Hi James.

This takes some explaining, but pls read this post from Andy Cutler:

"Glutathione is your body's natural antioxidant and mercury is an
oxidation catalyst, so mercury uses up glutathione and leads to
reduced levels.

Glutathione has a thiol group on it which mobilizes mercury and
causes the mercury to be more toxic, so increasing glutathione
levels makes whatever amount of mercury is present be MORE harmful.

Thus there is a tradeoff, and you want the RIGHT AMOUNT of
glutathione for your body's needs. Not just more and more - you
don't want too much any more than you want too little.

Some people's bodies respond to mercury by making more thiol
containing things like glutathione and cysteine. For these people
they need to REDUCE their intake of everything sulfury to keep
levels down.

Other people's bodies respond to mercury by having low levels of
glutathione etc. and they need to INCREASE their intake of sulfury
stuff."

taken from here http://onibasu.com/archives/am/2470.html

The important bit of this post is the last two paragraphs. It helps to read it a few times, took me a while to get it!

My body reacts to mercury poisoning by making large quantities of glutathione and cysteine, so I need to reduce my intake as my body is already making enough. It does this because I am stuffed full of mercury.

These sulphur foods, or thiol’s, mobilise mercury but have trouble escorting it out of the body. So if I eat sulphur foods, this goes into my body, picks up some mercury and moves the mercury about….. without excreting it. Because most of the sulphur foods are single thiol’s (I think that’s the correct way to say it) it does not hold on to the mercury very well…end result is redistribution of mercury. The redistribution can go anywhere in my body and it hurts me.

I used to have serious trouble with sulphur foods, but 5 months since I have gone amalgam free and its not as bad anymore. I am reluctant to test sulphur food again, although avoiding eggs is a real pain in the bum and I need to pluck up the courage to test out eggs.

I hope that kinda makes sense….