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the alternative doctors to get confused. Chelation is easy, so they don’t feeling the effects of the toxin as it moves out.
pay attention to how important it is to do it right. They pay attention to
the much more interesting and much more lucrative sprinkles of magic HG: And that’s when they’d need to start doing
pixie dust that it takes to make this person feel better now, while they the tedious process of chelation. But it sounds
chelate. In a practical sense, that is important and humanitarian—so they like your protocol is a safe and effective way to
can keep a job and so they don’t get divorced—but in an ultimate sense, go. And I like what you said about researching
you have to chelate them properly or the outcome isn’t going to be good. online and being aware of people who are just
promoting something but don't have strong
HG: You do recommend in your protocol that people take supplements testimonies or stories to back it up.
to shore them up while they’re going through the process.
AC: You want to look for two things. First, do
AC: Yes, a lot of the mechanism of toxicity of mercury and lead or other they give you the basic science, and does it re-
heavy metals is that they are oxidation catalysts. Specifically, mercury is ally make sense? Or do they kind of just wave
used as an oxidation catalyst in organic chemistry to oxidize fatty acids. their arms? And second, does what is said by
So you take vitamin C and vitamin E as antioxidants to help protect your the people who have been through it match what
body against that. When you chelate, since you are moving the metals the person advocating it says? It is much easier
around and they are a little more toxic on their way out, your body tries to make up great tales that sound wonderful and
to trap them or “passivate” them. To get them out, you need a little extra scientific than it is to really solve a problem. If
protection, and the antioxidants will make you feel a lot better. Mercury, the problem’s really solved, there won’t be a big
in particular, interferes with your body’s ability to move minerals around list of cured people raving about it—because
to where they need to be. Generally, people with mercury have low zinc they got cured and got on with their lives. It is
and low magnesium. I automatically suggest all of them take these, and actually kind of hard to find them, but if you
it’s almost always going to be helpful. The regular doctors don’t typically look online, you’ll eventually see that there is
pay much attention to magnesium, but if you don’t have it you can be a person getting a lot better on it. You’ll find
spacey and weak, have low energy, generally feel miserable, get muscle people who said that ten years ago, and you can
cramps and your blood pressure can go up. Magnesium is a very cheap find them now and they’ll say that life’s great
and benign thing that makes people feel a lot better. If a person has mer- and they are doing all the things they couldn’t
cury, they need a lot more than the normal person. do before.

HG: You mentioned alpha lipoic acid. It can be benign if a person isn’t HG: To wrap up, I have a question: what is
mercury-toxic. It is an antioxidant, correct? So if you are completely one thing the listener could do to improve their
well with none of these heavy metals, you’ll be fine and it’s beneficial. health?
But those with heavy metals would have a reaction. Isn’t there a test you
can do to see whether you react? Might it mean that there is something AC: Take vitamin C with meals and at bedtime.
in your system? I could give you a million other answers, one of
which is to eat the Wise Traditions diet. But the
AC: Yes, I don’t do this if you have fillings in place, but what you would cheap and easy one is to take vitamin C with
do is take alpha lipoic acid every three or four hours for a three-day period. meals and at bedtime.
Start in the morning on Day One and end at that time on Day Three. If
you take twenty-five or fifty milligrams, you’ll probably feel something Note: For more information on Andy Cutler’s
if you have some heavy metals in you. If you don’t feel anything at all, resources and chelation protocol, go to www.
try one hundred milligrams the following weekend. If you still don’t feel noamalgam.com, or go to www.westonaprice.
anything at all, I’d suggest trying two hundred milligrams, but realisti- org, where the notes for podcast episode 48
cally speaking, everybody who is toxic will definitely know by the last provide further links and information.
day or the day after. The day after is the one when you’re the worst—
cranky, tired, depressed and have a lot of side effects. If you don’t have
clinically significant amounts of heavy metals in you, you can do that at
two hundred or three hundred milligrams every three hours and nothing
happens, no effect. Lots of toxic people feel like they got taken out and
beaten by a biker if they take even five milligrams that way. They are

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