Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities
by Andrew Hall
Cutler,
PhD, PE
© 2004, 2008, 2009
Andrew Hall
Cutler
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There are six basic
reasons to check
for heavy metal poisoning:
·
Problems
suggestive of heavy metals
·
A
health condition with a poor expected outcome
·
A
history of or a high risk of cancer
·
Health
problems the doctor can’t find a cause (or a cure) for
·
A
relative has a heavy metal problem without a large exposure
·
One
person has several apparently unrelated health problems
Problems suggestive of
heavy metals
include combinations of fatigue, malaise, anxiety, depression,
emotional
distress and allergies that are not otherwise explained.
Health conditions with
poor expected
outcomes are things like Parkinson's disease, borderline personality
disorder,
autism, multiple sclerosis, lupus erythrematosus. After
all, heavy metal intoxication is easily treatable so
it is prudent to make sure the person doesn’t really have it.
History of cancer is a
reason to
exclude heavy metal intoxication since most cancers are environmental
in
origin, not genetically determined1.
Health problems that the
doctor
can’t find a cause (or if they assert a cause, can’t find a cure) for
are things
like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, ADHD,
chemical
sensitivity, or severe allergies.
Most cases of heavy metal
poisoning
today are due to people with a genetic predisposition to accumulate
some
metal. The relatives of these
people have a good chance of sharing this predisposition and need to be
checked. Also note that I have
seen many family sets of hair tests, and the husbands and wives almost
always
both have heavy metal problems or neither do. Most
of the heavy metal toxicities are known to affect mood
and personality which apparently leads to people with heavy metal
problems
getting together.
One person having the
misfortune to
have several unrelated health problems is quite unlikely.
When one person DOES have a lot of
health problems, even if they are mundane ones, it makes sense to check
and be
sure they aren’t all due to heavy metal toxicity.
1)
Environmental and
heritable factors in the causation of cancer--analyses of cohorts of
twins from
Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. By
Lichtenstein et al. in the New England
Journal of Medicine,
volume 343, number 2,
pages 78-85, July 13th, 2000.
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