I have to agree with 40 yrs here, the oxidative damage from mercury is pretty horrendous to say the least (that includes the necessity of increasing essential fatty acids as well, which mercury depletes). Aside from mercury, we are living in an environment that is also depleting us everyday and we are not getting enough from fruits and vegetables (picked early, sprayed etc).

I remember when I was mercury toxic and I wasn't really on supplements I must admit. I was pretty much staying the same daily. I was just poisoned, but not really getting anywhere. A good doctor prescribed me just 2 items from a reputable lab. Vitamin C powder (with all the bioflavonoids) and selenium (I added natural vitamin E later myself which also helped). At any rate, just the vitamin C and selenium alone caused such a reaction of detox, that at first I was alarmed. I had to back off and reduce the dose.

My body was obviously needing this so much, and it must have increased the antioxidant powers considerably (raising glutathione) because the detox reactions were marked. Just from these alone (at that time), I was already able to increase some of the metals coming out of me (the more accessible ones) and improve my overall condition. Diet was important too of course.

I added vitamin E later as I said, which also made a difference and I pretty much used these three antioxidants and was helped tremendously by them at that time. They were part of me healing from metal toxicity. Though they may not directly "chelate", they indirectly did by increasing my body's antioxidant powers. I also added hot baths to this with epsom salts or baking soda and sea salt to help sweat some metals out. I then later added walking/rebounding (as I could tolerate it) which also increased metal elimination via the pores and improved circulation etc.

To chelate the metals more thoroughly, I wound up using DMSA (cutler style) which also helped get them out of me. But I took breaks from this and kept up my diet and antixoxidant routine.

I eventually healed from mercury toxicity (mostly anyway). I was healing more and more as time wore on, though I think in retrospect I did things probably a bit too slow, but this was because I was intolerant to the mercury and had trouble excreting it (as I do any toxin), so the pain of detox was too much and I always had to break from it and recover.

The supplements are VITALLY important I believe now that I look back and it was also vital that I had good quality sources of them, because ones that I had used prior to this had not given such great results as the ones from that lab (in new zealand). The vitamin C powder alone caused detox symptoms, that I had to break from it, try again on reduced dose. I must have been healthier then, because that's all it took to encourage detox. Whereas now, with the viral infection I have, I don't tend to get such results from anything.

Hg is very bad, but it can come out with our efforts. 40yrs, out of curiosity, what supplements were or are you taking? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> 15 years younger sounds darned good to me.