There are other ways to take EDTA capsules but I use the tongue liquid method. I disassemble the capsule in an upright position. Then I dump the capsule under my tongue and hold it there for a minute letting the saliva dissolve the EDTA. I sip a very small amount of water and the EDTA goes into solution and I hold it in my mouth for a minute before swallowing. I feel I am getting at least 50% absorption. You may also take multivitamins using the same method. (1)

(1) http://www.chelationstory.com/chelation_regimen.htm

*Author: Marilyn in Sidney
Most illnesses have a cause, unfortunately a lot of times conditional medicine doesn’t know the cause yet, but energetic medicine does often time get at some of the causes that underlie a disease, so that you start working those causes so that the label, the condition that the patient is labeled with, goes away. And that’s what I think more doctors should be moving toward, is don’t spend so much time time trying to give the patient a label, just try to figure out what the underlying causes of that condition are so that you can start resolving the causes systematically so that finally the condition goes away.

I was wondering about people who may suspect they have toxins, either from mercury fillings, or use of aluminum pans, or whatever it is, what should they do if they suspect that they have a toxic overload and that it’s exacerbating the problem or making the Lyme worse. How do they get tested for that? Are there home tests available? Or should they go to a doctor for those?

Sadly, a lot of the mercury that comes out of the teeth goes into the brain and is tightly bound there, and if they do the wrong kind of test to look for the mercury, it won’t show up in their body. It won’t show up in their bloodstream, for sure. It might show up in their hair, if they’ve done a detoxification for a time, trying to get the mercury out of their body, sometimes it will get mobilized from the brain and end up going out in their scalp hair, and a hair analysis for heavy metals will show it up. But if they haven’t been doing a detoxification for heavy metals it won’t show likely show up in the hair analysis either.

Sometimes the only way that you can find the mercury in the body, is to do what’s called a challenge test. But if the person still has mercury amalgams in their teeth, the challenge test has some risks, because you also start mobilizing some of the mercury off the fillings that are still in the mouth, into the bloodstream, and some of that ends up going into the brain, in the wrong the direction. So, it can become a challenge to try to prove that that’s a problem.

In the Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide that I contributed to back in 1993, and also the update that came out in 2002, the Alternative Medicine Guide had a section on dentistry and the effects on health. And there was a chart in there of 1500+ patients whose mercury amalgams were removed, and the results of that were reported to the FDA. They found that well over eighty percent of the patients had a significant improvement in a variety of symptoms, just by having the mercury amalgams out. A lot of those had had the tests done, to look for mercury in their body before they had the mercury out of their teeth, and the tests were negative, but they persisted anyway and got a dentist to take the mercury out of their teeth.

In a lot of states if a dentist tells the patient that they’re toxic from the mercury amalgam in their teeth, the dentist can lose their license. So, in some states you have to take the mercury out for cosmetic reasons, because you don’t like the look of that nasty black gray stuff in your mouth. And that’s okay as long as you get the stuff out in the right way. I usually have my patients take chlorella, which is a cracked algae, before the dental procedure, and during, and after the dental procedure to try and keep the mercury from moving from in the mouth from where it’s being drilled out into the bloodstream and into the brain. And that works pretty well.

Chlorella in large doses?

Well, yes, you if you’ve had mercury amalgam in your teeth for a long time you start by taking just one capsule per day and you build up, adding another one every day as long as you’re tolerating it well, and until you get up to about 1,500 – 2,000 mgs of chlorella per day, and you keep doing that during the dental amalgam extraction process, and for several months thereafter.

A lot of dentists are not familiar with the proper techniques to get the mercury amalgam out, so they will take a large burr or a large drill bit, if you will, and kind of pulverize the whole mercury amalgam filling in the tooth and convert it into liquid and gas, and that’s the wrong way to do it because then the maximum amount of loading of the mercury into the body occurs. But if you use a very fine burr, and make a tiny crease in the amalgam, and then put an instrument in there and pop those chunks out one at a time, and dispose of them into a bio-hazard container where they belong in the first place, then you don’t have the problem as much with it getting worse, with the amalgam removal.

Mercury amalgams are about 55% mercury, and the government makes dentists handle them like nuclear reactor material before it goes into the mouth, and when it comes out of the mouth they have to handle it in the same way, in a bio-hazardous container. But the American Dental Association still tells the dentists and the patients that it’s safe when it’s inside your head. And I think that’s oxymoronic. It doesn’t even make sense.

That means that our heads are considered bio-hazard containers.

There’s a device called a mercury vapor analyzer, that device that can be stuck in your mouth after you chew a piece of gum, and it can show you how much mercury is coming off your gum every time you chew. But a lot of people who use that vapor device find that the mercury content in their mouth exceeds the Environmental Protection Agency’s recommendation for safe air.

What percentage of Lyme patients, if you just want to take a guess, have this mercury amalgam filling problem?

There are a lot of patients who have mercury in their body, who don’t have any mercury in their teeth. I see patients, even adults, who have a massive amount of mercury, and I ask them, well do you eat fish? Which is another source of possible mercury. No, I don’t eat fish. Did you ever play with mercury with your hands? No. Did you ever live close to a smelter? No. Did you ever live close to a place where they burned coal for fuel? No.

And so, when we trace it back we find is that a lot of those patients, that the mother had so much mercury amalgam in her teeth, that while she was pregnant with that patient of mine, the mercury moved from her teeth, into the bloodstream and into the patient while they were in the womb, and so they The mother had so much mercury in her teeth, that born with a load of mercury, because they can’t find any other source of mercury from their history or from their environment. So it doesn’t have to be in your own teeth, it can be in your mom’s teeth.

And it just doesn’t go away.

No, mercury is bound by the tissues and it doesn’t leave easily. So, it’s so important to start taking things like the chlorella, that bind the mercury and if you have mercury in your teeth, if you have it in their teeth. Because I don’t see patients who are leaving the mercury in their teeth getting well from Lyme disease. They continue to have to take treatment on an ongoing basis. But those who have made the decision to get the mercury and the other toxins out of the body, are getting to the point where they can stop treatment and getting well. And that’s the goal, is to not have to take treatment for the rest of your life.

I’ll say.

There’s one more thing that helps to get the mercury out of the body after you get the mercury out of the teeth. That’s a plant called algas. Algas helps to energetically shake mercury from the cells. Patients who have had chelation therapies, when they start taking algas, the mercury starts coming out, more than before they started taking it.

What is it?

It’s an algae taken from off the coast of Peru that’s been extracted in a certain way and energetically imprinted with energies to help mobilize mercury and other heavy metals. So that’s particularly helpful product. And a lot of patients I see with Lyme disease have brain fog, and there’s a great product for help for that, that’s called Pinella. It’s another Peruvian herb that’s been used for a long time, for detoxification of the brain.

Is that also available through Nutramedix?

Yes, they have the Algas and the Pinella as well. You know, that’s been one of the main focuses for the Nutramedix company over the last two or three years, trying to come up with solutions for Lyme sufferers. It’s an epidemic in this country, well over half the population are infected, and maybe a quarter of them are having symptoms from it. It’s a big problem.

You could probably talk about this for a long time, but what do you think about the way Lyme is spread? Since you just said that half the population of the country has been infected. How do you think we’re getting it?

Only a very small percentage of those have contracted Lyme disease through a tick bite, the way conventional medicine thinks. I think the most common way of spreading it is through sexual intercourse. But I think it’s also spread, and is proven in peer review medical literature, to be spread by mosquito bites. It’s likely spread by drinking unpasteurized milk from mother’s breast, or from the cows or goats, and it’s probably contracted by consuming poorly cooked meats, as well. Vertical transmission from the mother to the fetus through the placenta has also been documented, as well.

I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge and information with us today, this has been really fabulous. I hope that many more doctors come and study with you so that people start to get well.

Yes, I hope so too. We’re very interested in trying to do what we call multi-center clinical trials. Basically, just treating patients the right way, evidence-based medicine and treatment-based medicine, and collecting information from the patients as they’re going through the process, and pooling that data, if you will, so articles can be written, and so that more and more doctors can see that there is another way, and learn that way. That’s why I’m so interested in teaching whichever doctors who want to come to our conferences.

By the way, I should tell any of your listeners that want the contact information for our conferences. The ways that you can learn about the conference, is through http://www.abeim.net/ that stands for the Academy of Bio-Energetic and Integrated Medicine. And they can also contact my assistant, Susan, at (480) 361-8320. Or they can send her a fax at (480) 361- 8725. Or they can send her an email: ksa4drc@sbcglobal.net.

Hopefully some of the patients will be able to convince their health practitioners to check into this and learn that there are other ways to help their patients.

Lyme disease causes so many symptoms, and it’s probably a root cause for a lot of diseases that are considered incurable by conventional medicine, like autoimmune diseases, and neuro-degenerative diseases, and cardiovascular diseases, cardiac-arrhythmias, gastrointestinal diseases, MS, ALS, Parkinson’s, ADDHD, autism. Most of them have some kind of Lyme component. And so I’ve found that if you can start working on the Lyme and the toxins, then a lot of these labels go away.

I feel better already, just knowing there is hope. That there is some kind of real, empirically proven, or being proved, anyway, herbs, materials and medicines that we can take, not just the typical antibiotics.

I just recently saw one of my patients that was in the Lyme study, starting in January of 2003. Before she came into the study, she was eighteen years old, she’d been housebound since three years of age, she could not dress herself, she had to walk with a walker, she was having frequent anaphylactic allergy reactions, which all endangered her health. A lot of challenges with Lyme disease.

Anyway, during the course of the study she got to a point where she could actually go out of the house on dates with a boyfriend. She just recently married, she went off to college by herself in less than four years, and worked twenty-five hours a week to put herself through college. So this just shows you that you don’t have to stay sick just because you’ve been sick.

Good for her! I’m so glad to hear that. What a great model, and a great image to end our conversation with. Very hopeful. Thank you so much, I hope we can speak with you again. We’ll keep up with you and keep up with your studies.

I’d be glad to speak with you again. I hope that everyone who is listening and has Lyme disease can take hope from this, and not be discouraged, and just keep seeking answers and move forward.

I really appreciate speaking with you today. Many blessings to you!

And to you.
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Suzanne Arthur ©2006 Lyme Disease Research Database

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