EDTA & MERCURY

The Mercury Controversy


Mercury is both the most toxic of all non-radioactive
metals as well as the most ubiquitous in people.

Virtually everyone is guaranteed daily exposure to this toxic metal due
to the practice of putting this metal in dental fillings.

Some 22 million tons of mercury are put into fillings in America every
year.
To put the toxicity of
mercury in perspective, if a single silver (mercury) filling was removed from a
client's mouth and put in a ten-acre lake, the EPA would have to order a fish
advisory for the lake
Fishing,
swimming, bathing, boating in that lake would all be off limits.<span

To remove mercury, the chelators DMPS and
DMSA are often used, but both have serious drawbacks.
DMPS has been shown to
cause the following side effects
auto-reactive T-cells
increases in T-suppressor cells<
liver toxicity
kidney damage
stomach ulcers
DMSA has been shown to cause
the following side effects:
bone marrow suppression
>increases in tumor necrosis factor<
liver toxicity
nausea
diarrhea
anorexia
fatigue
flatulence

EDTA can chelate mercury without any of the side
effects associated with DMPS and DMSA, just not as quickly.  As you can see on the chart on the previous page,
EDTA makes a very
stable bond with mercury.It was previously thought that EDTA could not remove mercury in vivo. This was
believed because
it had never been seen to show up in the urine on a provocative EDTA challenge test.  This is partially correct


Under most circumstances mercury bound EDTA, will not come out of the urine, but it will come out of the stool
(but no one thought to look for it there).

You can get mercury bound EDTA to come out in the urine by giving a large amount of EDTA over a short period
of time but this is not recommended.

The kidneys are very sensitive to mercury, and if your body can get rid of the mercury through the stool, so much
the safer.


Since mercury is normally detoxified via the colonic route, EDTA
suppositories may prove to be more effective than I.V. EDTA chelation for this purpose since the highest
concentration of the EDTA in suppositories is being delivered right to the colonic mucosa.