Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities [Paperback]

Andrew Hall Cutler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2004

Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities is a practical book. The book starts out telling you how to interpret a hair test for mercury and other heavy metals. It provides a step by step discussion of this with figures to make this easy to do. It gives examples using actual hair test results from real people. Mercury interferes with how the hair element results come out ? mercury is often low and other minerals take unusual values. It is crucial for proper hair test interpretation to know how to recognize mercury’s characteristic signature. Mercury often causes retention of certain minerals. Arsenic, antimony, tin, titanium, zirconium and aluminum are elements many people retain too much of when they really have a mercury problem. Hair tests are worth doing because a surprising number of people diagnosed with incurable chronic health conditions actually turn out to have a heavy metal problem. Heavy metal problems are easy to correct. Hair testing allows the underlying problem to be identified and the chronic health condition often disappears with proper detoxification.

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This book shows how a hair test can be used to identify hidden toxicities that are causing intractable health problems. Dozens of examples are given of people who had been told they had something horrible but who turned out to be toxic. Many of these people got better through detoxification. Their cases are presented to highlight the basic principles of hair test interpretation explained in this book. Want to know why low hair mercury is not a good sign? Interested in whether high hair calcium means you should consume MORE calcium? Wondering how in the world zirconium gets in your hair? Wondering whether you should be concerned about your copper levels if you have gall bladder problems? Need to know how to detoxify uranium? This book will answer all your questions!

Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities

• Find out if you have a heavy metal problem • Know the sources of exposure to heavy metals • Learn what to do to detoxify each element • Understand the secrets of interpreting a hair test Find the information you need to take control of your health in this book!

About the Author

Andrew Cutler is a chemistry and engineering consultant in the Los Angeles area. He has a PhD in chemistry from Princeton, a BS in physics from the University of California, is a patent agent and a registered professional chemical engineer. His research has led to a number of publications in chemistry, chemical engineering and space related journals. He also has engaged in extensive self study in biochemistry and medicine due to assorted health problems coalescing into a devastating "mystery syndrome" his doctors were not able to cure - or even diagnose - for quite some time. After being able to work with his doctor to get better he decided to expand his professional activities to include writing about health topics.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 298 pages
• Publisher: Andrew Hall Cutler (December 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967616816
• ISBN-13: 978-0967616810
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The work of a prodigy; a must read for those with chronic ailments, June 10, 2006

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lector avidus (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities (Paperback)

I read this book in an effort to hear all sides in the controversy about mercury toxicity, and came to be strongly convinced that this is the best book on the subject.

Andrew Cutler's first book, Amalgam Illness, is about how to treat mercury intoxications. Most doctors do not acknowledge the existence of dental amalgam caused mercury intoxications, but if you familiarize yourself with the works of other dentists on mercury intoxications, and the medical literature, there is a compelling case that these fillings have catastrophic effects in some people, while most tolerate them just fine. Mercury intoxications are bizarre in that they have many, far more than 20, completely different sets of symptoms. In his first book, Cutler suggests that you diagnose a mercury intoxication with a check list of symptoms. This may work, but may not feel right, as you are diagnosing an "unacknowledged" illness with highly diffuse symptoms by means of seemingly unrelated symptoms which can be explained by many different illnesses. Hair Test Interpretation is the answer to this worry, and an introduction to diagnosing other metal intoxications. As Cutler became more experienced in treating such intoxications, he found a much simpler and more easily understandable way to diagnose them.

Doctor's Data, the largest provider of hair tests in the US, reports that in most people you can come to an extremely accurate idea of how much amalgam they have in their mouth by consulting their hair mercury content. Several doctors have told me that they have seen people have extremely low hair mercury levels in their hair, levels vastly lower than expected in light of their amalgam exposure, whose hair mercury content skyrocketed into the 98th and higher percentiles after they were treated for mercury toxicity, that is after mercury was removed. Their explanation was that toxic concentrations of mercury can somehow impair the body's ability to excrete mercury through the hair. Cutler reports the same phenomenon, and has compiled a list of 5 sets of anomalies that he saw when hair mercury excretion was "jammed." If you believe Cutler, as I do, this book provides you with a 2 minute test that allows you to determine whether chronic, irreversible, illnesses which most doctors insist will be life-long ailments are actually misdiagnosed mercury intoxications.

Nor is Dr. Cutler the only scientist to hold these beliefs. I have obtained extracts of a 1400 page long post-doctoral thesis written, but curiously not published, at Georgetown University in 1959-1960 that confirms the vast majority of the claims advanced in this book, that dentists and their flawed treatments have caused a veritable epidemic of suffering and ruined lives. The author continued his post-doctoral studies at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and has been so haunted by what he believes to be millions of tragic and unnecessary cases of invalidity and death that he has given a sizable portion of his income to informing people about his research. Other renowned researchers report findings that coincide with Dr. Cutler's claims, but which cannot be reconciled with what I have come to view as macabre fairy tales advanced by the American Dental Association.

Perhaps more importantly, this book includes many case stories of people who overcame harrowing woes with Cutler's therapy, with "before" and "after" hair tests. Today, when many doctors sneer when you talk of amalgam illness, these case stories are invaluable, as they provide you indisputable evidence that Cutler is right, and the scripture of the gods in white coats is, in regards to mercury intoxication, as useless as compendia of voodoo chants. In this context it should also be mentioned that since amalgam intoxications are a taboo in what is called "medicine" in many developed countries, many of the treatments advocated by physicians willing to do treat "fringe" ailments have not been developed with anything near the rigor with which medical treatments, and in particular medical treatments for serious disorders, are developed and tested. I know of physicians who are convinced that they have seriously injured their patients with ill-conceived treatments for mercury intoxications, and who are aghast at the treatments some of their peers offer for these intoxications. The treatment Cutler advocates is the most cautious and conservative treatment one of which I know.

A small quibble: This book would have been even better had Cutler included references to the scientific literature pertaining to how hair absorb metals. All the same, this is the work of a genius. It has taken me more than a year, and much ancillary research, to conclude that Dr. Cutler is correct in at least many of his assertions. Allow me to conclude this review by noting that the Nobel Prize has been awarded for lesser accomplishments.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The author really is a genius!, April 25, 2006

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Christopher Carlton "Chris" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities (Paperback)

To tell you the truth, I have had little use for so-called "alternative medicine" solutions and providers. That is, until I came across Dr Cutler's soon to be famous Hair Test Interpretation textbook. This easy to read, highly scientific book is the finest example of what truly intelligent and gifted people can do when left alone to conduct real scientific research, on real problems, and develop proven techniques to cope with problems the medical community evidently would prefer people to just keep paying them for, and receiving no relief.

Using Dr Cutler's book, I correctly identified myself as having a lead toxicity problem. After several cycles of chelation, my health improved dramatically. I went from being a lethargic, disinterested, television addict, to being a revitalized full functioning human being again. Now, at age 51, I was able to complete and certify in American Red Cross lifeguard training (I was a competitive swimmer in my younger years), something I have NOT been able to do since my 30s....and the so-called medical doctors could not figure out what my problem was.

When I first bought "Hair Test Interpretations" and shared my hair test results with my primary care physician, he told me to ignore the results, they weren't conclusive. But Dr Cutler's protocols said they were significant. I listened to Dr Cutler, and I'm damn glad I did!!! He cured me, and I'm confident he can cure you too.

BUY THIS BOOK!! Buy it today. You won't be disappointed.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Like Having a Navajo Code Talker Help You Break the "Secret Code", April 25, 2006

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cmw (South Coast, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities (Paperback)

Like many other clinicians, I always felt that hair analysis, performed and interpreted correctly, would be an invaluable asset to understand the toxicity and deranged mineral transport that people with "mental illness", mental retardation, Autism, and chronic physical illnesses were bound to have.

However, I found it impossible to teach myself the "art and science" of understanding,interpreting, and actually using hair analysis as a cornerstone of a treatment plan. I am SO appreciative to finally have this book by Andy Cutler to help me begin to comprehend the complex inter-relationship of variables involved in hair test interpretation.

As with Dr. Cutler's previous work (Amalgam Illness:Diagnosis and Treatment), this is not just a book you sit down and "read." You must study it, and spend time with it to do it,and yourself, justice. I'm blown away by the work, research, analysis and synthesis involved in this book. Great for parents of sick children, and adults who have not been helped by the "usual" tests and approaches.

Also, great for those doctors/practitioners who felt hair analysis was "worthless" or unreliable. Maybe it's because the interpretation of the results is not linear. Maybe once someone helps you understand the logic and see the patterns, the wisdom finally starts to emerge. It's like a gigantic piece of scientific insight brought into focus and interpreted for all of us: health care providers, parents of sick kids, and adults with chronic illnesses. Unlike anything else available. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING for anyone involved with helping anyone to recover their lost health, stolen by toxins.

Carol M. Wester MSN, APRN, BC
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Board Certified
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Mattapoisett, MA