Hi Steve,

Thanks for sharing. Wow, you've really done a heck of a lot for yourself. Sounds like you've got a good plan in place.

Boosting glutathione is great and it does increase detox. I got enough from just being given a good quality vitamin C powder with bioflavanoids and some selenium drops. I had to actually back off and reduce or stop initially because the symptoms were so strong, but at the sametime, i could see improvements just from that alone (in my earlier stages of mercury poisoning after amalgam removal). At that time I didn't know much about the proper protocols or much else in fact.

I would imagine (though I could be wrong), that your strong reaction to boosting glutathione levels with those supplements, "may" be attributed to the the NAC itself, as well as the boosting detox. NAC can, with some people, cause very strong reactions and that maybe due to the redistribution of mercury. I think it is to do with sulfur. So you may need to be careful of supplements high in sulphur, as they can stir toxins up too much. Even selenium in some people is not well tolerated because selenium can also displace mercury. Though in some people like me, I did well on it for awhile and it helped me, though also created symptoms. other times I didn't tolerate it well. So I guess it depends what stage and state a person is in.

I have heard that B12 methylates mercury and can make things worse. I honestly don't know the truth of it or this methylation business. I really don't. But if it made you worse, you kind of got your answer there, it's probaby not for you.

I'm always dubious in taking hormones of any kind, as I have heard they can create a kind of dependency on them and the body can shut it's own down further due to getting it elsewhere. I don't know, as I'm sure they do help people, but I'm always nervous about taking hormones.

What kind of diet are you on? wheat/gluten/yeast/sugar free can be very helpful to mercury toxic people, who are so often troubled by candida/parasites/gluten intolerance and may find great relief from avoiding products containing these in their diet. My health improved ALOT from getting these things out of my diet, even though I was still very mercury toxic. Doing that alone kind of saved my sanity (and probably my life, since I had suicidal thoughts from being so horribly toxic). It reduced the massive yeast load in my body, lightened the toxic load I was already carrying ,helped me detox more, helped more healing take place and my depression lifted quite substantially and energy improved. Hair/skin/eyes all improved in health and appearance. So diet can play a very big role in helping us toxic people cope and heal better. I found that vitamins/minerals were helpful, but only as a complement to the diet, or I was unable to gain much good from them since I couldn't absorb them properly until I was on the diet for long enough.

Hal Huggins recommends mercury toxic people get enough protein in animal meat and eggs and enough salt and fats from butter to aid their healing also. He found that he was not able to achieve the same results with a vegetarian for some reason.