eating raw clams and oysters

Question
What are the benefits to eating these(raw clams and oysters) on the raw paleo / primal diet? If I remember A.V. said they do something beneficial like chelating heavy metals off the brain or something to that effect

Answer
According to one AV interview, he claims the following:-

"I recommend only ocean wild-caught raw fish, not farmed, except oysters, clams and scallops. I suggest all varieties including Swordfish, which has the highest mercury content. When digested and made bioactive by plankton and eaten by fish, traces of mercury are great detoxifiers of toxic mercury in the body. Bioactive and non-cauterized mercury in raw fish helps buoyancy of fish. When fish are cooked, mercury and other metallic minerals become free-radicals and toxic.

I have noted in my clients, a continual rise in nausea and vomit from eating freshwater fish, especially freshwater-caught salmon, catfish and sturgeon. Freshwater fish have a greater number of toxins because our fresh waters are approximately 30% polluted. Our oceans are approximately 4% polluted. I do not eat freshwater fish unless I catch it in a non-polluted lake. There are very few non-polluted lakes left in the USA because of the pollution created by water-sport vehicles, agricultural chemicals, and agricultural and mining waste."

So AV seems to not mind farmed oysters/clams/scallops(though I'm sure he would concede that wildcaught versions thereof would be more nutritious etc.)

Re chelation/heavy-metals:- What worries me is that AV, like many in the alternative-health field, seems to be overly obsessed with the notion of heavy-metals in the body, and, judging from audio-tapes I've heard, he diagnoses an excess of heavy-metals for most of his clients - this is highly unrealistic, and is one of the many reasons why I just don't buy into the whole hysteria re heavy metals like mercury etc.

Re oysters:- I've noticed a particular benefit from eating raw oysters. I , nowadays, always have c. 20 extra-large raw oysters once a fortnight - I don't know what exactly  in the raw oysters is helping me, (it could be the iodine or the omega-3s or the vitamin D etc.?) but it seems to give me a bit of a boost, in terms of energy-levels.

Geoff  

1. Prev:sweating problems, under weight
2. Next:acl surgery