Bex: Anyway, keep us posted on how you do with the ALA. Because according to Cutler, this is the key chelator for reducing organ mercury, which is exactly what you want to do. DMSA is great also, but it's apparently better with reducing blood/tissue mercury (extra cellular mercury - mercury on the outside of cells). It's not so strong with intracellular mercury (mercury on the inside of cells).

Jeanie: Hi Bex, may I ask your opinion and/or anyone elses who wants to chime in. I have never tried just using ALA, but that sounds like more what I need. If my mercury is definitely in my glands and, I suspect, brain....would the ALA, then, be more effective? Can you give examples of what is involved if the mercury is intracellular vs. extracellular? (What conditions either would indicate?) Thanks much!

I have to admit, I have been slipping. I've had more sugar since really working again (in the form of "health food chocolate, but more hungry, too, for some reason - I know chocolate is not my friend....seems to affect cortisol levels - I don't do well with stimulators) but also discovered chinese "rice" noodles for salad (but they also have some wheat). My hormones are all over the place, too. Just stopped an over 2 week period, (finally tried my progesterone cream... hadn't used it cause I had no idea where I was in my cycle) so it could be partly that, but I want to cry more..... No doubt a contributing factor.... Its interesting to note how I react, though. (And I've been more aggressive on here *as if* you hadn't noticed...in a negative way). It is a full moon tomorrow, too, and there are other outside mitigating factors, but just the same - I myself am more reactive. I need to go very very slow if I do start to chelate. (And I am afraid of losing my mind.....