QUESTION: What do you recommend for toxin testing and treatment for a patient with extensive exposure in the military? Possible exposure to depleted uranium, heavy metals, oil well fires, water contaminated with gasoline and butane at Camp Lejune NC, and mustard gas. She has treated BRCA positive high grade DCIS and our goal is prevention of future cancers.
ANSWER: Sadly too common. Also sadly you gotta Tx all the usual suspects in sone *balanced* way and over time. Overlay is the PTSD which can flare during Tx but if you and their therapist are in communication that can be handled. ALmost all vets are extremely toxic, and with odd stuff.
I do UTM pre and post (not the most wonderful but shows what spills immediately). I also do whole blood Al, Hg, Pb, As and Cd as well as an RBC Element profile or at least Zn and Mg (if Ins paying).
Also on the positive side the mustard gas “detox” researched since like 1916 is an oral Thiol + Bismuth combo which you can replicate with Pepto or compounded Bismuth + either ALA or NAC. It also will help with the background infections these guys hold on to etc.
I see that the sensitive Hashimotos + also odd adrenal function is touchy but necessary to Tx and can be a moving target. In Men I do Pregnenolone 200 HS and in Women I do 100-200 mg Prometrium or OMP in Oil HS (both for neurosteroid support as well as NT and Steroid back up – regardless of levels in the acute phase of Tx. Also their GI tracts are F’d, and you’ve never seen autonomic dysfunction like this (it is otherworldly… and for good reason).
I don’t usually bother with chemical testing – they are all full of them — Thorne “Solvent Remover” is oddly useful and a good background Tx.