You can actually get depression from mercury elsewhere in the body. It does not have to = brain mercury. I don't know if I believe the theory that if the body is detoxed, the brain will automatically start dumping mercury.....

How I wish that were so and I'm sure others do too. I have heard of a few people now that got to a point with their mercury detox and could not improve any further. Come to find out, though they had detoxed their body regions, their brain still must have contained significant mercury. ALA was the ticket for such people.

I detoxed a lot of my body areas, but I believe because I did not chelate the organs/brain, that the mercury remaining was an accident waiting to happen. Brain mercury is very bad because it's the control center. Immune problems, yeast issues, hormones etc, can all be related to brain mercury. mercury can certain cross OVER the bloodbrain barrier, but it does not tend to come back out.

Cutler does not believe the brain detoxes by itself. perhaps a certain amount over a lifetime would come out, but is anybody willing to wait that long for a bit of mercury to come out? Certainly chelation appears to be required for those with significant brain mercury. Those who do not have this, may find themselves cured simply by detoxing their body mercury.

It does depend where the mercury is. Cutler does not believe that DMSA chelates organ mercury significantly. But is more of a chelator of extra-cellular mercury and is great to use early on in the programme. Some may need to use it for longer, as I was still getting symptoms from DMSA for AGES, so I never really got onto ALA...perhaps I waited too long?

Problem is, once my system was severely compromised by a virus and later dental work (extraction), my body no longer responded to detox/chelation the same way. Prior to that, i was still having powerful reactions to detox and improving by the year. So certainly, remaining mercury, even if one "feels" better, can still be a ticking time bomb.