Autoimmune diseases:

07 June 2007

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s could be caused by toxic dental materials such as the mercury used in fillings, a leading dentist believes.

Dr Hal Huggins, of Colorado, USA, argues that dental materials such as mercury, and the newer high-copper amalgam, leak into our systems and bind onto a cell membrane.  

Once this happens, the cell is seen as alien and so is destroyed by our immune system.  If the cell is a nerve cell, MS may result; if it instead binds to a hormone, the result may be Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or diabetes, he argues.