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Foundation ® President’s Message
Education  Research Activism

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sally Fallon Morell, MA, President
Kim Schuette, CN,Vice President
Sylvia Onusic, PhD, CNS, LDN, Secretary
Valerie Cury, Treasurer This issue focuses on our exposure to mercury—one of the most
Pam Schoenfeld, MS, RD, Government Relations poisonous substances on the planet—from the environment, from food
Sarah Pope
Tom Cowan, MD and—most seriously—from the practice of medicine.
Cherie Calvert
The fact that humans still suffer from mercury exposure today is
BOARD MEMBERS IN MEMORIAM particularly egregious since we all know about the Mad Hatter in Alice in
Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS
Nicholas Gonzalez, MD Wonderland. The recognition that hat makers went insane from mercury
Jerry Brunetti
Fred Kummerow, PhD exposure is part of our popular culture. In England in the eighteenth
GENERAL COUNSEL and nineteenth centuries, mercury was employed in the production of
James Turner, Esq. felt, which was used for popular types of hats. Mercury poisoning also
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR occurred in the United States among hatters in Danbury, Connecticut,
Kathy Kramer
who developed a condition known locally as the Danbury shakes. Over
HONORARY BOARD
Jen Allbritton, BS, CN time, the hat makers exhibited apparent changes in personality and also
Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH experienced tremors or shaking. Historians and public health officials
Marie A. Bishop, CDC
Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom(NA) understood the fact that mercury attacks the nervous system, causing
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD
Lee Clifford, MS, CCN drooling, hair loss, uncontrollable muscle twitching, a lurching gait,
Christapher Cogswell, MA difficulties in talking and thinking clearly and, in severe cases, halluci-
Monica Corrado
Janice Curtin nations. Yet mercury was used in common medicines—for everything
Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN from syphilis to rashes to teething—until well into the twentieth century.
Maureen Diaz
Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS Fast forward to today when our two major exposures to mercury—
James A. Duke, PhD
Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD amalgam fillings and vaccinations—are worse than anything people
Ruth Ann Foster, MA experienced in the past. Amalgams are constantly outgassing mercury
Donna Gates, BS, Med
Joann S. Grohman vapor just next to the brain, while vaccinations bypass our normal
Laura Hayes
Suzanne Humphries, MD protective barriers through injection into the bloodstream. How can
Beatrice Trum Hunter, MA anyone justify these practices?
Mark A. Kastel
Felix Liao, DDS Fortunately, we can avoid such exposures by choosing alternative
Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon) dental filling materials and just saying no to all vaccines. And for those
Judith McGeary, Esq.
Leigh Merinoff who have suffered from mercury toxicity, there is a way to detoxify,
Carlos Monteiro
Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM the Cutler Protocol, described in these pages.
David Morris, BS, DC The nineteenth annual Wise Traditions conference will be here be-
Jill Nienhiser, BS, MA
Suroush Niknamian, BSc fore we know it. This year's theme is “Nurturing Therapies for Chronic
Sandrine Perez
Kathryne Pirtle, BS, MA Illness.” The conference will feature tracks on cancer, mental illness,
Jessica Prentice conditions of the elderly, dental treatments and environmental toxicity.
Phil Ridley
Bruce Rind, MD The hilarious Tom Naughton, producer of the documentary “Fathead,”
Sir Julian Rose, BT
Julia Ross, MA will give the keynote address at the banquet.
Beverly Rubik, BS, PhD The conference will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, to satisfy
Joel Salatin
Adrienne Samuels, PhD hundreds of requests that we bring the gathering back to the mid-
Stephanie Seneff, BS, MS, EE, PhD Atlantic area. The location is the beautiful Baltimore Hilton Hotel, and
C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD
Ted Spence, DDS, ND their kitchen staff is already psyched about doing delicious meals. Food
Alana Sugar, CN
Beverly B. Teter, PhD, FACN, CNS costs are higher in the area so we are raising conference fees slightly
John Umlauf to cover them. But we still offer plenty of work scholarships, so stay
Susun S. Weed
Bruce West, DC tuned for email announcements. We look forward to seeing many of
David Wetzel, BS
Louisa L. Williams, MS, DC, ND you there!
Will Winter, DVM

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