DMSA - does it cross the BBB?

[Guest guest]

I became allergic to DMPS, even though I felt so good on it.

My doc doesn't want to give me DMSA as he said it crosses the blood

brain barrier and could move merc into the brain if used too early in

the chelation process and that it is better to use it at the end of

merc chelation. I have also read in other doc's chelation protocals

that using it in the early phases can cause more brain problems down

the road.

However, Andy Cutler recommends using it, even right at the beginning

of chelation treatment. So I am a bit confused?

What has been people's experience with using DMSA? Any problems

later on

Is there any scientific literature out to prove or disprove that it

crosses the BBB?

[Guest guest]

This from Andy in the archives ................

Message number 1088

DMSA does NOT cross the blood brain barrier and does NOT clear mercury out of

the brain at a clinically meaningful rate and this is based on all the

literature studies that exist. There is one rat study that is widely

misinterpreted by people who don't bother to read it (e. g. alternative

medicine practitioners who claim DMSA speeds up the natural rate of brain

clearance by 20% under the circumstances used in that study - which is to say

that instead of 25 or more years for half the mercury to come out it would

only take 20 or so if you used DMSA the way it was done in that study.

Unlike mercury, lead does slowly come out of the brain on its own, so

chelating the lead out of your body reduces brain levels too.

Andy Cutler

[ ] DMSA - does it cross the BBB?

I became allergic to DMPS, even though I felt so good on it.

My doc doesn't want to give me DMSA as he said it crosses the blood

brain barrier and could move merc into the brain if used too early in

the chelation process and that it is better to use it at the end of

merc chelation. I have also read in other doc's chelation protocals

that using it in the early phases can cause more brain problems down

the road.

However, Andy Cutler recommends using it, even right at the beginning

of chelation treatment. So I am a bit confused?

What has been people's experience with using DMSA? Any problems

later on

Is there any scientific literature out to prove or disprove that it

crosses the BBB?

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[Guest guest]

I was interested to know what your symptoms were when you became allergic to

DMPS.

Fran

[Guest guest]

> Is there any scientific literature out to prove or disprove that it

> crosses the BBB?

The existing scientific literature proves it does not do so to a

clinically significant extent. Many functionally illiterate physicians

read the clearest article and don't understand it, however, so there is

confusion in the field.

Andy . . .. . . . . . . . .