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any mercury in the lab for the last couple of years. And then he went on rare diseases, but they don’t check for mercury,
and talked about a whole bunch of other stuff. Later, I was reading the which most of their Parkinson’s patients have.
medical books, and they all say that mercury poisoning is an occupational Instead of doing something that would make
disease, and no one gets it unless they work with mercury. They suggest all of them better, they give them drugs to let
you can rule the diagnosis out if you ask the patient whether they work them last longer while they slowly suffer and
with mercury and they say no. And that’s what he did. If he would have die. They are doing their job, and patients think
run a test at that point, he could have saved me ten years of grief. But he they are doing their job.
didn’t. He was a sharp guy and knew exactly what the books said and
did it by the book. HG: And people think, “Oh, I have ALS, or
I have MS. This is my prognosis and there is
HG: I imagine that a large portion of the population is also mercury-toxic nothing to do.” And yet, you are suggesting that
and is unaware of it because they don’t work with mercury. They think mercury is the underlying problem and it can
their symptoms are from something else. Can you describe some of the be addressed?
symptoms of mercury toxicity?
AC: Yes, the problem is that everybody has their
AC: Yes, the symptoms have disease names—chronic fatigue, allergies, head turned toward this expectation that they
asthma, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease, lupus, diabetes and know what’s wrong and know what is going to
depression, which is a very common symptom. If you read the medical happen, and that doesn’t motivate them to do
literature, you find out that the books are much better than what actual the rational thing. So people think, “I have this
doctors do nowadays. The older books are written by doctors who saw disease, I am going to die and there is no hope.”
a lot of mercury-poisoned patients and realized it. Now, they see a lot of But the rational thing would be to step back
mercury patients, but they miss it all the time because they don’t real- from medicine, from the white coat and say,
ize what they are seeing. They read the old books and recite stuff and “Maybe I have something else. I really ought
make it sound kind of silly. But if you read the old books, they talk about to check for something else because a lot of the
how the first symptoms are psychological things that are really hard to other stuff can be cured.” But instead, once the
catch. You think they are depressed, but really it is mercury. You get doctor says that they have MS or their child is
social withdrawal and other symptoms that they don’t complain about autistic, or whatever, they hear it and that’s it,
because it doesn’t bother them, and that is mercury. And then later they that’s the way it is.
become emotionally volatile, agitated or depressed. They get tired, their
blood pressure goes up. The list goes on and on. It can look like ALS HG: Yes, there is an acceptance. Let’s say I’m
[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis], it can look like Parkinson’s disease. In the a person who wants to investigate what the
Parkinson’s disease section of the medical texts, they won’t tell you to root cause of my illness is and see whether it is
check for mercury. You might find one that says that mercury poisoning indeed mercury toxicity. How would I go about
can be confused with Parkinson’s disease, but the books will say to check finding that out?
for rare conditions that could be confused with Parkinson’s disease. So
doctors check for all this rare stuff, which, being rare, almost nobody AC: Well, that’s kind of the rub, because most
has. They may go through their whole career and not find one of these doctors will assure you that it can’t be. So you

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