Dear Todd,

Do you have amalgam fillings? I'm wondering if there is any relationship
between amalgams and cholesterol levels...Note this article from the yeast
(candida) list...
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MERCURY'S WIDESPREAD TOXIC EFFECTS

Mercury is the most toxic (nonradioactive) inorganic heavy metal known to
man.  Its effects are enormously widespread and really leave no part or
system of the body untouched.  Exposure to mercury through it's numerous
industrial and commercial uses accounts for significant accumulation in our
bodies.  The added load arising from amalgams often tips the scales in
favor of toxicity.
     The previously noted elemental mercury vapor that emanates from the
amalgams is almost completely inhaled, little of it being lost outside of
the mouth and body.  Such inhalation allows for a rapid and complete
absorption across the alveolar membrane in the lungs.  This mercury easily
crosses the blood/brain barrier (the brain and nervous system's natural
defense against many toxic substances), subsequently binding very strongly
to the sulfur-containing proteins of the nervous tissue.
    This same affinity for r binding sulfur allows its deposit in virtually
all of the body's other tissues and organs.  In fact, the much-maligned
scapegoat in today's health, cholesterol, appears to actually afford a
protective mechanism against the slow and insidious release of mercury into
the bloodstream by binding it up and allowing it to be excreted before it
gets its grips into any of the body's tissues.  High cholesterol levels may
represent just a healthy metabolism doing its best to neutralize the
continual release of a toxin.(7)  Patients who undergo amalgam removal
consistently show shifts of their cholesterol into or toward the normal
range, often within days of such removal.
     Investigators have noted that low cholesterol levels, or sudden drops
in cholesterol, appear to cause an increase in the incidence of homicides,
suicides, and accidents.(8)  Sudden fits of uncontrolled anger and temper,
severe depression, and loss of coordination and motor control are some of
the most common manifestations of chronic mercury poisoning.  Perhaps, then
cholesterol drops give the newly released mercury the "edge" in a body that
already have significant mercury stored in its tissues.  For those who may
still doubt that mercury is really accumulating in their bodies from their
amalgams, cadaver examinations have conclusively demonstrated that the
greater the number of amalgams, the greater the amount of mercury found in
the brain tissues.  Just five amalgams increased brain mercury levels
threefold over controls.(9)

MERCURY AND PREGNANCY

     Mercury is even less considerate to the unborn.  Methylmercury, the
organic form of mercury that forms after oral ingestion of mercury, is 100
times more toxic that the previously mentioned elemental mercury.

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