Re: cheap heavy metal tests...anybody know of any out there

Personally, I think getting rid of all mercury exposure is a good thing. Mercury, even in the tiniest of quantities, is highly toxic to Humans.

I never wasted much time or money on testing. Mercury is too fickle and hard to detect without causing more problems to your body. But, there's more than one way to skin an orange. I opted for a more of an empirical method with 4 key criteria:
1) did I have the symptoms of [insert syndrome/dis-ease] (in this case, mercury)
2) did I have a history of exposure to it
3) do I have any direct laboratory testing that confirms it
4) do I respond to the treatment for it

If I could say yes to 3 out of the 4, then I could reasonably assume I had it as an issue to clear up. With mercury, the only lab testing I did was the hair test which will basically just show you if you have issues mobilizing minerals around your body, which I did. Mercury is the usual suspect for that. I also had yeses for the other points, 1, 2, and 4. So, for me, mercury was an issue and treatment definitely helped.

Also, taking glutathione directly doesn't do anything. It's like trying to get a model ship inside a bottle. Glutathione's activity is inside the cell, but it doesn't cross the cell wall. The only way to get more glutathione in the cells is to take precursors like NAC so your cells take that in and make glutathione from it. Aside from that, taking a lot of antioxidants can help protect from mercury exposure. Once you've eliminated all sources, then you can start chelating.