Sosick, Dr Godfrey specialises in heavy metal toxicity/environmental toxicity and is well known and well respected even overseas http://www.healthy.co.nz/healthy-developments-news-item-138.html. However, his homeopathy happens to be powerful and effective for even mercury, sometimes too much so. I had to stop and start on much lower dosing. He uses IV DMPS chelation apparently but does so in proper fashion without so many of the injuries caused by other physicians, but was hesitant with me due to my hyper sensitivity reactions. Ive used homeopathy before and had no improvements. With his, I found improvements. I think he knew exactly what he was talking abut.

But homeopathy aside, I went to other doctors- specialists as I mentioned in my previous post who did use chelation (DMPS IV, DMSA, ALA, etc etc) and again it did not work out, it made me worse. Their methods/protocols were similar to what I hear others being screwed up by.

I did not suggest everybody agreed with Cutler. But often the criticisms come by those that have often not even TRIED it or read his book. Nor can they seem to cite backfire effects as such...makes no sense given the help it's giving to many people like myself. You don't find such criticisms of those that have read the book and used the protocol. I'm sure some are out there, but I keep coming across more positive than much else! I have heard people misquote his protocol by exaggerating it or twisting it. Or simply making it seem ridiculous without citing Cutler's reasons for it. It was designed to reduce the risks of wild mercury movement, which is why it is taken every 3-4 hours around the clock. INconvenient as this is and hardly the manner anybody wants to take anything, it is the only way he's discovered to keep symptoms from becoming completely intolerable for many people. In years of work and experiementing on himself, he found this to be the most logical and it has shown to be exactly that.

How can more mercury go into the brain by Andy's frequent dosing? It's designed to reduce or even prevent this from occuring. Which is the entire point of the protocol. DMSA taken in high periodic doses or even low periodic doses results in a redistribution of mercury which then allows the mercury to go anywhere and everywhere, and often into the brain. DMSA does not cross the blood brain barrier itself like cilantro and ALA, but can increase brain mercury simply by infrequent dosing and enabling the mercury itself to go into worse and more sensitive areas. mercury has no problem passing into the brain and when mobilised, has much more chance of doing so - thus no doubt explaining the intolerable and often insane symptoms people can experience unless they keep blood levels of chelating agents stable and consistent.

This person you have quoted has not even been able to explain the problem with frequent dosing other than criticising it, without explanation.....this really doesn't mean much to me at all. Andy at least will go into depth to explain exactly what happens with mercury and why after years of study and experimentation he discovered the safest way of removing it from the body.

Do you think we just got sick and got straight onto Cutler? Most of us have already been around the block many times and often have already seen specialist in this field, before discovering that we could actually chelate without the risk of insanity or agonising symptoms and long term backfires from a guy less qualified.

Brain damage from frequent dosing? There is no sense in this, doing it this way has saved me many times from being carted off. Many who has tried his protocol would probably understand how it's prevented so much redistribution symptoms in them and reduced the risk for that redistributed mercury to wind up where we do not want it (brain/nervous system).

You only have to go on the frequent dose forum and ask questions there to find that out.

Andy cutler does not suggest chelating longer than a few months with DMSA and nor does he give massive high dose suggestions. Usually it is 3 months and then onto ALA.

Again it is about safety and results. Applying his advice, particularly for the most toxic and sensitive and finding it is more often than not the better tolerated and safer, is more than enough for me.

No it is not the only protocol out there and not the only one I and others have attempted to use. Frankly I find the frequent dosing irritating and inconvenient and nobody likes waking up at night to take a dose, but I know of no other way that reduces such high risk of other methods and for many this is the only method they can use...

If I could have stuck with other stuff I would have and so would anybody. It's amazing what people will do to keep things at a tolerable level and the inconvenient dosing far outweighs the inconvenience of severe backfire symptoms (pain is a great motivator).

Your protocol works well for you and no doubt others have had similar success. I am not downgrading that, but if people have been hurt by stuff like cilantro and ALA taken the wrong way, I think we're obligated to point that out if it's serious enough. I don't consider serious side effects or irreversible damage that Andy has mentioned a minor problem. I think it's worthy of reporting. I no longer feel at ease about suggesting other means when I don't hear enough reports on it.