Re: , a question about sulphur...

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Hi Patty

Just a question - we are getting Nick's hair analysis done in a month

or so with DDI. What does " 75% in mercury mean? " That his mercury

level is 75% of the normal range, or 75% OVER the normal range or

what? Just curious.

[Guest guest]

> A good friend of mine just got back her heavy metals hair analysis

> from DDI and he was high in sulphur. Any idea what that means? He

was

> sky high in antimony as well and about 75% in mercury.

> Just wondering as I thought most kids were sulphur deficient.

> Thanks Patti

Thanks for thinking of me, Patti. I will need to defer to Moria,

Valentina, and others on this as I haven't a clue!!! One thing that

seems odd is that I didn't think hair analysis were supposed to

accurately tell the amoung of mercury, but could be wrong. The same

with sulfur. Owens, sulfur expert, says that sulfur in hair

does not reflect the sulfur issues in the body. Hair tissue is a

means of excreting compounds from the body AND there could be a

number of reasons a body is high in sulfur. If I find that post I

will send it to you.

.

[Guest guest]

> > A good friend of mine just got back her heavy metals hair analysis

> > from DDI and he was high in sulphur. Any idea what that means? He

> was

> > sky high in antimony as well and about 75% in mercury.

> > Just wondering as I thought most kids were sulphur deficient.

> > Thanks Patti

>

> Thanks for thinking of me, Patti. I will need to defer to Moria,

> Valentina, and others on this as I haven't a clue!!! One thing that

> seems odd is that I didn't think hair analysis were supposed to

> accurately tell the amoung of mercury, but could be wrong.

Well, this sounds weird at first but bear with me: a HIGH

hair mercury IS meaningful: it means the person is mercury

toxic. (end of discussion, end of testing.) Meanwhile

a " normal " reading for mercury proves nothing! This may

seem " biased " -- like using one result and ignoring another

so let's look at why this is so:

After exposure to mercury you'll have a lot of it " floating

around " in you bloodstream for a while --- your body will

eliminate it (excrete it) and/or store it (especially in

tissues that " like it " like liver and brain and some others).

During this period of time, your hair will LIKELY have

lots of mercury, as I understand it.

Then, after whatever % of it is excreted and the rest is

stored away (doing lots of damage), there isn't any floating

about in your bloodstream OR getting into your hair. Or,

relatively little. Generally. You could at this point

have LOTS of mercury in your brain, and you could be

VERY sensitive to it. But your hair test will say that

the amount in your hair is low.

It is not that the test is not accurate, it is that the

mercury is not IN YOUR HAIR. It is " hidden " . In many

cases.

I hope I'm making sense. The bottom line here is that

with hair mercury HIGH means HIGH and NORMAL (or low)

means NOTHING.

As an aside, in the case where it is " high " in hair, it

is still not an accurate quantitative reflection of the

AMOUNT in, say, your brain==== we know it IS high, but

it may be a whole lot higher than it says.

Hair tests are generally said to reflect recent or current

exposure. I think in some cases someone might have enough

mercury " moving around " to get a " high " from past exposure.

(I know someone who got a " high " reading on mercury.)

The important point is that HIGH means you are poisoned and

NORMAL means that it is unknown whether you are poisoned or

not.

best,

Moria

p.s. the 75% I think is a comparison to statistical averages

for the test--- but I'm not positive. On a DDI test there

are also colors-- green=normal or expected result; yellow =

somewhat high or low and red = extremely high or low.

[Guest guest]

> > A good friend of mine just got back her heavy metals hair analysis

> > from DDI and he was high in sulphur. Any idea what that means?

> > He was sky high in antimony as well and about 75% in mercury.

> > Just wondering as I thought most kids were sulphur deficient.

> > Thanks Patti

Hi

I feel like saying something about this...

As Moria said, that person is probably mercury toxic (I imagine 75%-high

means the yellow part of the representation, which means higher than it

should be, so toxic). It is known that mercury impairs the sulfur

chemistry. It really messes things up in a body. That person for sure

has a sulfur oxidation problem (if he's mercury toxic) but I wouldn't

assume the sulfur is necessarily high in the body. It could very well be

low and only excreted in the hair. The sulfur is not even relevant

anyway. The cysteine is, the sulfate levels in the blood are, the ratio

between these, the way the body takes care of that sulfur!

Most of the time, mercury toxic people excrete sulfate in the urine.

That doesn't mean they have too much Actually it's exactly the

opposite.

I am sorry if all these explanations leave you with nothing. It's just

that things are never simple Too bad for a lot of kids

Valentina