Celia/heavy metals, etc. and autonomic dysfunction

[Lucy]

Hi Celia,

I thought since you're our resident expert on heavy metal toxicity, I'd ask if you've ever come across anything about these types of toxicities resulting in autonomic dysfunction or relevant diseases?

Thanks, I'd love to get your thoughts on this, and possible even a suggestion as to how to go about getting my mom tested if toxicity might be detected this way.

Right now, her diagnosis is Shy-Draggers (Multiple Systems Atrophy) which is what Johnny Cash had. She also is gluten sensitive without recent GI problems, apparently, and has two HLA DQ 2 genes, by the way.

Thanks again!
Yours, Luce

[celia]

Luce,

Heavy metals are ubiquitous --- they are everywhere and once within our body cause damage to different systems depending upon the persuasion of the metal and our individual weaknesses. Cadminum might cause/contribute to osteoporosis in one person and prostate cancer in another for example.

Some of the common symtpoms that cadmium causes according to Dr. Sherry Rogers:
hypertension
angina
high cholesterol
benign prostatic hypertrophy or prostatitis
cancer
osteporosis
bizarre neurologic syndromes
hormone deficiencies, glandular failutes like hypothyroidism
depression
puzzling pain syndromes
migraines
ringing in the ears
arthritis
symptoms that baffle specialists and super-specialists

Exposure to low levels of Mercury in dentists have been significantly associated with brain damage. Dentists with low but significant levels of mercury in the urine had mood disturbances, memory deficits, fatigue, confusion, anexiety and delay in simple reaction time.

Mercury is known to denervate nerve fibers, similar to the pathology of multiple sclerosis. It can inhibit the action of happpy hormones, like serotonin, at the synapse leading to depression. It can cause hearling loss or decrease norepinepherine and dopamine activity at synapes, damaging our molecules of emotion. This can make a person lack zip, enthusiasm, joy, and creativity and make him anxious, insomniac, and terribly tense.

Mercury can create peripheral neuropathy, auto-immunity, interferre with synapse transmission, decrease infection control. Mercury toxicity can create any baffling neurologic disease as well as impair cure for any disease of other body systems.

It might take 20 years to stockpile enough metals for disease to begin, but then it can strike.

None of that specifically says autonomic dysfunction, but I've read on line that heavy metals can cause perphieral and autonomic neurapathy -- just can't tell you where.

All of the above is from Detoxify or Die by Sherry A. Rogers, MD

I had my test done by Doctor's Data in Chicago. You can look them up on line. But it requires a doctor's prescription. The first test I had done through a GP actually and the second through my naturopathy under the auspcies of the MD at her health center.

For most metals, the urine provocation test is the most precises. An RBC (red blood cell) analysis will show recent exposure (3-4 months). The urine will show what's stockpiled in your body. I also had a hair analysis done, but I found it to be the least revealing (from Great Smokies Diagnostic Lab).

Some alternative doctors beleive that heavy metals are a primary factor in ALL autoimmune conditions.

It all depends on finding a doctor to order the test. Good luck with this. It would be wonderful to bring your mother some releif! Celia