Re: mercury level in blood test

[Guest guest]

Blood mainly measures very recent mercury exposures, not body burden.   The

average time for mercury vapor in the blood before being picked up by a cell

somewhere in your body is 10 seconds, so blood tests measure only current acute

exposures.   There is no simple easy test for mercury body burden or mercury

toxicity/effects.    www.flcv.com/damspr17.html

The most accurate test for body burden is a chelator challenge test, but one

needs to be careful with this as it can release more mercury than a weakened

immune or neurological system can deal with.    Hair tests are useful for

other metal levels but not accurate for mercury level; those most affected can

have the lowest hair levels due to inability to excrete mercury and storage in

the body.       Saliva tests or fecal metal level tests measure daily

exposure.    Urine fractionated porphyrin test and MELISA (blood lymphocyte

immune reactivity test) are two tests useful for measuring mercury effects due

to toxic effects vs immune reactivity.

www.flcv.com/indexd.html

Some are more susceptable to mercury effects than others.  Susceptability

factors include immune reactivity,  ability to excrete mercury (blood allele

type),  metallothionein deficiency,  other toxic exposures/synergistic

effects, etc.                    www.flcv.com/suscept.html

Bernie  

 

[Guest guest]

I think a hair elements test is a very good indicator of likely

mercury toxicity. Andy Cutler's second book, Hair Test

Interpretation, tells how to read a hair test to determine the

likelihood that mercury is an issue. Mercury tends to cause certain

patterns to show up that are statistically just not normal and likely

to indicate that mercury is the cause.

He developed several counting rules to determine the likelihood of

mercury toxicity, such that if you meet just one rule, you are likely

mercury toxic. I had a hair test done back in January, and it met 2

of the counting rules.

Anyone wanting to find out more about this, as well as the Cutler

protocol for chelation should look into the Yahoo group Frequent Dose

Chelation. It's a very active group, with lots of helpful and

experienced people there, and Andy pops in occasionally as well.

Alice

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[Guest guest]

Bernie:

I heard a man from Metagenics vitamins speaking on the radio. He was

talking about their product " MetalloClear. " According to what he

said, this product doesn't physically remove metals from the body,

but rather helps increase the body's own metallothionein, a substance

in our bodies that works at removing metals. According to the site

listed below, MetalloClear:

" Up-regulates the genetic expression of **metallothionein,** an

important protein that binds to metals in cells and facilitates their

elimination. "

The product seems to be made of a combo of andrographis, turmeric and

hops.

http://www.oakwayhealthcenter.com/store/product1867.html

I just mention this product as you mentioned metallotionein

deficiency in your post. I'm curious--maybe taking this product might

enhance detox while taking other detox products?

Beverly

> Some are more susceptable to mercury effects than others.

Susceptability factors include immune reactivity, ability to excrete

mercury (blood allele type), ****metallothionein deficiency,***

other toxic exposures/synergistic effects, etc.

www.flcv.com/suscept.html

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> Bernie

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