Guest guest Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 My husband had the following questions: I preface this inquiry by saying that I am not challenging the efficacy of chelation, I am sinmply interested in educating myself in more detail about the mechanism. From what I have been reading, it appears that chelation doses taken less frequently than once per 3-4 hours are ineffective and destructive. I find it very interesting that if you do not chelate for at least a few half-lives, that nothing significant occurs. This implies to me that some sort of pharmacokinetic pipeline is started, which, if aborted, results in a significant amount of freed, unchelated Hg left in the blood, whch then settles elsewhere. If this is close to the case, can you tell me how the ALA frees Hg, but does not grab and hold on to it? Is it also the case then that tapering the dose at the end of the recommended session would be warranted to reduce this effect? What problem occurs in the case of, say, a one-a-day dose of ALA? Is it true that if there is no recent poisoning, that the DMSA is completely redundant, or, is the combination still useful 9 months after amalgam removal? Thanks, (and Jim) in MD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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