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Wise Traditions Podcast Interviews

INTERVIEW WITH DR. ANDREW CUTLER, PhD, PE

Note: Podcast Episode 48 originally aired on population could be at risk. Tell us more about
August 31, 2016. Andy Cutler passed away the how you got to the bottom of the fillings being
following summer, on July 29, 2017. the culprit for your illness.

Hilda Labrada Gore: Dr. Andy Cutler has a AC: I was spending lots of time going to the
PhD in chemistry from Princeton and a bach- doctor and not really getting much help or infor-
elor’s degree in physics from the University of mation. I also was spending considerable time
California. Andy is a pioneer of a unique form of looking up medical information in the library
chelation and author of the book, Amalgam Ill- and realizing that I was getting really sick, and
ness: Diagnosis and Treatment. At one time, he doctors didn’t understand how sick I was or why
struggled with symptoms that no doctor could I was sick. Finally, somebody convinced me
explain, and when he found the root cause, he to see the local “witch doctor”—a term I use
made it his mission to turn things around both affectionately. (I hope any physicians listening
for his own benefit and for the benefit of count- don’t take that personally.) I was surprised that
less others. His problem was mercury toxicity. they basically said, “You have mercury poison-
The chelation protocol that Andy went on to de- ing from your fillings.” Their words brought
Hilda Labrada Gore
is an enthusiastic velop is safe and successful where many others flooding back to me memories of asking my
communicator, health are not. Andy, I understand you are a chemist, dentist about the mercury and the fillings and
coach and fitness and you discovered that you had mercury poi- him saying, “Oh, it’s passive, blah blah blah.”
professional. She is soning when you were working in a lab. Is that Months later, I was taking a physical chemistry
the producer and where you got it? class where I learned better than that, but it
host of the Wise had never occurred to me in the intervening
Traditions podcast, Andy Cutler: No, I didn’t get poisoned in the twenty years to put the two together. The dentist
which to date has
over one million lab, despite working with a long list of hor- couldn’t possibly be right, the mercury had to
downloads, and also rible chemicals at various times. I got poisoned be getting out. Since there’s a long history in
is the DC co-chapter from the fillings in my teeth and probably from chemistry of people managing to get themselves
leader for WAPF. Mercurochrome [a mercury-based topical mercury-poisoned, it is a very well understood
She is passionate antiseptic]. I may, at some point, have had a occupational risk. People know it is very dan-
about wellness on significant occupational exposure, but that was gerous and have some idea of the symptoms. It
every level, which years before I got extremely sick, and it wasn’t became pretty clear to me what was going on.
is why she is known the big contributor.
as “holistic Hilda”
(holistichilda.com). HG: So all the other doctors whom you con-
She is a blogger, HG: You got poisoned by the fillings in your sulted with, except for this alternative doctor,
speaker and teeth? Wait a minute, a lot of people have fill- didn’t suspect mercury poisoning?
consultant for those ings.
who want to launch AC: Didn’t suspect it? It’s not true that they
their own podcasts. AC: And the “silver” ones really aren’t silver— didn’t suspect it. It is really interesting. One of
She lives in they are mercury with a little bit of silver holding the doctors who was pretty good, early on in
Washington, D.C., them together. the process asked about what I do for a living
with her husband,
children and and whether I had worked with mercury. And I
dog and cat. HG: It seems to me that a good part of the thought about it and said no, there hadn’t been

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