Re: Hair test results---Dana B

April 26, 2008

Dana -

There are at least a couple of errors (noted below).

I count 17 low, 1 right on the mean, and 1 borderline. This meets the

counting rules for an all low pattern. Your arsenic is also over the

95th percentile, and it is common to accumulate arsenic in the case of

mercury intoxication.

Even mild elevations in lead, as you have here, are significant.

Your cobolt is red low, so B12 might help.

Ca/P indicates a fast oxidizer, so you may want to consider a high fat

diet and digestive enzymes might help. (Andy also suggests that fast

oxidizers would tend to show less toxicity than is present, consistent

with the all low presentation.)

Surprisingly, I don't see any obvious signs of adrenal fatigue in your

hair test.

K/Ca is quite low, which might indicate a low thyroid. Have you tried

taking your temperature? Are you cold in the AM?

Your symptoms are also consistent with mercury, arsenic and possibly

lead tox (gee, you're like me!

So, assuming that you are now sure that all the amalgam is out, _even

under crowns_, then you can try out chelation on a proper protocol. In

this case, you will want to include DMSA for at least 3 days per month,

over a period of many years (3, at least), to deal with the lead; but

ALA is what you'll need for the mercury.

You should also try an elimination diet, if you have not done it. You

may be surprised to find other food intolerances that you have not

suspected, and you'll need to find out if restricting or increasing

sulfur in your diet might be a good idea or not. There are a lot of

other things that you may be able to do to help with your long list of

symptoms, so I'd suggest beginning to read on this and the A-M list.

Good luck!

Dave.

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danaclaire1945 <http://profiles.yahoo.com/danaclaire1945>

Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:43 pm (PDT)

Hi all-

Following are the results of my hair test (this was done in 2004 -

symptoms

are worse now than then). Though they don't quite match the counting

rules,

I'd appreciate any comments. I'm guessing the test might look a lot

worse,

but I take a lot of supplements and have for almost 20 years. My most

obvious symptoms are chronic fatigue, depression/lack of motivation,

brain

fog, exercise intolerance, migraines, food intolerances (get

migraines from

corn, chocolate, all nuts, many herbs, soy) - those are the main ones. I

also have a positive Lyme test, but at this point I don't think Lyme

is my

main problem.

I've had the worst of the symptoms for nearly 20 years, and when

they began

I had had several amalgams replaced with more amalgam (didn't know

better at

the time), had some severe stress in my life, and was bitten by a

tick. I've

also had a " mouth full " of amalgams since my early teens and

undoubtedly had

some before that. I had my amalgams removed and replaced with some

sort of

composite in 1997, though the dentist missed one tiny one (I

discovered it

was still there a couple of years ago). My worsening symptoms

started around

1998, but I have had less intense health problems since childhood.

Thanks so much,

Dana B

Toxic Elements:

Aluminum - 1.9 (range < 7.0) green

Antimony - 0.026 (range 0.050) green

Arsenic - 0.16 (range 0.060) red

Beryllium -- < 0.01 (range < 0.020) no bar

Bismuth - 0.040 (range < 0.10) green

Cadmium - 0.061 (range < 0.10) green

Lead - 0.14 (range < 0.10) green

Mercury - 1.2 (range < 1.1) yellow (barely)

Platinum -- < 0.003 (range < 0.005) no bar

Thallium -- < 0.0001 (range < 0.010) no bar

Thorium -- < 0.0001 (range < 0,005) no bar

Uranium - 0.042 (range < 0.060) green

Nickel - 0.03 (range < 0.40) green

Silver - 0.01 (range < 0.15) green

Tin - 0.21 (range < 0.30) green

Titanium - 0.63 (range < 1.0) green

=Total toxic representation - yellow

Essential and Other Elements

Calcium - 491 (300 - 1200) low green

Magnesium - 37 (35 - 120) low green

Sodium - 29 (12 - 90) low green

Potassium - 7 (8 - 38) low yellow

Copper - 7.9 (12 - 35) low yellow

Zinc - 180 (140 - 220) on center white

Manganese -- 0.07 (0.15 - 0.65) low red

Chromium -- 0.34 (0.20 - 0.40) high green

Vanadium - 0.051 (0.018 - 0.065) high green

Molybdenum - 0.031 (0.028 - 0.056) low green

Boron - 0.65 (0.30 - 2.0) high white (almost on center)

Iodine -- 0.17 (0.25 - 1.3) low yellow

Lithium - 0.005 (0.007 - 0.023) low yellow

Phosphorus - 159 (160 - 250) low *green* (error, this is yellow,

assuming the numbers are right)

Selenium - 2.4 (0.95 - 1.7) high yellow

Strontium - 3.7 (0.50 - 7.6) high green

Sulfur - 45300 (44500 - 52000) low green

Barium - 0.48 (0.26 - 3.9) low green

Cobalt - 0.005 (0.013 - 0.050) low red

Iron - 6.7 (5.4 - 14) low green

Germanium - 0.038 (0.045 - 0.065) low yellow

Rubidium - 0.021 (0.007 - 0.096) low green

Zirconium - 0.14 (0.20 - 0.42) *high* green (error, this should be

low assuming the numbers are right)

Ratios

Ca/Mg - 13.3 (4 - 30)

Ca/P - 3.09 (1 - 12)

Na/K - 4.14 (0.5 - 10)

Zn/Cu - 22.8 (4 - 20)

Zn/Cd -- >999 (> 800)

April 27, 2008

>

> Food allergy testing is not very good at finding food reactivity - and

> I've read some of the literature in this area. The only real way to

> tell is to do an elimination diet. That's also the cheapest way.

>

I agree that food allergy testing won't pick up on intolerances, like

sulfur food intolerance and others - those are best determined by

elimination. Food allergy testing does have a role to help some

people. The results of the test that my daughter had through

(the lab is linked to in the links section, I don't recall the name

right now) were right on what I expected. The literature could be

misleading. Perhaps there are some labs that are better than others.

My daughter has always had serious allergies and a high total IgE. I

would recommend food allergy testing for someone like that.

Elimination diets are so tedious.

April 27, 2008

>

> ----------- Thanks so much for your help with this. Though I'm going to

> visit

> week after next,

I didn't have time to post when someone asked if anyone had been to

see . I have.

I went to see twice. Perhaps knowing how far away I am (approx

2500 miles?) gives an idea of how important it was for me to see her.

The first time we drove there, and the second time we flew most of

the way.

has done many things to help me that no other practitioner (that

I know about) could (or probably would). She has so much experience

with patients who have toxicity, and is quick to see what is needed.

She is an excellent person to consult with about diet and supplement

modifications that will help during chelation, about chelation, and

about medications that will help too.

Be sure to have all of your history organized so that she can quickly

get an overview of the important points. She will want to see all

test results that you have - if you don't have copies you may want to

visit your doctor to get anything that he has on file. What I did was

type out all the questions that I had, and then prioritize them with

the most important first. That way, when I went brain dead in the

interview, I could just pass the question list over and she could

answer some.

Good luck

J

April 27, 2008

Thanks . There's no longer a link to a lab on 's web site. I guess

I'll have to wait to find out what she recommends. I'm so looking forward to

having some guidance with all of this after 20 years trying to deal with it

on my own (my symptoms started around 1988 not 1998 as I mistyped on my

other message). I've been to many doctors over the years, but none had much

of a clue. The one that did the hair test in 2004 saw the results, including

the sky high arsenic, and didn't comment (he just tried to get me to do IR

sauna treatments at $100 a pop which I couldn't tolerate either physically

or financially). And for that level of help, I was out a total of around 8

grand after all was said and done. What a waste of money. . .

Dana

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