I am very experienced with detox. I had my 9 Amalgam fillings removed in July 2000 and have had a remarkable recovery.

My Mercury Amalgam Story:
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I highly recommend you don't take cilantro until all Amalgam fillings have been replaced. I also highly recommend taking Algin with ANY chelator to help prevent mercury in the digestive system from recirculating. I have used it and have had dramatic results.

I and my business partner who had 19 fillings replaced have bad reactions to cilantro if it was not taken with Algin.

Info in Algin:
http://hocd.herballure.com/?MID=82035583318233555026&AID=4568476189...

Generally speaking, sulphur foods can mobilize mercury so be careful (ex. eggs).

The problem with cilantro is that we don't know too much about it. We don't even know what component of cilantro is doing the chelating. Some people have positive experiences if they use it in a limited or controlled way, but far more either have no visible effects or negative experiences.

Cutler recommends cilantro only if the individual has a strong allergic reaction to lipoic acid. ALA is the only thing that we know for certain will chelate mercury past the blood-brain barrier in a way that is clinically significant, but needs to be used in small dosages around the clock every 3 hours, generally for 3 days straight followed by 4 days off. Most people on the Yahoo group suggest that you start off with no more than 12.5 mg of ALA, which is less than can be found in any supplement on the market. So you have to cut it and recapsule it.

Since cilantro has some repute of also crossing the blood-brain barrier, Cutler suggests it as a last resort, to be used in a way similar to ALA. Problem is that we don't know enough about it, whether it is beneficial or if it just moves mercury around without removing it.

I'm glad that there is a lot of talk about Cutler lately, so I'll quickly sum up what is the core of his basic therapy. You take chelating agents at timed dosages based on their half-lifes in the body. ALA is only active in the body for 6 hours, so you take it every 3 hours to have pretty much a stable amount of it for the chelation period. That cuts down on redistribution effects. If you go for 3 days straight, that is 72 hours of cleansing with only point in time at the end where the mercury is redistributed. And you use small amounts that, while still cleaning out the body over time, don't prompt severe symptoms, particularly when you do stop at the end of a chelation round. Similar approach is used with DMSA and DMPS.

This is much safer than taking a big dose of DMSA every other day, not to mention some of the other really, REALLY scary things like DMPS injections.

If anyone wants to learn more about Cutler's protocol, go to

http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/

In short, I read if you eat cilantro it should be in addition to taking chlorella. While cilantro is capable of mobilizing heavy metals, it cannot dump them entirely. According to Dr. Klinghardt a renown specialist in Seattle, said that cilantro must be taken in conjunction with chlorella to ensure complete removal of heavy metals. Please refer to the link below.

http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/new/9steps.htm

Cilantro mobilizes mercury and allows it to cross cell membranes, similar to lipoic acid (ALA). It is better to use cilantro with a chelator, like chlorella or porphyrazyme, or DMSA. Also chelators can cause adverse effects through redistribution of mercury while one has amalgams, so better not to do chelation with Amalgam or metal crowns over Amalgam in the mouth.
In such case, one should take lots of antioxidants like Vit C, E to deal with the free radicals released by the mercury which can cause many chronic conditions.

http://www.flcv.com/indexa.html

This is for reference in case anyone does a search in CZ in the future.

Problem #1: Chelating should never be done when mercury (or the offending heavy metal) is still present in your dental Amalgams or in your environment. It will make you feel worse and you won't get anywhere. Removing your dental work (root canals) and your mercury fillings (using an IAOMT or Huggins trained dentist only) is the first step.

Problem #2: Cilantro, chlorella, NAC and one one thiol chelators should not be used as your first chelator. As explained in Cutler's book, they don't bind strongly enough to heavy metals and tend to redistrubute instead of eliminate heavy metals from the body.

Problem #3: ALA crosses the brain-blood barrier and should definitely NOT be used until mercury is clear in your blood (at least 4+ months after your fillings are removed and 3 months after you've been chelating with DMSA only). ALA will help you the most, WHEN YOUR BODY IS READY. The PROBLEM with ALA crossing the brain-blood barrier is that mercury goes both ways... if the rest of your body is still toxic with mercury, more mercury can actually go into your brain. Also, ALA should be used in conjunction with DMSA to minimize side effects and mercury distribution.

Problem #4: Chelation should be done in cycles (of 3-14 days). Chelation should not be done all of the time because it also depletes you of minerals your body needs. But it can't be done "here and there" because you promote mercury redistribution instead of elimination from your body.


If people just read his book, they'd know all of this. Mind you, Cutler really needs to revise it so that the average person can follow it.

Anyway, thanks for your word of caution, practical experience is always appreciated.

Quick question about the cilantro danger. I wish I read this earlier. For 2 days this week I ingested a large amount of cilantro - about a lb. Is there anything I can do to reverse the damage I may have caused? Iodine with salt? I am really concerned. THX!

I ate cilantro daily when I was pregnant and my son was born autistic- he had no vaccines -I had six very old large Amalgam fillings in my mouth - I believe the cilantro pulled Mercury into my blood and brain damaged my child- wish I knew better. How can I detox him?- he is 9 ½ yrs old now is a very high functioning Autistic- child -some problems w/ speech - will start a sentence sometimes a few times until he says something the ways he wants to -also sometimes will just say words that don't make a proper sentence but w/ the inflection he wants. He also is compulsive turns all the lights on and puts things "back out" once put away. See him on youtube.com/smartkidsmom.