Hi Gawson,

That's exactly right. Just because one person maybe ok with it, does not mean it's safe for everybody else. Andy has usually been highly accurate in his statements and has studied this for many years in a lot of depth, even experimenting on himself first. He knows what he's talking about regarding mercury, and to me, more than most I know.

Yeah, I think he said those low in sulfur, may do well supplementing it. But those already adequate in sulfur, may find the extra sulfur is then used to mobilise the mercury. HOwever, I would also point out that I showed low in sulfur on a hair test, yet when I supplemented it, my symptoms of mercury increased too much and became quite intolerable.....so I assume that mercury perhaps goes where sulfur should be and supplementing sulfur then competes with the mercury and displaces it, so one gets an increase in symptoms.

I really do not understand what the actual cause is, but I do know that sulfur definitely can move mercury around. An increase in symptoms is not a bad thing because we expect that when you're detoxing mercury. But if things get too much and sulfur is really not a chelating agent as such, but a mobiliser, it is really worth the agony if the sulfur isn't really chelating the mercury properly? I don't know. I used to eat some anyway because I didn't mind some increase in symptoms as I really did feel that a bit of mobilisation wasn't always such a bad thing and perhaps it did enable my body to excrete a bit of it.

But as gawson says, pushing things too far, simply mobilises more mercury than the body can handle and you just wind up with redistribution/back fire effects which can be serious in some cases. Hindsight is always a good thing. And the impact of chlorella at times when I was highly mercury toxic was so bad, that I remember taking the stuff, mobilised mercury and I wound up a psychological mess, crying, screaming, pulling my hair and ending up between the wall and my bed and also shaking. Insane as it sounds, that's what wild mobilsing of mercury can do when it's been moved all over the place and there is no longer any control of any symptoms.

Who knows what damage those moments did to me, and whether more mercury then went into the brain and/or other more sensitive areas. Sometimes chlorella didn't do this as bad, other times it was horrible. Yet some people use chlorella and do wonderfully on the stuff, because it does indeed have an affinity to mercury. But as with anything, I was unable to cope with mercury being moved around. And of course, went back to Cutler's protocol again everytime because nothing else was really tolerated.