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I have confirmed mercury toxicity through hair analysis, which is controversial and difficult to interpret. It is described in depth by an Princeton trained biochemist, Andrew Cutler, in his book, Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities.

This diagnosis has been confirmed by a dramatic improvement of symptoms upon treating specifically for mercury toxicity with low-dose chelation therapy.

My symptoms began when I was a baby. Before I ever ate any tuna. Before I was anywhere near a mercury thermometer. I've never had amalgam fillings. I've never been exposed to a mercury spill to my knowledge.

These are the facts that I am 100% certain on.

Yea I've talked to hundreds of people who have had success with removing amalgam fillings. This was not my issue though.

I posted above about a test you can do. Feel free to write me at jbob286 (aat) gmail if you'd like more info. I can point you to a bunch of free resources that can help guide you through the process.

I made a new account and I am trying to avoid absolutely destroying the karma on this one.

Just wanted to add that I made this post to throw life-lines out to those who are suffering with the same illness as I am. This was not meant to be an invitation to healthy people to debate the merits of my diagnosis. I don't think healthy people can really understand this illness. It takes an immense amount of research and dedication to wrap your head around what's really going on. I gave up everything in my life to focus on studying my illness for over a decade. I'm talking 80-100 hour weeks for years and years. It just doesn't make sense to argue with people who haven't put in a similar amount of time and effort.

There is a compelling theory that when a child is simultaneously exposed to injected mercury along with another stressor, the mercury is not excreted as it normally would be.

It's all kind of moot though because mercury is no longer in child-hood vaccines. I really don't see the point in bringing the discussion of vaccinations into this since almost no one can have a rational discussion about them.

I'm already being down voted and I've said nothing but what has been rigorously verified as the root cause of my illness. It's impossible to discuss this intelligently on public forums.

Why would I be an anti-vaxxer? Mercury is not in any childhood vaccines.

I found out last year the root cause of my CFS is life-long mercury toxicity (a well understood neurotoxin). I am responding very positively to treatment.

I rarely talk about it because people get very upset when I tell them about the evidence of where the mercury came from.

My personal experience while traveling in China is that it is an aggressive, confrontational, blunt, yet very friendly culture.

Cutting in line is common. It seems to annoy locals, but also seems like it's kind of light-hearted game for everyone. Grandmas get carte blanche to cut as they please, and if you get in their way they will hit you, but it's a grandma so it doesn't hurt and is quite funny the first time it happens.

Jay walking is rampant except at intersections that are staffed with numerous traffic police.

If you're fat, people will comment on your fatness while getting to know you for the first time. This is not meant to be offensive. Likewise if you're skinny, bald, old, etc.

There is an odd mix of authoritarian rule obsessed workers and then many who break the rules any chance they get.

They are extremely friendly and interested in a lot of foreigners. Chinese strangers would buy me food and translate for me without me even asking.

Just saw this comment.

I think radio communications have been heavily scrutinized, but there is a lack of peer-reviewed well-funded research regarding more controversial hypotheses, like their effect on Voltage Gated Calcium Channels. There's also been research that suggests DNA strand breaks do occur from non-ionizing radiation that has been suppressed, and other hypotheses as well that have not been studied extensively.

Also, I'm not just talking about cancer.

There is research from both the "it's safe" and "it's dangerous" perspectives. However, the "it's dangerous" perspective gets almost no funding despite being scientifically sound and published by scientists who used to be respected before they dared question EMF safety.

I have no doubts that current levels of EMF do not cause major issues in the majority of people. Our bodies have several evolved mechanisms to handle it. But I think it is very plausible that a minority of the population with other toxic burdens could be sensitive to it. There is an entire population of people migrating to rural areas just to avoid EMF so they feel better. I don't think they are making this up. It's a HUGE life change to do that, and no one would do that unless they had no other options.

I find the VGCC work of Martin Pall very compelling, but I do not have links on hand, as EMF is not something a spend a lot of time focusing on. Googling him will bring up plenty of info, but you will probably have to dig a bit to find his published scientific work rather than just interviews on holistic websites.

Many struggling artists I talk to want strong copyright laws. It's not just something rich corporations want.

There's a show on Netflix called 'Easy' that has an episode about how the solution to this is changing cultural norms. Specifically, the recognition that we all make these mistakes and will inevitably start forgiving each other. Season 1 Episode 5. Great episode.

But yea, it's going to take a long time. And it's going to be a crazy ride.

I think most of the political discussions on HN have a clear side that the commenters take. To disagree with the consensus invites down-votes into oblivion, so almost no one disagrees with the consensus.

If the collagen is hydrolyzed into individual amino acids, then yes, it is absorbed by the skin and used by molecular enzymes to assemble collagen.

This assumes the enzymes are functioning correctly and have the capacity to synthesize more collagen.

These mechanisms are well understood and elucidated in good biochemistry and nutrition textbooks.

The history of environmental illness epidemics is chock full of people in power with this attitude. A new technology is poorly understood technology. The lack of peer reviewed research does not prove that it's safe, either.

Why the down-vote? Isn't the absence of Google a more totalitarian form of censorship than some access to Google?

Yes it's quite bizarre that HN is so anti-Google in this issue. Only tech companies that cooperate with China exist in China. Google tried to stand their ground for years and was completely banned.

Google being completely banned in China doesn't do anyone any good. A censored Google is better than no Google.

This is particularly interesting because Pauling has been widely panned for his advocacy of high-dose Vitamin C usage.

Many of the great scientists I respect seem to have this dynamic. They challenge existing scientific authorities, only to succeed and become the scientific authority that limits other challengers.

From the article the parents are claiming that the child did not have an unusually high fever, and was acting fine.

There's nothing in the article about what the child's temperature actually was when he was kidnapped by authorities. Nor is there any information about other symptoms the child may have been experiencing.

Without this information it is not appropriate for anyone to be making judgements in either direction.

Equivalent increases in mining difficulty is the goal, as that secures the blockchain.

After the initial ASIC "gold rush" Bitcoin mining is trending towards decentralization again. ASICs do not mean an eternal approach to centralization, it is just a temporary step along the adoption curve. See https://www.blockchain.com/pools

Also, ASICs are the most energy efficient way to perform proof-of-work.

I have two kinds of key problems with my MBP. The first is when pressing a key doesn't enter a character on screen. The second is when pressing a key enters two characters on screen.

Like you, I have found continued use to be a solution for the first problem. To speed up the process you can press down very hard on an affected key. My guess is that this eventually breaks apart any particles that were blocking the key from working.

I haven't found a solution to the second problem though.

After being poor for several years I realized something.

People like Chomsky have never been in a situation where they were starving. He is clueless as to what this is really like. Only an out of touch wealthy person would say such ridiculous things. Or a child whose parents take care of their basic survival needs.

Survival takes work. Always has. Always will. Food and shelter will never be magically provided to everyone. Someone somewhere has to grow the food, harvest the food, hunt the food, prepare the food, store the food, preserve the food, harvest building materials, manufacture building materials, assemble building materials, maintain buildings, clean buildings, etc. Or if we're talking about AI robot utopian future, someone has to build and maintain the robots, and prevent them from making humanity obsolete.

If you don't want to work for another human then you have to work for yourself at the whims of nature.

If you expect other people to give you food and shelter to you for free, then you are expecting other people to be slaves for you.

Confirmation bias explains a lot of what is going on with media. It's human nature to be biased. This doesn't have to be a big problem if we accept that we are all biased.

Biases are rooted in the computational limitations of the human mind. We have limited memory and communication bandwidth. Our brains use compression algorithms to record, store, and retrieve data.

Defending Facebook in any capacity is currently outside HN's Overton Window.

Art is about self-expression. Not being the best. AI art and human art will be spectacular together.

My personal experience with RSI is that it crippled me. My forearm muscles, for example, became rock hard. Not sure how that could be just my mind.

Fortunately, I found the underlying physical cause and am responding quickly to treatment.

Glad to hear Sarno helped you though :)

Censuring healthcare options unfortunately stifles a patients' ability to pursue experimental treatments. This is an essential option for surviving an illness that is poorly understood by the mainstream. Experimental does not mean lack of scientific rigor. On the contrary, experiments are science.

National guidelines will always be behind the most cutting edge treatments, because treatments need to be proved before they become widely accepted. Proving takes time--sometimes decades that a sick person does not have. Someone who is dying from a complex illness need the option to pursue experimental treatments.

National guidelines are important, but need to be voluntary in order for sick people to have every chance to beat their illness.

I do not intend to defend macroeconomics predictive powers, as I agree it is bad.

But skyrocketing healthcare, education, and housing costs could easily be due to inflation. They are all inelastic goods that the CPI ignores. They are purchased with seemingly infinite loan availability.

When a loan is granted that money is conjured out of thin air, inflating the money supply.