Toxicity! Installment one

Like everyone else, I want to do good things for the environment.  I care about the planet.  And I think that I am reasonably intelligent.  (And humble, of course!)  So imagine my surprise when I found out that saving the environment with "energy saving" bulbs was done at the risk of my own (and others') lives.  Who is the brilliant (but insane) scientist who thought this was a good idea?  What is wrong with our system that we never bother to think of the long term consequences before we allow things like this to be in every household?  Is there a plan to safely dispose of these things?  Because let's face it, people throw them out when they stop working.  Even if it makes it out of your house in one piece, which it may not.  Yourself, your partner or your children may be carting it out to the garbage or the curb when it breaks.  And it will certainly not be in one piece in the garbage truck or the city dump. The people who work picking up our waste have lives and families to support.  Mercury is deadly.  Am I the only person who thinks this is a problem?
(And let's not even mention that mercury is in vaccines!)
Signs and Symptoms of Mercury Poisoning from Dental Amalgam1 by Morton Walker, D.P.M. in his book Elements of Danger, Protecting Yourself Against the Hazards of Modern Dentistry

A series of difficulties characteristic of mercury toxicity affecting the eyes

• bleeding from the retina of one or both eyes
  
• dim vision, expecially after exercise
  
• slow and poor accommodation to changes in vision distances
  
• Inability to fix one's gaze
  
• uncontrollable eye movements
  
• eyes drawn to one side
  
• imaginary geometric figures appearing in the visual field, which migrate in a few minutes from the periphery toward the center and slowly disappear
  
• "film" seeming to appear over the eyes
  
• dry eyes
  
• a gray ring forming permanently around the cornea (known as Arcus senilis)

One or more heart difficulties:

• irregular hearbeat (palpitations), often together with anxiety
  
• stong pains in the left part of the chest come on

Problems in the upper respiratory tract:

• asthmatic breathing troubles, such as a feeling of not being able to inhale
  
• A "cracking" sound in the lower part of the pleural sac, forcing one to cough
  
• red irritated throat
  
• inflammation in the upper airways and pleurisy appearing about a year after the dental treatment with amalgams
  
• difficulties in swallowing

Psychological troubles come on such as:

• severe amnesia
  
• constant feelings of tension and strain
  
• anxiety
  
• irritability
  
• difficulty and even impossiblity to control behavior
  
• indecision
  
• loss of interest in life
  
• mental or emotion depression

Conditions of the brain, including:

• tiredness nearly all the time
  
• a feeling of being "old"
  
• resistance to intellectual work
  
• reduced capacity for work, both for intellectual and physical tasks
  
• reduced powers of comprehension because information does not come through
  
• increased need for sleep
  
• headache about once a week. The headache often is migrainelike, especially induced by weather changes and by prolonged sleep in the mornings

Neurological complications can come on like:

• vertigo (dizziness)
  
• facial paralysis, usually on the right side, that is partly permanent
  
• damage to balance and hearing
  
• a painful pull a the lower jaw toward the collar bone
  
  

Oral discomforts make their appearance such as:

• increased salivation
  
• often-present sour metallic taste
  
• bleeding gums at toothbrushing

Numbers of other symptoms gradually showing up, including:

• joint pains, especially increasing about a year after receiving the implantation of amalgam fillings
  
• pains in the lower back
  
• weakness of the muscles with a slowing down of muscular action
  
• feelings of pressure, pains, and paresthesis ("pins and needles") in the region of the liver
  
• gastrointestinal irritation
  
• paresthesis in the region of the lymph nodes under the arms and in the groin
  
• exzema or other skin eruptions

By the way there is between 43 and 54% mercury in the so-called "silver fillings" that dentists are still doling out.  The mercury is dangerous to the patients but also to the dental workers.  Children are especially vulnerable and this mercury bioaccumulates!
With the new amalgam materials on the market, there is no reason for this "poisoning" to be taking place.  Check out the  Association for Holistic Dentistry site.
Research shows that chlorella, spirulina and selenium seem to help mitigate the effects of mercury toxicity to some extent.  But selenium can be toxic if taken in high amounts so be careful with that.

There are heavy metal (yes, you read that right!) cleanses to eliminate toxicity but if you have the source of toxicity right in your body... it will probably not be the only answer.
By the way, mercury from amalgams is going into the waste water via different sources and the fish are becoming more and more affected, which is another source of this toxicity.
Enjoy those energy saving bulbs!  Just don't break any....

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