So, guys, Derek, moreplace smart days.com.

Today we're going to be talking about Brian Bander.

So I'm sure you probably never heard Brian Bander before.

The reason I'm bringing him up is he's somebody I knew not personally, but by extension

through very close friends of mine and he was part of a online community I was a

part of before that was um well I'm still technically a part of actually that um is focused on

self improvement and you know just all aspects of improving one's own life and unfortunately

he passed away last year in January 14th,

2019. And the unfortunate part of it is that it was suicide. And the reason it was suicide was

reportedly by him, heavy metal toxicity, specifically mercury that had accumulated in his brain and had given him self-induced

Autism.

So this is something that's a bit of a touchy subject and I want to disclaimer put a disclaimer on this video.

I already have a sufficient medical disclaimer, but I know YouTube's pretty touchy about subjects

like this.

This does not represent my personal opinion, nor am I saying that his statements that I'm

about to outline are factual or represent the truth or whatever.

I'm just going to be reading off of his own site, word for word.

None of my own personal opinions will be injected into this.

Brian Bander actually left a assortment of blog entries that basically detailed from start

to finish exactly what happened to him, his process of attempting heavy metal keelation,

his process of becoming more and more

poisoned essentially and eventually the culmination of everything where he took his own life because

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