ALA

I have a question for Marc about ALA.  Are you using it along with NDF?  My wife wants to try ALA, but is now taking NDF+.  She is fine with about 8 drops a day and may continue to increase dosage as indicated on the label (progressively over time).  She no longer has amalgams.   Mike


     

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> I have a question for Marc about ALA.  Are you using it along with NDF? 
> My wife wants to try ALA, but is now taking NDF+. 

No, since I get side effects from every chelator, I will only take one
at a time. However, "one at a time" may mean that I take ALA on one
day, and then NDF on the next day.

Marc

> > I have a question for Marc about ALA.  Are you using it along with
> > NDF? My wife wants to try ALA, but is now taking NDF+.
>
> No, since I get side effects from every chelator, I will only take one
> at a time. However, "one at a time" may mean that I take ALA on one
> day, and then NDF on the next day.

Oh, and I should stress (again) that if your wife is thinking about
trying ALA, she should be very careful about the dosage. If one does
this according to the "Andy Cutler protocol", then one takes this every
3 hours (8 times per day) over a period of 3 days or more, then takes a
break of 4 days per more. Plus, the individual dosages are smaller than
any ALA sold in stores -- like only 10 mg per dose to start with,
adjusting from there to tolerance. I've been experimenting with doses
to find out where my tolerance is, and I got some headaches and other
problems at 1.5mg x 8 = 12 mg per day. Right now I'm trying 0.5 x 8 = 4
mg per day, which seems tolerable so far. I'm getting small-sized ALA
capsules from an online compounding pharmacy in South Africa (a long way
to ship!):

http://livingnetwork.co.za/zencart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=65_67

But I see that some people use capsule-making machines, or weigh out
doses with sensitive scales, etc. Certainly it would be cheaper to do
it this way, and I'll probably end up doing this way myself once
I figure out a good dosage (assuming I stick with it).

And to remember to take the capsules, I've got a small, battery-powered
timer in my pocket that vibrates every 3 hours:

http://www.invisibleclock.com/

No ES symptoms from this, fortunately. Although I've got to figure
where to place it so it wakes up me but not my wife at 1 AM and 4 AM.

This protocol certainly wins the prize for being the most difficult
way to detox mercury... :-)

Marc

Maybe that explains the extreme reation I get to eating chocolate when I'm doing a round of ALA. These days I'm on ALA constantly as I've got enough of the mercury out of my body that I don't get the bad reaction to it anymore and know how to deal with those reactions when they do appear. Plus I feel better when doing the ALA than when I stop. But I can not eat chocolate which is high in copper. I grabbed some chocolate ice cream by mistake last Friday and instead of throwing it away I went ahead and ate it. I have such a reaction to it. I ate chocolate all my life and never had a reaction to it. I thought it was a synergistic effect between the mercury and the copper as the toxicity symptoms are identical. It makes me extrememly creative but it make me crazy at the same time.

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> Maybe that explains the extreme reation I get to eating chocolate when
> I'm doing a round of ALA.

Copper can be chelated with molybdenum supplements. You might want
to experiment with taking ALA and molybdenum together, to get rid
of both mercury and copper.

Marc

I've tried the molybedneum supplements but they make me insane with copper flowing through my veins on the way out of the body. I think what made it so bad was that for a couple of years I smoked cigarettes and the cadmium in the cigarrettes drives the copper deep into the tissues. They say that some people can have mercury fillings and no problems at all. Other people can smoke cigarettes with no problem at all. The problem comes in when someone who has mercury fillings smokes cigarettes also. That was me for a couple of years. I'm trying to abstain from chocolate and at the same time I'm taking selenium to chelate the cadmium. I'm trying a new type of selenium that is coming in the mail shortly. You want what is called the protein form of selenium. I got mine from grownbynature.com. Sodium Selenite causes cancer. L-seleno methionne they say doesn't work. What I'm also doing is using molybednium and zinc frequencies. Not with a frequency generator. But I got golf clubs with molybednium heads on them and mixed this with zinc metal and also chromium and quartz in cement. I drove metal rods deep into the ground to craw ground current up to the metals and the quartz. I have this stuff underneath a foundation that I build out of granite slabs. Granite and marble work very well with E.S. people. I find that granite works much better for me. I found someone who is willing to give it to me for free as they ghrow away pieces of it everyday. I sleep really really good at night now as a result. It is really unbelievable. Mostly I've only built this foundation near the bedroom near the bed and also some more near the living room.

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> I've tried the molybedneum supplements but they make me insane with
> copper flowing through my veins on the way out of the body.

Ahhh, I've tried molybdenum as well, but have to keep to a pretty small
dose to avoid unpleasant detox symptoms. Small = 100 to 200mcg. Or
1/4 to 1/2 of a "MOLY B" (Carlson) tablet.

By the way, you said that you were taking ALA "all the time". Are you
taking it every 3 hours, including overnight?

Marc

Yea, I took it for a year and a half during my last job when I was driving regionally as a truck driver. The side effects didn't matter because I didn't have to be around other people on my job. I used a qualcom to communicate by satellite with my employer who was in another city. But then I quit that job and got another one where I drive locally and had to engage the public. I had to give up the ALA for a couple of years because I really needed to keep that job and nobody is going to "understand" on the job. So I just did clay baths and oil of cilantro for a couple of years. Then in February I started up the ALA again on the weekends. I would do it starting on Friday and then end on Monday morning before going to work. But after a few months I seemed to have reached a point where the side effects were manageable enough that I went back to doing it constantly. But I do skip a dose in the middle of the night. I think I disagree with Andy Cutler on that. He says you should stop your round if you miss a dose. Sometimes when I'm getting too much I can skip a dose and go back to feeling normal. I never did the small doses. I always did 100 or 200 mg. Now I do 400 mg. And I do R-ALA at night and regular ALA for the 8 hours at work. It's getting close to a combined total of 2 years now that I've done this. Another thing I do is rub the essential oil cilantro into my right leg at night. I fub it in clear from my foot to up near my prostate area. This helps quite a bit with the side effects. But you have to scrub with soap and water every morning before you go to work to try to get the smell out. It's pretty strong as it is an essential oil.

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