Hi Sam,

I must correct you here and hope you won't take offense. Jinx has NOT declined horribly since starting ALA. Jinx has been declining horribly ever since his unprotected amalgam removal. I have been on here 3 years and kept up with Jinx's posts all the time.

I have also viewed the links you gave to Jinx's posts which also do not mention his symptoms or decline having anything to do with Andy Cutler's protocol/chelation.

It started as Gdawson said, with unprotected amalgam removal, exposing Jinx to an incredible amount of mercury vapor, which he has admitted never recovering from. Since this time, he has felt there has been MARKED deterioration. He has struggled for a very long time with horrible brain symptoms. This is well and truly long before he even started trying Cutler's protocol. He's tried alot of things and has often wound up with very bad reactions, even to things that might not affect other people.

Cutler's protocol has not appeared to have been part of this. Aside from the fact the ALA appears to flare up yeast in Jinx, as it does in me. Jinx is in fact now doing more regular ALA and has admitted that he feels in some areas it maybe helping, though he still unfortunately exhibits the same horrible symptoms. We all hope that in time they may begin to reduce. Certainly if ALA was causing marked deterioration, Jinx would have ousted it long ago as he did other things that made him MUCH worse. Yet he continues to keep chelating with it.

If anything, we have had quite a number of positive feedback reports on Cutler's protocol. I have posted testimonies on here more than once and we've had two such people recently (Linda Lou being one) keeping us up to date with their chelation progress/symptoms. SunshineP is one such member who is now feeling well, but still chelating with Cutler's protocol, which has been a big part of his healing. As well as other efforts with diet, cleanses etc.

I'm sorry if you feel ALA has made you worse. But taken at the right time, in the right way, it does not concentrate mercury INTO the brain, but begins to remove it FROM the brain. Again it must be used according to Cutler's instructions in order to gain the results Cutler speaks about and avoid the black lash that Cutler warns about. This means never using it with amalgams in place. Never taking it after a recent mercury exposure, or recent amalgam removal. Only using it after blood/tissue levels have been reduced (3 months or MORE post amalgam removal, but never before this time). And starting on very low doses, every 3 hours around the clock (even during the night) for a few days on and then a few days off as a break.

If one has not done this and/or is using other products alongside it that redistribute/mobilise mercury wildly, then they made need to re-evaluate the reason for their decline.

One must also take into other issues too that can cause worsening of symptoms. Chelating when one may still have a source of hidden amalgam. Or the typical deline in symptoms that occur after a time post amalgam removal. E.g. 6 months after, or for some earlier or later. I got MUCH worse a year and a half following amalgam removal. Yet I had not yet even used Cutler's protocol. I declined because stored mercury was beginning to leak back out and when this happens, it is like being repoisoned. I was blaming anything and everything at that time because I did not understand what was happening.

however, it is entirely possible that you may not have reacted well to his protocol, but just wanted to point out these things in case.

PS, I have used ALA in the wrong way before. Either too soon after a recent exposure to mercury. Or I used it randomly in a supplement and did not take it in frequent dose style. Both times produced awful symptoms. So I could hardly blame Cutler when I look back and realise what the problem was.