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Health: Heavy Metals in Body, Blood Lead (Pb), Mercury, Arsenic
Do you have excess heavy metals in your body?
How would/could you know? Conventional medicine will NOT test you without some cause; in my experience it’s like pulling teeth.
Most insurance will not cover heavy metals testing without cause. You have to be seriously damaged aka “clinical symptoms”before a doctor will order the test—if you don’t believe me then ask for it as I speak from experience. After all, doctors learned in medical school that it is rare. So it stays rare.
In unrelated news, US Physicians Received Billions From Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry.
IMO, it is medical malpractice to not check for heavy metals; instead you get cholesterol testing for young people and similar idiocies.
Heavy metal testing given our slow-poison food supply (and outright poisoning) ought to be the #1 test for routine physicals at least every three years or so. But why? There is no money to be made—follow the money. The logical fallacy for idiots is that it is not a problem, along with its corollary of looking for something only where the lighting is good.
I use OwnYourLabs.com for relatively cheap testing (out of pocket, insurance won’t pay), which sends it over to LabCorp, one of the top two labs nationwide.
Poisoned somehow...
Somehow, I was moderately lead-poisoned* in late 2022 or earlier, so I’ve been tracking lead (Pb), arsenic (As), and Mercury (Hg, the non-celestial kind).
* Clinical poisoning cutoff for treatment is 40 mcg/dL or so, thus 14 is well below that, but it damages every system in the body including the glycocalex layer of arteries.
Things have gone steady state now, at levels that are not particularly concerning, but maybe a little higher than ought to be.
For lead (Pb), the nominal (mean) blood lead level should be 0.9 mcg/dL and I am still around 2.2 — about 2.4X higher than the mean (average). Since I eat exceptionally 'clean' and do not have lead pipes and have water mostly from Yosemite, this leads me to believe that I am still ingesting too much lead somewhere—maybe the black tea I am drinking, sourced from China.
There is also the arsenic and mercury thing—should be lower. Everything is contaminated and the FDA is not on our side—it makes sure there is no easy way to know just how contaminated things are, along with its usual jobs of fostering misinformation for the benefit of Big Food and Big Pharma.
To test properly, I’d need to cut out the tea and retest in ~4 months. I don’t want to, but maybe I will come warmer weather. BTW, claims of a half life of 4-6 weeks for blood lead levels IMO are baloney—it is more likely 3 months based on my own tests.
