Your food and dental fillings may be to blame for your inability to lose weight
THERE are many people who have difficulty in achieving their health and fitness goals, despite disciplined training and nutritional programmes.
Training programmes will vary in nature and suitability to a client. The deciding factor will be the skill and experience of the coach but a major road-block to fat loss, health and vitality can be exposure to heavy-metal toxicity.
There have been thousands of chemicals added to our food supply and the environment since the 1950s and these chemicals can play havoc with our nervous systems. The link between the use of silver mercury amalgams, otherwise known as fillings, must be questioned as a likely culprit to ill health.
Hazardous
The US Environmental Protection Agency compiles a priority list of hazardous substances each year. Out of 275 substances on the 2007 list, mercury was number three, behind arsenic and lead. If mercury is a poison outside the body and it is dangerous when it is spilled on the floor, why do doctors and dentists routinely assure the public it is safe when it is in your mouth as part of silver-coloured amalgam dental fillings?
Mercury has been linked to many neurological disorders but the American Dental Association in 1984 stated that: “When mercury is combined with the metals used in dental amalgam, its toxic properties are made harmless.”
However Schoonover and Sounder (1941), Mateer and Reitz (1970), stated that: “It is a well-known fact that amalgams of every known composition corrodes.” But is that the case with silver mercury amalgams?
In 1982, a study from the University of Iowa showed it was possible for some mercury to escape from amalgam fillings. In 1985, another study demonstrated unequivocally that mercury vapour is continually released from amalgam fillings in measurable quantities.
The question then arises — where does the mercury go? A study published in the scientific journal FASEB focused on 12 sheep, who were given radioactive-tagged fillings. After 30 days, the mercury from the fillings was present everywhere in the sheep’s bodies. The highest amounts of “leaking mercury vapour” was found in the kidneys and faeces.
The study was questioned because sheep chew more than humans so a similar study was conducted, this time using monkeys, as they shared similar chewing activity and facial structures with humans.
The results were the same and within 60 days the animals’ kidney function had decreased by 54pc. They also excreted more salt, which increased dehydration which can result in hypertension and high blood pressure.
Victims of acute metal toxicity make the Six-One News, but far more people suffer adverse effects from low level, chronic exposure to multiple metals. Because the symptoms may develop over many years, and are often interchangeable with other signs of poor health, sufferers rarely recognise slowly accumulating mercury and other metals as the culprits.
Thus, although everyone carries some toxic load, not everyone shows obvious and distinguishing ill effects, as we may be affected differently. After all, fatigue, digestive stress, aching joints and depression — to name just a few everyday ills — are considered normal in our increasingly sick society.
The dose, duration, manner of exposure, genetic propensity, diet quality and stress levels combine to determine the degree of ill effects. Good nutrition is key because a deficiency of vital metals will lead to their replacement by toxic metals.
Lead will replace calcium, for example; cadmium will replace zinc; and aluminium and nickel will replace magnesium and manganese. In time this can lead to physiological dysfunction and therefore illness.
Sadly, it no longer takes decades or even years to become toxic. Babies are born toxic because mercury and other metals pass through the placenta from toxic mothers. The National Academy of Sciences in the US estimates that over 60,000 children there are born each year at risk of life-long problems because of dangerous levels of mercury in their mothers.
Detoxification
A good nutritional programme that encompasses fresh foods will contain the nutrients to aid detoxification. Good quality proteins contain sulphur, which contains amino acids necessary for detoxification, immune support and anti-oxidant protection. Zinc also protects us from the toxic metal cadmium and is critical to many metabolic pathways.
Removing mercury will help a person lean out but remember that the symptoms are individual and wide-ranging. Blood tests can tell definitively whether you are affected or not.
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