RJ Tubs 202 said:
yoosername said:
I did some calculations and realized that every year, I consume ~44 mg of mercury from amalgams alone.
How did you make that calculation?
Many millions of people must also be in the same boat as you?
The calculations were generated based on the number of fillings, days in a year, and an average release of 15 micrograms per filling per day.
(15 µg / 1000) x (8 x 365) = 43.8 mg/year
I didn't take into account variables such as pH, mastication, UHF/ELF or electromagnetic field exposure, so it could be more or less. Either way it is still way too much. Modern toxicology doesn't have a model to describe the chronic barrage of microexposures we are subjected to every day.
Not just millions, billions, and not just humans either. Global concentrations of various toxins are on the rise, too many to list. These toxins are found in increasing concentrations the higher you go in the food chain (biomagnification) and are a major contributing factor to the Holocene extinction event.
Currently only ~50% of US dentists still use amalgam fillings, but even amongst those that don't, improper removal techniques are rampant. There's been a bunch of biological dentists trying to expand their practice, but with the ADA claiming that mercury amalgams are "safe", you still get that fine line between believers. In the past, dentists have lost their licenses by recommending the removal of amalgams for toxicological reasons. The battle against mercury fillings started well over a century ago, and may well continue for another. The problems only spread when you die, from ashes to air, or slowly leeching into the groundwater. Each amalgam contains ~0.6 grams of mercury.
As people are different, it takes a while for science to reach a consensus. There are those who detoxify quickly and efficiently, and those who are sensitive/allergic to heavy metals. This is determined by genetics, exposures, infections and lifestyle. Unfortunately this means that those who don't "believe" in toxins, who have never felt their effects, are most often the one's defending their safety and efficacy, while the burden of proof falls upon the afflicted, those whose experiences are nothing more than anecdotal, but who know the darkness all too well.
People are inherently misunderstanding, and have a need for labels to describe what they see. Unable to operate within the unknown, we assume science is proven and accept "facts" as they are presented to us, but everything in science is the result of a lack of understanding, mere observations we hope will ring true through other disciplines into the future. To accurately describe the entirety of a problem, we must define an ungodly number of variables in a stringent, methodical fashion, and communicate those findings to thousands. In this, information must be tailored to bridge the knowledge gap by way of conversion; through analogy, through common truths, from language to concept, and across a multitude of transcribers. One method is through generalization, in which much is lost to interpretation.
One such generalization is disease, described as a correlation of symptoms rather than a progression of circumstance. Take, for example, ADHD. Described as unfocused, restless. But rest in this sense is unhealthy, to be sitting idle four hours on end. Perhaps it is a biological coping mechanism for the influence of our culture, to be focused on one small thing, and not the big picture, to be confined to one space, day after day, in an endless repetitive cycle.
There was a study done on depressed teenagers in which they played a video game killing monsters, and were asked at the end how many they thought they had killed. The control group guessed around 4x more than they actually had, and the depressed group was accurate within 10%. In this day and age, awareness is depressing. Intuition leads one to notice discrepancies between what is and what ought to be, what was and could be, that can't be rationalized or explained, but resonates with the very fact of one's existence. Such realizations come and go, but for a moment in eternity make everything clear. We were born to see the best of this world, but live to watch it fade away. This invokes a profound sense of loss that few can consciously perceive, only in the fragments of broken dreams.
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