Does anyone know about the benefits of alpha lipoic acid? It is used in Europe to treat diabetes.
The Wikipedia reference is useful:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoic_acid
The form our body actually uses is the R-ALA version. It is a racemic molecule (right handed or left handed) and only one exists in nature. Normal manufactured ALA is roughly equal S-ALA and R-ALA.
Alpha lipoic acid is good stuff, but it is also a potent chelator of mercury. If you have mercury in dental work or accumulated in your body, you have to read up on the proper way to use alpha lipoic acid, or else you will just redistribute a lot of mercury, which could be very bad.
https://www.google.com/search?q=alpha+lipoic+acid+mercury+chelation
it’s alpha lipoic acid and it’s used to supposedly treat peripheral neuropathy- I got peripheral neuropathy from chemo and it did absolutely nothing to help the condition- Some folks say it worked for them- i had no help from it