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Illness disappears by removing 14 mercury amalgams

This was left as a comment on our post regarding mercury.  I know it is a study of one person.  Rather - yet another person.  It is anecdotal evidence for those of us who have been chronically ill for a long time and that illness has resisted a quick fix.  And on top of that you have a mouthful of mercury in your mouth. 

It appears that everyone is not affected by mercury the same way.  Some seem to tolerate it pretty well.  At least it appears that way to them.  But others are affected severely and when they have their amalgams removed, numerous maladies simply disappear. Certainly helped me.  I post it unchanged as something to consider:

Comment:
I was extremely ill with depression and anxiety and fully recovered just after removing my 14 amalgams. I was better within the next 2-3 days and havnt had serious mood swings since. I think the mercury messes with your hormones and blood sugar and thyroid status adn cant be proven but you need to do what is right for you.

• Commenter name: James Leech

An Operating System from Google?

This from the WSJ

Google is in serious discussions with Verizon Wireless over a partnership in which Verizon would carry cellphones tailored to a new Google operating system, a person familiar with the discussions said. Speculation about Google's mobile strategy have helped shares of the Internet giant surge near $700.

For more information, see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119377870431576706.html?mod=djemalert

Google is indeed a very serious threat to Microsoft.  They have the mass and the momentum to take MS head on.  They also have the monopoly (online advertising) to essentially compete with Microsoft's two monopolies.  Fun to watch two giants battle.  Google is no longer a David to the MS Goliath. 

What kind of cigarette do you smoke, Doctor?

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

A real TV commercial from 1952.

"Wall Street turns thumbs down to mercury fillings"

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

More bad news for the future of mercury amalgams.  (Which is good news for me, and anyone else against polluting the environment, harming humans, etc.)

A stunning report by Bank of America Securities advises that dental products company Dentsply, the #2 manufacturer of mercury fillings, realign its operations to sell only the resin and other filling materials.

"Internet Anonymity is as Destructive as Internet Porn"

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

Dear Anonymous, get a name!

I just read Internet Anonymity is as Destructive as Internet Porn, by conservative writer, radio talk show host, and the voice of Jigsaw Magnesium, Dennis Prager. 

Whenever people lament aspects of the Internet, they are most likely to lament the net's ubiquity of pornography. Only God knows, for example, how many kids, searching for some government information, typed in "whitehouse.com" only to be greeted by pornographic images (happily, the website changed hands in 2004). It is almost impossible to completely avoid such imagery even with filtering programs.

But there is something at least as awful -- and arguably more destructive -- that permeates the Internet: the lies, vitriol, obscenities and ad hominem attacks made by anonymous individuals on almost every website that deals with public issues.

[...]

Being identifiable breeds responsibility; anonymity breeds irresponsibility.

[...]

Some might argue that anonymity enables people to more freely express their thoughts. But this is not true. Anonymity only enables people to more freely express their feelings. Anonymity values feelings over thought, and immediate expression over thoughtful reflection.

[...] I doubt I am alone in reading fewer and fewer comments sections because of the low level of so many of the postings. Just as bad money chases away good money, moronic postings chase away intelligent ones.

[...] But there is an easy fix, and websites owe it to society to use it. Just ban anonymous postings.

I couldn't agree more with Dennis' take. 

Golfing in Ireland

FYI...I'm on a 10-day golfing safari in Ireland with several Arizona buddies.  We're playing one course a day all across the country.  I've never been to Ireland before, so it should be a great trip.

Attention Arizona Entrepreneurs

I'll be speaking at the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference on November 8.  Francine Hardaway of Stealthmode Partners has done a great job in organizing this event.  Early bird registration is open until October 15.

What the American Dairy Association Will Never Tell You

By Dr. Scott Olson
From article at JigsawHealth.com.

Calcium pushers? Are there really calcium pushers?

Doesn’t everyone know that calcium is good for you and that you need it to have strong bones? Walk up to any woman in the United States and ask her what one supplement she is taking and she will almost invariably say that she is taking calcium.

The American Dairy Association tells us calcium is a great reason for you to drink your milk. Calcium is the fourth most common supplement taken in the United States. It certainly seems that Americans are getting enough calcium. Think about how many times a day you are getting calcium. Your morning routine could include a supplement, cereal with milk, calcium-infused orange juice. The rest of the day may find you eating calcium fortified snack bars, more milk and milk products, calcium infused bread, and maybe a chocolate calcium treat. And, oops, if you take a Tums or other similar antacid, you are getting even more calcium.

Paranoid people might begin to think that there is a Calcium Cartel of some kind pushing calcium on us. Americans are calcium-crazy; but there is an unanswered question lingering whenever people suggest that you need to be concerned about getting enough calcium.

The Big Question

The question that no one is answering has to do with calcium and osteoporosis.

If Americans are supplementing calcium at such a high rate, then you would expect all that calcium to have an effect. But here is the kicker: it doesn’t. Not only do Americans consume more calcium than almost any other group of people on the planet, they also have the highest rate of osteoporosis [1].

How can that be?

It's as if there was a secret society at the US Dairy Council with dim lights, dark coats, and shady characters who would stop at nothing to conceal the truth about calcium. Dairy pushers spend over 300 million dollars a year to ensure that you are getting the message about calcium and milk. This message from the dairy council has a lot of bleed-over and can account for the popularity of all calcium-infused products.

Medical Consensus and High Fat Diets

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

I noticed a very interesting headline this morning while walking my dog and reading Instapundit2go on my crackberry, Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus.

...groups are surprisingly prone to reach mistaken conclusions even when most of the people started out knowing better, according to the economists Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch. If, say, 60 percent of a group’s members have been given information pointing them to the right answer (while the rest have information pointing to the wrong answer), there is still about a one-in-three chance that the group will cascade to a mistaken consensus.

Cascades are especially common in medicine as doctors take their cues from others, leading them to overdiagnose some faddish ailments (called bandwagon diseases) and overprescribe certain treatments (like the tonsillectomies once popular for children). Unable to keep up with the volume of research, doctors look for guidance from an expert — or at least someone who sounds confident.