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 |
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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> 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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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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--- 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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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 > > > 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 > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > |
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> 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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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...> > 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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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 > > > > __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ |
> Is that 600mcg or mg? > Andrew 600 mcg Thanks for pointing this out. Glenn |
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> Is that 600mcg or mg? > Andrew 600 mcg Thanks for pointing this out. Glenn |
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