Hi Steve,

From my understanding, there are a couple of very important factors in relation to ala in chelation. I felt really bad the first couple of weeks on ala, but now it's like taking asperin. No problems at all.

The first factor, which isn't universally accepted, but which I would swear by, is to wait three months after removal of your last amalgam filling before you start chelating. This is because, no matter how careful your dentist was, you probably have absorbed fumes through the mucus membranes in your mouth and even your skin during the procedure. (It's worse if you didn't wash your clothes and hair right away after the procedure). Chelating too soon is liable to aggrevate symptoms and make you feel worse. This is because (stop me if you've heard this one), ala is liberating merucury from your fatty tissues. Having a high load of periferal mercury on top of it can overload your system and make you feel unwell. I didn't experiment with this - I just waited.

The second factor is not to take too much, and to work your way into it. I started at 25 mg (half a tablet) per dose. I'm now up to 50 mg per dose, but I'm taking it in a very regimented way. The first couple of sessions were over a weekend, and now I'm up to one week on, and one week off.

The third factor is timing of your consumpution of ala. This sounds difficult, but is absolutely critical. You must take the dose every four hours, never being out by more than 20 minutes. I take mine at 6am, 10am, 2pm, 10pm, and 2am. It's not much fun to wake up in the middle of the night, but you get used to it. This must be done because the ala liberates mercury from your fatty tissues into your blood stream for roughly four hours. If you leave it longer than this, the mercury is begins to settle back, in whichever fatty tissues are nearest. If this is your brain, so be it. The key to effective chelation then is follow each course of ala with a healthy dose of Algin, which works on periferal mercury.

If you don't take lots of Algin (as I didn't the first time I tried this), I had the 'hangover' that I talked about, which felt a lot like I'd had a bottle of red wine the night before. Really awful.

About twice a week, I also take L-Glutathione (250 mg) which was recommended by Russ and Laura. It's important not to take this with anything else, even food, as it's oxidzed really quickly.

I hope this helps. ala can be not so fun, but this regimine is working for me like a charm.

Eric