Hello and welcome to Health For a Lifetime. 00:00:48.99\00:00:51.42 We're glad you've joined us today because we have an 00:00:51.45\00:00:53.98 exciting topic - somewhat troubling topic maybe for some 00:00:54.01\00:00:58.03 because it will alert you to something that maybe you're 00:00:58.06\00:01:01.35 not familiar with. 00:01:01.38\00:01:02.45 Joining us in the studio today is Dr. Chester Clark. 00:01:02.48\00:01:06.07 He's a dentist with 30 years experience. 00:01:06.10\00:01:08.29 About 20 years ago, Doctor, by the way, welcome. 00:01:08.32\00:01:11.61 Thank you, it's a pleasure to be here. 00:01:11.64\00:01:12.80 About 30 years ago when you started dentistry, 00:01:12.83\00:01:15.98 you were involved in putting in the typical fillings and 00:01:16.01\00:01:20.16 different things that most dentists do. 00:01:20.20\00:01:21.86 But 20 years ago, in other words about 9, 10 years into your 00:01:21.89\00:01:25.06 practice you began to be concerned about, what was it? 00:01:25.09\00:01:29.37 The mercury that evaporates or sublimates from the mercury 00:01:29.41\00:01:33.65 amalgam fillings. 00:01:33.69\00:01:35.21 Today's program you've entitled something interesting concerning 00:01:35.25\00:01:40.07 what you just said. 00:01:40.10\00:01:41.09 You said, "The mercury fillings in health. " 00:01:41.12\00:01:45.30 Why would we call the program mercury fillings in health 00:01:45.34\00:01:48.87 if there's problems with mercury? 00:01:48.91\00:01:50.63 Well it's in health and disease. 00:01:50.66\00:01:52.31 I think it's important for us to realize that for most dentists 00:01:52.35\00:01:56.52 when they place the amalgam fillings the person as far as 00:01:56.56\00:02:00.73 they are concerned are healthy. 00:02:00.76\00:02:02.99 It brings up the point that mercury toxicity, 00:02:03.03\00:02:07.47 mercury poisoning, is actually a retention toxicity. 00:02:07.50\00:02:11.51 Which means that it's effects are progressive and cumulative. 00:02:11.55\00:02:16.67 So it may be years down the line before any symptoms occur. 00:02:16.71\00:02:21.79 Mercury poisoning is called the greatest masquerader 00:02:21.83\00:02:27.95 of our time. 00:02:27.99\00:02:29.43 Dentists are not in a position to see the cause and effect 00:02:29.46\00:02:32.70 relationship of the insertion of mercury and the development 00:02:32.74\00:02:35.94 of illness three to ten years later. 00:02:35.98\00:02:38.33 Even the patient himself does not connect the illness to the 00:02:38.37\00:02:42.39 original dental process. 00:02:42.42\00:02:44.55 And this is what you started noticing in your practice. 00:02:44.58\00:02:48.11 You had some people come in that were having problems. 00:02:48.14\00:02:51.64 Yes, I did. 00:02:51.67\00:02:53.59 And some people that asked me to remove their mercury fillings 00:02:53.63\00:02:58.82 because of those problems and I saw according to their reports 00:02:58.85\00:03:04.01 they recovered from their illnesses. 00:03:04.05\00:03:05.64 Now you and I were talking and you said that you were a little 00:03:05.68\00:03:09.96 bit offended when the first person came in and said, 00:03:09.99\00:03:12.31 "Remove the fillings that you put in my mouth. " 00:03:12.34\00:03:14.33 Yes, I felt that according to the standard of care, I had no 00:03:14.36\00:03:19.38 obligation to take them out. 00:03:19.41\00:03:21.30 Because I believed the standard line that all of us are taught 00:03:21.34\00:03:25.18 in school that this mercury is bound up tightly in the 00:03:25.22\00:03:30.20 composition of the filling and is not a problem. 00:03:30.23\00:03:35.15 Now were there any scientific studies, aside from someone 00:03:35.18\00:03:38.85 coming back and saying, "Take out my fillings"? 00:03:38.89\00:03:41.40 Were there any scientific studies that started to 00:03:41.44\00:03:43.92 change your mind? 00:03:43.95\00:03:44.92 One of the things that really influenced me perhaps more 00:03:44.93\00:03:48.41 than anything, other than I mentioned the statement in the 00:03:48.44\00:03:50.83 Spirit of Prophecy that was very compelling, there was a study 00:03:50.86\00:03:55.01 published in the May of 1984 issue of the 00:03:55.04\00:03:58.48 Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 00:03:58.51\00:04:00.10 That article was entitled, "The Effect of Dental Amalgam 00:04:00.13\00:04:05.04 and Nickel Alloys on T lymphocytes 00:04:05.07\00:04:08.17 a Preliminary Report. " 00:04:08.20\00:04:11.17 Just to summarize this article... and I tried to get 00:04:11.20\00:04:16.84 the photos to use here, but the quality wasn't a 00:04:16.87\00:04:24.44 good enough quality. 00:04:24.47\00:04:26.43 This researcher took a lady with six 00:04:26.46\00:04:33.82 fairly small mercury fillings. 00:04:33.85\00:04:36.88 He evaluated her T lymphocytes and found them somewhere, 00:04:36.91\00:04:40.74 the percentage of T lymphocytes, was somewhere around 00:04:40.77\00:04:43.52 47 to 48 percent. 00:04:43.55\00:04:45.48 T lymphocytes are those lymphocytes... they don't 00:04:45.51\00:04:48.75 necessarily look like a "T" but they're the ones that fight 00:04:48.78\00:04:51.50 against infection. 00:04:51.53\00:04:53.22 Yes, they are kind of the front door of infection that mark 00:04:53.25\00:04:56.99 cells for destruction before the other lymphocytes are able 00:04:57.02\00:05:01.47 to destroy them. 00:05:01.50\00:05:04.35 Anyway, he took her six fillings out after this first test and 00:05:04.38\00:05:11.97 evaluated her four months later with another T lymphocytes test 00:05:12.00\00:05:15.38 and the percentage went up to like 72%. 00:05:15.41\00:05:18.72 So it went up from what to what? 00:05:18.75\00:05:20.18 47 to 72. 00:05:20.21\00:05:22.26 So by taking out the mercury fillings, the T lymphocytes, 00:05:22.29\00:05:26.33 or white blood cells, the ones that target what are pathogens 00:05:26.36\00:05:30.19 or diseases, the army was increased from 40 to 70. 00:05:30.22\00:05:34.49 In other words it was a huge increase in those 00:05:34.52\00:05:38.42 looking for problems. 00:05:38.45\00:05:39.78 Yes. 00:05:39.81\00:05:40.86 Then he went back and he placed in the middle of those composite 00:05:40.90\00:05:42.79 fillings that he put in her teeth some mercury fillings, 00:05:42.82\00:05:47.16 some small mercury fillings. 00:05:47.19\00:05:48.92 And four months later did another T lymphocyte test and 00:05:48.95\00:05:52.32 it was back down within 1 or 2 percent of the original 00:05:52.35\00:05:54.79 47-48 percent. 00:05:54.82\00:05:57.29 So he put them in and took them out and the 00:05:57.32\00:06:00.46 T lymphocytes went up. 00:06:00.50\00:06:02.16 He put them back in and they went back down. 00:06:02.19\00:06:03.93 Has that ever been replicated? 00:06:03.96\00:06:05.71 Well, then the next step he did was 4 months later, well he took 00:06:05.74\00:06:10.94 the mercury and the composite out and put in 00:06:10.97\00:06:13.61 gold restorations. 00:06:13.65\00:06:14.62 Four months later did another T lymphocyte and it was back up 00:06:14.65\00:06:18.24 to 72 percent again. 00:06:18.27\00:06:20.79 So gold was ok? 00:06:20.82\00:06:21.79 Apparently so. 00:06:21.80\00:06:23.07 This must have been a very accommodating person to let 00:06:23.10\00:06:25.92 fillings be put in and take them out. 00:06:25.95\00:06:27.89 Maybe it was the dentist's wife, I don't know, it doesn't say. 00:06:27.92\00:06:30.79 But he did a similar study with a patient with one crown that 00:06:30.82\00:06:35.87 had a nickel based alloy as part of the coping 00:06:35.90\00:06:42.06 under the porcelain. 00:06:42.09\00:06:43.28 He found similar reduction and then increase effect on the 00:06:43.31\00:06:51.51 T lymphocytes. 00:06:51.54\00:06:52.51 But what this told me as a young dentist was that if the 00:06:52.52\00:06:58.17 mercury I'm placing in people's mouths can effect their 00:06:58.20\00:07:01.85 immune system drastically in a healthy person then I didn't 00:07:01.88\00:07:07.53 want to be a part of continuing that process and even having a 00:07:07.56\00:07:11.81 little bit of liability there damaging our defenses. 00:07:11.84\00:07:17.23 So this got you on to... wasn't just people coming and 00:07:17.26\00:07:21.72 saying, "Remove my fillings," that one experience, but now you 00:07:21.75\00:07:25.17 were seeing, wow, this really does have an effect. 00:07:25.20\00:07:28.11 Now you said that mercury decreased the T lymphocytes 00:07:28.14\00:07:32.82 but then you mentioned something else. 00:07:32.85\00:07:34.01 You said nickel? 00:07:34.04\00:07:35.03 Yes, nickel is an alloy and is used as a constituent of some 00:07:35.06\00:07:40.22 alloys in the metal under porcelain crowns. 00:07:40.25\00:07:44.03 Where there any other early cases that you saw that kind of 00:07:44.06\00:07:47.56 confirmed your findings? 00:07:47.59\00:07:48.75 One of the cases that was rather dramatic was a wife of a 00:07:48.78\00:07:57.25 physician who... she and her husband had been missionaries 00:07:57.28\00:08:04.32 in Asia somewhere, I don't remember what country, 00:08:04.35\00:08:06.43 but she had developed some health problems. 00:08:06.46\00:08:09.21 She described them as 4 or 5 distinct symptoms and she was 00:08:09.24\00:08:12.95 just getting worse and worse. 00:08:12.98\00:08:14.06 They had to return home from mission service. 00:08:14.09\00:08:17.50 She was concerned and thought it could be related to her 00:08:17.53\00:08:21.08 mercury fillings. 00:08:21.11\00:08:22.16 We took the mercury fillings out and she got much better. 00:08:22.19\00:08:26.76 In fact she wrote me a letter describing her experience. 00:08:26.79\00:08:30.57 And later on we had her fill out an Adverse Reaction Report 00:08:30.60\00:08:36.86 for the Department of Health and Human Services in the 00:08:36.89\00:08:39.17 Public Health Service. 00:08:39.20\00:08:40.32 They were doing a study back in the 1980's about mercury and 00:08:40.35\00:08:46.65 so we had her fill this out. 00:08:46.68\00:08:48.54 Her symptoms were listed as this: First, tiredness and 00:08:48.57\00:08:53.93 muscle weakness. 00:08:53.96\00:08:54.93 Second, food and inhalant allergies. 00:08:54.94\00:08:58.22 The third was insomnia, she had to take sleeping medicines. 00:08:58.25\00:09:04.30 And fourth was aching muscles. 00:09:04.33\00:09:07.99 And fifth was hair loss. 00:09:08.02\00:09:10.01 The last question is, "What percentage of improvement 00:09:10.04\00:09:14.75 or worsening would you say you were able to attain simply on 00:09:14.78\00:09:18.24 the basis of the one factor of the removal of dental mercury?" 00:09:18.27\00:09:23.73 She said, "For A, C, D, and E all of the above except for the 00:09:23.77\00:09:29.20 food and inhalant allergies she had 100% improvement. 00:09:29.23\00:09:33.84 The food and inhalant allergies her improvement was 70%. 00:09:33.88\00:09:38.45 That was her post testing. 00:09:38.49\00:09:40.18 And that got your attention as well. 00:09:40.22\00:09:41.30 Here is someone that is having a great improvement. 00:09:41.33\00:09:44.80 These were early on experiences that you had to just kind of 00:09:44.83\00:09:48.39 solidified your belief that mercury based fillings were 00:09:48.42\00:09:52.21 problems. 00:09:52.24\00:09:53.47 Yes, that's right. 00:09:53.51\00:09:55.66 What about the relationship between mercury and 00:09:55.69\00:10:00.68 multiple sclerosis, or MS like cases? 00:10:00.72\00:10:04.49 I have treated several patients with multiple sclerosis. 00:10:04.53\00:10:11.57 One in particular showed no improvement. 00:10:11.61\00:10:15.84 She refused to stop smoking habit and a few other lifestyle 00:10:15.88\00:10:22.85 related things. 00:10:22.89\00:10:23.90 She was very over weight and eating high fat diet. 00:10:23.93\00:10:27.34 I don't know if that had anything to do with it. 00:10:27.37\00:10:30.75 But it seems that in many MS cases the damage, if it goes on 00:10:30.79\00:10:37.14 long enough, it becomes irreparable and we don't 00:10:37.17\00:10:39.41 see much correction. 00:10:39.44\00:10:41.25 I had a lady come to visit me once who another dentist had 00:10:41.29\00:10:44.99 taken her mercury fillings out. 00:10:45.03\00:10:46.48 She told me she had been disabled and been in a 00:10:46.52\00:10:50.64 wheel chair, actually lost urinary function for a number 00:10:50.68\00:10:53.51 of years, was not able to walk but when she came into my office 00:10:53.55\00:10:58.67 she walked up the steps herself and looked totally normal. 00:10:58.71\00:11:03.21 She said that occurred after she had her 00:11:03.25\00:11:05.95 mercury fillings removed. 00:11:05.98\00:11:07.62 Her recovery was fairly rapid. 00:11:07.66\00:11:10.01 So if you're suffering from one of these kind of conditions 00:11:10.04\00:11:13.88 and have mercury fillings, it's something to consider 00:11:13.92\00:11:16.21 is what you're maybe suggesting. 00:11:16.25\00:11:17.97 Yes. 00:11:18.01\00:11:19.16 Another interesting thing that I've noticed early on, 00:11:19.20\00:11:23.18 I had several cases patients that were curious. 00:11:23.21\00:11:25.36 They were aware that they had a sub-normal body temperature 00:11:25.39\00:11:31.07 like 96.8 or 97.2 or something like this was what their body 00:11:31.10\00:11:36.97 temperature was consistently. 00:11:37.00\00:11:38.37 I remember one young lady, as we took her mercury fillings out 00:11:38.40\00:11:44.30 we'd take 2 or 3 at a time, 00:11:44.33\00:11:45.52 she kept a record of her body temperature. 00:11:45.56\00:11:50.50 With each appointment her body temperature afterwards would go 00:11:50.53\00:11:54.68 up about 2/10's or 4/10's of a degree. 00:11:54.71\00:11:58.76 As we got the last ones out it was 98.6. 00:11:58.79\00:12:03.64 Is it ok to have a little lower body temperature? 00:12:03.67\00:12:10.00 I think it probably implies, and of course this is out of my 00:12:10.04\00:12:14.54 field of expertise, but I think it probably implies 00:12:14.58\00:12:18.43 some damage to the thyroid gland and thyroid function. 00:12:18.46\00:12:22.28 What should mercury fillings be replaced with 00:12:22.31\00:12:26.18 if you take them out? 00:12:26.21\00:12:27.27 The mercury fillings should be replaced with a composite 00:12:27.31\00:12:33.50 material is probably the quickest and easiest. 00:12:33.54\00:12:36.76 Some people prefer to have a longer lasting material, 00:12:36.80\00:12:42.38 such as gold or porcelain, is much more time involved 00:12:42.42\00:12:47.97 and expense in that. 00:12:48.01\00:12:50.02 I like to see people's immune system recover and so I 00:12:50.05\00:12:54.90 usually encourage them to have a composite placed first, and 00:12:54.93\00:12:58.27 then later on if there are gold restorations or crowns needed 00:12:58.31\00:13:01.61 then after the immune system is functioning better then 00:13:01.65\00:13:06.34 consider other types of restorations. 00:13:06.37\00:13:11.35 Now some people watching may be a little skeptical because 00:13:11.38\00:13:14.64 they've never heard this before. 00:13:14.67\00:13:15.64 You have a little video clip that you often show. 00:13:15.67\00:13:19.71 I think you just recently got the clip but it will 00:13:19.74\00:13:23.75 demonstrate that there is actually mercury in these 00:13:23.79\00:13:28.18 fillings and it does escape. 00:13:28.22\00:13:30.07 Tell us a little bit more about that if you want to, 00:13:30.10\00:13:32.44 then we'll watch it. 00:13:32.48\00:13:34.04 Sure. 00:13:34.07\00:13:35.56 I have told people for 20 years now that mercury is escaping 00:13:35.60\00:13:39.96 from their fillings 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. 00:13:40.00\00:13:45.08 It's hard for people to understand that but when they 00:13:45.12\00:13:50.13 see it visually, like we'll see in just a minute, 00:13:50.17\00:13:54.51 it is much more real. 00:13:54.55\00:13:56.72 Doctor, before we go into that it looks like 00:13:56.75\00:13:59.39 we need to take a break. 00:13:59.42\00:14:00.39 We'll look at that right when we come back. 00:14:00.40\00:14:01.93 Hope you join us. 00:14:01.96\00:14:02.93 Have you found yourself wishing that you could 00:14:04.83\00:14:06.40 shed a few pounds? 00:14:06.44\00:14:07.41 Have you been on a diet for most of your life? 00:14:07.42\00:14:10.03 But not found anything that will really keep the weight off? 00:14:10.06\00:14:13.27 If you've answered yes to any of these questions, then we 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Welcome back. 00:15:04.72\00:15:05.70 I'm your host, Don Mackintosh. 00:15:05.73\00:15:07.00 This is Health for a Lifetime. 00:15:07.04\00:15:08.24 We've been talking with Dr. Chester Clark. 00:15:08.28\00:15:10.69 Dr. Clark is a dentist and he has been practicing dentistry 00:15:10.72\00:15:16.84 for about 30 years. 00:15:16.88\00:15:18.17 And about 10 years into his practice he discovered that 00:15:18.21\00:15:22.51 there was a problem and that was the mercury in the fillings 00:15:22.54\00:15:25.77 that he was putting into people's mouths. 00:15:25.81\00:15:28.09 And as we closed he was about ready to show us a clip of 00:15:28.13\00:15:31.78 actually what happens. 00:15:31.82\00:15:33.54 You can see the actual effects of mercury in these different 00:15:33.57\00:15:38.98 fillings and even see the escaping. 00:15:39.02\00:15:40.82 So we're going to look at that clip just now and then we'll 00:15:40.85\00:15:43.75 come back and talk about it. 00:15:43.79\00:15:44.82 Let's look at the clip. 00:15:44.85\00:15:46.10 All mercury silver fillings leaks substantial amounts of 00:15:56.75\00:15:59.87 mercury constantly. 00:15:59.91\00:16:01.02 The amount increases with any kind of stimulation 00:16:01.05\00:16:03.77 and as a result mercury from fillings produces the majority 00:16:03.80\00:16:07.67 of human exposure to mercury. 00:16:07.70\00:16:09.50 The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology 00:16:09.54\00:16:12.57 is extremely concerned about the antidotal claims of safety 00:16:12.61\00:16:15.61 by manufacturers and dental trade associations. 00:16:15.65\00:16:18.38 They are at variance with the published viewed scientific 00:16:18.42\00:16:21.22 evidence to the contrary. 00:16:21.26\00:16:22.92 The precautionary principle requires action once the 00:16:22.96\00:16:26.14 possibility of harm exists. 00:16:26.18\00:16:27.49 It does not require proof beyond the shadow of a doubt. 00:16:27.53\00:16:30.04 That in the case of heavy metal and zed biotic exposure is both 00:16:30.07\00:16:34.75 nearly impossible and unnecessary in our opinion. 00:16:34.78\00:16:38.23 What you're seeing is mercury vapor coming off a 25 year old 00:16:38.27\00:16:42.19 silver amalgam filling in an extracted tooth. 00:16:42.22\00:16:45.09 The background is a phosphorescent screen. 00:16:45.13\00:16:47.93 The mercury vapor absorbs the florescent light and you can 00:16:47.96\00:16:51.31 see it as a shadow on the screen. 00:16:51.34\00:16:53.29 This is mercury coming off a filling that was dipped in 00:16:53.32\00:16:56.59 water that's the same temperature as the human body. 00:16:56.62\00:16:59.85 This is a filling that was rubbed with a pencil eraser 00:17:02.56\00:17:05.97 for just a few seconds - like going to the hygienist and 00:17:06.01\00:17:09.39 having her clean your teeth. 00:17:09.42\00:17:10.89 These are not small amounts of mercury. 00:17:10.93\00:17:14.54 If you can see it, it's more than 1,000 times higher than 00:17:14.58\00:17:18.90 The Environmental Protection Agency will allow for the air 00:17:18.93\00:17:23.22 that we breath. 00:17:23.25\00:17:24.30 What about the last time you went to the dentist and they 00:17:25.90\00:17:28.90 drilled on your teeth. 00:17:28.94\00:17:30.02 Here is the mercury vapor every time you raise the temperature 00:17:30.06\00:17:34.47 to 110 degrees with hot coffee or warm water 00:17:34.50\00:17:38.30 or even chewed on it. 00:17:38.33\00:17:40.38 Mercury comes off fillings every time you stimulate them. 00:17:40.42\00:17:45.54 And that stimulation causes the mercury to continue to leak out 00:17:45.58\00:17:49.74 of the fillings for an hour and a half at a minimum. 00:17:49.78\00:17:54.16 That's an impressive video. 00:17:56.83\00:17:58.85 I can see why you've chosen that. 00:17:58.89\00:18:00.79 Do you show that to your patients sometimes so they 00:18:00.82\00:18:03.52 can understand? 00:18:03.56\00:18:04.53 I do. 00:18:04.54\00:18:05.56 And so there is this escape of mercury and it's a real problem. 00:18:05.59\00:18:10.14 It especially effects the central nervous tissue 00:18:10.18\00:18:14.81 I understand? 00:18:14.85\00:18:15.82 Yes. 00:18:15.83\00:18:16.80 There's just so many things it hard to describe all the 00:18:16.81\00:18:20.81 things it effects because mercury has the ability to 00:18:20.84\00:18:24.93 actually destroy any cell of the body. 00:18:24.97\00:18:28.13 And it tends to weaken the cell membranes, it tends to 00:18:28.16\00:18:34.00 effect the central nervous system, like you said, more than 00:18:34.03\00:18:36.98 any other tissue in the body. 00:18:37.01\00:18:38.56 So is replacing the fillings, I mean this is what you suggest, 00:18:38.59\00:18:43.95 and you probably suggest having someone that knows 00:18:43.98\00:18:47.00 what their doing to replace the fillings. 00:18:47.04\00:18:48.81 Is replacing the fillings adequate? 00:18:48.85\00:18:50.80 Is that all that needs to be done? 00:18:50.83\00:18:52.71 For people that are quite ill, the most important thing is 00:18:52.75\00:18:59.15 to remove the source of mercury which is the fillings of course. 00:18:59.18\00:19:02.76 But if those fillings have been in someone's mouth for more than 00:19:02.79\00:19:06.33 10 years, they will have a significant 00:19:06.36\00:19:08.46 body burden of mercury. 00:19:08.50\00:19:09.97 That mercury will have built up in every tissue primarily in 00:19:10.00\00:19:15.10 brain tissue, liver, and kidneys. 00:19:15.13\00:19:17.58 It's important to think about or plan on a detoxification 00:19:17.62\00:19:22.86 program to get the mercury out of the other body tissues. 00:19:22.90\00:19:28.11 Do they have such centers? 00:19:28.14\00:19:29.95 Do they have like mercury detox centers or what do you do 00:19:29.98\00:19:32.79 to go on these detoxification programs? 00:19:32.83\00:19:36.29 I've heard of only one and I'm on a steep learning curve 00:19:36.33\00:19:40.51 with this idea of detoxification myself. 00:19:40.54\00:19:43.69 Apparently the body has some pretty powerful detoxification 00:19:43.72\00:19:47.92 system itself. 00:19:47.96\00:19:49.25 One is the protein glutathione. 00:19:49.29\00:19:53.82 It's actually a small protein made up of three amino acids. 00:19:53.86\00:19:58.78 It has the ability to grab on to the mercury, to make it 00:19:58.82\00:20:03.71 simplified, and pull it out of the system, out of the cell 00:20:03.75\00:20:08.26 where ever it's at. 00:20:08.29\00:20:09.50 The problem is glutathione is a necessary ingredient 00:20:09.54\00:20:14.84 in every cell of the body. 00:20:14.87\00:20:16.41 It's necessary. 00:20:16.44\00:20:17.44 If you have a lot of mercury and that glutathione is getting 00:20:17.48\00:20:21.03 rid of a lot mercury then you're also getting rid of glutathione. 00:20:21.07\00:20:24.65 Because glutathione is a self-sacrificing molecule 00:20:24.69\00:20:28.33 it has to go out with the mercury. 00:20:28.37\00:20:30.56 So is there anything else that can help get it out? 00:20:30.60\00:20:33.45 I mean we don't want to sacrifice our glutathione. 00:20:33.48\00:20:36.26 Well, there are a number of anti-oxidant vitamins that are 00:20:36.30\00:20:41.91 part of this system that helps to rid the body of the mercury. 00:20:41.94\00:20:48.86 We have vitamins A, D, and E, other minerals such as selenium 00:20:48.90\00:20:55.78 is a strong anti-oxidant. 00:20:55.82\00:20:59.36 These are things that is helpful to take. 00:20:59.40\00:21:03.96 And we frequently encourage people to take multiple vitamins 00:21:03.99\00:21:07.81 especially the anti-oxidant vitamins. 00:21:07.85\00:21:09.62 You can get combinations with just those. 00:21:09.65\00:21:11.35 So glutathione, is that ever reproduced in the cells? 00:21:11.39\00:21:19.28 In other words, if it sacrifices itself to get the mercury out, 00:21:19.31\00:21:22.11 does it ever replenish itself, in cells? 00:21:22.14\00:21:23.91 I'm afraid that's a question I can't answer. 00:21:23.95\00:21:25.98 You don't know. 00:21:26.01\00:21:26.98 Ok, well I mean this is an emerging type thing. 00:21:26.99\00:21:29.46 But the important thing that you're saying here 00:21:29.49\00:21:32.07 is that if you have a large build-up of mercury in your 00:21:32.10\00:21:37.22 tissues, you may need to consider taking anti-oxidants 00:21:37.25\00:21:42.33 finding a way to get them out of your system. 00:21:42.36\00:21:45.44 How can you know for sure whether you need a 00:21:45.47\00:21:48.74 detox program? 00:21:48.78\00:21:50.04 Well, there is a mercury risk assessment in Dr. Myron Wentz' 00:21:50.07\00:21:55.60 book, "A mouthful of Poison" that leads you through step 00:21:55.63\00:21:59.35 by step the process to determine whether you are low risk, or 00:21:59.38\00:22:03.92 moderate risk, or high risk. 00:22:03.95\00:22:05.46 It starts off with how many mercury fillings your mother had 00:22:05.49\00:22:12.57 when she was carrying you, if you can find that information, 00:22:12.60\00:22:19.26 and how many mercury fillings you have presently and how many 00:22:19.29\00:22:23.59 years you've had mercury in your mouth and all of these 00:22:23.62\00:22:27.75 things contribute and you have certain disease symptoms now. 00:22:27.79\00:22:32.33 All of these things contribute points and at the end it puts 00:22:32.36\00:22:36.86 you either in the low, moderate, or high. 00:22:36.90\00:22:39.84 If you are in the low risk, of course it's recommended that you 00:22:39.87\00:22:42.27 get your mercury fillings out, to stop this process of 00:22:42.30\00:22:45.51 mercury tissue build up in your body. 00:22:45.55\00:22:47.47 If you're in the moderate risk area, then it's a good thing 00:22:47.51\00:22:52.23 of course first to get the mercury fillings out, and then 00:22:52.26\00:22:56.95 the detox program is perhaps optional depending on where 00:22:56.98\00:23:01.70 you're at in that range. 00:23:01.74\00:23:04.15 And then the final step. 00:23:04.18\00:23:06.52 If you're in the high risk area, then first of all it's really 00:23:06.56\00:23:11.58 important to get the mercury fillings removed in the proper 00:23:11.62\00:23:16.61 way with proper precautions. 00:23:16.64\00:23:18.24 Secondly, it's important to take steps to get the mercury 00:23:18.28\00:23:24.40 out of your system, out of your tissues. 00:23:24.44\00:23:26.99 That would be with a glutathione type program 00:23:27.02\00:23:30.45 or other programs that... or multiple vitamins. 00:23:30.49\00:23:33.89 Ok, so that's a helpful test. 00:23:33.92\00:23:37.22 That gives us an idea - low, moderate, or high - definitely 00:23:37.26\00:23:42.09 an action item there. 00:23:42.13\00:23:43.10 Back to these vitamin supplements - selenium, all the 00:23:43.13\00:23:47.31 different vitamins you mentioned. 00:23:47.34\00:23:48.38 It's a big craze to say, "Hey, I'm going to take a little pill 00:23:48.42\00:23:51.28 and that's going to give me all those supplements the 00:23:51.31\00:23:53.44 Doctor mentioned. " 00:23:53.48\00:23:54.45 What about just eating the plants that those are in? 00:23:54.46\00:23:58.51 What is your take on that? 00:23:58.54\00:24:00.78 I'm sure that a high fiber, natural foods diet would provide 00:24:00.82\00:24:06.26 a good share of those. 00:24:06.30\00:24:07.69 For most people it would be... they would get some 00:24:07.72\00:24:12.61 detoxification benefit from that. 00:24:12.64\00:24:14.48 But recognizing that mercury in brain tissue has a half life 00:24:14.52\00:24:21.70 of 20 years, you might not live long enough to get the 00:24:21.73\00:24:26.08 mercury out of your tissue. 00:24:26.11\00:24:27.67 I think a supplement for maybe 3 months or 6 months would be 00:24:27.71\00:24:32.36 a very helpful thing to help pull that mercury out of your 00:24:32.39\00:24:37.29 tissues, improve your symptoms in a shorter period of time. 00:24:37.32\00:24:41.21 What you've suggested here is that mercury 00:24:41.25\00:24:44.60 causes these problems. 00:24:44.64\00:24:45.77 You go down in progressive problems - from low problems, 00:24:45.80\00:24:49.76 to moderate problems, to high problems. 00:24:49.79\00:24:51.14 Is this like a predictable course - if I have mercury in my 00:24:51.18\00:24:54.29 mouth is "A" going to happen, "B," "C,"? 00:24:54.32\00:24:57.85 Is it something that is that specific or predictable? 00:24:57.88\00:25:01.85 It is very predictable as I look back over the many 00:25:01.88\00:25:05.82 cases I've had. 00:25:05.85\00:25:07.05 Most of them have given me reports of either rapid, 00:25:07.09\00:25:12.99 or immediate, or maybe in time prolonged improvement 00:25:13.02\00:25:18.89 or recovery entirely, but there are a few that don't seem to fit 00:25:18.92\00:25:23.21 the norms. 00:25:23.25\00:25:25.44 From what I've been reading recently, apparently some of 00:25:25.47\00:25:29.84 these people that have had high exposure for many years, 00:25:29.88\00:25:34.18 have so many symptoms that when we remove the mercury fillings 00:25:34.21\00:25:38.17 it's like pealing an onion. 00:25:38.20\00:25:39.71 We take off the first layer or two of symptoms and then 00:25:39.75\00:25:43.67 suddenly they are aware of other symptoms beneath and then they 00:25:43.70\00:25:48.02 are frustrated sometimes about how to deal with those symptoms. 00:25:48.05\00:25:52.18 This is where a detox program can help over a period of time 00:25:52.22\00:25:56.31 gradually restore and reverse a number of symptoms in 00:25:56.35\00:26:02.60 these complex cases. 00:26:02.64\00:26:03.86 So should people rush out and get their fillings 00:26:03.90\00:26:05.72 out right now? 00:26:05.76\00:26:07.01 Definitely not. 00:26:07.05\00:26:08.24 There's some hazards I would encourage people to read all 00:26:08.27\00:26:12.36 they can about mercury and the proper methods of removal. 00:26:12.39\00:26:16.45 Maybe try to educate your dentist in the protocols that 00:26:16.48\00:26:20.59 are needed to safeguard that activity. 00:26:20.62\00:26:23.48 You're a Christian clinician and you like to bring God's Word 00:26:23.51\00:26:26.01 into your practice, His healing Word. 00:26:26.04\00:26:28.63 Is there any thoughts, as we close, from His Word? 00:26:28.66\00:26:31.16 Yes, beautiful promise that I think it's good to close this 00:26:31.20\00:26:39.22 somewhat depressing subject with. 00:26:39.25\00:26:41.10 It's found in Psalm 103:2-5. 00:26:41.13\00:26:46.23 David says, "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not 00:26:46.27\00:26:50.81 all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who 00:26:50.85\00:26:55.36 healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life 00:26:55.40\00:26:59.28 from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness 00:26:59.32\00:27:03.29 and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with 00:27:03.32\00:27:07.33 good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. " 00:27:07.37\00:27:13.08 Such a beautiful promise. 00:27:13.12\00:27:14.09 Now I can't promise that taking mercury out of someone's mouth 00:27:14.10\00:27:17.91 is going to renew their youth, but I can encourage people 00:27:17.95\00:27:23.14 to test God. 00:27:23.17\00:27:25.35 He wants to fill our mouths with good things and not bad things. 00:27:25.38\00:27:30.18 Thank you so much, Dr. Clark, for joining us, taking time 00:27:30.22\00:27:33.38 out of your busy practice and being with us. 00:27:33.42\00:27:35.68 We really appreciate this and also what you've discovered. 00:27:35.71\00:27:39.83 I hope it will really be a help to your patients 00:27:39.87\00:27:43.00 and those that are watching. 00:27:43.03\00:27:44.56 Thank you for watching today Health for a Lifetime. 00:27:44.60\00:27:46.73 We're glad that you watch 3ABN. 00:27:46.77\00:27:48.76 We hope that you're blessed by this and the other 00:27:48.80\00:27:50.97 programming here. 00:27:51.00\00:27:51.97 And we hope that as a result of this program you'll have 00:27:51.98\00:27:54.63 health that lasts, not just for now, but also for a lifetime. 00:27:54.66\00:27:58.31