Thorne Naturals Heavy Metal Support

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Well I saw the ND today and will begin chelating with DMSA (Thorne Naturals

Captomer) tomorrow again. We are starting with 250 and building to 500 mg a day

which she said to take a 250 once or twice a day. I previously, with excellent

results and no side effects, was taking 250 mg 6x a day (per Cutler's

recommendation for constant blood levels) though she had RX'd 500mg 3x a day.

That was back in 2002. She did not seem concerned about dosing every 4 hours

though she highly regards Cutler's book. I think I'll break the capsules and

dose it over 6 doses like Cutler recommends anyway. Is there an easy way to do

this? The capsules are so small as it is.

My main question is about a product by Thorne called Heavy Metal Support. It

has ALA in it (75 mg per 2 capsules) along with selenium, and many minerals.

She wants me to do DMSA one week and Heavy Metal Support the next week. I'm

concerned the ALA should not be taken without the DMSA. If I recall I stopped

using the Heavy Metal Support the first time around (mainly because I took DMSA

continually) and I'm wondering if it would be better to take them together one

week and just load up on individual minerals the other week. Or perhaps take

the DMSA on one week off the next and take the Heavy Metal Support all the time.

We do plan to add ALA to the DMSA in about two cycles if all is going well with

the DMSA. What do you all think?

Additional background - there is a section in Cutlers book that discusses old

exposures that are exacerbated by ALA - mercury stored in CNS and brain but not

easily detectable without a DMSA/ALA challenge test. At this point in time that

is me. I no longer have the symptoms I originally had and my amalgams were

removed already but I have severe endocrine problems (diabetes, thyroid,

adrenal), and MCS with some emotional instability that occurs with chemical

exposures. The MCS also causes what I call seizures or convulsions as well.

About a year ago I took ALA without DMSA and had EXTREME anger and depression

that lasted two weeks after I stopped taking the ALA. I'd taken it 3 days

before realizing my blurry vision, fatigue, erratic blood sugar/thyroid/adrenal

function, unreasonable anger, and depression were caused by the ALA.

I also have elevated ASL and AST in my last blood test and an EKG showing sinus

tachycardia with junctional depressions. My ND has copies of all of these. I

am also working with an MD who is an allergist that studied under Theron

Randolph and treats my MCS. I have sent him copies of my old hair test and will

inform him of the chelation I am following.

I am also curious if, after removal of all the mercury, anyone has experienced

improvement or remission of their MCS. I am trying to decide how to proceed

with my life as I've just been jerked off disability and my MCS makes it such

that I can't work. I have no income and limited funds on hand that will run out

in a month. My MD is in full support of me being completely and totally

disabled but the government is another story. My ND thinks I need to move to an

MCS community on the mainland or in Canada saying that she has had prior MCS and

mercury cases that went into remission when they moved so she thinks the

environment here is a factor in my continued illness. Essentially she said we

all react to different things and what is in the environment here may harm one

person and not another and that often change of environment helps relieve

symptoms and encourage healing.

What would you recommend I do and what should I expect with this chelation?

Lourdes " Sal " Salvador

salvadorlourdes@..., www.mcs-america.org , www.mcs-hawaii.org

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