Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 But formal chelation therapy aside, you can benefit from a general heavy metal cleanse like the one below to bring your toxic metal load down gradually. These formulas entail natural chelating agents, including amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.
Following are ingredients to look for when choosing a heavy metal cleanse product. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 The theory that chelation therapy works to diminish the calcium in your plaque has never been proven, but there's anecdotal evidence that it can help clear arteries in some people. It's very enticing but still experimental. An even better Drano promises to be a new drug that is a super HDL called alpha-1 -Milano. Look for it in the next few years if it passes the scientifically rigorous clinical trials. abnormalities, and can be linked to general inflammation of the heart. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 In addition to a good detox plan that includes a good level of toxin-binding soluble fiber and essential nutrients, chelation therapy has been used to significantly benefit the 1 to 2 percent of preschool children whose blood lead levels are 250 micrograms per liter or higher. chelation therapy is a treatment that uses substances such as 2, 3-demercapto-succinic acid (DMSA), dimercaptopropanesulfonate (DMPS), and eth-ylenediaminetetraacetic acid (ETDA) to bind toxic metals. This needs to be done under medical supervision due to the potential side effects. |
Bottom Line Health
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| A holistic doctor can test your urine for levels of these metals and recommend treatment, such as chelation therapy, if necessary.
Mark Stengler, ND, naturopathic physician, La Jolla Whole Health Clinic, La Jolla, CA.
Beware of this Common Antihistamine
The drug diphenhydramine, sold as Benadryl, and also an ingredient in Excedrin PM, Nytol, Sleep-Eze, Sominex, Tylenol PM and Unisom, has been shown to cause altered attention levels, disorganized speech, changes in consciousness and alertness, behavioral disturbances and dizziness in people age 70 and older. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have to be in the position not only to chelate mercury, if you could, but to knock out the viruses that are grabbing onto it even stronger than the chelation therapy.
Mike: That is interesting. How does a virus sequester heavy metals?
Dr. Liers: You will see this in the research literature more now. The therapies are aimed at knocking out the viruses, and maybe using these growth factors to make the cellular functioning better, maybe changing the cell potential, because cell potentials -- when they start coming down -- make the cell not able to function at the level it is supposed to. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| You may choose to go through a more rigorous form of chelation therapy under the supervision of a physician who can perform a "challenge test" at the start. This test involves introducing a specific chelating agent (i.e., EDTA, DMSA, and PMPS are the common ones today) to drive poisonous metals such as mercury, cadmium, arsenic, lead, and aluminum out of the body?from muscles, bones, fat, and organs. These powerful chelating agents will pull toxins into the urine, where they can be excreted and measured. Challenge tests help people determine their heavy metal load. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Chelation therapy is a treatment that uses substances such as 2, 3-demercapto-succinic acid (DMSA), dimercaptopropanesulfonate (DMPS), and eth-ylenediaminetetraacetic acid (ETDA) to bind toxic metals. This needs to be done under medical supervision due to the potential side effects. While chelation therapy is potentially useful in many children with very high levels of toxic metals in their system, a good detox program using nutrients and soluble fiber will work just as effectively and be safer. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 He specializes in a variety of treatment modalities, including the use of intravenous vitamin therapy, chelation therapy, and reconstructive nerve therapy.
1900 Hempstead Turnpike East Meadow NY 11554 Tel: (516) 794-0404 or
18 E. 53rd Street, 3rd Floor New York NY 10022 Tel: (212) 838-9100 www.drcalapai.net
DR. PAULA CAPLAN, PH.D., is a Radcliffe-Harvard graduate and affiliated scholar at Brown University's Pembroke Center. |
| You can detect how well the metals are being removed by means of a repeat 24-hour urine test. chelation therapy for people who have heavy metal toxicity may be done once or twice a week for 15 weeks."
Patient Story: A Single Dental Filling_
A Russian immigrant who had no fillings got a single filling when she was 20. She came to me at 22 with a shopping hag full of medicine. She didn't know what was wrong. She couldn't think. She was nauseated and sick all the time. When I asked her when it started, she said two years before. I looked into her mouth, and saw the single filling. |
| He has been one of the pioneers in the use of chelation therapy and other nutritional and complementary medical therapies for the treatment of chronic health disorders.
7499 Cerritos Avenue Stanton CA 90680 Tel: (714) 827-5180
JAMES S. GORDON, M.D., a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, was a research psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health for ten years. Founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, he is also a clinical professor in the departments of psychiatry and family medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 In a treatment called chelation therapy, the practitioner employs a chemical that's normally used to bind heavy metals (like mercury and lead) to treat people poisoned by these metals. Some doctors have the idea that unexplained fatigue and chemical sensitivity are due to heavy metal toxicity. While exposure to heavy metals can cause many symptoms, there is no good evidence that heavy metals have any role at all in CFS, fibromyalgia (FM), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). |
Mark Sircus
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 References
1 chelation therapy is a recognized treatment for heavy metal (such as lead) poisoning. EDTA, injected into the blood, will bind the metals and allow them to be removed from the body in the urine, (www.americanheart.org)
2 According to tests done in the US and Japan perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) have crept into the blood of almost every living creature in the northern hemisphere. The US Environmental Protection Agency has begun an investigation to determine how a Teflon chemical has found its way into the blood of virtually every American, and polluted drinking water supplies. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| A number of small controlled studies found no support for this hypothesis, but in 2002, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)—both of are part of the National Institutes of Health—announced that they had launched the Trial to Assess chelation therapy. This carefully designed double-blind placebo-controlled trial will tell us about the treatment's efficacy as well as its toxicities. |
Mark Sircus
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| Subsequently, DMSA and DMPS were utilized, first intravenously and later orally and now even transdermally. chelation therapy provides a relatively safe, effective, and inexpensive alternative to the drugs and surgery often used for circulatory disorders such as coronary heart disease, carotid (neck artery) stenosi (blockage), and leg artery stenosis (blockage). Chelation is a process by which toxic substances in the body, particularly heavy metals can be excreted safely. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Holistic approaches that may be helpful
Intravenous chelation therapy has been reported to be an effective treatment for PVD.20, 21 A partially controlled study reported improvements after ten chelation treatments.22 However, two double-blind studies found no difference between chelation therapy and a placebo in patients with intermittent claudication (page 276).23,24
Preliminary reports suggest acupuncture may reduce pain and improve blood flow in TAO,25, 26 but controlled studies are needed to better evaluate these claims. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Treatment of heavy metal toxicity is a combination of oral vitamins and minerals to maximize immune function, exercise, and chelation therapy to remove the metals. Dr. Calapai explains, "The vitamins and minerals that we recommend are based upon the individual's particular needs. We check to see if the patient is deficient in different nutrients or if they're not absorbing certain nutrients present in their diet. The ranges are individually different and depend on the result of the physical exam. |
Bill Sardi
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 While denigrating alternative physicians who practice chelation therapy using more natural means, conventional medicine practitioners disingenuously utilize conventional iron depletion methods such as blood letting and iron-chelating drugs (Adriamycin, Desferal) to treat cancer.
Iron chelators work by inhibiting the formation of new DNA needed to produce new tumor cells, and inhibiting the development of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) that feed tumors, thus preventing tumor spread (metastasis). |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 If you have heart disease, consider chelation therapy, either oral or intravenous, to encourage the excretion of these toxic substances.
Super Seven Prescriptions—Cardiovascular Disease
Super Prescription #1 High-potency multivitamin
Take as directed on the container. It provides a base of the many nutrients and antioxidants that promote cardiovascular health. The formula should contain 400 IU of natural vitamin E (d'alpha tocopherol).
Super Prescription #2 Garlic (Allium sativum)
Take 300 to 500 mg of aged garlic twice daily. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| Intravenous EDTA chelation therapy
EDTA chelation therapy is an alternative to coronary artery bypass surgery and angioplasty which may prove to be more effective and is definitely safer and less expensive. While a coronary artery bypass surgery or angioplasty usually costs between $40,000 and $100,000, EDTA chelation therapy is an in-office procedure that usually costs less than $2,500 for a full set of treatments. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 This is called chelation therapy when it is given by vein in a series of treatments.
Finally, natural antidotes should be used, such as selenium against mercury and cadmium, malic acid against aluminum, zinc and manganese against copper, and zinc against cadmium. There is also some clinical utility for compounds that impair gastrointestinal absorption and/or enhance excretion through the feces - these are silica to prevent aluminum absorption and alkylglycerols to increase fecal and urinary removal of mercury. Some effective strategies to remove mercury include selenium and shark liver oil. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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 According to early reports, the tapes work so well that it has been possible to reduce the medication given some patients.
¦ chelation therapy has proven helpful in enhancing cognitive function in many Alzheimer's patients. In chelation therapy, certain agents are administered to bind with toxins such as heavy metals and cause the body to excrete them. There are oral chelation formulas available over the counter. Intravenous chelation employs ethylenedi-aminetetraacetic acid (EDTA).
Note: Intravenous chelation therapy must be administered and monitored by a qualified doctor. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 ACAM can also provide prospective patients with a list of physicians in their geographic area who offer chelation therapy.
Conclusion
Scientific research and clinical experience have demonstrated that safe and effective alternatives exist for individuals with atherosclerosis. A combination of dietary modification, nutritional supplements, and chelation thetapy has helped hundreds of thousands of patients avoid dangerous surgical procedures and achieve better health. Please see the pteceding chapter for additional information on preventing atherosclerosis. |
| And testosterone isn't the only so-called 'alternative' treatment that can save a gangrenous diabetic foot or leg: chelation therapy has been doing that for more than 30 years."
Mr. Takajima shook his head. "My uncle died just 20 years ago. But since I have no gangrene, why should I need to worry about testosterone now?
"In natural medicine, it's been observed over and over again that if a large amount of a vitamin, mineral, botanical, or other natural supplement will successfully treat a problem, a small, steady amount will likely prevent it. |
| EDTA treatment is referred to as chelation therapy (pronounced "key-lay-shun"; the term "chelate" means "to grab like a claw"), because of the type of chemical bond that the drug forms with lead and other metals.
One doctor who was administering EDTA to a patient with both lead poisoning and atherosclerosis noticed that the patient's circulation improved markedly. This observation enticed that physician and several others to try EDTA therapy on patients with atherosclerosis who did not have lead toxicity. |
Richard Gerber, M.D.
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 What most critics fail to understand, however, is that chelation therapy is also a hormonal manipulation. The EDTA infusion seems to cause a secondary release of a calcium-regulating substance called parathyroid hormone, which causes continued opening of arteriosclerotic blood vessels days and weeks after chelation therapy has been completed. For instance, it is well known among chelation therapists that drugs like propranolol, which impair parathyroid hormone response, blunt the therapeutic effectiveness of chelation therapy. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| If testing shows that you have high toxic metal levels (such as lead cadmium, and mercury), work with a doctor who is knowledgeable in chelation therapy.
REFERENCES
Digiesi, V, F. Cantini, and B. Brodbeck. 1990. Effect of coenzyme Q10 on essential arterial hypertension. Current Therapeutic Research 47:841-^15.
Hodgson, J. M., G. F. Watts, D. A. Playford V Burke, and K. D. Croft. 2002. Coenzyme Q10 improves blood pressure and glycaemic control: A controlled trial in subjects with type 2 diabetes. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 56(11): 1137^12.
Singh, R. B., M. A. Niaz, S. S. |
| Consider getting a hair or urine analysis to find out if you have metal poisoning; if you do, be sure to fast regularly, and be sure to look into chelation therapy.
Testing Techniques
The following tests help assess possible metabolic reasons for cataracts: Vitamin and mineral analysis—blood Intestinal permeability—urine Digestion—stool analysis Toxic (heavy) metal toxicity—urine or hair Antioxidant scan—skin
Super Seven Prescriptions—Cataract
Super Prescription #1 High-potency multivitamin
This provides a base of nutrients that will neutralize free radicals. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Also, if you have dental amalgams ("silver" fillings) or crowns with amalgam underneath, you should be tested for mercury, and undergo chelation therapy if necessary. Have amalgam fillings removed by a dentist trained in the approved removal methods (see appendix) and replaced with ceramic.
Exercise
Most of us are aware that exercise reduces our risk of having a heart attack, but it does much more than that. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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| However, two double-blind studies found no difference between chelation therapy and a placebo in patients with intermittent claudication (page 276).23,24
Preliminary reports suggest acupuncture may reduce pain and improve blood flow in TAO,25, 26 but controlled studies are needed to better evaluate these claims.
PHENYLKETONURIA
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a rare genetic disorder that results in excessive accumulation of the amino acid (page 465), phenylalanine (page 568), and reduced levels of the amino acid, L-tyrosine (page 544), in the blood. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 When undergoing EDTA chelation therapy monitor the kidneys 24 hours for Creatine and BUN clearance, which usually gives better-functioning kidneys after therapy. Possible Chelation side effects to monitor include hypocalcemia (physician is prepared to administer I.V. Calcium); may lower blood pressure; may induce hypoglycemia (eat during therapy), dizziness, nausea, mouth skin tingling, injection site burning, and/or copious urination.
EDTA Toxicity level: Aspirin is 3.5 times more toxic, being fatally toxic 50% of the time if one takes 558 mg./kg. |
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