What to start on, long-term effects of DMSA and/or ALA

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I've been mining the archives as well as I can, but still have some

scattered questions if people could be so kind:

What to start on:

-What are good litmus tests for determining whether to start ALA-only,

DMSA+ALA, or DMSA-only?

-If ALA is going to remove the mercury, etc in the end anyway, why

worry about starting on it alone, or with DMSA+ALA?

[Or is this flat-out idiotic given that mercury will do more damage

if moved to the brain for any duration?]

-To completely confirm, cycles of ALA only can go on for longer than

3 days, but DMSA+ALA or DMSA alone should stop at ~3 days, correct?

-Would there be any harm in starting on a longer duration (e.g. up

to a week, during the holidays) for 1-2 cycles if he can handle it and

doesn't show side effects?

-What specifically happens in the body during the " off period " (e.g.

that makes a break of >= " days on " needed)?

Long-term affects of DMSA and ALA (alone/separately)

-Jepson/ claim a rat study showed that rats who chelated (on

DMSA?) at an early stage of development had adverse long-term affects

on behavior. [Then again, they may not have supplemented with needed

minerals/vitamins which may have helped, so the results may/may-not be

conclusive.]

-How much of a concern is this, and has it been born out by other

studies?

-How pronounced are the long-term affects of DMSA (e.g. on the liver

and bone marrow suppression, if I recall, though I can't find it now)

at these low dosage rates?

-Are there any studies showing long term affects of ALA on

individuals? DMSA?

-How well is that known/understood at this point?

Many thanks in advance.