Bill Walsh is at the Pfeiffer Center where they focus on imbalances
in copper metabolism as the cause of everything. In a sense they are
right - all the conditions mercury causes do seem to be ones copper
can cause. As I mention in AMALGAM ILLNESS: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT,
a lot of people who think they are mercury toxic actually have a
defect of copper metabolism that is not recognized by mainstream
medicine.

Since the Pfeiffer people are so focussed on copper they don't look at
the rest of the results to figure out what might be pushing the copper
around. E. g. the disordered mineral transport caused by mercury
intoxication.

Using the counting rules in the listserver download section, you can
check whether someone has mercury tox or not. If they don't and their
hair copper is very elevated (50+ on a DDI test) then what Walsh and
the Pfeiffer people say to do will be curative, and mercury detox
won't help much.

If the child in question is mercury toxic and that is what is messing
up the Cu/Zn ratio, then the measures Walsh suggests will lead to mild
improvement, but mercury detox will be curative.

As always, accurate diagnosis is the first step towards a cure. The
second, of course, is using a therapy that actually helps.

Andy Cutler