A good way to counteract the mercury would be to take the supplement chlorella 30 minutes or so before the fish meal. The chlorella works like a sponge and binds to toxic metals in the gut so that they do not find their way into your body.
Anyone wanna shed light if this is true ?
I initially read that as “Cholera: Good Against Mercury”. I think it would be since any and all polutants would be shit out before they could be absorbed. [/tangent]
Funny you bring this up. I might have some metal poisoning from years of eating the cheapest tuna I could find, while going to College etc…But over the last 10-12 weeks I switched to fresh fish instead. I still might have some mercury in my system, due to my mid-auxilary fold been very stagnant while dieting, so this past week I have been taking this stuff called “Ultimate Greens” which is very rich in Cholera. Hope it does the trick…Will find out Saturday, haha
GJ
[quote]300andabove wrote:
A good way to counteract the mercury would be to take the supplement chlorella 30 minutes or so before the fish meal. The chlorella works like a sponge and binds to toxic metals in the gut so that they do not find their way into your body.
Anyone wanna shed light if this is true ?[/quote]
That’s what I’ve read as well. Another substance that is supposed to be good for metal detox is a clay called zeolite. It’s been productized by Waiora as cellular zeolite. Same concept as chlorella in that there’s a “molecular shell” that attracts and holds the metal ions. Even though the clay contains aluminum - it’s in a non-biologically available form, so the body doesn’t absorb it but instead excretes it.
I haven’t used the product, however, and so can’t vouch for its effects but I can say that the clay was used - with good effect - after Chernobyl to treat children with strontium poisoning.
Well, there are two different points of view on this. The Doctor whom I saw for mercury detoxification said that there was no good studies on using Chlorella and he noticed that a number of his patients didn’t do well with it.
The biochemist Andrew Cutler, who is one of the leading voices in mercury chelation warns sternly against using chorella as a binding agent.
Another leading voice, Dr. Klinghardt, uses chlorella in his practice.
My suggestion, proceed with caution. Fish is probably not a great source of mercury for most people. So, if you are eating fish and that is your main source of mercury, I would just let it go, don’t worry about it. I happen to feel that you need to be more worried if you have mercury (silver) amalgams in your mouth.
I have a thread devoted to that subject, if you want to search for it.
In any case, don’t screw around with mercury chelation without reading up on the subject. Sometimes, if you dont know what you are doing, you can stir the mercury up in your body and it will redistribute, instead of passing out of your body. It could, in that case, cause more problems.
Recently, Dr. Boyd Haley, who is head of chemistry at University of Kentucky and also a leading mercury researcher, has come out with a product called OSR (Oxidative Stress Relief). I am hearing a lot of good things about this chelator. Right now it is only available through select doctors but should be available over the counter (over the Internet anyway!) sometime in late January or February.