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Solving the MS Mystery: Help, Hope and Recovery
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 Time to take a 'second look'?, January 28, 2014
By Brian Brousseau
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After spending more than a hundred years in an unsuccessful search to find 'the Cure' for this perplexing malady, it seems high time to look elsewhere. Instead of continuing to 'bang our collective heads against the same wall', insisting that we find a 'cure', perhaps our efforts would be better spent in finding the CAUSE (or most likely multiple causes) that precipitated this illness in the first place! Since we do not yet know its cause, how can we expect to be able to uncover it's cure?
The author of this book, a retired Dentist, and Bio-Chemist, has spent the last 30 years of his life in his impassioned pursuit to identify those probable causes. Hal Huggins makes a compelling case, (backed up with footnotes referencing the work of various other experts) for several environmental causes, many of which may be located right in our own mouths!
A fascinating, and thought-provoking read!
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 Lifesaving book, December 29, 2013
By Dan
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If only I would have bought this book a few months earlier than I did, I could have avoided a life threatening illness after my root canal extraction was not done according to this protocol and a cow bone graft was implanted, which later got infected...taking me from complete recovery to deathbed, parents bringing me meals. A Huggin's dentist, Blanche Grube, saved my life. This is THE best book available for anyone with MS or any chronic condition and a root canal, mercury filling or wisdom tooth extraction. I saw another reviewer mention that B12 doesn't methylate mercury. Yes it does. Even 100 mcg orally caused me weakness which immediately resolved upon stopping the supplement. When I read this book, I knew I finally found someone who I could learn something from about MS. Every neurologist has no idea what the hell they're doing...treated MS with immune suppressants. They will never realize that it is the chronic infections and metal toxicities that are causing immune overload leading to immune malfunction and autoimmunity. They just suppress the immune system, causing more immune overload. Nice to see that the price got jacked up to 45 bucks all of a sudden. I guess too many lives were being saved for big pharma/fda/ama/ada's liking. It's worth every penny even if it's 200 bucks. It's cheaper on huggins applied healing website though.
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Solving the MS Mystery, February 21, 2011
By ken
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For almost 40 years now we've been lied to by Big Pharma about my wife's MS. The biggest lie is " it can't be cured ". I first want to know exactly what causes it. I'm an engineer and every thing has a reason and I want all of the reasons. I then want to know " how do we fix the problem ". I have read numerous books on this subject and spent hours on the internet studying. This book has given me more useful information than anything I have found yet. It explains what, then gives a breakdown on all of the details and how to resolve the problem.
6 of 6 people found the above review helpful.
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a labor of love, August 11, 2006
By lector avidus (USA)
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Hal Huggins is a Colorado Springs dentist who was an extremely respected until he started to speak about his beliefs on the safety of mercury-laden "silver amalgam" fillings, beliefs cannot be reconciled with the world according to the ADA. These beliefs initially brought him a lot of respect, even an appearance on "60 Minutes," and then brought upon him the wrath of the ADA.
I very strongly suspect that another reviewer of this book is correct in her assertion that there is a better way to treat some - perhaps most - forms of MS. I cannot speak to other ideas the reviewer entertains. Were I a health-care professional, I am not sure that I would feel safe encouraging the use of medications not approved by the FDA, even if scientists know quite well that they work and how they work, from their use in Russia, Poland and Germany. All the same, I was extremely impressed by this book, as it is far and away the most thoughtful and thorough book I have read on the causes of multiple sclerosis, and unsparing in its willingness to tell the truth and the whole truth, however controversial it may be. There are other books on the subject, but none of them provide as much documentation (and lab results) or are nearly as convincing as Dr. Huggins' book. Dr. Huggins' book is the only one I know of that mentions that the symptoms of MS can also be caused by infections that are almost never diagnosed.
Dr. Huggins has had his problems with the medical authorities, and has detractors who want to believe that just because he disagrees with them means he must be wrong. Such people are prone to bandy epithets like "quack" and the like. This is nothing new, as Jonathan Swift wrote, "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." It is, indeed, ironic that "quack" had its origin as a slur against doctors known to be liberal with mercury-based lotions.
If you have been given the dreaded diagnosis of MS, and have the moxie and smarts to question authority, and do your own research, this is book will almost certainly be indispensable to your efforts, even if it may not provide all the answers you need. Additionally, if you are looking for evidence in print that mercury can disturb the function of the porphyrins, which in turns can cause abnormal forms of pyroles to appear, this is the book to read.
13 of 13 people found the above review helpful.
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Good start, but please do further investigation, January 03, 2005
By Melissa Myers MD (USA)
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I gave this book only four stars for a couple of reasons. Despite its profound importance and excellent content on dental amalgam as the underlying cause of a great number of today's illnesses which have mercury as the root etiology, the content is unfortunately not up to date on certain technical issues. For example, he asserts that methylcobalamin will methylate inorganic mercury and is therefore dangerous. While it is true that some bacteria can methylate the mercuronic ion, and that this reaction can be made to occur in a laboratory test tube, this is not what happens in real live human beings or animals when given subcutaneously, intramuscularly, or intravenously. This was confirmed to me in personal communication with Boyd Haley, PhD, who has done much work in this field. In addition, please refer to the work done by the Swedish physician, Dr Britt Ahlrot-Westerlund, and her success with treating patients with high doses of injectable methylcobalamin status post amalgam removal for further elucidation on this subject. (One should be cautioned however, not to accept any B-12 injections which contain a preservative, as this can cause problems in a detoxing patient. Also, some people experience angry agitated aggression and can get themselves into trouble even though it is helpful for most.)
Huggin's approach to "balancing chemistries" is somewhat misguided, since this does not actually detoxify the system, but rather make it work better while the mercury remains in place. Thus it is a permanent lifestyle change - well worthwhile in terms of symptom reduction - rather than an intervention that can be stopped at some future point in time. While diet and supplements are paramount to the detoxification process, one will not get well if they are very poised unless they chelate. This leads to another problem I have with his approach of using DMSA on alternating days as there are multitudinous reports of this inappropriate and harmful protocol causing psychosis and permanent motor neuron damage in many people who use it. He completely disregards the pharmacokinetics of DMSA. If you are looking for an appropriate way to detoxify, I would recommend reading Andrew Cutler's book Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment (IBSN 096716808 - search on this number to find it easily). Cutler holds a PhD in chemistry and actually looks at the science behind detoxification as well as collecting patient reports on what the different protocols felt like and how the people responded after using them. Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment is an excellent companion volume to Dr. Huggin's book.
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All in all, this book has much merit and a few problems. If you are sick - really sick - I advise researching your options thoroughly before you end up paying more than you have to - in terms of health and dollars - for bad advice. This book can be a good place to start your research, but further investigation is absolutely essential to avoid falling prey to the few pieces of bad advise intermixed with all the good advice the hard way. The book is well worth the money as long as you do further investigation before trying things. [...].
24 of 26 people found the above review helpful.
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