Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities
by Andrew Hall
Cutler,
PhD, PE
© 2004, 2008, 2009
Andrew
Hall
Cutler
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Important Notes and Caveats
This section is NOT
intended as a
complete guide to treatment. It is
intended as an outline of a few important factors.
More complete discussions may be found in Amalgam
Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment, The
Biochemical Option,
and a variety of other sources.
Remember that people whose bodies manage to accumulate some or other element in excess when their neighbors don’t often have uniquely individual biochemistries and all kinds of interesting and unexpected reactions to supposedly benign medicines and nutritional supplements. Also remember that this book is based on probabilities and statistics, but most of its use is going to be finding people who do not fit the statistical rule, are far from average, and thus may not respond like most other people to whatever intervention is tried.
Also please note that I
list a lot
of treatments that involve taking prescription drugs or nutritional
supplements
in the same manner as drugs are used.
Part of why I do this is that it is a natural way to think of
things
since I was trained as a chemist and have a lot of experience doing
things this
way. Partly it is because some
people are quite toxic and not much else seems to work for them. However this is not meant to imply that
other (non-drug) methods may not be adequate for people with less
severe
toxicity.
Besides, being a chemist,
I
understand how you can use chemicals to affect the basic chemical
processes of
metabolism. Some of these
chemicals are considered food in a legal and practical sense, some are
considered nutritional supplements in a legal sense, and some are
considered
prescription or over the counter medication in a legal sense.
These legal distinctions
are not
firmly based in chemical reality. Some foods and nutritional
supplements are
unnatural synthetic materials, some prescription medications are
natural herbal
extracts (e. g. morphine, digitalis).
Some supplements are quite powerful, some medications have mild
effects. While it is true that
there is a correlation between something requiring a prescription and
being
able to really mess people up with severe side effects, this does not
mean that
only prescription agents are powerful (and dangerous), or that only
over the
counter agents are safe.
Prescription drugs do
have a bad
reputation among many health care practitioners and members of the
public
because in certain circumstances very powerful and dangerous
medications are routinely
used in a cavalier and indiscriminate fashion, resulting in enormous
human
suffering. The real problem here
is that some prescribers are irresponsible, not that prescription drugs
are of
necessity all unpleasant and dangerous.
Since I find little
chemical sense
in the existing legal distinctions, I just talk about the chemicals and
what
you can use them for. I do this
because I know what the chemicals do to people. This
is not to say that chemicals are the only way to help
sick people – far from it! There
are many and varied approaches that to some extent overlap and are
interchangeable, and to some extent have their own unique benefits. For example, it is seldom possible to replace manual medicine such as
chiropractic adjustment, osteopathic manipulation, or various forms of
therapeutic massage or occupational therapy with a handful of pills.
It is very important to
interpret
unusual hair test results in light of other information, rather than
using them
in isolation. The most important
information to consider is what is going on with the person the hair is
from. Review of other materials is
crucial to relating the numbers and bars on the hair test to the signs
and
symptoms of the person whose hair was analyzed. One
source is the discussion earlier in this book of how the
different elements affect people.
If there is any uncertainty or need for additional information,
further
research is appropriate.
Health care professionals
as well as
readers who are managing their own care are strongly suggested to
review some
quality mainstream sources such as Merritt’s Textbook of Neurology, Neurology (by Goetz), Hunter’s
Diseases of
Occupations
(as
published prior to 1970), and 1940-1960 editions of standard internal
medicine
and toxicology books.
The homeopathic
literature is
extremely helpful in figuring out whether a given person has a problem
with a
particular element. It doesn’t
matter if you believe in homeopathy or not, a homeopathic
materia medica is a collection of notes physicians took on
observing people
poisoned with the relevant substances.
One must keep in mind that homeopathic writings are organized in
a very
different way than allopathic writings and that many of them are quite
old,
dating to times when concepts of health and intoxication were somewhat
different than they are now. With
careful thought and reading, however, the homeopathic literature is the
most
detailed and complete description available of the effects of most
toxins.
Please also note that
some
laboratories and practitioners suggest adrenal cortex extract and
vitamin E for
essentially everyone, and in fact these are helpful for almost everyone
who has
a health condition for which they end up getting a hair test.
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