Steve, ALA and BBB // was: Re: Curious about Chelaton Therapy

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Hi

> Do you have any ideas about why the 26th round was a difficult

one?

-- I don't really know. I think if you do enough rounds, sooner or

later you are likely to get a bad one where some redistribution

occurs. If you're lucky this will happen after quite a few rounds,

so you have developed a faith in chelation and can see that you

have still come out ahead. If you're unlucky, it could happen early

in the piece and make you too scared to do anything new

> Do you have any advice for anyone who finds that chelation is

going

> fine and then there is a difficult round?

-- keep detailed notes on doses, times/intervals and behaviour

during and after chelation. Look at issues like bile production and

liver function and consider whether you need to put more effort into

addressing these.

>When you thought things out what conclusions did you come to?

-- some eroneous ones. I assumed that side-effects were now

outweighing benefits, so I should stop chelation and concentrate on

anti-viral issues. But when the side-effects didn't fade away, I

realised that they were caused by redistribution, which meant there

were more metals in there that had to be removed. So I resumed

chelation, and I'm glad I did.

>When you resumed chelation did

> you use a lower dose? more frequent dosing?

-- Yes on both counts. We used to mix a 50mg cap of ALA with water

and give it over 4 or 5 eqaul doses every 3 hours. Now we give it

in six equal doses (ie 8.33mg per dose) every 2.5 hours. At night I

stretch the interval to 2.75 hours.

>Were you using ALA

> before and are you using it now?

-- we were using mostly ALA, sometimes with DMSA. I have now

dropped DMSA as I believe my son has serious viral problems and I

don't want to supress his neutrophils. So we give ALA only.

>Do you have any advise for anyone

> about how to decide when it is time to introduce ALA and how to

know if they have introduced ALA too soon or at too high a dose or

not frequent enough?

-- I don't think ALA can be introduced too soon, or at least I

don't think it need be introduced later than any other chelator.

The main thing is to address fats supps and dietary intake of fats,

boost liver and bile function, and look at ways of improving general

detox and drainage. Once you have done this you are ready to

chelate.

Also, I think laoding with pantethine and biotin (given

separately, not together) before and after chelation, plus a bit

between doses, helps reduce some of the side-effects of ALA. ALA, B5

and biotin compete for some of the same pathways and ALA chelation

can cause problems, esp adrenal problems in my experience

If ALA scares you, try DMSA first. But you are actually more likely

to get side-effects from DMSA, I think.

Low, frequent doses are best, whatever you are using. Start very low

and build up slowly and conservatively

Also, if you can manage it, I think four-day rounds are better than

3 days

Steve