Susan was 62 years old when she signed up for Quantify, after struggling for years with progressively worsening dizziness and loss of balance, and not getting anywhere with conventional medicine.
An ear, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor had diagnosed her with vertigo soon after her symptoms developed, but he didn’t have anything to offer, other than a recommendation to try a low-sodium diet.
Surprised that her doctor didn’t order any tests to investigate what was going on, Susan was understandably reluctant to move forward with such a significant dietary change without any test results to back it up, but she was desperate for anything that might work, so she tried the diet anyway.
A few months later, after putting up with what she described as the “blandest diet” she’d ever been on, and experiencing no changes in her symptoms, Susan ultimately decided to pursue a more data-driven approach.
In her first appointment at Quantify, Susan’s health coach recommended a metals test, to evaluate metal toxicity and mineral imbalance.
Test results
Her first time testing for toxic metals, Susan’s metals test showed significantly elevated mercury, indicating mercury toxicity, or the condition of having too much mercury in the body, which can cause vertigo, brain fog, fatigue, and innumerable other chronic symptoms, ranging from mild to severe.
Not just a lucky guess, her health coach had recommended the test after learning that Susan had a number of mercury amalgam fillings, a common source of exposure to the toxic metal.
Used in dentistry in the United States since the 1800s, the conventional perspective is that once the amalgam filling is in place and solidified, you don’t have to worry about mercury leaching into your body, because the amalgam is sufficiently strong and durable and doesn’t break down.
This perspective, however, is based on flawed research funded by medical device companies, and then perpetuated by most conventional dentists who were somehow bamboozled by these companies into thinking that filling teeth with mercury, despite its obvious toxicity, would be a good idea.
Recovery
Shocked that mercury exposure was causing her vertigo, but also thrilled to finally get answers, Susan started following her health coach’s recommendations closely.
To address the source of exposure, she sought out a biological dentist—a dentist trained to safely remove mercury amalgam fillings—to replace her fillings with composite (mercury-free) fillings.
To support detoxification, she eliminated processed foods, sugar, grains, and dairy from her diet, drank at least 64 ounces of water per day, took certain supplements, such as bentonite clay, milk thistle, and NAC, and used a sauna at least once per week.
Within a few months of getting her amalgam fillings removed and following her health plan, Susan’s vertigo started to improve, a likely indication that she was on the right track, given that it had only been getting worse since its onset.
Within a year, her vertigo had completely resolved, she reported feeling like she had gotten her life back, and a follow-up metals test showed no detectable exposure to mercury, further validating the work she had done to rid her body of the toxic metal that had unknowingly compromised her health.