Re: Exposure to mercury many years ago, go with ALA instead of DMSA?

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Finkle - comment below.

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finklemcgraw <http://profiles.yahoo.com/finklemcgraw>

Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:19 pm (PDT)

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>As a side note: when my Crohn's flares up, it actually helps to do

>some chelation with ALA! The last few times when I've felt a " flare "

>coming along I've started a round (~50 mg ALA every 3rd hour), only to

>see the flare diminish within a couple of days. I know from experience

>that these flares typically last much longer and become much worse if

>I do nothing.

>A second side note: I actually don't KNOW that my health problems stem

>from mercury. Maybe the root cause is some other metal. Or something

>completely different! I guess I should have a hair test done to shed

>some light on this...

Well, if your symptoms are indeed relieved by chelation, then you can be

fairly confident that mercury is involved, as ALA would not be likely to

have an effect on symptoms unless there are metals floating around. If

it were me, I would just keep experimenting in this vein, on a proper

chelation protocol, of course, to see if ALA appears to reliably stir up

or relieve any other symptoms. You can, of course, do a hair test if

you want; but old exposures, as you are describing here, can sometimes

be hard to detect by any means other than trialing chelation.

>Regards,

>Finkle

Dave.