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Chelation Lessons Learned

Written by Julia Trudeau

Monday, 18 December 2006

This is a message Julia sent to Gary Littleton and to Andy Cutler summarizing her very valuable insights into chelation using sulphur chelators like DMSA and ALA that need to be taken on a timed (usually 3-4 hour) basis:

Julia Trudeau

I start all adults on 25mg DMSA. My patients, who all are still able to work, all handle AdvaClear with the DMSA. After the 5th patient said, “I’ll never chelate without the AdvaClear again,” I don’t let anyone chelate without it. Mainly tiredness, yeast or headaches if they don’t use the AdvaClear. I’ve found one AdvaClear pill with each dose of chelator works better than anything less.

There are a few adults who go right up to 50mg DMSA then 100mg DMSA, but just as many who have to move down to taking ½ or 1/3 of a 25mg pill of DMSA.

Almost all side effects of chelation are a result of redistribution, directly or indirectly. Redistribution happens even if timing is right if the person takes more of a chelator than they can handle.

Timing doesn’t matter nearly as much (and might not matter at all) if a person is taking the amount of a chelator that stirs up just the amount of mercury (or less than the amount) their body is capable of eliminating.

The quantity of a specific chelator a person can handle may be very small.

They might be able to handle a very small amount of one chelator, but a rather large dose of another chelator.

Avoid ALL side effects of chelation or it is possible for the person to worsen rather than improve over time.

Yeast flare ups with chelation are often (possibly always) a result of redistribution.

No redistribution = no yeast.

It is better to avoid creating yeast with chelation than try to kill it after its growth has been stimulated. Of course I don’t mean avoiding creating yeast with chelation by avoiding chelation. I mean finding a way to chelate that doesn’t encourage yeast.

Taking AdvaClear during chelation (if tolerated, I haven’t had a patient yet who couldn’t tolerate it, but I’m sure they are out there) is the best way I’ve found to avoid growing yeast.

Increasing Phase II without increasing Phase I liver function is probably the main reason AdvaClear works.

I do not like AdvaClear on non chelation days because of the NAC in it. I think NAC stirs up mercury. I don’t mind stirring up mercury if there is a chelator around.

I have used MCS II by Biotics for balancing phase I and II instead of AdvaClear It has lipoic acid in it, maybe 20mg per pill so this has to be accounted for and dosed at every 3 hours. For those patients who are chelating with lipoic acid and not DMSA this can be easier. It means one less pill every 3 hours.

I’ve tried the individual components of AdvaClear on myself to see which one, if any, seemed to be having the most effect. It appears to be the watercress glucosinolate. I tried Oncoplex, by Xymogen which is 30mg of sulphorophane glucosinolate and that seems to have the most beneficial effect, but I just started this trial this year and I haven’t tried the Oncoplex with chelation, just by itself on non chelation days.

I wanted to know this, one, because there are a lot of ingredients in AdvaClear that a person could potentially be sensitive to. It would be useful to know which ingredient is doing the most good in case someone is sensitive to something in the AdvaClear. Also, I would like AdvaClear to be available without the NAC and then I would be comfortable giving it on non chelation days, but it isn’t available without NAC, so I want something else to use for non-chelation days and one pill would be easier than several.

EVERY patient is in a hurry to get the mercury out and if I had to write anything about chelation for the general public I would probably mention FIRST that EVERYONE, if not strongly warned about it first, will make the same mistake of overdoing it. And this is ALWAYS a mistake.

ZERO symptoms are acceptable during chelation or it will take longer, not less time to detoxify. It is appropriate to get some symptoms in the attempt to find out how much dose of a chelator will cause symptoms and take just the amount less than that.

About three months of chelation without side effects will completely change the way a patient’s musculoskeletal system feels to me during adjustments. I’ve found this to be more consistent than the patient’s subjective reports of improvements with chelation.

Here are some sure signs that a person is mercury toxic that I don’t usually see mentioned. These are all things I’ve noticed on the first meeting of someone that made me wonder if they were mercury toxic and later found out for sure they were. Furrowed brow much of the time, even slightly. Excessively dry skin. Allergic shiners. Could cry at the drop of a hat. Excessively irritable. Just about any odd skin stuff, blotchy, red, patchy, dry.

Hair tests are almost completely useless for lead. If it says there’s lead, there’s lead. If it says there is not, there still could be.

Really only recent exposure to lead shows on the hair test, pretty much like mercury.

The only people I see with mercury itself showing on hair tests are people who have gotten it recently from fish.

If I look back at my various mercury exposures to see what really put me over the edge, it was eating tuna fish. I really only ate it about 1 time per week too. Usually it was tuna steak instead of tuna in the can though, which I know is worse.

Pay attention to the color of stools during chelation. If they start out light colored or lighten during chelation, do something about it. I like Beta Plus by Biotics or AF Betafood (if the person isn’t gluten sensitive, there is gluten in this) and/or P-5-P to increase bile production

Julia
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Comments (2)

	1. 04-01-2007 11:51
	Question Julia, what are your thoughts on TD-DMSA and TD-DMPS? Have you had any success with them? Thank you in advance - Bill Sharpe Guest Report

Bill Sharpe

	2. 03-01-2007 14:34
	Excellent article Julia, thank you for sharing your lessons. As the father of an autistic son, we slowly came to the conclusion that the Andy Cutler dosages were way too much, and must be reduced way down. It is good to see someone else with the same conclusions. Guest Report