Would you please give us an update, everyone? How are you guys doing?


@Bex: I have to break some news. You did not "finish" the detox. You merely scratched the surface of the problem.


Unfortunately this is merely an illusion. You have _not_ been able to recover from mercury _yet_. You did not use ALA but only DMSA so your body is still full of the mercury even after all these years.

I feel for you. I know what you are going through. Really.
In an attempt to keep toxic metals out of the bloodstream, the body seems to allow cells and the brain to suck it up. When you remove amalgam fillings and chelate with DMSA or DMPS, you only clear the blood and anything outside of cell membranes of mercury. You feel better but you are not detoxed yet.
After some time the body will start dumping mercury which was up to this point trapped within the cell membranes, back into the bloodstream. It happens by itself. But now the chelators are gone. Your liver will be still unable to excrete mercury on its own and so you get poisoned from within all over again.

Now, you could of course repeat your detox using DMSA and get better. The problem is, the brain sucks up mercury at 6x the rate of other organs. Your real problem is in the brain. Sadly, our brains take on the job of a toxic waste dump site in our bodies. Your health problems will likely only get worse over time. The brain cannot detox. It cannot dump the mercury like other organs do. You must detox your brain using Lipoic Acid (BTW, the body makes a small amount of Lipoic Acid by itself, just not enough to detox such huge amounts like those still present in your body).

There is no other way. Lipoic Acid is nature's own perfect chelator, invented by our own bodies for this very purpose. We need to supply it in a pill because we don't make nearly enough of it in a lifetime to detox the huge amounts of heavy metals we carry around in our bodies.

The bottom line is this: You must chelate using ALA for as long as it takes for your symptoms to disappear, plus about a year more. DMSA is only a decoration to maket his process more bearable, but what really heals you is Lipoic Acid.
There is no other way.
The cavities must be taken care of too, but cleaning up the cavities and not doing the ALA detox only sets you up for more trouble later.
Also, if you happen to have dead teeth (a.k.a. "root canals"), get rid of them immediately. If these teeth had ever seen a mercury filling, they will still be full of that stuff.

The brilliant thing about the Cutler Protocol is this:
- it is a two-phase chelation: first the blood (DMSA or DMPS), then the inside of cells and the brain (ALA)
- it keeps the amount of chelators in the blood constant to avoid redistribution (thus every 3hrs for ALA, every 3-4 for DMSA or 8 hrs for DMPS), then lets you take a break to recover
- it lets you use alpha lipoic acid, our bodies' own perfect chelator, to remove mercury from the inside of cells and the brain
- it allows our bodies to make repairs and minimize the damage due to a generous intake of supplements

Good luck! And please give us an update.

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