Posted by Larry Hoover on October 14, 2003, at 8:27:37
In reply to Selenium cures anxiety and other problems!, posted by Wolf Dreamer on October 14, 2003, at 1:11:51
> Why the heck didn't anyone tell me about this stuff before?
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> I searched for "selenium" and "anxiety" in a search engine and started reading various articals that popped up.
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> They did a study with 100 people with anxiety. This test may not be 100% valid, since half were given selenium, and the other half given a sugar pill, and sugar has an anxiety affect on people. So when those who didn't get the selenium had anxiety, it may have been because of the sugar.
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> Anyway, many studies which weren't done by idiots, have concluded that selenium helps autism, anxiety, etc.
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> Did you know the symptons of mercury poisoning and autism are the same? Did you know that people autism, anxiety, or other problems have a shortage of selenium in their bodies?
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> If you have mercury in your body, the selenium bonds with it first, keeping it from causing any harm. But, then you might not have enough selenium for your brain to function normally, causing all sorts of problems.
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> Is it the mercury that damages people, or the lack of selenium it causes?It's impossible to separate the two processes, and say what causes what, exactly. One of the toxic effects of mercury exposure is selenium binding, and all that follows from that can be attributed to mercury exposure, even though the details pertain to loss of selenium functionality.
> Anyway, if anyone with anxiety has taken selenium, tell me how it worked for you, and what brands you used.
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> http://www.whale.to/a/table_a.htm
> Summary Comparison of Characteristics of Autism & Mercury Poisoning
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> I'm not autistic, but I believe this proves mercury has an effect on our minds.That's without question. Mercury is neurotoxic.
> They claim the mercury seeping from your fillings each day isn't enough to harm you.Who claims? Dentists? Maybe they don't want to get sued? Think tobacco, and how long it took to get the tobacco companies to take responsibility. The US federal government accepts that dental amalgam is a significant route of exposure to mercury, as does e.g. the state of Californina, which requires notices to be posted in dentists' offices.
I've got tons of evidence of mercury exposure from dental amalgam, if you're interested.
> But electromagnetic fields do cause it to leak out more.
It's already leaking, so the issue of "more" or not, from electromagnetic radiation, is moot. Hot coffee increases the rate. Chewing gum increases the rate. Drinking soda increases the rate. Brushing your teeth increases the rate. Mouth-breathing increases the rate. Bruxism (tooth-grinding at night) increases the rate. Et cetera.
> Computer monitors, televisions, etc. all have an electromagnetic field. Those of you with mercury fillings that live near high voltage power lines, are certainly having problems.
We're surrounded/saturated with electromagnetic fields. You can't avoid them.
> Anyway, selenium helps autism, anxiety, depression, brain fog, and those who simply can not get excited about anything some days.
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> The amount of selenium in soil varies in differant areas. In many places these days they don't rotate their crops. They just grow the same thing, using chemical fertilizers, and this depletes the soil of any nutrients. Not even worms can live in this soil. So, obviously, people used to get selenium from what they ate, but that is no longer the case these days. So don't just think you can get it by eating certain foods, since that may no longer work.It's a little more complicated than that. For example, there are large regions of Europe that have virtually no selenium in the soil. Before the European Union was created, large amounts of high-selenium grain from North America were imported into Europe, and were the most significant source of selenium in European diets. Now, however, grain imports from North America have substantially declined, in preference to the selenium-deficient grain from protected EU sources. Selenium-deficiency is a regional problem, but it's not because of poor crop rotation.
> I'm rambling a bit. Oh, don't take too much selenium at once they say.No more than 600 micrograms per day, unless you're under medical supervision. Higher doses are used in treatments for proven mercury exposure, for example, but blood tests are used to monitor selenium function. 200 micrograms per day is a reasonable amount, if you have mercury amalgam dental work.
> I saw some at Sam's Wholesale Club before, so I'll pick up some there next time I go.
Good.
Lar
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