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Hi Marc:

Just a brief reply, as I am facing a busy day and a busy next few
days! Comments below!

>Oh yes, I'm quite familiar with Dr. Ray... several years ago I
>went through about 15 ounces of his mercury chelation
>supplement "NDF". In fact, of all the mercury chelation
>supplements I've tried (over 10), NDF seemed to do the most
>good with the least amount of unnecessary side effects
>(the only ones I get from NDF is headache, dehydration,
>metallic-tasting mouth, and strong-smelling urine).

Yes, NDF sems to be good stuff, and works well for many folks, for a
variety of challenges...

>...and after a several year "break" from taking NDF, I've been
>experimenting with it again lately, as plenty of people have
>asserted that a mercury-free person is an ES-free person...

Hmmm... I suspect that you really meant to say not "mercury-free
person" but rather "persons not carrying a toxic load of mercury" and
that you employed the shorthand which you did for reasons of
brevity... I know of no life form on earth, particularly humans or
mammals, which can be at all mercury-free, as mercury naturally
exists as a trace element almost everywhere on earth and in all life
forms. It only seems to become problematic when it is found in people
(or animals) above certain levels, but it is worth pointing out that
those critical threshold levels for causation of "problems" seem to
vary quite a bit across people, and while part of the variance may be
due to nutritional status, a good part of this variance seems to be
due to genetic factors. My personal bias is that mercury load does
not seem to be too much of a problem so long as the person is getting
sufficient dietary antixidants, has the right beneficial microbes in
their gut, and is ingesting sufficient levels of selenium in their
diet (and sufficient levels of Se are very rare nowadays without
supplementation!)

BTW, for some side notes: I useta (ahem, sorry for the slang term,
but I like the word....) have a very high mercury load, as (and I
have recounted this elsewhere on the web at times) I useta have 48
amalgam filings from age 20 thru age 37, and at least 30 amalgam
fillings from age 9 on up. And, being a junior scientist nutcase
while in my grossly dysfunctional but very much fun childhood, I also
played a lot with mercury as a kid, and always spilled mercury on the
bedroom floor (which hardly mattered, as a denstist had operated from
our house many years before my parents bought it, so it already had a
high Hg load...!) I had all my amalgams pulled between 1987 and 1994,
and I feel that it was very much a worthwhile endeavor; I am
extremely glad that I did it. All tests since about 2002, including
both mainstream tests and assays by intuitives who are experienced in
this type of measure seem to indicate that my total body load of Hg
is totally in the normal range nowadays, but I spent years up till
that point doing various things to help it along its way to exit my body!

And, for a bit of thought-provoking controversy: a number of raw
foodists (I mean here the kind who eat animal foods, as do I) and raw
foods gurus with whom I am in contact feel that mercury occurring in
raw fish is harmless to humans so long as the fish is eaten raw, and
as part of a largely-raw diet, and that in fact it is probably
beneficial. In fact, I know of one group of raw foodists in Hawaii
who eat largely raw fish, and, when several of them allowed
themselves to be tested for body mercury levels a few years ago
(about 2001 or 2002), their Hg levels came back as off-the-scale
(i.e., very very high...!) and yet they were each in robust health,
with no symptoms or problems of any kind! Go figure!

with care,
--Vinny




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