Mercury: Toxic Amalgam 'Unsuitable for Dental Restoration'

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While the European Union is consulting stake holders in an effort to develop a strategy for limiting environmental mercury pollution, we are continuing to use mercury, which is highly neuro-toxic, in "medical" uses such as tooth fillings and vaccines. If you would like to observe how mercury acts on growing neuronal tissue, there is a film made by the University of Calgary and available here.

Unfortunately, while our awareness of environmental pollution is developing, medical use of this highly toxic substance has been justified by "experts" over the years, dismissing warning voices as irrelevant. The consequence: A growing host of neurological disorders that strikes at an ever earlier age in children and degenerative diseases that disable many of the elderly. Mercury in tooth fillings constitutes a continuous source of free radical stress as reported by Poul Møller. Consequently, "new, unexplained illnesses" have come into being in recent decades. The insidious consequences of this constant pollution of our biological "environment" and how the chemical industry in collusion with psychiatry is deflecting responsibility away from the poisons and the poisoners, are discussed in Skewed - Martin Walker's latest book.

Poul Møller, who is a retired scientist (chemical engineering), found that health trouble in his immediate family environment could be traced back to mercury poisoning. In 2002, Møller wrote to members of the European Parliament and to Health and Environment Commissioner David Byrne, pointing out the dangers of a continued use of mercury in dental fillings.

Mercury in vaccines has been linked to an epidemic of autism in children leading to recent fears of damage claims. The link between mercury and autism has been discussed in a recent book by Courtney Zietzke, father of an autistic child, who has brought together a host of documentation, published under the title Mercury : The Winged Messenger.

Clearly, with mercury accumulating in the food chain, used in tooth fillings and injected into the bodies of toddlers with vaccines, exposure is approaching intolerable levels and has shown disastrous health consequences. Two epidemics of chronic disease, the one visible in the older generation and the mental problems/autism related diseases in the youngsters may well lead back to this ubiquitous pollutant - mercury. Scientists are at a loss. No solution to these epidemics has so far been found.

Considering that chronic diseases are created by amalgam-mercury, that is, by a great surplus of free radicals, to which mercury represents a major contributing factor, it becomes obvious that, apart from limiting environmental mercury exposure, we must take steps to immediately end the "medical" use of this most poisonous of heavy metals. In the meantime, patients affected can greatly benefit from supplementation of generous quantities of antioxidants.

Regulatory efforts to limit the availability of food supplements containing such antioxidants, such as the European Directive on Food Supplements and the Codex Alimentarius proposed guidelines, would seem to run exactly contrary to the only measure that is left for avoiding a health disaster of unimaginable proportions. Møller says that such legislation is complete madness. He has written to the European Commission on 6 May 2004, arguing that the poison should be phased out - at least its use in constantly polluting metallic tooth fillings. His appeal: Stop long discussions! Act! Cut things short! Rather today than tomorrow.

Read his submission to the Commission here:

Fra: Poul Møller
Dato: tor 6 maj 2004 12:09:59 Europe/Copenhagen
Til: env-mercury-strategy@cec.eu.int
Emne: Response to strategy on mercury. Please confirm that the mail has been received in due time.

Poul Møller, Augustenborggade 21B, DK-8000 Aarhus May 6, 2004.

European Commission,
DG Environment, Unit G2 Industry,
B-1049 Brussels, Belgium

RESPONSE TO YOUR CONSULTATION ON THE STRATEGY ON MERCURY

Having a MSc degree in Chem.Eng. and a career in the food industry I do appreciate your efforts to clear up the aberrations made by chemists of my generation. Specially that you throw light on the most toxic non-radioactive heavy metal, mercury, and encourage competent citizens to send their comments to the strategy proposed. 
 
     I am retired and completely independent. Due to severe diseases of amalgam-origin in my close family I have for many years studied its connection to chronic diseases. With basic and exact documented chemistry and studies of biochemistry and biology I go from cause to disease. The medical world goes from disease to cause by selecting the statistically most significant one among a series of hypotheses. If the real cause is not included, it will not be found..

The contribution is unique, as I combine statements from Scandinavian Health Authorities and point out their confession of the severe neurotoxicity of amalgam in teeth.

I hope my comments will be dealt with by some of your unprejudiced scientists.

Kind regards
Poul Møller.

RESPONSE TO YOUR CONSULTATION ON THE STRATEGY ON MERCURY

A. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.

Gentlemen, this contribution is unique: Statements from the Scandinavian Health Authorities, when combined, confess the severe neurotoxicity of amalgam. They deal the final death blow to this horror and end the controversy. The rest is politics.

Anyone having learnt Science at High School level, physicians, dentists, chemists, must be able to realize, that the chemistry and migration of mercury, Hg, does not stop when it is placed in teeth. It exerts its aggressivity in the human body, as convincingly described below. In contrast to clinical research it is exact science, that got its documentation a century ago.

EU-citizens have 1.300 - 2.200 tonnes of Hg in their fillings, i.e. 3,5 - 6 g/capita, an awful mistake by dentistry and authorities; every atom is toxic. The release is dominant to the intake from food. We may have 3-5 g Hg in depots, more than all Persistant Organic Pollutants (POP's) taken together. Both groups seem to develop similar health effects, however, those of Hg have got no attention: They are easy to explain. Dentistry has been extremely successful in claiming amalgam safe. Thus research, where Hg plays a non-considered role, i.e. the majority, is half-done work. 
 
The Western World has two epidemics of chronic diseases: Among the elderly and among the rising generation getting physical or mental defects, diminished intelligence, autism, need of costly special education etc. Their mothers suffer from miscarriage, stillborn or premature babies. Attacks from Hg ex amalgam on vital organs will sooner or later be accepted as the common cause. School medicine diagnoses wrongly; it does not target treatment, medication and research correctly, a waste of resources of a size that will be unaffordable in a few years. A blunder of gigantic dimensions.

It is high time for the Health Authorities to remove the blinkers, take responsibility for the unlimited, reckless use of amalgam, agree to a ban and organize re-education of physicians and dentists. There is no other way ahead. Universities must become aware of toxic dentistry and teach how to recover patients correctly. It will be a great and costly task requiring a powerful order of priority. But it will prevent the disorders mentioned. Additionally Hg in all drugs and vaccines, the reason for the autism epidemics in UK and USA must be banned.

The continuous accumulation of methyl-Hg in Nature points to a substantial risk for top intelligence in the Western World and its ability of judgement.

The UN University has just issued: “The brainpower of entire nations has diminished because of a shortage of the right vitamins. The most disturbing gap between countries with good and poor nutrition is in intelligence”, said C. Garza, a Cornell Univ. professor who also leads the nutrition program at UN. “A difference of 5 to 7 IQ points does not sound like a lot, but you have to look at the tail ends of the curves. You are significantly reducing the number of gifted people and increasing the number of people with mental incapacities”.

Among the many proposals the effect of Hg is not considered. Antioxidants including anti-oxidative vitamins are destroyed by a great surplus of free radicals. Their dominant source is Hg. Thus it plays an important role. We have seen it in the last decades. Neither do we know whether our genes have been irreversibly changed by attacks on DNA during the long time of poisoning. Our biological problem is, that we have no enzymes to make all these persistent chemicals water soluble.

Other issues: The health situation is so alarming as the damage has spread to our children. Thus: Please, stop long discussions! Act! Cut things short! Rather today than tomorrow.

B. THE OFFICIAL CONFESSION OF THE DANGER OF AMALGAM.

The National Health Service of Denmark, Sundhedsstyrelsen, answered some questions by the Parliamentary Committee following my audience: Oct. 24, 2001 it wrote:

“The adviser of the Health Department calls attention to the neurotoxicity of inorganic mercury. Further, he states, that organic mercury is strongly neurotoxic with extensive damage on the central nervous system and the peripheral nerves. The department agrees, but these cases of severe chronic poisoning are not t