How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration.

Author: Lorsheider FL, Leong CCW, Syed NI.

Source: University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine

Year: 2001

Comment:

This scientific video visually demonstrates how mercury vapor can impact the brain. Watch at https://youtu.be/pPVxiDpsNDg

Abstract / Excerpt:

“Mercury has long been known to be a potent neurotoxic substance, whether it is inhaled or consumed in the diet as a food contaminant.  Over the past 15 years, medical research laboratories have established that dental amalgam tooth fillings are a major contributor to mercury body burden.  In 1997, a team of research scientists demonstrated that mercury vapour inhalation by animals produced a molecular lesion in brain protein metabolism, which was similar to a lesion seen in 80% of Alzheimer diseased brains. Recently completed experiments by scientists at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine now reveal with direct visual evidence from brain neuron tissue cultures how mercury ions actually alter the cell membrane structure of developing neurons.”

Citation:

Lorsheider FL, Leong CCW, Syed NI.  How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration [video]. University of Calgary; 2001. https://youtu.be/pPVxiDpsNDg