Bex,

Your post about methionine and cysteine got me to researching as there are several things such as sulfer items that people (Huggins, Cuttler and others) seem to diagree on whether they are good or bad for mercury toxic people.

The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Murray and Pizzorno has the best explaination of the detox phase 1 and 2 that I have seen so far. It shows that methionine, cystenine, and taurine are inducers of phase 2 as they are in the "sufation" group.

That made it clear to me why some people can't handle sulfur containing foods, aminos etc. and why some people say they do better on them. I am one who does well with sulfur, but I didn't know why till now. I also had problems with chemical synsitivity (sorry about all the goofy spelling, but they have been spraying the cotton fields with defoliate-from the same family as agent orange! let me get on another soap box) and discovered that my phase 1 was faster than phase 2. Sulfur helps with phase 2 so it helps me.