Hi Dizzy, I relied entirely on muscle testing to determine when I should start using larger doses of cilantro. I always muscle tested good for tiny bits of cilantro when my body was still toxic but not for larger doses. People tell me that they aren't as in touch with muscle testing as I am and if that is the case I would recommend just doing 40-50 baths first, then try a smallish dose of cilantro or ALA. See how that affects you. You shouldn't stop doing the baths when you are taking the cilantro or ALA.

When you take ALA or cilantro mercury will cross your blood-brain barrier and effectively migrate from your brain to your blood or possibly from your blood to your brain. So it is important to detoxify your body enough first so the net flow is out of your brain and into your blood.

I kept track of my body's total mercury load with muscle testing. Before I started the baths it was at 100% and after about 40 or so it was at 2% <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />. Each bath seemed to take my body's total mercury load down 3% or so. I believe quite strongly that my testing was reliable and accurate.

After clay baths I usually felt something. Usually the next morning I would feel terrible and that feeling would fade out as the day progressed and by that night I would feel nice or normal again. The morning after my first clay bath I felt really bad, by that night though I felt very good, seriously good.

I recommend you try practice some muscle testing to see if you can get some clear answers from it. Or you could always go to a naturopath or some other holistic practitioner and ask them to muscle test you for things, including clay, ALA and cilantro. Good luck, Dizzy.

-Colin