Have you looked at the work of Andy Cutler? www.noamalgam.com

Frequent Low Dose

I've been using DMSA for 5 years. I don't believe their neurotoxic proposal. Like anything, it needs to be used properly. Preferable on a frequent low dose oral protocol. Taken every 4 hours for 3 days, followed by 4 or more days off.
The same for alpha lipoic acid which can be used by itself but is taken every 3 hours.

You should not take dmsa non-stop for months or in high doses. That's where they probably encounter their problem.

I have been away from this forum for 5 years. In that time I removed my amalgams, chelated myself and two kids. Began a safe chelation/biomed website and forum. We assist parents with chelation for their autistic children all the time with dmsa/ala or dmsa or ala on our forum. It's all about how you use it. It does not remove minerals unlike EDTA but you should take some basic antioxidant vitamins while chelating just to help you feel better.

I find a lot of misinformation online about chelators but most of them seem to fail to consider pharmacokinetics.

Part of the flaw I see with this website is that Clay baths do not remove metals from your brain. We have had many parents think they were chelating their kids with these baths but their hair tests never showed any improvement, and neither did the kids. In fact, some of the clay is itself contaminated with heavy metals.

DMPS is ok for mercury, but you have to have a prescription. It only removes mercury and nothing else, so if you happen to also have Lead or cadmium...you need DMSA. And for some reason we find people/kids seem to have more symptoms on DMPS.
Buttar's patients end up coming to my forum to do Andy Cutler chelation.

the site looks weird to me, where is there anything about the author or organization that put it there? ah well...

just my view of things based on my experience recovering toxic children and myself. Best of luck to you on your journey!

Jan (used to be Metal Mouth Mom)