HTMA Hair Testing, Wheat Intolerance, Superoxide Dismutase, Vaccines Side Effects, Seasonal Histamine Overload

April 20, 2021

[00:02:21] Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis for the assessment of heavy metal burden and mineral status.

Resources:

• Reliability on Intra-Laboratory and Inter-Laboratory Data of Hair Mineral Analysis Comparing with Blood Analysis
• Heavy Metals
• The pitfalls of hair analysis for toxicants in clinical practice: three case reports.
• Recommendations for Provoked Challenge Urine Testing
• Is Challenge Testing Valid for Assessing Body Metal Burden?
• Assessment of commercial laboratories performing hair mineral analysis

[00:06:24] Wheat allergies, sensitivity, and intolerance - How safe is it?

[00:07:32] Food sensitivities (and testing for them) previously discussed on Office Hours on 9/24/19, 11/26/19, 7/30/20 and 2/2/21.

Resources:

• Unreliability of IgE/IgG4 antibody testing as a diagnostic tool in food intolerance
• Evaluating the clinical relevance of food sensitivity tests: a single subject experiment
• Food Sensitivity Testing and Elimination Diets in the Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Testing for food reactions: the good, the bad, and the ugly
• Unproven Diagnostic Tests for Food Allergy
• Role of immunoglobulin G antibodies in diagnosis of food allergy

[00:12:38] Superoxide dismutase (SOD) supplements made from bitter melon vs. bovine liver.

Resources:

• An insight on superoxide dismutase (SOD) from plants for mammalian health enhancement
• Short-term assessment of toxicological aspects, oxidative and inflammatory response to dietary melon superoxide dismutase in rats
• Effects of a cantaloupe melon extract/wheat gliadin biopolymer during aortic cross-clamping
• Therapeutic value of oral supplementation with melon superoxide dismutase and wheat gliadin combination
• Therapeutic potentials of superoxide dismutase
• A Specific Melon Concentrate Exhibits Photoprotective Effects from Antioxidant Activity in Healthy Adults
• Effect of an oral supplementation with a proprietary melon juice concentrate (Extramel®) on stress and fatigue in healthy people: a pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial

[00:18:48] Comments on HTMA testing and validity; Use ARL and/or TEI labs.

[00:24:19] Vaccines: preventing side effects.

[00:32:25] Histamine reactions to food.