Could Chelation Save You From Death By Poison?

Heavy metal kills.

For the record, we’re not talking about rock ‘n roll here. An addiction to heavy metal rock may eventually make you stone deaf, but it won’t kill you. And we’re also not talking about the traditional lead pipe used by generations of murder mystery writers as a key element in countless who-done-its.

What we are talking about is the toxic heavy metals that inevitably enter our bloodstreams and wind up accumulating in our arteries and vital organs. The sad fact is that the human blood purification system was never designed to rid the body of industrial waste.

The Creator, apparently, didn’t think we’d ever become stupid enough to stuff ourselves with destructive doses of such hardcore poisons as lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminum, manganese and others which have been linked to diseases ranging from cancer, to arteriosclerosis, to kidney and liver failure, to birth defects, to brain tumors, to Parkinson’s disease, to plain and simple death by poisoning.

Is there a solution? Yes, for many people there is. It’s an amino acid treatment protocol called chelation therapy and it has been successfully (and sometimes controversially) used for about 65 years.

Solutions, of course, are unnecessary for problems that don’t exist, so before trying chelation we recommend you check to see if you have high levels of toxic metals in your body and, if so, how far above the norm those levels are. (Trace amounts of some metals are organically present in normal, healthy bodies.)

You can check yourself with a low-cost test kit that detects the presence of free electrically active heavy-metal ions (metals which have not been neutralized by the body’s detox system) in urine. Alternatively, you or your doctor can order a hair-mineral analysis, saliva test or other laboratory procedure to measure heavy metal levels more precisely.

Since diseases like hardening of the arteries, autism, stroke, high cholesterol and kidney failure, to name just five, can be caused by one or a multitude of factors, many physicians and their “advisors” in the drug company sales departments chose to focus solely on “curing” only symptoms while ignoring the more difficult to diagnose and treat causes.

High blood pressure is a good example. The visible, obvious symptoms of the disease are such things as the mercury pressure readings on the blood pressure monitor, a reddish cast to the face when the patient is under stress, hypertension and fatigue. In minor cases, particularly if the sufferer is obese, the physician may recommend a dietary change. In most cases, however, the typical doctor will write a prescription for a patented blood-pressure drug which works by dilating the blood vessels and comes with an FDA-mandated “professional fact sheet” that lists many more potential dangerous side effects than it does benefits.

Unfortunately, many – if not most – cases of high blood pressure are fueled by an increase in oxygen-free radicals caused by heavy metal deposits in the bloodstream. These free radicals irritate blood vessel walls and cell membranes and the irritated surfaces develop a buildup of plaque that partially blocks veins and arteries and forces the heart to pump harder to force oxygenated blood through the system.

Blood pressure medications offer no cure for this condition. They may reduce the pressure by dilating the vessels and some may even reduce cholesterol and dissolve some plaque. But the heavy metals and their oxygen-free radical offspring are unaffected by the drugs, they remain in the system spreading their poison.

Chelation therapy works at ground zero, by binding to heavy metals and calcium plaque in the arteries and moving them out of the body during natural waste elimination. To better understand the difference between chelation therapy and prescription medication treatments visualize a garden overgrown by weeds. The prescription drug gets rid of the weeds temporarily by chopping down the stalks, the chelation agent eliminates the weeds permanently by pulling them out by the root.

So what about that chelation agent? What is it really? For many years, the most common chelation agent used for traditional intravenous injection treatments has been EDTA (Ethylene-Diamine-Tetra-Acetic), a man-made amino acid which superseded dimercaprol (aka BAL), itself a highly toxic compound used to treat victims of poison gas attacks in World War 1. Interestingly, treating casualties of war – in this case Navy painters who suffered lead poisoning in World War 11 – was also responsible for the widespread acceptance of EDTA, which has none of the toxic properties of dimericaprol.

Since the development of EDTA, numerous other chelation agents – most notably dimercaptosuccinic acid, a non-potentially lethal derivative of dimercaprol — have been developed and widely used, but EDTA remains the only one specifically approved by the FDA for treating lead and several other forms of heavy metal poisoning.

Though IV administration remains the only effective form of chelation therapy for treating advanced cases of life-threatening diseases such as lead and mercury poisoning, newer forms of chelation therapy using over-the-counter supplements containing EDTA in oral or suppository form have proven just as effective as IV treatments in removing heavy metal deposits from the body before they can accumulate in toxic levels.

Given the fact that prevention is always the best, as well as the safest and least expensive, medicine, virtually everyone concerned with good health and retarding or eliminating the development of progressive organ disease should consider taking an EDTA chelation preparation with their other daily supplements.

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