datadragon
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From my understanding, Blood is a transport system only. It carries minerals/vitamins/metals and toxins to where they are needed, or take them to be excreted. A blood test shows what is present at that moment in the blood transport system and works well for vitamins. The blood is controlled (homeostatic) to attempt to remain in a tight range in order to protect the body with metals and minerals. The body will rob the cells, tissues, and bones for example of magnesium in order to remain as best it can in the 'healthy' range blood level. What this means is that the blood status of magnesium can appear completely healthy even when the cells are completely starved of magnesium. When the blood level of calcium drops low, calcium is also robbed from the bone to boost up the blood level. So then the blood level still appears fine even though deficiency may be happening in the bone. It seems less then 1% of a bodys magnesium is even in the blood, so using blood only as an indicator may lead to false belief things are normal. Should you ingest a bag of bannanas before a blood test, it would be likely your blood serum result would show higher potassium. However thats just that one moment in time when you had a lot of potassium there, while in reality the cellular levels of potassium may be dangerously low and need supplementation.
Metals are similar, the body attempts to remove excess from the blood by excretion or storing in cells and tissues if the bodys detox pathways are not working efficiently. So if you were to be exposed to a significant one time lead exposure, and went to get a blood test for lead within a week of the exposure, yes the blood test may show a higher level of lead and doctors would catch it.. But if the blood test was done 2 or more months after the exposure, the blood would show normal. So here is why once the immediate source of an exposure such as to copper or mercury is removed, the blood will return to normal even though toxic levels are now stored in the bodys tissues. This is one reason why the copper issue isnt more known, as levels are only higher in blood when its coming in or when its being mobilized back to be excreted. If copper has accumulated and is tightly stored in the tissues, and adrenal function is too weak to mobilize that stored copper, it's not going to show up in the blood!
HTMA shows 3 months of whats been circulating. A bit better for catching the acute exposures to see where its coming from. For metals, should your adrenals be too weak, it too will only show current exposures during that time such as iud, food and drink ingestion, but would not reflect tissue storage yet at first. I had mercury show up for example due to amalgams and seafood I ate, but nothing else. Once the adrenals are brought back up, the body will start to mobilize the stored metals and they will begin to show on the tests and thats when the other metals came out and started showing on the tests. https://drlwilson.com/Articles/MIN.IDEALS.htm is a new list of values for poor and very poor eliminators, meaning it may give some indication that there are 'hidden' metals rather then you have none. A copper below 1.5 when you have been eating it normally without excess zinc intake and weak adrenals are indicators for stored copper. You can look at other key indicators such as a high calcium, low potassium, a Ca/K ratio over 10, low molybdenum (<.003), low Na/K, and a number of other levels and ratios to understand what may be happening with copper due to its effect on other things.
As far as minerals, it was useful to know the trace minerals levels, and the others such as boron, chromium, selenium, lithium, cobalt, sulfur etc. The main minerals it is the ratios of mineral pairs that tell whats going on rather then the single nutrient values. No test is perfect. Looking at any one mineral level in isolation may not give the full picture. Take magnesium, for example. If the hair chart shows high magnesium, is it really high and should lessen supplementation? Not necessarily, as stress depletes magnesium and most people are magnesium deficient. So if you look at the ratio between sodium and potassium, known as the stress ratio, and you see a high Na/K ratio, then know that the individual is under a lot of stress, and that the higher magnesium level is representing an intracellular loss of magnesium which shows up higher in the hair from this loss but indicates magnesium deficiency or at least lower then what it appears to be. So in a couple instances like high stress, or weak adrenals, the level shown of a couple minerals may not reflect the full status if only looked at individually.
When stressors are ongoing, one action of the sympathetic nervous system is to shunt the blood away from the eliminative organs such as the liver and kidneys, and move it toward the muscles and brain to mount a fight-or-flight response. When this occurs chronically, as it does in a person with ongoing stressors, the person’s ability to eliminate all types of toxins diminishes significantly and metals build up in tissues.
Metals are similar, the body attempts to remove excess from the blood by excretion or storing in cells and tissues if the bodys detox pathways are not working efficiently. So if you were to be exposed to a significant one time lead exposure, and went to get a blood test for lead within a week of the exposure, yes the blood test may show a higher level of lead and doctors would catch it.. But if the blood test was done 2 or more months after the exposure, the blood would show normal. So here is why once the immediate source of an exposure such as to copper or mercury is removed, the blood will return to normal even though toxic levels are now stored in the bodys tissues. This is one reason why the copper issue isnt more known, as levels are only higher in blood when its coming in or when its being mobilized back to be excreted. If copper has accumulated and is tightly stored in the tissues, and adrenal function is too weak to mobilize that stored copper, it's not going to show up in the blood!
HTMA shows 3 months of whats been circulating. A bit better for catching the acute exposures to see where its coming from. For metals, should your adrenals be too weak, it too will only show current exposures during that time such as iud, food and drink ingestion, but would not reflect tissue storage yet at first. I had mercury show up for example due to amalgams and seafood I ate, but nothing else. Once the adrenals are brought back up, the body will start to mobilize the stored metals and they will begin to show on the tests and thats when the other metals came out and started showing on the tests. https://drlwilson.com/Articles/MIN.IDEALS.htm is a new list of values for poor and very poor eliminators, meaning it may give some indication that there are 'hidden' metals rather then you have none. A copper below 1.5 when you have been eating it normally without excess zinc intake and weak adrenals are indicators for stored copper. You can look at other key indicators such as a high calcium, low potassium, a Ca/K ratio over 10, low molybdenum (<.003), low Na/K, and a number of other levels and ratios to understand what may be happening with copper due to its effect on other things.
As far as minerals, it was useful to know the trace minerals levels, and the others such as boron, chromium, selenium, lithium, cobalt, sulfur etc. The main minerals it is the ratios of mineral pairs that tell whats going on rather then the single nutrient values. No test is perfect. Looking at any one mineral level in isolation may not give the full picture. Take magnesium, for example. If the hair chart shows high magnesium, is it really high and should lessen supplementation? Not necessarily, as stress depletes magnesium and most people are magnesium deficient. So if you look at the ratio between sodium and potassium, known as the stress ratio, and you see a high Na/K ratio, then know that the individual is under a lot of stress, and that the higher magnesium level is representing an intracellular loss of magnesium which shows up higher in the hair from this loss but indicates magnesium deficiency or at least lower then what it appears to be. So in a couple instances like high stress, or weak adrenals, the level shown of a couple minerals may not reflect the full status if only looked at individually.
When stressors are ongoing, one action of the sympathetic nervous system is to shunt the blood away from the eliminative organs such as the liver and kidneys, and move it toward the muscles and brain to mount a fight-or-flight response. When this occurs chronically, as it does in a person with ongoing stressors, the person’s ability to eliminate all types of toxins diminishes significantly and metals build up in tissues.
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