Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities is a practical book. The book starts out telling you how to interpret a hair test for mercury and other heavy metals. It provides a step by step discussion of this with figures to make this easy to do. It gives examples using actual hair test results from real people.

Table of Contents

Why hair tests can be confusing
Mercury causes deranged mineral transport
The counting rules - how to pick up mercury problems
Medical textbooks say many terrible conditions can be from heavy metals and hair tests show it
What they say about Parkinson's disease
What they say about childhood developmental disorders
What they say about ALS (Lou Gherigs disease)
What they say about schizophrenia
What they say about cancer
These chapters contain case histories and hair tests from people diagnosed with the condition in question who are actually toxic, and the outcomes of conventional or alternative treatments where available.
Heavy metal poisoning is often missed despite textbook coverage
Mercury poisoning signs and symptoms
Why worry about heavy metals?
Sources of exposure to toxic metals
Other toxic elements ? signs and symptoms: Aluminium (Al), Antimony (Sb), Arsenic (As), Beryllium (Be), Bismuth (Bi), Cadmium (Cd), Gadolinium (Gd), Gold (Au), Lead (Pb), Nickel (Ni), Palladium (Pd), Platinum (Pt), Silver (Ag), Thallium (Tl), Thorium (Th), Tin (Sn), Titanium (Ti), Tungsten (W), Uranium (U)
Meaning of essential and other element results: Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Relationships between Calcium and Magnesium , Sodium (Na), Potassium (K), Relationships between Sodium, Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium, Barium (B), Boron (B), Chromium (Cr), Cobalt (Co), Copper (Cu), Germanium (Ge), Iodine (I), Iron (Fe), Lithium (Li), Manganese (Mn), Molybdenum (Mo), Phosphorus (P), Rubidium (Rb), Selenium (Se), Silicon (Si), Strontium (Sr), Sulfur (S), Vanadium (V), Zinc (Zn), Zirconium (Zr).
Case summaries and example hair tests
You need to be sure to get the right test!
Metabolic defects - manganese
Metabolic defects - copper
Sometimes mercury is high and
mineral transport is normal
Mercury runs in the family
Hair tests do not improve without chelation
Hair tests do improve with chelation
Hair testing and shampoo
Ambiguous hair tests can be confirmed
by other means
Toxic people can have normal hair tests
Mercury and uranium in an MS like case
Mercury and silver do a job on vision
Many autistic children are toxic
Siblings sometimes have different toxins
Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia
are usually mercury
What to do about heavy metals (chelation etc.)

A few of the more common problems that can be due to toxicity:

Autism and PDD
ADHD
Learning disabilities
Allergies
Neurological disease
Autoimmune disease
Heart problems
PMS & female problems
Chronic fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Depression
Mental illness

Hair Test Interpretation: Finding the Hidden Toxicities