gdawson, do you know if DMSA or ALA will pull mercury out of the thyroid? My most troubling symptoms are mental/emotional and I want to be working on that with ALA. It would be quite some time before I decided to stop the ALA and just use DMSA along with high doses of iodine. If my thyroid is likely to be cleared over time anyway, chelating as I'm doing now, then the iodine can wait.
ALA will literally pull mercury out of anywhere. It crosses cell walls very easily and will enter every organ and gland in the body, including the thyroid. It may not be a fast process, since we have stores of mercury all over the body that need excreted. and it doesn't just target the thyroid.
My plan is to get small amounts of iodine (maybe like 300-500% RDI) while I'm chelating, and once I get more resilient I will use higher doses of iodine.
