@caledonia @Unim
Had you previously come across what Cutler
says about taking ALA and DMSA every 8 hours causing patients to become very ill? It relates to the half life of these chelators, which is 3 or 4 hours for ALA, and 4 hours for DMSA.
My understanding of this issue (and I may or may not be correct) is that if you take a dose of ALA and/or DMSA, it will chelate mercury, but if you wait 8 hours before re-dosing, that is two half lives of these compounds, meaning that after 8 hours, 75% of the ALA and DMSA will have been eliminated from your body.
Presumably this may mean that the ALA and DMSA could dump a lot of the mercury they are carrying in the body, as ALA and DMSA get eliminated from the body.
But if you take ALA and DMSA every 3 or 4 hours, then this is only one half life, meaning that after 3 or 4 hours, you still have 50% of the ALA and DMSA in your body by the time you take the next dose of ALA and DMSA. So then there is less chance of the ALA and DMSA dumping the mercury in your body, because levels of ALA and DMSA in the body remain quite high all the time, never less than 50%.
This seems pretty important, but I had not read it before.