How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration – University of Calgary

Mercury has long been known to be a potent neurotoxic substance. Whether it is inhaled, or consumed in the diet as a food contaminate. Over the past 15 years medical laboratories have established that dental amalgam tooth fillings are a major contributor to mercury body burden. In 1997 a team of research scientists demonstrated that mercury inhalation by animals produced a molecular lesion in brain protein metabolism which was similar to a lesion seen in 80% of alzheimer’s diseased brains.