I was using alpha lipoic acid for a few days. The first day I used it I reported in my journal that a pimple had formed on my face. On Wednesday after starting ALA on Sunday my blood pressure dropped so fast I had to go off blood pressure medication (ACE inhibitor and diuretic meds), it was 110. After five days I stopped taking it as my fingers were doing involuntary tremor, especially towards the middle of the finger group. Within two days of not taking ALA the tremor stopped and my skin is clearing. Probably my ALA induced worsened condition was from dislodging too much mercury without being able to eliminate it. Continued research and found more evidence linking one form of Alzheimer's to mercury fillings.

There was a study with squirrel monkeys indicating they had subtle but detectable lower cognitive skills, and readily apparent loss of motor skills after their mothers breathed mercury vapor during pregnacy, compared to other monkeys whose mothers did not breath mercury vapor. (Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 139:374-386, 1996)

As a child excessive salivation sometimes caused my pillow to be soaking wet when I woke up in the morning and continued to a lesser extent into my adult life. Today salivation is at a level so low I can only express gratitude. I had my Amalgams removed little more than five weeks ago.

Earlier I wrote that Hal Huggins treated dental patients from the U.S. Olympic Committee training center in Colorado Springs and that he reported they frequently had fewer than three Amalgam fillings and usually none. I reread the passage yesterday and found that he also included they seldom had more than two fillings.

Dave H.