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medicine. He never said that mainstream medicine is hogwash or that have been irreparably harmed and are doomed
all drugs are bad and only natural remedies are virtuous and good. I to have lower IQs, impulse and anger control
don’t subscribe to this simplistic way of thinking either. I accumulated issues and all kinds of learning disabilities for
mercury in my body because I had hepatitis C. Although I skated along the rest of their lives. However, like mercury,
for decades, ultimately, the hepatitis started to make me very sick. Re- lead poisoning is treatable. With appropriate
cently, I was able to cure the hepatitis with a pharmaceutical drug, but chelation, these toxic children and adults can
if I hadn’t chelated, I would still have all the neurological symptoms the recover and live normal lives.
mercury was causing. I needed both alternative and mainstream medicine The chelation protocol for lead is a bit dif-
to completely recover. ferent from the protocol for mercury. This is
because the body stores lead in the bones, and
HOW TO TEST FOR MERCURY it comes out gradually as room is made for it in
On top of the fact that the mercury poisoning symptom picture is so the blood. The treatment is to chelate the lead
chaotic and confusing, it is extremely difficult to test for mercury. It only out of the blood, wait for it to fill up with lead
shows up in the blood within the first three months of an acute exposure. again, and then chelate some more. The agent
Urine and stool are equally uninformative. This is a problem if you suspect used for this is DMSA. The process can take
that you may be toxic but are faced with thousands of dollars of dental several years, but that surely beats the alterna-
work. You can’t chelate until all your amalgam fillings are removed. tive of a ruined life.
If you have no mercury fillings, you can easily determine whether
you have a mercury problem by doing trial chelation rounds. Any reaction ANDY’S LEGACY
to the chelators, good or bad, means that there is something to chelate. When Andy died on July 29th, 2017, every-
Although there are no really good tests, a hair test can often be in- body who knew him was devastated. He was a
formative. A toxic person’s hair test will usually show very low mercury brilliant and intelligent scientist and a very witty
because the body is holding on to it, and this can be confusing to practitio- and generous person. He spent hours of his time
ners. Andy’s book, Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities, online and on the phone answering people’s
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explains how to analyze a hair test for deranged mineral transport, which questions. At first, I was dismayed that he had
shows up in the patterns of the essential elements. Only mercury causes died with so much knowledge still in his head,
deranged mineral transport. but I later comforted myself with the knowledge
that he trained and counseled many people. His
A NOTE ABOUT LEAD knowledge is in many, many people’s heads now.
Lead poisoning has been in the news, particularly since the mass Andy was particularly kind and helpful
poisoning that occurred in Flint, Michigan. The consensus, according to parents with injured children. I miss him
to the media and the medical community, is that the children in Flint sorely when our support groups get questions

CUTLER PROTOCOL TESTIMONIAL: PAOLA
My adrenal fatigue was my number one issue: debilitating, crushing, all-exhausting, zombifying, brain-numbing, life-
juice-sucking fatigue. This is the reason why I started chelating, and now after one hundred thirty rounds, it is now as good
as gone. It flares up now and then when I’m on round for a few hours, or when I increase the dosage. Most of the time, I
feel like there is nothing holding me back any more. Whatever I want to do, I just get up and do it. What a concept! Other
things that have improved immensely are motivation and procrastination. I’m active all the time. Whatever needs to be
done gets done. My low blood sugar issues, which started with chelation, have now disappeared. They used to make me
wake up in the middle of the night, and I had to eat to be able to fall back asleep. Sometimes at one, two or five in the
morning, every single night! It was the most frustrating thing ever. This has completely resolved. I now eat just two times a
day, like I used to years ago. My voracious, insatiable appetite has normalized. And my eyebrows have grown back! I wish
I had taken before-and-after pictures, but I never expected that to happen! Migraines during “that time of the month” also
are better. Before, I used to be knocked out cold for three days straight. Movement would cause an unbearable hammer-
ing in my temples. Now, the migraines are changing into headaches instead of hammers. The intensity is down by around
40 percent and the headaches are down to one day per month instead of three. There is still room for improvement, but
things are sooo much better. Nausea is also better. My dietary problems are resolving. My thiol sensitivity has improved.
I can now eat FODMAPs (like avocados, apricots and peaches) without a problem. A fantastic transformation has taken
place. Im forever grateful to Andy Cutler and the peeps in the Andy Cutler group on Facebook. I wouldn’t have done it
without them! [Note: The group is now called Andy Cutler Chelation: Safe Mercury and Heavy Metal Detox.]

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