The Mercury Detoxification Manual

Have you been sick for years?
Have you seen doctor after doctor with no relief?
Or worse, have you been given a diagnosis (like Parkinson’s disease, lupus, diabetes or dementia) and told there is no cure? That, at best, your doctor can only treat the symptoms?
Are you finally ready for a healthy body?

The Andy Cutler chelation (ACC) protocol is the safest known method for removing mercury and other toxins from your body. This book describes how it feels to be mercury poisoned. It will help you decide if you are toxic. It gives a detailed description of how to chelate using the ACC protocol, not only to remove mercury, but also lead, aluminum, arsenic, antimony, cadmium, and copper.

You will learn how to take care of yourself while you are becoming healthy:

• How to identify problems with your thyroid, adrenal glands, digestive system and more.
• Supplements to relieve symptoms caused by these problems.
• How your doctor can help you.

Why wait any longer to reclaim the vibrant health you were born with?

Let the authors guide you to better health!

Some signs and symptoms of chronic mercury poisoning

​The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website says chronic mercury poisoning causes signs and symptoms such as:

• irritability
• shyness
• tremors
• changes in vision or hearing
• memory problems
• depression
• numbness and tingling in the hands, feet or around the mouth

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Why did Andy die
• Introduction
• 1 Where and how people get toxic
• 1.1 Why mercury is so dangerous
• 1.2 How your might have become poisoned
• 1.3 Why your doctor might miss what is wrong
• 2 What mercury poisoning looks like
• 2.1 Psychological symptoms
• 2.2 Neurological symptoms
• 2.3 Physical symptoms
• 3 Other toxic metals
• 3.1 Aluminum
• 3.2 Antimony
• 3.3 Arsenic
• 3.4 Cadmium
• 3.5 Copper
• 3.6 Lead
• 4 How to test for chronic mercury poisoning
• 4.1 If you don’t have mercury fillings: a trial of chelation
• 4.2 If you have mercury filings: a hair test
• 5. Dental work: the biggest hurdle
• 5.1 Dental work and what you need done
• 5.2 Further comments about dentistry
• 6 The ins and outs of chelation
• 6.1 The Cutler protocol vs other methods
• 6.2 How chelation works
• 6.3 The chelating agents and waiting periods for taking the
• 6.4 Which chelators to choose and how much to take
• 6.5 What NOT to do!!
• 7 How to follow the Andy Cutler chelation protocol
• 7.1 Some considerations before starting
• 7.2 The protocol
• 7.3 How long does this take
• 7.4 If you are having a difficult time chelating
• 7.5 The “stall phase” or “dump phase”
• 7.6 What does methylation have to do with mercury detoxification?
• 7.7 Chelating lead
• 8 Problems you may encounter along the way and what to do about them
• 8.1 Why take supplements?
• 8.2 Prescription medicines
• 8.3 Adrenals
• 8.4 Thyroid
• 8.5 Diabetes and blood sugar
• 8.6 Allergies
• 8.7 Liver problems
• 8.8 Digestive tract problems
• 8.9 Yeast and dysbiosis
• 8.10 Poor concentration and attention deficit
• 8.11 Depression
• 8.12 Anxiety
• 8.13 Insomnia
• 8.14 Chemical sensitivity
• 8.15 Pain
• 9 Diet: what you eat has huge impact on how you feel
• 9.1 Why diet is important
• 9.2 Avoiding problematic chemicals in your diet
• 9.3 Thiol food sensitivity
• 9.4 General notes on diet
• 10 Organization and practical matters: getting yourself organized
• 10.1 Remembering to take your supplements
• 10.2 Remembering to take your chelators
• 10.3 Keep a log or diary
• 10.4 Organizing the rest of your life
• 11 Conception, pregnancy, and lactation
• 11.1 If you are pregnant
• 11.2 After your child is born
• 11.3 Timetable of basic precautions
• 12 Does your child need to chelate too?
• 12.1 Teething chart
• 12.2 Timeline of developmental milestones
• 12.3 Growth charts
• 12.4 Medical diagnoses
• 12.5 Food and diet
• 12.6 Common sense
• 13 Conclusion: some encouraging words
• Appendix A: frequently asked questions
• Appendix B: FDA mercury in fish chart
• Abbreviations
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index

The United Nations Program on the Environment has recently created the Minimata Convention on Mercury on October 10, 2013. One hundred twenty-eight countries have signed it and 71 have ratified it. The mines will be closed and mercury banned. Future generations will now be protected from the ravages of mercury. The bureaucrats and diplomats are congratulating themselves on a job well done.

In the meantime, the World Health Organization has got an exemption to the Minimata Convention so they can continue giving mercury-laden vaccines to children all over the Third World. In the First World, doctors are giving their patients more mercury every year in vaccines, dental amalgam, eye, and ear drops. Mercurial antiseptics continue to be popular and for sale in most countries.

Still, things look good for future generations, but what about you right now? What if your doctor or dentist didn’t get the message in time and poisoned you right up to the gills with mercury? The Minimata Convention certainly isn’t going to help YOU very much!b

Thousands of people have had dramatic recoveries from chronic illnesses like multiple sclerosis, autism, diabetes, and many other conditions, using the frequent low dose chelation protocol we spell out in this book. This information has been out there for twenty years. No other method of detoxifying heavy metals works half as well. Yet the bureaucrats keep worrying about their treaties, and the activists about the governments and the doctors tout expensive therapies that don’t work and are, at the worst, actually harmful.

If you are sick with any of the hundreds of conditions that mercury causes, it’s time for you to use this book and recover your health.

This book explains frequent low dose chelation, a method that is often called “the Andy Cutler Protocol” or “Andy Cutler Chelation” (ACC). It is a user’s guide for how to get mercury out of your body. The Cutler protocol also works for other metals.

Few people understand how easy it is to get exposed to mercury. They think they can’t have mercury poisoning if they can’t remember being exposed. This is the same as the doctors who think you can’t have be toxic if you didn’t work with mercury in a factory or laboratory. It really doesn’t matter how the mercury got into your system. What matters is how to get it out.

If you have mercury poisoning you will experience a constellation of different symptoms depending on your own individual biochemistry. Which symptoms show up will depend on how susceptible you are, where the poison wound up in your body and how much of it you have. The illness is progressive and the symptoms may come and go, or change. It may take years or decades for the symptoms to develop into a case of frank mercury poisoning.

With most other poisons, you will be treated and you will either recover or die. With chronic mercury poisoning, oddly, you will probably not die right away. Instead, you will probably live a long and miserable life of chronic illness, missed opportunities, unsatisfactory relationships, and financial difficulties.

You can get poisoned from other metals, too. Sometimes people have lead, occasionally they have other metals, but most often they just have mercury.

People will often get confused by a laboratory test or what a doctor has told them and believe they have a mixed metal intoxication. With the exception of lead, this is seldom true. However, once a person has accumulated enough mercury, their body’s detoxification systems will stop working properly so other toxic elements may accumulate.

The most common toxic elements other than mercury are aluminum, arsenic, antimony, copper, cadmium, and lead. These toxicities can have many features in common and, as with mercury, symptoms vary from person to person. The poisons are synergistic, so a mixed-metal intoxication will make a person exponentially sicker than mercury on its own. Each metal adds its own signature symptoms to the situation, but the most common picture is simply one of mercury poisoning.

If you have been diagnosed with heavy metal toxicity by a doctor, chelation therapy is considered the standard of care. It is usually administered by IV or orally, in high, infrequent doses. Most doctors really hate chelating their patients. They don’t know how to do it properly and the patients wind up worse than before. Many doctors have shared stories with Andy from when they were residents. They describe watching their supervisors kill a patient with chelation. While textbooks don’t talk about this kind of outcome, doctors talk to each other more frankly.

There is no profit to be made by diagnosing and treating mercury poisoning. If there were, any chemists at any pharmaceutical company, by reading the same standard medical texts Andy read, would come up with this same protocol: low dose, oral (or transdermal) chelation based on the half-life of the chelators. Indeed, dosing on the half-life is how most drugs are used-

How to use chelating agents properly flows from an understanding of the chemical kinetics – the pharmacokinetics – of chelation. It is unusual for physicians to be familiar with kinetics even though the subject is spelled out in standard medical texts. Typically drug companies have specialized chemists who work out the relevant details during the extensive studies government regulators require before approving a drug.

Kinetics is the branch of chemistry in which Andy spent 15 years as a researcher and consultant and in which he got his PhD. It was not difficult for him to look up the relevant details regarding alpha lipoic acid, DMSA and DMPS and use them to determine a chelation protocol.

Methyl mercury, the kind found in fish, is fat soluble and very easy to absorb. Once it is in you, your body takes the methyl group off and transforms it into the more dangerous, water-soluble inorganic mercury. It gets past your cell membranes to start in its methylated form, but then it is demethylated and not fat-soluble anymore. It gets stuck in whichever cell or organ it wound up in.

Mercury vapor is another form of mercury that is extremely easy to absorb. It evaporates from mercury amalgam fillings and when you breathe it in, it shoots right through your cell membranes, and, just like the methyl mercury, turns into inorganic mercury which can’t come back out.

Inorganic mercury is the dangerous form of mercury that does all the damage. In mammals inorganic mercury cannot be remethylated and excreted. Mammals don’t have the enzyme that allows this to happen. No matter how many methylating supplements you take, you cannot remethylate that mercury. It is stuck inside you behind lipid barriers and it will never come out on its own.