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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!
Andrew Cutler was a health care consultant in the Seattle area. He had a PhD in chemistry from Princeton and a BS in physics from the University of California. He is the author of Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment and Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities. Dr. Cutler engaged in extensive self study in biochemistry and medicine due to assorted health problems.
Rebecca Lee was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont and was certified as a health coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She learned about heavy metal poisoning when trying to figure out her own health issues.
THE MERCURY DETOXIFICATION MANUAL: A GUIDE TO MERCURY CHELATION
Rebecca Rust Lee and Andrew Hall Cutler PhD PE
Andy Cutler Publishing Sammamish, WA noamalgam.com
DISCLAIMER
This book provides information on a controversial subject — the diagnosis and treatment of mercury and other heavy metal toxicities. The subject is controversial because these toxicities are due to exposures which are often not only non-occupational, but iatrogenic.
Our purpose is to inform and educate interested readers. We have been as complete and accurate as we could manage given that this book is short, to the point and simple enough for most people to follow. As a necessary consequence of this simplicity, some of the technical discussion had to be abbreviated and approximated. A more detailed and academic discussion can be found in Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and* Treatment* and Hair Test Interpretation, Finding Hidden Toxicities. 1
This book is a summary and does not contain all possible information. We cannot guarantee that the actions suggested in this book are safe, helpful or effective for you. We do not advocate the use of any particular form of health care nor do we offer a diagnosis or suggested treatment for any specific individual. This book is not a substitute for medical advice or counseling by a licensed health care practitioner. Each persons own particular situation is unique and the advice of a licensed and experienced health care practitioner can be invaluable. We do not wish to discourage you from seeing a licensed health care practitioner, we do wish to provide information so you can understand your rights and make better decisions as a patient.
Parts of this book rely on statistical concepts and analyses. Due to the very nature of statistics, only probabilities can be determined. The probabilities are no better than the data used to calculate them, which is imperfect to start with. Because our data comes from people who are seeking help with chelation, the sampling is unusual and not random.
Because of the statistical nature of this work and imperfections of the available data, which are beyond the control of the authors, exceptions to the rules can reasonably be expected to occur. The authors and publisher can accept no responsibility or legal liability if you turn out to be such an exception. A licensed health care practitioner, seeing you as a patient, has a responsibility to ensure you are not an exception. We encourage you to consult one.
Scientific studies happen in a closed environment and even when done honestly and reported accurately, have limitations and are not conclusive. While some of the material in this book relies on published scientific studies, these studies will not necessarily determine your experience with any particular intervention or substance. There are far too many variables to identify to whom the results will or will not apply.
Clinical experience and ongoing research often change the available information on risks, benefits, contraindications and typical dosing schedules for drugs and nutritional supplements. These issues are often controversial. We assume no liability for suggesting any particular amount, timing, means of administration or reasons why you should or should not take a particular substance.
The legal status of drugs, nutritional supplements, health care and many other issues relevant to this book change frequently. We do not mean to encourage any unlawful behavior on your part. We cannot possibly check or know the laws in every jurisdiction on earth where this book might be read, now or in the future. Please be sure to comply with local laws. We will not be liable if you follow any instructions in this book that do not comply with the current laws in your jurisdiction.
The authors and publisher of this book offer no expressed or implied warranties of accuracy or suitability for any particular purpose and we can assume no liability for errors or omissions. This book is a statement of opinion in areas where the facts are controversial or unknown and the contents cannot reasonably be presumed to be error free.
The authors and publisher assume no liability or responsibility for any loss, damage or injury caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information, correct or incorrect, contained in or omitted from this book. This book is sold on an “as is” and “as available” basis, with the understanding that the authors and publisher are not liable for misunderstanding, misinterpretation, misuse or misapplication of the information provided. We provide no implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. In no case shall we be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of the information in this book. Use of the information in this book is at the sole risk of the reader. The risk of chelating the wrong way is far higher than the risk of the methods we discuss in this book,
2 but there is always some risk involved in health care. Please do not use this book if you are unwilling to assume that risk.
Not being sued is important to us, but it is not the sole purpose of this disclaimer! We don’t want the emotional distress caused by someone getting really sick or dying because of how they used this material. Please read the disclaimer and take it to heart. Be careful! Don’t hurt yourself or someone you love. We want you to use this book to get better.
DEDICATION
We would like to dedicate this book to those sick and suffering people, many of them dear friends, who are still so mired in an old and harmful paradigm that they are unable to help themselves. We especially wish to dedicate it to those people who died never having figured out what was wrong.
We remember people from our childhood who in retrospect clearly had mercury poisoning. Nobody was able to tell them what was wrong. Nobody ever helped them. Most of them are dead now, never having had a chance at good health. Many of them mattered to us and we feel sad that they couldn’t take advantage of what we know now and is outlined in this book.
Rebecca Rust Lee Andrew Hall Cutler, PhD PE
I didn’t derive my protocol from on high. I looked stuff up and tried it, talked about it on a listserver (the amalgam.de list) and others tried it as well. After getting large numbers of positive and consistent reports I considered it a protocol and wrote a book about it. I would have considered it shockingly irresponsible to advocate it based solely on theoretical reasoning, without many hundreds of people trying it and talking about it with me.
Andy Cutler 1956-2017
PREFACE##
PREFACE
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!
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.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank the following people for their invaluable help reviewing the manuscript:
Petra Hoffman, Australia
Linda Jackson
L.M. Laiko
Jan Martin
Andra Oana
Additional help was provided by the administrators and moderators of the Andy Cutler Chelation: Safe Mercury and Heavy Metal Detox (www.facebook.com/groups/acfanatics).
WHY DID ANDY DIE?
Andy died at a young age; he was 60 years old when he passed away from heart disease. You may be worried that the protocol killed him and that it may do the same to you.
The protocol was not the problem.
I’ll let Andy speak for himself. This is from an interview in 2013.
Did you personally make a full recovery from mercury poisoning?
Probably not. I have a long and complicated health history even though most of it appears to involve mercury.
It isn’t completely clear what problems I can reasonably expect to get rid of and which ones might be permanent, so when I had a lot of improvement (really tremendous improvement) and the opportunity to get on with life.
I got on with life. Unfortunately life turned out to be rather complicated so I didn’t chelate more after that.
…If you are chelating yourself, you can make rational trade-off decisions whether you’re chelated enough, and you’ll remember that the mercury is waiting for you if you decide later that you do need to chelate more.
The reason to chelate is to improve your quality of life. Andy said that if you had responsibilities, like having to work or to take care of someone else, it was reasonable to chelate only until your symptoms were under control. You could always continue chelating later.
Andy followed his own advice. He used his protocol. He did get better. But he chose to stop chelating before he was completely well.
Alpha lipoic acid metabolizes in the body to high thiol compounds. Thiol sensitive people can have worse side effects while on a chelation round than others. Andy was so sensitive to thiols that he was unable to concentrate while taking ALA. This meant he could not do the research necessary to continue helping people. He made a choice to chelate only until his food sensitivities, allergies and other symptoms were tolerable. He chose to continue helping you with your health problems. He planned to continue chelation at a later time.
Unfortunately, he ran out of time before he could start chelating again. So, if anything hastened his death, it was not chelating enough. Please do not let his early demise keep you from chelating. Chelation had nothing to do with his passing.
Joann Loos November 1, 2018
INTRODUCTION
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 users 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 this book in your hand you probably already know that mercury poisoning is a real issue—we are not going to waste too much time “proving” that. If you want more detailed information about mercury poisoning, you can read Amalgam Illness or Hair Test Interpretation.
Although the principles of frequent low dose oral chelation are the same for adults and children, specific instructions on how to chelate children appropriately can be found in the book Fight Autism and Win (second edition) by Jan Martin and Tressie Taylor.
Many people who have mercury poisoning have to start with expensive and unpleasant dental work before they can chelate. It is reasonable for them to want to be certain that mercury is really their problem before they proceed. To this end we have included a section on testing, another that will help you decide whether you have been exposed to mercury and a third that describes how it feels to be mercury toxic. We hope this material will help you decide that yes, you really do have mercury poisoning, and motivate you to chelate. Don’t procrastinate and keep getting sicker. (Ironically, procrastination and indecision are common symptoms of mercury poisoning!)
If mercury poisoning is making you sick, there are nutritional supplements that you can take right now which will make you feel better. This information is important and is discussed in more than one place. Below we list the basic four—two vitamins and two minerals. These supplements should be taken continuously, while you are chelating (on round) and also on the days you are not chelating (off round). Go out and buy them! Start taking them right now!
The basic supplements to take—the “core” or “essential four”and a few others
The supplements listed below will make you feel better in a few days. Most of the supplements should be taken three, or even better, four times per day, continuously.
We often refer to these supplements as “the core four” or “the essential four.” They particularly counteract the bad things mercury does to your body and are inexpensive and easily available. Chemically sensitive or very allergic people, however, may need to try various brands and varieties before finding one that suits them. Most vitamin C, for example, is made from corn syrup. If you can’t tolerate corn you can also find it made from beet sugars, sago palm, tapioca or potatoes. Vitamin E is usually made from soy. If you are reactive to soy you could try a vitamin E derived from sunflower or try tocotrienols instead.
We are also including a second list of supplements that many people will find helpful.
If any of these supplements disagree with you, don’t take them. The supplements are supposed to make you feel better, not worse.
The core four essential supplements
Supplement
HOW MUCH AND HOW OFTEN
magnesium e.g. citrate, glycinate, malate*
100 to 200 mg, three or four times a day (with meals and at bedtime)
vitamin C, buffered
1 to 2 grams, three or four times a day (with meals and at bedtime). You can also take 250-500 mg with each chelator dose
vitamin E (natural or d-form)
1,000 IU per day
zinc
50 mg one a day with a meal
- Do not use oxide, hydroxide or carbonate because they are poorly absorbed. Other forms are fine.
Vitamin C is an acid. If you take the ascorbic acid form it may give you heartburn. Buffering prevents this.
Other basic supplements you may need
Supplement
HOW MUCH AND HOW OFTEN
Why
adrenal cortex*
50 to 250 mg, three or four times a day
details in section 8.3.2
phosphatidylcholine (lecithin)
1 to 2 gr with meals and at bedtime
details in section 8.7.2 (liver), 8.10.2 (concentration and mood) and 8.11.2 (depression)
omega 3 oil: fish or flax
up to three tbsp (about 45 ml) flax oil or one tbsp (about 15 ml) fish oil daily
details in section 8.10.2 (concentration and mood) and 8.11.2 (depression)
vitamin A
25,000 IU per day
increases immunity
- Be careful to get “adrenal cortex” and not a whole adrenal product that contains both the adrenal cortex and the adrenal medulla.
A note on margin graphics
We’ve use a few graphics to help you read this book:
is used to identify sections describing what NOT to do.
A note on glossary words
Words that are defined in the glossary are in a separate font.
A note on gender
The authors will be using he/him to identify a singular person. Please note that this does not identify a man, but is used as shorthand to replace he or she/him or her. Otherwise the text becomes difficult to read.