Dr. Daniel Pompa
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And he looked at me and said, son, you're healthier than me.
And that was not a good day, I can assure you.
It led me hopeless for a while.
But here I am a year or so later, and I'm working with a very bright endocrinologist, and knowing my thyroid, my adrenals, and other hormone issues were part of a lot of the symptoms that I had, not the cause.
There was something upstream causing my hormone problems, which were causing the symptoms that I had.
I hope you heard that.
And he said, I think you have some mercury issues because of your up and down body temperatures.
And he had a couple other reasons.
And I said, you know, I thought so too.
And I did a test.
And he says, oh, blood test.
No, that would be if you had acute exposure to mercury, meaning making felt hats using mercury every day or getting some exposure often enough that it would be in the blood.
He said, it wouldn't be in your blood.
It's in and out of the blood in days.
So it's very transient.
It's in the tissue.
you'd have to do something to get it out of the tissue.
Why don't you try challenging it out with a water-soluble chelator like DMSA or DMPS is actually what I use.
That's a water-soluble chelator, not that important right now, but it pulls it out and it shows up in your urine.
By the way,