I dont know because it just chelates the blood and accessible areas. but it may help becuase the mercury is being dumped, the DMSA is picking it up and escorting it out.

The problem is, the organs start dumping the mercury and ALA is the one that chelates the organs, so that's the one you really want to be using by that stage. You want to be chelating the mercury out of the organs before it gets a chance to build back up.

That's why some people find they can almost avoid feeling really ill when they are already well on the way with chelating and the mercury that might be leaking out, is being chelated out as it's happening.

This is why some people stop chelation too early because there comes a time when it can make you "feel" cured, becuase it's well and truly caught up with the leaking out of mercury and chelating before it even happens. So they may stop chelating thinking they are cured, but hte mercury that is still left over may not have yet been fully chelated out and may then leak back out and build up again. So it's advised that a person keeps chelating for about 6 months to a year AFTER they 'feel" well to be extra thorough.