Toraji -
Hi. I've seen your posts on NT so I know that we're coming from the same place nutritionally. I had the last of my fillings removed per protocol at the end of October and had been playing with "to chelate or not to chelate". I hate taking pills esp. chemicals/drugs so the idea of DMSA was not a pretty one to me. I seriously looked at a lot of natural chelators, but I kept running into nightmare stories of neurological consequences. I finally bought Cutler's book (35 dollars including shipping - he is in WA so you might get it cheaper). The book was worth the money. I learned a lot and was kept from doing some things that might have been harmful. I was also considering just ALA until I read Cutler's book. ALA chelates mercury from the brain and organs, but it isn't a one way street. Mercury could also enter the brain when using ALA. The purpose of starting with DMSA is to chelate a significant amount of extracellular mercury out of the blood before using the ALA. If you have high blood levels and use the ALA too soon you could actually be allowing more mercury to enter your brain
! Please invest in the book. This was one of many important facts that I learned.
Cutler's biggest point is to go low (dose) and slow. I started on the low doses of DMSA that he suggested this week and thought I was safe. I started 50 mg DMSA and increased to 100mg as he suggests. I had no problems. I went to this frequent chelation yahoo group
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...ose-chelation/
that implements his protocols and found out that many of them have injured themselves by using the amounts that I started on. They suggest starting at 12.5 mg and being VERY safe. Most of them sound much more toxic than I do and that might have more to do with the amounts of DMSA/ALA tolerated.
My supplements : High vit butter oil, high vit CLO, Rainbow Light Multi. NA ascorbate and biflav., adrenal organ supplements, and CA. I was considering selenium, but I get 200 in my multi and eat pastured dairy, eggs, meat, produce from my high selenium state. I also just started taking mag, zinc, B50and milk thistle per Cutler's protocol. I should also be taking molybdenum, but haven't gotten there yet. I want to vomit when I see how crowded my supplement cabinet is, but I want to do this safely and would rather take all these supplements plus DMSA for hopefully just a year than keep the mercury in my body.
Moneca