There are various reports on the Internet and elsewhere that suggest that autism and other developmental disorders may be due to some degree from mercury poisoning.  If a mother is exposed to mercury right before conception, during pregnancy, or while breast feeding the child, such as through vaccinations which often contain mercury, then the severity of developmental conditions are considered more serious than if the exposure happens after the child as stopped breast feeding.

Dr. Bob was a MD internal medicine, orthomolecular doctor, MD psychiatrist, chiropractor, and healer 65 years.  He was a diabetic who lived to 108 years with only 1 side effect 2 years before he passed away.  Dr. Bob practiced a system of medicine called orthomolecular medicine.  It is a system of medicine that uses mainly natural substances that are non-toxic and safe in wide range of doses.  It uses mainly herbs and minerals/vitamins.

Dr. Bob was a M.D. who started treating patients in the 1930’s.  This is well before the beginning of penicillin and drug medication as a primary method of medical treatment.  Doctors back then used many natural methods to help patients.

Note- Mercury poisoning as a cause of autism and other developmental disorders is not accepted medical opinion.  Most of the ideas of mercury poisoning and developmental disorders are recent.  This article is written for the express purpose of offering natural methods to help in mercury poisoning.  We are not offering any opinion about the validity of mercury poisoning in developmental disorders.  We will await further developments before we offer any insights into these new ideas regarding mercury poisoning. 

Dr. Bob’s orthomolecular methods used in mercury poisoning:

1.      Consider using the supplement milk thistle for the liver.  The milk thistle should be produced from the seeds and contain the extract silymarin.  According to Dr. Bob, mercury can accumulate in the tissues of the liver.  Milk thistle can help detox mercury from the liver

2.      Consider using the supplement alpha lipoic acid.  Dr. Bob advised that alpha lipoic acid could detox mercury from tissues.  There is a problem with alpha lipoic acid; it has a short life in the body.  Thus many multiple doses are needed daily to perhaps make it effective.  One idea, consider supplementing sustained release alpha lipoic acid.   It can keep working in the body for hours, while not sustained release alpha lipoic acid may work approximately only 1-1 and ½ hours.  We offer a sustained release lipoic acid on the product page in this web site.  If you are supplementing small children with alpha lipoic acid, the sustained release may save you a lot of work, by reducing the number of times you need to supplement the alpha lipoic acid to make it more effective.

3.      Vitamins, minerals, and protein are needed by the body to detox.  Consider a multivitamin and mineral for your children as part of a mercury detox.  The product sold in health food stores, Emer’gen-C, seems to be well liked by many children and you can consider it as a method of supplementation for your children.  There are also protein supplements made for children, at health food stores.  You might consider them as part of a mercury detox.

In conclusion, check out the DAN protocol for autism on the Internet.  The DAN doctors are a group of doctors attempting to find better methods and ideas in regards to treating autism.   They do not accept that autism is mainly a genetic caused disorder, rather they believe there are several other primary causative factors along with genetics that may lead to autism.  They are working hard at getting answers.  Consider finding a DAN doctor for children with developmental disorders.  They will be familiar with many nutritional and supplemental ideas to help autistic and other children.  You should always check with your doctor before beginning any nutritional or supplemental methods for your children.  However, most doctors including pediatricians, have not heard of the ideas that DAN doctors are advancing.  It might therefore be difficult for most pediatricians to help you with dietary or supplemental ideas that DAN recognizes.  For these reasons, you might consider checking out DAN on the Internet and their ideas.  Good luck.

Note – In order for these  ideas to be successful, you must use supplements of the highest quality. Dr. Bob often said, "almost all supplement companies produce poor quality." You can consider the product page of this web site. Almost all the products met Dr. Bob’s approval. Since he passed away we have attempted to keep the same high standards.

WARNING:  DO NOT STOP ANY TREATMENT OR MEDICATION YOU CURRENTLY USE.  CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE STARTING THE USE OF SUPPLEMENTS. 

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