I was inspired to do some research on Algin after I discovered that iodine has been used for heavy metal chelation. Iodine is in seaweed and Algin is seaweed, SO doesn't that make Algin a chelator of some sort? I realized this after doing an experiment - I realized that some times I wake up feeling okay and then after taking my morning supplements I get a headache and start to go downhill so I started taking each supplement individually to see what was causing it and low and behold it was the Algin. I stopped it for 2 days and no headaches! I think it may be that I was taking too much at this time and it was pulling the mercury out with it. So I looked it up and found this similar product with seaweed that they have marketed for heavy metal chelation:

http://sassebabies.blogspot.com/2008/03/chelation-heavy-metal-removal-wake-up.html

Interesting? I think I will try to reduce my ALgin and see how that goes.