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Category Archives: Lead
Why I Don’t Plant Tomatoes Next to the House
First, let me say that I think lead poisoning is vastly under-diagnosed. Vastly. I believe this is true is because lead toxicity is commonly measured in blood lead tests which are highly unreliable at detecting a body full of … Continue reading
Posted in Green Living, Lead
Tagged air, alloy, Andy Cutler, blood, cigarettes, claires, clothes, dust, electrical, EPA, food, fumes, grecian formula, hair, hazards, lead, paint, pesticides, pipes, plumbing, poisoning, residue, soil, toxicity, toys, varnish, vinyl, walls, water, wine
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Lead Poisoning, From Where I Sit
We love to talk about nature vs. nurture, please don’t dismiss toxic environmental factors. This post has been a long time coming. It’s not the easiest of subjects, but who said progress is easy? My grand thesis statement for today’s post is this: lead … Continue reading
Posted in ADHD, Lead, Status
Tagged abuse, add, adhd, anger, beethoven, behavioral, bragging, cd, conduct disorder, lead poisoning, lead toxicity, lying, narcissism, odd, personality, prison, roman empire, symtom, trait, violence
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Blood Lead Tests for Children: Many False Negatives
Blood lead tests are recommended in my state for young children going into preschool, daycare, or kindergarten. For our community, the tests are often waved by the parent(s) and pediatrician unless there is a principal reason to suspect lead exposure. Despite my … Continue reading
Posted in ADHD, Hair Testing, Lead, Parenting
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No Time to Panic
For the next three days, I will be blogging about topics related to my cilantro accident. Today, I will write about what it was like when I realized I was poisoned. Tomorrow, I will write about what my post-cilantro-crash symptoms were. … Continue reading
Playing with Fire
Dangerous Ways to Move Heavy Metals around and Get Very Sick I am finding it hard to write about heavy metal toxicity and my personal health, and I just realized that in addition to my own personal difficulties, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Aluminum, Hair Testing, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Lead, Mercury
Tagged ala, alpha lipoic acid, aluminum, amalgams, Andy Cutler, brain fog, challenge test, chelation, chorella, cilantro, dmsa, dmso, edta, heavy metal poisoning, Hg, lead, mercury, Pb, silver fillings, western medicine
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Everything I Know, I Learned from the Autism Community
Sort of. Let me explain. First, I do not have Autism. My children do not have Autism either. We do not have Asperger Syndrome or other PDD (pervasive developmental delay) diagnoses. We do not have any diagnoses. In fact, we … Continue reading
Posted in Heavy Metal Toxicity, Lead, Mercury
Tagged add, adhd, Andy Cutler, asd, asperger syndrome, aspergers, autism, autism spectrum, chelation, cilantro, diagnosis, environmental, genetics, health, mercury poisoning, pdd, protocol, recovery, vaccine injury
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How Do You Tell Your Story?
Everyone has a story. Mine is a little bit different than most. Or is it? It began in 2002. Sort of. In reality, it began decades earlier. Maybe it began before I was born. I don’t know. At the age … Continue reading
Posted in Aluminum, Heavy Metal Toxicity, I Have Questions, Lead, Mercury, Privacy, Understanding
Tagged aluminum, Andy Cutler, health, heavy metal toxicity, Hg, lead, mercury, oral chelation, Pb, protocol, recovery, reinvention, toxic metals
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