The following table provides guidance on how your symptoms can indicate which toxins are damaging your body. Finding solid research on symptoms caused by various toxins is very difficult as virtually all the research is on acute poisoning or chronic industrial exposure. There very few controlled studies on the symptoms in the general population.
That does not mean toxins don’t produce symptoms. The huge variation in toxin exposure and the uniqueness of each individual’s ability to get rid of them and their susceptibility to damage by specific toxins as well as total toxic load. The following table is the result of my looking at a lot of chronic exposure research. The number of asterisks indicates the frequency with which a toxin causes the symptom. An effective way to use this table is to simply highlight your symptoms and see which toxins show up most frequently as potentially causing those symptoms.
| Anxiety | Brain fog | Dizziness | Drowsiness | Elevated blood pressure | Erectile dysfunction | Fatigue | Frequent infections | Headache | Insomnia | Irritability | Joint pain | Loss of coordination | Loss of sense of touch | Memory loss | Metalic taste | Moodiness | Muscle weakness | Nausea | Nervousness | Protein in urine | Rash hands and feet | Tremor | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aluminum | ** | ** | ** | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Arsenic | * | * | *** | *** | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Acrylamide | ** | ** | ** | ** | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Acrylonitrile | * | ** | ** | ** | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Benzene | ** | ** | ** | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bisphenol A | ** | ** | ** | ** | * | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cadmium | ** | ** | ** | * | *** | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chloroform | ** | ** | ** | *** | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DDT | ** | ** | ** | ** | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dioxins | ** | ** | ** | ** | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fluoride | * | * | * | * | * | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lead | * | * | *** | ** | *** | *** | ** | ** | ** | |||||||||||||||
| Mercury | ** | *** | ** | ** | *** | *** | ** | |||||||||||||||||
| Organochlorine pesticides | ** | ** | ** | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Organophosphate pesticides | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | * | |||||||||||||||||
| Phthalates | ** | ** | ** | ** | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Polybrominated diphenyl ethers | ** | ** | ** | ** | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons | ** | ** | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| PCBs | * | ** | **** | * | ** | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vinyl chloride | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** |
Legend:
* = 3-5% (1.5)
** = 6-10% (2.0)
*** =10-15% (3.0)
**** = > 15% (>=4)
F = Female
M = Male