Heavy Metal Relay System The Metal “Relay System”: Why Detoxing One Heavy Metal Can Release Another Most people think of heavy metals as isolated toxins—mercury here, aluminum there, lead somewhere else. But inside the human body, metals don’t behave separately. They compete, displace one another, and move in predictable biochemical patterns. Toxicology calls this the competitive displacement cascade — a phenomenon almost nobody talks about, yet it explains why detox symptom