Re: HTI questions

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> So my HTI book came in and I've been reading it, but I have some

> questions. FWIW, I am not having one of my brighter days. sigh.

Me neither, but let me see if I can eke something out of my brain

before I take a nap. (I would wait and do it when my brain is

better, but my brain is never real good lately, so will just do

the best I can. Hopefully someone else will add their agreement

or otherwise.

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> In the section about Ca, Mg, Na, K and P ratios (pg 111-114) it

> mentions that the DDI report doesn't include the K/Ca ratio, and gives

> a range of 0.03 to 0.35. Then on the next page it says, " When Ca/K

> and Na/Mg are elevated... " But there is no range given for Ca/K. Is

> this a typo? Is this refering to the same ratio we just manually

> calculated on the previous page? Can it be expressed either way?

> Which way does it need to be calculated?

Ca/K is the inverse of the K/Ca, so I have assumed that since

the range for K/Ca is .03-.35, the range for Ca/K is the

inverse of those. I could be wrong - could be there is a

different range appropriate to the context in which the Ca/K

ratio is used, I guess. But I think it is still being used as

a measure of thyroid function in the Ca/K references, so I think

the range is 2.86-33 (inverse of others). Doesn't matter which

ratio you look at - same information.

> Or am I doing something wrong? 'Cause when I divide Ca (115) by K

> (110) (which would be Ca/K, right?) it's a different number than

> dividing K by Ca (K/Ca). But either number is significantly higher

> than 0.35 so I just don't know if I'm understanding it.

Your K/Ca (or Ca/K) ratio is high suggesting you should check thyroid.

Also adrenal sign, so check those too.

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> On pg 112 it says that fast metabolizers have a low ratio and slow

> metabolizers have a high ratio (with a ref range of 1 to 12). Then in

> the next paragraph it says, " Slow metabolizers often show lower hair

> toxic levels for a given body burden than fast metabolizers do. This

> is to say that someone with a calcium to phosphorus ratio below 1 may

> be quite toxic but have all the bars in the toxic element section of

> the hair test within the green zone. " So how is a slow metabolizer

> going to have a ratio below 1? I do have a ratio below 1, so am I

> fast or slow?

You are a fast oxidizer/metabolizer.

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> I am also unsure I'm understanding the whole " Meaning of Essential and

> Other Element Results " chapter. I meet two of the counting rules so

> I'm reading it from the deranged transport point of view. In several

> places it says that in deranged transport a high reading is probably

> still low. But it's less clear whether low readings are actually low.

> If I'm deranged and my reading is low, is it really low? Or if a

> high reading is really low, is a low reading really high?

With deranged mineral transport, you generally can't trust the levels

at all. For a given mineral, Andy sometimes indicates whether very

extreme values (red low or red high) might be meaningful. For this,

You have to look at each mineral individually because it varies.

> I have 14 bars left and 9 right. Of the 14 left, only 1 stays in the

> green the rest are either yellow or red - low and very low. So I'd

> really like to understand if the low readings mean anything when

> deranged. Right now, I feel quite deranged from trying to understand

> this. LOL.

Not sure if low zinc means anything, but is important so make sure

you are taking that.

See p. 251 for magnesium recommendations. You should take mag and

taurine.

Undetectable lithium => supplement (p. 257).

I wouldn't worry about the others.

> I know I'm not even half-way through the book, so if my questions are

> pre-mature and I should just shut up and read, tell me.

It's more a question of letting it sink in, and seeing

a bunch of hair tests and thinking about it.

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p.s. you need to use DMSA for the lead.

> My hair test is posted at

> http://is-svcs.com/yankeeExile/HairtestResults.pdf

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