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listeners are into alternative health, so can you rules and anything within those bounds is my If you take
explain why you don’t recommend chelation protocol, and people adjust it to fit their lifestyle. a chelator
with chlorella or cilantro, when many people It is, intellectually, a simple thing. And it’s
are thinking, “Oh, that’s natural, I would want not terribly physically challenging, and there improperly,
to do that”? is not the drama of having to go to the doctor, it helps get
paying a lot and using needles. It is not compli- the mercury
AC: The problem is that those are really bad cated, but it is very tedious, you do it for a long
ideas and will make people worse. Many people time. A lot of people need drama, they aren’t stirred
get in trouble with that. A lot of people also into the tedium. But as with lots of things, what around and
get in trouble with alpha lipoic acid because really gets you moving forward is the tedious, it ends up
they don’t even know that it is a chelator. They just-keep-doing-it approach.
take it as an antioxidant and then it chelates. If concentrated
you take it right—every three to four hours in HG: I interviewed someone on this show who into the
small doses—it makes you better. If you take has used this protocol for her own children and sensitive
it wrong, it makes you worse. This is because, then advised others to do the same. She said
as with lead, most of it is in your bones, and it the results have been phenomenal. As you said, tissues like
isn’t poisoning you. Most of the mercury in your children with autism or asthma have seen such your brain,
body is in your thigh muscle, your kneecap, your relief. But you have to pay attention to each your
toenail, your pancreas and other places where it individual child and tailor it according to how
doesn’t really matter because those aren’t sensi- they respond, correct? thyroid gland
tive tissues, they don’t get poisoned easily. But and your
if you take a chelator improperly, it helps get the AC: Yes, and in a technical sense, if you take the adrenal
mercury stirred around and it ends up concen- attitude that pain is good, you can tell everyone
trated into the sensitive tissues like your brain, to do the same thing, and many of them will glands.
your thyroid gland and your adrenal glands. It be really miserable for a couple of years, but
makes you much sicker even though you saw a nobody for whom it is really miserable is going
lot of mercury come out. So you have to assess to keep doing it. They’re not that insane, even
the progress not by a test but by whether the if they are as mad as a hatter from the mercury.
people are getting better. You adjust it so it is tolerable, and then it is going
If you want to get better, there are some to take a while, so you figure out what else they
basic rules you have to follow like dose timing. need to take to be comfortable in the meantime.
In that sense, I don’t have a specific protocol. A If you chelate for a couple of years, you’ll get
lot of doctors are specific and say, “Do exactly some relief along the way, but you’ll still have
this.” I say, “Take your DMSA every four hours some of your icky symptoms. You will want to
or more often. Take your DMPS every eight take something to relieve the symptoms. That
hours or more often. Don’t inject it, take it by is absolutely the intellectually interesting and
mouth or use it transdermally.” These are the challenging part of cases. It is really easy for

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