re: You can have a blood test to see if you are high in mercury ??

[Guest guest]

Actually blood tests are not a valid test for mercury body burden or mercury

toxicity. www.flcv.com/damspr17.html

Mercury vapor (mercury is a liquid at room temperature, vaporizing continuously

to a gas) from such as dental amalgam is documented to

on average pass through the blood and be transferred into some cell in an organ

where the heart rapidly distributes it to all parts of the body in less than 10

seconds. So blood tests only measure very recent (acute) exposures. The major

organs (heart, liver, kidneys, brain, hormone glands) get the most blood and

accumulate the most mercury, where the half life in the brain can be 20 years,

so people commonly get chronic cardiovascular, neurological,

hormonal(thyroid,etc.), kidney, etc. problems over time.

www.flcv.com/indexa.html

Due to the various forms of mercury and the fact that it changes forms in the

body readily (bacteria, yeasts, etc. convert mercury vapor to methyl mercury-

the type in fish) and methyl mercury is also demethylated to inorganic mercury,

it is very hard to test for mercury body burden or mercury toxicity. Very few

doctors know how to do it.

The best test for mercury body burden is a urine test after taking a chemical

chelator like DMPS or DMSA or oral chelators like NCF,NCD,HMD, IMD, etc. but you

need to have a reference level for the particular chelator dose and protocol

that you used. And taking high levels of the chemical chelators, especially

DMPS, can cause adverse health effects if not properly done and well supported

with minerals, antioxidants, etc.

Tests that are useful for mercury toxicity include the fractionated porphyrin

test (urine) by MetaMetrix Lab (or Paris France lab) and the hair test which is

inexpensive and doesn't require doctor Rx(though the best one from Doctors Data

Lab does).

The porpyrin test measures level of metabolic damage by measuring amount of

waste porphyrins in the blood (mercury blocks most enzymatic processes the body

depends on, including the Krebs energy cycle and production of blood heme).

Wastes created by the disruption of the latter 2 processes are what the

porphyrin test measures. The hair test mercury level is not accurate for body

burden (people who have blood allele types to accumulate mercury-those who get

MS,ALS, Alz, Parkinsons, etc. in their 40s- APOE type 4s) have very high body

burden but very low levels on the hair test- they can't excrete mercury. But

since mercury changes cell membrane activity and blocks enzymatic processes, one

with mercury toxicity will have lots of very low essential mineral levels and

very imbalanced pattern of other minerals. So the test can be used in this way

to indicate likely mercury toxicity. The hair test is also useful for indicating

toxic levels of other toxic metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, nickel, etc.

which most people have.

Bernie, DAMS

www.flcv.com/dams.html

[Guest guest]

Just wanted to add to what Bernie said. Andy Cutler wrote a book called Hair

Test Interpretation that discusses the types of patterns that show up on Doctors

Data hair tests when mercury is likely to be the cause. You can read about the

book, and some excerpts on his website:

http://www.noamalgam.com/hairtestbook.html

And if you want to buy the book, it is much cheaper buying from him directly

than through Amazon, etc. He ships worldwide.

Also, it is possible to order a hair test without going through a doctor by

calling Direct Labs. (Technically, it's ordered by their doctor.) You want a

Hair Elements test, NOT the toxic exposure test, which is not as useful for this

purpose. The test costs less than $100.

I had a hair test done, and it showed rather deranged minerals, with practically

all of them very low (even though my mercury level was not very high), which

indicates a high likelihood of chronic mercury toxicity.

In the Yahoo group " frequent dose chelation " members can post their tests to

have other members help them interpret the results. Results can also indicate a

likely problem with thyroid, adrenals, and some other problems. It was

definitely worthwhile, in my opinion!

Alice

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> Actually blood tests are not a valid test for mercury body burden or mercury

toxicity. www.flcv.com/damspr17.html

> Mercury vapor (mercury is a liquid at room temperature, vaporizing

continuously to a gas) from such as dental amalgam is documented to...