@Bex: I have to break some news. You did not "finish" the detox. You merely scratched the surface of the problem.
Hi Manhatten.
Yes, I realise I never finished the detoxification, because at the time I "felt" well, I was still actively detoxing and getting very strong symptoms which told me there was still significant mercury present.
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.
You are correct in that I did not recover from mercury. Perhaps I should have worded it better by stating I was "recovering" slowly from mercury, but had not yet completed chelation.
However, it is no illusion that other serious problems came onboard near blocked/hindered my detox ability, and severely lowed my immunity, so that responses to chelation became almost non existent, even with high dosing (and this includes ALA).
Im battling a parasitic infection which becomes alot worse upon supplementation including ALA. Parasites are also difficult to test for and results are not always accurate (similar to mercury testing). Parasite cleansing is helping, but not killing them. I am unable at this time to take supplements at all, including ALA. I can only cope on parasite cleanses.
It is not ok for me to feed the problem, because the symptoms are distressing and rather serious. I am unsure how long I will have to cleanse for, but so far I have to "live" on this parasite clense in order to feel any relief.
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.
Thanks and I can see you're very knowledgeable about this method of chelating and the problem of mercury stored in the organs/brain.
I do not respond to DMSA anymore either by the way, so DMSA does nothing. ALA does not appear to either, but I have not been able to continue with it due to this infection and please understand this parasitic infection has been distressing and very difficult for me. Feeding it further has produced awful backlashes for me and I'm barely coping as it is. Cleansing helps, but has not gotten rid of it. This may mean eventually having to get strong medication/drugs to deal with it, but the problem of that is, you should know what kind of parasite it is so that it can be effectively dealt with. That is an issue when testing can produce false negatives, and the type of parasites tested for may not be the ones you have.
But yes, of course, I would be using ALA! I am well aware there is underlying mercury still present, even if I cannot get symptoms/results from using it, which maybe indicative of my body not responding properly to detox efforts. However, Andy Cutler has also mentioned the problem of cavitations in the jawbone which can block/hinder progress. This too maybe part of the problem. Diagnosis is not easy for this and neither is treatment. So I am honestly just doing the little bit I can to keep going.
I still have bottles of unopened ALA in the cupboard which I have been wanting to use, yet at this time, cannot do so. It is horrible to consider what the long term ramifications of mercury can cause. So yes, I believe that all these things I suffer have their roots in chronic long term mercury toxicity.
