^^^I appreciate you clarifying for us man, and so sorry you’ve gone through this but your desire to keep pushing to find the answer has not only helped you but may help others as well.
Could you share what treatments you’ve felt have helped you the most?
-GC
Yes certainly. I will try to make this as condensed as possible.
First of all, I’m going to assume that everybody with an LTC reading this is in the chronic state. This is important because beyond acute mercury exposure, any testing is inherently unreliable. There is no way of knowing the actual amount of intracellular mercury that’s poisoning you. You can literally be dying of mercury poisoning and have what’s considered normal & acceptable levels in your blood. The best way to know is to take an intestinal metal binder (IMD) and see how you react to it. More on this later.
I want to save you some time - don’t even bother going down the rabbit hole of Andy Cutler’s mercury chelation protocol, or using DMPS or DMSA as chelators. I’ve done that, and yes it can work, but it isn’t very effective and will take forever. There are other ways of getting mercury out of you that are far quicker, safer, more effective and better tolerated. What you want to do is support your body’s natural defenses against mercury - open the drainage pathway with GI binders, and then speed the elimination system up with antioxidants.
Luckily, there are already practitioners around the world that are already using the state of the art mercury detox system. Get with an alternative medicine practitioner that uses the “Quicksilver Scientific” protocol. I also understand that their supplements and “detox qube” are expensive and some may not be able to afford it, so I will provide the cheapest possible effective alternative later on in this post. I highly recommend working with a practitioner to work out any personalized treatment details. Treatment is very complex and there are too many factors for me to list them all so I am going to keep this post to a few important concepts to remember, as well as things I wish I knew from the start.
Mercury causes a cascade of problems that are all downstream of the initial poisoning; this is why LTC symptoms can start off one way, and change/get worse over time. It’s important to start with mercury detox, give this a solid effort for a several months, and if you reach a plateau, you likely have an infection that requires treating before going back to mercury detox. Parasites, yeast, and otherwise low-virulence microbes, which your immune system normally keeps in check, can all come into play once your immune system is impaired by mercury.
Some critical concepts to remember....
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Mercury Binders: Your normal elimination of mercury is dependent on your endogenous antioxidant system (Glutathione, Vitamin C, Vitamin E) working properly. You need enough intracellular glutathione to bind with mercury, pull it out of the cells, through the liver, and then it gets dumped with bile into the gut. However mercury is so incredibly toxic that it causes something called “retention toxicity.” This means when it gets to the gut, it sticks to the proteins in the tissues of your GI tract instead of actually passing all the way through. This is why people remain ill for years.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING is that your detox pathways are open and it’s actually leaving your body. This means you have something to bind the mercury in the gut and pull it all the way out through the GI tract. This also means that you need to be having regular, healthy bowel movements every day. Eat a lot of vegetables and fiber.
Options for GI binders are:
Quicksilver’s IMD – by far the most potent mercury binder. It doesn’t get absorbed, but binds mercury very tightly in the gut and carries it out of your body through the stool.
Chlorella pyrenoidosa - must be the
pyrenoidosa strain. Not as potent as IMD but still works. It doesn’t get digested very well, which makes it a decent GI binder. This will drag mercury out of your gut with your poop
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Remineralization: IMD also has some potential to bind beneficial metals . You need to re-mineralize with whatever beneficial metals you may be losing by taking IMD. The practitioners will explain this, and the ratio of how much to take given the amount of IMD you’re taking to pull out the mercury. Pure Encapsulations mineral 650 is a good option, along with zinc. Again, I strongly recommend working with a practitioner.
Here is the detox protocol listed at the bottom of this page:
https://www.forresthealth.com/quicksilver-detox-qube.html
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Speeding up the process: Once you have binders on board, you can speed up detox of mercury by up-regulating the glutathione system. Just make sure you have a binder in your gut in order to catch whatever you are mobilizing. Quicksilver Scientific has their own supplements that help speed this up (R-lipoic acid, and some polyphenolic supplements that increase the rate of intracellular detoxification). However, the cheapest & simplest way to speed up the removal process is to drink a ton of vitamin C. This will spare glutathione and increase intracellular levels so there will be more glutathione available to bind with mercury and mobilize it. Personally, I am drinking 50 grams of vitamin C (as l-ascorbic acid) sipped throughout the day while constantly munching on chlorella pyrenoidosa. I also take IMD once a day, and eat an extremely anti-oxidant rich diet. Antioxidants will help increase glutathione.
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Infections: If you are detoxing mercury and reach a plateau, it means you likely have an infection of some sort causing inflammation. Parasites, yeast, and other lyme-like microbes like bartonella can be major factors. If you research these infections, DON’T get caught up in the lyme hysteria. That is a big mistake. Yes they may require treating, and yes they are beatable, but don’t ever think you have an incurable microbe, or something that is resistant to antibiotics. Parasites can be a really big deal. They can slow gut function and make you constipated, which is really bad, because then you aren’t effectively pooping the mercury out with your bowel movements.
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The cheapest/simplest version of all this:
- Make sure you’re pooping regularly and that it’s healthy
- Eat a diet rich in antioxidants and fiber
- Flood your body with vitamin c to get the mercury to your gut
- Take IMD at least once a day to bind the metal in your gut
- Remineralize (away from taking IMD) w/4 caps Mineral 650 & 15mg Zinc
- Work with a practitioner to resolve any roadblocks that may arise such as infections
I’d prefer if people don’t contact me about this, but rather try the IMD and detox protocol. If it helps, get with a practitioner and ask them questions. You can help yourselves far quicker than I can come back here and respond to individual questions.
To learn more, I suggest watching as many videos of Dr. Chris Shade on YouTube as you can in order to understand how this all works. The information he puts out is absolute gold. His company is Quicksilver Scientific and there is a practitioner locator on their website.
Please, if you do nothing else, try the IMD. You’ll know pretty quickly if it is binding metal in your gut based off your reactions to it. When the drainage pathways are open, mercury will cause inflammation in the rest of your tissues as it leaves. You’ll feel it, and you’ll know you are poisoned.