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> heavy metal poisoning Actually I'm tempted to dismiss your account as complete quackery. Heavy metal poisoning is a common bugbear of quacks. What metal, and

• CodeWriter23 9y ago
  Mercury and aluminum. Source unknown. His hair samples revealed no Mercury whatsoever which means his body was doing nothing to metabolize and excrete it. A normal person will show some level of Mercury in their hair as we all have some exposure from environmental sources. This is thought by his doctor to be due to his poor ability to produce glutathione, which comes as a result of a genetic mutation, which was confirmed via genome sequencing. I don't care about the source of either, just that the tests ordered by the MD revealed their presence and employed chelation to remove them to normal levels.
  • taneq 9y ago
    Doesn't it raise an eyebrow that this one kid had such a litany of rare diagnoses? Maybe one or two of those things, but all of them? I can't help wondering if the true diagnosis here should have been Munchausen syndrome by proxy (on the part of the parents) plus opportunism (on the part of the doctor).
    • CodeWriter23 9y ago
      As I mentioned above, our family has come to know hundreds of other families that have children experiencing some, all, or more of similar symptoms, and have achieved recovery using similar protocols.