Re: qustion about hair tests

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In frequent-dose-chelation drew wrote:

my hair tests showed that i had 1.5 in mercury and the reference range

is 1.1...is this high? but my potassium is way high at 180 and

cobalt very low at 0.004....how much of the mineral elements are

accurate.oh and silver was high 0.30--reference range 0.12...anyone please

----------It is really much easier to comment on hair tests when you post the

results to Dean's website, so we can see the whole thing, especially the color

bands. The instructions are in the links and files section.

Your mercury is somewhat elevated, which might actually be a good thing,

showing that you are able to excrete some of it. Many of us have very low hair

mercury, meaning we are poor excretors of it and retain it. In this case, we

have deranged mineral transport, pointing to mercury. But we really need to see

the whole test, and some info from you on history and symptoms helps also.

For a complete understanding of what the levels mean for each element on the

hair test, I would suggest you get Andy's Hair Test Interpretation book. In

HTI, Andy says that hair potassium does not reflect dietary intake or body

burden. Cobalt is one of the elements that often goes in the red from deranged

mineral transport, and the silver elevation might be from that

too.--------Jackie