The Japanese experience with mercury poisoning was a horrifying example for the rest of the world, but similar atrocities continue to occur in many industrialized countries. Mercury levels in free-swimming ocean fish do not appear to be a problem. Dental amalgams provide a constant source of elemental mercury. Daily intake of mercury in uncontaminated food is in the range of 15 -20 micrograms per day. Battery action in the mouth from metal fillings induces an odd electrolytic food chemistry, bad tastes, and makes teeth brittle.
Dental mercury is just another chemical pollution problem to add to our very long list of problems.
Do not have all your amalgams replaced until you have solved other, bigger problems first, especially food problems. Do ask for non-mercury fillings if new ones must be placed. A careful, conscientious patient who has solved food and environmental problems in large measure but still remains ill may consider complete amalgam replacement as a further problem-solving option. Rain becomes radioactive. Cisterns collecting rain for drinking water are immediately suspect.