Hi stevie,

You're welcome! Thanks for your information too!

Yeah, I experimented alot in the early days because I didn't know any better, plus I wanted to find out what suited me personally, as I know everybody is different. So I had some horrific reactions to just about anything and everything that had the ability to mobilise metals and yes, chlorella was one of those.

I had bad experiences with DMSA also, just as bad actually, but that was because I was not taking it appropriately. I was taking it indiscrimmanently and of course, mercury would be redistributed elsewhere and I'd get awful symptoms.

Once I started using it Cutler style, it was a totally different experience. Though I still felt rough during the rounds of chelation, it was more tolerated and less psycho! I only had symptoms like tiredness/achiness/fogginess in the head and sometimes nausea etc and yes, if the dose was too high, or I was taking it for too long, sometimes the symptoms would increase to a point where I simply had to have a break. But there was none of the horrible psycho symptoms that I had with the inapproriate dosing or mobilising products. And once I started doing this more and more, I noted more improvements and coming faster! Though diet/exercise/supplements all played a role in aiding healing during that time too. Even the hot baths I had to help sweat out toxins!

I reckon the exercise should be ok, so long as you feel ok with it? If a person is overdoing it and they feel woozy/sick and much worse after the exercise, then they maybe mobilising too many toxins for their body to handle in one go (e.g. intense jogging/aerobic work outs). You will know your own limits by how you feel afterwards. That's really good that you can do what you're doing and all power to you. I'm personally all for weight bearing exercises! Great for the bones/muscles and circulation etc. You can adjust accordingly. Slow things down or change the type of exercise - moderate it more if you need to. If you're ok as things are, then I see no reason to change it personally. Just go at a pace that suits you. No, I don't see that it would make the chelation less effective. The chelating agents will be going through your blood stream and elsewhere grabbing mercury (free floating and stored) anyway, so it's designed to grip onto it and escort it out. The key is to reduce redistribution by the proper protocol. If the exercises are creating too much redistribution, you'd feel it with the symptoms it creates. Key is, how do you feel after you've worked out? Feeling a bit tired is fine, but it's when you get some really awful symptoms that you know you've stirred up too much junk at once.

I need exercise. I realised when I was nearly entirely sedentary that I was unwittingly doing more damage than I realised. Once i started getting more active, I noticed detox symptoms and they weren't intolerable, but rather encouraging and I started to feel a bit better, so I've kept it up ever since. Even if I don't feel like it, I feel i desperately need it to aid my body in circulating and flushing toxins out better.

Yes, I have heard of mercury poisoning from eating high mercury containing fish! Tuna is one. So that is a possibility for sure that you could have increased your load from eating alot of tuna. I remember when I used to eat a can of tuna every so often, I'd be bedridden for the rest of the day with mercury symptoms. I soon learned I tend to steer clear of fish - apart from molecularly distilled fish oil supplements.

I'm surprised you could handle the dosages and dosing of the ALA as you described! If you're high in mercury, that's quite something. Then again, we're all different! It's probably wise that you didn't continue on that particular protocol, because damage is not always immediately apparent and things can hit later on. But again, your body may handle it differently than someone else might. I am hypersensitive and I cannot eliminate toxins properly, so any redistribution is almost immediately apparent and the symptoms are acute. Someone else who may have better equipped and functioning detox pathways may not have such a problem. They call people like me "pathological detoxers". Not a good way to be. Liver phases are imbalanced. So garbage comes in, gets made into a more toxic form, but the garbage out mode is not working properly, so garbage which is now in a more toxic form builds up and stays in system - I get poisoned easily and stay poisoned for a long time after even a mild exposure to toxins (e.g. cigarette smoke). You can see why people like me would have to be extra careful in how they mobilise/chelate their toxins out too! One wrong move and it's all bad!

If you have a high level of mercury on testing - it can mean you are indeed toxic, but also can mean you are actively eliminating mercury. If you have definite mercury toxic symptoms, but show low levels on testing, that maybe a bad sign in that it may indicate retention toxicity (not actively excreting the mercury, rather retaining it instead). So it's not showing up in the excretory areas as it should if one were getting rid of it. So it's difficult apparently to get an accurate idea of what is going on with testing mercury. One idea is that mercury usually screws up mineral levels and hormones, so that in itself can be a strong indicator that mercury is at work, even if testing for direct mercury levels is not giving expected results!

Great post on the frequent dose group by the way! I hope you will find helpful info there too! Ask questions if you need to, because they're real knowledgeable about all this stuff. I'm just not up on that kind of thing as they are. I've picked up the basics over the years and from some experience with my own toxicity, and some reading, but I'm not overly technical minded!