Schedule - aka A Day in the Life Of

[Guest guest]

Hello,

I'm looking for detailed information for a sample schedule so I know

when to time my dosing of DMSA/ALA and supplements.

Does something like this already exist? If so, where?

If not, could someone share a typical dosing schedule.

I guess what I want to set up for myself is a list of times, what I

should take, and how much. In particular, I get that I have to take

the chelation agents every 3 or 4 hours, but I don't know when to take

the other supplements of Zn, Ca, Mg, Probiotic, Multivitamin, or

Nystatin, cod liver oil, etc.

Thanks,

Janet

[Guest guest]

Janet. You just want to spread them out through the day as much as you

can. It's really the same principle as spreading out the chelation

dose. So, fat soluble vitamins like Vitamin A or fish oil, you could

even take every couple of days and it wouldn't make any difference, but

water soluble vitamins like Bs and C, you need to take as regularly as

possible.

So, my multivitamin comes in 6 caps / dose. I just take one with each

DMSA dose, for example. My zinc comes in 50mg/dose and I take 2/day -

so I just take one every 12 hours. My electrolytes (in which I include

vitamin C), on the other hand, are mixed with water & juice, so I just

drink that through the day. Some people use a lot of vitamins in powder

form, so they mix them up, figure out how much is needed per day, divide

by the number of chelation doses in the day, and give that much per dose.

You see?

You have some leeway here, because you wont' do damage if you don't give

supplements uniformly through the day. On the other hand, it can make

things a lot more comfortable. When I started, I just took a handful

once a day. (It's difficult to explain how you can know that it's

better to spread it out, but still not do it.)

Dave.

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Posted by: " rbg3boys " janetgess@...

Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:14 am (PDT)

Hello,

I'm looking for detailed information for a sample schedule so I know

when to time my dosing of DMSA/ALA and supplements.

Does something like this already exist? If so, where?

If not, could someone share a typical dosing schedule.

I guess what I want to set up for myself is a list of times, what I

should take, and how much. In particular, I get that I have to take

the chelation agents every 3 or 4 hours, but I don't know when to take

the other supplements of Zn, Ca, Mg, Probiotic, Multivitamin, or

Nystatin, cod liver oil, etc.

Thanks,

Janet

[Guest guest]

Yes, I see. It is more convenient to take altogether, but I worried

about some interactions.

It seems like if I give minerals then chelating agents, then they

will pull the minerals, but if I give agents then minerals, then I

won't; but maybe it all kind of mixes together in short time anyways.

Thanks for your help.

Janet

>

> Janet. You just want to spread them out through the day as much

as you

> can. It's really the same principle as spreading out the

chelation

> dose. So, fat soluble vitamins like Vitamin A or fish oil, you

could

> even take every couple of days and it wouldn't make any

difference, but

> water soluble vitamins like Bs and C, you need to take as

regularly as

> possible.

<snip>

[Guest guest]

> > Janet. You just want to spread them out through the day as much

> > as you can.

I forgot to add that, even when I'm not doing a round, I still kind of

stay to the every-3-hour schedule to some degree. It's just that

instead of taking the DMSA/ALA I try to take vitamins, minerals or

aminos I might need.

My body clock is being set on the rounds and so it's helping me to

encourage that off-round too -- keep that internal clock going. And

since I sort of " wake-up " every 3 hours now on round and off, I figure

I might as well use the same schedule to do something good for my

overall condition.

~robin

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your post Dave.

Pulling good minerals is the argument people use to try to convince

us not to chelate. That's why I was concerned about timing of

supplements.

I appreciate your help and just hope I don't confuse others with

some of my questions.

Janet

>

> Ah, I see. No, that is not the case with the chelators we use. I

> understand that EDTA can chelate some light metals, and so taking

care

> to supplement on round is important (maybe there is a timing issue

also,

> I don't know), but that is not the case for DMSA/DMPS or ALA.

>

> Dave.