Hi, I don't know how significant the increased removal of mercury is with going up from say 25 mg, to 100 mg. It does go up, but not to the point where it's worth doing if you can't tolerate it. It's not such a huge difference to where you should do it even if you feel horrible.

You just go up to tolerance basically and it's not a bad thing to feel unwell or the side effects etc, just so long as you're not going over that.

The real way to judge things is when you finally get onto using ALA with the DMSA (or alone if you really want) and then that is when you will be chelating brain and organ mercury. That is the one that improves/cures people.

You won't know if you are cured, you can feel better much earlier on than you are actually cured. For example, you could end up chelating with DMSA and ALA (or ALA alone)for only a month or so and feel a lot better and "thinik" you're cured. And this is the mistake many make they don't realise that there comes a time when the ALA is actually keeping you well because it's chelating the mercury as it's leaking out before it can build back up, so then they feel so much better, they stop the chelation and find the symptoms returning.

So you need to chelate for a long time, even if you feel well to make sure you have removed far more mercury.

It's great to feel better early on, but a good idea to keep going regardless. YOu have to chelate for about 6 months - to a year AFTER you think you're well. And some even longer, depending on how toxic they are.

Also, you can feel worse on a round and better off a round, or better on a round and worse off, so sometimes the way to judge your tolerance of the dose is not always how you feel on the round, but also what happens inbetween rounds.

Once you add ALA, then you should start noticing changes, either feeling worse, or better on a round or inbetween the round. But as I said, with ALA, you do not stop if you feel better, the key is to keep going for a long time to be sure. Then later, when you relaly do think you're "cured", you can take a break from chelation and see if any symptoms return again and if they do, just get back on the chelation and keep going.

You dn't have to get to 100 mg of either chelator, you can use a dose that suits you, but if you can increase it eventually up to that if you can tolerate it and feel that you'll speed up the process a bit more, then by all means increase.

Let me know how things go on the DMSA alone, I'll be interested to hear if you notice anything. The people who improve greatly on just DMSA, are usually the ones who do not have significant brain mercury and can often feel better just from DMSA. Others, need to use ALA for a long time in order to cure themselves.

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