Zinc/Copper supplementation (was NAC...)

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| I'm curious to hear your rationale for giving minerals during chelation.

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| There is no rationale for doing otherwise.

Thanks Andy. So I can assume that she's effectively being supplemented with

minerals during DMSA administration? Or is it a reduced effect?

What's interesting is that I retested my daughter with the liquid minerals

because she started complaining about the taste of the blend I was giving her,

and she tested as not needing zinc or copper. Up until now, she's needed both

zinc and copper, based on taste tests, and pre-chelation blood tests indicated a

reasonable balance between these minerals (after years of work!). I wonder why

she suddenly doesn't need zinc and copper. She's done 2 rounds of DMSA and 1.5

days of ALA during the 2nd round, so I'm assuming that this zinc/copper change

is due to the chelation. On her pre/post urinalysis from the first round, her

zinc values were the same pre/post but copper excretion was 10x post.

What's also interesting, for those who haven't used the liquid minerals is that

years ago she had strong negative reactions to the liquid manganese and chromium

(bad taste = mineral not needed, don't supplemented them). On this second

urinalysis, she had lots of these two minerals showing up, indicating she's got

way too much of them in her body. So it looks like the taste test is valid, if

you can get your child to cooperate.

K.