Re: Maintenance dose?

Hi Qwer,

A hair analysis (www.doctorsdata.com) may help to clarify things for you re mercury and lead problems ie whether you are excreting or are a poor excretor and whether your minerals are messed up. It's helpful to have one done before and after any sort of treatment to help gauge what's happening and what's helping.

If you mean general detoxification (when you say you've done lots of other things), that will make you feel better, but won't get rid of the metals as such (though will help protect against their toxic effects). I'm not experienced enough to know whether doing just a few rounds is enough, maybe it is for some people, though I would guess not as full chelation normally takes many many rounds.

When you say you have felt better, do you mean in terms of the aspergers or candida?

>> I'm not sure if I really have too much mercury, and if I do, I'm not sure if the excretion of mercury is defective due to genes or is curable

Personally, I don't think it matters whether you are a poor excretor due to genes or not. If you are mercury toxic, then you need to chelate anyway. I think the genes argument is too deterministic. I think heavy metal toxicity is caused by a number of different factors coming together eg poor diet, stress (weak adrenal, thyroid), exposure to mercury eg in vaccines, aswell as genetic susceptibility.

>> What I'd like to do is do ~8 more rounds of chelation, I think I would consider myself mercury free then

Curious as to why 8 rounds? I think the only way of knowing is if you are symptom free for a while.

I don't know if you are aware that DMSA chelates lead and B12 helps to detoxify chemicals from cigarette smoke.

That's great you're winning the candida war :-)

Anne