Guest guest Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 The half life of ALA is maybe close to 30 min. It is quickly converted by the body to DHLA. It is the DHLA that does the chelating and has the half life close to 3 h. The half life of DHLA is what is important to people who are chelating with ALA. In the chelation groups we simplify things and say that we need to take ALA at 3 h intervals in order to keep blood levels of ALA constant, when technically what would be more correct would be to say in order to keep blood levels of DHLA constant. J > > This has been driving me crazy but I did some general research on ALA > online and it says its half life is only 30 minutes. Here's just an > example link but I found a ton of others: > http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69117.cfm > > This is really very discouraging to me (I haven't started chelation yet > but am just gathering all the info I can) and was very startled to see > this info. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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