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July 15, 2009, 1:09 pm
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So, this friend of mine was having all these fatigue issues and saw a bunch of different doctors (all kinds). Finally, she saw this nutritionist/chiro who told her she had heavy metal poisoning and put her on this cleanse that she's been on for over a year. She says it's working and making a huge difference, but I look at her and she looks the worse I've ever seen her--underweight, dark circles under her eyes, super low energy. No matter what I say to her, she insists this treatment is great. I almost feel like doing an intervention.

Any idea how the friend got this in the first place? I hear about it sometimes, but most places never tell you "how it happened". Another thing people think of with those symptoms is being anaemic, did they check for that as well?

Ok well if she really does have heavy metal poisoning then it can be tested with conventional medicine. If it turns out to be the case, then it can be treated-and so really I would say that its not a case for alternative medicine. Especially if she is looking so rough.

Dark circles under her eyes tells me severe estrogen deprivation. I dated a young woman in college who every month with her cycle had her estrogen levels drop to virtually nothing. PMS didn't begin to describe it. I've never personally met another woman with this same issue but have heard of it before. Most visible symptom was very dark circles under her eyes. My friend deliberately wore large frame glasses to disguise it. She possibly should consider being checked for that. Diagnosis of heavy metal poisoning sounds like bs to me.

While a doctor of naturopatheic medicine might be able to adequately treat your friend, they would be the first to tell her that no one should be on any type of cleanse for over a year. A cleanse is a short-term process that can be repeated but most naturopatheic doctors that I have spoken to do not recommend a cleanse continue for longer than 30 days at a time. A nutritionist/ chiropractor may or may not also be liscensed in naturopatheic medicine.

Since my friend won't listen to me, I wish she would listen to you guys. Per the doctor she's seeing, she got heavy metal poisoning mainly from the fillings she'd gotten over the years. I'll keep working on her and see if I can get her to check out any of the other suggestions everyone has so helpfully made.

I have heard about high levels of mercury in canned fish, especially tuna, caused by all the pollution in the oceans. Since I eat tuna all time, I was wondering does anyone know some facts?

I have heard about the canned tuna also, but I thought that was some kind of a hoax. Apparently not, a lot of people are talking about it.

Apparently this problem is not addressed seriously. I read that eating small tuna fish is better because it contains less mercury. I don't know if this is true.

I don't think that mercury poisoning is what we should be concerned about. I don't think this is too alarming. There is some mercury but I don't believe they would put such polluted specimens in the cans.

My friend who's been doing this heavy metal cleanse was told by her doctor not to eat tuna or shellfish because of the mercury levels in them.

It seems like every time you turn around, there is some reason that some new thing is bad for you. At least until the health professionals change their minds. Like with eggs. Forever they were supposed to cause high cholesterol. Now doctors say they are super food and you should eat them.

The mercury in fish is a real phenomenon-a genuine problem and not BS. Look up Minamata disease-wiki link here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease

You can see that the mercury was deliberately discharged into the water-and where do you think it has since gone? I am willing to bet others still discharge it, and no body of water in the world is completely isolated from the others.

Big fish are more of a danger, and detritus eaters too. This is because it accumulates as it goes up the food chain, becoming more concentrated. And detritus eaters eat all the junk including the waste from these highly toxic specimen.

For the record no one is testing tuna before they can them so yes, polluted fish are sold. This is why pregnant women are told not to eat more than one serving of tuna a week.

"It seems like every time you turn around, there is some reason that some new thing is bad for you." This is an excellent observation and a very interesting one. Sometimes I think that there is some Worldwide conspiracy about that.

I wonder what the world's food will be like in another 100 years. It could get scary with all the pollution factors and increased population. Next they'll be giving us genetically engineered stomachs so we'll be able to digest the food that's available.