Environmental factors can play an important role in the development of autoimmune thyroiditis (AT) and other autoimmune diseases. This article reviews the role of heavy metals and infectious agents in AT. Memory T lymphocytes can be used as biomarkers of susceptibility to mercury and other inflammation triggers in individual patients. If metal allergy is found, the patient should avoid all exposure to the allergenic substance. Mercury-allergic patients may benefit from replacement of dental amalgam.
Mercury Science
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Maternal-fetal distribution of mercury released from dental amalgam fillings
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Dose and Hg species determine the T-helper cell activation in murine autoimmunity
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Overview of Autoimmune Disorders
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The role of metals in autoimmunity and the link to neuroendocrinology
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Metal-specific lymphocyte reactivity is down-regulated after dental amalgam replacement
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Serum Mercury Level and Multiple Sclerosis
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Sensitization to inorganic mercury could be a risk factor for infertility
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The beneficial effect of amalgam replacement on health in patients with autoimmunity
Mercury Science
FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg’s stock scandal with largest distributor of amalgam, Henry Schein
Charlie Brown of Consumers for Dental Choice discusses the conflicts of interests and stock scandal of FDA commissioner, Margaret Hamburg who was on the board of Henry Schein, one of the largest distributors of dental amalgam filling materials in the United States.
Misleading data manipulation in widely quoted Alzheimer’s disease study published in JADA
This article presents excerpts from a letter Boyd Haley PhD wrote to congressman Dan Burton as a rebuttal to a May 11th, 2001 letter by Robert M. Anderton, D.D.S., and President of the American Dental Association (ADA), challenging Boyd's statements to the Committee on Government Reform. Additionally, Boyd gives a complete dissection of the many flaws, including misleading data manipulation in the Saxe Alzheimer's study.
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ATSDR ignores their own data on mercury to exclude it from Interaction Profile
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IAOMT offers critiques of the Children’s Amalgam Trials
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Herbert Needleman: children’s amalgam trials assertion that mercury fillings are risk free is unscientific
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Charlie Brown explains the lack of proper informed consent in the Children’s Amalgam Trial Study