Author: Zamm AV.
Source: Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
Year: 1991
Comment:
This study recommends banning dental amalgam mercury and explains how allergy, hypersensitivity, and genetics can impact reactions to mercury.
Abstract / Excerpt:
“Individuals who are xenobiotically sensitive to chemicals comprise a living indicator system that enables us to identify that group in the population that is also mercury sensitive. There is a spectrum of xenobiotic intolerance in the general population that is a function of, among other things, the spectrum of efficiency of the cytochrome P-450 system that exists in the population due to a spectrum of genetic polymorphism. Dental mercury inactivates those groups, whose function is protection of the cytochrome P-450 system. This inactivation and consequent loss of protection induces xenobiotic intolerance in individuals who are already compromised due to genetic polymorphism and who are the most susceptible individuals in the genetic population to further compromise. These compromised individuals will exhibit a variety of diagnostically confusing heterogenous symptoms. On March 15, 1991, the Food and Drug Administration convened a hearing on the “Potential Toxicity of Dental Amalgam”. I was one of the invited speakers. The following is based on the speech I delivered at that meeting. My purpose in this presentation is to
make three points:
1. Mercury from dental amalgam induces symptoms in a sensitive group of the population that has also been observed to be sensitive to xenobiotic substances. (Xenobiotic substances are substances which are foreign to the natural state of an organism. Examples of such foreign substances are petrochemical vapors, chlorinated hydrocarbons, sulfites, and metals which are not metabolically useful.)
2. This sensitive group serves as a marker that warns of the potential danger of dental mercury to the rest of the population who are also at risk but may not yet exhibit symptoms.
3. Dental mercury should be banned.”
Citation:
Zamm A. Dental mercury: a factor that aggravates and induces xenobiotic intolerance. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. 1991; (6)2.