I recently spent lots of time on the Marshall protocol study site. http://www.marshallprotocol.com, its a very good place to study chronic diseases. One thing you're wrong about Bex, is that pathogens are extremely persistent. E.g. a chronic mycoplasma infection takes YEARS to clear, and it is not identified even, it goes unnoticed in the vast majority of cases by mainstream medicine.

People on the Marshall protocol use anti-biotics + D-vitamin lowering drug called Benicar, in a frequent dose style manner in phase 1. This bears much resemblance to the FDC of the Cutler protocol. At the Marshall study site they have people being cured from any chronic diseases, just name it: diabetes, bipolar disorder, sarcoidosis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme... It is quite clear that it is pathogens that are responsible for the chronic illnesses (because anti-biotics are used) and not mercury like Andy Cutler claims. I've spotted Andy on an MS forum, saying that MS (Multiple Sclerosis) is caused by mercury, and people there got angry about such a statement, because some of them removed their fillings but didn't get cured, not even though many years passed after their removal.
Some also do not have any mercury fillings, but yet do have chronic illnesses like MS.

Immunopathology is the keyword they use on the MP site for Herx reactions. People on anti-biotics get metallic taste, pain flare ups, chest pains, tachycardia, heart palps, etc. Metallic taste for one thing is definitely caused by various things, I've seen people with kidney failure get this also, and people getting too much acetaldehyde in their system.

Finally they think that mercury is not a matter at all on the MP site, and do not advise their patients to take away their amalgam fillings. Fish oil (contains Vit D), and vitamin D is poison according to them, because it is an immunosuppressive steroid. Avoid it!

What goes for mercury, it is immunosuppressive too, but at the same time an anti-bacterial agent. The reason why some of us get sick from mercury fillings while others do not is probably not that we have faulty immune systems, but rather because we had some pathogens from the beginning in our system, that mercury made much worse. I know for sure I had mycoplasma before I got my mercury filling and it didnt go away apparently, just lying there dormant, causing too little problems to be noticed even. Just look in your past before you got any fillings, you probably had some subtle problems before you got your fillings.

Mycoplasma are rather benign bacterias compared to Lyme for example, but they are damn persistent, and can cause every chronic disease in the world. They can also multiply in your system, like mercury cannot do, once you remove your fillings. The mercury-pathogen relationship I suggest makes mercury even more dangerous than "mercury causes everything", because then the amount of mercury in itself is not the crucial factor that determines your condition, but rather the time of exposure, and the exposure can be so small, that your body is able to excrete everything, leaving nothing more left than your pathogen farm (because mercury allowed the pathogens to multiply).

My own immunopathology went exactly like they described (after mercury removal) on the MP site (once you start on their protocol), symptoms flared up, when your body starts clearing up the infections. You will notice pains everywhere, at places which have never bothered you before, even in the jaw and in teeth, kidneys, joints etc. This is not mercury. It is not even the bacterias themselves, but rather the response of your immune system that creates this. Dead remains of bacterias that float through your liver causing back pain and gallstones, in amounts that is completely unrealistic to blaim mercury for.

It has to be said that I do not agree with the MPists about not being necessary to remove your fillings. That's the least thing you can do, but it may not be enough. The reason is that pathogens can make your vit D status in body very high, and shutting down your immune system. Then you cant ever get well by removing your fillings, but have to go on the Marshall protocol. They have hundreds of patients on that site, with some success stories. The time to get well is the same as from amalgam illness, several years.