The functional medicine community swears by this test. I had a friend who had one of these done which allegedly showed off the chart mercury on his results. Naturally, his functional med doc wants to treat him with DMSA, which will allegedly “pull” out the metals? I’ve tried to read up on this and it’s above my mental comprehension. Please help so I can explain this to by buddy in a convincing manner!
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Because the people administering them have a vested interest in selling you “treatments” based on the results of these tests.
Any test looking for heavy metals in the human body WILL find them. The issues is whether the levels found pose a risk to life. These folks will tell you that ANY level of heavy metals is dangerous, but if you just buy THIS treatment (from them, naturally), all will be well.
It’s no different than the scammers pushing “alkaline water” for health.
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