Re: AlLA AND MERCURY AMALGAM DENTAL FILlINGS QUESTION - QUESTION

[Guest guest]

Rene, one of my doctors is asking for medical or scientific articles about

the dangers of using ALA when a person has mercury amalgam dental fillings.

If you have access to any of these sources, I would very much appreciate as

to where to find such information. Thanks, Sam.

[ ] Re: AlLA AND MERCURY AMALGAM DENTAL FILlINGS

QUESTION

, are you asking if it is safe to use ALA when you have

amalgams? It is very unsafe. People who do this run a real risk of

poisoning themselves. Unfortunately, ALA's properties as a potent

mercury chelator that crosses the blood brain barrier are not well

known, so a lot of people who think it is a harmless antioxidant are

slowly but surely putting a lot of mercury into their brains. My

understanding is that generally the ability to detox efficiently

declines as one becomes more toxic - a vicious circle.

Best wishes

René

[Guest guest]

Sam, this is probably not as scholarly as you need it to be, but it

is a copy of a conversation I had with a health writer a while back

on the dangers of using ALA with amalgams in place - which basically

rest on the assertion that ALA is a mercury chelator that can cross

the brain blood barrier. If you follow the links, particularly to

the ALA section on Moria's website, you should find yet more links to

the studies Andy bases his ALA protocol on. These should give you

what you need, but if not please let me know.

take care

René

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......One thing that has become clear to me is that, like every other

biomedical treatment for autism, every aspect of chelation (including

ALA) is fraught with controversy. Even within the biomedical autism

community there is much disagreement about proper chelation protocols

and whether or not ALA can be considered a chelator. One study, done

in 2003, seemed to discredit its use as a chelator. I've found a

post by Andy Cutler, the chemist, on this study:

http://onibasu.com/archives/am/118797.html?highlight=lipoic%20acid%

20study%202003

Here's another link to some of Andy's comments on ALA. I think these

are significant because they give a good idea of why he has

emphasized its use in chelation. Some of these posts contain the

abstracts or full studies that he has based much of his chelation

protocol on.

http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/ANDY_INDEX.html#mercury_exposure

(scroll down to the ALA section)

ALA is such a beneficial substance. My sense is that without heavy

metal toxicity there is little reason to use it with the extreme

caution that a safe chelation protocol requires. The trouble is that

it is very hard to know exactly who might be carrying unhealthy

levels of mercury; blood, urine, and fecal tests are notoriously

inaccurate for anything other than recent exposures and hair tests

are only meaningful if you know how mercury works on other elements,

since it seldom shows up as high in mercury toxic people. So, people

taking ALA for diabetes or other conditions are very unlikely to know

that they may also have heavy metal issues, and that ALA can make

this much worse.

Here's yet one more post to look at that addresses this danger:

http://onibasu.com/archives/am/136033.html?highlight=ALA%20diabetes

Sorry, I know this is all coming form a limited source. However,

Andy Cutler's work has been proven to be very reliable by parents

chelating autistic children, and by mercury toxic adults. (By the

way, the dose of ALA recommended in your article is actually quite

conservative compared to other recommendations I have read!) The

size of the dose certainly can increase the potential for heavy metal

redistribution, but the fact that ALA is usually given once a day may

be even more harmful, since in order to reduce redistribution there

must be a steady level of chelator in the bloodstream: for ALA this

means dosing at least once every three hours, around the clock.

This is a lot of stuff to wade through, so I'm really grateful that

you've shown such an interest in it. Thank you.

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> Rene, one of my doctors is asking for medical or scientific

articles about

> the dangers of using ALA when a person has mercury amalgam dental

fillings.

> If you have access to any of these sources, I would very much

appreciate as

> to where to find such information. Thanks, Sam.

>