Re Andy dosing: yes….what he (and Yahoo FDC) now recommends is starting very low. I did ask why and was given the following reply:

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> Sunshine: Why do u recommend starting at such a low dose? 12.5 mg
> DMSA.

We have found that when people start at higher doses they often have
significant side effects, get scared and then put off chelation for
some time without realizing that the solution is to use a lower dose.
Most people find a dose of 12.5 mg about right to start and if the
occasional person finds that they have no symptoms at all with 12.5 mg
they can increase in subsequent rounds until they find their optimum dose.

> AI doesn't start that low, (I think,) he just says "50-300mg
> every 4 hours".

AI was written in 1999 I believe. Andy's more recent dose
recommendations are at Moria's web page (1/8 to 1/2 mg per lb) and in
his newer "Hair Test Interpretation" book. In HTI he says to start at
one dose and then adjust up or down depending on symptoms. I still
think that it is better to start low as TK suggests. I was one of the
ones who scared myself with doses of 25 mg but was fine at lower doses
(and I lost a year wondering what to do, it wasn't immediately obvious
to me to lower the dose at the time).

>I assume it's because its safer, with fewer people
> having fewer problems? Then can work up to a higher dose gradually
> if all going well?

Right.

> I weigh 136 pounds and am 6foot 1inch. 38 years old male.

1/8 mg per lb is about 17 mg. That's not too far off from the 12.5 mg
that we recommend to use as the starting dose.

From what I have read on Y FDC 75 to 100 mg of ALA is considered very high, but I’m not really taking much notice of ALA yet, that’s 2 months off and I will start at similar low dosage 12.5mg tops. They are very helpful over there so just ask away if u concerned.

You said you finish a round at 4pm yesterday, then restarted again this morning? how long are you breaking between rounds?

Tolkien did get depressed. He was in the trenches in the Great War and it affected him real bad. That’s one of the reasons he wrote the book. All that fear and despair, with no hope of surviving being on the front line, all his friends next to them getting killed, very low life expectancy……but battling on and on and never giving up, even when they forgot what, why and who they where fighting for, but never never giving up. Until, after all the pain, torment and struggling, to finally triumph gloriously over evil……great book if u never read it. The book is really dark. The despair is mind numbing, just as it must have been in the trenches.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident."

Sunshine