Chelation is now legal in Connecticut

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Chelation is now legal in Connecticut JoAnn Guest Apr 25, 2005 12:34 PDT

 

 

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Most chelation therapy carried out today involves I.V. administration of

EDTA, however, oral EDTA, which has a history at least as long as its

I.V. cousin, is an option that is only now starting to be appreciated.

Clinical experience suggests that oral chelation provides some, but not

all, of the benefits of I.V. therapy. Overall, the difference in

benefits is more one of degree and speed than of quality.

 

I.V. therapy has a direct and powerful effect on the body almost

instantaneously. An I.V. session usually lasts about 3 to 4 hours,

during which about 1500 mg to 3000 mg of EDTA (plus vitamin C and other

nutrients) are administered. The number of treatments necessary

(generally about 20-50 sessions) depends on the individual's condition.

Candidates for I.V. chelation are people that have been diagnosed with

serious atherosclerosis, heavy metal poisoning, or symptoms of vascular

occlusion or significant calcification of tissues.

 

Only about 5% to 10% of an oral dose of EDTA is absorbed, compared with

100% of an I.V. dose. Therefore, the time and dosage required to achieve

the same benefits with the oral form are quite different. What can be

achieved in only a few hours with I.V. EDTA chelation may take several

weeks or months with oral EDTA chelation. However, oral EDTA may be

appropriate for people whose condition does not demand rapid action. For

example, oral chelation can be used to:

 

avoid complications and diseases that result from heavy metals and

calcification

prevent the formation of blood clots, thus reducing your chance of a

heart attack or stroke

lower the level of blood cholesterol

help thin the blood

aid in reducing lipid peroxidation, a major cause of atherosclerosis

as an aid to cancer treatment

Oral EDTA is not meant to replace I.V. therapy for those people who have

serious vascular disease. It is very useful, though, for people who have

completed an I.V. course and want to stay on a maintenance program, for

people who " for whatever reason " are unable or unwilling to undergo I.V.

chelation, and for those whose I.V. treatments may have been

interrupted.

 

The Politics of EDTA Chelation

 

Organizations like the American Heart Association and the American

Medical Association, which condemn EDTA chelation as ineffective for

treating vascular disease, often quote the Danish and New Zealand

studies, mentioned earlier, to support their position. What they fail to

mention is that the Danish studies were criticized by the Danish

Committee for Investigation into Scientific Dishonesty because of

improper randomization and double-blinding, as well as premature

breaking of the blinding code, which amounted to a deliberate bias. When

the results of the New Zealand study were examined by 2 independent

statisticians, it was concluded that the trial actually supported the

efficacy of EDTA.

 

You can find out more about how public relations firms shape and

manipulate the public's beliefs on the " Why you believe what you

believe " page.

 

" Virtually every study that has looked at the efficacy of EDTA chelation

in vascular disease has demonstrated significant improvements. "

 

It is unlikely that any other issue in modern medicine has been more

highly politicized than that of EDTA chelation therapy, and it is clear

that most of the opposition to EDTA is due to the threat this therapy

represents, not to patients' health but to the bank balances of orthodox

physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals. Treating

cardiovascular diseases is big business in the United States (and the

rest of the Western world), bringing in tens of billions of dollars each

year.

As Garry Gordon, MD, DO, the " Father of Chelation Therapy " has pointed

out, " Every time a surgeon does a heart bypass, he takes home a luxury

sports car. "

oral chelation instead of ferraris

 

Each coronary bypass surgery procedure costs between $25,000 and

$50,000. Each angioplasty costs about $15,000. Drugs for reducing

cholesterol, lowering high blood pressure, and normalizing heart rhythm

bring the pharmaceutical industry hundreds of millions of dollars each

year. And these are just the most common examples. What happens when you

add EDTA chelation therapy to this mix?

 

A course of I.V. EDTA chelation therapy costs between $2000 and $4000,

oral EDTA is even less costly. To the degree that these therapies reduce

the need for the more expensive conventional therapies - a large degree,

indeed - they threaten to diminish the income of a significant portion

of the medical establishment. Consider this one example: as noted

earlier, in a study of 65 patients who were treated with I.V. EDTA while

they were waiting for coronary bypass surgery surgery, 58 (89%) no

longer required the procedure. At $50,000 per procedure not done, that

means that surgeons and hospitals gave up nearly $3 million just for

these few patients. Now remember, that coronary bypass surgery is the

most common surgical procedure performed in the US (368,000 in 1989).

Oral Edta Chelation And The Medical Profession

 

Given these figures, it's not hard to understand why the medical

profession is so in love with coronary bypass surgery and related

procedures. As one physician noted, " It pays the bills. " So enamored are

they of these procedures that they perform them even when they are not

necessary. In an article published in no less prestigious a publication

than the " Journal of the American Medical Association " , the authors

concluded that only 56% of the surgeries performed were for appropriate

reasons, 30% for equivocal reasons, and 14% for inappropriate reasons.

 

The percentage of appropriate surgeries varied from 37% in some

hospitals to 78% in others. When you consider that even when it is

" appropriate, " coronary bypass surgery surgery is no better than

conventional medical treatments for improving survival, you have to

wonder whether the real " miracle " of heart surgery does not entail

bringing people back from death's door, as much as turning a common

chronic degenerative disease into a source of outrageous fortune. If you

needed one example of why the cost of health care - disease care, really

- has gone into earth orbit, you need look no further than the

conventional treatment of heart disease. Health spending in the U.S. is

examined in more detail here.

 

More about coronary bypass surgery and the politics of heart disease

here.

 

Given these figures, it's also not very hard to understand why the

medical profession has reacted so violently against physicians who

practice chelation therapy, often attempting to put them out of

business. Because EDTA has long been approved for treating heavy metal

poisoning, and because physicians are free to use any " approved "

medication for any use they see fit, as long it does not endanger the

patient, EDTA chelation therapy is perfectly legal. This has not stopped

medical boards in a number of states from bringing charges against

physicians who prescribe EDTA chelation for vascular disease, smearing

them as " quacks, " and attempting to restrict the use of this therapy.

Fortunately, most of these attempts have failed.

 

You can be certain that if EDTA had a large pharmaceutical company

advocating its use, these problems would quickly evaporate. But since

the patent for EDTA ran out nearly 30 years ago, there are no huge

profits to be made from marketing it. With no pot of gold at the end of

the EDTA rainbow, no one is going to put up the hundreds of millions of

dollars required to do the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled

clinical trials required to get the FDA to approve EDTA for vascular

disease. And with few large, randomized, double-blind,

placebo-controlled clinical trials to refer to, the conventional medical

establishment feels justified in condemning EDTA therapy as " unproven. "

It's a familiar " Catch 22 " that faces all natural or unpatentable

therapies.

 

Dr. Garry Gordon - The Father Of EDTA Chelation Therapy

While most American physicians choose to remain blind to the benefits of

EDTA, those who prescribe it are free to witness its life-enhancing

benefits on a daily basis. One of those physicians is Dr. Garry Gordon,

whose own life was saved by EDTA and who has been a leader in chelation

therapy since the early 1960s. " I have taken on patients who were

inoperable, who had already had every known form of bypass surgery, who

had no more veins in their legs to strip out and put into their heart,

and who were sent home to die, and I could get those people back to full

functioning, " says Dr. Gordon.

 

Because EDTA removes heavy metals from the body, it is important to

supplement your diet with a good multi-mineral supplement while taking

EDTA, to avoid any mineral deficiency, especially in zinc. I recommend

you supplement your diet with a multi-vitamin/mineral supplement, as

well as a calcium-magnesium-zinc supplement. The EDTA product I

recommend can be found here . You can find the best price on high

quality multimineral supplements on the internet here .

 

There are other important components which make up a successful oral

chelation therapy. Components such as N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), and

chlorella which binds heavily to mercury.

 

Many informed people consider Dr. Garry F. Gordon to be the most

brilliant medical doctor on the face of the earth. He is one of the

founders of intravenous chelation therapy.

 

Dr. Garry F. Gordon has done more research on the uses of EDTA for

chelation therapy than any other human on the planet.

 

Dr. Gordon is truly the " Father " of chelation therapy in the world.

 

Dr. Garry Gordon is obviously not a handmaiden of the drug industry.

That alone sets him far apart from the great majority of medical

researchers and writers.

 

I recommend Dr. Gordon's materials to you for a full and accurate

understanding of the role of oral EDTA in the health of this planet, as

well as your own life.

 

Dr. Garry Gordon espouses many different 'substances' for improving

health. Virtually NONE of those are prescription drugs. Of all of Dr.

Gordon's recommendations, the artificial amino acid called " EDTA " , is

probably the most important to the health of people today. His lectures

on health matters are jewels of valuable data - don't miss them.

 

Dr. Gordon received his Doctor of Osteopathy in 1958 from the Chicago

College of Osteopathy in Illinois. He received his Honorary MD degree

from the University of California Irvine in 1962 and completed his

Radiology Residency from Mt. Zion in San Francisco, California in 1964.

For many years, he was the Medical Director of Mineral Lab in Hayward,

California, a leading laboratory for trace mineral analysis worldwide.

 

Dr. Gordon is on the Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners for Arizona

and is Co-Founder of the American College for Advancement in Medicine

(ACAM). He is Founder/President of the International College of Advance

Longevity (ICALM) and Board Member of International Oxidative Medicine

Association (IOMA). With Morton Walker, DPM, Dr. Gordon co-authored the

book " The Chelation Answer " .

 

Dr. Gordon is advisor to the American Board of Chelation Therapy and

past instructor and examiner for all chelation physicians. He is

responsible for Peer Review for Chelation Therapy in the State of

Arizona. As an internationally recognized expert on chelation therapy,

Dr. Gordon is now attempting to establish standards for the proper use

of oral and intravenous chelation therapy as an adjunct therapy for all

diseases.

Dr. Garry Gordon: Significant lead lowering with oral EDTA

 

According to Dr. Gordon, for those of us with the propensity to look,

the evidence is there: EDTA has an impact on cardiovascular disease,

reduces clotting problems, reduces iron and heavy metal stores already

in the body and results in reduced free radicals.

 

Numerous abstracts and published articles (1) from mainstream medicine

indicate an increase of excretion of lead with oral EDTA from 3 to 30

times (without exception). Virtually every one of these articles

describes significant lead lowering benefits from the oral ingestion of

EDTA.

 

Dr. Garry Gordon believes that generally the anti-clotting effect of

EDTA is subtle and probably works in a synergistic way with other

anti-clotting, anti-platelet substances such as garlic, Gingko,

polysaccharides and EPA.

 

Was oral EDTA intentionally pushed to the sidelines of mainstream

medicine?

 

According to Dr. Garry Gordon, the main problem which led to the loss of

favor of oral EDTA around 1960 was the American Medical Association

(AMA)’s strong concern regarding its potential for abuse by industrial

physicians who would use the tablets instead of demanding that

management improve the working environment.

 

It is well documented that many of us have adverse health effects

because of the levels of lead found in everyone today. Since there are

no safe lead levels and these adverse effects have been documented at

every measurable level, the widespread use of non-toxic and inexpensive

therapies for removing lead - such as oral chelation therapy - must take

on greater importance. Oral EDTA must once again be brought to center

stage and evaluated versus other far more expensive and clearly more

toxic therapies, such as penicillamine and DMSA,

 

The EDTA product I recommend can be found here . Natural zinc and

mineral supplements should accompany oral EDTA therapy. By aggressively

administering zinc, any potential for zinc deficiency associated with

oral EDTA therapy is entirely avoided. In my opinion, the lowest price

on the internet for high quality multi-mineral supplements is here .

 

N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC ) and MSM are 2 other very important components

of a good oral chelation program.

 

References:

(1) Dr. Garry Gordon

 

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug

Administration and these materials and products are not intended to

diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

 

thank you to Marc Leduc for this information

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