Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Mercury’

Avoiding Mercury Toxicity

No comments December 5th, 2009

The medical world is perplexed by many diseases that seem to have no specified causes, and for which treatments are still being researched. Fibromyalgia is characterized by severe muscle pain, fatigue and improper sleep. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder which has similar symptoms, but is mainly characterized by interruption in the breathing process a number of times during sleep. Medical research has arrived upon certain treatments that reduce the severity of symptoms in fibromyalgia. Read more

Mercury and Heavy Metal Toxicity

No comments December 5th, 2009

Mercury is a heavy metal that has had a variety of uses throughout history, evidence of its use being found in several ancient civilisations. However, perhaps the most controversial use is that in the dental amalgam. In the mid-nineteenth century, the mercury-silver-tin-copper-cadmium mix began to prove irresistible to dentists as a dental amalgam. The reasons for this were simple; it was extremely easy to use, formed a strong repair and was cheap to obtain. There was only one problem Read more