Re: Kirkman's versus Vitamin Shoppe ALA

[Guest guest]

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> We've done about 70 rounds, using Vitamin Shoppe ALA tablets...

And are you seeing progress in terms of improved health and symptom

reduction that you attribute to ALA chelation?

[Guest guest]

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> While some supplements are truly different between manufacturers, it

seems that

> ALA is not. At least according to our old friends Andy & .

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> Dave.

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Thanks, Dave. Yeah, I think I remember reading something like that in

some older posts.

But it's interesting that Kirkman's site claims the following (much of

which may just be their marketing angle):

" It is important to use a high quality lipoic acid to get the desired

effects. There is a lot of poor quality product imported into the

United States which may not be pure or fully potent. Kirkman uses

exclusively LIPOEC® brand manufactured by The Schroeder Group in

Germany. In a comparison test of LIPOEC® against eight other

manufacturers' lipoic acids, the LIPOEC® product surpassed all others

in purity and exhibited a potency of 100%. "

I wonder how objective and sound this so called comparison test was,

and how they measured " potency " . I suspect their potency measure had

nothing to do with mercury chelation, but rather with ALA's

anti-oxidant properties in general.

If enough people have provided positive (long term) reports using a

variety of ALA brands and forms (tablet, capsule, gelcap), then maybe

it really doesn't matter much at all for long term chelation success.

But the part of me that suspects there may indeed be subtle

differences that we're not aware of has led me to use Kirkman's ALA

capsules recently. But I've also done some rounds with Vitamin

Shoppe's tablets and GNC's gel caps, as a hedge I guess.

Darren

[Guest guest]

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> If enough people have provided positive (long term) reports using a

> variety of ALA brands and forms (tablet, capsule, gelcap), then maybe

> it really doesn't matter much at all for long term chelation success.

>

> But the part of me that suspects there may indeed be subtle

> differences that we're not aware of has led me to use Kirkman's ALA

> capsules recently. But I've also done some rounds with Vitamin

> Shoppe's tablets and GNC's gel caps, as a hedge I guess.

>

You can test this yourself.

Do some rounds with each brand and keep notes on side effects and any

other observations. Be sure to use exactly the same dose and same

timing for each trial.

Then post the results to the group. Perhaps someone else will do the

same.

> Darren

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