You may have read about the evils of heavy metal poisoning (aluminum, antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, lead, mercury, nickel, among others), which can cause, maintain and/or aggravate many symptoms and diseases, both because of the bad effects of these metals and because of the overload caused by the body's own attempts at detoxification. If you're not familiar with these evils, search for “orthomolecular and heavy metal poisoning” on Google and you'll have access to several texts explaining the subject.
Most people suffer from some degree of intoxication, but few patients are diagnosed and properly treated to help the body eliminate these metals. As they accumulate quickly in parts of the body, such as nervous and fatty tissue, but are eliminated with difficulty by conventional means, poisoning is not properly diagnosed by blood or urine tests. In chronic intoxication, which is more common, they may not appear in these tests, but remain firmly deposited in various structures of the body.
In other words, while unfortunately few health professionals recognize the importance of this intoxication, even fewer know how to order the correct tests to diagnose and treat it.
The problem becomes even greater when we see that, in daily clinical practice with patients, various treatments don't work properly until the patient is detoxified.
Because of this, up-to-date health professionals, especially those with knowledge of orthomolecular strategy and who aim for a more complete assessment of their patients, are increasingly requesting tests such as the capillary mineralogram. This is because blood and urine only show acute intoxication, metal transit and/or elimination - fleeting processes in which toxic metals are rarely found impregnated in the body, and are therefore not suitable for assessing and quantifying chronic intoxication.
But the problem is that the mineralogram has several limitations (see in https://icaro.med.br/seis-metodos-de-auxilio-diagnostico-em-saude-que-voce-deve-conhecer/), and the main ones are that the result takes 30 to 90 days to come out, requires a haircut (many people don't like it) and, when it comes to women, 30 days or more without coloring their hair (and using specific shampoos and conditioners), or the result may not be reliable.
I reiterate that heavy metal intoxication is common nowadays. I have seen many cases in my practice... In fact, most patients show some degree of considerable intoxication, and by more than one metal.
What's worse, being intoxicated by heavy metals not only has bad consequences due to the presence of the metals themselves (and their local and systemic toxicity), but also alters the digestion, absorption, metabolization and effects of nutrient minerals in the body, including the brain, glands and intestines.
Some people are unable to absorb and incorporate nutrient minerals because they are intoxicated by heavy metals, for example.
Read the content of this link and you'll understand the problem even better: https://drrondo.com/metais-toxicos-comuns-mal/
Face this problem head-on: are heavy metals the cause or aggravator of your symptoms and even illnesses?
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