Greetings.
Eric Bakker from New Zealand, the naturopath from New Zealand.
Question here from a man called Jeff Durham in NC, USA.
NC, I'm not sure where that is.
Jeff Durham.
I know a Durham in America.
In fact, I'm a beekeeper and I watched a guy called Tim Durham from Durham's Bees down
in Mississippi.
Are you from Mississippi Jeff Durham?
I'm not sure what NC means, it must be some state in America.
Anyway, Jeff Durham is asking, "Dr. Bakker, I've been working to heal leaky gut and all
the bad symptoms that go with it for a year now and it's only getting worst.
I've had eight silver amalgam fillings that I'm having replaced that I and my doctor and
dentist think are keeping me from getting better.
Mercury, I know now can keep you from absorbing vital nutrients including zinc which causes
urinary prostate issues that doctor treated with Supro antibiotic which left me with leaky
gut and candida."
"When I'm done getting the amalgams removed, should I work on getting rid of the mercury
left in my digestive tract or concentrate on treating the leaky gut first?
I had four amalgam fillings replaced with more amalgams two years ago and health issues
started three months later.
Many of your readers may have been getting the same problem.
Mercury from dental amalgam is keeping leaky gut from getting better.
Your videos are most informative."
Thank you, Jeff Durham.
Sorry about that but it just reminds me of Tim Durham, wonderful old man that I watched
on YouTube.
He's given me some sage advise on beekeeping.
So Jeff, I would probably recommend a hair analysis.
There's two ways, main ways you can get a mercury hair analysis done, not just for mercury
but also for other metals, other Sulfhydryl metals like lead, [inaudible 00:01:57] lead,
it has cadmium and there's arsenic.
These three metals have something in common.
We call them Sulfhydryl metals.
So these metals actually bind quite well to different types of things that we can take
into the body, for research to make an interesting product I believe which helps to bind these
heavy metals and pull them out of the body.
But Chlorella is another interesting thing that you can take, these heavy metal movers,
there's many different types of things that help to pull metal from the body.
Hair analysis is a very interesting way to determine heavy metal contamination because
hair is [inaudible 00:02:34] tissue so it's dead and it grows out of the body.
The follicles bathe in blood so it's going to pull out zinc and mercury circulating in
the bloodstream.
It will come out of the hair.
So I'd recommend you do a hair analysis to look at the relationship of all of the metals
in the body including copper and zinc which as you pointed out can very much be affected
through this pathway.
So there's definitely an affinity with copper and zinc and mercury through Metallothionein
protein.
So I'm not going to go too much into Metallothionein but actually it compete with mercury
in the bloodstream, zinc and copper.
You can also do urinary provocation.
But I'm not a fan of that.
It made me pretty sick when I did that years ago.
Hair is quite an interesting one to do.
So what I recommend first is an assessment.
What would be smart for you to do is a hair analysis prior to getting the amalgam work
done.
Hair test is only like a hundred bucks so you could have one done prior, during and
then well after.
What you would have noticed is this, you would have noticed that mercury was at a set level
and then it increase as the mercury work is being done then it should come down in fact,
become very low.
So then you've got the test pre-work and the test post-work to see and obviously the test
you do well down the track should be much, much lower than the one that you had before
the amalgam removal.
That gives you a good ability or confidence to know that you've removed much of these
toxic metal from the body.
I've got no doubt that this relationship with mercury and candida, I've seen this in myself.
I had 13 fillings removed about 30 years ago now, made a big difference in my life but
it did take one to two years to get on top because back then when I had the amalgams
removed way back in the '80s, doctors didn't have a clue what they were doing.
There was no [rubber dam 00:05:07] used.
They're removed in weird sequence and I got very sick after that.
So I'd recommend [rubber dam 00:05:14] only and be careful.
They can actually check the electrical reading on each tooth, a negative electrical reading
and the worst tooth should come out, the worst filling and et cetera, up to the one with
the less amount of galvanic offense in the body.
So you need to see a dentist who's very sharp and on the button when it comes to mercury
removal.
Many mercury dentists are not really as clued up as they should be.
What else can I say?
So Supro is a dumb thing, getting the Supro because that can really wreck the gut.
So you probably will need to be on some good probiotics to help to build up the gut health.
I would recommend if you're serious and you're spending this kind of money on fillings is
to get a stool test done.
Hair test and stool test and then try and repair the gut first, get it to a good level
of health before you go on and looking at mercury detoxification.
It's not good if you've got a doctor's assessment poor health to look at detox because you're
going to reabsorb a lot of those toxins again.
You need a very good excretory pathways through the liver and through the kidneys, especially.
The kidneys, Dr. [Quade 00:06:24] used to me the kidneys [inaudible 00:06:26] very bad
with mercury.
Arsenic and cadmium in particular hammer the kidneys but mercury can make the kidneys very
sick as well.
So you need to have a kind of the kidney cleansing detoxification going on there at the same
time.
What else can I say?
So I would get the gut fixed up first before I recommend that you get into the detox basically.
That's what I would recommend.
So I hope that answers your question, Jeff Durham.
Thanks for the question.