Cutler 101: single bond pseudo- chelators are death(for many people). ALA I so cheap, so available, so effective.. Why look elsewhere?
Maybe not death, but more like constant agony by stirring up mercury from deep tissues and then letting it resettle elsewhere to cause more symptoms....
Remember ALA has to be taken in the right way, at the right time. Take it in high doses, irregularly spaced, with your mercury amalgams in place, and you will poison your brain. That's exactly what I did to myself one year ago and I have been in serious agony since then, slowly recovering but I have not started chelation.
Cutler's protocol says to get amalgams out, chelate with oral DMSA to clear the blood and superficial tissues, and only then chelate with ALA. This avoids movement of mercury from blood into the brain. You want the gradient to be higher mercury in brain than blood, so that mercury moves in the right direction from brain to blood.
And of course the other part of this is ultra-LOW doses of ALA, every three to four hours, to maintain a constant level of chelator.
I know you probably knew all of this. But best to make this explicit for others, because doing ALA wrong is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to a mercury toxic person. I did it wrong, and oh my god....