Hi Chigirl,

I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Algin. I have no idea why it would do that but if I was in the situation, I would try it again to be sure that it really was the cause, especially considering that so many people have excellent results with it. (could it have been something else?)

If you decide to, please post the results as it would be good to know if some people really do have bad reactions to it.

Dawn,

You should take Algin between meals so it does not interfere with the absorption of the food or supplements you take. It's extremely absorbent.

I usually recommend taking 1500 mg between meals and before bed.

If you are cheating and eating a food that is high in mercury (salmon or tuna), I would take 1500 mg 15 minutes before the meal and 15 minutes after. It completely eliminates any mercury symptoms that I otherwise experience when eating fish (and I've tried not taking Algin with fish several times and experienced relapses of mercury symptoms for about 24 hours).