Re: When do I start ALA?

[Guest guest]

My personal feeling is that it's best to be very conservative in

adding ALA. Don't hurry it. I'm about to start round 13 on DMSA

alone, and I'm not even thinking about ALA yet. I may not add it

until I've done a year of weekly DMSA rounds. You are right that ALA

is a two-edged sword; it can carry mercury into the brain just as

easily as it can carry it out. If you have any doubts, or any

suspicion that your mercury levels are not yet WAY down, I would hold off.

Dean

>

> I have read the recommendations in AI and here in the files, and they

> seem to differ. Also, neither of them addresses the dump phase, which

> I'm in. I'm confused.

>

> What I understand is that your blood mercury level should be way down

> before starting ALA as it just opens the gate to brain mercury, letting

> it out ideally, but letting it in if blood levels are high. I'm flying

> blind here, can't do any blood tests, so I'm trying to figure this out

> using only common sense. In the dump phase, isn't my blood level way

> back up at the original levels since I never chelated until last week?

> Doesn't that mean I have to chelate with DMSA only for 4 months to get

> levels down, even though my amalgams were removed 11 months ago? And

> what about chelating with ALA after 4 rounds like it says in the

> files? Is it the kind of thing where it doesn't matter if some mercury

> goes into the brain initially, cause if you keep chelating it will all

> come out in the end?

>

> Help?

>

[Guest guest]

This has been a question for me as well ... as I have been chelating

using *only* ALA ... I've been doing fine with it other than a sore

throat on this last round ... but I am almost at the 6 month point.

If you look at Andy's chart I'm actually already dumping ... getting

to the " worst " point. I wish Andy would address this ... especially

for those of us wanting to go ALA only if possible.

>

> I have read the recommendations in AI and here in the files, and

they

> seem to differ. Also, neither of them addresses the dump phase,

which

> I'm in. I'm confused.

>

> What I understand is that your blood mercury level should be way

down

> before starting ALA as it just opens the gate to brain mercury,

letting

> it out ideally, but letting it in if blood levels are high. I'm

flying

> blind here, can't do any blood tests, so I'm trying to figure this

out

> using only common sense. In the dump phase, isn't my blood level

way

> back up at the original levels since I never chelated until last

week?

> Doesn't that mean I have to chelate with DMSA only for 4 months to

get

> levels down, even though my amalgams were removed 11 months ago?

And

> what about chelating with ALA after 4 rounds like it says in the

> files? Is it the kind of thing where it doesn't matter if some

mercury

> goes into the brain initially, cause if you keep chelating it will

all

> come out in the end?

>

> Help?

>