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I have had a few conversations over the last couple of days that prompted me to do some new research on the link between IBS and mercury.
I am not a doctor or dentist, nor am I advocating any course of action for an individual to take regarding their health.
With that said, I barely scratched the surface of information that is available on the net regarding the correlation between mercury and IBS.
Here is just a taste of what is out there-I know I have cherry picked quotes out of articles...this is not to discount other possible causes of IBS, but to illustrate that mercury is One of the causes of IBS.
IBS is the number one digestive problem in the USA.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional disorder of the bowel that may include the symptoms of bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, and cramps over an extended period of time. The intensity of these symptoms can range from mildly irritating, to altogether disabling. In contrast to Inflammatory Bowel Disease, there is no physical change noted in the digestive tract with IBS. According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately 1 in 5 Americans have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, though women are affected by IBS three times more often than men.
Causes
There is not a single clear reason as to what causes Irritable Bowel Syndrome as it generally has a number of intertwined causes. Almost all mainstream medical institutions declare that there is no known cause for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. They speculate that it may arise as a result of stress or diet, with the symptoms of IBS usually beginning around age 20.
Some believe that one major cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome could be heavy metal toxicity, particularly from mercury dental amalgams.
Although mercury is a naturally occuring substance, it is extremely poisonous in the human body. In "Mercury on the Mind," Donald Miller relates how a person attempting to smelt silver from several dental amalgams he obtained, heated them in a frying pan. The mercury vapor that was generated soon killed him. Two other family members in the home at the time died soon after.
Mercury amalgams
Most mercury amalgams are composed of approximately 50% mercury, 35% silver and 15% tin, copper and/or zinc. Mercury is the major ingredient amounting to about one-half gram per amalgam. In the words of Professor Boyd Haley of the University of Kentucky, that is a "colossal" amount of mercury in scientific terms—as much, in fact, as is in a thermometer. A teenager with six fillings has six mercury thermometers worth of mercury in his or her mouth.
Diseases / Syndromes Associated with Mercury Toxicity
MERCURY FILLINGS AND HOW THEY DESTROY YOUR HEALTH!!!
MERCURY FACTS AND HEALTH CONCERNS.
Those "silver" fillings in your mouth are actually 50% or slightly more mercury. There is only about 35% silver in them along with 9% tin and 6% copper. The mercury is not inert or stable as you may have been told. In fact, every time you eat something acidic, hot or chew at all or brush your teeth, mercury gasses off directly into your system (80% of inhaled mercury goes to your lungs) and via your bloodstream, settles in various organs of the body, particularly the nervous system, liver, kidney, thyroid, pituitary, prostate, testes, ovaries and pancreas.
In a study done on over 1300 patients, symptoms were reported which ranged from:
....
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
...
Another study shows of 1569 people shows that 15% (231) of them had gastrointestinal problems, when they had the mercury containing dental fillings removed 83% of them (192 of the 231) were cured or experienced significant improvement.
Alternative Medicine London: Dr. Bourne Tackles IBS through Mercury Poisoning Treatment
Chronic mercury poisoning from so called ‘silver’ dental amalgam fillings is sometimes also implicated, in which case Dr. Bourne addresses this problem.
Irritable bowel syndrome is an epidemic in the United States. More than 5% of the population is afflicted by "idiopathic" (cause unknown) bowel discomfort, urgency, and diarrhea type symptoms. IBS can progress to colitis, but is different in that colonoscopy finds no obvious pathological changes in the bowel. Whereas with colitis there is observable erosions and often bleeding. IBS and idiopathic colitis very likely represent a spectrum of disease/condition progression.
Attempts at pharmaceutical drugs to treat the symptoms of IBS have produced results that are more dangerous than the condition itself. Presently there is no magic drug to treat this problem.
Yet a number of people have been able to achieve substantial relief by sleuthing out their own situation, performing trial and error experiments to determine what personally eliminates their symptoms.
The approach we believe most likely to gain success is the "irritant - reaction" view. Something in a person's diet and/or environment is providing an irritant that is causing allergic and immune type reactions in the gut. Under this view the most important investigation to conduct is isolating and eliminating one's source of irritants.
The first place to look is in the mouth. Recent science shows that a significant percentage of the population is reactive to the dental metals in their teeth. Nickel, mercury, and gold are the three most common dental metals that people have been objectively demonstrated via MELISA® test to produce immune reactions. As long as offensive metals in the mouth are releasing ions into the gut, IBS will be an ongoing problem.
http://www.jigsawhealth.com/articles...me-causes.html
Mercury poisoning:
Mercury poisoning
Alternative Medicine London: Dr. Bourne Tackles IBS through Mercury Poisoning Treatment - Free-Press-Release.com
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
I am not a doctor or dentist, nor am I advocating any course of action for an individual to take regarding their health.
With that said, I barely scratched the surface of information that is available on the net regarding the correlation between mercury and IBS.
Here is just a taste of what is out there-I know I have cherry picked quotes out of articles...this is not to discount other possible causes of IBS, but to illustrate that mercury is One of the causes of IBS.
IBS is the number one digestive problem in the USA.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional disorder of the bowel that may include the symptoms of bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, and cramps over an extended period of time. The intensity of these symptoms can range from mildly irritating, to altogether disabling. In contrast to Inflammatory Bowel Disease, there is no physical change noted in the digestive tract with IBS. According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately 1 in 5 Americans have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, though women are affected by IBS three times more often than men.
Causes
There is not a single clear reason as to what causes Irritable Bowel Syndrome as it generally has a number of intertwined causes. Almost all mainstream medical institutions declare that there is no known cause for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. They speculate that it may arise as a result of stress or diet, with the symptoms of IBS usually beginning around age 20.
Some believe that one major cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome could be heavy metal toxicity, particularly from mercury dental amalgams.
Although mercury is a naturally occuring substance, it is extremely poisonous in the human body. In "Mercury on the Mind," Donald Miller relates how a person attempting to smelt silver from several dental amalgams he obtained, heated them in a frying pan. The mercury vapor that was generated soon killed him. Two other family members in the home at the time died soon after.
Mercury amalgams
Most mercury amalgams are composed of approximately 50% mercury, 35% silver and 15% tin, copper and/or zinc. Mercury is the major ingredient amounting to about one-half gram per amalgam. In the words of Professor Boyd Haley of the University of Kentucky, that is a "colossal" amount of mercury in scientific terms—as much, in fact, as is in a thermometer. A teenager with six fillings has six mercury thermometers worth of mercury in his or her mouth.
Diseases / Syndromes Associated with Mercury Toxicity
MERCURY FILLINGS AND HOW THEY DESTROY YOUR HEALTH!!!
MERCURY FACTS AND HEALTH CONCERNS.
Those "silver" fillings in your mouth are actually 50% or slightly more mercury. There is only about 35% silver in them along with 9% tin and 6% copper. The mercury is not inert or stable as you may have been told. In fact, every time you eat something acidic, hot or chew at all or brush your teeth, mercury gasses off directly into your system (80% of inhaled mercury goes to your lungs) and via your bloodstream, settles in various organs of the body, particularly the nervous system, liver, kidney, thyroid, pituitary, prostate, testes, ovaries and pancreas.
In a study done on over 1300 patients, symptoms were reported which ranged from:
....
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
...
Another study shows of 1569 people shows that 15% (231) of them had gastrointestinal problems, when they had the mercury containing dental fillings removed 83% of them (192 of the 231) were cured or experienced significant improvement.
Alternative Medicine London: Dr. Bourne Tackles IBS through Mercury Poisoning Treatment
Chronic mercury poisoning from so called ‘silver’ dental amalgam fillings is sometimes also implicated, in which case Dr. Bourne addresses this problem.
Irritable bowel syndrome is an epidemic in the United States. More than 5% of the population is afflicted by "idiopathic" (cause unknown) bowel discomfort, urgency, and diarrhea type symptoms. IBS can progress to colitis, but is different in that colonoscopy finds no obvious pathological changes in the bowel. Whereas with colitis there is observable erosions and often bleeding. IBS and idiopathic colitis very likely represent a spectrum of disease/condition progression.
Attempts at pharmaceutical drugs to treat the symptoms of IBS have produced results that are more dangerous than the condition itself. Presently there is no magic drug to treat this problem.
Yet a number of people have been able to achieve substantial relief by sleuthing out their own situation, performing trial and error experiments to determine what personally eliminates their symptoms.
The approach we believe most likely to gain success is the "irritant - reaction" view. Something in a person's diet and/or environment is providing an irritant that is causing allergic and immune type reactions in the gut. Under this view the most important investigation to conduct is isolating and eliminating one's source of irritants.
The first place to look is in the mouth. Recent science shows that a significant percentage of the population is reactive to the dental metals in their teeth. Nickel, mercury, and gold are the three most common dental metals that people have been objectively demonstrated via MELISA® test to produce immune reactions. As long as offensive metals in the mouth are releasing ions into the gut, IBS will be an ongoing problem.
http://www.jigsawhealth.com/articles...me-causes.html
Mercury poisoning:
Mercury poisoning
Alternative Medicine London: Dr. Bourne Tackles IBS through Mercury Poisoning Treatment - Free-Press-Release.com
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
..at least I will be starting to detox through the IV's the years of buildup, although I have to wait for that also, as it is a process.
WHOO HOOO 
SNOW IS HERE!!! 
It really depends on personal decision and physical condition, and I am thinking, doing chelation and removing a lifetime of metal buildup might be enough for me.....I might not NEED the removal of fillings right now. Or ever. So since I obsess endlessly, 
I still don't know what to do about the fillings, but might just leave them for a while and see how the chelation does alone for my IBS pain. 
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