Assessment

Could You Be Mercury Toxic?

Do you find it challenging to get the data you need to confidently assess metal toxicity? There is such an array of symptoms and conditions that are attributed to heavy metal toxicity that it can be confusing both to the patient and the practitioner.

Many people who are heavy metal toxic have many of these symtpoms. If you have more than 9 items checked off this list, chances are you could be heavy metal toxic and should be seen by a competant doctor and evaluated for this.
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To date, there is no test to measure the actual heavy metal burden inside a human body. So, how can we tell if a heavy metal burden lies beneath the physical problems of the patient? We know that we can examine the stool, as in a Metal-Free Challenge, using a Heavy Metal Fecal Analysis since we know that the colon is the body's natural route of metal elimination. It is valuable to know that there are several other Assessment tools which provide information as to what the body is holding, metal-wise. Often two or more testing methods are used to establish the diagnosis of metal toxicity.

Here is a spectrum of available tools, beginning with the simplest. One of these may lead into the next, until diagnoses can be made with a comfortable degree of certainty.

1) Lack of response to care: The patient has symptoms that, while they don't suggest a specific disease, are troubling but have been resistant to healing measures. In such cases, metal should be on the list of suspicions.

2) Symptoms: We have provided a Health Questionnaire for practitioners to use as a diagnostic tool. A list of conditions and occupations that have been associated with heavy metal toxicity are provided on a sheet for the patient to simply check off. These conditions are quite common, and as you know may be caused by any number of things. However, when a patient has several of these conditions (seven or more), it is an indicator that there is a broader underlying cause linking them together which is often metal toxicity. If a practitioner started a patient on Metal Free based on the questionnaire results, the Metal Free would be continued until the symptoms cleared up. A fecal test, as in 6 below, could also be used to guide termination of treatment.

3) Muscle-test: Provided the practitioner is trained and experienced, this is a valuable tool for determining the relative burden of metals and which part of the body is affected. During the detox, this method can also show when metal levels are decreasing. Just as with other tools, the skill of the practitioner has quite a bit to do with the depth and accuracy of the answers. Training for this is available from various sources, and is encouraged. We have suggestions for establishing whether or not metals are an issue using a form of muscle testing (ART), but at this time we are not able to provide training for muscle-testing. We provide a complimentary test vial of Metal-Free which contains 1cc of the product to use for this purpose. It would also be helpful to acquire test vials of the heavy metals. These are available as homeopathic preparations.

4) EAV: (or any of the wavelength machines such as electro-dermal). This of course requires the equipment and skilled technician. The data can be very useful. Again the sample vial is provided for use in such testing. Like muscle testing, EAV can give one a relative indication of how much metal and where in the body it is accumulated.

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