I don't blame you for being cynical, I am too. But an example of someone improving is a guy called Joey Joe Joe (something like that) on here. He's having the ups and downs now though because he is well and truly chelating the mercury, but has been experiencing some dramatic improvements along the way.

Russ, the moderator and laura, both of them are pretty much cured from this condition.

I am on other mercury toxic forums and many are still chelating, but many are indeed improving. It takes a long time, and there are other complications that can hinder mercury excretion also and ruin a person's recovery from this. Anything that is happening alongside the mercury, chronic fatigue syndrome from a viral infection, other dental issues like jawbone infections, other toxic dental materials.

Or just the long term effects frm the toxicity taking their toll and the person may have some permanent effects from it.

Anything can keep a person down with this. Problem wtih mercury is, it makes you vulnerable to other problems, infections and then when you get an infection, the mercury can cause you not to be able to fight it properly, so you can end up with a chronic ongoing condition from that alone, then with themercury as well? The person often cannot fight either of them becuase their immune system has been hit down so many times their body can't concentrate on mercury if it's attempting to cope with something else.

This is why so many of us have to make MARATHON efforts with our diet, in order just to sometimes put one foot in front of the other and remotely cope. A healthy person doesn't need to do this, but when you have a burdened immune system, you have to try and remove as many added burdens as possible. Not easy to do and sometimes it doesn't seem to matter what the person does, they stay ill.

Also, mercury can end up in the brain, the target point where everything is controlled (immunity, hormones the whole deal). So many people remain sick because they have brain mercury and in order to detox this, they need to use a chelating agent that is able to cross over the blood brain barrier to get mercury out. A lot of people do not know what to use to do this. So those with significant brain mercury are often the ones who stay sick. Others with a body burden can get well easier because the body itself can often release some mercury in those areas, plus it's not too hard to reduce the body levels. The Brain is the one that is difficult.

Agents that detox the brain/nervous system, are cilantro and alpha lipoic acid. However, they are risky because they must be used at the right time, after blood levels of mercury are reduce in hte body, or the person risks further uptake of mercury into the brain if they use these too early on.

Also, people can get very sick if mercury is chelated wildly and not in an even controlled manner. Often it's the method of chelation also that is the key to whether someone will have a successful outcome or not. But again everybody is different, so sometimes no size fits all.

So yeah, many of us simply have a high brain burden. For me? I am scared to chelate the brain because I used lipoic acid too early on and caused horrific side effects from this and now I'm terrified to touch it. But I hope to later if I can.