Re: OT--SH groups in collagen and fat tissues?--Andy

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The Melisa test determines if you are " allergic, " or immune reactive, to various

metals.

This is completely different and not related to toxicity.

The hair test checks for toxicity.

Those with a negative hair test who are toxic will not as a rule show up

reactive on the

Melisa test.

The Melisa people blur these lines, which sells tests for them, but really they

are entirely

different things.

If you have some kind of immune process going on and not really signs of

toxicity, it

might make sense to check if some metal is causing it (this is acutally how

beryllium kills

people), but if there are toxicity like issues, or a positive hair test, then

the information in

the Melisa test is pretty irrelevant and also doesn't correlate with the hair

test results, or

with who responds to chelation.

Andy

> Thanks Andy for responding, and one more question down below. And since I got

your

attention, what do you think of the Melisa Test for metal allergy? Have you had

the

opportunity to see many people who have done both, the Melisa Test and a hair

test? I'm

curious if they follow suit, or do some people have low body burdens and don't

meet the

counting rules, but have a high reactivity to mercury on the Melisa test? Would

their

symptoms be any different? If someone didn't meet the counting rules, but still

suspected

mercury, would this be a reasonable test to do? Would those of us who do meet

the

counting rules, would we show reactivity to mercury on a Melisa Test? Or is

this two

separate things, allergy/reactivity and toxicity/body burden? (Sorry so many

questions, I

like to pick your brain when I get a chance!) Thanks-----Jackie

>

>

> In frequent-dose-chelation andrewhallcutler wrote:

>

> >

> >

> > >

> > > Ok, you chemistry people, I knew mercury was attracted to SH groups,

> > and that's what makes the chelators work (double thiols), but I did

> > not realize that fat and collagen tissues were rich in SH groups.

>

> They are not rich in thiol groups, compared to the rest of the body they are

actually

quite

> poor in thiol groups.

>

> -----------So we can all learn something, which parts of the body are

highest in thiol

(SH) groups? (I assume the brain is one? Organs and glands?) So mercury

wouldn't be

very likely to accumulate in fat tissue or collagen? But the brain is high in

fat, and mercury

accumulates there, so is it because of its fat content, having thiols, or

what?---------

Jackie

>

>

>

>

>

> > > http://www.melisa.org/mercury.php

> > >

> > > (quote is from the paragraph right above the pictures)

> > >

> > > " The pictures demonstrate widespread distribution of mercury in the

> > body of the mice. Organs rich in fat - such as brain and collagen

>

> As in all too much of medicine, ignorance doesn't prevent them from holding

forth.

>

> The brain is high in fat. Collagen is very low in fat (like almost zero).

>

> > are very prone to mercury binding. One of the reasons for this is that

> > mercury is particularly keen to bind to two amino acids; methionine

> > and cysteine. Both amino acids contain sulphur hydrogen (SH)-groups.

>

> Methionine does not contain a sulfhydryl (thiol, SH) group.

>

> This is the boon and the bane of the internet. Every idiot can make a web

page and

most

> do. Because of this the usual forces of political correctness do not edit

out politically

> incorrect information so you can find that tidbit of truth you need, but you

have to

wade

> through a LOT of misinformation to find it.

>

> Andy

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