The late Andrew Cutler, author of Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment56 and Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities57 noted that foods high
in free thiol (which include legumes, dairy, the cabbage family and eggs) can
provoke symptoms in a significant subset of mercury - affected
people,
in part by increasing plasma cysteine, which may rise
in response to mercury and its biochemical effects.