Dr. Hal Huggins claims that a vegetarian/vegan diet is counterproductive to recovering from mercury toxicity as a result of poisoning from dental amalgams. Specifically, he says:

"For those who are strict vegetarians, I must let you know that your progress may be extremely slow, if you progress at all. I strongly reccommend that you discontinue vegetarianism during your treatment period in order to allow the protein fractions in the blood serum to reach a good level. This can be done with eggs and turkey if you prefer to avoid red meats. In nineteen years of treating mercury-toxic patients, I have never been able to help anyone on a vegetarian diet. When people are in good health, they can maintain it on this diet, but for some reason unknown to me they cannot heal from mercury toxicity." (p.140, "It's All in Your Head").

I have two questions:

1. Does anyone know of any scientific studies to verify that Huggins' claim is true.
2. Has anyone personally either failed or succeeded in recovering from mercury toxicity on a veg*n diet?

Thanks very much for any input.