{"id":1205,"date":"2018-08-31T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2018-09-05T22:17:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T10:17:33","slug":"how-to-take-alpha-lipoic-acid-ala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/how-to-take-alpha-lipoic-acid-ala.php","title":{"rendered":"How to take Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/how-to-take-alpha-lipoic-acid-ala.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>ALA is a mercury chelator that passes through the blood brain barrier<\/p>\n<p>ALA is strongly acidic and you dont want to use the stuff in a suppository. \u00a0Oral doses should be small &amp; every 3-4 hours. To a maximum of 3 mg per KG of body weight.<\/p>\n<p>So you can take it 3-4x per day. I am 107 KG so I can take a max of 321mg per day but its very acidic like I said and 100mg will burn your mouth a little. Its recommended to start with very small doses. 300 mg is 1\/16 of a teaspoon. Only small amounts of ALA are required.<\/p>\n<p>Start very low &amp; build up to the max per body weight. Also dont start ALA &amp; glutathione until you have done phase one on EDTA which is 50 treatments.<\/p>\n<p>For more detailed info on ALA &amp; DMSA read about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingnetwork.co.za\/chelationnetwork\/chelation-the-andy-cutler-protocol\/general_guidelines_cutler\/\">Cutler protocols<\/a> but be aware this protocol is prejudiced against EDTA<\/p>\n<p>I have now had EDTA &amp; charcoal 60 times and ALA &amp; glutathione 3 times<\/p>\n<p>One other thing about ALA &#8211; if your sense of smell is poor you may be in for a very pleasant surprise<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1242 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/nose-and-mouth-female-640x527.jpg\" alt=\"nose\" width=\"384\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet ALA is a mercury chelator that passes through the blood brain barrier ALA is strongly acidic and you dont want to use the stuff in a suppository. \u00a0Oral doses should be small &amp; every 3-4 hours. To a maximum of 3 mg per KG of body weight. So you can take it 3-4x per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[683,594],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-alpha-lipoic-acid","tag-detox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}