ala and amalgams

My impression was that most peoples bodies will hold onto the mercury rather then let go with a single daily dose.

I've taken it as a cyst buster but I have no amalgams. It did nothing for me good or bad.

“ Has anyone here used the supplement, and concurrently with amalgams? Get any worse?“

Well, I was taking ALA for awhile - not knowing it could make my mercury load higher (I have mercury amalgams) - until it was mentioned on this forum - and I stopped taking it.

I never noticed anything - didn’t get worse.

I’ve been reading about this stuff TRS detox. I ordered some to try experiment. It’s sold by a mass marketing campaign on FB...the group is the merchant. So there’s lots and lots of positive traffic. The whole thing took me a while to get over.

But it was recommended to me by a friend, and I spent the last 3 hours contacting actual humans on FB and Instagram who have used it, and people seem to really like it.

It’s supposedly a super positively charged neolite that binds to metals and toxins, but because of the charge doesn’t drop them like chelators do. Because it’s inert it wouldn’t grab mercury from a filling, supposedly. If my friend who I respect hadn’t recommended it I wouldn’t have given it a second thought. But I’m quite intrigued. There seems to be common detox symptoms if you go too fast, like headaches fatigue rashes, but in general if these accounts are correct it’s easier than chelation.

Im extremely paranoid about metals, but its also something i wanted to explore forever, so I may experiment with 1 drop/day and see what happens.

I should make the point that in regards to heavy metals, there are chelators, and there are binders.

Chelators help to pull metals out of the areas in the body where they are stored. I am winging this part here, some somebody correct me if I am wrong. This is where Cutler’s work becomes valuable. He talks about different things (drugs and natural things) that have thiols and the ability to pull out metals. A single thiol substance can move metals but will drop them without getting them out of the body, causing more harm. Strong two thiol substances are needed.

Binders can remove some metals but are not true chelators. They can be useful and often bind to more than just metals. Pectasol-C and Zeobind are two that come to mind.

As for zeolite, it was a popular binder some years ago until the Health Ranger did an experiment with zeolite and declared it was unsafe and contributed to heavy metals. You can read that here : https://www.naturalnews.com/051776_zeolites_detoxification_challenge_blood_lead_levels.html

I came along after all this.

Dr. K promoted his Zeobind product, and I knew others here had taken it with good results, so I bought it and have used it off and on. I feel fairly comfortable using it. I would probably not use another zeolite product unless it came from a maker I trust, as I don’t comprehend all the science surrounding it.

Hope this helps.

The first 2 weeks I took it, it helped a lot (not as much as TUDCAL Plus). After that, I started feeling more symptomatic again. I was taking it once daily. At some point probably after a year, I stopped. I have started back taking it occasionally but not daily.

Numbness is one of my symptoms. I assumed it was from mold, but TUDCA Plus greatly helped for a while. It has come back since I moved into the new house. My gut also has an affect on the numbness (and joint pain and stiffness and muscle weakness), but I don’t understand it.

My numbness can be anywhere - face, scalp, body, legs, feet, etc. Some areas are more numb than others. I often don’t even realize it until I go to scratch or touch an area. My right hip and thigh have been numb since I had shingles in 2017. The latest has been numbness in my lower legs. This started after moving into the house. I was having increased numbness everywhere that seemed like possible MCAS related the year I was living in my car. When I started TUDCA Plus, the numbness greatly improved, as did chemical and mold sensitivities and joint and muscle pain/stiffness.