Hi Katson,

I'm thinking that mercury goes to the weakest links inside you and whatever genetic weaknesses/tendencies or whatever accidents/illness you have, it tends to get in and make a bad situation worse. I have also heard a person somehow battling mercury quite well until an illness or accident occurs and somehow after that, they can't figure out why they feel poisoned.

Sometimes it just takes an extra knock of some kind to slip into chronic symptoms.

Not sure about the iodine....what was causing the runs could be anything. You may have been taking too much perhaps? It could well have been a detox reaction though, but it's hard to tell. I wouldn't like to say either way for certain...since I'm not certain!

I would just take enough each day to ward of deficiency, but monitor the dose perhaps, in case reactions like that occur again. Detox is good, but not where it causes ongoing diarrohea (if that's what was causing it). You can become deficient in minerals/nutrients if that's long term.

I think the ALA will be the real test in this regard. It will indeed be interesting to see how you go whilst not on it. Some are better on round than off, others are better off round than on!

Keep us posted!