One can think of Emeramide® as a very small trap for most heavy metals especially mercury. It’s structure consists of two natural substances. The body looks like a stop sign as it is made from a dicarboxybenzoate. This can be found in foods such as cranberries. The body has two arms spaced far apart made from a common amino acid found in most proteins called cysteamine. cysteamine is a two-carbon molecule that ends in a sulfur. Both the amine nitrogen and the carbons freely rotate allowing the molecule to change configuration with ease.
Think of the blow-up man in front of the oil change gas station with long floppy arms. When this molecule floats by a reactive mercury atom that has wedged itself into a membrane or protein it presents beautiful sulfur hands that open and available for the mercury to bind to. As a result, mercury will let go of the membrane sulfur and happily hook up with Emeramide® which provides a second sulfur that forms the most stable (see Cinnabar structure above) -S-Hg-S structure of mercury binding. The two together form an inert particle that is gradually removed by the P-450 detox pathway for removal through the bowel, but in the mean time, due to its non-reactivity it causes no injury. Animals fed very large quantities of Emeramide®-mercury complex (e.g. Hg=S) suffered no injury even though the two flowed into every tissue and then came out again. It was without measurable toxicity.
Why? Emeramide® forms a two semi covalent bonds with Hg2+ and these are two very strong bonds that cannot be broken under normal physiological conditions as exist in the mammalian body. To break the bond you must heat it to 2370 C (458.60 F) to bust apart the body. The aggressive bullying of the heavy metal stops because it is totally happy bound up with Emeramide®.
Interestingly Emeramide® does not deplete your normal minerals as most other chelators have been shown to do. It also does not engage in any essential physiological process or enzymatic actions as it does not alter any normal functions. Because Emeramide® is lipid (fat) soluble it can easily pass through the blood brain barrier, arteries and even through cell membranes. It goes everywhere and when it finds mercury it places one sulfur on each side to form a stable inert molecule as exists in the non-reactive mineral form stored in the environment.