Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/detoxification-set-tp1537243p1537248.html

> What would you do to know about heavy metals?

One thing you could do is look at your symptoms, and
see if you have a lot of symptoms which correspond
with certain heavy metals:

http://www.extremehealthusa.com/symptoms.html
http://www.energywave.com/environmental-issues/toxins/metal-toxicity.htm
http://www.worldwidehealthcenter.net/articles-292.html
http://www.herbalremedies.com/edtachelation.html

Also, one *could* do tests to see if they have
a heavy metals, but one should know that such
tests are not conclusive. I *did* have tests
done years ago on my hair, urine, and blood --
they *all* showed high in mercury (which is
rather odd actually, it's usually not high
in the blood), plus I had alternative health
practitioners do muscle testing with homeopathic
vials for toxins, and again mercury was identified
as a problem.

But again, just looking at my symptoms would have
told me that.

One thing that testing for heavy metals in your
urine is helpful for is to see if the chelator
you are using is working. You can test the
levels in your urine before you use the chelator,
then test to see if the values are higher soon
after you are taking the chelator, and then
months later, you can check to see if the values
have reduced significantly. However, reduced
values does not necessarily mean that there
are no more heavy metals left. All it means
is that chelator is no longer as effective.
Switching to a different chelator might
again give you high levels of excretion.

Doing such test above, you would probably
notice what the symptoms are when you are
excreting heavy metals, and then you would
no longer need to do tests, because you
can tell when the chelator is working.
This is essentially what I do -- by my
symptoms I can tell when the toxins are
being mobilized into my bloodstream, or
are coming out of my urine.

Marc