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What Is Thimerosal?

What Is Thimerosal? (0:54)

Thimerosal is a mercury-containing preservative formerly used in vaccines; it's a potent neurotoxin that can impact our health in a variety of ways. Watch functional medicine expert Mark Hyman, MD, describe the potential risks of this toxic compound.

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Thimerosal is mercury containing preservative that's used in vaccines and hasn't been used in over 70 years. It's containing mercury which is a portal neurotoxin, now we know from the evidence that when you inject mercury into humans or animals is a portal neurotoxin, it goes to the brain, it affects cognitive function effect, memory effects, moon effects.

Cognition in many ways, it affects all sorts of [xx] issues from autism to ADD to TICKS, speech delays to dyslexia and more. Now the evidence may not 100% clear that it actually cause these things but there's enough in the smoking gun to be concerned that we should not be putting a portal neurotoxin in vaccinations that's used in humans.