My doc explained to me that hair care products or environment could cause mercury in your hair. He recommends a 24 hour urine test.

I've heard some say the mercury challenege test is the best. Honestly, I don't knwo but feel urine would be a more accurate analysis versus hair.

There is no test to tell how much is remaining in the body and where it is located. ART can do that. This is important, because it can be helped out with different mechanisms and agents if we know where it is sitting. There is no single detox agent that takes metals out of the body all the way. It takes different ones to accomplish that. If you start detoxing the brain before detoxing the joints and extracellular spaces, there will be a traffic jam that can be devastating and pain ful. The easy-to-get to metals have to be mobilized first; then comes the brain and brain, stem, where it usually is sitting.
That's where our hormonal disturbances come from. Pituitary and hormone producing glands are all up there. Mercury blocks them and they stop to function the way we need it to be healthy.

Doctor's Data Metal Test costs $99. at our clinic. You hould have a DMPS challenge to encourage some metal to come out. Often none comes out because the body is not in a position to release it. Sometimes people get 4 or 5 tests without metals showing, yet they are in reality full of the stuff. If the minerals are out of sync; if emotional problems are holding them in; there are many reasons.

That's why ART is preferred. It can be muscle tested and found out easily whether you are toxic or not. A good muscle tester will find it.

There are many around - look at alternative clinics, etc. Many naturopath or chiropractors use this method. If it is found that way, at least you know where you stand.

If Snowboarder comes back not showing any, or just some other toxic metals that appear often before the mercury does, it does not mean they are not there. Dr. Klinghardt finds the metals in practically every person that has an ailment. Certainly in every Lyme patient, without exception. It's sad that people do not want to face it.

In other words, the tests are just as inconclusive as the tests for Lyme. The only test that is realiable is a lymphocyte test, the MELISA test.

No insurance pays unless you come up with a lead toxicity. Last I heard.

Hope this helps. Feel free to e-mail me if I can help. It is extremely difficult for me to say anything about this any longer on the Lymenet. I just do not want to fight this battle any more, this ignorance.
And when people start using foul language in expressing their opinion about what I say, that is the finale for me.

Okay, now I am heading for my sweet bed.
Hope this helps.

I know Gigi doesn't like NAC, but it doesn't seem like there's any harm in trying it once or twice, and seeing if there's a noticeable change in symptoms.

Wrong.

If you have someone test you with ART or other reliable form of energy testing, you will get a quick answer, and you can go and decide from there.

Yes, mercury vapor is not visible and you cannot smell it. The metallic mercury leaves the container immediately when left open, turns to vapor, and from there you can take it into the body again, where it turns into a metallic form again depositing somewhere in your body. I won't go into the the different forms of mercury. Just take all precautions when you do the test.

I detailed it more in my older post.

Take care.