Those Mind Boggling Differences in Trace Element Levels

[Guest guest]

....in the hearts of more severely disabled CFIDS patients have really

got me curious.

Are we seeing more exposure, or an impaired mechanism for

detoxification, or both?

I'm tempted to focus on the latter. The body has very specific

processes for getting rid of this crap, that are probably susceptible

to disruption by primary or secondary effects of various pathogens.

I'm having a better than average brain day, but am still not real

great at the online research thing - if I was, I'd be looking for

other findings of strikingly elevated trace elements, to see how

common such findings are and whether they are suggestive of a pattern.

[Guest guest]

If I'm not mistaken, those findings werent in CFS but rather in

idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: PMID 10334427.

<compucruz@y...> wrote:

>

> ...in the hearts of more severely disabled CFIDS patients have really

> got me curious.

>

> Are we seeing more exposure, or an impaired mechanism for

> detoxification, or both?

>

> I'm tempted to focus on the latter. The body has very specific

> processes for getting rid of this crap, that are probably susceptible

> to disruption by primary or secondary effects of various pathogens.

>

> I'm having a better than average brain day, but am still not real

> great at the online research thing - if I was, I'd be looking for

> other findings of strikingly elevated trace elements, to see how

> common such findings are and whether they are suggestive of a pattern.

[Guest guest]

,

I agree with you. Glutathione is the specific substance the body

uses to remove mercury. If mercury is high in these hearts,

glutathione must be low.

Rich

>

> ...in the hearts of more severely disabled CFIDS patients have

really

> got me curious.

>

> Are we seeing more exposure, or an impaired mechanism for

> detoxification, or both?

>

> I'm tempted to focus on the latter. The body has very specific

> processes for getting rid of this crap, that are probably

susceptible

> to disruption by primary or secondary effects of various pathogens.

>

> I'm having a better than average brain day, but am still not real

> great at the online research thing - if I was, I'd be looking for

> other findings of strikingly elevated trace elements, to see how

> common such findings are and whether they are suggestive of a

pattern.