Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities
by Andrew Hall
Cutler,
PhD, PE
© 2004, 2008, 2009
Andrew Hall
Cutler
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This book explains how to
properly
interpret a hair test and gives specific examples of how to do this
using Doctor’s
Data Laboratories
and Great Plains Laboratories tests.
This book is intended for
a broad audience,
including physicians, other kinds of licensed health care
practitioners, and
laymen. Physicians have their own
special language to describe health care concepts.
While this language is clear, precise, and standardized, it
is also not understood by laymen.
In order to make this book accessible to as many people as
possible, I
have used common laymen’s terms for health care concepts and conditions
in most
cases. I have mentioned the proper
medical terminology in many cases but it simply isn’t practical to do
this
throughout the book.
This book is a practical
book. It provides detailed academic style
information only in those areas where that is important so readers can
understand things in order to be able to use the methods described in
this book. For example, I do go through
the
details of how to calculate probabilities so that people who routinely
use
tests with a different format can come up with their own counting rules
for the
labs they use. In other areas
little information is provided in the interest of brevity.
I cite references only when you might
actually want to verify them or check out what else they say, not
simply to
produce a long important looking academic style bibliography that
nobody will
ever read.
Because the book is
intended to be
useful in a practical sense, some material is repeated if it is
relevant in
several sections so that people don’t have to go flipping through the
book when
they are trying to look up one specific thing. For
example, the effects of low magnesium are repeated under
all the toxic elements that can cause magnesium levels to be reduced,
and how
to determine the amount of vitamin B-6 to use is repeated wherever
relevant.
The book starts out
telling you how
to interpret a hair test for mercury and other heavy metals. I provide a step by step discussion of
this with figures to make it easy to do.
Next, I actually
interpret some
example hair tests that are particularly compelling in terms of them
being real
people diagnosed with horrible diseases that have no good treatments
who turned
out to have a heavy metal problem instead. This
should provide some motivation to study the rest of the
book carefully.
Following the
introductory examples
are some graphs giving my best estimates1
regarding what fraction of sick people have heavy metal poisoning or
other
specific problems underlying their conditions. This
is very useful in understanding why a hair test is
worth doing early on.
Having explained how
mercury affects
hair test results, I discuss the other toxic element, how useful hair
testing
is for checking them, how likely the test is to be falsely normal2 or falsely positive3 (and why
this might happen), and give a
brief description of what kinds of things happen with people who have
too much
of each toxic metal in them.
Once I have discussed the
toxic
elements, I discuss the meaning of the essential element levels as
measured in
hair. High hair levels do not
always mean high body levels – for example, hair zinc levels go up when
the
body can’t hold it in. Some of the essential elements can be toxic if
they
build up to a high enough level. I
discuss briefly what the essential elements do for us, and what happens
to
people who end up with toxic levels of them.
Then I provide
information on what
other kinds of information you can derive from a hair test regarding
how
someone’s body is working, such as whether they have too much stress,
poor
digestion, have adrenal issues or thyroid problems.
Following this I provide
many, many
example hair tests – actual case studies – with interpretation and
background
information as to what is going on with the person whose test it is. All of the tests used in this book are
real tests from real people and accurate information is provided about
what was
going on with them, what they did, and what happened.
After the examples of
useful,
informative hair tests I provide examples of why you need to make sure
the
right test is ordered and the right information written on the test
order form
by showing an assortment of hair tests for a family of four where some
tests
were ordered improperly and the interpretation changed when a corrected
test
report based on accurate age, sex, and type of test desired was issued.
Following this, I provide
a very
brief discussion of what to do based on the test results, e. g. how to
chelate
heavy metals. Hopefully this
discussion will help you avoid the use of harmful or ineffective
protocols, but
it is BRIEF and necessarily omits much detail. Anyone
wishing to actually pursue any of these would be wise
to consider researching other materials (e. g. Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and
Treatment).
Finally, I provide an
appendix with
the equations and numerical probabilities that underlie the counting
rules
approach, as well as an appendix providing information on how to deal
with
tests from other laboratories if you cannot possibly get a doctor’s
data or
great plains laboratory test.
Peer review is considered an important part of modern medicine. This book has been peer reviewed by relevant experts and I have addressed all the reviewers’ concerns.
Footnotes
1)
Made by
comparing published information from which
underlying causes can be determined with patient reports regarding
success or
failure of proper detoxification to bring significant lasting
improvement. Since outcome studies for
alternative
medicine treatments based on politically incorrect diagnoses (for
example, how
many autistic children are cured by mercury chelation) are not yet
available in
the mainstream medical literature I rely on patient or caregiver
reports when
these are numerous and informative enough to generate good statistical
data).
2)
This is
referred to as alpha error in statistics.
3)
this is
referred to as alpha error in statistics.
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