Newport- no freakin wonder this MS friend has been a sick kid. He's got major toxicities going on, and mineral interferences. (hair anaylsis results).

My husband gave away the Minerals book- I don't remember you saying much about cadmium, but what chelates it?
From the test:

"A heavy metal may be elevated and yet no known environmental exposure can be ascertained at this time. This is not unusual, as exposure may have originated years earlier. Additionally, research has found that heavy metals can be inherited by the fetus during pregnancy. Heavy metals can be found in the body for years following hte original exposure and will remain in body tissues until removal is initiated. For example, the half-life of cadmium in some tissues will range from ten to thirty years"

"Cadmium is a toxic metal that interferes with the absorption of function of several minerals such as zinc, iron, copper and manganese. Cadmium has an affinity to accumulate mainly in the kidneys, but will also deposit in the liver and bones if excessive".

With that in mind..

I know what supplements he's been taking, because I get them for him, and he goes by the doses found with dowsing. None of the supplements have had iron nor manganese in them.
Thank goodness you helped me understand the "biounavailable", not being able to be utilized by the body, interfering with the "bioavailable", what the body can take up..because--

His iron and manganese is off the charts for being excessively high..and yet, what that tells me is they are not being absorbed/utilized.

As I got with dowsing, aluminum has been high for him, and definetly showed as much on the hair test.

It was after coming through one of my stretches of cancer/tellerium bouts, that I was finally able to dowse to see what was going on with him, and I was appalled to find how high his aluminum stuff was for him. Because of the remoteness of where they live, it took some persistence to get the message to him that I needed to get the Alumina homeopathic, and Mag malate to him. Thank goodness he had boron at that time already.

From the hair test:

Elevation of tissue iron within the body is not unusual. Excess iron is stored in the liver, but if accumulation becomes too great, storage will then begin in other tissues of the body such as the kidneys, pancreas, joints and eventually the brain.

Conditions associated with high iron:
headaches
pancreatic disturbance
allergies
high blood pressure
arthritis
blood Sugar disturbance
hives
cardiac irregularities
liver dysfunction

Environmental factors contributing to high iron levels:
Excess iron accumulation within the body is most often due to excess intake, or occupational exposure.

Sources of iron:
high iron foods
high iron soils
auto shops
welding environment
iron cooking utensils
iron water pipes
iron nutritional supplements

Factors that may contribute to iron accumulation:
The following metabolic factors may contribute to iron accumulation, even in the absence of excessive iron exposure or intake:

copper deficiency
excessive alcohol intake
cirrhosis
vitamin B6 deficiency
infections (chronic)
excessive vitamin C intake

Magnanese:
"When manganese if found high in the hair tissue, it is frequently elevated along with iron or aluminum"

"High tissue manganese levels have been found in individuals suffering from demetia and nurological disturbances resembling those found in Alzheimer patients".

"If manganese accumulation reaches extremely high levels, and becomes chronic, it may eventually give rise to:
headaches
tremors
dizziness
hyperactivity

An unusually high level of manganese may be from continued exposure, ingestion, or inhalation from an environmental or external contaminating source, such as:
electronics industry
steel industry
medications
gasoline additives
fertilizers
glass manufacturing

Other things he had in the high range:
Lithium extremely high, off the chart.

"This mineral accumulates primarily in the pituitary and thyroid glands, and where if excessive will interfere with Iodine uptake by the thyroid gland, possibly blocking thyroxine release or thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). Therefore, long-term lithium excess can contribute to decreased thyroid activity, fatigue and weight gain."

Other things in the high range:

chromium, cobalt, barium, vanadium,

Strontium (known to be high when bomb testing was going on)
"In excess, strontium is appartently antagonistic to calcium metabolism, and can therefore interfere with normal calcium function."

Which brings us to the Calcium and Magnesium that were high. From my own hair anaylsis test, and from what this one also is saying too- it's a problem with the thyroid, which I had already picked up on quite a while back.

The other mineral ratio indicators, show decreased adrenal function, and blood Sugar problems.