Sans...

Thanks for clarifying... I might add MSM then towards the end of my colonics and after a few liver cleanses...

Oh Anne - you have no idea! For some reason, this mercury thing has sent me COMPLETELY over the edge - the way that no other new treatment idea has. I'm usually so sanguine about these things, but not this time.

I dunno what it is... I guess I resonated really strongly with the symptom description of merc. tox (even though its very general and vague). I don't even have Amalgams for Pete's sake!!! A couple of things just really got to me - like check out my hair-test results after years of organic eating:

Calcium: 130 (ref range 200 - 750) LOW
Magnesium: 10.9 (ref range 25 - 115) LOW
Zinc: 88 (ref range 100 - 250) LOW
Selenium: 1.0 (ref range 3-6) LOW
Chromium: .15 (ref range .2 - .5) LOW
Sodium: 12 (ref range 10 - 50) (very low end of normal)
Potassium: 6.8 (ref range 2 - 2) (very low end of normal)
Selenium: 1.0 (ref range 3 - 6) EXTREMELY low
Phosphorus: 92 (ref range 100 - 170) LOW

talk about deranged mineral transport...



I think the problem is that the treatment is serious, has serious negative consequences, I can't find many testimonials about people who recover after doing chelation (one or two here and there), and nobody can even agree on the slightest part of the Hg chelation procol.

you hear that chlorella and cilantro is the way to go, and many expensive new meds like NDF and PCA-Rx are chlorella and cilantro - but the one scientist out there who seems to have any chemistry credentials (ie, Cutler), says cilantro and chlorella will leave you a shriveled up corpse!!! AAARGHH.

And Cutler's approach takes YEARS! and I haven't found many positive testimonials for his chelation protocol either, btw. Maybe they're out there - but I'm missing them...


I gotta calm down... should I just chill out and forget about mercury and go back to my comfortably ineffective yeast-killing approach? HELP!!!

CL

Hi Sans,

Aaarghhh!!!!

I spent all day reading today.

Cutler is a chemist - and he's real into the known, measured chemical actions of different molecules. ALA has a known chemical makeup. You can measure and quantitate its ability to bind to mercury and the time that it remains in the body (ie., its "half-life"). Cutler's protocol is to take ALA every 3 hours! even at night! (so you have to wake up at least twice/night) for a few days and then a few weeks off...

he does it this way to maintain a steady blood-plasma level of the ALA during the "days on" - the theory being that the ALA will bind and mobilize mercury and bring it out of your tissues and even out of your brain. but it does not bind tightly (btw NO CHELATOR binds tightly). Any chelator will bind mercury molecules and then drop them randomly. The key to actually eliminating the stuff is to keep a steady dose of new chelator in the blood to mop up the molecules that have been mobilized but then "dropped" by the chelator - if that makes sense.

so, IF you are mercury toxic, and you take ALA in a big dose, 1 / day say, and you kept it up for a while - you would expect to feel worse. you are basically mobilizing the mercury out of your tissues, but not keeping a high enough level of the chelator in your blood to remove it - so the mercury gets redistributed to other tissues where it does fresh damage... if you feel significantly worse on a single dose ALA - you probably do have some mercury problems.

the reason that Cutler says "chlorella kills" is that its pharmacokinetics are totally unknown... what is its halflife? how much mercury does it really "chelate"? does it mobilize more mercury than it binds? No one knows these things. (we do know scientifically that cilantro definintely does chelate mercury, btw - but no one knows how or what its half-life is or how to dose it safely, apparently - Cutler thinks cilantro is really dangerous.)

now, this is all JUST THEORY. we think we know so much - but no one really knows how all these delicate interactions work... I haven't read any posts from people who say they got worse on chlorella - just the contrary. It's interesting you say you did read one. But Cutler gets tons of email from folks messed up on chlorella and cilantro cures (at least, Cutler SAYS he does...).

What's dangerous about merc. tox is that the effects can hit you gradually or later on, depending on what tissues/organs your body decides to dump the stuff into... i imagine if you were getting more merc. in your brain, you'd feel an increase of psychological type symptoms, but I don't know. I wouldn't really worry about it.

I mean, you have to calm down (or at least, I clearly need to calm down :), and remember that ALA is sold over the counter and thousands take it everyday without dropping dead. Thousands of people are taking chlorella too - its a popular supp. If it were really sooo bad there'd be reports, don't you think? Also, people in Asia and Mexico and other places eat large amounts of cilantro every freakin' day! How dangerous could it really be?

I dunno. i typed too much - i'm racing again tonight. sorry. all i can say is don't let a bunch of egg-heads stop you from taking something you feel is so good for you - but have as much knowledge about it so that if you do have a negative response - you'll know which supps. to suspect...

AAARRRGGGGHHHHH.

best,

CL

Now that is interesting. I am hearing all this about Chlorella making people go, and it did not have that effect on me, even at my megadose. Curious. . . . But glad it works for you all that way! Actually, tho, now that I think about it, I have been very stopped up due to toxicity until very recently, and I thought it was better 'cause of colonics, but now am thinking maybe Chlorella has played a part too. I am going from barely able to move bowels to almost regularity. Maybe if you are already in the "ok" range it takes you to diarrhea. But, it was not immediate. I have been on the Chlorella about 2 months now, and am just now getting the regular movements.