Re: cysteine supplementation

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what does citrus punch mean?

> In his book, Andy Tells us that taking supplementary cysteine is

>contraindicated for us mercury-toxic folks,

Cysteine contains single thiol groups. Single thiols can drag mercury

around and make us feel worse. People with high plasma cysteine will

feel it the most. People with low plasma cysteine might be able to

tolerate it.

> but he doesn't give a >good explanation as to why. (At least I

>don't think he does). Can someone explain why this is so. I want

>to know because if in fact it's harmful, I must stop my

>multi-powdered " All-One " formula which is great product with all the

>vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, but does contain 35 mgs. of

>Cysteine.

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It may be that you have chelated enough that supplemental cysteine

won't bother you.

I couldn't tolerate sulfur foods at all after amalgam removal, so

assume I was high cysteine at that point. A year later my plasma

cysteine was low. I am supplementing cysteine in the form of NAC (and

also glutamine and glycine) to try to increase glutathione.

J

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