Hair Test Interpretation:

Finding Hidden Toxicities

By Andrew Hall Cutler, Ph. D., P. E.
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. I provide 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.
Mercury interferes with how the hair element
results come out mercury is often low and other
minerals take unusual values. It is crucial for
proper hair test interpretation to know how to
recognize mercurys characteristic signature.

Mercury often causes retention of certain

minerals. Arsenic, antimony, tin, titanium,
zirconium and aluminum are elements many
people retain too much of when they really have a
mercury problem.
Hair tests are worth doing because a
surprising number of people diagnosed with
incurable chronic health conditions actually turn
out to have a heavy metal problem. Heavy metal
problems are easy to correct. Hair testing allows
the underlying problem to be identified and the
chronic health condition often disappears with
proper detoxification.

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 Parkinsons disease
These chapters contain case histories and
What they say about childhood developmental disorders hair tests from people diagnosed with the
What they say about ALS (Lou Gherigs disease)
condition in question who are actually toxic,
What they say about schizophrenia
and the outcomes of conventional or
What they say about cancer
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: Aluminum (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
Ambiguous hair tests can be confirmed
You need to be sure to get the right test!
by other means
Metabolic defects - manganese
Toxic people can have normal hair tests
Metabolic defects - copper
Mercury and uranium in an MS like case
Sometimes mercury is high and
Mercury and silver do a job on vision
mineral transport is normal
Many autistic children are toxic
Mercury runs in the family
Siblings sometimes have different toxins
Hair tests do not improve without chelation
Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia
Hair tests do improve with chelation
are usually mercury
Hair testing and shampoo
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

Essential element levels contain much useful

information about hormones as well as nutritional
problems. High hair levels do not always mean
high body levels interpretation is specific to
each element. Some of the essential elements can
be toxic if they show high hair level, others
actually show high hair levels when the body is
deficient and needs more of them. Excessive
stress, poor digestion, adrenal issues and thyroid
problems all show up in hair tests long before
they can be identified by other laboratory
methods.
There are over fifty example hair tests with
background information and interpretation. All

Chronic fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Depression
Mental illness

of these tests are actual results from real people,

with complete details of their health situation,
what they are doing about it, and in many cases
how they responded to different treatments.
Several families are presented with hair tests and
health histories for all members, one including
identical twins. Several of the cases have before
and after hair tests showing the effects of
different treatment regimens on test results.
Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden
Toxicities contains a discussion of what to do
based on the test results, e. g. how to chelate
heavy metals.

Useful information excerpted from Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities:
Potassium and sodium up with calcium and
magnesium down means too much adrenaline but
not enough cortisol. Potassium and sodium
down with calcium and magnesium up means not
enough cortisol, adrenaline and thyroid hormone.
The usual blood tests wont identify problems in
time to avoid prolonged misery.
Children accumulate antimony much more
readily than adults. Children with antimony
problems dont like to be touched or looked at.
Antimony is the flame retardant in childrens
pajamas, mattresses, and much carpeting and
upholstery. Antimony causes heart problems.
Hair is a good measure of antimony.
Lead is associated with reduced intelligence,
behavior problems, learning disabilities, ADHD,
lazy eye (amblyopia) and developmental delays in
children. Adults may experience cognitive decline,
gout, high blood pressure, vision problems,
miscarriages, depression, irritability and sleep
disturbances. Lead reduces long term memory,
mercury reduces short term memory.

Bismuth may cause neurological and hormone

problems. It is in many make-up preparations,
stomach remedies and diaper rash balms.
Silver toxicity causes emotional lability and
theatrical behavior.. Intellectual impairment
and digestive disturbances are also possible.
Vision problems and sensitivity to small glasses
prescription changes occur with silver and
arsenic, while mercury only causes vision
problems
High hair zinc usually indicates low body
levels. Vegetarian diets and modern foods are
low in zinc. High carbohydrate intake reduces
zinc levels. Zinc deficiency causes intellectual
impairment, growth failure and immune
deficiency. 10% of todays children are believed
to be zinc deficient.
Calcium levels in hair often move oppositely to
body inventory. High hair calcium suggests
calcium loss such as occurs in osteoporosis.
People with high hair calcium often need to take
more calcium.

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