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A University of Calgary study shows how neurons are damaged by mercury.
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The 'tangles' left over are pretty fun. An interesting Alzheimer's theory is that the tangles are part of a final attempt to keep the affected cell and neighboring cells alive after severe stress (in other words, plaque buildups are not the source of Alzheimer's but tombstones left by dying cells).
http://movies.commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/
There is still a debate in the scientific community regarding low level exposure to mercury and mercury compounds.
Research indicating low level mercury exposure is toxic:
Chronic low-level mercury exposure, BDNF polymorphism, and associations with cognitive and motor function.
Low Level Mercury Exposure Accelerates Lupus in Mice
Low level methylmercury exposure affects neuropsychological function in adults
Research promoting low level mercury exposure as non-toxic:
Neurobehavioral effects of dental amalgam in children: a randomized clinical trial.
Low-level chronic mercury exposure in children and adolescents: Meta-analysis
My point in linking these few references was to show that there still is a debate within the SCIENTIFIC community about the health effects of low level mercury exposure. This video was produced by scientists, who showed their methods to reach their conclusions. To say this falls outside of science is to say that the Science channel shall show NO scientific debate.
This video wasn't produced by some herbalist or holistic practitioner, but by the University of Calgary's medical faculty. I bet they'd be surprised to find that their video doesn't meet the scientific standards of a video web site.
Question for rembar: If one of the researchers who produced this video called you and asked why this doesn't belong in the Science channel, what would you say? That because the majority of scientists currently think that low level mercury exposure is safe, the debate is over? That no further research into the safety of mercury is necessary? If that's the case, are all the researchers currently investigating low level mercury exposure wasting their time?
alas, it's his channel and he can cry if he wants to, cry if he wants to.
As far as the Alzheimer's goes, it's not a plaque buildup. As you age, the body loses its ability to properly process beta-Amyloid proteins. They generally build up in the brain around the myelinated axons and cause signals to arrive considerably weaker than intended.
However, given that videos on the studies of Drugs on Spiders, Water Balloon Motion , and how Science leads to Murder, remain in the *science channel, I fail to see how this video, relating to mercury, or the other video regarding the topic of fluoridation of humans, both topics of dental and, it seems, mental heath, do not also deserve the same respect as other *science sifts.
copyright 2001-gotta be some hard science by now
*return
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mercury-vapor-from-dental-fillings
being included in the science channel
I think the problem that Rembar has with this lab's work is that much of it is directed at kicking out findings that support solely the anti-Silver amalgam filling groups, made more obvious by their fairly leading discussion and use of experimental designs that give results that smack of publishing bias (only submit data supporting the anti-amalgam claims). For example this study, and the 1997 study referenced, use elemental Mercury, then lead the reader to assume that a Silver/Zinc/Tin/Mercury/etc. amalgam should act just the same, which is a pretty big assumption that needs to be discussed.
In other words, I'm on the fence here; its a lab publishing decent research in peer reviewed journals, BUT they appear to be glossing over things like silver amalgams versus near-pure mercury vapors for the sake of an agenda.
I really just up-voted because I like seeing neurons.
*I would also find it difficult to believe that some of those who claim that low level mercury exposure is non-toxic do NOT have an agenda.
I apologize. This is not the video I intended to remove.
It's FL Lorscheider, btw, not Lorsheider. Bamdrew, I very much agree, Lorscheider's work is "focused", to be sure, and that is a concern, but I saw nothing in this video specifically that I took issue with.
Jwray, seriously, lol. "Rembar thinks mercury alloy is absolutely safe". Really? I said that? Quote me. Please. Either that, or you owe me an apology for putting words in my mouth for no other reason than building up a strawman to attack. That's low and outright dishonest, and I expect an apology. I'm serious. I'll accept that apology in email and comment form, thanks.
*science
Also, I like how rembar lets in a video on fluoride (from a different user) that had the same information I've presented to him before.
way to be consistent remmy.
So I exaggerated with "absolutely safe", sorry. How about "rembar was very confident that amalgam is safe for almost everybody" and "rembar removed the video as soon as he saw the title"? Fair enough?
Peace.
Rembar thinks mercury alloy is absolutely safe
Rembar thinks mercury alloy is absolutely safe
Rembar thinks mercury alloy is absolutely safe
Rembar thinks mercury alloy is absolutely safe
Rembar thinks mercury alloy is absolutely safe
Rembar thinks mercury alloy is absolutely safe!
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