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.
You know, friend.. I don't believe in Cutler.. (completely).
The first time i read his stuff i tought hmm, right, mhm, good points, sound right.... but after reading more... then it hit me that maybe he was somewhat halfly and misinformation agent... why?? because he's banning GOOD stuff!
so... as said many times before by some or many member here, Cutler isn't everything.. HOWEVER i know his protocol has helped many.
But it's just that, about taking Cutler or anyone else's (experts) word in completely that bothers me somewhat, well i'm not really bothered, wrong wording... But... If im right, Cutler says garlic can't chelate, and thats just a load of big biiig BS! Because i'm improving! And i got 1 huge amalgam left, and some smaller "hidden" dental cheats...
My head is clearing up each day... small down's and great up's, just from raw garlic! Ofcourse you Bex know this as we have spoken much about garlic and my health. We agree on one thing atleast about garlic, it DOES mobilize mercury!, but i say it also chelates! both body and head!! (My experience anyway), and it certanly also kills intestinal parasites (my experience).
Cutler... Cutler.. Culter.. He says to avoid garlic for safety, AND because it doesn't work for cheleation (his words) if i don't remember wrong..
He says garlic woun't do things that i have read it DOES!
And that info i read was highly advanced stuff about the metabolic reactions with some of garlic's compounds, such as selenium.... glutathione.. etc...
Cutler... ahhh... Cutler for president!... see my point... I respect his work and his lifeline for many, but, Cutler's word for gold..... no.... not me... Cutler's word for silver maybe... anyone's word for silver... Our own experiences for Gold!
Garlic is a complete chelation package deal in it self! Wholesale! For those who can handle it ofcourse.
It contains, selenium (precursor for glutathione), vitamine C, maganase, etc, etc, etc, look it up, all the things many of you guys and gals are taking in in IMPURE sumplementals, are in garlic naturally! Wholesale, with some lacks, but just some...
Btw... the great blood brain barrier... consider that in mercury poisoning, the BBB can be broken (somewhat, but not much?.. hmm).... can be broken...
And besides if the BBB is intact, i belive garlic helps mercury thru anyway.. if not the garlic itself, then via the glutathione the body makes from the selenium that the garlic provides! namely.
Detoxing the natural way..... Eating the precursors for glutathione.... Selenium... etc... And that can be from garlic! + The socalled sulphur stores...
Anyway, the sulphure building up of sulphur stores (theory) is wrong in my mind. I'we heared that you have to build up your stores of sulphure before and during DMSA cheatation.. BUT.. storage?? no.. it has nothing to do with storing sulphur.. It has to do added thiols from the sulphur to mobilize and bind more mercury! And the selenium to make gluta... to also activate the body's own excretion processes, and btw possibly the only way to excrete!
I'm saying.. that i don't belive even DMSA can excrete merc on its own had it not been for natural glutathione! That also applies for garlic and everything that mobilizes... However.. garlic has bioactive selenium in it.. and vitamine C.. Selenium helps build glutathione... So... See my logic???!
Wholesale?! Thiols, and selenium... and in NATURAL form! wholesale! GARLIC!! HURRAY!!
I also have started eating mung beans, and alfalfa, and even tried some ginger root... the real stuff.. not supplements... i don't know yet, but i know their functions and nutritional values.. I also use fresh red peppers btw...
Nowadays, constipation lessens and lessens every day. Head clears more and more.. feels more like me, back pain was even 90% gone the last week, but now it's "back" (hehe) again to 30% pain maybe... but head is clear.. Much less brain fog.. more seldom... Garlic! God's gift to me! only garlic, which Cutler damns!
Other explanation why my head clears up from garlic... Not beleving that merc crosses the BBB due to garlic or glutathion production from it.... Candida die offs??.. maybe... maybe.... but i think garlic detoxes both the brain and the body at the same time... if only a little..
Maybe i'm just one of the lucky ones.... Maybe...
I'm poisoned, but still... I'm so immunological STRONG that i don't even understand it myself sometimes...
The flu never gets me... 5% of the times when i let it hit on purpose or for not bothering to eat my garlic... other times garlic isn't even nessacary to stop the flu from developing with me. I don't even understand why i'm so strong like that, taking into concideration that i know i'm merc poisoned!
I have the arthritis symptoms currently... declining and changing every other day or week... But to my immagination or experience, they decline with felt mobilizement using garlic now and then... The stenosis never moves if i'm not touching garlic for some time...
But... loooong post... I'm me again mentally! And with lessened body aches too... JUST from garlic, and ofcourse staying far away from food additives!
One more thing.. you stagnated in detox Bex... Then tried some garlic from my advise.. You reacted positively to it if i remember.. It did something you said... And that was after DMSA didn't work anymore with you... so...
My conclusion is that garlic may be supperior to all those synthetic but powerfull chelators.. safer? that depends... but i belive like you said once before Bex, that if you take nature appart, and then reassembles it in a diffrent way, you miss out on things, and even endangers the user with it's use... generally.. so.. Garlic (natural form), cilantro (natural form), alfalfa, etc..... I belive theese can do stuff (chelate deep tissue merc), that DMSA cannot. if i'm correct... same with ALA...
So... Cutler.... well.. take him with a "small" pinch of salt.. small... because he appear to know what he's talking about... mostly.... mostly... but not everything!
I belive in garlic for detox the brain anyway. Remember that garlic also adds annother unique detox method.... Mercurial salts... Kidney's.... (maybe the salts crosses the bbb, i don't know, havent read into that).
Garlic for president!
Cheers!
Ole.
