It's not so much DMSA, ALA that is the issue, it is the way they are used that is "often" the problem. The reason many people react so badly to cilantro and other things, is because there is no known way of using them to make sure mercury is more evenly removed, rather than being wildly moved around.

At least with DMSA and ALA, there is a protocol that does enable a person to cut down this risk much further and allow many people to get on with chelating their mercury. Many of us cannot tolerate mercury movement, but many *myself included" are able to tolerate THIS way of moving it, which means that we can on some level get on with getting a little out.

It is not to say that everybody is going to cope fine, some even have problems on that, (I have on occassion too) but at least it's a safe manner of moving mercury in most of us. The candida diet helps this, because it reduces the load of toxins and allows the gut to eliminate a little easier, which takes more load off the liver.

I can use DMSA at a low dose every 4 hours and do fine most of the time and it's actually sometimes cured my bad reaction to using some other product that has simply mobilised mercury and not helped me at all. DMSA was able to improve that, but only if I took it the right way. Otherwise DMSA is just as bad if you take it randomly.

Any mercury mobiliser/chelator is risky if not used correctly. There are people who can do almost anything and seem to get away with it. But I would never do the same, because I know what my reactions are like. Iv'e been burned enough by doing that.