Re: Risk with Taking ALA? Andy?

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It's difficult to answer these without soundling like I am blowing you off as

going through

anxiety driven gyrations. Hopefully the below helps.

Anxiety is most likely a large part of the problem and I do suggest doing

something about

it, e. g. GABA or kava kava, or ask your doctor to help with it.

> There are questions I've had that I don't find answers to:

>

> Is there a degree of brain toxicity wherein ALA chelation is not a

> good idea?

Not when you are still able to type at a keyboard, much less make sense.

>When should one decide not to attempt chelation?

Two situations:

life expectancy isn't long enough to make it worthwhile, e. g. less than 5 or 10

years.

The person has such severe psychiatric problems that there is no real likelihood

they'll

comply for long enough to get chelated so all you are doing is torturing them

and

encouraging a situation where they might hurt themselves or others or get into a

lot of

trouble.

> I ask this because I really, really react to ALA.

Try to figure out why rather than jumping to conclusions.

> Does ALA free mercury out of cells in the brain,

Correct.

> but not necessarily

> bind to each particle of mercury and escort it out?

Correct. Nothing can possibly do this, it is against some very basic laws of

thermodynamics.

> Why and when

> would mercury particles free up so that DMPS or DMSA is needed

> (which doesn't help in the brain)?

They would free up in the bloodstream, and be captured there, biasing diffusion.

> And finally, if some mercury is

> freed in the brain but not necessarily escorted out past the blood

> brain barrier, isn't there some risk it will connect with previously

> healthy neurons and destroy them?

Only if you chelate improperly. They already got lots of mercury from the

initial exposure.

Proper chelation will reduce that amount.

> I don't want to be slowly replacing one type of brain damage, i.e.,

> endocrine, with worsening of another form of brain damage and

> accelerating something like Alzheimer's and/or MS.

Nobody else who chelated properly experienced that, and there is no reason to

believe it

could happen based on theoretical arguments.

> Thanks,

>

> Joanne

>