alpha lipoic acid (ala) can cross the blood brain barrier, which is great when a person is ready to begin chelating brain mercury. Because this stuff is one of the few that can actually get mercury out of the brain.

However, my experience with this stuff is pretty traumatic. I have heard that it should never be used if someone has had a recent exposure to mercury (say within the last 3 months), becuase it can take that new mercury into the brain with it.

But nobody seems to mention how dangerous it is also if you use it after you've used something else that may have moved mercury all over the place and into worse areas (like a garlic supplement in my case). I didn't know, that the garlic supplement would be the worse thing I could do as it really brought on acute mercury symptoms which to my mind was like a case of being repoisoned (in a worse way). I also did not know that this in turn would make ALA highly risky to use, so I used it not realising what would happen.

Everything got much much worse and it felt like the ALA shoved it all deeper into my brain and nervous system. To my mind, never use ALA after recent mercury exposure, OR if you've brought on acute symptoms from something else, or you are still too toxic in the blood and tissues and need to reduce them with something else (safe) first. Or you may regret it badly as I did.

I have mentioned this in other posts I've replied to regarding other things, and on a forum I belong to elsewhere, but wanted to type it up as a new post so others could read it, as I feel it is a very real risk when it's used at the wrong time.