Re: oral chelation clarification - protocol contradiction?

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>>Did I also read somewhere that most ill people are low in glutathione?<<

Dean, I don't have the exact post, but I recall Andy making this statement that

all chronically ill people have low glutathione. It stuck in my head because I

am low glutathione. And I don't remember which board I read it on either. I

read the A-M board, and Andy used to post there more frequently last year, and

that may be where I read it.----------Jackie T.

>>Perhaps others can clarify how mercury is detoxified by the body without

externally providing chelators? For example how is it excreted in the hair? How

do some people like the dentist in Hair Test 2

www.livingnetwork.co.za/healingnetwork/hairtest.html are able to be exposed to

massive amounts of mercury and have no deranged mineral transport and feel

subjectively well. What is his body using to excrete the mercury (he was not

taking any chelators at the time) and feels as fit as a horse.

Thanks,

Dean<<

Dean, I don't get all this chemistry stuff real well, so not sure if I can

explain it well enough, but here's what I understand about this. We have

different genes or blood allelles I think they are called, that have to do with

our ability to detoxify metals. You have two, or a pair, that determine this.

They are APO-E2, APO-E3, and APO-E4. The APO-E2's are good excretors of metals,

the E3's are in the middle, and the E4's are poor or non-excretors of metals.

They have found E4's in people with Alzheimers. So your dentist in the above

example probably has two E2's and is an excellent excretor of metals. So this

also explains the wide variability in who gets mercury poisoning and who

doesn't, and why the amount of exposure can vary. Some of us are just more

genetically susceptible to it. It would be an interesting test to have done,

and I don't know why you don't hear about people doing it. I think I asked one

doctor and he told me it would cost about $500, but didn't encourage me to do

it, saying it wouldn't help anything. But I think it would be very interesting

to know, and if I win the lottery I'm getting it done!-------Jackie T

Re: oral chelation clarification - protocol

contradiction?

>Would like some clarification on the oral chelation as outlined from Andy's

protocol:

>http://www.livingnetwork.co.za/healingnetwork/oral_chelation1.html

>My question deals with the sentence: " NAC (N-acetyl L-cystiene) is a widely

available glutathione precursor that has the >ability to directly bind and

excrete mercury via its single thiol "

>Notice the words directly bind and excrete. I would like to know if portions

of this document were copied from another >source and which ones were actual

writing of Andy? This line implies that a single thiol can bind and exrete

mercury from the >body. Later on in the section it goes on to define chelators

as: " Chelators are identified by the presence of two dithiol >groups.

Hi,

You are correct, the wording it is misleading and can be mis-interpreted. This

was copied from another document and is NOT Andy's words. I will ensure it is

updated to be more clear.

Maybe others can clarify how the body deals with mercury in the healthy

non-toxic state. My understanding is that it uses the glutathione pathway in the

liver to clear mercury from the body. Andy shows the liver phase 2 pathway on

page 42 AI and says 'toxic metals' are conjugated in it. This is not the same as

chelating which is a strong bond. DMSA is not a naturally occurring compound.

ALA is, but is found in nature in only small amounts.

So I believe it is correct to say that in 'pre-toxic' times before dentists

and vaccines the body used glutathione to " move " the small amounts of mercury

that it encountered out of the body and also used ALA to " chelate " small amounts

of mercury out of the brain and body.

In modern time perhaps our glutathione pathway is overrun in some with all the

mercury it was never designed to deal with. We therefore have to use chelators

in un-naturally high amounts to reverse the damage. And if you are low

glutathione then you need to use NAC to help. Did I also read somewhere that

most ill people are low in glutathione?

Perhaps others can clarify how mercury is detoxified by the body without

externally providing chelators? For example how is it excreted in the hair? How

do some people like the dentist in Hair Test 2

www.livingnetwork.co.za/healingnetwork/hairtest.html are able to be exposed to

massive amounts of mercury and have no deranged mineral transport and feel

subjectively well. What is his body using to excrete the mercury (he was not

taking any chelators at the time) and feels as fit as a horse.

Thanks,

Dean