I have had horrific responses to ALA when I used it too soon after a recent mercury exposure. E.g. once when I had released metals from antifungal use (which equals recent exposure) and another time when I redistributed mercury from using garlic supplementation and then used ALA too soon after that, which made matters ten times worse.

both times ALA should not have been used, but rather DMSA or letting my body deal with it naturally for a few months before I tried ALA.

So if you had not used ALA until 3 months or longer after amalgam removal or other mercury exposure and this still happened? Then I would want answers from Andy, because that is very concerning. It is stated in his book that the body load of mercury MUST be reduced before adding a brain chelating agent like ALA. The fast pools must first be reduced before using ALA to get the slow pools of mercury out.

Jinx on here has had horrible reactions after using cilantro and it seems recently, after garlic (or could be the cleanse he did). Bad things with mercury easily occur and backfires are frightening. Had them with many things. Again I will say that Cutler's protocol was the safest approach for my healing from that condition because I was so toxic and sensitive.

I am sorry that it did not work out in your case. Everybody is different. Sosick does brilliantly on what she does and I gave it a go and it was not only ineffective, but stirred things up pointlessly without achieving anything.

Some people's systems are far more efficient at eliminating what gets stirred up than other people. I require frequent dosing in order to keep things even mildly tolerable.