Hi Sunshine, yeah the problem with NDF, you have to be really careful with it. If anything like liver, ph is out of sync, you can easily have a backfire.....

Admittedly when I used it, I was more vulnerable because i had a previous massive release of metals from antifungal use, which may have been why NDF caused such a dramatic "detox". But I don't see why anybody should have to go through that on only a few drops, even if I was not doing everything "technically" correct, e.g. ph monitoring etc, it just seems extreme to me.

ALA is also very risky if taken the wrong way or at the wrong time. No way is that stuff safe, simply because it's a "natural" antioxidant and raises glutathione. The very fact it strongly chelates mercury and can pass the blood brain barrier, is risk in that it can redistribute mercury if used the wrong way, and can take MORE mercury INTO the brain if someone still has too high body/blood burden of mercury and uses ALA too soon.

I had a horrible experience with ALA when I used it too early after a backfire effect from using garlic. The garlic had obviously mobilised mercury into worse areas, gut included and I should have waited or used DMSA to quieten this down. But no, I used ALA and the effects were far worse.

It seems that ALA is not good to use too close after any mercury exposure, whether amalgam removal or too soon after a backfire effect. AT least for me it wasn't. I know it's good for the liver and is a powerful antioxidant, but when you're dealing with mercury? ALA can also be a risk.

DMSA too if used the wrong way, but if used correctly it's ideal in the early stages of mercury detox after recent exposure. I don't think anything that has the ability to mobilise or chelate mercury is all that safe, considering how dangerous mercury itself is, which is why I think Andy's protocol makes so much sense.

I also do not consider glutathione a "chelator", because a chelator is something that "directly" grabs mercury, has two thiol groups....gluathione may "indirectly" aid the body in excreting mercury and other metals and toxins though. But many mercury toxic people do NOT handle taking glutathione itself, or other sulfur amino acids like cysteine and methionine etc. Rather they may handle supplements that help increase glutathione in the body itself - selenium, vitamin C, milk thistle, undenatured whey protein etc. Apparently this is more effective? I wouldn't know, I have not taken glutathione in direct supplement form.

If it works for people, that's great. I have no doubts personally on the need to increase glutathione in the body when mercury toxic, considering it gets used up. But I don't believe glutathione could be classified as a chelating agent (magnet/claw for metals), but rather needed so the body itself can detox better.