Originally Posted by JK98
The high hair mercury level means that your body was excreting plenty of mercury. I guess you were taking plenty of ALA before this? Those who are most mercury toxic are those who excrete little mercury. Being able to do a 13 day round at a high dosage with minimal side effects means you probably already got rid of much of the mercury.

Don't increase the DMSA dosage too rapidly, as it can cause diarrhea. Imo the max dosage for DMSA should be around half a mg per pound, even though some say to take up to 1 mg per pound. DMSA might be what caused the bloating you experienced. NAC can also cause digestive side effects. DMSA is much less toxic than DMPS,however it is still quite a bit more toxic than ALA. Also keep in mind that DMSA does an even better job chelating lead than mercury(it also chelates cadmium and arsenic) so any chelation symptoms you experience when increasing the DMSA dosage could be due to mobilizing these other metals and not so much from mercury.



Hey JK!

How have you been?? Hope health is good!

I think you were bang on here as just finished 3 rnds now and for past 2rnds dont feel any difference between on or off, no detox symptoms whatsoever and this is at 125mg of ALA but will increase too 200mg next rnd just too make sure!

So intially had thought the b12 had brought out mercury symptoms but now in retrospect it was the sudden increase of b12 that caused the side effects, think i will have too work it up slowly with b12. I read that with mercury it lowers b12 too the bottom so adding such high dose b12 suddenly can give some folks side effect/detox symptoms even though we need it.