Simple. Really.
How best to explain might not be, but here is how it went for me.
My Doctor saved my life, in part from being able to interpret the data from two Hair Analysis Tests and a fair amount of other data. I can’t tell you how important the ‘other data’ were, but the Hair Analysis Test results were definitely important.
A Hair Analysis Test shows relative amounts of elements in your body. It will show that your body is excreting a significant amount of a particular toxic element, such as lead, for example. Or it could show that you are not excreting a lot of lead through your hair.
In my case, the Hair Test Results, which were analyzed by ‘Doctor’s Data’, showed that I was not excreting much mercury through my hair.
Most folks might say, well then, that ruled out mercury poisoning.
Well, not so fast. Another equally viable interpretation is that my body was so poisoned, that it had lost the ability to excrete mercury through this particular avenue.
What to do?
That is where we come to the “Challenge Test” or “Mercury Challenge Test”.
So, if you and your Doctor want to look into the possibility of mercury poisoning further, you can use the DMPS Mercury Challenge Test. I’ll talk about DMPS more extensively in a later post. Suffice it to say that DMPS “teases” or “Coaxes” mercury out of your body.
There is a pre-provocative aspect of this test, whereby you will provide a urine sample before you take any DMPS intravenously. Then you will take the DMPS via I.V. and for the next 24 hours collect all your urine.
Both of these urine samples are sent out to a highly qualified lab for analysis. The results are analyzed and you hear back from them a week or so later.
In my case, the pre-provocative test showed that I was not eliminating much (if any) mercury through my kidneys (my urine). So, this test result was similar to my Hair Analysis test results. Not much mercury.
However, when you see my post-provocative DMPS mercury challenge test results, it was amazing. The bar went all the way from the left of the paper to the right side of the paper.
I had lots of mercury in my body. Undeniable evidence of lots of mercury in my body. Even a little bit is not good for a chronically ill person. Since I was nearly dead when I did the test, it was obvious that I needed to get the mercury out. At the very least, it wouldn’t hurt to get some mercury out and at best, I could get better.
Because my body had lost the ability to remove mercury, I needed a way to get it out.
How did I go about getting it out? Primarily DMPS initially, then DMSA and the DMSA and ALA.
My next post dealing with DMPS, EDTA & DMSA.
I am happy to report that I have been getting better and it correlates very strongly with the removal of mercury from my body.
By the way, the challenge test didn’t do a thing to me in terms of how I felt. There are people that react to DMPS, but I definitely wasn’t one of them.