying to overcome the root canals.

So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can’t find the tumor anymore. It went away.

So there are a lot of things, and this is just a tip of this giant chunk of ice under the water that has been making us think we are normal when we have all of these things going on in our body that we caught at the dental office-..it is time you were informed. Torrie

ZOE (Zinc Oxide Eugenol) Temporary Medicated Fillings

 Temporary medicated fillings (zinc oxide eugenol or ZOE)can be used when a tooth is too sensitive with a regular filling and the dentist wants to see if it will calm down before putting a permanent filling back in, or he may think you need one to begin with for a while before he puts in a permanent.

 I would try to go to a biologic dentist; many regular dentists would rather make money selling you a root canal or crown. it is possible the tooth will need a crown if the filling is very big, but they could most likely calm the tooth down with a ZOE filling first. it usually feels better within 2 weeks, but you should normally leave it 2 to 3 months before putting back in a regular filling and maybe a little longer if a crown is needed (do what the dentist says).

Temporary fillings are made of two major components: Oil of clove (eugenol), which has been used for centuries to relieve toothaches, and Zinc Oxide which is the ingredient that makes Desitin diaper rash ointment white. Zinc oxide is an excellent disinfectant. The oil and oxide mix together to make a stiff paste that eventually hardens into a waterproof substance which soothes the nerve of the tooth and kills germs while protecting the cavity like a hard band aid. When used as a temporary filling material or cement, this material is called “zinc oxide and eugenol”, ZOE for short.

Zinc Oxide and Eugenol is not very durable, and it wears away after just a few weeks, but it works to relieve pain, calm the nerve and protect the tooth until an appointment can be made to get it filled permanently. During the Vietnam war, the US Army invented a more durable form of ZOE called Intermediate Restorative Material (IRM) which is fortified with plastic powder. (It originally came in red, white or blue colors.) IRM is used almost universally in dental offices throughout the world for temporary fillings. The increase in durability allows the temporary to last three to 6 months (sometimes even longer).

Never plan to keep a temporary filling more than 6 months. They are not meant to last that long, and while the eugenol lulls the patient into a false sense of security, the restoration wears rapidly and begins to leak. If you wait too long, the nerve could die, the temporary filling will wear away, the tooth will decay further, and then you will need a root canal or extraction.

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Teeth Whitening

Chewing on crunchy foods like carrots, apples and celery, is said to cause friction which helps get debris off your teeth that can stain them. There are many old natural remedies and some new natural and/or herbal products, as well as, some chemical products, all claiming to whiten teeth.

 

The color of teeth comes from genetics originally, and it varies person to person. Teeth will natually discolor over time due to age. The best way to keep teeth as white and you were designed to have, is to avoid foods, liquids, drugs, and products that stain teeth.

 

Avoid things known to stain teeth, like coffee, tea, red wine, berries, tobacco products, food colorings, etc…. Avoid direct exposure to a lot of raw lemons or citrus products like tomatos, limes, oranges, as the citric acid wears the enamel off the teeth, and when dentin is exposed (like with cavities), it can cause discoloration. If you do eat them, rinse your teeth right away. Avoid carbonated drinks that contain phosphoric acid, like coca cola for the same reason. Sports drinks often contain citric acid, phosphoric acid and organic acid (coffee contains organic acids, also). The latter two are known to break down calcium, along with breaking down enamel. Also, If you eat raw papaya or raw pineapple, rinse your mouth after eating them, as they have enzymes that can cause sores in your mouth and gums, because they break down proteins.

 

The antibiotic tetracycline is known to cause teeth to stain and so is fluoride and caffeine. Mercury fillings cause teeth to stain where the tooth comes in contact with the filling; This is because of galvanization. So, one should get all amalgams replaced. Gold seems to be ok as long as it is a good quality gold such as high noble, and white composites or porcelain fillings can be used.

 

Hydrogen peroxide can whiten teeth, but it can penetrate teeth, which are porous, and cause sensitivity. It is used in dental bleaching. It is a special 35% solution, so buying the 2% bottle of it over the counter in hopes to make your teeth white, will not work and could eventually cause sensitivity, irritation, or inflamation of the gums. Myself, I do not recommend teeth whiteners of any kind, for the same reason. If you do decide to use a teeth whitener, either over the counter or from the dentist, if you are not avoiding foods that cause staining, your teeth will stain again, and you will have wasted your money. To whiten your teeth often, will most likely cause sensitivity, enamel breakdown, and can lead to cavities. The long term effects of teeth bleaching on nerves and blood vessels inside the teeth are unknown. Laser bleaching seems to cause more problems with sensitivity than non-laser bleaching. Bleaching does not work on false teeth, crowns, veneers or fillings (even white ones). You may opt to replace those with lighter shades if you don’t like the color. Bleaching is not recommended for children whose teeth are still developing or for pregnant or breastfeeding women.

 

It is important to brush after meals to avoid plaque and tartar build up, which can also cause discoloration. Avoid toothpastes that contain abrasives to fight plaque and tarter, as they can wear away enamel and make the dentin show through (which has a yellowish or brownish tint), which can cause staining, or cavities or cause your teeth to appear brown or yellow. Also, avoid brushing too hard for the same reason. If you do consume products that cause staining, use water to rinse your mouth directly afterward.

 

There is a technique called internal bleaching. The only way it can be done is to have a root canal, and root canals cause devastating health effects and should be avoided altogether.

 

The British Dental Association has expressed concern that the smokers’ whitening toothpastes Clinomyn and Pearl Drops are too abrasive. Many whitening toothpastes contain titanium dioxide, a suspected carcinogen and can be absorbed by the skin, and, when the effluent containing it is discharged from manufacturers, it acidifies rivers and seas.

 

Smokers toothpaste, Topol, containing an abrasive form of silica to remove heavy stains from tar and resin deposits can cause damage to cementum and dentin in people with gingival recession, resulting root exposure.

 

Tooth whitening actually requires modifying the intrinsic tooth color, chemically alterating the chromophores within the tooth. Whitening toothpastes using bicarbonate, alumina and polyphosphates cannot whiten teeth; All they can do is contribute to stain removal. Whitening requires bleaching or enzymatic disruption.

 

Acid penetration and dissolution has not been an acceptable method of whitening for nearly a century.

 

Many products claim whitening ability with various peroxides — hydrogen, calcium or carbamide. For over-the-counter peroxide content is kept low. It has effervescence and maybe some short-lived bleaching because peroxide is rapidly broken down by oral enzymes from bacteria and saliva. Gels stay on longer, but must be used with a tray to work. Only whitening products used by dentists have ADA acceptance. Over-the-counter product manufacturers have never attempted such claims.

 

A product called NatureWhite contains carbamide peroxide is supposed to whiten your teeth dramatically with just one 45 Minute application. It is said to be the same thing that dentists use and that dentists use a 12% solution while NatureWhite uses a 22% solution. Crest white strips, by comparison, have a 3% solution.

 

Before whitening your teeth, you should find out if your teeth have thin enamel. This can cause your teeth to have a yellowish or brownish apperance. Whitening will not help in this situation and can make appearance worse and cause sensitivity.

 

There are herbs that have been used throughout history to whiten teeth. Sage boiled in water to make tea was said to strengthen gums and whiten teeth. During the middle ages, powdered mint leaves were used to whiten teeth. Charcoal was touted as the best powder to use for whitening teeth, removing tartar and preventing decay. Other common ingredients in tooth powders included: cream of tartar, camphor, white castile soap powder, cuttle fish bone, precipitated chalk, powdered borax, powdered gum myrrh, powdered orris root, and talc. The majority of these ingredients cleaned and whitened teeth.

 

Here are some other natural remedies :

 

Take a teaspoon of lemon juice and a tsp of salt. Make a paste. Apply this on the yellowish tint.

 

Use the inner white part of an orange peel to rub teeth for a lovely white shine.

 

Take half teaspoon of bi-carbonate of soda mixed with a little water to form a paste. Rub this on your teeth.

 

Dried & powdered Bay leaves combined with dried orange peel is an excellent whitener.

 

Strawberries, oddly enough are said to have cleansing and bleaching properties that can help remove of tea and coffee stains, especially from dentures. Crush the strawberries gently and rub the pulp onto your teeth. Rinse with water.

 

There are some new tooth pastes and products with Bromaine Complex, a combination of the natural enzymes, Bromelaine from pineapple, and Papain from papaya, said to be clinically proven to whiten teeth.

 

Dentizyme is an herbal remedy; it consists of a unique blend of bio-active plant enzymes, organic botanicals, rainforest botanicals, and essential oils. Dentizyme users report fewer or no gum disease symptoms, they also report that their gums look pinker and healthier along with excellent teeth whitening results and teeth stains are said to disappear entirely with continued use of this herbal extract.

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Here is some info on Zoom: 

http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2007/01/teeth_whitening_caution.html

 

Price is $500 to $675

 

How does Zoom teeth whitening work?

 

This method consists of a mixture of gel and special light wave treatments. The patient is seated and the dentist uses a retractor to separate the lips from the teeth so that the gel can be applied. A special gel is then applied on all the exterior faces of the teeth. The dentist is careful, at this point, not to let the gel touch the patient’s gums too much, as it may cause irritation or lesions.

 

How long does it last and what effects can I expect?

 

The answers to the questions are different from one person to another. In most cases, a Zoom teeth whitening procedure is done twice a year. An average person who drinks coffee frequently and smokes daily will have improved tooth brightness - around 10 shades brighter. After the procedure is completed, the teeth will gradually start to regain their yellowish color over time, depending on how well you take care of them. On average, people who went through in office tooth whitening procedures noticed that their teeth stay white for months, although the initial brightness does not last more than a few weeks.

Symptoms and Signs of Mercury Amalgam Filling Poisoning

Specific Symptoms of Dental Mercury Poisoning

Grinding or clenching one’s teeth during sleep and at the moment of awakening

Metallic taste in the mouth (it tastes like the aluminum foil on chocolate)

Dark spots in the retina of the eye (Huggins, 1990) [1]; darker image in the affected eye. The subject may be unaware of his condition until he looks at the same image with one eye covered. One dental patient, Martin Dak, only learned about his condition at nineteen during a thorough eye examination. (The American Dental Association revoked Dr. Huggins’s license in mid 1990’s.)

Biting into one’s tongue or lips when chewing tough food (very advanced illness).

Inability to fully open the mouth after prolonged chewing of very tough food, such as candy. This condition may last for 2 weeks (in Dak’s case at the age of nineteen) and perhaps even longer. The patient can open his mouth only halfway. Clinical examination and X-ray images reveal no problem with the jaws. The reason for this condition is a sudden release of mercury from the fillings and the consequent convulsion of the jaw muscles. The patient may wrongly perceive that something is stuck at his temporomandibular joint and that his jaws are somehow locked. The condition develops overnight after the critical daytime chewing. The intensity of the condition diminishes very slowly, almost imperceptibly, and then, suddenly, everything returns back to normal.

The broken neck syndrome

The affected subject feels that he did not sleep right. He must have had some wild dream and somehow moved his pillow, and that is the believed reason for his pain in the neck. What is happening to him is convulsion in one of the two abductor muscles that connect the head with the collar bone. These muscles turn the head left and right, and also affect the up and down movement. The muscles run vertically in the posterolateral (back and sides) sections of the neck. When only one muscle is affected, the subject’s head twists toward one side. When he tries to move his head the other way, he feels considerable pain at the collar bone. When both muscles are affected, the subject may feel global pain in his posterior lower neck and between and above his shoulder blades as he tries to bend his head down. The effects usually disappear within three days, but the next time the subject grinds his teeth during the sleep or chews hard food before going to bed, the same thing happens to him again.

The described symptoms may worsen after eating mercury-containing food (fish, shellfish) or chewing very hard food, or after a dental “restorative procedure” of the old fillings. The interaction between mercury amalgam and other dental metals (gold, steel, and titanium) commonly produces voltages of several volts and currents of several tens of microamperes. The voltages easily exceed the 0.7V firing potential of neurons, and erratic muscle jerking results. The subject’s saliva and the metals in his mouth create a battery, and the electric current speeds up the release of mercury many times. The battery is “improved” by eating and drinking certain foods. Also temperature variations in the mouth affect the release of dental mercury into the body. In addition to the chemical impact, the electric currents produce their own harmful effects. These are discussed below.

Mental Effects

Electric currents may affect the operation of the entire cerebral hemisphere (in Dak’s case, the left hemisphere was predominantly affected). Mathematical abilities, language production and comprehension, muscle control of the right side of the body, and interhemispheric communication can become severely disrupted. Drawing a clear line between the effects of mercury and electricity is difficult. Some of the believed effects of electric currents might be caused by mercury poisoning, or some deficits that appear to be associated with the left hemisphere might be attributable to the right hemisphere.

Poor muscle-eye coordination. This may become apparent only during typing or interactive sports and games. Inability to type by touch without looking at the keyboard.

Stuttering

Dyslexia (typing >>> tpying >>> tyipng)

Skipping over parts of a read text

When writing, omission of central portions of long words (transatlantic >>> translantic)

A word that is on the tip of the tongue and is believed to start with a specific letter almost always has the believed initial letter in the middle. For example, when you try to recall the name of a man whose name seems to start with an M, the man’s name may turn out to be Thompson or Domhus, or Pembrook.

Occasional failure to register an entire spoken sentence

Frequent interruption of the short-term memory (sclerosis)

General difficulty socializing and interacting with people

Loss of interest in doing interactive activities (video games)

Difficulty tolerating bright light and sharp sounds (bright turn signals, sirens)

Difficulty processing sensory information quickly

Difficulty recalling well-known words/facts quickly

Inability to concentrate, easily distractible

Inability to exactly repeat a long sentence that someone just said. Difficulty with sentence repetition has been associated with lesions of the supramarginal gyrus [23].

Inability to process music by the left hemisphere

Inability to follow rhythm

Many manifestations of Wernicke’s aphasia (reliance on the right hemisphere; preferable use of words that rhyme or produce internally perceived rhythm; poor semantic thought)

Difficulty spelling from memory, but easy spelling when writing or reading

Blurting out words in an incomprehensible way

General difficulty controlling one’s tongue, lips, and vocal cords

Low ability to hear oneself speaking; poor registration or poor comprehension of one’s speech

Difficulty with algebraic operations; loss, distortion, or confabulation of intermediate results. The subject is usually unaware of his or her problem. The only objective feedback is poor scores on a math test. The subject may be sure that he can solve the problems, because he is aware of his knowledge of the necessary mathematical procedures and can apply them correctly. But the subject rarely checks his work, and when he does, he is prone to overlook obvious mistakes. This results in poor test scores despite knowing the subject.

Difficulty remembering short articles, songs, or poems by heart, especially when they are not personally interesting

Difficulty remembering a series of items

Difficulty remembering personally unimportant information

Gradual loss of intellect and school performance (an early symptom)

Difficulty to grasp scientific concepts that others consider relatively easy

Learning to drive a car and driving in traffic can become very challenging

Reduced ability to solve problems

Suppression of all emotions

General feeling of inadequacy

Difficulty associating names with faces
Electrical stimulation from intracranial electrodes frequently disrupts naming of familiar faces [2].

Mercury poisoning can cause schizophrenia. The most frequent and probably easiest way to develop schizophrenia is to breath mercury vapors. This is one of the two main reasons that dentists have some of the highest suicide rates of any occupation. As for the second reason, you will have to read some more. Also Michael Faraday, a well-known physicist, developed schizophrenia by breathing mercury vapors. The development of schizophrenia from dental fillings seems less common than due to direct exposure to mercury vapors, but either type of mercury-caused schizophrenia tends to give the patient a puffy face.

Biological Effects

Dental mercury tends to concentrate in the brain and organs. This may cause global malfunction of the human organism.

Hypoactivity of all glands

Low production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach

Symptoms of malnutrition due to malabsorption

Foul-smelling stool, urine, and breath

Gas-filled floating feces

Bloating

Constipation

Chronic diarrhea, may last many months (advanced level of mercury poisoning)

Relative shortness of breath; may show only during sports

Frequent infections

Inflammation of the esophagus

Inflammation of the rectum, rectal itching

Occasional brief chest pain

Osteoarthritis throughout the body

Double vision or blurred vision. Poor depth perception. Poor dynamic range of vision. Some optical features may disappear when looking into a bright light. In high school, Dak failed to see the fine lines of a scale inside the microscope. All he saw was a fuzzy bright light, but nothing else. Similar difficulties exist in a poorly lit room when looking in people’s faces against the window. The bright light coming from the outside makes the faces appear very dark, almost like silhouettes, and recognition of facial features is difficult.

Tingling in the fingertips

Shaky fingers

Loss of precise control in the fingers

General signs of multiple sclerosis

Low energy

Low sex drive

Erratic muscular responses

Constant muscle tension (due to electric currents in the mouth)

Eyes are “habitually” pulled to the left

Natural eyeblink reflex to moisten the eyes occurs very infrequently

Very poor balance, occasional vertigo. Pull toward one side when standing or sitting. Dak was told at 18 that he was leaning to his right side while sitting. Until then, he was unaware of his problem, which has bothered him ever since. When standing, he can feel a pull to the right and has difficulty telling whether his body is completely upright. When he starts writing a line of text by hand, the line gradually rises, and the end is typically about 1/4 inch higher than the beginning is. Only by carefully watching the paper, can he produce a horizontal line. An opposite deficit was seen in one of the “terrorist letters” shown on television. All the lines were dropping at about the same rate (1/4 inch per 6 inches of text).

Stiffness and/or paralysis in an entire side of the body (due to electric currents)
The right hand feels strong, slow, clumsy, and insensitive. The left hand is used preferably.

Slow responses to stimuli (early symptom)

Overall apathy toward stimuli

Dry eyes (an early symptom)

Liver malfunction and retention of water, especially in the belly and buttocks; later followed by the enlargement of breasts in males.

Strange pressure, as if swelling, in the pancreatic area (relatively advanced poisoning)

Poor tissue connectivity (ingrown toenails, separation of the skin from fingernails)

Receding, inflamed, and bleeding gum

Brown discoloration of the nails

Micro-cracks in the frontal surfaces of the incisors and deep longitudinal cracks in the incisors (layering of the incisors). Loss of bone mass inside incisors. The frontal surfaces may cave in and produce visible dips and deformation of the teeth. This condition is associated with partial loss of tooth enamel (the surface layer) and extreme sensitivity to cold, heat, and mechanical touch by fingernail or toothbrush. The tips of the incisors may become brown, fragile, and stop regenerating. Dark discoloration may occur along the vertical edges of the incisors. Just breathing at temperatures below plus 20 degrees C (about 70 degrees F) produces mildly painful sensation in the front teeth. The loss of bone mass is a consequence of nutritional deficiency resulting from damage to internal organs, especially the liver.

Damage to the teeth is only one of several degenerative symptoms. The teeth stop regenerating and gradually die from the tips. The incisors show this trend most prominently. The tips become thinner and deformed, but the teeth becomes thicker at the gumline. The tooth thickness may increase by 50%. The same problem affects the big toenails and is usually noticed years before the changes in the teeth are. The toenails become dead at the ends, have poor connectivity with the skin, and become about 2 to 3 times thicker than is normal. The toenails are dead as soon as they emerge from below the skin. An identical damage happens to the hair. The hairs begin turning white from the ends and gradually decay toward the follicles. Again, the follicles become thicker. Many die and cause inflammation. Some damage resulting from such deterioration is invisible. It can only be felt as stiff joints, loud cracking of joints during movement, and pain in the joints and surrounding muscles. Skelletal deformities, twisted limbs, and abnormal pull on muscles may develop over several years. Immobility and untimely death can be expected in such patients.

Longitudinal ridges on the nails (arthritis). Nails may become thin and flat between the ridges.

White spots in the nails

Brittle nails. Attempts to offset the damage with calcium supplements (even chelated calcium) may lead to severe calcification in the spine and pinching of nerves. Use only organic calcium in the form of milk and other plant or animal products.

Loss of toenails after long walks or hikes, blisters under nails. Often complete regeneration of lost toenails. Dak reports that he completely lost (gradually shed over the period of 4-6 months) and later completely regenerated his toenails on his big toes at least four times.

Symptoms of diabetes

Extremely low cholesterol level

Constant feeling of being cold, hungry, and sleepy

Low body temperature (35.0 to 36.0 degrees Celsius); freezing in the summer

Inability to digest food; what goes in comes out intact

Waking up exhausted after a 10- to 12-hour sleep

Leg kicking during sleep

Arm jerking during rest or sleep

Excruciating contraction of toes after prolonged exposure to cold (early symptom)

Excruciating contraction in the calf muscle, about 5 to 8 cm (2 to 3 inches) below the knee. This condition typically occurs during rest that follows strenuous walks or jogging and is exacerbated by cold.

Yeast infection throughout the digestive tract; constant intestinal micro-tremmors

Vaginal yeast infection

Feverish, burning, cracking and bleeding lips

Persistent or recurrent redness in the face (advanced illness)

Enlarged capillaries in the white of the eye

Frequent collection of mucus in the throat, especially after waking up

Substantial loss of mucus (intestinal lining) in feces

Stuffy nose

Ear infections; fluid buildup and clogging in the ear canal

Partial deafness

Ringing in the ears

Frequent nose bleeding or dryness in the nose in dry climate

Polyps in the nose and mouth

Painful, swelling eyeballs

Discolored spots and “blisters” in the white of the eye (advanced effects)

Clogging and swelling of the outlets of salivary glands inside the mouth

Sticky tongue due to dryness in the mouth

Extreme allergies to pollen and household chemicals; frequent sneezing

Unavoidable sneezing after looking directly at the sun

Allergies to car travel when the fan is running (due to pollen in the air)

20 to 25 attacks of diarrhea per day after taking antibiotics

Low heart rate during the day (52-54 beats per minute) and especially before falling asleep (46-48 beats per minute) at the age of 15 years; an early sign

Alzheimer’s-like symptoms; recovery may be possible. Documented by Tom Warren in his book about his personal experience. Information about this dental patient is on the internet.

Skin bumps, hard nodules, or finger-like formations in the skin (the fingers can be 2-3 mm in diameter and up to 6 mm long)

Overall weight gain and puffy face

Permanent occurrence of many freckles after a few days in bright sunshine. (Weak immune system).

Abnormal findings of proteins in the urine (relatively advanced stage of poisoning)

The patient’s body may produce toxic sweat; bed sheets may dissolve

Internal bleeding (blood in the stool, urine, ejaculate, and phlegm)

Susceptibility to jock itch and athlete’s foot; fungal infections

A pea-sized nodule at the thyroid gland develops overnight and lasts several weeks

Painful swelling of glands (testicles and thyroid)

Blue palms, hands, and feet when temperature drops below ~20 degrees C (advanced illness)

Numerous dark-red capillaries just under the skin of the feet; advanced illness

The head is spinning after making a somersault (intense tingling/burning sensation spreads from the navel toward the pubic region)

Destruction of brain tissue due to electric currents in the mouth. During examination at the dentist’s office, a current of 41 microamperes was measured between a place under Dak’s tongue and his golden crown. Later that day, Dak repeated the measurement himself and obtained a reading of 120 microamperes. To put these numbers in perspective, here are a few examples of how electric current affects neural tissue in the brain. Direct current of 1,000 microamperes applied for 20 seconds causes lesions in the dorsal hippocampus of the rat [4]. Shi and Davis produced lesions in the insular cortex of the rat by passing direct current of 1,000 microamperes for 10 seconds [6]. Just 500 microamperes applied for 10 seconds can reliably destroy amygdaloid nuclei in the brain of the rat [3]. Li and Pan produced marking lesions in the rostral ventrolateral medula of the rat by means of mere 50 microamperes applied for 30 seconds [7]. Of course, a dental patient cannot limit the current in his or her mouth to a few seconds. The currents vary in magnitude, but flow at all times. Interestingly, electric currents that are needed for proper operation of the human body tend to be no more than a couple microamperes [5].

Allergies after liver damage. Inability to fall asleep due to splitting headache in the forehead. Substantial reduction in the intensity of the headache after standing up, but the headache spreads to the parietal and occipital lobes, and sometimes even to the lover jaw. Within an hour, the subject may hyperventilate, lose his muscle control with the lower jaw and the whole body shaking. The subject is feeble and may feel that he may collapse to the floor. Within seconds, the subject vomits, which is how most of these attacks are resolved. After vomiting, the headache is often gone almost immediately, but mild fatigue usually last even after waking up in the morning.

Food allergies vary over time and daytime; most strike just after going to bed. The worst allergies are produced by a combination of exposure to pollens and certain foods. Some of the bad foods are: lamb, pears, peaches, salmon, eggs, and peanuts.

Allergy and splitting headache can also be triggered by household chemicals, sudden change in weather from dry to rainy, or from hot to cold, or from calm to windy. Viral and bacterial infections may also lead to the same condition. The headache can last for many hours, sometimes even two or three days. The remedy can be incredibly simple. Dissolve one tea spoonful of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) in a cup of warm water. Drink the solution. You should feel better in seconds. Drink another cup of the same solution, and the headache should completely disappear within minutes. But beware of carbonation. Too much pop is not good for your intestines. You may produce gasses if you overdo it.

The headache is associated with poor pH balance. Baking soda restores the digestive environment closer to normal. Baking soda may not work when the headache is relatively mild or is caused by factors other than indigestion. Vinegar has also been reported as helpful in treating this condition. Both baking soda and vinegar are weakly acidic. This is a paradox, because the overall sensation during the headache is one of acidity, and citrus fruits (particularly oranges), which are supposed to be acidic, frequently cause the headache. So, the issue is more complicated than appears on the surface.

Cure for cirrhosis is unknown, but detoxification of the liver does benefit the poisoned dental patient. Dramatic loss of extra weight may occur within 2 to 4 weeks and continue for several months until the patient’s weight is restored to near normal. Detoxification also significantly reduces the symptoms of arthritis. A great improvement may occur in mental clarity (due to the disappearance of encephalopathy caused by poisonous byproducts in the brain) and in the overall level of energy. Sleep requirement may drop from 12 hours to 9 hours per day. Two essential non-prescription pills are available. According to internet search results, neither is known to have any side effects.

MSM natural organic sulfur (methylsulfonylmethane): removes mercury from the body.
Extract from milk thistle seed (silybum marianum): repairs and detoxifies the liver.

A common produce, red beet, reportedly also cleanses the liver.

Note: Some individuals may be sensitive to larger doses of milk thistle taken before sleep. More than 1 pill (about 400 mg) may lead to very unpleasant smooth-muscle contractions or chemical imbalance and awakening. Males with enlarged breasts due to liver damage may experience dramatic breast reduction overnight, but in the evening, the breasts become big again. This is another reason to take only one pill at a time, but several times a day.

Behavioral Indicators

Loss of intellect results in strong adherence to habits.

Loss of emotions results in indifference to the suffering of others.

Global body shaking when staying in one position for too long (either standing or sitting).

Inability to sleep on one’s side (due to electric currents and a loss of balance)

Keeping one’s head below the blanket during sleep to preserve body heat

Wearing thick sweaters in the summer

Craving sugar and foods high in energy

Inattention to semantic, personally unimportant things (very poor observation talent)

Difficulty recalling one’s duties, assignments, homework, and priorities at the right time

Watching TV, movies, and school lectures so that eyes look to the left

 Special Symptoms

Brainstem damage. Many of the above problems occur in patients with brainstem damage. Sinha reports that indicators of brainstem infarction are the following: vertigo, dizziness, sensation of ear canal blockage, slurred speech, clenching and grinding of teeth, double vision, and leaning to one side when standing or sitting [8]. Damage to the brainstem can also be deduced from Dak’s experience. He reports that the day he began mercury detoxification, he started having between 1 and 3 dreams per night with no night without a dream for full 6 months. Dreams are usually associated with brainstem activity [9].

Seeing circles is a strange symptom that has been experienced by Dak since early teens, at which time he already had mercury amalgam fillings. When he closes his eyes and fixes his vision at one spot, as if looking through his eyelids, he can see black and white imagery. On the blank background, he can distinguish tiny circles that look like micro-bubbles floating haphazardly before his eyes. Within a few seconds, some of the circles rapidly join together and form a single vertical string that starts to oscillate from side to side around one of the anchored ends of the string. This phenomenon is usually transitory and cannot be sustained for more than a few seconds, but can be evoked repeatedly and at any time. The string of circles is between about 8 and 12 mm long. The typical string length is about 10 mm. The circles can vary in size and numbers from barely perceptible to almost 1 mm in diameter. They all seem to move at constant speeds, roughly a few millimeters per second. The freely floating bubbles can be viewed for tens of seconds. At some point, there is a sudden rush as a few adjacent bubbles start hopping on top of each other to build the string from the bottom upward. It is not possible to tell where in the swarm of circles the buildup will start, but when the string is fully formed, it appears to be positioned at the center of the visual field. The actual oscillations of the string only last between 1 and 3 seconds, and then the string disappears. The other bubbles can be seen even thereafter.

Seeing crossed needles is another odd visual phenomenon experienced by Dak in connection with his mercury fillings. When his eyes become tired and he wipes them, he can see 2 crossed sets of about 4 or 5 regularly spaced black-and-white needles in each set. The needles are similar in shape to the needles of a spruce. The imagery lasts a second or two and usually cannot be reproduced soon after the experience. At least several minutes of rest must be allowed to evoke the phenomenon again. The needles, like the circles, are grayish outlines, rather than bright-white or dark-black images. There is no color. The needles at the center are about 10 mm long, while the needles at the edges are shorter, about 7 mm long. Each needle is about 1.5 mm wide at its center and becomes narrower toward the ends. The spacing between the needles is about the same as the width of each needle (1.5 mm). The group of needles is never vertical or horizontal, but always occurs at an angle of about 45 degrees. A second group of 4 or 5 needles comes at 45 degrees from the other side and forms with the first group a complex pattern similar to the letter “X”. Interestingly, the two groups of needles never intersect or blend directly. One set of needles runs its full length, but the opposite group of needles stops when it approaches the other group, and continues on the other end of the “X” pattern. Dak only started seeing this imagery shortly after the removal of his mercury amalgam fillings. Similar “X” patterns are well-known to be caused by damage to the visual system.  

Many of the above problems occur in patients with brainstem damage. Sinha reports that indicators of brainstem infarction are the following: vertigo, dizziness, sensation of ear canal blockage, slurred speech, clenching and grinding of teeth, double vision, and leaning to one side when standing or sitting Many of the above problems occur in patients with brainstem damage. Sinha reports that indicators of brainstem infarction are the following: vertigo, dizziness, sensation of ear canal blockage, slurred speech, clenching and grinding of teeth, double vision, and leaning to one side when standing or sitting

 Developmental Effects

A pregnant woman with mercury amalgam fillings runs a high risk that her fetus will be malformed. The more fillings she has and the more chemically active her fillings are, the more mercury her fetus receives. Mercury fillings that are in contact with other metals, or root canal that is filled with mercury amalgam (common dental practice) is particularly dangerous. The consequences may be:

Malformed skeleton (chest, jaws, and other parts)

Abnormal teeth (missing, misplaced, malformed, too big, or too small)

General brain damage

Sensory defects

A study conducted by the World Health Organization in Calgary, Canada in 1989 found substantial damage to the liver and kidneys in experimental sheep and monkeys. Mercury was found in the brains of the fetuses of the pregnant sheep (Vimy, 1989).

http://web.archive.org/web/20050928223430/www.lucidpages.com/Mercury.html

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