Mercury Amalgams

Aajonus described amalgam fillings as being approximately 50% mercury by composition. He identified mercury as the most toxic substance to human or animal tissue and argued that the designation "silver fillings" was a deliberate obfuscation of the true nature of the material. He returned repeatedly to footage from Alberta University in Canada, which showed a 25-year-old silver amalgam filling placed in water at human body temperature and filmed against a phosphorescent screen. The mercury vapor coming off the filling was visible as a shadow on the screen. When the filling was rubbed with a pencil eraser for just a few seconds, simulating the friction of a dental cleaning or chewing, the outgassing increased dramatically. He stated that if vapor was visible on that screen, the concentration was more than 1,000 times higher than what the Environmental Protection Agency allows for breathable air.

He described several conditions that stimulate mercury outgassing from fillings. Raising the temperature of the filling to 110 degrees Fahrenheit through hot coffee, warm water, or even sustained chewing caused a burst of mercury vapor. He stated that once a filling is stimulated in any of these ways, it continues to leak mercury for a minimum of an hour and a half. Grinding teeth or chewing gum creates continuous stimulation. Dental drilling generates mercury vapor intensively. He extended this concern to dental personnel who work around these fillings without informed consent and who are chronically exposed to mercury vapor in the office environment.

He also noted that fillings interact with adjacent metals in destructive ways. Dentists packing mercury fillings around gold crowns or under bridges creates a situation where mercury spreads from the filling to every tissue in contact with it through galvanic reaction and vapor diffusion. He cited Harold Boe, former director of the National Institute of Dental Research, who wrote in 1993 that amalgam fillings require removing not just diseased tooth substance but healthy tooth substance as well due to the undercuts required, weakening the tooth and initiating a cascade of structural failures that ultimately result in broken teeth, crowns, root canals, and extractions.

Once mercury vaporizes from a filling, it enters the breath and the nasal passages and travels directly toward the brain through the neural pathways of the jaw and face. Aajonus described the process as continuous and cumulative, with mercury ascending from the fillings through the nerves of the jaw into the mandible, the sinuses, and ultimately the brain tissue. He showed photographs from his own body documenting mercury deposits in the jaw area that were still visible and still being expelled through the skin thirty years after his amalgam fillings were removed in 1978.

He described the form that mercury takes once it stores in the body from fillings as distinct from injected mercury. When mercury vaporizes from an amalgam filling, it turns into methylmercury and crystallizes. He specified that this crystallized form is not liquid mercury, but it still disperses throughout the body and stores in various tissues. He contrasted this with thimerosal from injections, which he said does not disperse but rather conglomerates in one location in the body. He argued that the dispersed crystallized form from fillings, while damaging, is somewhat more manageable for the body than the concentrated injected form, provided the person is on a nutritional foundation that supports detoxification.

In animal experiments he described, radioactive amalgam fillings were placed in sheep, and after 30 days mercury had accumulated in the jaw, stomach, liver, and kidney. The sheep's kidneys showed a 60% drop in their ability to clear inulin, indicating significant kidney malfunction. Whole-body imaging of monkeys produced identical results, with mercury found in the jaw, kidneys, liver, intestine, and heart. Within two weeks of receiving mercury-leaking fillings, the monkeys developed antibiotic-resistant dystrophic bacteria in the intestines. Further studies found damage to the ADP ribosylation of brain neuron proteins in these animals.

He described what happens at the cellular level using a study shown on video from Alberta University. Introducing mercury into a petri dish of growing neurons caused the neurons to dissolve almost instantly. He described watching fast-motion footage in which 24 to 48 hours of neural growth was destroyed in seconds after mercury was introduced. He also described the effect at the level of individual molecular structures: the fibril of a neuron has actin projections, and he described how mercury causes those structures to retract and collapse. He stated that five molecules of mercury will cause complete disease and destruction to one cell, while one molecule of mercury can cause disease but not necessarily kill the cell. He also stated that one molecule of mercury has the capacity to destroy approximately 5,000 healthy cells, though he noted this does not happen in every instance.

He described mercury's behavior in the body through the lens of its chemical transformations. Mercury cycles between ethyl mercury and inorganic mercury forms, and while a common claim is that mercury has a half-life of 45 days or 90 days to transformation, he rejected the implication that this means mercury becomes dormant or dies. He explained that what the half-life actually describes is the time it takes for mercury to transform from one toxic form to another toxic form. In the body, it oscillates between the two most harmful forms and never reverts to the least harmful inorganic form. He stated plainly that mercury in the body never dies, that it merely transforms, and that any viable mercury continues to do damage as long as it is present.

Aajonus described a pathway by which mercury from the brain descends back down through the nerves and discharges into the gums, tongue, salivary enzymes, and sinuses. He considered the gums the worst discharge site and the tongue the next worst. He argued that dental cavities are never caused by bacteria in the first place, calling the bacterial theory of cavities "absolute garbage" promoted to sell antibacterial toothpaste. Instead, he described cavities as resulting from heavy metals, including mercury, thallium, aluminum, and lead, discharging through the gum tissue and passing against the dentine. Even a single molecule of mercury passing against dentine in the course of this discharge process is sufficient to dissolve the dentine, creating the structural damage that is then secondarily colonized by bacteria. The bacteria that appear in cavities are scavengers of already-damaged tissue, not initiating causes.

He described plaque in this framework as a mineral deposit composed of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium that the body creates to bind the mercury and other heavy metals as they pass through the gums, forming a protective layer over the dentine. When mercury is bound in that plaque matrix, its ability to damage the dentine is reduced. The problem arises when the alkalinizing minerals in the plaque are derived from cooked food, which cauterizes and reduces their reactivity by approximately 10% to 30% compared to raw food sources, making the plaque less effective as a protective barrier. If that weakened plaque remains on the teeth with mercury still embedded in it, the mercury begins to damage the dentine beneath it.

He traced a mechanical cascade in which amalgam fillings placed in teeth that already have mercury and thallium working through the nerve accelerate the process by leaching additional mercury upward into the nerve tissue. Over time, the tooth accumulates so much toxic metal that abscesses form, and the dentist performs a root canal. He argued that the root canal does not solve the underlying problem because the nerve extending outside the tooth continues to attempt to detoxify the mercury and thallium that were absorbed from the filling. That ongoing detoxification produces abscesses around the tooth, creating openings in the gum tissue through which pus and dissolved toxic materials exit. He described this pus as containing white blood cells that have consumed toxic heavy metals, and he advised people not to swallow it but to spit it out.

Aajonus was unambiguous that amalgam removal is often necessary but extremely dangerous if undertaken at the wrong time or under the wrong conditions. His primary guideline was that a person must be on the diet for a minimum of two and a half years before having amalgam fillings removed. He repeated this figure across multiple workshops without variation. The reasoning was that the body begins an immediate and intensive mercury detoxification the moment fillings are removed, because the filling had been acting as a local sink for mercury vapor that was otherwise being stored in the surrounding mandible, nerve tissue, and jaw bone. Once the filling is gone, the body begins mobilizing all of that stored mercury at once.

He described the potential consequences of premature removal as severe. Abscesses can form in the mouth, in the brain, and in the sinuses. The gums can bleed heavily. He stated that in his clinical experience, people who waited the full two and a half years on the diet before having fillings removed never experienced serious problems from the removal, while people who did not wait encountered a wide range of serious detoxification crises. He gave the example of a woman who had breast, kidney, adrenal, and hip cancer and had been chronically fatigued for eight years, capable of only six hours of productive work per week. She had a full mouth of amalgam fillings, and despite knowing they were causing problems, he instructed her to wait four years before removal because her body could not handle the detoxification crisis that would have followed immediate removal. She complied and ultimately tolerated the removal without severe consequence.

He identified specific protective measures for the removal process itself. A good dentist who uses a rubber dam correctly can prevent mercury dust and vapor from entering the mouth and throat, but he noted that the dust and vapor generated during drilling will still enter through the nose. He advised patients to hold their breath during active drilling and breathe only between drilling intervals. He described negotiating a protocol with the dentist in advance: ten seconds of drilling followed by a pause for breathing. He also mentioned using a mask over the nose or supplemental oxygen delivered to the nose, though he expressed reservations about synthetic oxygen, concluding that it was nonetheless preferable to inhaling mercury vapor.

For his own amalgam removal in 1978, he had all 16 fillings removed in two sessions of approximately four hours each. He did not use conventional anesthesia because he found that anesthetics like Novocaine and Xylocaine caused prolonged neurological detoxification for him personally. He instead used a preparation he made himself from cloves soaked in water for a couple of weeks and then juiced, which he applied topically to numb the tissue. He also consumed large quantities of eggs, describing it as a "Rocky-style" protocol of eating eggs for five days before and nine days after the procedure to ensure that anesthetic residues did not store in his body.

He recommended composite fillings as an acceptable replacement for amalgam fillings. He rejected porcelain fillings on the grounds that they require drilling out substantially more tooth substance than composites, weakening the structural integrity of the tooth. For large gaps, he considered inlays acceptable. For crowns and bridges, he referenced a recommendation in his book for porcelain or ceramic inlays reinforced with gold, because the structural demands of crowns and bridges require a more robust material. He was clear that composite fillings in general were fine and that, unlike mercury amalgams, they did not pose an ongoing toxic burden.

He also addressed the question of whether the Primal Diet alone could manage mercury toxicity from fillings without removal. His answer was that the diet could help manage and slow the damage but could not replace removal for someone who is unwell. He described eating as a way of preventing mercury from storing in the body while fillings remain in place, particularly through the berry and coconut cream combinations and cilantro juice, but he was explicit that eating correctly around existing fillings was a harm-reduction strategy rather than a solution. He stated that every day a person has amalgam fillings, they receive a dose of mercury poisoning, and that proper eating prevents it from accumulating as severely.

Aajonus developed several specific dietary tools for supporting mercury removal from the body, each with a different mechanism and application.

**Cheese.** He described raw cheese as one of the most efficient binding agents for mercury. He explained that the standard ratio of fat molecules needed to safely bind and remove one molecule of mercury is 50 to 200 fat molecules. Cheese, because of its concentrated mineral and fat composition, can accomplish the same binding with approximately 10 molecules of cheese per molecule of mercury, making it dramatically more efficient than consuming fat alone. He described this as the "cheese method" and contrasted it explicitly with the standard fat method: "Instead of you living with that mercury your entire life, you can maybe get rid of it in 30 years because it would take 100 years for you to get rid of the mercury from three vaccines." He described cheese as capable of absorbing mercury that dumps into the intestines, binding it so it passes through in the feces without being reabsorbed or doing further damage on its way out. He contrasted this with the alternative of vomiting, which the body initiates when mercury dumps into the stomach, and described cheese as a way to prevent that by intercepting the mercury before it creates a nausea response.

He noted that clay can also bind mercury and requires approximately 10 to 50 molecules of clay per molecule of mercury, but he found clay impractical because the quantity of clay that would need to be consumed to address a significant mercury burden is not feasible for most people. Cheese is therefore the preferred method.

He described a specific case of a man whose intestinal tract was "almost black as his pupil" from accumulated mercury, aluminum, and sulfur-based medications from childhood. He stated that this man would essentially need to eat cheese consistently throughout the day for the rest of his life to manage the ongoing release of those stored toxins from his intestinal lining.

He also recommended placing a small amount of grated cheese directly in milk before drinking, particularly for people whose mercury has already descended into the stomach and digestive tract, because the milk can pull mercury toward the digestive tract and the cheese needs to be present to bind it before it does additional damage.

**Cilantro juice.** He recommended including cilantro juice as approximately 10% of the total vegetable juice volume as a method of slowly pulling mercury out of the system. He specified that this percentage should not be exceeded under normal conditions, but that for someone experiencing significant illness, anxiety, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue attributable to mercury toxicity, a higher proportion could be considered. He referenced this in the context of his own analytical work on chelation formulas, in which he identified that three of the amino acids used in conventional chelation protocols are present in raw apple cider vinegar, and that cilantro provides the additional mercury-pulling action needed to replicate the beneficial aspects of chelation without the industrial chelating agents.

**Blueberries, blackberries, and boysenberries with coconut cream.** He described this combination as specifically effective for preventing mercury from storing in the body. He recommended it particularly for people who still have amalgam fillings in place, stating that the berries combined with coconut cream help remove mercury that is continuously being emitted as gas from the fillings before it can deposit in tissues. Both this combination and the cilantro juice recommendation appeared in his recipe book rather than in the original We Want to Live text, because he developed these protocols later.

**Raw apple cider vinegar.** He referenced raw apple cider vinegar in the context of its amino acid content supporting mercury removal, overlapping with the chelation amino acid analysis he described. He also used it topically in at least one instance to dissolve a melanoma on his skin that had developed from mercury deposits in that tissue.

**Eggs.** He used large quantities of raw eggs in a pre- and post-procedure protocol when having dental work done, consuming them for five days before and nine days after amalgam removal to prevent anesthetic residues from storing in his body. He did not describe eggs specifically as a mercury chelator, but their role in his overall detoxification support protocol was significant.

Aajonus consistently placed amalgam fillings within a broader mercury exposure picture that also included vaccines, injections, coal-burning air pollution, jewelry, and building materials. He argued that the World Health Organization's 1991 acknowledgment that dental fillings are the predominant source of human mercury exposure was accurate but incomplete because it did not account for vaccines, which he described as delivering mercury approximately 1,000 times more intensively than fillings and dispersing it throughout the entire body with each injection.

For vaccines, he cited figures of 76 quadrillion molecules of mercury per dose in older formulations and 56 quadrillion molecules in the supposedly "mercury-free" formulations, arguing that the FDA permitted manufacturers to reduce mercury by 30% and call the result mercury-free, which he called complete fraud. He specified that only 3,000 molecules of mercury and approximately 400 molecules of formaldehyde would be required to accomplish the stated goals of preservation and antisepsis, making the quantities actually present a factor of many billions beyond any functional justification.

He described the combined toxic effect of mercury with other metals as synergistic rather than simply additive. The combined effect of mercury, cadmium, and lead is not the sum of their individual toxicities; it is multiplicative, potentially 100 to 1,000 times more destructive than mercury alone. He cited lead exposure from the environment as a constant background contamination for most children, making the mercury from fillings and vaccines far more dangerous than either would be in isolation.

He also identified mercury in silver jewelry, noting that silver items, particularly those produced in the last 15 years, are routinely alloyed with mercury and other metals. Building materials were described as permitted to contain 12% to 20% mercury and radioactive spent waste, and jewelry as permitted to contain 7% mercury. He described a personal episode in which he developed severe blistering from mercury in industrial solvents used in metalwork, with his whole arm turning gray and black over the days following exposure.

He distinguished between the different forms of mercury and their relative toxicity, ranking pure liquid mercury as the most toxic. He described a laboratory technician who dropped pure liquid mercury on her glove, which ate through it, and who died three months later. Thimerosal, the form used in vaccines, he described as approximately five times less toxic than pure liquid mercury due to treatment during manufacturing, though he still characterized it as highly poisonous. Mercury vapor from fillings he described as less acutely dangerous than injected liquid mercury but more dangerous through the mechanism of continuous chronic exposure, particularly because it enters the brain directly through the neural pathways of the jaw and face rather than being diluted through the bloodstream before reaching the brain.

Aajonus was explicit that mercury detoxification from amalgam fillings is not a short-term process. He described his own experience of having fillings removed in 1978 and then documenting visible mercury deposits still emerging from his jaw tissue in 2008, thirty years later. He showed photographs and described visible black mercury deposits in and around the jaw area that were still being discharged through the skin decades after the physical fillings were gone.

He described the mechanism as follows: over the years that fillings are in place, mercury vapor continuously rises through the jaw and deposits in the mandible, the surrounding bone, and the nerve tissue of the face. When the fillings are removed, the body no longer has new mercury coming in from that source, but the reservoir of stored mercury that accumulated over the years of the fillings' presence must still be mobilized and eliminated. He described this as taking many decades in severe cases, particularly when a person had 16 fillings over many years as he did.

He also acknowledged that even when mercury detoxification is proceeding correctly through the skin or other elimination channels, the visible signs can be alarming. He described mercury spots on his own body, black deposits in tissue, swelling in the jaw during detoxification episodes, and a tumorous growth near one detoxification site that developed into a melanoma, which he dissolved using raw apple cider vinegar. He used these photographs in workshop presentations to illustrate both what the detoxification process looks like and how long it continues.

He referenced a bursa detoxification episode in which mercury toxicity in his shoulder caused his entire arm to turn gray and black, leaving him in a sling for weeks. He was still able to conduct workshops and see patients during this period, which he cited as evidence that even severe detoxification episodes can be endured without stopping normal activity, though he acknowledged the significant discomfort involved.

Aajonus presented and referenced several research bodies and findings in support of his positions on amalgam toxicity. He described research from the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, which set out in 1985 to measure the quantity of mercury coming off fillings and produced graphical data showing substantial quantities of mercury vapor being emitted under resting and stimulated conditions. He referenced an editorial by Drs. Fritzloff Scheider and Murray Vimy published in the journal FACET, which he described as the first publication of its kind to point-by-point refute the claims of amalgam proponents, written at the request of the Federation of Experimental Scientists and Biologists. He cited the 1991 World Health Organization acknowledgment that dental fillings are the predominant source of human mercury exposure. He referenced the 1997 research demonstrating that mercury vapor inhalation produces molecular lesions in brain protein chemistry. He cited the Alberta University research on neuron dissolution in mercury-containing petri dish experiments.

He also described the animal studies in detail: radioactive amalgam fillings placed in sheep, with whole-body imaging at 30 days showing mercury spread to the jaw, stomach, liver, and kidney, and a 60% reduction in kidney function. The same experiment in monkeys produced identical distribution results, with the additional finding of antibiotic-resistant intestinal bacteria within two weeks and ADP ribosylation damage to brain neuron proteins. He described proponents of amalgam fillings as dismissing the sheep study by arguing that sheep chew more than humans, but he noted that the monkey results invalidated that objection entirely because monkeys do not chew with the same intensity as sheep.

He cited a personal experience of having donated brain tissue analyzed in a laboratory, which showed 80,000 times the toxic threshold of thallium and mercury combined, which he described as "extraordinary" and reflective of the cumulative burden of a lifetime of exposure from fillings, vaccines, and environmental sources.

Aajonus had 16 amalgam fillings removed in 1978 across two sessions of approximately four hours each. He described the removal as having been performed without anesthesia, using only a topical preparation he made from cloves soaked in water and then juiced. He consumed raw eggs at high volume for five days before and nine days after the procedure. He stated that he did not use Novocaine or Xylocaine because he knew from experience that a single injection of either substance would cause him months of neurological detoxification symptoms and abscess activity. He considered the momentary pain of unanesthetized drilling preferable to the extended toxicity of anesthetics in his system.

He described having some of his removal done in India as well, where the dentists worked without any anesthetic and without topical numbing agents, and he noted that while it occasionally made him "jump once or twice," it was manageable.

He recommended composite fillings as replacements for amalgam fillings across multiple workshops and in his book We Want to Live. He described porcelain or ceramic inlays as the best dental filling material overall, with gold-reinforced porcelain for crowns and bridges where more structural support is needed. He rejected porcelain for standard fillings on the grounds that it requires removing more healthy tooth substance than composites do, weakening the tooth. He endorsed composite inlays for large gaps. He was clear that all of these alternatives are preferable to amalgam and do not carry the ongoing mercury vapor emission problem, though he acknowledged that glues and epoxies used in some filling materials have their own toxicity and that no dental material is completely without issue.

He addressed the question of whether the diet alone could seal existing cavities without fillings and stated that he had seen it happen only in people under 25 who were eating large quantities of dairy that had not been refrigerated. He did not consider this a reliable or generally applicable alternative to conventional filling of cavities.

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