Posted by Larry Hoover on June 20, 2006, at 23:14:04
In reply to Re: Hair Analysis, toxic levels of mercury » Larry Hoover, posted by blueberry on June 20, 2006, at 19:10:11
> One more question Larry. Your post was so detailed and technical it was a little over my head. I was wondering...
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> What about selenium supplements from the drug store or selenium in multivitamins. Do those forms of selenium bind to mercury, or is that form of selenium not useful against mercury?All selenium supps are useful against mercury. I was suggesting the most active form, being seleno-cysteine and seleno-methionine, as opposed to their precursors, the various selenium salts/chelates. Selenium yeast only has a few percent by weight of the seleno-amino acids, but it's just that much readier to go into use in the body.
The time-frame I mentioned, one month at the higher dose of 400 mcg, was in specific response to HM's living in a hot zone. There is some potential for the seleno-aminos to also give greater likelihood of adverse effects, so the briefer course was a balance of the two opposing trends.
> Does the selenium bind to the mercury and neutralize its damaging effects, or does the selenium bind the mercury so that it can be leached out?
I do not believe the mercury is mobilized. It is detoxified, though, without question. It is made inert. Non-reactive mercury is non-toxic mercury.
Lar
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