Hi,

I have mercury poisoning from a large leaking filling. Had the filling removed and replace with composite last week. I believe I have a lot of mercury in my brain, lots of weird head symptoms along with almost every classic mercury poisoning symptom. My naturopathic/pharmacist has put me on a liver detox program and wants me to take 3 1/2 tsp. of buffered ascorbate powder daily. He says that the vit. c powder is a milder form of chelation therapy. I have read that this will mobilize the mercury but since it has nothing to bind to I'm just aggrevating the symptoms even more. We plan to begin chelation in a couple weeks. I have two more fillings to be removed this week. Any thoughts?

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That sounded a little confusing. I meant three -1/2 teaspoons per day. [color:"blue"] [/color]

The liver detox sounds good. Ascorbates during liver detox is even better.

I've never heard the concept that vitamin c chelates mercury. It does protect the body against many of the effects of mercury, but not as a chelator, as far as I've ever heard.

A mercury chelator would typically be something that binds to mercury, like sulphur. This is the reason proteins are good—yet gentle—mercury chelators. They bind to mercury because of the cysteine they contain; The sulphur-bond-bearing amino acid.

Vitamin C? Don't know why it would chelate mercury.

Perhaps he meant, it would make the chelation gentler?

Thanks for the reply, Russ.

This didn't make a whole lot of sense to me either based on my internet research.

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