There we go, I got my nails mineral analysis test results. They do show that I have some mercury - within limits (20% of what the lab range regards as safe). However, as was pointed out above in this threat, mercury will not show up as elevated in a hair/nails (let alone blood or urine) mineral analysis test even if it is. Moreover, it may be an allergy/hypersensitivity to mercury that is causing the mercury poisoning symptoms, so it doesn't have to be off limits to bring problems.
Significantly, a bunch of my other essential and other micro elements are
below the lower limit. Namely, chromium, vanadium,molybdenum,cobalt, iron are all below the norm. Germanium is quite low, almost hitting the blue zone, though still in the green.
In his book on hair test interpretation (
https://books.google.ch/books/about/Hair_Test_Interpretation.html?id=U765adeBPlEC&redir_esc=y), Andy Cutler talks about "deranged mineral transport." He looks at a list of 23 "essential and other" micro elements (tested in popular labs in the US) and gives 5 counting rules for determining if one has deranged mineral transport. The elements that my lab (it's in Germany) tested are not exactly the ones listed by Cutler in his book, so I can't apply all of his rules. However, I can still test his counting rule 3, according to which, if one has 4 or more essential elements in the extreme, this plainly means deranged mineral transport. I have, in fact 5 at the extreme (in the low end), and maybe I should even count 6, if I include germanium. Therefore, my test results imply deranged mineral transport.
Cutler says that mercury can cause such deranged mineral transport - it is the
root cause for this. Come on, I eat meat every single day, why do I have low iron? This doesn't make sense. I am not going to be taking molybdenum tablets, obviously - a healthy person would have sufficient molybdenum (haven't even heard of it until now). I eat lots of cheese, so I should be doing fine with cobalt and chromium. I am not. The point Cutler makes is that strange-looking hair test results may be (not sure of his language: "may be" vs. "is" vs. "is likely to be") due to
mercury.
I have to say, I've been reading a lot about Andy Cutler and a lot from his book on Amalgam Illness. I am not going to trust everything he says 100%, but I think he is a very smart person with a significant contribution to the health of many. His thesis is simply that there is a lot of undiagnosed mercury toxicity out there and the proof for this is that mercury toxicity treatment simply gives positive results. I now plan to start the process, first step being the removal of all amalgam specks in my mouth. Thanks for starting this threat and for contributing to it, I will add updates when I have any.
