Good questions, thanks.

> What does this mean? Are you talking about the usual healthy diet, exercise, and sleep, or something more specific to lead exposure?

Nothing specific to lead or metals toxicity, no, at least not these days.

Just a steady effort to look after my body and mind.

In short: sensible diet, a small number of supplements, moderate exercise, some breathing exercises, but a big focus on emotional healing work.

The diet just involves eating a solid amount of animal protein and green vegetables, and avoiding junk. I'm not fastidous these days, as my gut is now pretty tolerant of things, even of gluten and grains if it's in well-made food like good quality pasta or sourdough bread. A coffee or two a day for liver/gallbladder flushing - but not too much as it can bring on anxiety and insomnia if I have too much.

The supplements I currently take are fish oil, a combined calcium+phosphorus+magnesium+VitD tablet, zinc and CoQ10 - but that changes.

The exercise I do is basically just walking or jogging 10,000 steps/day on average, and a bit of boxing bag training every week or two to give the adrenal glands a moderate workout and promote hormone production. Also, a weekly pilates session to stretch muscles and strengthen the core. Regular exercise is particularly important when detoxing, to keep the lymphatic system moving.

Breathing exercises might be just long deep breaths, yoga breathing or occasional "holotropic breathwork" (which is also an emotional healing technique). Breath is one of the major toxin exit pathways, so increasing the respiration rate is a good way to increase detoxification.

A major focus these days is emotional healing practices. I've gone really deep on subconscious emotional healing for about the past 7 years, and I am now comfortable in the belief that there is a strong link between deeply held emotions (trauma, worry, fear, anger, resentment, arrogance) and the body's propensity to retain metals and other toxins. Veteran cell biologist Dr Bruce Lipton [1] seems to be the leading proponent of links between emotions/trauma and genetic expression/physiology (though not specifically to do with metals/toxins, just general physiology). I spend about 30 minutes per day doing that, and see a practitioner about once every two months.

When I started out on this journey about 10 years ago, I went pretty heavily into nutrition-balancing diets and supplements programs, as recommended by Dr Lawrence Wilson [2]. For 2 years I basically just ate animal protein and steamed green vegetables, plus lots of sulphuric vegetables - garlic & leeks mostly. I avoided all gluten grains, sugar, alcohol, nightshade vegetables, anything else that seemed problematic. I also undertook a lot of detox practices - daily infrared saunas for sweating and to reduce inflammation, frequent liver/gallbladder cleansing, detox-promoting supplements like Vit C and taurine.

But I don't really do that stuff anymore. I think it was necessary early on when my body and life were quite seriously out of balance, but as every year passes it becomes more resilient and the need to restrict my diet and undertake unorthodox detox practices keeps subsiding.

> Does the hair test reflect more your long-term overall health? do the positive urine tests correlate with drops in the hair tests?

I started writing an answer to this but it's long and even more convoluted than what I've written above, and I've decided it's not the right forum to go deep into it.

The short version: hair testing and urine testing of nutrients and toxins is a complex business but once you've learned enough about it, it does make sense, and yes the hair test results do align with long-term physiological changes and feelings of wellbeing.

Feel free to email me (address in profile) if you want to know more.

[1] Bruce Lipton is a pioneering stem cell biologist from Stanford, who, in his research, observed the way environmental stimuli substantially alter cell function, and has since gone deep on the topic of epigenetics, i.e., altered gene expression based on environment and emotions/beliefs. His theories are explained in his 2006 best-seller, The Biology of Belief. He's dismissed by some mainstream devotees as a bumbling, ageing quack who handwaves too much about quantum physics, and I find that critique has some merit, but in my experience, what he's right about is far more important than what he's wrong about.

[2] Dr Lawrence Wilson is an Arizona-based physician and naturopath who is the leading proponent of hair-mineral testing and nutritional balancing for healing of chronic illness. He was an acolyte of Dr Paul Eck, who in the 1970s did extensive research into the correlations between hair mineral levels and physiological conditions. I find Wilson's ideas somewhat useful, and were very valuable to me early on my healing journey. However they are limited, and inadequate without other ideas and healing practices, particularly the emotional techniques I've adopted more recently (Wilson considers emotional healing to be vital to overall healing, but his recommended technique is limited to a very basic form of meditation, which I found inadequate). Also, Wilson is a conservative Christian, who has some very old-fashioned and conservative ideas around politics and morality. He'a also dogmatically anti-vax, which I'm not on board with.

Learning how to sort the wheat from the chaff has been one of the most important parts of this process :)