Re: half life of ALA

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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

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> 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

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> 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.

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