http://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/casein.html
Great Plains seem to do gluten and casein testing but I have also heard them mentioned when with heavy metal testing.
http://www.labbio.net/pages/index_vh_eng.htm
This seems to be the french lab many heavy metal tests are sent to, they are also mentioned in the references used by mercury theory proponents.
http://www.neurozym.com/index_en.htm
This is Karl-Ludvig Reichelt's lab in Norway for gluten and casein testing. Reichelt believe that alot of conditions like schizophrenia, ADHD and autism can be treated by diets.
There are probably some other labs too which I haven't heard of.
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I'm not rejecting that the GF/CF diet can be usefull for many, but the research around GF/CF diet and ofcourse the controversial mercury theory have been questioned by the mainstream medical community for a long time now.
When chelation and GF/CF diet proponents market themselves they always have these references who all seem to lead back to these very few labs.
I wonder how possible it is to get tests for heavy metals, casein and gluten from unrelated labs and chelation, GF/CF proponents. Maybe government should offer free second-opinion tests.
By the way, I know at least one other person who have speculated that tests might get faked or something, and this was a parent who researched chelation in eight months before the person decided it wasn't the thing for his/her child.
I'm trying to figure what kind of relation the french lab has to cardiovascular disease (alternative doctors have claimed chelation can treat it since 1950, while mainstream doctors reject it) - It seems like they think *something* can treat cardiovascular disease.
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http://translate.google.com/translate?hl...%26hl%3Den
... a really bad translation of something that seems interesting.
This also seems interesting:
http://www.labbio.net/pages/pathologie_c...re_eng.htm
But I haven't really understood what they are trying to tell.
Laboratories, dammit typo.
http://www.labbio.net/pages/commandes_ki...ulaire.php
... oh, wait... how can they fake the tests now? Now that people can take the tests at home?
I might draw conclusions too easily, but I am still abit suspicious, especially on those studies.
It seems difficult to fake tests if the tests can be done by everyone who attain one of these kits, but I guess you would have to know a "pratician" (which I guess has something to do with education), and ofcourse, could there be something with the test kits?
Maybe the test still hast to be sent to a lab for analysis...
Is this a private thread Erkolos, or can anyone join in?
I really don't know about random testing just because someone is autistic. I know from experience that gluten intolerance leads to a swollen stomach and weight loss. A bit too obvious to fake, or to need testing.
Not private, just an interest of mine that few others here seem to bother about.
According to the one I'm discussing with here:
http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthre...#pid143299
... All US doctors can do a mercury test, and multiple peer reviews of heavy-metal levels in autistic children have found increased levels.
Ok, so the "test-mania" in DAN! conferences has actually found something abnormal about the biology of many autistics?
Wonder if it would be fun if we all got heavy metal tested and then see who got the highest result. Some neurotypicals could participate too.
Not sure if they give results in a number though.
I wonder if they will just describe the results, out of what "color" or whatever that was seen in the test.
This was some interesting information:
http://www.childrenscornerschool.com/porphyrin.htm
And here is something that might be more interesting about mercury level tests:
http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/14/
The cost of many of the mail-order labs is also a significant concern. A brief survey of some of the bigger mail-order labs revealed that they charge between $175 and $300 for a “panel” of urine metal tests, including mercury. The local hospital lab charges $35 for a urine mercury test. In most cases, the other metals included in the “panel” or of little or no use—there is no research or clinical data that connects some of these other metals to any disorder whatsoever.
http://www.childrenscornerschool.com/porphyrin.htm
This thing cleared stuff abit up.
Apparently you get a kit sent to you, you fill it with urine early in the morning, you send it back to the lab.
Stop! Here is a site that explains the porphyrin test. http://www.oralchelation.net/data/ToxicM...ata13h.htm
"Use of porphyrin tests as biomarkers of chemical toxicity is reasonable when used in combination with other laboratory tests (e.g. hair analysis in cases of suspected metal toxicity). The clinician should realize that there are many conditions unrelated to primary or toxicant-induced porphyria that can cause porphyrinuria . When considering a urinary porphyrin result, the clinician should be mindful that the distribution of normal urinary porphyrins values representing healthy individuals overlaps significantly with those who have suffered from porphyria at one time or another.
Any patients testing positive on the urinary porphyrins test should be subjected to follow up with more specific testing for a differential diagnosis. Tests that assay toxic metals directly in biological samples (i.e. blood, urine and hair) are essential for confirming whether the toxicity symptoms are caused by a metal. Identification of toxic organic chemicals by laboratory methods is also possible."
So a positive test should not mean that parents should be running off to do chelation therapies on their kids. It could be because of some fairly common medications such as cough medicine or antibiotics. (see table 2 in the article in the link)
No, stop. dangerous. Do not misuse tests.