The following is the protocol I follow to help with the elimination and prevention of absorption of mercury. Dentists and their staff work in an environment that can be mercury rich. Please note that we take every precaution to reduce or eliminate both yours and our exposure but unfortunately no system is 100% effective. Following is a list of the equipment or techniques we use to protect our patient and our selves from mercury exposure:

• High volume vacuum that pulls mercury vapor away from the mouth. This air then goes through hepa and carbon filters and is exhausted back into the room with the mercury trapped in the filter.
• Oxygen is used as an alternative air source
• Vinyl dam
• Ionizes in each room to collect mercury that escapes the vacuum.
• Staff wears industrial mercury respirators.
• All wastewater goes through a mercury separator, which removes 99% of mercury. Did you know that 60% of mercury in our streams and rivers are estimated to come from dental offices?
• Our patients rinse with a solution of vitamin C and n-acyle-cistine before and after mercury removal to reduce the risk of mercury absorption.
• We use clean-ups. A suction tip that fits over each mercury filling, allowing more effective mercury containment.

The following are supplements that Dr. Virtue takes each day to both reduce and remove heavy metals from his body.

• Le Cocktail
• Cilantro, Chlorella, Freeze, dried Garlic and Omega 3 + 6 Fatty Acids

For great health and improved elimination of heavy metals through the large bowel intecs.

• ProBiotics,
• 2,000 IU of vitamin D/day
• 2,000 mg of Liposomal Vit C/day
• 900 mg of Liposomal Glutathione/day
• Drucker liquid minerals, if you remove metals you must replace
• Alkazone increases the body’s PH. Increases vitality, and helps eliminate heavy metals.
• Multi Vitamin
• I.M.D and H20- Intestinal metal detox

For more information about any of these techniques or supplements, please ask Dr. Virtue.

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These are some of the reasons why chlorella is a good detox food.

• Chlorella is a good toxin binder because of its muco-polysaccharide membrane. Chlorella will bind all known toxic metals, environmental chemical toxins such as dioxin and others, bio-toxins from chronic infections (Lyme), and radiation.
• Chlorella contains the peptide Sporopollein, which is as effective as cholestyramin in binding neurotoxins and more effective in binding toxic metals then any other natural substance found.
• Chlorella is an effective for both bowel detox and extra cellular chelation and mobilization.
• Chlorella repairs and activates the body’s detoxification functions by dramatically increasing intra-cellular reduced glutathione, enhancing various peptides including coeruloplasmin and metallothioneine; supplying lipids (12.4%) alpha-and gamma-linoleic acid help to balance the increased intake of fish oil during our detox program and are necessary for a multitude of functions, including formation of the peroxisomes; chlorella is a rich source of methyl-cobalamine (B-12), which is food for the nervous system, restores damaged neurons and has its own detoxifying effect.
• Chlorella growth factor helps the body detoxify itself in a yet not understood profound way. It appears that over millions of years chlorella has developed specific detoxifying proteins and peptides for every existing toxic metal.
• The Porphorins in chlorophyll have their own strong metal binding effect. Chlorophyll also activates the PPAR-receptor on the nucleus of the cell which is responsible for the transcription of DNA and coding the formation of the peroxisomes (see fish oil), opening of the cell wall (unknown mechanism) which is necessary for all detox procedures, normalizes insulin resistance and much more. Medical drugs that activate the PPAR (such as Pioglitazone) have been effective in the treatment of breast and prostate cancer.
• In summary: Chlorella is a super-food and other beneficial effects:
• Super nutrient: 50-60% amino acid content, ideal nutrient for vegetarians, methyl-cobalamine- the most easily absorbed and utilized form of B12, B6, minerals, chlorophyll, beta carotene etc.
• Good for mineralization
• Immune system strengthening
• Restores bowel flora
• Digestive aid (bulking agent)
• Alkalinizing agent (important for patients with malignancies)

Cilantro is an Herb that is very good to use in detox.

• Cilantro is capable of mobilizing mercury, cadmium, lead and aluminum in bones, the central nervous system and connective tissues; but you need a lot of it to be effective (dose=handful).
• Cilantro is an effective agent in mobilizing mercury stored on cell wall receptor sites and in the intracellular space (attached to mitochondria, tubulin, liposomes etc) and in the nucleus of the cell (reversing DNA damage of mercury).
• Cliantro is a good mobilizer but a poor chelator, cilantro mobilizes more toxins then it can carry out of the body. It may flood the connective tissue (where the nerves reside) with metals that were previously stored in safer hiding places. This process is called re-toxification. Therefore cilantro must use simultaneously a chelating agent and an intestinal toxin-absorbing agent- chlorella
• Cilantro’s action appears to be rapid- 5-20 minutes; dose away from Vitamin C and garlic, so not to inactivate cilantro’s action
• Cilantro can be used orally or topically- over areas of symptoms (i.e. joints, muscular pain) or over thin skin and areas of lymph uptake (i.e. groin)

Freezed, dried garlic is an excellent detox food, with enhanced value in bowel and body maintenance in controlling all types of pathogens.

• Garlic protects WBC and RBC blood cells from oxidative damage caused by heavy metals in the blood stream, especially during detox, when the heavy metals are on their way out;
• Garlic has weak detox functions having a high affinity to toxins, but unlike chlorella it has a weak bond to the toxins, which is split off in the GI-tract therefore always use with chlorella to rebind in the gut.
• Garlic oxidizes heavy metals making them water soluble and more easily transportable.
• Metal toxic patients almost always suffer from secondary infections, which are often responsible for part of the symptoms. Garlic contains alliin which is enzymatically transformed into allicin, nature’s most potent antimicrobial agent; therefore garlic is an immuno stimulant- anti-viral/fungal/ parasitic/ microbial; part of the gut maintenance program.
• Garlic also contains the most important mineral which protects from mercury toxicity, bio active selenium. Most selenium products are poorly absorbable and do not reach those body compartments in need. Garlic selenium is the most beneficial natural bio-available source. Garlic is also protective for against heart disease and cancer.
• Garlic supplies sulfur. Very important in mercury detox.
• Organic garlic is important because garlic will attract and bind toxins (like pesticides, herbicides).

Fish oils are the 4th part of the Le Cocktail. Fish oils are important in detox and rehabilitation because:

• The cell is constantly trying to make new peroxisomes to replace the damaged ones- for that task it needs an abundance of fatty acids, especially EPA and DHA. Until recently it was believed, that the body can manufacture its own EPA/DHA from other Omega 3 fatty acids such as flax seeds. Today we know that this process is slow and cannot keep up with the enormous demand for EPA/DHA our systems have in today’s toxic environment. Fish oil is now considered an essential nutrient, even for vegetarians.
• The fatty acids in fish oil are very sensitive to exposure to electromagnetic fields, temperature, light and various aspects of handling and processing. Trans fatty acids, long chain fatty acids, renegade fats and other oxidation products and contaminants are frequently found in most commercial products. Ideally, fish oil should be kept in an uninterrupted cooling chain until it ends up in the patient’s fridge. The fish-source should be mercury and contaminant free, which is becoming harder and harder. Fish oil should taste slightly fishy but not too much. If there is no fish taste, too much processing and manipulation has destroyed the vitality of the oil. If it tastes too fishy, oxidation products are present.
• Eat chlorella with fish oils because all fish oils are suspected to contain mercury (even the ones that claim to be mercury free), so bind the mercury with the chlorella.
• Rehabilitating the cellular membranes is critical in repairing the nerve and brain- the organs most affected by neurotoxins.