Why All This Debate on Heavy Metals?

There are certain heavy metals that are required by the human body. Iron, cobalt, copper, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc are heavy metals required for human function. Excessive levels of any of these, however, are harmful to our bodies. But there are other heavy metals that have no known benefit to the human body and can cause serious harm as they accumulate over time in our bodies. These heavy metals are mercury, lead, and plutonium. The one we focus on is mercury since it is present in fillings in our mouth. In our office, we stopped providing mercury fillings as a treatment option in 1994. There is still a great debate on whether mercury is really harmful in dental products, but not in our office. That debate ended in 1994 for us.

So what does a heavy metal do that is so harmful? I’m going to try and explain the problem by using the operation of a large warehouse as an example. The warehouse is the cell in our body that is constantly taking the product in and shipping products out. Now let’s assume this warehouse has 100 truck docks for shipping and receiving. The warehouse operates by some semi’s bringing supplies and others taking them away for delivery to another site. If the semi’s coming in with supplies( nutrients) don’t leave the dock, then eventually the warehouse has no way of shipping the products (waste and finished product) way to other sites ( such as liver, kidney, and bowels). With all of this product backing up, the warehouse has to find another way to operate the shipping process. The warehouse manager begins to change how they operate ( mutation) and before long the warehouse isn’t the same anymore. Things are stacked up because of the efficient removal of the waste and product no longer exists. Another problem is that they no longer get the supplies they need because the incoming semis have no place to dock or at least a much smaller number of docks to unload at. The whole function now has been changed. This happens to billions of cells in our bodies when heavy metal accumulates. So my question is “why do we allow these heavy semis to come to our warehouses in the first place?” We have no reason to expose our bodies to any dosage of these metals. Even the required heavy metals have a level at which they are dangerous. So we have warehouses that allow them to dock only at 5 of the 100 docking area, so they are controlled since they are required in order to function. But we should place a “not allowed to dock” sign for the others such as mercury and lead.

When a cell mutates in this way, the product it makes is no longer the same. It causes other cells that need their product to change as well. Before long the whole body is in poor shape because of the inefficient operation on the warehouses. As a result, these metals contribute to Alzheimer’s, chronic fatigue syndrome, Lou Gehrig’s disease, muscular dystrophy, heart problems, PMS like symptoms and more.

In the mouth, you can see tissue irritation, bleeding gums, and discolorations from the heavy metals present in the oral cavity. There can be a bad or metallic taste as well. The bacterial flora can change as well if the PH of the oral cavity is changed by the presence of these heavy metals. Of course, there are other chemicals ( and medications) that can cause some of these diseases, but why to subject your body to anything that you know has a high probability to harm itself.