RE: just completed first round. successful. have question.

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I once asked Andy if I could take DMSA during the day and DMPS at night in

order to sleep 8 hours. He answered that it would be a disaster. He didn't

elaborate, but I can imagine that each chelating agent pulls different

amounts of different metals. DMPS, for example, doesn't pick up lead, so if

I switched from DMSA to DMPS for the night it would probably lead to

redistribution of lead. DMSA doesn't pick up as much mercury as DMPS, so

every morning when I switched to DMSA, I would probably leave lots of

mercury atoms to be redistributed.

People have also asked if it wouldn't be better to taper off toward the end

of a round, and Andy has apparently said no, that would cause more

redistribution as well.

Dean

just completed first round. successful.

have question.

i've still not received my book yet but felt, because of the

information on this site that i could give the cutler protocol a

whirl.

i did 12.5 mg dmsa every four hours (not a minute over!) for four days

and except for some initial bloating (which i eliminated by letting

the dmsa powder dissolve in my mouth rather than simply swallowing

it,) i felt pretty good. i stopped the 4 day round last night. today i

took a wonderful sweaty hour long sauna and, although i feel a little

bit weird, fuzzy headed and slightly achy, i think the protocol worked

pretty well for me. something was definitely happening...

a conceptual question occurred to me; since the biggest problem is

this last day of the round, this day of freed-up mercury

redistribution, wouldn't it help to, say, four hours after the last

dose of dmsa, take some less " attractive " less strong chelating agent

for a day, something help to wind down, something that would sort of

help mop up the remaining mercury that was loosened but no longer

attached to dmsa. (i visualize musical chairs here:-)) y'know, a

chelating agent that isn't strong enough to pull out or dissolve

metals from body tissues but would be able to maybe attach to the

floating around freed-up metal before it got reabsorbed.

i told you it was a conceptual question :-)

~robin

ps btw thank you for running this site, very helpful!