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How Not to Get Brain-Eating Worms and Mercury Poisoning


Are you experiencing unexplained memory lapses or brain fog? Ever considered that you may have mercury poisoning? For RFK Jr. it was worse—he also had a brain parasite. Here’s how to avoid both (extremely rare) predicaments.

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