Bethlehem Steel Corporation

Kind of the backside of the steel plant is right there in the southeast corner of Nisky Hill.

You're right up at a higher altitude and kind of right level with the steel mill, the Bethlehem Steel Mill, which is really quite lovely.

Speaking of the steel mill, there's the steel stacks, which has the Hoover Mason trestle, which is a walkway built into the plant.

So you actually walk through the steel plant in a way you couldn't have done while it was running, which is really nice.

And there was promises that, hey, if you support the Inner Harbor and the Harbor Place, we will create new jobs and new industries for you.

At this time period, Baltimore used to be a working class city with manufacturing of Bethlehem steel, steel manufacturing of Bethlehem steel, domino sugar.

But now the shift is from a working class city based on manufacturing to a city where its economy is based on tourism and corporate services.

And you want to promote a more professional and upper middle class city.

I was telling you before we started recording, back in 2021, when I was still suffering the peak of lead toxicity, I learn a lot from you and your approach to detoxification through various educational platforms and I would love it if you could share with our listeners well I guess let's start with what led to you becoming one of the foremost world-renowned mercury detoxification experts

yeah you know it's always like does life just bring you there or is it a selfish motive uh you know people get into gene snips and uh exposures and stuff and you know i have a great story that way i've got a lot of the glutathione gene snips you know some sulfation some methylation a little bit of everything there and grew up in a steel town bethlehem of bethlehem steel and had a very giving and generous dentist who Gave me 17 amalgams when I had like one, maybe two actual cavities.

And what happens is you get little cracks in your enamel and they drill them out and they put sealant in it.

And so they're putting amalgam all over the place.

So I grew up, you know, with just... raining down metal aerosols and little parts from the blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel and filled with amalgams and not having, you know, the right detox nips.

I remember it was sort of like, it would hit my liver, you know, like the way that Chinese medicine talks about anger and rage and frustration in the liver.

And I remember being like 13 or 14 and I was big into vinyl and my records would skip and all of a sudden I'm like, poof! put a hole in the wall and there's holes all around it was just after i started getting all these mercury amalgams and uh and so you know fast forward down the line at one point i became an organic farmer i was like organic biodynamic long before there was usda i'm like soil plants are gonna fix everything uh then you know one thing led to another went to graduate school then i was looking at pollution around farming and then went for a phd and ended up doing a PhD on mercury biogeochemistry, where it goes in the environment.

And there was promises that, hey, if you support the inner harbor and the harbor place, we will create new jobs and new industries for you.

At this time period, Baltimore used to be a working class city with manufacturing of Bethlehem steel, steel manufacturing of Bethlehem steel, domino sugar.

But now the shift is from a working class city based on manufacturing to a city where its economy is based on tourism and corporate services.

And you want to promote a more professional and upper middle class city.

And there was promises that, hey, if you support the Inner Harbor and the Harbor Place, we will create new jobs and new industries for you.

At this time period, Baltimore used to be a working class city with manufacturing of Bethlehem steel, steel manufacturing of Bethlehem steel, domino sugar.

But now the shift is from a working class city based on manufacturing to a city where its economy is based on tourism and corporate services.

And you want to promote a more professional and upper middle class city.

I remember my family talking about it.

Bethlehem Steel had closed, and the city seemed like it was dead.

And it didn't seem hopeful at all.

And I remember my mom was struggling.