Honestly if you read enough messages it comes down to how you react to it.

Keep in mind his STRICT suggestions are for very young Autistic children incapable of communicating effectively about effects...

Yeah, I thought the main purpose when they developed DMSA was to chelate lead?


here's something I should have posted here earlier, but I doubt this is news to Newport. The use of calcium and ascorbic acid along with DMSA.

From Here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/82n737633756070m/



Yingjun Liao1, Jun Zhang2, Yaping Jin3 , Chunwei Lu3, Gexin Li3, Fei Yu4, Xuping Zhi4, Li An4 and Jun Yang4

(1) Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, P.R. China
(2) Department of Public Health Management, School of Professional Technology, Liaoning College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, P.R. China
(3) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, No. 92 Beier Road, Heping District, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110001, P.R. China
(4) Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, China Medical University, Shenyang, P.R. China
Received: 4 August 2006 Accepted: 18 January 2007 Published online: 8 February 2007

Abstract The aim of this study was to explore the therapeutic efficacies of combined use of meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) with calcium and ascorbic acid in the treatment of mild to moderately lead-intoxicated mice. Female albino mice were exposed to lead by drinking water contaminated with 0.1% (moderate lead exposure) or 0.05% (mild lead exposure) lead acetate. After the cessation of lead exposure, mice were supplemented by gavage with saline solution, 50 mg/kg body weight (b.w) DMSA, 100 mg/kg b.w DMSA, calcium and ascorbic acid, or 50 mg/kg b.w DMSA and calcium as well as ascorbic acid, respectively. Atomic absorption spectrophotometric method was used to analyze lead levels in blood, bone, liver, kidney and brain. Activities of blood δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) were determined by colorimetric method. DMSA supplemented alone could reduce lead levels in both soft tissues and bone and reverse lead-inhibited activities of blood ALAD in mild to moderately lead-intoxicated mice. On the other hand, combined use of DMSA with calcium and ascorbic acid achieved better therapeutic efficacies in mobilizing lead in blood, liver and kidney, and reversing lead-inhibited activities of blood ALAD in moderately lead intoxicated mice than DMSA supplemented alone. Moreover, the better therapeutic efficacies were also found in mildly lead intoxicated mice in mobilizing lead in blood and bone achieved by combined use of DMSA with calcium and ascorbic acid. Combined use of DMSA with calcium and ascorbic acid seems to be the better choice in the treatment of mild to moderate lead-intoxication.
Keywords Lead intoxicated mice - Meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) - Calcium - Ascorbic acid - Lead body burden - δ-Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD)


Yaping Jin
Email: jinyp@mail.cmu.edu.cn

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"i thought i had read that DMPS does chelate lead. well, here is what i found. it would appear that DMPS does chelate lead from these two studies. one on humans, one on rats...."

Cutler does not recommend DMPS for lead. Of course not everyone tolerates DMSA, esp in the early months of chelation.

can you show me any proof or scientific studies or any evidence at all that zeolites chelate mercury? i would really be interested in reading this.

and, by the way, i am sure that if some evidence does exist then its not confined to just one book.

found this of interest

http://autismdiva.blogspot.com/2006/06/next.html


Here's the GREAT Boyd Haley writing recently on zeolite and mercury:
" I thought I would share this information with you. A week ago I received two vials of NCD, or zeolite from two suspicious mothers who thought it might contain mercury. We have tested it. The good news is that it does not contain any detectable mercury.

The bad news is that it does not significantly remove mercury from an aqueous solution. This was tested by centrifuging down the zeloite and adding to it a 1 ppm mercury solution, re-suspending the zeloite and letting it set for several minutes, centrifuging it back down and re-testing the mercury content of the water. It did not decrease which it should have if the zeolite material bound Hg2+ tightly. Therefore, if zeolite is having a positive effect it is not by removing mercury
from the body.

Additiionally, it seems very unlikely that a water insoluble material would have any direct effect on removing mercury from cells, mitochondria or the brain. How would it cross the intestinal wall, enter cells and
mitochondria and do this? It would be good to read the data referred to in
a recent email I received that stated "Further, since other animal and human studies with zeolite have demonstrated the ability for zeolite to remove heavy metals, a portion of the participants will receive a series of urine excretion tests designed to detect levels of heavy metal excretion."
How exactly will a non-water soluble material like zeolite cause urinary mercury excretion as shown in previous studies? If the negative charges on the insoluble zeolite really did bind mercury it should take it out via the fecal route. I would like to see the data from these studies and find out where it was published.

I am not suggesting other not do this study, but this looks very much like many previous "miracle mercury cures" that just takes a lot of money from the unsuspecting parents who are looking for any help for their child---I have seen several of these----and they all had studies showing how well they worked, but this data was never published in a decent journal.
Feel free to share these comments with others.
Boyd __._,_.___"

There is no solid proof that zeolite can chelate mercury at all. Only marketing hype, so far that I've seen. Any credible data?


Edit: okay now I see the data. But would it be an effective replacement for DMSA or DMPS? what are their effects, as in side effects, when used in the human body.

Only thing that I have against zeolite is the lack of research(not enough) of it's effects on humans. Though the few instances of in vitro testings seems promising. Still, DMSA and DMPS is time tested and effective in humans while zeolites have not been tested in such a way.


Whatever chelating agent you choose to use, you should always concentrate on making sure you have the necessary building blocks to repair your body. Eating good high quality foods and the elimination of bad ones should be of utmost importance, the basis or foundation of health. More important than chelation treatments.