Health implications?

Question

What, if any, are the health implications of eating foods high in mercury content, such as swordfish? What foods have potentially dangerous amounts of mercury, and does that mercury stay in your body for an extended period of time? Educated answers only please.

Answer 1

In adults mercury poisoning can cause numbness, stumbling, dementia and death.
Recent studies have linked mercury to heart disease. Other groups claim mercury exposure is responsible for Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, and the growing rate of autism.
Infants born to mothers contaminated by mercury in Japans Minamata bay in1956 had profound neurological disabilities including deafness, blindness, mental retardation, and cerebral palsy.
The higher the fish is on the food chain, and the longer it lives the more mercury it contains.
Big predators such as swordfish, shark, and albacore tuna can have up to 100 times more mercury in their tissues than smaller fish. Chunk light tuna is the same fish as albacore but is a lot younger and therefore much less toxic.
Unfortunately there are large traces of mercury in the waterways and atmosphere, any time coal burns it releases mercury. (Industrial use of coal in the U.S. pumps over 50 tons of it into the air every year.) Also it is used in tooth fillings, and thermometers, (One broken thermometer can poison all the air in a room.)
The FDA approved mercury to be used in all vaccines until recently. (They took it out of pediatric vaccines, although it is still in every flu shot.) It became a common ingredient in paint, batteries, florescent light bulbs, pesticides, anti fungal agents, and skin creams.

The half-life of mercury in the brain, for example, is more than 10 years.

The good news is that it can be expelled along with other heavy metals and toxins through a proper and long enough fast. I suggest the Master Cleanser.

Chelation therapy is another although more expensive method of removing mercury and other heavy metals from the human body. Chelation is the process by which a metal or mineral (such as lead, mercury, arsenic, aluminum, etc.) is bonded to another substance so it can carry them away in urine, feces or sweat.

Answer 2

Mercury is a metal, and it has been shown to lead to Brain damage, and loss of hair. Although eating a few swordfish a month Will not lead to permanent damage, Mercury is one of the more potent causes to birth defects in the late 50's along with Lead. Tuna contains mercury but not many people eat enough tuna to also do damage . If you were to eat large amounts of fish that have been identified as Mercury intoxicates then it would be a problem at time goes on and you get older in life.

Answer 3

Mercury is a toxin, simliar to lead. In concentrated doses it can cause deformities, birth defects, and even death.
This wikipedia article does a good job of explaining what can happen with seafood:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28element%29 (scroll down to section on precautions and regulation)

Answer 4

brain damage, renal failure and death. pelagic ocean fich (king fish or king mackerel and tuna) are known to have high levels of it

Answer 5

HAVEN'T THE FOGGIEST BUT THAT BEER WILL KILL YA!!!!!!!!!!