It's All In Your Head

I wonder how many of us have been told this after a lengthy series of medical tests have failed to explain a constant feeling of fatigue and listlessness? Hal Huggins, a dentist, wrote a book with this title in an attempt to draw awareness to the dangers of mercury toxicity from dental amalgam fillings. I found the book scary because I realised that after many years of private dental treatment, and thousands of pounds invested, I had been completely unaware of the threat and now had potentially multiple sources of infection in my head only two inches from my brain. He also attributed so many illnesses to mercury that one is left thinking that everyone is suffering to some degree. Indeed Huggins, now deceased, had found that very many of his patients recovered from chronic illness after having their amalgam fillings removed. It’s a shame that the British Dental Association and the American Dental Association still cling to the mantra that mercury is stable when mixed in amalgams despite so much evidence to the contrary. These professional bodies are destroying their credibility and fighting a rearguard action that must ultimately end in ignominious defeat. It cannot happen fast enough. Here in the UK, dentists carrying out work for the National Health Service can only fit mercury amalgam fillings in molar teeth and each fitting degrades the life of its recipient, often setting them up for the onset of chronic disease. ‘The Truth About Cancer – A Global Quest’ is an excellent series of documentaries presenting a wide range of therapies that have proven successful in the treatment of cancer. The conventional media are unlikely to discuss anything that departs from the teaching of conventional oncology whose ineffective offerings subject millions of people to misery and death each year. I have come to understand that the pharmaceutical businesses supplying poisonous chemotherapy agents to practitioners are driven purely by profit motives and not by health. They get away with it because of the blind faith we have in our medical professionals most of whom are well meaning, dedicated people. As Ty Bollinger, the producer of the series, comments ‘If an aeroplane gets hijacked it’s not the pilot’s fault’. Rather than mercury amalgams physically in their heads they have powerful memes and mantras that have locked them, and us, into a narrow worldview within which they must remain if they want to keep their licence to practice. Being subjected to treatments through uninformed consent, or blinded by fear and ignorance of available medical alternatives, is largely out of our control – or so we think. What’s indisputably within our control is what we choose to fill our heads with through our TV viewing habits and pastimes. Social engineering through ‘Reality TV’ shows is lobotomising a generation and a couch potato culture is leading to indolence and a lack of aspiration. The attendant lack of exercise invites the development of toxic lymph systems and disease. Throughout the world rising rates of obesity are leading inexorably to the full panoply of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Even the biggest of trees will eventually fall when rotten on the inside and there are so many problems induced through our modern lifestyle that the corrupt institutions behind it too must soon come crashing down. When we become aware of the forces that sustain corruption it’s easy to see that we’re not to blame. We are however responsible. With a new spirit of participation and mutual support we can manifest a loving and sustainable society. As Bart Simpson puts it “Every time I put some new stuff into my head, some old stuff falls out”. That’s exactly what we need to do now. – Pay closer attention to what’s in our heads and what we choose to let in.