What I’ve learned about healthcare through 15 years of illness and continuous research would be shocking to the average person (if they believed me). The average person, though, is healthy enough to have little interest in learning the truth. As they say, it’s easier to fool a person than it is for a person to […]
Category: heavy-metals
Nutritional Balancing Science
I was astonished when I plugged my latest hair test numbers into the spreadsheet I use to analyze result. But I was more than surprised, I was overjoyed-and tears began to stream down my face. That’s because I’ve been working on normalizing my mineral balance for nearly 4 years and consistently falling into the most […]
It’s the iron, stupid
If you research either vitamin D or copper enough, you’re bound to come across Morley Robbins contrarian views eventually. I tend to listen to people who seem to have deep knowledge in tightly confined areas especially when they say everyone else is wrong. So about a year ago, I stopped trying to take vitamin D […]
Infrared sauna for copper and heavy metal detox
I’ve had sauna on my radar for years. My dad recovered from his chronic toxicity illness decades ago and attributes much of his recovery to sauna. A little over three years ago I built an infrared sauna in my bathroom but it was very uncomfortable and I only used it a handful of times. After […]
Hair test number 4
This is my fourth hair test and comes a little more than six months after this one – I’m no longer shocked that I’m still copper toxic but at peace with the fact that at least my copper is probably on its way out. I’m also still very concerned about the calcium, sodium, potassium, and […]
Switching from hydrogen peroxide to ozone therapy
[H]ydrogen peroxide therapy was intense for me and while I was sure it was the right thing at the right time, I began experiencing nausea somewhere around 12 drops (that’s 35% H2O2, three times a day) and by the time I got to 16 drops I detested the peroxide so much I couldn’t go on […]
Superoxide dismutase 2 – my genetic timebomb?
[N]early 2 years after receiving my 23andme genetic information, I’m still piecing together the puzzle but… my SOD2 polymorphisms are starting to look more and more like the ticking time bomb. Or, maybe a better metaphor is a bridge that crumbled underneath of me slowly for years and then suddenly washed away. For those who’ve […]
Still copper toxic two years later?
[I] quit chelating around seven months ago to do liver and colon cleansing and just recently did my third annual hair test. When the results arrived, I was very upset to see my copper has gone back up. It went from 560 to 170 to 280 (whereas the reference range is 11 – 30). First […]
Understanding how liver function is affected by methylation and toxicity
[A] little background first, I’ve been really ill for around 13 years. After identifying the problem as heavy metal toxicity, I spent a year and a half doing chelation and methylation treatments. My expected recovery did not materialize however – I experience some improvements but became sicker in other ways. I think this is because […]
Hitting the wall
[W]hen chelation began to feel overwhelming early this year I reduced my doses and timing drastically, cutting from my high of 75 mg every two hours, to 25 mg every three hours. That felt a lot better, but even in between rounds, I started to feel more fatigue and less endurance. Something didn’t feel right […]
Before and after one year of chelation – toxic and essential elements
[Y]esterday, I received the results of my second hair test by email (first test here) and was bowled over by the HUGE signs of progress which should probably be read together with my one year update. This feels like an extremely useful set of data. While I still meet counting rules three and four, I […]
Meet author David Hammond, recovering from industrial lead and mercury poisoning
Please meet David Hammond, author of the remarkable new book Mercury Poisoning: the Undiagnosed Epidemic. I’m still reading the Kindle version but already after reading a quarter of the book have learned some things that have transformed my understanding of the illness I’m suffering from (will post about those insights later). For now, let me […]
Mechanisms by which mercury causes over 30 chronic health conditions
This research paper can be found in numerous places online, but I wanted to clean up the formatting and share it here in a more readable way. It’s very long so you might consider doing a keyword search on it for any of your symptoms – the information contained is astonishing: Mercury Exposure Levels from […]
Stumped by my DW’s hair test…
[W]hen I opened my dear wife’s (DW) hair test results a few minutes ago I was relieved and a little surprised. It looks like she doesn’t meet any of the counting rules according to HTI. But, she had a mouthful of mercury fillings removed a couple years ago and still has some mysterious health complaints […]
My toxic and essential elements hair test
[M]y hair test results just arrived (shown below) and they confirm what my urine challenge test revealed. I’m toxic. [update: 1-year follow-up test here] [update: 2-year follow-up test here] [update: 2.5-year follow-up test here] [update: 3-year follow-up test here] Looking at it and reading the commentary beneath it puts a little fear and loathing into […]