Hi Stuart,

I think it does both. There's a dentist here who recommends garlic for his mercury toxic patients as a way to detox them. It also helps kills of candida/fungus/parasites. Though with parasites this can depend on what kind you have.

Andy Cutler does not consider garlic a help with mercury. However, it can certainly mobilise it in my experience and seems pretty potent to me. I don't use supplement garlic, because I've been injured by it (gut). But I'm ok on the food.

Apparently it makes metals, including mercury, water soluble, so they can be more easily excreted by the body. It also helps protect the red and white blood cells from oxidative damage caused by mercury and the like. Being high in sulfur however maybe a problem for those mercury toxic who are already high in sulfur and may find it causing too many symptoms (bouncing metals around too much). Those lower in sulfur may find it helps them feel better. Plus it contains natural selenium.