Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment : What You Can Do to Get Better, How Your Doctor Can Help
"Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment" provides practical tools for use in trying to sort out a health problem.  ... Himself and amalgam victim,  Cutler describes the weird world of an amalgam patient in a very initiated way.  Mercury and other heavy metals take up residence in the active site of liver enzymes where some essential substance is supposed to be sitting.  The enzymes stop detoxifying pollutants and naturally occurring toxins and the victim becomes more sensitive to air quality,  foods and chemicals.  ... A chelating agent ... has two or more thiol groups in the same molecule which hold onto the mercury more tightly and is more likely to be able to move it out of the body safely.  ... The objective of the suggested treatment is to minimize the redistribution of mercury,  and to get it out of the system.   --Heavy Metal Bulletin,  volume 5 number 3 August 1999