Mercury Poisoning Can Mimic The Symptoms of Candida

Mercury Poisoning, Candida Yeast, Or Is It Both?

If you have chronic yeast infections or candida you must look into the possibility of mercury poisoning. The general line of thought is the body produces yeast as a defense against excess metals. The yeast cell binds and absorbs its own weight in mercury and prevents it from entering the blood stream. What the yeast can't deal with is disposed of as methyl mercury.

Methyl mercury now goes everywhere as it passes through the intestinal wall. The body's macrophages and master antioxidant glutathione try to clean up and detoxify this on-going mess. At some point they become weakened and depleted, tired, and worn out.

In an article in the November 28, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, "Mercury, fish oils, and the risks of myocardial infarction," the authors stated: "Mercury may promote arteriosclerosis and hence increase the risk of myocardial infarction in several ways. Mercury promotes the production of free radicals…and may bind selenium [so that it] cannot serve as a cofactor for glutathione peroxidase. Mercury may…inactivate the antioxidant properties of glutathione, catalase, and superoxide dismutase. Mercury may induce lipid peroxidation, and mercury levels were a strong predictor of oxidized LDL levels…. Mercury compounds can also promote platelet aggregability and blood coagulability, inhibit endothelial-cell formation and migration, and affect apoptosis and the inflammatory response. Increased rates of cardiovascular disease were found in mercury-exposed workers, and mercury levels in hair predicted the progression of carotid arteriosclerosis in a longitudinal study."

The article found that mercury levels were directly associated with the risk of myocardial infarction (heart attacks), and that this partially offset the protective effects of DHA derived from eating fish.

The New England Journal editorialized: "The notion that methyl mercury contributes to cardiovascular disease is certainly a testable hypothesis and one that warrants further testing."

At Michael Biamonte's health clinic, testing the mercury levels in his patients with various illnesses. Michael found that 84% of his patients with candida had elevated mercury levels, and that they were 60% higher than normal. The exact same numbers held for patients with parasites. 86% of patients with Epstein Barr Virus had mercury levels elevated by 68%. For those with chemical sensitivities 85% were 70% elevated and with chronic urinary tract infections 82% were 68% elevated. Most other conditions were much lower.

Dr. J. Trowbridge has written in his book "The Yeast Syndrome," that some doctors specializing in candida treatment have reported to him that they have discovered clinically that 98% of their patients with chronic candida also had mercury toxicity.

Recently the Environmental Protection Agency said, "One in every six women of childbearing age has enough mercury in their bloodstream to cause neurological damage to their unborn children."

Mercury accumulation levels in females are 2:1 over males. It accumulates in the central nervous system, the endocrine system, and every major organ, as well as the body at large.

It disrupts the pituitary, thyroid, hypocampus and adrenal gland. These disruptions help bring on fatigue, mind fog, short term memory loss, concentration problems, and headaches. People can lose their sense of balance. Women can develop early menopause and endodemitriosis from loss of proper hormone regulation.

If you have chronic yeast infections or candida you must look into the mercury connection. It binds to the yeast cell wall and when the yeast cell becomes saturated or has absorbed all it can, roughly its own weight, it disposes of the rest as methyl mercury.

Methyl mercury now goes everywhere as it passes thru the intestinal wall. The body's macrophages and glutathione try to clean up and detoxify this on going mess. At some point they become weakened, tired, and worn out. This weakening of the immune system hinders the bodies ability to heal.

It is a viscious circle that can go on forever if you do not remove the mercury while treating yourself for candida.

If this not enough; Drs. Mark Lustberg, of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Ellen Silbergeld, of Johns Hopkins University, compared data gathered from the 2000 U.S. census and the massive Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

From this data and survey they estimated that 29 million people in the US had high levels, 20 mcg/dL or higher, of lead in their body's. Death rates of those in the study were also examined. The results turned out to be a little disturbing.

They found that blood lead levels ranging from as little as "20 to 29 mcg per dL were associated with a 39 percent increase in mortality from all causes. These low levels also were associated with a 46 percent increase in mortality from cardiovascular diseases, and a whopping 68 percent increase in mortality due to cancer".

Even lower blood lead levels, "measuring from 10 to 19 mcg/dL were associated with a significant 17 percent increase in mortality from all causes and 46 percent increase in mortality from cancer, when compared with blood lead levels less than 10 mcg/dL".

There are no safe lead levels!

Mental Mercury poisoning symptoms can include:

Depression with fatigue and a lack of motivation

Feelings of hopelessness, fear, or impending doom

Personal relationships can become impaired

Becoming shy and avoiding social relationships

Restlessness, loss of self-control, and poor judgment

Intelligence can deteriorate as you become dull and slow thinking

Memory problems from lack of concentration

Periods of no dreaming activity or dreams become black and white

Irritability, excitability, fearfulness, restlessness, melancholy, depression, weakness, timidity, fatigue, indecisiveness, and headaches can all be symptoms at one time or another

Easily upset and embarrassed

Quarrelsome and neglect work and family

Loss of patience

Brain fog

Early physical mercury poisoning symptoms can include:

Dizziness

Dry Skin

Asthma

Ringing in the ears

Daytime drowsiness

Loss of appetite

Cold hands and feet

Digestive problems

Increasing sensitivity to light

Profuse sweating or don't sweat at all

Reddening of the skin, especially face and neck

Tendency towards diarrhea alternating with constipation

Athletes feet and toenail fungus

Hair becomes dry, brittle, and thin

Receding gum lines that sometimes are spongy or bleed easily

Loose teeth, excessive salivation and bad breathe

Loss of sense of smell and hearing

A feeling of tightness around the head

Heart racing for no apparent reason

Women may experience profuse menses with abdominal pains

A sensation of rawness in the vaginal tissues

Puffiness of the face and legs

The biological clock gets thrown out of whack as a person can shift from and early bird to a night owl

Organ health and mercury poisoning symptoms can include:

Mercury can affect the thyroid gland, usually under performing.

You can test thyroid function by taking your temperature in the morning before you get out of bed. Leave the thermometer in place for at least 5 minutes. If the temperature is less than 97.5 degrees, there are problems with the thyroid regardless of hormone tests. Another indicator for women is the blood color during menstruation. It should be bright red, brownish indicates low thyroid levels.

Excessive urination. More than 2.5 liters or more than 5 or 6 times a day.

Subclinical adrenal function. Symptoms consist of weakness, fatigue, depression, weight loss, hypoglycemia, anxiety, and low blood pressure.

Mercury also interferes with the body's ability to regulate glucose. This can be recognized by feeling tired 2 or 3 hours after a meal and a sweet snack seems to solve the problem for a while.

It interferes with immune system function. You get sick more often and the sickness is more prolonged or serious. Recurrent bronchitis is a classic example. Increased allergies, asthma, and other respiratory complaints can be common.

Problems metabolizing alcohol, which leads to feeling bad after a drink or two.

The enzymes used by the body for detoxification become impaired and the body quits detoxifying itself. The victim becomes more sensitive to chemicals, air quality and foods.

It interferes with the oxygenation of the blood and rapid breathing and shyness can appear for no apparent reason.

You bruise easily and bleeding can be profuse when cut.

Body odor that smells like colostrum or milky sweet.

After having a bowel movement you feel like you are not done and have not passed the whole stool, yet you are unable to go.

Twitching of the eyelids followed by tremors in the arms, lips, fingers, and lastly--the legs.

Inability to focus the eyes followed by the inability to move them to look at objects. The person moves their head instead.

Acrodynia in children is rare but is caused by mercury poisoning.

Chronic yeast and candida infections

Overall, a person may have long periods of great productivity in their lives followed by periods of being nonproductive. As the poisoning progresses, these periods of productivity become shorter and fewer in-between as the poisoning sets in slowly and progresses thru levels of increasing dysfunction.

Many of these mercury poisoning symptoms are just like chronic yeast or candida, and often the patients misdiagnose themselves. Unless of course she most definitely has a vaginal yeast infection. Candida and yeast will actually attach themselves to the mercury molecule and the accepted theory is excess yeast is an immune response to heavy metals. We know it also attaches itself to the iron molecule as well and uses it as a means of travel. It must be removed from the body because of this fact or you will not get well.

Most people associate mercury poisoning with the silver metal amalgam dental fillings that were in widespread use up until recently. Recently, a great amount of attention has been focused on autism and the mercury found in vaccines and for good reason. Cases of autism spiked, and have continued at almost epidemic rates since 1991, 2 years after the introduction of the MMR vaccine and the usage of thermosal (mercury) as its preservative.

Thermosal was and is used in many products as a preservative. Antiseptic gels, contact lense solutions, hemorrhoid creams, lubricating gels, and vaginal contraceptives. Fluorescent lights contain a high amount of mercury and if you are around one when the glass tube is broken, you may have breathed the resulting gas. Red ink used for tattoos contains mercury sulfide as the coloring agent. Tuna, swordfish, shellfish, and shark are all loaded with high mercury levels.

Some other mercury poisoning sources are found in environmental air pollution or acid rain from coal fired power plant emissions, adhesives, talc and body powder, broken thermometers, cosmetics, all plastics, diuretics, fabric softeners, felt, floor waxes/polishes, fungicides, industrial wastes, laxatives, mercurochome, photo-engraving, skin lightening cream, suppositories, wood preservatives, hair dyes, batteries, Preperation H, solvent-thinned paints, and latex paints.

The point is, mercury exposure can be a common occurrence for all of us.

Mercury Testing

The easiest way to verify if you have high mercury poisoning levels or not is by using a urine Mercury Test Kit that you use at home and some DMSA. Or a Mineral Hair Analysis test kit to detect mercury poisoning. Follow the manufacturers directions with the hair test.

Once you have received these items take 30mg per 2.2 pounds of bodyweight of the DMSA right after you urinate first thing in the morning. Over the course of the next 6 hours, if you urinate collect a sample. At the end of the 6 hours combine all the urine and test. You really need to be down under .2. You can also use the test kit without the DMSA per the manufacturers directions but any mercury reading without DMSA is to high. If you don't have a mercury problem you can skip that part of the protocol.

To learn how to safely treat mercury poisoning issues visit the page below.

Treatment for Mercury Poisoning

Yeast Infections Cure Page

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