Re: Why Dr. Cutler is anti-sulfur in his protocol?

Consideration of some basic chemistry is helpful to understand his view.

He is not "anti-sulfur. He strongly recommends that people use sulfur very carefully.

There are different forms of "sulfur".

The form of sulfur in the heavy metal chelators DMSA, DMPS and lipoic acid is the thiol form, a sulfur and hydrogen (SH) group.

I don't have time to explain but I'll copy from another post.

The form of sulfur that is problematic for many of us is the thiol form, the SH group as seen here in cysteine.
http://www.worldofmolecules.com/life/cysteine.htm

The chelators we use have two SH groups positioned to better hold onto Hg.
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/othernuts/la/lastructure.html

Mercury loves to bind with SH groups.

Sulfite--with an I -- also tends to be problematic for us--see link below.

Sulfate tends to be beneficial for us and many or most of us don't make enough of it.

Mo= molybdenum. This tends to be useful to us toxic folks. see diagram below.

http://mercuryandmore.weebly.com/methylation-figure.html

Unfortunately many of us also have adverse reactions from intake of thiols, especially those foods and substances that have a very reactive thiol group. These thiol groups kick up mercury but are not very good at holding onto it. When Hg is floating around the body it is contributing to oxidative stress--damaging cell membranes, etc.

Cutler wants us to mobilize (kick up) heavy metals very carefully so they do minimal damage while we are removing them.

He strongly warns that kicking up heavy metals without enough antioxidants present will allow the HMs to find the parts of the body that hold on quite tightly and that are very sensitive to HMs!

Therefore we can end up like the mice in the Gregus study that excreted more Hg than mice not given ALA but they also had *more* Hg in the brain and organs than the control mice.
http://onibasu.com/archives/am/74605.html

Cutler warns that after "detox" we can have less HMs in us but *more* HMs in the parts of the body that are most vulnerable to them and that hold on very tightly, for example, the brain.

Cutler also mentions that a few people don't have enough thiol groups such as cysteine. These people will benefit from greater consumption, but again, done carefully.

ALA--lipoic acid--tends to cause an increase in the body's pool of thiols. Some people who are not so sensitive to "sulfur" thiols can become sensitive when using generous amounts of ALA for detox.
http://livingnetwork.co.za/chelationnetwork/food/

You might check out a couple of audio interviews with Cutler

J Davidson.
http://zentertainment.org/podcasts/zentertainment96.mp3

M Schauss
http://www.letstalkrealhealth.com/dr-andrew-cutler-phd-mercury-detoxification/

Thinking Moms Revolution
Part. 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQvwWoFUWA
Part 2. http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/thinking-out-loud-tex-and-dr-andy-cutler-part-2/

Also I don't know what problem is causing your poor eyesight but you might be interested in this talk by Dr J Tennant, the doctor who did most of the testing of lasik eye surgery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_k1BNenl_c
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