Dear Barry,
That’s a real zinger - had me laughin’. And thinkin’.
My girlfriend was diagnosed w/leukemia a few years back - not to worry, its the “good” kind - and she’s been attacking it aggressivly w/non-traditional txs’.
The main thing she’s been doing is chelation therapy which turns out to be the conventional intervention for accute lead and mercury toxicity. First they test you for the afforementioned and then they zap you with chemicals to remove the other chemicals.
To make a long story longer, it seems to be working: here white count has gone from close to 20,000 down to 11,000
in a little over a year, and while that’s pretty high, its almost high “normal.”
But this makes me wonder: if some random person has bunches of this shit floating around in their bodies, why aren’t more people being tested?
On a different note, have you been following the whole Avian flu, 1917 dna Spanish flu mapping, congress waking up and tagging $3 billion for flu shot/reasearch thingie? Seems that the 1917 pandemic was an avian strain. Think Carlin is right: the earth is going to shake us off like so much water off a dog.

Mercury is funny stuff. I’ve read a lot about chelation therapy with EDTA, and it sounds pretty interesting. It needs a lot more research, but some people say it’s the best thing since sliced bread and it can have a huge impact on arterial plaques. This site says otherwise, categorically. Basically, and this is what needs more research, people are claiming that EDTA can serve better in improving the heart’s blood supply than bypass surgery. The thing is, EDTA is cheap and the treatment is ridiculously easy. It would be a big blow to the treatment by surgery school of medicine, and that’s big business.

Of course I digress, since we’re talking about mercury and not arterial plaques. EDTA is a common treatment for heavy metal poisoning, there’s no doubt about that. I think it boils down to the high cost of health care (there’s a whole other post, see this New Yorker article for a ringing indictment), people don’t want to spend any money they don’t absolutely have to on a test for heavy metals. It’s unfortunate, since chelation therapy is fairly cheap (in theory at least).