What actually causes the dizziness? What chemistry?

April 20, 2008

I'm on 3rd dose 12.5mg DMSA/6mg ALA every 3 hrs. Gradually feeling some

dizziness. Not too bad but there.

Is the slight dizziness a sign I have too much ALA, that I might be

doing some harm to myself?

Also is the dizziness caused by Lipoic Acid letting in too much mercury

to the brain from the body? Or is it an electrolyte thing, mineral

imbalance or ?? Why dizziness?

~robin

April 20, 2008

Also, if the issue is that using ALA in a body w/ Hg still in the

bloodstream allows mercury to get into the brain, I'm not sure I

understand how lowering the dose of ALA would help. Why would ANY dose

of ALA be okay?

Hope I phrased that right: How can lowering the dose of ALA solve the

specific problem of mercury getting from the bloodstream into the brain?

~robin

April 21, 2008

In frequent-dose-chelation robin wrote:

Also, if the issue is that using ALA in a body w/ Hg still in the

bloodstream allows mercury to get into the brain, I'm not sure I

understand how lowering the dose of ALA would help. Why would ANY dose of ALA

be okay?

---------You are correct, if the body burden is still high, then you shouldn't

use any ALA yet. Andy explains it in AI, that it is a two way street, ALA will

carry mercury into and out of the brain. That's why he recommends waiting at

least 3 months before starting ALA, and why you can help lower your body burden

those first few months by using either DMSA or DMPS.

Now experience seems to bear out that not everyone has lowered their body

burden enough in 3 months to be able to use ALA yet. That's why if people get

too many side effects from ALA, we suggest they either drop it or lower their

dose, to see if that helps.

Some of us take months or years before tolerating ALA. I tried it last fall,

which would have been 2+ years post amalgam removal, and 6mg knocked me flat! I

think part of my problem is that I have very high arsenic too, and the chelation

I had done with DMSA didn't remove any of it. So there can be other factors

involved too for different people.----------Jackie

Hope I phrased that right: How can lowering the dose of ALA solve the

specific problem of mercury getting from the bloodstream into the brain?

~robin

April 22, 2008

Robin - you can expect exacerbation of old symptoms or some new symptoms

on chelation. Symptoms are caused my mercury moving - and chelation

does that.

If this really bothers you, you can try vitamin c spread out throughout

the day, and some vinpocetin (nubrain.com). That might help.

I don't quite understand you question on the second post. The point of

ALA is to make the BBB permeable to Hg. When Hg is on the body side of

the BBB, the body has an opportunity to get rid of it. That's why you

don't want to use ALA if the density of Hg on the body side is higher

than the density on the brain side - which is the case when you have

just removed your fillings, for instance.

Dave.

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Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:31 pm (PDT)

I'm on 3rd dose 12.5mg DMSA/6mg ALA every 3 hrs. Gradually feeling some

dizziness. Not too bad but there.

Is the slight dizziness a sign I have too much ALA, that I might be

doing some harm to myself?