[esens] Selenium/mercury/viruses, T3/T4, A Monk

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[esens] Selenium/mercury/viruses, T3/T4, A Monk

glennhcoleman
Hi,

I was visiting Dr. Abram Hoffer, an Orthomolecular doctor today. I told him
I was having some trouble with mercury releasing in my body after having
extensive bioenergy work done.

He told me that there is some new results out on Selenium that it is turning
into the latest wonder vitamin. He said they are now curing people with AIDS
in Africa using Selenium. It was discovered by accident when an AIDS patient
was given his wife's large dose of selenium, and suddenly he became well.

He recommended I triple my selenium dose from 200mg to 600mg per day, to
neutralize free mercury (not based on the above report, but based on his
success with severely mercury toxic patients).

After having such great results on his niacin/folic acid megadosing program,
I believe this may be a good solution - so have already started 600mg/day.

I was thinking selenium may also be effective against Ebstein Bar Virus.

I also read an article in his office about why niacin is so effective at
helping to detox body. It mentioned that many of the blood vessels in our
body are so small, that blood cells have to line up single file to get
through. Often that is not enough to clear out toxins, so they sit there and
slowly leak in to body. By doing niacin flush, it opens up those blood
vessels and gets to every area of the body. It also mentioned trying to
start out at a low dose of 50mg, and slowly ramp up so the flush is not too
extreme, and side effects minimized. I guess it also would keep a large rush
of toxins from coming out all at once.

Recently I was using niacin as my "rescue medicine" when mercury started
flowing in my body. I would take extra doses anytime I felt aweful from the
mercury. Dr. Hoffer told me I can safely continue increasing my dosage.
Currently I am at 3000mg per day, and increasing to 4000 (1000, 4 times/day).
He said the symptoms of having too much niacin is extreme nausea, which
occurs around 15,000 mg.

I also went to a thyroid specialist two weeks ago, and finally got onto a T3
program to supplement T4. The improvement is remarkable. I no longer have
extreme energy problems like before - my energy and moods have stablized
considerably. All we did was add 5 micrograms of T3, and lowered my T4 to
100 micrograms, from 112. I had read about this in the book "What doctors
aren't telling you about hypothyroidism", but my GP was too nervous to put me
on T3 - so insisted to see a specialist.

Bit by bit I'm slowly nailing this problem.

Next week I'm becoming a Buddhist Monk of all things! I'm hooked on it after
it has given me immense peace of mind during chaos - I can always depend on
it no matter how bad I get. I don't have that many extreme lows anymore, but
when I do, I psychologically trigger all the bad thoughts that have happened
over the years and it is overwhelming - I do chanting and it cuts out those
thoughts. I also have had amazing success with medicine buddha healings that
I have been doing on friends. I'm starting to think that bad karma is in the
way of some types of problems, and once cleared, healing starts rapidly
taking place. This is why I think this medicine buddha has been so
effective. The people who I have done it on are amazed by it. Some are
energy healers themselves, and couldn't understand what the difference was
between pranic healing and medicine buddha (since pranic healing is based on
buddhism) - then we realized it was the removal of bad karma using medicine
buddha. It also includes a ritual to improve success of any task - so wonder
if that could be helping the task of healing too. All I know is that it is
very easy to do.

Glenn

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Re: Selenium/mercury/viruses, T3/T4, A Monk

yldiz
Hi Glenn,

How nice that you are visiting Dr. Hoffer.Is there any preference of him on
type of Selenium to be used for mercury detoxing?

Thanks.

Nil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Coleman" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 8:13 AM
Subject: [esens] Selenium/mercury/viruses, T3/T4, A Monk


>
> Hi,
>
> I was visiting Dr. Abram Hoffer, an Orthomolecular doctor today. I told
him
> I was having some trouble with mercury releasing in my body after having
> extensive bioenergy work done.
>
> He told me that there is some new results out on Selenium that it is
turning
> into the latest wonder vitamin. He said they are now curing people with
AIDS
> in Africa using Selenium. It was discovered by accident when an AIDS
patient

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Re: Selenium/mercury/viruses, T3/T4, A Monk

Marc Martin
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> How nice that you are visiting Dr. Hoffer.Is there any preference of him on
> type of Selenium to be used for mercury detoxing?

Note that for people who like to get their vitamins from
foods, Brazil Nuts are the food most concentrated in
Selenium. However, I tried a couple Brazil Nuts, and
felt horrible afterwards. So I would say that Selenium
does not bind to toxins and remove them from your body,
but instead just moves them around under the assumption
that your body can get rid of them.

Marc

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carazzz
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Hi Glenn,
It's nice to hear how you're doing. I'm very interested in your
selenium use also. I'm curious to know more about how it works in the
body, especially with regard to mercury. I've considered using it
several times myself, but I hesitate because I remember reading
somewhere (on this list maybe?) that selenium seems to relieve
mercury toxicity symptoms but it also works against mercury removal
somehow. I don't remember the source of this info, sorry -- I don't
mean to spread misinformation so let me be clear that I don't know if
this is true. If anyone here has more information about selenium I'd
love to hear about it.

Thanks,
Cara


--- In [hidden email], "Glenn Coleman" <ghcoleman@w...> wrote:
He recommended I triple my selenium dose from 200mg to 600mg per day,
to neutralize free mercury (not based on the above report, but based
on his success with severely mercury toxic patients).

> Glenn

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glennhcoleman
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--- In [hidden email], Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:
> > How nice that you are visiting Dr. Hoffer.Is there any preference
of him on

> > type of Selenium to be used for mercury detoxing?
>
> Note that for people who like to get their vitamins from
> foods, Brazil Nuts are the food most concentrated in
> Selenium. However, I tried a couple Brazil Nuts, and
> felt horrible afterwards. So I would say that Selenium
> does not bind to toxins and remove them from your body,
> but instead just moves them around under the assumption
> that your body can get rid of them.
>
> Marc

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yldiz
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One thing that is good about getting vitamins from natural sources is that
you CRAVE when your body needs the nutrient. I like this very much. It is
never easy to be correct on exact dosage of the isolated supplements. Lately
I wish to have turmeric with almost all of my meals. That means I need it.
Sometimes a time comes I don't wish to have it at all.Today I craved for
almonds which I did not eat for the last couple of months. I have a feeling
that body works in cycles. It performs a job and than rests. Sometimes it
needs,let's say molybdenum. Sometimes it does not.So,when we take molybdenum
at continual basis this means at some times we are only overloading the body
with unnecessary material and increasing the load on detox organs.I wished I
was able to stop all of my supplements and get my nutrients from natural
foods but that is not so easy to do.
best wishes.
Nil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Martin" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [esens] Selenium/mercury/viruses, T3/T4, A Monk


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> > How nice that you are visiting Dr. Hoffer.Is there any preference of him
on

> > type of Selenium to be used for mercury detoxing?
>
> Note that for people who like to get their vitamins from
> foods, Brazil Nuts are the food most concentrated in
> Selenium. However, I tried a couple Brazil Nuts, and
> felt horrible afterwards. So I would say that Selenium
> does not bind to toxins and remove them from your body,
> but instead just moves them around under the assumption
> that your body can get rid of them.
>
> Marc
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glennhcoleman
In reply to this post by carazzz

> I'm curious to know more about how it works in the
> body, especially with regard to mercury. I've considered using it
> several times myself, but I hesitate because I remember reading
> somewhere (on this list maybe?) that selenium seems to relieve
> mercury toxicity symptoms but it also works against mercury removal
> somehow. I don't remember the source of this info, sorry -- I don't
> mean to spread misinformation so let me be clear that I don't know
> if this is true. If anyone here has more information about selenium
> I'd love to hear about it.

Dr. John Matsen recently told me there is some debate about selenium
about the fact it may neutralize mercury, but leave it in the body
where it is difficult to remove. So I am taking some risk here, but
since it is only speculation, I'm willing to try it.

The higher dose may also play a role in how effective it is. I'll
know soon enough if it is making my mercury problem better or worse.
It may be like frequent dose chelation where the higher levels of
chelation keep blood saturated with selenium so it comes out in big
quantities in a continous stream.

I happen to be taking the whole list of vitamins recommended by Dr.
Andrew Cutler, for frequent dose chelation, so that may help to expel
mercury. I've continued despite not doing the frequent dose
chelation. I figured it would protect me from mercury releases. So
far I have done quite well on it - but still not enough for these
major mercury releases.

Glenn

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Re: Selenium/mercury/viruses, T3/T4, A Monk

bbin37
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Hi Cara,

There have been a few discussions here directly concerning selenium
and its role in dealing with mercury toxicity. Here are some of the
thread roots:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/eSens/message/1175
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/eSens/message/1424
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/eSens/message/1461

Msg 1424 has a letter I rcvd from Dr. Boyd Haley (a major researcher
into mercury's bioeffects) in response to my query over mercury.
Here's a snippet from it where he wrote about the benefits of
selenium:

"The fish (sea fish) decrease the toxicity of all mercury exposure by
also ingesting selenium (Se2-) which binds methyl mercury
(CH3S-Se-SCH3) and Hg2+ (HgSe), as well as binding these compounds
with certain protective proteins. All mercury compounds as mentioned
are much less toxic when bound to selenium as these mercury-selenium
compounds are very stable and prevent the bound mercury compounds from
reacting with proteins, and make them easier to excrete, which reduces
their toxicity."

Msg 1461 lists some more URLs that speak about selenium's effects for
comparison.

Beau

--- In [hidden email], "Cara" <cara_evangelista@h...> wrote:

> I'm very interested in your selenium use also. I'm curious to know
> more about how it works in the body, especially with regard to
> mercury. I've considered using it several times myself, but I
> hesitate because I remember reading somewhere (on this list maybe?)
> that selenium seems to relieve mercury toxicity symptoms but it
> also works against mercury removal somehow. I don't remember the
> source of this info, sorry -- I don't mean to spread misinformation
> so let me be clear that I don't know if this is true. If anyone
> here has more information about selenium I'd love to hear about it.
>
> Thanks,
> Cara
>
>
> --- In [hidden email], "Glenn Coleman" <ghcoleman@w...>
wrote:
> He recommended I triple my selenium dose from 200mg to 600mg per
day,
> to neutralize free mercury (not based on the above report, but
based
> on his success with severely mercury toxic patients).
>
> > Glenn

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Selenium

Drew McAfee
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Glenn,
Is that 600mcg or mg?
Andrew
--- glennhcoleman <[hidden email]>
wrote:

>
> --- In [hidden email], Marc Martin
> <marc@u...> wrote:
> > > How nice that you are visiting Dr. Hoffer.Is
> there any preference
> of him on
> > > type of Selenium to be used for mercury
> detoxing?
> >
> > Note that for people who like to get their
> vitamins from
> > foods, Brazil Nuts are the food most concentrated
> in
> > Selenium. However, I tried a couple Brazil Nuts,
> and
> > felt horrible afterwards. So I would say that
> Selenium
> > does not bind to toxins and remove them from your
> body,
> > but instead just moves them around under the
> assumption
> > that your body can get rid of them.
> >
> > Marc
>
>
>
>





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Re: Selenium

glennhcoleman

> Is that 600mcg or mg?
> Andrew

600 mcg

Thanks for pointing this out.

Glenn

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glennhcoleman
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> Is that 600mcg or mg?
> Andrew

600 mcg

Thanks for pointing this out.

Glenn