The Cutler Protocol for Mercury Detoxification

Andy Cutler was a chemical engineer who began having strange health problems that doctors couldn't explain. He finally found a doctor who figured out that the problem was mercury poisoning, but when he began treatment he only got worse, as did many other patients he observed.

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When reviewing scientific studies that had already been completed Andy identified a method for treating mercury poisoning that was safer than what many doctors were doing. He credited this method with improving his health. It has since become known on the Internet as "The Cutler Protocol" (although Andy himself did not seem to have promoted his work using that term in his books or public Internet postings)

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The Cutler Protocol is simple and primarily involves taking alpha lipoic acid (ALA), a relatively inexpensive over-the-counter health supplement. The crucial difference between the Cutler Protocol and other methods of mercury detoxification is that it pays careful attention to taking ALA according to a strict schedule in order to maintain constant blood levels, which minimizes the amount of damage mercury does to the body as it is pulled from where it is stored and then excreted.

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While Andy did not originate the idea of using frequent doses of ALA to remove mercury from a  living body (researchers had already written about this idea decades earlier), he did more than anyone else to popularize the idea and guide people seeking to recover from this difficult condition largely without the help of the medical system. Many people are grateful to have improved some of their symptoms using his protocol.