How To Tell If Mercury Toxicity Is The Cause Of Your Mysterious Symptoms with Dr. Elizabeth Boham

How To Tell If Mercury Toxicity Is The Cause Of Your Mysterious Symptoms | This episode is sponsored by ButcherBox and Kettle & FireChanges in environmental mercury levels have been dramatic in recent decades; industrial exposure to mercury is significant and mostly comes from coal-burning and chlor-alkali plants. The more mercury we are exposed to, the more we are likely we are to be toxic. The main ways that humans are exposed to mercury are from contaminated fish and dental amalgams or silver fillings. And while some of us are very good at detoxifying mercury and other toxins, some people have genetic variations (called polymorphisms) that make them more prone to metal toxicity. Mercury can affect nearly all your organs, especially the brain, heart, kidneys, and gut, and many chronic diseases may be caused or worsened by mercury, including neurologic disease, ADHD, autism, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and more.In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss how they test for, diagnose, and treat mercury toxicity. Dr. Hyman also shares his own personal experience recovering from mercury poisoning.Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.This episode is sponsored by ButcherBox and Kettle & Fire.New members to  ButcherBox can get two New York Strip steaks and two pounds of wild-caught Alaskan salmon for free in your first box when you sign up at Butcherbox.com/farmacy. Kettle & Fire is now offering 25% off its bone broth plus free shipping. Just head over to kettleandfire.com/hyman and use the code HYMAN.In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:Why mercury toxicity is often overlooked and ignoredDr. Hyman’s personal experience with mercury poisoningMercury’s effects on the bodyHow mercury can be passed through the placenta and breast milkMain sources of mercury, including coal-burning facilities, fish consumption, mercury dental fillingsSafely removing mercury fillingsEffectively testing for mercury levelsPatients with mercury toxicity that they have treatedBoosting your body’s natural detoxification pathwaysAdditional Resources:How To Get Lethal Mercury Out Of Your Systemhttps://drhyman.com/blog/2010/06/07/how-to-get-lethal-mercury-out-of-your-system/Mercury Detox – A 3-Step Plan to Recover Your Healthhttps://drhyman.com/blog/2010/06/01/mercury-detox-a-3-step-plan-to-recover-your-health/Mercury: Get This Heavy-Metal Poison Out of Your Bodyhttps://drhyman.com/blog/2010/05/20/mercury-get-this-poison-out-of-your-body/Get These Toxins Out Of Your Househttps://drhyman.com/blog/2016/07/25/get-these-toxins-out-of-your-house/Heavy Metals And Health: The Untold Storyhttps://drhyman.com/blog/2021/02/12/podcast-hc43/How Lead And Other Environmental Toxins Are Affecting Ushttps://drhyman.com/blog/2020/12/04/podcast-minisode65/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We are seeing an ever-increasing burden of chronic disease, primarily driven by our food and food system. This is perpetuated by agricultural, food and health care policies that don’t support health. We need to rethink disease and reimagine a food system and a health care system the protects health, unburdens the economy from the weight of obesity and chronic disease, protects the environment, helps reverse climate change and creates a nation of healthy children and citizens. This podcast is a place for deep conversations about the critical issues of our time in the space of health, wellness, food and politics. New episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. I hope you'll join me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.