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Cutler A
[Previous Poster: There is a lab that currently does this and they are finding that mercury is being released - especiallywhen taking a Loading dose of Iodoral (pill form of Iodine / Iodide). They are only in the beginning stages of this but have been working on it for several years. So before you discredit this]
Cutler: "It is completely discredited
by current and existing data.
"The knowledge of both research and basic physiology suggested by
the above discussion also essentially guarantees the results are
of no utility....
"I don't dispute there is a lot of benefit for many people in taking adequate iodide, I simply dispute that it increases mercury and lead clearance to a clinically significant extent, or helps clear it out of any relevant body compartment. I am correct in that view, too, it isn't a matter on which opinions may legitimately differ among any with expertise."
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Cutler A
"Iodide does not help you detoxify any heavy metals."
Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment [book]
Cutler AH
Here are a few comments from Andy Cutler's book:
"Mercury catalyzes oxidation of important parts of your body. The part it messes up the most is the membranes around and inside cells. It sticks to sulfhydryl groups that are present on membranes. Then it catalyzes oxidation of the unsaturated compounds in the membranes. This destroys the essential fatty acids that your body can't replace. It also destroys the phospholipids (like phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine) that hold the membrane together. Since the membrane is damaged, it does not perform its function of passing signals along properly so lots and lots of messages your body needs to pass around become garbled. This is why it affects the brain so severely - the message center of your body is the most sensitive to garbled messages. This is also why it affects the endocrine system so much - your hormones are really part of a complicated communications system that carries messages around to make your body do the appropriate physiological thing."
"Mercury also oxidizes the proteins inside your cells. These hold the cell together, keeping things like your DNA in the right place, they are enzymes that catalyze reactions, and they are receptors that receive signals. Many enzymes work because they hold a particular metal atom in their "active site" so that it is in just the right place to catalyze the particular reaction that enzyme causes. Mercury likes to sit in these active sites, so it kicks the proper metal atom out and deactivates the enzyme."
"By catalyzing oxidation, mercury also creates free radicals that attack your DNA and mutate it. These mutations make your cells work less efficiently, and if enough happen, the cells die, or worseyet turn cancerous."
"Mercury concentrates in and near a part of your brain called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is responsible for your memory, moods and emotions, and how your hormones, breathing and heartbeat work. It also concentrates in your liver, which is responsible for getting rid of natural and synthetic chemicals in the food you eat and from other sources. Mercury is also absorbed by the immune system, and makes it attack innocent bystanders like pollen or your body parts instead of the bacteria and viruses it is supposed to fight." (p30)
"You can protect yourself against mercury by taking antioxidants to prevent the damage it is doing, essential fatty acids and other things that sit in membranes to repair the damage, and chemicals with lots of sulfhydryl groups for the mercury to hold on to so it can be excreted from your body." (p 31)
"Mercury can interfere with the production of a hormone, the way it interacts with its receptor, or the way the receptor makes things happen in the cell." (p 33)
"The chelating agents DMPS and DMSA increase urinary excretion of mercury. For every 2 units of mercury that come out in urine under ordinary conditions, 5 come out in feces. Thus taking enough DMPS to increase the day's urine level of mercury (250 mg iv) actually only doubles the total excretion. Thus, taking DMPS iv once a month would appear to increase overall mercury excretion about 3%. DMPS IV's have side effects and can also have dangerous adverse reactions. It addition, they are costly. It hardly seems worthwhile.
"The side effects seem to be from grabbing a bunch of mercury, stirring it up, and dropping it as the DMPS level goes down....
"Again anecdotally, 100 mg of DMSA every 4 hours approximately doubles the day's urine mercury, increasing total excretion about 28%." (p 206)
Mercury Detox: Information, Tools, and Resources
Andy Cutler's Website