by Lawrence Wilson, MD

POOR ELIMINATOR PATTERN, OR HIDDEN TOXIC METALS PATTERN ON A HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS

Many initial hair mineral analyses demonstrate a pattern that I am calling a poor eliminator pattern or hidden toxic metals pattern. An older name for it was Double 0 pattern. It indicates that a person is having difficulty removing toxic metals from the body.

DEFINITION OF THE POOR ELIMINATOR OR HIDDEN TOXIC METAL PATTERN

Poor eliminator pattern consists of extremely low levels of the toxic metals and at times, some of the nutrient minerals. These very low levels do not indicate that a person does not have the mineral. Instead, it has been found empirically that the meaning is that the mineral is sequestered and, in fact, in toxic amounts and/or in a toxic form that cannot be utilized by the body. This is also called a biounavailable form of a mineral.

The pattern indicates that the body cannot eliminate the toxic forms, so the mineral tends to build up inside the body and cause symptoms.

Another, older name for this pattern is called the Double 0 pattern. The reason this name was used is that the toxic metals are often so low that the numbers are 0.001 or 0.002, which are double 0 numbers. However, this older name is not quite as good as poor eliminator pattern, which is more descriptive of what is occurring, so I prefer the newer name.

The poor eliminator pattern is not mentioned in the 2010 edition of Nutritional Balancing And Hair Mineral Analysis by Dr. Wilson, because it had not been discovered at publication time.

THE WAY TO IDENTIFY HIDDEN TOXIC METALS ON A HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS

One of the criticisms of hair mineral analysis, and indeed of other methods of assessing toxic metals in the body, is that many toxic are not revealed on the hair tissue mineral analysis. Nor are they revealed on urine challenge tests for toxic metals, blood tests or feces tests. The reason this occurs is the toxic metals are so deep within the organs and tissues of the body, and so bound up, in some cases, in enzymes that they simply do not find their way into the hair, skin, blood or urine. This makes identifying them difficult.

Some day, I believe it will be possible to find them with enhanced MRI technology. However, this is cumbersome and expensive. At times, they can be located using radionic and other electrical diagnostic machines, but this method, so far, has proven unreliable.

The best way, so far, to identify hidden toxic metals is via the poor eliminator indicators. This is why an alternative name for the pattern is the hidden toxic metals pattern. So this is one of the most important patterns on a hair mineral analysis for this reason.

AN EXPANSION OF DR. ECK’S WORK

Dr. Paul Eck knew that, at times, a very low hair mineral reading meant a biounavailable situation was present. He discussed this in the case of copper and calcium, for example. The poor eliminator/hidden toxic metal pattern is an expansion of this idea, and I have been able to quantify it for a number of the toxic metals and nutrient minerals, as shown below.

INDICATORS FOR POOR ELIMINATOR/HIDDEN TOXIC METALS PATTERN

Shown below are the levels at which one can say that a poor eliminator pattern is present. More minerals may be added at a later date:

Aluminum less than about 0.6 mg%

Lead less than about 0.02 mg%.

Mercury less than about 0.015 mg%.

Cadmium less than about 0.004 mg%.

Arsenic less than about 0.003 mg%.

Nickel less than about 0.015 mg%.

Iron less than about 1.2 mg%.

Manganese less than about 0.012 mg%.

Copper less than 1 mg%.

If two of the above are present, one may say that it indicates a double poor eliminator pattern. Three of the above is a triple poor eliminator, and so on.

POOR ELIMINATOR PATTERN AND ADRENAL BURNOUT

We have observed that the poor eliminator pattern is associated with adrenal burnout. The body simply does not have enough energy to remove the sequestered toxic metals or biounavaiable forms of the physiological minerals.

At times, but not always, poor eliminator pattern is combined with indicators of adrenal exhaustion on the test such as:

1. Very slow oxidation

2. Low sodium/potassium ratio.

3. Three or four lows pattern.

These are clear indicators of adrenal exhaustion. At other times, however, the other adrenal exhaustion indicators may not be present on the first hair analysis.

Quantifying the relationship to adrenal burnout. Our research indicates that three poor eliminator indicators roughly indicates one adrenal burnout indicator. This has to do with quantifying the mineral patterns, a most useful concept that is discussed in a separate article entitled Quantifying The Hair Mineral Patterns.

POOR ELIMINATOR PATTERN AND SYMPATHETIC DOMINANCE

Often, a poor eliminator pattern is found along with sympathetic dominance indicators on a hair analysis. These indicators include:

1. Potassium level less than about 5 mg%.

2. Sodium/potassium ratio above about 4 with a low potassium.

3. Three or four highs pattern with a sodium/potassium ratio above about 3.

The conjunction or appearance of both poor eliminator and sympathetic dominance patterns together should not be a surprise, because it is known that people who overuse the sympathetic nervous system have more difficulty with elimination of all toxins from the body.

This occurs because one action of the sympathetic nervous system is to tend to shunt the blood away from the eliminative organs such as the liver and kidneys, and move it toward the muscles and brain to mount a fight-or-flight response. When this occurs chronically, as it does in sympathetic dominance pattern, the person’s ability to eliminate all types of toxins diminishes significantly.

POOR ELIMINATOR PATTERN AND REDUCED VITALITY OR REDUCED ADAPTIVE ENERGY

At times, the poor eliminator pattern is seen with indicators of reduced vitality or reduced adaptive energy. This indicators are:

1. Phosphorus less than 13 mg%

2. slow oxidation

3. Three lows pattern

4. Four lows pattern

5. Sodium/potassium ratio less than about 1.5.

The combination of poor eliminator pattern and reduced vitality patterns makes sense, since if the body’s vitality is low, it will tend to have more difficulty eliminating toxins.

There is some clear overlap with the indicators for adrenal exhaustion.

ADRENAL EXHAUSTION, SYMPATHETIC DOMINANCE AND REDUCED VITALITY MAY BE SAID TO BE SECONDARY POOR ELIMINATOR PATTERNS

This just follows logically from the discussion in the sections above, because all of the above tend to reduce the body’s ability to eliminate toxins of all kinds.

THE VALUE OF THIS INTERESTING PATTERN

Identifying a poor eliminator is exceedingly important for the following reasons:

1. We may be able to support the eliminative organs more by adding kidney support, more liver support, and perhaps distilled water for a few months. We can also add sauna therapy and coffee enemas to enhance elimination.

2. Progress may be slower on a nutritional balancing program when a poor eliminator pattern is present.

3. Identifying this pattern helps us avoid a common mistake of thinking that because toxic metal levels are very low, the person is less toxic. This is rarely the case, as this pattern demonstrates.

GETTING RID OF THE POOR ELIMINATOR/HIDDEN TOXIC METAL PATTERN

As a person follows a nutritional balancing program, the poor eliminator indicators tend to go away on their own. The extra detoxification procedures are most helpful in some cases. These are the daily use of preferably a near infrared sauna, and daily coffee enemas. Extra liver and kidney support may also be helpful. This would be the use of Renamide, Veg-easy, kelp, and perhaps supplements of milk thistle or dandelion root. Using distilled water for a few months may also be very helpful, though more research is needed on this subject.

As the indicators decrease in number and severity, it seems to indicate that the body can now mobilize the unavailable or toxic form of the mineral and remove it. It is also possible that the body converts or transmutes the biounavailable mineral, in some cases, into a form that it can use.

POOR ELIMINATOR PATTERN MAINLY IMPORTANT ON AN INITIAL HAIR ANALYSIS OR ON A RETEST WHEN IT WAS PRESENT ON THE FIRST TEST

The poor eliminator pattern is primarily important on an initial hair analysis. If it appears only on a retest, it is most important only if the pattern was present on the initial test.

If the pattern just appears on a random retest, it probably has little if any significance. The levels of the toxic metals will vary on retests depending upon which metals are being eliminated at the time the hair sample is cut.

POOR ELIMINATOR PATTERN AND TOXIC CHEMICALS

A person with poor eliminator pattern may also be having difficulty removing toxic chemicals from the body, since some of the elimination pathways are the same as for toxic metals, although not all of them. At this time, this is a research area and I will report our findings as they become known.

This is potentially important because just as it is difficult to identify hidden toxic metals, it is also difficult to identify hidden toxic chemicals in the body. In fact, it is more difficult to identify hidden toxic chemicals, at times, than it is to find hidden toxic metals. So this is another potentially useful way to use the poor eliminator pattern.

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