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The end is the beginning.

I'm assuming you haven't been sticking to daily meditation practice. It can and will lead to states that make crack seem like a sugar high.

It can be less bad; it can be worse. Let's not think in absolutes.

Is rape categorically worse than theft? I tend to think yes. If that's the case, then false accusations of rape are categorically different to false accusations of theft/etc. To falsely accuse someone of rape is to intend to subject that person to the penalty of rape. False accusations of rape are akin to rape, and that's really being generous, as victims may actually get raped in prison, by multiple people at once. Don't pretend to not know why false accusation of rape is a heinous crime.

Lol don't worry -- that's a different ALA. Alpha linolenic acid -- "omega 3." The chelator/intracellular-antioxidant is alpha lipoic acid / thioctic acid.

No, but there's the potential for a "dead-giveaway" moment. If that doesn't happen, it may or may not be a problem -- probably isn't, truth be told. But...if it causes mercury redistribution symptoms so intense, the individual contemplates calling themselves an ambulance? Well, at least they found the problem. In reality it is probably not much of a problem unless they had amalgams in the past. It's just good to know there is in fact a way to get the metal out safely, if one decides that's a route they want to try.

Sexual repression. That just intuitively sounds unwise to everyone. For some reason, in this context, it gets a pass. It shouldn't.

@Michael569 No contradiction. Problem is taking one dose; not a whole 4 days. If you aren’t mercury toxic, it will be an uneventful 4 days. If you are though, good thing you found out what the problem was. How much longer would they have spent wasting their time; thank god they finally found it; etc

Yeah this is absolutely crucial lol

Come on man. Tangential? How about peripheral; unrelated; separate; a-different-axis; parallel; a different area of development; etc...

@integral None of the things you take have anything to do with that. ALA actually causes zinc buildup/toxicity, and yet you take zinc on top of it, because ALA causes even worse copper toxicity, and consuming additional zinc causes copper purging. Consuming additional/excess molybdenum does the same to a lesser degree, but with no downsides, since ALA doesn't cause molybdenum buildup.

Don't think there's anything you can do to deplete molybdenum.

No problem! Judging from your question about the IV, you seem to be very experiment-minded... One thing I never did, but suspected may be of value (though I don't recommend it), is to take ALA + EDTA (and DMSA or DMPS)... Since ALA causes zinc buildup (and very prominent copper buildup) and EDTA causes zinc depletion, they might balance each other out, allowing you to stay on ALA longer -- since the EDTA would hypothetically enable you to dose the 4x/day zinc (to purge copper) higher and for longer before eventually, inevitably, becoming zinc and copper toxic. That's just theoretical though; not sure how many people have tried it, but maybe someone has logged it on onibasu, or maybe reddit. Probably best to just go with the tried and true though. Definitely take the molybdenum though, as it helps with the copper control and has no penalty / risk of buildup. Even 30-50mg zinc and 1-2mg molybdenum split up into 4 divided doses per day will not be enough to prevent copper toxicity indefinitely. Avoid high copper foods such as nuts and probably most legumes. Increasing bile flow can apparently help you excrete copper as well: glycine; taurine; milk thistle; lecithin.

DMPS and DMSA together is rather redundant. Only need one or the other to be optimal. DMSA does everything DMPS does, and DMPS does not chelate lead. Where DMPS really shines is taking it on its own to chelate mercury for very long periods conveniently (without having to wake up at night to stick to properly frequent dosing), as you can take it as infrequently as every 8 hours, and it has milder side-effects than the other 2 chelators. Though it is way more expensive.

The ALA is perfect. The DMSA is probably best obtained through livingsupplements.com, imo.

If you have any unacceptable level of fatigue, brain fog, headache, malaise, or malady of any kind whatsoever, you could easily benefit from chelation, since in a capitalist society, corners will be cut by corporations and some level of lead, arsenic, and mercury will end up in your body -- often not very much, luckily. And it's very difficult to test for toxicity objectively -- hair tests, etc are unreliable and don't reflect bone and brain content. But... it's a pretty easy test to see if you're toxic: Commit to a 72+ hour (better 96++ hour) cycle of steady ALA dosing e3h. If you feel like you're about to drop dead due to taking a low dose of this simple OTC supplement, congratulations, you have mercury toxicity.

As in a lower SD stage? No, this is completely tangential to that. This is just to transcend that particular area of development so that, for instance, if some girl leaves you, you know for an absolute fact that you can get another of comparable quality in a week.

And you can definitely ramp up the dose quite a bit... Depending on tolerability, of course -- for some, even 1mg is very unpleasant. I started at 10mg of each or so (can't remember exactly) but I eventually ramped up to 600mg ALA + 100mg DMSA e3h, for several weeks at a time. At that level of ALA, you will also need biotin, as ALA depletes that as well.

Not necessarily -- at least not as any sort of safety measure. ALA alone is perfectly fine; DMSA alone is fine; both together will speed up the process. DMSA + DMPS is somewhat redundant so you'd generally just choose one, but both of those together is also fine. Taking ALA or DMSA on its own without the other is not inherently more dangerous than the combination. The only danger is falling levels of DMSA in the presence of elevated ALA -- causing a spike in free mercury in the body while ALA is moving mercury into and out of the brain. And of course taking the chelator too infrequently and for less than 72 hours straight (preferably 96++ hours) is also harmful.

Good thinking! For instance, you wouldn't want to stop taking DMSA while ALA is still being dosed and elevated at a constant rate, as ALA will be transporting mercury into and out of the brain via the blood brain barrier at any given time, with a slight bias toward getting it out of the brain... but when the DMSA level falls, this would cause a spike in free mercury in the body, whereas the brain would see no change... thus, the bias would shift toward mercury going INTO the brain. Do some research on onibasu to see some anecdotal reports and see what they have to say about it, but just make sure you either stop the ALA first, or stop them at the same time -- never stop DMSA first. Copper toxicity for ALA; oxidative stress for DMSA, specifically. Generally, the problem is with the mercury/lead mobilization itself -- some will be moved around your system, and your system won't like it. I wasn't very toxic so I did fine with at least 2 months at a time, but I've heard of people taking 1mg ALA and they felt like they might have to call 911 they felt so sick. Lol, perhaps. Medicinal chelation is not a very holism-friendly procedure. They don't give a crap about redistribution. They just give you DMSA or EDTA until you're no longer testing above the reference range. Sometimes every 8 hours -- completely inappropriate frequency. "Medicine." Looks good. The molybdenum is perfect. But the zinc is too high. That's 64mg/day. ALA already causes zinc retention, it just causes even worse copper retention, so taking zinc is necessary (causes increased copper excretion via the metallothionein mechanism), but you definitely don't want to exceed 50mg of supplemental zinc per day. 30-50mg/day seems to be a good balance. Research the Cutler protocol on a site called "onibasu" though. There's more info on there. You may need antioxidants and magnesium from what I remember, though I'm not entirely keen on the rationale behind them specifically (if I'm even remembering correctly that they're indeed included in the protocol). No problem!

College student, lol

ALA will only chelate mercury, but it chelates both intracellular (e.g. in the brain, across the blood brain barrier) and extracellular mercury. DMSA chelates both mercury and lead, but only extracellularly as it is neither lipid soluble nor affiliated with any transport proteins. Also, ALA doesn't work as well on organic mercury (methylmercury), but works great for inorganic -- which, given enough time, all organic mercury converts to, but if one doesn't want to wait, they can add in DMSA or DMPS. DMPS looks like it would chelate lead, on paper, but in practice it does not -- it only chelates mercury, but it can be dosed more conveniently than DMSA and has fewer side-effects, though it is quite expensive. It takes much longer to chelate mercury from the brain than from the body, and the only compound capable of this is ALA, so it is the principal mercury chelator, but ALA will not chelate lead. Proper ALA usage can seem to be rather inconvenient; a bit of a hassle, since it must be taken every 3 hours, around the clock, for a bare minimum of 72 hours straight, and preferably 96+ hours. For completeness, I'll add: There is a fourth chelator -- EDTA, but it only chelates lead, does so less effectively than DMSA, and it depletes zinc. Generally, it should not be used. No. No. Only two things cause redistribution: 1. Ingestion of an ineffective/partial (single-thiol) chelator (penicillamine/cysteine) or cilantro/chlorella. 2. Falling blood (and tissue) concentrations of an effective/full (double-thiol) chelator (ALA/DMPS/DMSA). The chelators sport a double thiol group, which acts like a hook and binds to the metal (which situates itself between the 2 thiol groups) far more effectively than compounds with a single thiol group (which pretty much just haphazardly stir the metal around your system). But even this hook-like binding mechanism isn't perfect... When blood levels of the chelator fall after having been elevated (consistently elevated, and for quite a while, if you're chelating properly), the chelator will continue to be excreted... and many of the chelator molecules will have a mercury or lead molecule attached. Well, some of the metal always gets knocked loose from the hook at any point along the way, throughout the whole round, but while chelator blood levels are steady, there's usually a nearby empty chelator molecule ready to scoop-up the free-metal, preventing it from being incorporated into tissues... Well...when there's a dwindling supply or even modest reduction in chelator molecules to scoop-up these knocked-loose metal molecules, these metals will increasingly have nowhere to go but redistributing themselves into your body. It's extremely important to understand this robustly, and visually, because chelating improperly has the potential to concentrate mercury in the brain. #1 is irrelevant if you're using proper chelators, so let's focus on #2: How does one "prevent" (minimize) redistribution? By minimizing the extent of falling blood concentrations of ALA/DMSA/DMPS. How does one do this? By doing two things: A. Taking the chelator(s) very frequently -- at least once per each respective compound's half-life. ALA e3h, DMSA e4h, and DMPS e8h... or more frequently, for each. B. Continuing at this rate for a sufficiently long time (doing sufficiently long rounds/cycles) such that you only let blood levels fall (when you end a round) a small number of times relative to the total amount of time you spend "on-round" with elevated and steady systemic levels of the chelator(s). The bare minimum duration for each round, in order to ensure net-positive healing/damage ratio, is 72 hours, but 96+ hours is superior. For this reason, doing the rounds as long as possible (weeks) is even better, if you can avoid significant side-effects or (in the case of ALA) copper toxicity. ALA causes copper retention, so to somewhat prevent massive buildup, you are advised to take zinc and molybdenum 4 times a day, for a total daily dose of about 30mg zinc and 1000mcg molybdenum. Any time you miss one single dose of a chelator (by more than 30-60 min), chelator concentration has begun to fall significantly, and that round is now OVER -- you need to take a break of at least 3 days, but preferably the amount of time the round lasted for... And if you missed that dose before you had made it to the 72 hour mark...then unfortunately, that round was unsuccessful. Hope that clears some things up for people.

Ahh. This could be a starting point for your holistic search for a cure. Perhaps I can help a tad bit: What ester? (Testosterone enanthate, cypionate, or propionate?) What dosage? What frequency? And I'm assuming you get blood work every 3-6 months? How's your SHBG? Cortisol? DHEA? Estrogen? Contrary to popular belief, it's actually often worse to have low estrogen than high, especially for mood, libido, and sexual function. On TRT, your endogenous production is suppressed through negative feedback, which would not be an issue if it were only testosterone that got suppressed. Other hormones can be suppressed. I would highly recommend taking pregnenolone 100mg on most days -- Life Extension brand has a good product.

Again, as long as you're progressing on at least a push, a pull, and a leg-dominant movement, you're doing alright for general health and fitness. It's only when you want maximal strength, fitness, and muscle mass that each of the following 5 basic movements become minimum requirements for maximizing progress/potential while preventing injury: squat, hip-hinge, vertical press, horizontal press, scapular retraction. They aren't necessary for all purposes. Periodization is required when fitness is so high that the amount of stimulus required to cause adaptation necessarily requires a workload that also causes one to incur a level of fatigue that makes adaptation impossible. A catch 22. The solution was always thought to be periodization (which does work quite well)... That is... until a recent invention called conjugate ("Max Effort + Repetition Effort / Dynamic Effort + Repetition Effort"). At a certain level of strength (i.e. before 500 lb deadlift), the squat, deadlift, and bench will need to be limited for optimal results; only trained for speed sets and maxes, as (while their stimulus-values are through the roof) their stimulus-to-fatigue ratios are very poor. At this level, periodization can actually be avoided with a particular system called "conjugate" -- it's an adaptable training style that is arguably the most effective training invention as of right now. It involves 1. Maxes, 2. Speed sets (in a specific way that is scientifically proven to involve the highest workload density a particular human is capable of in its training modality), and 3. Hammering the crap out of easy-to-recover-from (high stimulus-to-fatigue ratio) exercises such that by the time you get to the sufficient level of stimulus required to adapt, you've only incurred a tiny, tiny fraction of the fatigue you'd necessarily incur just training the barbell lifts. The speed sets also involve very high stim/fatigue even while using the main barbell lifts, since they use such light loads; usually 3 ultra-fast-as-possible reps followed by 1 min rest for 10 sets, with 50% of that week's 1RM weight + up to 30% in band tension. The joys of running ingenious systems like that are harder to come by without barbells. Examples of exercises with high fitness-to-fatigue ratio: hip thrust, good morning, reverse hyper, glute ham raise, close grip floor press, band facepulls, JM press, Pendlay row. If you get really nerdy and holistic with programming, you can work out some really effective strategies that get you a lot stronger and fitter than most would think is reasonably possible. To get ultra-strong and really push your body to its limit level of fitness, barbells aren't really replaceable. And there's really no way around training with barbells and squatting well over 400 lb if you want bone density 6 standard deviations above the mean -- which would almost certainly mean you won't bite the dust due to the accelerated failing of health caused by being bedridden from a broken hip, like so many elderly people do. Frankly, it's rather difficult to apply the same level of holism and goals of stratospherically high fitness without the inclusion of barbell exercises, but if that's not what you're after, that's perfectly fine.

Precisely.