A recent study published in the Journal of Toxicological Sciences 2010, shows that chlorella, a single-celled organism that has been used for many years as a herbal supplement, can help flush methylmercury from your system.

Mice fed methylmercury were given chlorella, and the amount of methylmercury excreted in their urine and feces was approximately twice the amount excreted by mice not treated with chlorella.

Methylmercury is a neurotoxic compound widely used in industrial applications. It accumulates in fish, which has led to widespread advisories against fish consumption by pregnant women.

The study’s authors report

"These results suggest that the intake of chlorella may induce the excretion of Hg [mercury] both in feces and urine ... The effect of chlorella on the tissue mercury accumulation may become evident in a long-term experiment."

Chlorella acts as an efficient detoxification agent by binding to toxins, such as mercury, in your body and carrying them out of your system. It is the chlorophyll in chlorella that makes it so powerful, as chlorophyll helps you process more oxygen, cleanses your blood and promotes the growth and repair of your tissues.

If you've received a vaccine, had or have silver (mercury) fillings in your mouth, or eat a lot of fish, it's highly likely you have some level of mercury in your system.

One of the major routes of exposure to heavy metals in the United States, aside from vaccines and dental fillings, is eating fish.

Mercury is released from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, cement kilns and certain types of mining activities. Once in the air, the toxic mercury rains down into bodies of water. From there it is converted by bacteria into a particularly dangerous form called methylmercury, where it finds its way into fish, accumulating especially in fish that are higher up the food chain.

The National Resources Defense Council points out, for instance, that predatory fish such as large tuna, swordfish, shark and mackerel can have mercury concentrations in their bodies that are 10,000 times higher than those of their surrounding environment!

It's because of this bioaccumulation that about 40 percent of all U.S. exposure to mercury comes from eating contaminated tuna. And roughly 75 percent of all human exposure to mercury in general comes from eating fish. I believe that our local fish here in Ireland has less mercury contamination due to cleaner oceans but these larger fish would still have some levels of mercury.

Its probably a prudent recommendation not to eat large amounts of these large fish, especially if you’re a pregnant woman, however smaller fatty fish like sardines, herring, trout, salmon and halibut are ultimately healthy

Dental amalgam fillings are also made from about 50 percent mercury and the rest an amalgam of silver, tin, copper, zinc and other metals. It's an ironic fact that the metallic mercury used by dentists to manufacture dental amalgam is shipped as a hazardous material to the dental office. Any amalgam leftover is also treated as hazardous and requires special precautions to dispose of.

Yet you could walk out of the dentist office with same toxic fillings into your mouth.

Symptoms of toxic build-up due to chronic metal exposure include:

·         Fatigue

·         Digestive distress, and reduced ability to properly assimilate and utilize fats

·         Aching joints

·         Depression

·         Impaired blood sugar regulation

·         Female reproductive problems such as menstrual difficulties, infertility, miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, pregnancy-induced hypertension and premature birth

I combine chlorella and other natural heavy metal chelators at the clinic for people who want to take natural herbs to gradually detoxify their body for heavy metals such as mercury. Contact the clinic for more information.

 

In Health

Gabriel