What is Chelation?
Chelation (pronounced key-LAY-shun) is a term derived from the Greek chele, meaning, “claw.” A chelation agent is a chemical agent that, like a claw, grabs and chemically bonds with metals or other minerals and toxins. Simply put, chelation is the process in which chemicals bind with minerals. While chelation is a naturally occurring biological process (hemoglobin binds with iron to provide oxygen to tissues), synthesized chelation agents were first developed during World War II as a way to clear toxic metals from the body. Chemists discovered they could create a ring of molecules, which surround or “sequester” mineral molecules and carry them from the body through normal elimination.
As a generally recognized way of ridding the body of heavy metals and poisons, chelation agents are usually administered intravenously. Chelation agents or chelates locate toxins and form a bond with them. Thus the toxin is pulled off the cell it was attached to and washed out of the body. The drawback here is that the toxin is not neutralized in this method and has a chance to attach itself to other cells in some other part of the body. Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), dimercaptopropane sulfonate (DMPS), or ethylene diaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) are names of chelates currently used.
A synthetic amino acid, which has been useful as a heavy metal chelating material, is EDTA (Ethylene Diamine Tetra-Acetic Acid). It is an FDA-approved treatment for lead, mercury, aluminum and cadmium removal, and has been used for lead chelating for over 50 years. EDTA also assists in restoring blood vessels jammed with calcium and arterial plaque. Basically EDTA is non-toxic and has few noticeable side effects. Unfortunately, it can also chelate necessary minerals and other elements from the body, so the treatment should be supplemented with vitamins and minerals.
Although chelation is the only way to treat lead poisoning, it’s beneficial results on the bloodstream can be used to treat other medical conditions. In addition to being the only way to treat lead poisoning, it removes unwanted metals, mineral deposits, calcium-based plaques and chemical poisons. Because of this, people with atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries by plaque deposits) and arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries and diabetes may also benefit.
In the textbook of EDTA Chelation Therapy by Cranton, clinical studies and research has shown that EDTA chelation treatment is just as beneficial as bypass surgery and angioplasty, or even more effective. It’s hard to do double blind studies to prove or disprove the clinical results of bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty.
Chelation treatment is done in the doctor’s office. No hospitals, surgeons, cardiologists are needed, and the huge “team” of healthcare professionals who make a great deal of money from surgery and angioplasty are likely to lose their $6 billion a year from these procedures as more people turn to chelation. More people have received chelation than either of the above-mentioned procedures. Moreover, as chelation includes dietary changes, cutting out highly processed foods and supplementing the diet with non-prescription nutrition, pharmaceutical companies lose out on their over-priced and hugely profitable drugs.
The most frequent criticism leveled by critics of non-traditional and alternative medical therapies is that new treatments are “unproven” because randomized, double-blind, controlled studies have not yet been done to prove effectiveness. Those criticisms ignore the fact that most medical procedures routinely performed in the practice of medicine are also unproven using those same criteria.
In fact, the United States has the most advanced high technology hospital and surgical care in its history, yet 800,000 people die each year from arteriosclerosis and complications thereof. It is absurd to deny patients the option of undergoing EDTA chelation as a less expensive and at least just as effective alternative to surgery and angioplasty. The reduction in cost would be a great savings to medical insurance companies and hopefully result in lowered insurance premiums.
How about the improvement in quality of life?
Although some doctors don’t advertise it, chelation can greatly increase life expectancy. The essential sources of all illness are the small particles of metal, which build up over a lifetime. These metals increase the production of free radicals. As the body is rid of the metals, free radicals also disappear, by a staggering amount, and this slows down aging and makes the patient feel young. Intravenous chelation also lessens the risk of heart disease and cancer.
Intravenous chelation therapy, first, removes those heavy metals, usually toxic, which cause tremendous multiplication of free radicals. This cuts out billions and billions of free radicals from even being created because the toxic metals have been removed from your body.
At once no more poisonous free radicals are being created in the body.
The two major killing diseases in this day and age – heart disease and cancer – can be reversed and prevented.
What chelation handles is the damage caused by free radicals; the therapeutic benefit of the chelating substance in reducing free radical activity and even reversing damage that had been done by those free radicals is astounding.
The information contained here in is meant to be used to educate the reader and is in no way intended to provide individual medical advice. Medical advice must only be obtained from a qualified health practitioner.
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