The Dr. Hyman Show - My Experience With Mercury Toxicity
Episode Date: July 21, 2023This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Joovv. Mercury enters our bodies from many different sources, including mercury vapors in ambient air, ingestion via drinking water, fish, dental amal...gams, occupational exposures, home exposures, over-the-counter products, and more. There’s no doubt about it: mercury is the most alarming, disease-causing source of environmental toxicity that I see daily in my practice. In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I share my own experience with mercury issues and give you a comprehensive plan for reducing your exposure and healing from mercury toxicity. This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Joovv. Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 3,000 specialty lab tests from over 35 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com. For a limited time, you’ll get an exclusive discount on Joovv’s Generation 3.0 devices (some exclusions do apply). Just go to Joovv.com/farmacy and use the code FARMACY. Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): How I developed mercury toxicity (3:43 / 1:42) The conventional medicine approach to treating mercury toxicity (5:34 / 3:33) What I learned years ago at an international conference on mercury (6:09 / 4:07) Testing mercury levels (10:06 / 8:04) Sources of mercury (11:21 / 9:51) Symptoms of mercury poisoning (14:30 / 12:30) Mercury toxicity and dental fillings (15:33 / 13:31) What does genetics have to do with mercury toxicity? (19:54 / 17:53) Summary (22:12 / 20:12) Mentioned in this episode The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) Mercury in Fish Wallet Card EWG’s Consumer Guide to Seafood Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Seatopia.fish Find a Functional Medicine Practitioner
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taking small steps every day can improve your health over the longterm. Now, today we're going
to talk about mercury, not the planet. We're going to talk about mercury toxicity in the
environment and how it affects our health. And I'm telling you, I know a lot about this, not because I'm a good doctor, because I was deathly ill from mercury
poisoning for many, many years and had to discover the science about it and how to treat it and cure
myself, which actually was the way I began to understand the model of functional medicine.
Because without that, I think I'd probably be in a nursing home or dead by now.
Now, mercury really is probably the biggest source of environmental toxicity that I see
in my practice every day.
And I've tested tens of thousands of people, probably done 100,000 heavy metal tests in
my career.
I've seen more of this than maybe most physicians on the planet.
And I can tell you that it's real, that it has real impacts on our health, and that treating it creates real
measurable results for people who are sick from it. Now, I've had this, and I don't wish it on
my worst enemy, because mercury is one of those compounds that screws up every system in your
body. We're going to talk about what the science is about it, what we know about it, and actually
how to deal with it. Now, I actually got mercury from many sources. I grew up eating tuna fish sandwiches. I had a lot
of dental fillings. I love sushi. And I also lived in China and Beijing during the winter,
which heats its 10 million people living there in their homes with raw coal. And that raw coal
is a source of mercury lead and other contaminants. So I was breathing that in every day. I had an
air filter, which I cleaned out stupidly and knocked it out the window and breathe in the concentrated soot, which was full of
mercury. And when I developed the symptoms, it just hit me all of a sudden. I was basically fine.
And then something tipped the scale. I think it was an intestinal infection.
And because of my own personal genetics, which make it hard for me to detoxify, and because of my own personal genetics, which make it hard for me to detoxify, and because of
this high load of mercury I had in my body, I all of a sudden went into severe collapse. I couldn't
think. I was fatigued. I couldn't sleep. I had muscle pain, twitches, muscle damage. I had severe
digestive issues because mercury interrupts all the digestive enzymes and you had diarrhea for
years. I developed food sensitivities, depression, anxiety. I mean, I really didn't know what the
hell was going on with me for a number of years until I actually did some testing and I found I
had huge levels of mercury. I've done, again, I said probably 100,000 of these tests and about
10,000 or more people. And I can tell you that I had probably maybe in the top 10 or 20 of all
the highest tests I've ever seen. Now, I've seen this in so many of my patients who suffer from
all sorts of things, from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia to depression, anxiety, obesity,
dementia, Parkinson's disease, cancer, heart failure, heart disease, so many different issues,
many gut issues. If we don't understand how to diagnose this, if we don't understand how to treat it, we're going to be leaving so many people in the lurch suffering needlessly. Now, traditional
medicine completely ignores this. It's like a black hole. They don't test for it. They don't
look at it. They don't care about it for some reason. Occasionally, they will do a blood test
for mercury levels, and you'll see a whole blood mercury, and it may be high from fish. And they
go, oh, stop eating so much tuna fish. But that's about the extent of it. They don't know how to
actually diagnose your body burden. They don't know how to help you detoxify or any of the
important things you need to do to actually resolve this problem. So I'm going to give you
kind of a rundown on the state of mercury that we know now and a plan to actually help
reduce your exposure and also heal and get rid of mercury from your body.
Now years ago I went to a conference, it was called the Impact of Mercury on Human Health
and the Environment and it was held at Tulane University School of Public Health in Tropical
Medicine in New Orleans.
This was a conventional medical conference, okay.
I want to sort of break down what was there, but it was an amazing group of scientists, policymakers, environmental scientists, toxicologists, biochemists,
journalists, academic doctors, practicing doctors, dentists, everybody was there.
And we tried to make sense of the environmental impact, toxicology, the basic science,
the public policy implications, the health implications of one of the least studied and
probably the greatest potential threats to our long-term health, which is mercury. Now, mercury levels were not high in our
environment until the Industrial Revolution, until we were able to dig coal out of the ground,
until we were able to actually burn it, until we developed the fossil fuel industry. All that led
to the rise in mercury in the atmosphere, which actually polluted our oceans and led to fish being
contaminated with mercury. And the kind of rest of the story is pretty clear. Now, there were
episodes of volcanic eruptions and things like that in the past. And you can actually see
in different snow melts when they'll do like, for example, ice cores on glaciers, and they can say,
oh, there was a volcano in like, you know, the Philippines in 1805. And we can see that
mark in the snow. But it's really been a 30-fold increase
over the last 100 years in mercury in the environment. 70% of it's from human sources,
and particularly in the last 40 years during the last period of great industrialization.
And it comes from coal-burning and coal-fired industrial plants, cement plants, chloralkalite plants. They actually use
this in the making of plastics, pesticides, PVCs, pipelines, and more. So basically,
there was a reduction in industrial mercury emissions over the last 10 years, but I think
it's a small amount compared to what we're really
dealing with in our environment. Now, what is sort of the deal when it comes to the risk of
these problems? Well, it's kind of an increasing risk with increasing dose. Now, there is an
exception for that. If you actually are dealing with immune effects, and we call this immunotoxicity.
In other words, the role of environmental toxins in causing
autoimmune disease. These are in fact called autogens. It's a well-described phenomenon in
medicine now. And mercury doesn't have to be hugely high to actually cause an autoimmune
response. So it's important. But there really is no safe level. Like what's the normal blood level
of mercury? Well, on your lab test, it may just say zero to 15.
But what's the normal biological requirement for mercury?
Zero.
There is no normal level of mercury in the blood.
It should be zero, okay?
There's no need for mercury in the body.
Now, there is a lot of data about the risks.
Some of that comes from, for example, research in the Seychelles
Islands where they looked at kids and how they basically were affected. And they had a lot of
fish in their diet and they had very mostly reef fish, which have low levels of mercury.
On the other hand, the Faroe Islands where people were eating whale blubber, which is hugely high in mercury, were three parts per million.
There, they found extremely high levels in the umbilical cord blood, and it correlated with reduced performance in neurologic testing in over 900 mother-infant pairs.
So they looked at mothers and infants.
They checked the level of mercury in the cord blood.
They looked at neurological testing, and there was significant effect.
And the dose, it sort of relates to the impact, right? So the severest symptoms,
you know, occurred with higher doses. And you want to make sure that, you know, you have
really a look at what your levels are. When you see the effects, you know, there were developmental
effects and walking, talking, decreased performance on neurologic tests. So it's really important. Now, the problem is testing. When we look at testing, doctors will
look at blood levels, but it's what doctors typically check. But unless you've been eating
fish with mercury in it over the last 90 days, it may not show your true body level. For example,
most mercury is clear from the blood within 90
days. And some of it's excreted in the urine, processed by your liver, but most of it is
actually sequestered or stored in your organs, in your muscle, in your brain, in your liver,
in your kidneys. That's where it goes. And when you eat, for example, tuna, what are you eating?
You're eating the muscle of the fish and that's where it's stored. So unless you actually do a challenge test where you take a chelator, which binds to
the mercury in your body, pulls it out and collect your urine for six hours, you're really not getting
a valid look at what your body burden is. And unfortunately, this is not tested by conventional
doctors. They might do a 24-hour urine mercury test. That's helpful if you had acute exposure in
a, for example, industrial plant or something, but it's not going to tell you what your
long-term body accumulation is. So, you know, mercury basically accumulates in muscle and
accumulates in fat. And so basically blood levels aren't the best test for your body burden.
There's another form of mercury called the inorganic mercury. Now, methylmercury is the
most predominant form that comes from fish, but inorganic mercury is primarily from fillings.
We call these silver fillings. They're not silver. They're mostly mercury. And it's cleared
from your blood and stored in your tissues. And it can be converted to methylmercury in the body.
And it can actually end up leading to all kinds of neurologic issues, everything from
dementia to ADD to autism. And so you really need a proper diagnostic test to look at it.
So the question is, how do we get mercury in our bodies? Well, it's a lot of different sources. It
can be from mercury vapor in the air if you live near a cement plant or a coal burning plant. It
can be from water, from contaminated water, from fish, as I mentioned, from your dental fillings.
There's ethyl mercury in vaccines, thimerosal.
Most of it's been taken out,
but there's still a few vaccines
like the flu vaccine that has it.
It can be occupational exposures.
It can be from home exposure.
You break a fluorescent light bulb.
You have a thermostat, you have batteries,
red tattoo dye if you got tattoos.
Splint lightning creams can cause it uh there used
to be more and over the counter products less so now but it used to be in contact lens fluid
and neosynephrine which you use for cold sinuses so you know 80 of it is is basically um
uh you know coming from the source of fish is primarily what's going on. It's basically
coming through your gut. You do inhale it if you're exposed, but it's not as much of a big
issue. Now, once it gets to your body, it goes to the kidney, it goes to your brain,
it can be transferred to the baby through the placenta. So a lot of kids are born pre-polluted. The only way out of your body is
through urine, your feces, your breath, and breast milk. So the problem that mercury causes in your
body is it binds to enzymes. It binds to what we call the sulfur groups of enzymes. And this is
kind of on most enzymes. And it's in the mitochondria and other chemical binding
sites.
And it basically jams up your biochemical machinery, which is why it caused such widespread
effects.
Now, we know, you know, with big exposures, we've documented the consequences like the
Minamata Bay exposure where there was, you know, effluent from factories going into this
bay and then the people in the town ate the fish and the kids ate the fish.
They had terrible birth defects.
They had pink disease or acridinia.
Also, teething powder back in the day in the 30s, 40s had mercury in it.
It was called calomel.
It was something used in medicine way back in the 1800s.
I think it's what the Lewis and Clark expedition used
to treat everything from syphilis to chronic infections.
We've heard of a Mad Hatter syndrome.
The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland,
the Hatters used felt to actually make the hats
and the felt was made stiff with mercury.
And so, you know, it's also in fungicides
and has been, you know, from grain exposures
to contaminated pesticides uh, uh,
pesticides, uh, grains.
Um, so it's, it's really a problem.
Now it mimics so many different problems.
So you think, you know, you have depression, you're obese, you have diabetes, you have,
you know, dementia, you have autism, you have ADD, you have whatever, an autoimmune disease
and you think, oh, that's all what they are.
But actually they may be caused by mercury. We know that the symptoms of mercury poisoning in babies is very, very similar to the
symptoms of autism. This is very well described. It's called erythrism and it's an issue and it
leads to shyness, mood swings, insomnia, memory issues.
A lot of neurologic symptoms are caused by mercury,
including Parkinson's, been linked to a tremor,
loss of balance, loss of hearing, tunnel vision,
slurred speech, headaches, sexual dysfunction.
Really, really important.
It can affect the gut like it did for me,
causing diarrhea, vomiting, nausea. It can cause skin issues.
So it's really quite a problem.
We want to make sure we get rid of the mercury.
So one of the controversies is about mercury fillings.
I think it's less so.
I think Canada is mostly banned.
I think finally the FDA said it shouldn't be used for pregnant women and children.
I wonder why it's okay for the rest of us i don't
really think it is but basically it's clear that the the fillings will through chewing and through
the ph of your mouth depending on the microbiome of your mouth can vaporize and release large
amounts of mercury over time uh from brushing grinding um and so you know that that can be a
factor now there was a large study um where they at, that was published in JAMA, found really
no correlation between mercury fillings and behavioral issues in kids.
However, there were a lot of problems with that study.
First, it was a short study.
And two, they didn't look at the genetic differences in these kids. And there was really differences in the kids who had
impaired detoxification pathways. So if you redid the analysis of the study and you said, okay,
who are the kids who are poor detoxifiers versus good detoxifiers? The good detoxifiers seem okay.
The ones who were bad detoxifiers had a seven-year developmental delay. So if they were
like 18, it was like they were 11, right? So that's a real, real problem. Now, it can take a long time
to get rid of mercury from your body, up to 18 years to clear half the dose of mercury. And it
comes up very, very slowly once it gets in. So you've got to learn how to actually reduce the exposures.
And I think when you look at people with fillings,
the data is really clear.
They have higher blood mercury.
They have three to five times more mercury in their urine.
They have two to 12 times more mercury in their tissues
than those people without amalgam fillings.
There was one study I saw in sheep and monkeys
where they basically put in fillings
and then they actually didn't see terribly high levels in their blood because it's inorganic mercury,
but their tissue levels were high.
And when they did brain biopsies, they found a lot of this in the brain.
They've even done corpse studies, autopsy studies on people with Alzheimer's.
And the ones who had the most filling surface area had the higher risk of Alzheimer's.
So it's really quite an important
thing. Now, urine levels is how often doctors check. But again, it just looks at what's really
your current exposure. So you really got to kind of do the proper testing. There are now tests,
Quicksilver Scientific has a test called the QS Tri-Test, where it looks at mercury from inorganic sources or methylmercury from fish, so you can get a
sense of where it's coming from.
But I've seen, for example, patients who have fillings for decades who have high levels.
So you know, I've had it for 30 years.
I've had the fillings.
It's probably not a problem.
Not true.
They still vaporize.
Now, I see more and more changes in many countries like germany and canada and europe where they
basically have banned these fillings they can't get them anymore uh you still can do in the united
states but it's most dentists actually don't do them anymore they just kind of quietly have
switched over um i don't know why by the way uh you should ask your dentist this you know when
according to the epa environmental protection agency if if you take fillings out of somebody's mouth, you can't throw it in the garbage.
You have to dispose of it in a specific way as if it were a toxic waste.
So ask your dentist if he says they're fine.
Say, why is it okay to put in my mouth, but it's not okay to throw in the garbage?
I think you should think about that.
So I think the data on this is pretty clear.
Again, many, many scientists are on board with this
and many governments are now finally,
you know, are very clear that this is a problem.
So I think kind of we need to really get serious
about getting these feelings out of people's mouth safely.
And that's a whole nother conversation
about how to safely remove them.
Because you can't just go in there and drill.
You've got to put a neutral dam in.
You've got a high-speed suction.
You've got to make sure you don't swallow it.
You don't breathe in the vapor.
The dentist should be wearing a mask,
you know, a gas mask, basically.
So you have to find a special dentist.
And there's a website, iaomt.org.
We'll put all this to the show notes
where you can get a
dentist who's been trained how to safely remove mercury. So I think this is important. Now,
let's talk about genetics here because I think not everybody's affected, right? I've seen people
with a mouthful of fillings. Some guy was 70 years old. I'm like, this guy's going to be in trouble,
but it turned out he was okay because he was able to really detoxify. Unlike me, I'm not great at detoxifying. So I tend to have increased absorption of mercury,
decreased ability to eliminate mercury. I have glutathione genes that are problematic.
Glutathione is the body's main way of getting rid of mercury. It's a sulfur-based molecule in the
body. It's from three amino acids, cysteine, glutamine, and glycine.
And it's ubiquitous.
It's critical for longevity, for health, and for detoxification.
It's an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory.
And you need it to get rid of mercury.
Now, people who have high mercury tend to have depleted glutathione because their body's
working overtime to get rid of it.
So you need to do things to boost glutathione.
But I have genes that make it hard for me to make glutathione
and I end up having more load of mercury given there's a problem.
There's also interesting data on ApoE genes.
These are genes that are Alzheimer's risk genes or cardiovascular risk genes.
And if you have ApoE4, you tend to not be able to eliminate mercury because it doesn't have
a cysteine or sulfabary amino acid on the apolipoprotein 4 genotype. And so that basically
means that if you have this, you're at high risk for not only Alzheimer's, but many other
cardiovascular risk diseases, and you end up being unable to excrete it. In one study, I think it was in Australia, they gave people a chelator,
DMPS, who had ApoE4. And compared to non-ApoE4 patients, they had much higher body burdens of
mercury. So this all sounds pretty depressing. But the good news is that we can reduce, one,
our exposures, and two, increase our ability to eliminate it. And so when I see someone
coming into my office, you know, I check their blood pressure, I check their heart rate, I get
their weight, I get all these important things, get their cholesterol, right? I check mercury on
and heavy metals on every single patient who comes in with any health problem because it can be a
great mimicker of all sorts of diseases. And I want to make sure
that if they have it, that I treat it. And if they don't, that I have eliminated from my diagnostic
possibilities of what's causing the problem. Now, the main ways we expose again is contaminated
fish in our fillings. So you want to make sure that you get rid of the large fish in your diet,
like tuna, swordfish, shark, tailfish tailfish halibut orange roughy i mean the
list goes on and on there's some great resources the nrdc has a wallet card which is low medium
and high mercury fish environmental working group has a has a great resource for how to reduce your
contamination from fish that's ewg.org there's the monterey bay health watch which so there's a lot of great sources and
there's actually great companies that now doing regenerative aquaculture which are raising great
fish with low toxin levels uh the company i like is called seatopia.fish um put that in the show
notes that's c-e-a-t-o-p-i-a.fish and they have great delicious delicious-tasting fish. So really important. Now, you can check your blood
level, but again, remember, that'll only detect your recent exposures. You can check your hair.
Again, that gives you a partial picture because it doesn't check any mercury from filling,
it's just from fish. And again, as I've said, once your hair grows out, if you haven't been exposed,
let's say you
ate tuna fish for 10 years then you stop for two years it would probably be none in your hair or
none in your blood but you could have a ton in your body so the only way to really detect it is
using a chelating drug called dmsa or dmps which is not so available in the u.s and it binds the
mercury like fly paper it's got sulfur in it. It should only be done by
doctor. It involves taking one dose of medication followed by a six-hour urine collection. And then
you see how much comes out. And it's the most reliable way to see what your body burden is.
Again, this is not a conventional test that most doctors do. It's not really well-recognized.
People say it's problematic, but they go, oh, well, well yeah of course you're taking a chelator but no if there's no mercury and i i had patients with no fillings who are vegan
who i do the test on who never ate fish who don't have any fillings who don't live near a cement or
coal plant and they have zero heavy metals in their body for mercury it's quite amazing so
it's something i've seen over and over again i think there needs to be more research, but again, there's nobody funding this data. Now, if you are sick and you have a high level of methylmercury or ethylmercury from the
blood test, you can see it's probably a good idea to see a dentist and get your feelings out safely.
There's a lot of ways for food you can actually improve your body's detoxification capacity. You
can take cruciferous vegetables, the broccoli family, and that boosts
glutathione. Garlic and onions also do the same thing. They have sulfur in them. You can use
various things like cilantro, which I've seen people juice cilantro, can help their bodies
eliminate them. You want to make sure you're taking plenty of fiber and having regular
bowel movements to bind and excrete the metals. You want to make sure you're drinking plenty of
water. You want to do saunas, which help to eliminate the heavy metals and toxins through your sweat. But you also may
need to take a chelating drug or do other things as well. There's some great supplements that can
help that boost glutathione like N-acetylcysteine, lipoic acid. Things like selenium and zinc are
also important for activating your body's metal detox pathways. You need the right methylating vitamins, B6, B12, folate.
So I've written a lot about this.
We're going to link to articles that I've written about how to identify source of mercury,
how to optimize your body's own detoxification systems.
But it's really, really important if you have any type of chronic illness and you have any
type of exposure that you get this properly checked, that you work with a functional medicine doctor to get this properly
treated, and you will see profound benefits.
I went from basically being barely able to function to being severely ill and having
all sorts of immune issues, cognitive issues, digestive issues.
I had severe muscle damage with elevated muscle enzymes. I was a mess.
And it took many years for me to learn about this, to detoxify myself. But now I've learned how to do
it a lot faster. And I would say it's one of the most satisfying things I do is treat people with
these problems. And I've seen people reverse obesity, depression, autism, ADD, Alzheimer's even, poor metabolic health, autoimmune diseases,
Crohn's disease. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. I remember one guy had ulcerative colitis.
I tried everything I knew how to do. Finally, I did his heavy metal test. He had super high levels.
We chelated him and supported him with IVs and other things like glutathione, and he completely reversed his
ulcerative colitis. So I see these stories every day in my practice, and I encourage you
to not give up. You need to go find somebody who can work with you. I would check ifm.org for
a doctor in your area, but recognize that this is a big problem. It leads to many conditions that
are often misdiagnosed as something else and in order to
properly deal with this you need to work with a trained functional medicine doctor to help you
identify the source identify your body burden and create a roadmap for applying the right therapies
in the right way at the right time to help your body detoxify so i hope you've enjoyed this health
bite uh it's a lot of information but i think it's important. And I think you can limit
your exposures. You can get mercury out of your body and it'll help you live a long, vibrant,
healthy life. And that's it for today's health bite. I hope you liked it. If you loved it,
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