Re: Getting DMSA or DMPS prescribed/ Arsenic

[Guest guest]

Thanks for all of your answers/comments Jackie.

I do have HTI, but none of the sources there seemed like ones that

would have me showing up with arsenic in my hair given my contact with

them. The water I drink is from the City of Redmond and according to

their website they check for arsenic and it was low, below the required

levels for saftey (what ever that means). I had heard about chicken,

someone mentioned this and that they thought once the news was more

well known that folks were going to be in trouble, specfically the

organic foods groups as they used things that would contain arsenic. I

think I also remember rice being a problem, specifically from countries

that don't do very good regulation of it's foodstuff (not that ours

seems to be doing any better).

My level is a lot lower than yours, it was high with in the green,

almost yellow, but considering the rest of the results I wasn't

expecting it to show much of anything.

Thanks again,

Mike

> ---------Do you have HTI? Andy lists other possible sources in

there too, and I think he said in some cases it is hard to track down

the source. Treated lumber used to have arsenic in it and also ant

traps. I guess chicken can have it, because it is put in their feed to

kill pests. How high is your arsenic? My last test was .30.------

Jackie

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[Guest guest]

Hi Jackie,

Here are the numbers.

ARSENIC ppb 0.6 (average) 0–2 (range)

Source:

http://www.redmond.gov/insidecityhall/publicworks/pdfs/Waterbrochure20

06.pdf

Doesn't seem like much. Though as you said if one is a poor excretor

of metals it can cause problems no matter the level.

Well, I don't meet the counting rules here are the results:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/frequent-dose-

chelation/message/20482

But said this:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/frequent-dose-

chelation/message/20484

And Andy said this:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/frequent-dose-

chelation/message/20860

I'm still having the amalgams removed no matter what and I plan on

Chelating with DMSA after that for 3 months and then adding or

replacing with ALA.

Thanks,

Mike

> ---------Do they give an actual number? The EPA safe limit used

to be 50ppb. It is/was supposed to be changed to 10ppb, but I think

I read a blurb where Bush was going to reverse this. So I think I

would ask them for an actual number. My well was only 7ppb, but

since I'm a poor excretor of metals, it's enough to cause me

problems.--------Jackie

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> -----------Do you meet the counting rules for mercury? On page

86 of HTI, it says that, " Part of the derangement of mineral

transport that mercury induces is to cause the body to retain higher

levels of certain minerals than it might otherwise. " And arsenic is

one of them. So your level might just be an artifact of the

mercury. I think Andy has said that when you have deranged mineral

transport, then the results of the toxic elements don't mean that

much, unless they are very elevated. So yours being in the green

probably isn't that significant. And remember, ALA will chelate

arsenic as well as mercury, so you will eventually get it out.-------

Jackie

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[Guest guest]

Hi Jackie,

Here are the numbers.

ARSENIC ppb 0.6 (average) 0–2 (range)

Source:

http://www.redmond.gov/insidecityhall/publicworks/pdfs/Waterbrochure20

06.pdf

Doesn't seem like much. Though as you said if one is a poor excretor

of metals it can cause problems no matter the level.

Well, I don't meet the counting rules here are the results:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/frequent-dose-

chelation/message/20482

But said this:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/frequent-dose-

chelation/message/20484

And Andy said this:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/frequent-dose-

chelation/message/20860

I'm still having the amalgams removed no matter what and I plan on

Chelating with DMSA after that for 3 months and then adding or

replacing with ALA.

Thanks,

Mike

> ---------Do they give an actual number? The EPA safe limit used

to be 50ppb. It is/was supposed to be changed to 10ppb, but I think

I read a blurb where Bush was going to reverse this. So I think I

would ask them for an actual number. My well was only 7ppb, but

since I'm a poor excretor of metals, it's enough to cause me

problems.--------Jackie

>

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> -----------Do you meet the counting rules for mercury? On page

86 of HTI, it says that, " Part of the derangement of mineral

transport that mercury induces is to cause the body to retain higher

levels of certain minerals than it might otherwise. " And arsenic is

one of them. So your level might just be an artifact of the

mercury. I think Andy has said that when you have deranged mineral

transport, then the results of the toxic elements don't mean that

much, unless they are very elevated. So yours being in the green

probably isn't that significant. And remember, ALA will chelate

arsenic as well as mercury, so you will eventually get it out.-------

Jackie

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