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EDTA Chelation

The Most Effective Treatment for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease ... Just Got

a Surprising New Explanation for its Effectiveness

 

Article by John Morgenthaler

 

Undoubtedly, you know someone who’s had a heart attack or stroke. Or maybe your

own health has suffered from restricted blood flow. It wouldn’t be surprising.

 

According to American Heart Association President Lynn Smaha, MD, PhD,

cardiovascular disease is still the number one cause of death for both men and

women. And stroke, which is the third leading killer, is also a leading cause of

major disability.

 

Which means, on average, three Americans suffer a heart attack every minute of

every day, totaling well over a million heart attacks each year. Millions of

other people suffer from strokes, high blood pressure or related conditions.

 

If all major forms of heart and blood vessel disease were eliminated, U.S. life

expectancy would rise by almost seven years and the nation would be

more than $300 million richer.

 

American Heart Association’s 2000 Heart and Stroke Statistical Update

 

What if there was a way to reverse the damage of cardiovascular disease by

reducing cholesterol and blood viscosity, increasing flexibility in the blood

vessels, and removing toxins? Well, there is, and it’s even better than you

might think … safe, effective, well researched, and—to top it off—inexpensive.

 

In next weeks issue of Smart Publications Update, we'll be proud to feature

Garry F. Gordon, MD, DO, the father of modern chelation therapy, in a question

and answer section on how oral chelation is an important safety precaution for

everyone who wants to take control of their health and longevity. You’ll learn

how Dr. Gordon has helped more than one million people avoid bypass surgery, and

why heavy metal toxicity is one of the root causes of cardiovascular disease and

many of the other diseases that plague modern man.

 

“Every 20 seconds a person in the United States has a heart attack, and one

third of these attacks leads to death.”

 

Most importantly, you’ll learn Dr. Gordon’s latest thinking on how oral

chelation can provide the blood itself with the nutrients and other factors that

will restore it to health and cut down your risk of cardiovascular disease.

 

" I firmly believe that an oral chelation program can do more for your overall

longevity than you can do even with the most prudent lifestyle possible because

of the continuous nutritional protection chelation offers against a stressful

and polluted world. " —

 

Garry Gordon, MD, DO

 

Oral chelation is cheap, available, easy…

and you don’t need the supervision of a doctor

 

Chelation therapy is not new. It’s been around for a long time. EDTA—chelation’s

main ingredient, a synthetic amino acid, very similar to four molecules of

vinegar—was synthesized in Germany in 1935. It was used during WWII for

detoxifying lead from the men who worked in battery factories or painted ships

with lead-based paints. Thirty years ago, Dr. Garry Gordon established the first

intravenous chelation protocol. And today, EDTA is the standard FDA approved

treatment for lead, mercury, aluminum and cadmium poisoning. The American Heart

Association also recognizes chelation therapy as a treatment for heavy metal

poisoning. 1

 

What is new is this: Thanks to medical pioneers like Garry Gordon MD, DO, we now

know that oral chelation therapy can help treat heart disease.

 

How does oral chelation work?

 

Chelation comes from the Greek word " claw, " meaning " to grab, " which is exactly

what EDTA does. When a molecule of EDTA travels through the bloodstream and gets

near a toxic metal such as lead or mercury, it grabs the destructive particle

and binds tightly with it, pulling it out of the membrane or body tissue it was

embedded in.

 

Since EDTA is an artificial amino acid, and since the body regards it as a

foreign substance, the body eliminates the entire particle—the heavy particle

coated with EDTA.Ê The body can’t tell that underneath the coating is some

harmful material that it might be willing to keep even though it is harmful.Ê

Ultimately, both the EDTA and the toxic substance are delivered to the kidneys,

which excrete them in the urine.2

 

“I recommend taking oral chelation daily forever as soon as you can begin to

swallow a well formulated product.”

Garry Gordon, MD, DO

 

Oral chelation:

 

• provides a safe, effective, and more convenient method than IV chelation , for

gaining the benefits of EDTA.

 

• supports normal endothelial function, which is vital to a healthy

cardiovascular system. (The endothelium is a saran-wrap-like lining inside the

7,000 miles of blood vessels in your body.) For a detailed discussion see the

section " What does nitric oxide have to do with preventing heart attack and

stroke? "

 

• prevents the production of free radicals that cause cellular damage in the

blood, cells and organs throughout the body.

 

EDTA is a powerful antioxidant that

helps prevent premature aging

 

EDTA has been proven to protect cell membranes, DNA and enzyme systems by

reducing the destructive effects of free radicals.3, 4, 5

 

You’ve heard the term before, but what exactly are free radicals? Free radicals

are reactive molecules that are unstable because they are missing an electron.

In an effort to replace their lost electron, they frantically bump into and

damage the molecules that make up the cells in your body. In the process, they

cause oxidation of body tissues.

 

It’s impossible to be alive and not have some oxidative damage, because free

radicals are produced by normal processes in the body, such as the production of

energy and immune function. Free radicals also come from environmental sources

including heavy metals, household chemicals, ultraviolet radiation, tobacco

smoke, food additives, foods that have been fried in oil that’s been used over

and over again (typical in many fast-food restaurants), and other pollutants.

Once free radicals are released, they will multiply exponentially in chain

reactions, unless they are stopped by antioxidants.

 

" Free radical attack is one of the main causes of

atherosclerosis and premature aging. "

(Walker, Morton MD; Shah, Hitendra, MD Everything You Should Know About

Chelation Therapy)

 

When a free radical comes in contact with the inner lining of your arteries,

microscopic injuries result. This process is called lipid peroxidation (the

process that causes fats to become rancid) and is recognized as one of the

underlying causes of atherosclerosis. Eventually the build-up of fat,

cholesterol, toxic metals and other substances at the site of injury narrows the

arteries. The key is to neutralize free radicals before they damage your

arteries … and that’s done with antioxidants.

 

EDTA has been shown to be a powerful

antioxidant that destroys free radicals—the culprits

of atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease,

Alzheimer’s disease, and some types of cancer.

 

Stop free radicals

before they attack

 

Antioxidants are the vitamins, minerals, enzymes, or other chemical compounds—

such as EDTA—that give up an electron to stop the production of free radicals.

And EDTA actually reduces free radicals even before they have a chance to get

started. Here’s how: When metals, minerals and other toxins are in the body,

they act as the catalyst for oxidation reactions, including lipid peroxidation.

This triggers the production of free radicals.

 

But when EDTA is in the blood, it removes the metals and minerals before they

get a chance to catalyze, or start the oxidation reactions. The result? The

production of free radicals is dramatically reduced and their destructive

influence is prevented — which means DNA and cells stay healthy — so YOU stay

healthier and live longer!

 

EDTA removes toxins …

So you can maintain a healthy

body in an unhealthy world.

 

Our bodies continuously struggle to get rid of the chemicals we ingest through

water, food and air. Many of the chemicals we’re exposed to on a daily basis

didn’t exist twenty-five years ago. Even vaccines routinely contain a

preservative called Thimerosal, which is made up, in part, from mercury! 6. Hard

to believe but the average six-month-old infant has already been exposed to

his/her lifetime EPA quota of mercury!

 

" Human exposure to heavy metals has risen dramatically in the last 50 years as a

result of an exponential increase in the use of heavy metals in industrial

processes and products, " says Maile Pouls, Ph.D (Townsend Letter for Doctors and

Patients, July 1999). In addition to the chemical hazards at home and outdoors

(see " 10 Ways to protect yourself from environmental toxicity " ), many

occupations involve daily, heavy metal exposure.

 

More than 50 professions entail exposure to mercury alone. If you are a

physician, pharmaceutical worker, laboratory worker, hairdresser, painter,

printer, welder, metalworker, cosmetic worker, battery maker, engraver,

photographer, visual artist, potter or involved in any dental occupation, you

are exposed to heavy metals on a daily basis. 7

 

But lead toxicity has been around for a long time. Greek physicians gave a

clinical description of lead poisoning in 100 BC. US medical authorities

diagnosed childhood lead poisoning in 1887. Leaded gasoline went on sale in

select markets in 1923. And in 1932, the British Medical Journal cited lead

poisoning as " slow, subtle insidious saturation of the system by infinitesimal

doses of lead extending over a long period of time. " 8

 

Dr. Claire Patterson of the California Institute of Technology did a study in

1965 called " Contaminated and Natural Lead Environments of Man, " which offered

first hand proof that high lead levels in industrial nations are man-made and

endemic. In fact, the study showed that the average bone lead level of a

deceased person today averages approximately 1000 times higher than that of

deceased people who lived 400-500 years ago.

 

According to Dr. Gordon, " Claire Patterson went to the Arctic and the Antarctic,

drilled into the icecaps and discovered that lead got into our environment

during the Industrial Age. It was creeping up fairly slowly for the first

several hundred years and then, to make matters worse, Ethyl Corporation put

lead into the gasoline. " Dr. Patterson used radioactive carbon testing of plugs

of snow and ice to show the increased levels of lead in every drop of snow and

rain around the world, added Dr. Gordon.

 

Luckily, Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970 and the primary phaseout of

leaded gas in the US was completed in 1986. The Environmental Protection Agency

says that the control of lead exposure in the US is now focused on risk

reduction from drinking water, lead-based paint, household dust and contaminated

soil.

 

Unfortunately, however, there are significant amounts of lead deposits in the

soil near heavily trafficked highways and in urban areas, which can become

airborne at times. It may enter dwellings via windows and doors, and

contaminated soil can also be tracked inside.

 

" The good news is that blood lead levels continue to decline among children

overall, " said Eric Sampson, PhD, of the (CDC) Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention’s Environmental Laboratory. " However, other data show that children

living in environments placing them at high risk for lead exposure remain a

major public health concern. "

 

As you can see, unless you live in a glass bubble,

you can’t escape exposure to heavy metal toxins.

 

“The bone tissue of children and adults today contains 1000 times more lead than

the bones of children and adults who lived 400 years ago.” Garry Gordon MD, DO

 

Toxins in the air we breathe

 

Everybody is subjected to toxic exposure from a wide variety of pollutants in

the air they breathe, including:

 

• Carbon monoxide and lead from fuel exhaust (As stated above, most of the lead

has been reduced in the United States, but it is still found elsewhere.)

 

• Hydrocarbon pollutants from industrial waste

 

• By-products from the burning of fossil fuels

 

• Radiation leakage from nuclear power plants and radon in the home

 

We’re also exposed to:

 

• Contaminants found in tap water, including lead, cadmium, industrial

chemicals, pesticides, and other farm chemicals that have seeped through the

soil to contaminate the water table

 

Toxicity results in health problems

 

Symptoms of heavy metal exposure can include a wide range of problems from

neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis, to

attention deficit disorders and learning disabilities … to excessive free

radical production and dangerous blockages in the arteries, which lead to

cardiovascular disease. Even the rise in fatigue disorders, cancers and

autoimmune diseases could be related to a toxic burden of heavy metals in the

body.

 

Anyone reading this can assume that you already have some degree of heavy metal

exposure, even if you don’t have overt symptoms. You won’t necessarily wake up

one morning with a specific illness. But slowly over time, you may lose your

energy, feel more aches and pains in your muscles and joints, or notice that

your mental clarity and memory have diminished. And rather than blame all these

symptoms on aging, researchers are discovering that many modern illnesses are

due to an accumulation of toxic substances and free radicals in our cells and

tissues. To add injury to insult, even a low level of lead or mercury toxicity

can have a far more adverse effect in a poorly nourished body.

 

Now there’s proof that heavy metal overload has a direct correlation to heart

disease and stroke. According to Dr. Gordon, " Congestive heart failure patients

have recently been reported to have 22,000 times more mercury and 14,000 times

more antimony in their hearts. We all get too much mercury, both from our silver

amalgam fillings and even from the fish we eat. "

 

But you can take control of the situation and

remove toxins safely, effectively and efficiently.

Keep reading to find out how.

 

The bottom line is this:

Heavy metals prevent the optimal production of

nitric oxide, which is crucial to cardiovascular

and overall health.

 

Continue to Part II of this article

 

 

 

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