Cilantro is a heavy metal chelator some say. They say it is a natural chelator. Is it? Some say it’s so, some say it ain’t. Well based on some personal testing I would say it’s a mercury mobilizer not a true chelator. That can be good or dangerous. Here’s why.
It is good at getting mercury moving due to the presence of thiols and those thiols being fat soluble. That means it can be inside the body and maybe cells. When it gets there it stirs up bound up mercury. Some gets loosened and goes with the cilantro thiols into circulation. This is mobilization. But this mercury is loosely bound and can be convinced to bind to another thiol like a protein or another thiol. Or it could bind to glutathione which might aid in removal.
Ok so once the cilantro has mobilized mercury now what? Well if left on its own you will get redistribution symptoms as the mercury moves around. You may feel itching, tingling movement in the brain, memory release. Now we don’t want to the mercury to rebind now do we? No. We need to bind it more permanently and expel it from the body. You need a stronger chelator that binds this loosened mercury than these weak thiols. That’s where liposomal glutathione comes in. That is the body’s main heavy metal binder. Yes, the body produces it but if you are going to stir up stored mercury you want to add some to speed up the process. The natural guys say you will bind it. Maybe but only at low doses. Yes, some it yes and some no at higher doses. You want to bind ALL of it and not take any risk so as to prevent redistribution.
But I would not recommend using it especially without liposomal glutathione. I say don’t and only use liposomal as you don’t know what you are stirring up and where. Instead use GSH whey protein, selenium and C. to be safe.
How do I know this? Trial and error. I tried a strong dose of the cilantro tincture. Higher than recommended (20-30 droppers). I noted the symptoms and then took liposomal glutathione pill by pill until the symptoms went away. With a big dose of cilantro tincture I needed six to ten GSH pills to work. . One stirs the pot and the other grabs what has been stirred up. IHere is my old post on liposomal GSH. But again I don’t think stirring the pot is a good thing here.
Liposomal glutathione is a very good detox agent.
Why? Because it contains sulfur as a binding end and is the body’s main heavy metal detox agent. See the SH sulfur business end on the diagram below. That is how it works to bind mercury. But to get into the body and inside cells it has to be fat soluble. That’s the liposomal part. That means wrapped in a microscopic fat ball. It will bind up any mercury it runs into including what cilantro has brought out of hiding. So we are importing extra glutathione into the places that need it most for detox. Chase out of hiding, catch and remove from body. Oh yeah the symptoms went away after I took the liposomal glutathione with an ice cream sandwich and 500 ml of water. A successful run. Next weekend again. The ice cream is liquid fat that allows the liposomal glutathione to absorb faster and more easily is my guess. Fats go in with fat so make it one that tastes good.
The Mechanism of How it Works
So basically what we are doing is moving mercury from in the brain and deep spaces where it is trapped into the body and blood where it can be gotten rid of via normal means. When mercury vapor from dental amalgam gets into the brain via the blood stream it gets bound up with sulfur containing enzymes and binding sites after oxidation and stuck there. The brain cannot get rid of it except very slowly thus the long half life of many years. The articles below show this. However in the body the half life is on the order of 90 days or less. So we are moving the mercury into the body from the brain to via a fat soluble sulfur compounds to excrete it much faster. The same goes for fish mercury btw. If you have eaten lots of contaminated, long lived fish you could also be high in methyl mercury.
The number one thing is prevention to exposure. Do not get mercury amalgam dental fillings! The give off mercury vapor which you breathe and then that vapor gets oxidized and trapped in your brain. If you have them my advice is get them changed out with some other material like ceramic inlays, porcelain or resin white fillings. They look better, feel better and are not toxic. They will mess you up. They did for me for many years until I had them replaced. i had 99%le on the hair metal test (blood level) and very high levels (3-4X normal) on the toenail heavy metal panel test my primary care doctor did (measures long term exposure as toenails grow slowly). I rarely eat fish so it wasn’t from that. This is real, not fiction. Don’t let normal dentists deceive you. If you go to a holistic dentist they don’t use mercury amalgam because they know. You can also ask Ai to pull some articles and information for you. Co-Pilot is quite sharp at this.
Make sure to pair with Vitamin C and selenium. Then clean up next day with whey protein, protein, onions.
Supporting Articles in PDF form for you reading pleasure. These are scientific journals not some humbug some internet guy spouts off. Science not fiction.
Chemical composition of cilantro/corriander
Retention of mercury in the brain autopsy studies
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