lol Lord of the Flies. Yes, I think Russ definitely did the right thing.

Re Mercola? I'm with you and Linda on this. I take what he says, the flesh and simply spit out the bones. I think he has some fantastic health advice, but his chelation advice seems a bit risky, but is popular amongst the doctors doing mercury chelation. My one for instance, she does similar. Large doses of chlorella at night, followed by the DMPS, and then later, garlic capsules and DMSA (250 mg, one day on, one day off).

All of those things proved pretty nightmarish for me and just caused an explosion of insane symptoms, a lot of suffering. I thought at one stage that this was the only way to remove mercury, by going almost insane.

Well, not disputing a healing crisis, which can in the end yield incredible improvements after much pain to achieve it, but I always wondered "does it have to be quite this bad"? And of course, that's where andy's came into the picture and when I realised that this "healing crisis" could indeed be kept a little more controlled.

The healing symptoms I got from his were not the same insanity, but rather - tired, achy, grotty feeling, sometimes crying or just a little tearful. However, I could have lessened that by using a smaller dose for a shorter period of time. I was doing 50 mg, every 4 hours for an entire week! Which is what his book suggested to do.

In retrospect, less and for less often is an easier way to begin. The symptoms would often start a day or so into the programme and increase gradually as each day wore on till I knew I had to stop and break.

The insane symptoms didn't occur, UNLESS, I forgot a dose and took a much later one, causing redistribution and the typical awful symptoms related to it. Taking chances with chelation maybe ok for those who are stronger, but I dont think it is worth it.

For me, the best diet advice is from Dr Weston Price and best chelation advice Andrew cutler. (just my personal opinion).