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I snagged this section of this post from dannybex's personal history post. Cutler and his treatment procedure is very interesting. Personally I'm terrified of taking alpha lipoic acid or any chelating type agent every couple of hours. For one thing I've never been to tolerate any medication past a week or so. What if I have to stop with all this mercury floating around my system?
But Cutler has been around a long time now - which says something - and I know Mercury is a problem for me. I have his book somewhere - repetitive as I remember, poorly formatted, something of a mess but dense with info.
Does anyone have any experience with him?
But Cutler has been around a long time now - which says something - and I know Mercury is a problem for me. I have his book somewhere - repetitive as I remember, poorly formatted, something of a mess but dense with info.
Does anyone have any experience with him?
According to Andrew Cutler PhD., a man who recovered from CFS by learning how to 'safely' chelate mercury using alpha lipoic acid (every three hours!), this deranged mineral transport, along with almost no mercury showing up in one's hair test, suggests the body is holding on to mercury, and the mercury is interferring with proper mineral homeostasis, which then affects immune function, detoxification, etc..
So, I'd be interested in discussing that as well. I've seen a few mentions of ALA here on the boards, and just wanted to pass on that Cutler cautions that ALA has a very short half-life, so if one does have a mercury issue, it must be taken every 3-4 hours (for 3 days a week, then a week off) or else mercury could be pulled from the brain and distributed to other organs, tissues. He also warns that some mercury toxic folks can have a problem with sulfur foods / supplements (including glutathione) which kind of ties in a little bit with Cheney's switcheroo regarding whey protein...
Cutler is also very outspoken when it comes to what he implies is the over-diagnosis of Lyme disease, suggesting that the much touted Igenex test (without naming it specifically) has an almost 100% false positive result. He would certainly make a great interview subject...