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One day in 2000, Dr. Jane Hightower walked into her exam room to discover a patient with disturbing symptoms she couldn’t demonstrate. The girl was nauseated, exhausted, and acquired difficulty concentrating, but a litany of tests revealed no visible cause. She had not been by itself. Dr. Hightower found numerous patients with similar, inexplicable health conditions, and eventually learned that there were many more around the nation and the world. They had little in common—except a healthy appetite for certain seafood.
Dr. Hightower’s quest for answers led her to mercury, a poison that is plaguing victims for years and years and is currently showing up in seafoods. But this “justification” exposed a Pandora’s Field of thornier questions. Why does some seafood from supermarkets and restaurants contain such high levels of a powerful poison? Why does the FDA base its advice for “safe” mercury intake on data supplied by Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist extremists? And why wasn’t the government warning its people?
In Medical diagnosis: Mercury, Dr. Hightower retraces her investigation in to the modern prevalence of mercury poisoning, exposing how political computations, dubious studies, and industry lobbyists endanger our health and wellness. While mercury is a by natural means occurring factor, she discovers there’s much that is unnatural relating to this poison’s prevalence inside our seafoods. Mercury is pumped in to the air by coal-fired power plant life and settles inside our streams and oceans, and has been dumped into our waterways by industry. It accumulates in the seafood we consume, and ultimately inside our own systems. Yet government organizations and lawmakers have been slow-moving to regulate pollution or even alert consumers.
Why? The path of evidence brings about Canada, Japan, Iraq, and different U.S. companies, and since Dr. Hightower puts the pieces jointly, she discovers questionable associations between ostensibly objective researchers and business that fear legislation and bad press. Her tenacious inquiry sheds light on something in which, all too often, money trumps good science and responsible federal government. Exposing a hazard that few recognize but that details many, Medical diagnosis: Mercury should be needed reading for everyone who cares about their health.
