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Interview with John Moore
Reprinted from Acres USA, November 2003 • Vol. 33, No. 11 About John Moore Since John Moore almost died from mercury poisoning in 1974, that highly toxic element has haunted the man. He was and is an industrial engineer, at one time working with the Boeing Company. All of life’s work became an aside once he decided to find out what happened to him. He became a mercury/dental health researcher. He now assists those who want to learn and perhaps rescue themselves from the planet’s ubiquitous contaminant. He taught classes to dental and health professionals for three years, often with up to 100 persons per session. His expertise was acknowledged by author Tom Warren in the book Reversing Chronic Diseases, along with fellow researcher Gary Tunsky. The illustration of mercury vapor escaping a mercury seat is taken from Warren’s book. Our interview starts with a half question about that near- death experience. The sidebar is based on an interview with (Dr.) Gary Tunsky, who is mentioned by Moore in this interview. ACRES U.S.A. You had a near-death experience with mercury. Will you tell us about it? JOHN MOORE. I came close to dying — I was about two months away. Around 1985 I noticed that my health was going downhill, and I just did not have the energy I had once had. That was my chief complaint at that time. As time progressed, I continued to go downhill, and I continued to lose my memory. I would ask my wife a question and she would say, “You just asked me that question a minute ago!” I was adamant that I hadn’t asked and that I was not losing my memory, but indeed, that was the case. In the early part, I reached the point where the fatigue was so overwhelming that I could not do any work and was absolutely unable to function. I became antisocial — I didn’t want to talk to anybody. My wife would say good morning to me, and I would want to rip her head off — which I proceeded to do verbally. I knew it was wrong as I was doing it, but I felt powerless to stop it. It was a bizarre scenario for me, because I was not normally like that. ACRES U.S.A. How does this mercury get to the brain? MOORE. It is the vapor from amalgam fillings coming off the tooth that gets us. It is not generally the liquid mercury per se, though that can get you, too. It was mercury vapor coming off the fillings of the teeth that was the primary source of my poisoning — although fish also played somewhat of a role because I did happen to like fish and they are often poisoned with mercury, as well. ACRES U.S.A. This is ocean fish as well as freshwater fish? MOORE. You bet. ACRES U.S.A. What is the source? MOORE. The primary source of pollution for freshwater, and salt water for that matter, is industrial pollution. Coal-fire power plants put 40 tons of mercury a year into the atmosphere through burning coal. In the U.S. alone, hospitals that burn their wastes put 20 tons a year into the atmosphere. All plastics manufacturing put a ton of it in the atmosphere. Farmers in the past have also done so. I don’t know whether it is currently being used or not, but mercury is still labeled as an insecticide — methone ethyl mercury, which is a really nasty form of mercury, is used on seeds. The purple/pink color one might find on seeds is classically mercury fungicide that has been applied. Farmers are using mercury, and there are a lot of crops that have been sprayed over the years with mercurial fungicide. ACRES U.S.A. Wasn’t there a case where quite a number of people were poisoned by accidentally eating poison-treated seeds? MOORE. Absolutely. We sent bags and bags of seed grain to Iraq around 1974. It had a skull and crossbones on it, but many Iraqis, instead of planting the seeds, ground it and ate it as flour. Five hundred people died initially, and 6,526 people were hospitalized over the next five years. The really bizarre problem here is that it took them a year to figure out what happened, even with such a massive, industrial-strength poisoning. The reason is that it doesn’t show up in the blood, and it doesn’t show up in the urine. If I were to pick you up and put you in a bucket of mercury bare-naked and took you out and tried to check you for contamination, if we didn’t do it instantly, within the first two minutes, that mercury would be bound up. It gets bound up quickly in the tissue, on the outside of the cell, and crosses the cell membrane to go inside the cell and play with the RNA and DNA. It changes the cell, making it a bastard cell. Page 1 cont. Page 2 cont. Page 3 cont. Page 4 cont. Page 5 cont. Page 6 cont. Page 7 cont. Page 8 cont. Page 9 END |
