it occurs to me that not chewing could give the body a real break -for those of us with amalgams- since in chewing a lot of mercury gets 'mobilized'.
The herbs you took, and the cadmium in the hair sounds like a good thing.
cadmium = better out than in.
I think it's one of the major heavy metals my partner is holding. (thanks to the paint industry)
slightly off-topic: did you know there's a lot of it in our air, from the road dust of tires? One more reason -sigh- to live in a secluded country place.