Chelation puts a hold to my personal development

[ThePoint]

How did you know you have heavy metal toxicity? What tests did you take?

[Ima Freeman]

@ThePoint

None.
It seems obvious from the symptoms I had/have, from having amalgams for a decade, my mother had amalgams while pregnant and I react to even a mg of ALA and DMPS.

The only ''test'' is the diagnostic trial of chelators. 

[ThePoint]

14 hours ago, Ima Freeman said:

The only ''test'' is the diagnostic trial of chelators. 

@Ima Freeman What does this mean? What is the diagnostic trial of chelators?

[Ima Freeman]

@ThePoint To have a reaction to them

[ThePoint]

On 19/11/2022 at 10:24 PM, Ima Freeman said:

@ThePoint To have a reaction to them

@Ima Freeman So are the heavy metal toxicity urine tests pretty much pointless?

[nuwu]

considering the ~30min half-life of ALA, would it make sense to completely ignore its concentration during nights, when drop from peak is significant even with 3h rounds ((1/2)^(3/0.5) = 1.5%). for example taking ALA + DMSA each 30min during daytime, and DMSA alone at night after 4 or 5 hours at slightly higher doses for heuristic balance

it’s only a question, potentially misinformed. it may be more practical, unless there is a non-linear relationship between the damage from redistribution and relative concentration, or if the redistribution within the brain itself is too harmful, for example

also how do we know alpha lipoic acid definitely cause copper toxicity aside reports from andrew cutler? some studies suggest otherwise [1] [2] [3] (no human studies, probably not worth the risk of not supplementing Mo / Cr / Zn, but curious)

Edited December 5, 2022 by nuwu

[Ima Freeman]

@ThePoint

I would not say pointless.

For severely toxic people they may be harmful. Cutler himself warned against them and suggested hair mineral tests.
There are adverse reports of taking large doses of chelators at once.

Another thing to consider is, that D chelators do not enter cells and organs.
So you might have a mercury ladden brain from an exposure in the past, but the challenge test shows little mercury.

I heard that the Tri-Test from Quicksilver Scientific is better https://www.quicksilverscientific.com/mercury-tri-test/
And of course the hair mineral analysis Cutler suggested, but you have to learn to interpret them