bex I understand cutler's logic, but don't fully agree with it. I agree ala is a chelator for the entire body, but as you said, the body can dump mercury on its own, the brain cannot. I think everyone will agree that the brain is the most important in terms of the fact that its the last you want to have damage to. And chelating with high body burden with ala will cause inevitable redistibtuion to the brain (not increasing brain mercury), something we don't want. But dmsa has the potential to chelate tissue , it's been numerously said that both dmps/dmsa clear the liver/kidneys. of course not all of it, hence ala should be brought on board eventually. But I think it should only be when the body levels are low, so instead of 3months after exposure and 3months into chelation with dmsa, it better be 4-6. I just think 3 months might be a bit too soon for some people.

A month ago I did that one day ala chelation and I was already 5 months post exposure, though had 3 amalgams(2 small), but I doubt much mercury has been pulled from them (yet maybe wrong), yet my brain "pattern" changed. I got huge shifting of mercury in my brain, which is bad, and I'm sure it was from the body. If I was to go on with this , using ala, (assuming I had no amalgams) this kind of 'shifting' would probably take place numerous times, with each consequitive round which equals to lots of damage, until enough rounds have been done to allow the brain actually clear. Besides you can have a lot of Hg in your organs, like kidneys but little in your brain and as you procede with ala chelation it will (inevitably) get redistributed to the brain from the kidneys until enough rounds have been done to eliminate that as well and it all.

Plus if you have high body mercury, you always run the risk of organs dumping, and THAT increasing your BLOOD levels, and that increases your chances of putting more merc into the brain with ala.

All I'm saying is that the brain being the most sensitive organ should go last to minimize the damage.