Oral Chelation - The Strongest Natural Treatment for Your Heart

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Oral Chelation - The Strongest Natural Treatment for Your Heart,

Arteries, Memory, and More—

Has Just Become Even More Effective

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By John Morgenthaler

 

Every year, nearly six million Americans end up in the hospital,

suffering with disease that is largely preventable, reversible —

even curable. I'm referring, of course, to cardiovascular disease

(CVD.) CVD includes congestive heart failure — the single most

frequent cause of hospitalization for people aged 65 years or older;

heart disease (the leading cause of premature, permanent disability

among working adults), and stroke (currently the cause of disability

in over one million Americans.) In fact, CVD is the nation's leading

killer for both men and women over age 50, among all racial and

ethnic groups, claiming the lives of over 960,000 Americans every

year. Perhaps even more startling: nearly one in four Americans —

about 58 million — lives with some form of CVD.

 

But it doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to be a victim of

CVD. Nor do you have to submit to dangerous, expensive surgery or

heart drugs.

What heart disease really does to your body...and how you can

reverse it

If you or a loved one suffers from any form of CVD, here is the

simple — but too often overlooked — truth about how this prevalent

killer operates.

 

What the public at large tends not to realize — and what your

doctor has likely failed to explain to you — is that the primary

precursor to heart disease, atherosclerosis (hardened arteries) is

not a localized injury.

 

It's a systemic condition. In other words, atherosclerosis is

present not only in the coronary arteries, but also in the brain,

lungs, kidneys, and legs. 1

 

What's more, the blockages that lead to atherosclerosis can occur

not only in the larger vessels — the vessels that can be seen and

manipulated by surgeons and cardiologists — but in the smaller blood

vessels as well. It is in these smaller blood vessels, the

capillaries, that the oxygen exchange to the tissues takes place.

You can protect that critical lifeline of oxygen that feeds and

sustains the organs and tissues throughout your body — including

your heart.

There exists today a treatment that removes plaque and restores

blood flow throughout the entire arterial system, treating the micro

as well as the macro vessels. It's called EDTA chelation, available

via intravenous and oral supplementation. You should consider

chelation therapy — safe, inexpensive, and proven effective — if you

have a family history of CVD or existing CVD. You should also

consider chelation if you simply want to do everything within your

power to prevent CVD...and the potentially disastrous effects of the

conventional medical treatments for this deadly disease.

 

Treating your heart the conventional way —with plastic balloons and

cabbages...

Traditional medicine approaches heart disease primarily in one of

two ways. The first is to ream out clogged arteries or flatten

deposits in the vessels with angioplasty.

 

This procedure does have some risk for heart attack or making the

blockage even worse. 2 Many of the blockages return to their

original severity within a year.

 

The second way is to cut away the clogged section or sections of the

artery and replace it with a new section or sections of arteries

grafted from other places in the body.

 

This procedure is called a coronary artery bypass graft, or

CABG...known in the medical profession as " cabbage. " An appropriate

nickname, perhaps, as it's also a nickname for money...and CABG, the

most frequently performed surgery in the United States, costs up to

$50,000 per procedure.

 

If your doctor has recommended CABG to you or a loved one, you

should know that the average mortality for CABG surgery is 4% to

10%. 3, 4 And a common " side effect " after the procedure is cerebral

dysfunction — memory loss and mental decline. 5

 

But it saves lives...right? Not according to the New England Journal

of Medicine. According to a pivotal study published in this

prestigious medical journal,

 

CABG, compared with less invasive and risky medical

therapy, " appears neither to prolong life nor to prevent myocardial

infarction [heart attack] in patients who have mild angina [chest

pain] or who are asymptomatic [suffer no pain] after infarction in

the five-year period after coronary angiography. " 6

 

The failure of standard medical treatments to heal heart patients

doesn't really come as a surprise. Fact is, any treatment that fails

to support the circulation throughout your entire body is likely to

fail you — and your health — in the long run. But cardiovascular

surgery, and other conventional heart treatments are enormously —

almost unimaginably — profitable.

 

CABG alone generates as much as $18.4 billion per year. 7 Drugs for

reducing cholesterol, lowering high blood pressure, and normalizing

heart rhythm bring the pharmaceutical industry hundreds of millions

of dollars each year.

 

Meanwhile, chelation therapy is a potent, safe, inexpensive and

virtually risk-free heart and circulation treatment... and recent

research suggests it may in fact, be the single most powerful

treatment for CVD.

 

A Godsend for victims of heavy metal poisoning...and those who want

to prevent, and reverse, atherosclerosis

 

In the days after World War II, men who worked in battery factories

or painted ships with lead-based paint began coming down with lead

poisoning from their high exposure in these jobs. A safe, harmless

chemical called EDTA was found to be extremely effective for

removing the lead from the men's bodies — an effective cure for lead

poisoning. But something else happened to many of the men who were

treated with EDTA: they enjoyed an apparent reduction in symptoms of

heart disease.

 

How does it work? Let's start with a few basics.

A chelate is a chemical compound in which the central atom (usually

a metal ion) is attached to neighboring atoms by at least two bonds

in such a way as to form a ring structure.

 

Chelating is the process in which the metal ion reacts with another

molecule to form the chelate.

EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) is an amino acid. It was

synthesized in Germany in 1935, and first patented in the U.S. in

1941.

 

Chelation therapy itself can be understood simply as the removal of

calcium deposits (from your arteries, where you don't want them) and

other harmful minerals that promote blood clotting and

atherosclerosis.

 

Since these harmful deposits are also known to cause excessive free-

radical production, EDTA chelation also functions as a powerful free

radical buster...protecting cell membranes, DNA, enzyme systems, and

lipoproteins from the destructive effects of these ravenous

molecules. Some experts believe that the primary benefits of

chelation are due to its free radical-fighting effects. 8

 

And perhaps one of the most compelling, but often overlooked,

explanations for chelation's anti-aging, energizing effects is that

EDTA " resuscitates " your cells' mitochondria. Mitochondria are

the " power plants " of every cell in the body — the site in which the

energy-producing ATP is generated. Without ATP, life can not exist.

9 Loss of mitochondrial function has long been considered to be one

of the primary causes of the aging process. 10

 

But don't look to the mainstream community for the truth about this

powerful, life-saving therapy

 

The American Heart Association (AHA) recognizes chelation therapy as

a treatment for heavy metal poisoning. The AHA admits that EDTA,

injected into the blood, will bind the metals and allow them to be

removed from the body in the urine.

 

In fact, EDTA is the standard FDA approved treatment for lead,

mercury, aluminum and cadmium poisoning.

 

But neither the FDA nor the AMA acknowledges that chelation appears

to be one of the most powerful — yet least expensive...and safest —

treatments for heart disease in existence. The bottom line:

chelation therapy, which costs only $2000 to $4000 per course —

represents a significant threat to one of the largest income streams

for conventional practitioners.

 

Clearly, if EDTA chelation had a large pharmaceutical company

advocating its use...it would, at the very least, be integrated into

the standard, AMA-approved treatment of heart disease. But the

patent for EDTA ran out nearly 30 years ago. No patent means no

profits. And if the medical industry can't profit from

chelation...this safe, inexpensive, powerful treatment...it may as

well not exist.

 

50+ years of proof: Chelation could save hundreds of thousands of

lives... every year

 

From its earliest clinical tests, chelation therapy has consistently

demonstrated a remarkable ability to cleanse the system of metals

and other deposits that lead to so-called age-related disease. In

1955, research conducted at the Providence Hospital in Detroit,

Michigan found that EDTA dissolves " metastatic calcium " — i.e.,

calcium that has been deposited where it is not wanted. Namely,

arteries, joints, kidneys, and even the bones of the inner ear. In

other words, chelation therapy appeared to be a powerful antidote

to — and preventive against — atherosclerosis, arthritis, kidney

stones, and otosclerosis (hearing loss related to the calcification

of the bones in the ear). 11

 

Nineteen out of 20 heart patients enjoyed measurable improvement in

energy and activity level

 

The first systematic study of EDTA in people with atherosclerosis

was published in 1956. Twenty patients with confirmed heart disease

were given a series of 30 EDTA treatments intravenously. Nineteen of

the patients experienced improvement, as measured by an increase in

physical activity. 12

 

Chest pain reduced...energy and work capacity increased

 

 

In another study conducted four years later, a similar group found

that three months of ETDA infusions caused decreases in the severity

and frequency of anginal episodes, reduced use of nitroglycerin (a

common anti-angina drug), increased work capacity and improved ECG

(electrocardiogram) results. 13

 

Thousands upon thousands of patients have already experienced the

powerful benefits of chelation treatment

Since these early studies, hundreds of papers have been published on

the favorable effects of chelation therapy in a variety of chronic

diseases. There have even been two massive " meta-analyses " of

published and unpublished studies evaluating the results of over

24,000 chelation patients. 14 The results: 88 percent of the

patients demonstrated clinical improvement.

 

One of the studies included 92 patients who were referred for

surgical intervention. At the end of the study, only 10 required

surgery either during or after their chelation therapy. 15 In

another study of 2,870 patients with various degrees of degenerative

diseases, especially vascular disease, almost 90% of the patients

showed excellent improvement.

 

16 In one small, controlled crossover study of patients with

peripheral vascular disease, results showed significant improvements

in walking distance and ankle/brachial blood flow. 17

 

And when, in one study, 65 patients on the waiting list for CABG

surgery (for a mean of 6 months) were treated with EDTA chelation

therapy...the symptoms in 89% improved so much they were able to

cancel their surgery. In the same study, of 27 patients recommended

for limb amputation due to poor peripheral circulation, EDTA

chelation resulted in saving 24 limbs. 18

 

Make your arteries " younger "

Another tremendous source of information about chelation is a

gentleman known as the " father " of the modern chelation movement, as

well a world-renowned expert on nutrition, mineral metabolism, and

alternative and preventative therapies, Garry Gordon, MD, DO. Dr.

Gordon wrote the original protocol for the safe and effective use of

EDTA.

 

In an interview conducted by John Morgenthaler, Dr. Gordon explained

some of the extraordinary results he has accumulated in his use and

study of EDTA Chelation, including the following.

 

Common anti-clotting therapies like aspirin and coumadin are

effective against only about one-third of excessive platelet

aggregation and coagulation ( " sticky " blood and plaque formation.)

 

What's worse, aspirin has a well-known corrosive effect on the

membrane of the stomach, causing a micro-hemorrhage right where the

pill hits the stomach.

 

EDTA, on the other hand, appears to reduce all harmful clotting

mechanisms. " In a proper combination with other natural anti-

clotting substances, oral EDTA is a safe and effective alternative.

According to Dr. Gordon. " I've known people who had such poor

peripheral circulation that their feet were black bordering on

gangrene.

 

After oral EDTA, their black feet became pink again. "

 

EDTA actually stimulates bone growth, through a complex action of

the parathyroid gland. Even though it is removing calcium from

plaque in blood vessels, it has the ability to make bones stronger.

Dr. Gordon believes that chelation can significantly reduce the

incidence of osteoporosis.

 

" The more chelation we give people, the less osteoporosis they have

and the less age-related calcium accumulation there is in their

blood vessels. The average 80-year-old man...shows 140 times more

calcium than he had at age 10. This means you're gradually turning

to stone in all your arteries.

 

We can document that calcium accumulation in the artery is totally

reversible by enough chelation. "

 

" I use IV treatment to get people's arteries younger, " says Dr.

Gordon, " and to increase blood flow in their arteries. " Remarkably,

while conventionally trained cardiologists consider the diagnosis of

congestive heart failure to be virtually a death sentence — over 60

percent of their patients are dead within the first year — Dr.

Gordon hasn't lost one patient with congestive failure in 10 years.

 

But chelation therapy is far more than just a powerful heart and

circulation treatment. As a result of its complex of health-

enhancing, detoxifying benefits...chelation therapy helps to

correct, reverse, or eliminate a vast array of serious and prevalent

health conditions, ranging from senility to cancer. [see " Other

Benefits of EDTA Chelation " below.]

 

Are there any significant risks with chelation? When administered by

a properly trained physician, according to Dr. Gordon, IV EDTA has

an extremely low risk of side effects — less than 1 in 10,000

patients. And mortality rates for chelation, when carried out

according to accepted protocols, approaches 0 percent. 19

 

 

How to use Oral EDTA to protect your arteries, heart, and more

Somewhat less well known, among consumers and health care

professionals, are the benefits of the oral form EDTA Chelation

therapy — in which the same EDTA compound used intravenously is

taken orally, in doses high enough to be effective, yet safe enough

to be taken without a doctor's intervention.

 

" It is my firm belief, " says Dr. Gordon, " that anyone considering

using aspirin for the prevention of heart attack should learn

everything they can about oral EDTA. It is my belief that EDTA is as

much as 300 times safer than aspirin. "

 

Oral chelation supplements keep your arteries plaque-free

As with the early IV chelation studies, the early clinical studies

with oral EDTA were also promising, including loss of fat in rats,

reduction of cholesterol in rabbits, and reduced blood pressure in

humans. Consequently, a study of the effects of oral EDTA on

patients with atherosclerosis and/or hypertension was conducted on

10 patients.

Four of these patients had hypertension, four had angina pectoris,

one had peripheral vascular disease (intermittent claudication), and

one was recovering from a heart attack. All were treated with 1 gram

of oral EDTA daily for 3 months.

 

The oral supplements caused a significant drop in the patients'

blood pressure...cholesterol...leg pain...and chest pain

Seven of the ten patients experienced significant reductions in

their cholesterol levels, and blood pressure was reduced in all ten.

The most marked change occurred in the patient with intermittent

claudication, whose cholesterol dropped from 278 mg per 100 ml to

128!]

 

This patient also reported improved exercise tolerance, and the

researchers found improved pulsations in the extremities. The four

patients with angina pectoris also all reported improvement. 20

 

In another series of 20 patients who suffered from high cholesterol,

hypertension, angina or peripheral vascular disease, one gram of

EDTA was administered orally every day for 3 months. During that

short time, elevated cholesterol levels in nine of the patients

dropped to within the normal range.

 

No adverse results were experienced by any of the patients. Angina

attacks were reduced in frequency and severity in five individuals.

One person, who previously had suffered a heart attack and

experienced several angina attacks daily thereafter, obtained

complete relief. 21

 

In another study, two patients with extremely elevated cholesterol

were treated with oral EDTA. One patient took EDTA in progressively

increasing doses ranging from 500 mg to 4 gm daily for one year, and

the other took 1,000 mg daily for three years. Although the first

patient suffered a heart attack after three years of therapy, she

recovered uneventfully, and had reduced angina pains and improved

sense of well being with continued use of EDTA.

 

The second patient — in addition to high cholesterol — had a

condition known as xanthomatosis (yellowish papules in the skin,

related to elevated blood lipids). She not only experienced dramatic

reductions in her cholesterol levels with oral EDTA treatment, but

her skin lesions completely resolved. 23

 

In short, you can use oral chelation supplements to...

Cleanse your system of heavy metal toxicity and harmful calcium

deposits in the arteries

 

 

Help thin the blood and prevent the formation of blood clots — and

reduce your risk of heart attack or stroke

 

 

Lower your blood pressure and cholesterol levels (One of Dr.

Gordon's patients at Stanford University could not get her

cholesterol below 500. Using ETDA-based chelation-based formula, her

cholesterol came down to 200 — a remarkable result.)

 

 

Neutralize free-radicals...a major cause of atherosclerosis, as well

as accelerated aging, cancer, and arthritis

 

Who should use oral chelation?

Oral EDTA is not meant to replace IV therapy for those people who

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

who have completed an IV course and want to stay on a maintenance

program...for people who " for whatever reason " wish to avoid IV

chelation...and for those who's IV treatments may have been

interrupted.

 

Oral chelation is a safe, powerful disease fighter. It works. And

considering that vascular diseases and blockages occur throughout

the entire body, chelation is an ideal preventative and treatment.

How much to take...how to know it's working...and how to further

enhance the benefits

 

The dose of oral EDTA used in the studies cited above ranges from a

low of 500 milligrams per day to a high of 4,000 milligrams per day,

with the most common dose being around 1,000 to 2,000 milligrams.

Unfortunately, the majority of oral chelation supplements available

today make it nearly impossible for you to consume the recommended

amount, without inordinate hassle...and stomachache. With some

chelation supplements, you need to take up to 40 capsules per day to

get the high-level dose of 4,000 milligrams of EDTA per day!

 

In addition, recent research has shown that, aside from EDTA, there

are two natural compounds that also function as excellent chelation

agents: garlic and malic acid.

 

Some oral chelation supplements do include garlic...but again, you

have to take so much of the supplement that, needless to say, your

daily dose of the garlic can become a bit on the high side, and a

bit unpleasant.

 

Of all the chelation formulations available today, only one

provides enough EDTA per capsule — 250 milligrams, or 0.25 grams —

to maintain the recommended daily dose conveniently, and at minimum

cost and hassle. This high-quality product, called CardioClear, is

quite simply the most effective and convenient oral chelation

supplement you can find. In addition to providing the optimum dose

of EDTA, malic acid, and garlic, CardioClear also includes parsley

extract, to absorb the garlic odor.

 

If you have a known CVD condition...you should see a qualified

doctor and ask about IV chelation and oral chelation. If you have a

condition but it is not serious enough to require medical attention

now, then oral chelation alone is a good choice for maintenance and

prevention. Finally, if you do not have a known condition, then

CardioClear — the most powerful and reliable way to heal your

arteries and support your entire circulatory system — can help keep

you protected for life. SP

 

Other Benefits of EDTA Chelation*

Prevents cholesterol deposits

 

Heals calcified necrotic ulcers

 

Reduces blood cholesterol levels

 

Reduces intermittent claudication

 

Lowers high blood pressure

 

Improves vision in diabetic retinopathy

 

Avoids by-pass surgery

 

Decreases macular degeneration

 

Avoids angioplasty

 

Dissolves small cataracts

 

Reserves digitalis toxicity

 

Eliminates heavy metal toxicity

 

Removes calcium from atherosclerotic plaques

 

Makes arterial walls more flexible

 

Dissolves intra-arterial blood clots

 

Prevents osteoarthritis

 

Normalizes cardiac arrhythmias

Reduces rheumatoid arthritis symptoms

 

Has an anti-aging effect

 

Lowers diabetics' insulin needs

 

Reduces excessive heart contractions

 

Reduces Alzheimer-like symptoms

 

Increases intracellular potassium

 

Reverses senility

 

Reduces heart irritability

 

Reduce stroke/heart attack after-effects

 

Improves heart function

 

Removes mineral and drug deposits

 

Improves memory

 

Dissolves kidney stones

 

Reverses diabetic gangrene

 

Reduces serum iron levels

 

Restores impaired vision

 

Reduces heart valve calcification

 

Reduces varicose veins

 

*Adapted from Walker M., Gordon G., Douglass W.C.: The Chelation

Answer

To find a doctor qualified ...

to provide you with IV chelation treatments, contact the American

College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) at:

 

 

ACAM

23121 Verdugo Dr., Ste. 204

Laguna Hills, CA 92653

800 532 3688

http://www.acam.org

 

EDTA Chelation therapy appears to be extremely safe, but as with

almost any drug or supplement, there are potential adverse effects

of EDTA chelation. One danger is nephrotoxicity (kidney damage).

This is dependent on the dose, the rate of infusion, the patient's

kidney function, and the patient's body burden of toxic heavy

metals. Kidney damage was not uncommon in the early days of

chelation therapy, when doses of EDTA in the range of 5-10 grams per

day were used, and treatments were administered as often as 5 days

per week.

 

Kidney damage can be easily prevented, however, by carefully

adjusting the frequency, dose and rate in which the EDTA is

administered.

 

In addition, judicious administration of EDTA over prolonged

periods (three to six months and longer) actually improves kidney

function.

 

Other potential adverse effects include hypocalcemia (excessively

low blood levels of calcium) due to EDTA's binding excessively with

calcium in the blood, hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), believed to be

due to accompanying hypocalcemia, and phlebitis (inflammation of the

vein), usually due to improperly prepared solutions. Rarely reported

side effects include chills and fever following infusion, acerbation

of congestive heart failure due to fluid overload, fatigue (usually

due to hypoglycemia or hypocalcemia), seizures, arrhythmias, or rash.

 

The risk of incurring any of the above adverse effects has further

been greatly reduced by the recent finding of Drs. Grant Born and

Tammy Geurkink 23 that even greater benefit can be obtained by most

patients who are treated with only 1.5 grams of EDTA per treatment,

rather than with the standard dose of three grams. (But this refers

to the IV infusion of EDTA, not to be confused with dosages for oral

use, which are in the range of 500mg to 4000mg per day.)

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Dear Joanne

 

Do you know if EDTA orally could remove mercury from the brain? Someone in the

chelation group asked and I didn't know. Do you know anything about this?

 

Thanks. Linda

 

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>

> Oral Chelation - The Strongest Natural Treatment for Your Heart,

> Arteries, Memory, and More—

> Has Just Become Even More Effective

> http://www.hfn-usa.com/articles/041130.html

>

> By John Morgenthaler

>

> Every year, nearly six million Americans end up in the hospital,

> suffering with disease that is largely preventable, reversible —

> even curable. I'm referring, of course, to cardiovascular disease

> (CVD.) CVD includes congestive heart failure — the single most

> frequent cause of hospitalization for people aged 65 years or older;

> heart disease (the leading cause of premature, permanent disability

> among working adults), and stroke (currently the cause of disability

> in over one million Americans.) In fact, CVD is the nation's leading

> killer for both men and women over age 50, among all racial and

> ethnic groups, claiming the lives of over 960,000 Americans every

> year. Perhaps even more startling: nearly one in four Americans —

> about 58 million — lives with some form of CVD.

>

> But it doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to be a victim of

> CVD. Nor do you have to submit to dangerous, expensive surgery or

> heart drugs.

> What heart disease really does to your body...and how you can

> reverse it

> If you or a loved one suffers from any form of CVD, here is the

> simple — but too often overlooked — truth about how this prevalent

> killer operates.

>

> What the public at large tends not to realize — and what your

> doctor has likely failed to explain to you — is that the primary

> precursor to heart disease, atherosclerosis (hardened arteries) is

> not a localized injury.

>

> It's a systemic condition. In other words, atherosclerosis is

> present not only in the coronary arteries, but also in the brain,

> lungs, kidneys, and legs. 1

>

> What's more, the blockages that lead to atherosclerosis can occur

> not only in the larger vessels — the vessels that can be seen and

> manipulated by surgeons and cardiologists — but in the smaller blood

> vessels as well. It is in these smaller blood vessels, the

> capillaries, that the oxygen exchange to the tissues takes place.

> You can protect that critical lifeline of oxygen that feeds and

> sustains the organs and tissues throughout your body — including

> your heart.

> There exists today a treatment that removes plaque and restores

> blood flow throughout the entire arterial system, treating the micro

> as well as the macro vessels. It's called EDTA chelation, available

> via intravenous and oral supplementation. You should consider

> chelation therapy — safe, inexpensive, and proven effective — if you

> have a family history of CVD or existing CVD. You should also

> consider chelation if you simply want to do everything within your

> power to prevent CVD...and the potentially disastrous effects of the

> conventional medical treatments for this deadly disease.

>

> Treating your heart the conventional way —with plastic balloons and

> cabbages...

> Traditional medicine approaches heart disease primarily in one of

> two ways. The first is to ream out clogged arteries or flatten

> deposits in the vessels with angioplasty.

>

> This procedure does have some risk for heart attack or making the

> blockage even worse. 2 Many of the blockages return to their

> original severity within a year.

>

> The second way is to cut away the clogged section or sections of the

> artery and replace it with a new section or sections of arteries

> grafted from other places in the body.

>

> This procedure is called a coronary artery bypass graft, or

> CABG...known in the medical profession as " cabbage. " An appropriate

> nickname, perhaps, as it's also a nickname for money...and CABG, the

> most frequently performed surgery in the United States, costs up to

> $50,000 per procedure.

>

> If your doctor has recommended CABG to you or a loved one, you

> should know that the average mortality for CABG surgery is 4% to

> 10%. 3, 4 And a common " side effect " after the procedure is cerebral

> dysfunction — memory loss and mental decline. 5

>

> But it saves lives...right? Not according to the New England Journal

> of Medicine. According to a pivotal study published in this

> prestigious medical journal,

>

> CABG, compared with less invasive and risky medical

> therapy, " appears neither to prolong life nor to prevent myocardial

> infarction [heart attack] in patients who have mild angina [chest

> pain] or who are asymptomatic [suffer no pain] after infarction in

> the five-year period after coronary angiography. " 6

>

> The failure of standard medical treatments to heal heart patients

> doesn't really come as a surprise. Fact is, any treatment that fails

> to support the circulation throughout your entire body is likely to

> fail you — and your health — in the long run. But cardiovascular

> surgery, and other conventional heart treatments are enormously —

> almost unimaginably — profitable.

>

> CABG alone generates as much as $18.4 billion per year. 7 Drugs for

> reducing cholesterol, lowering high blood pressure, and normalizing

> heart rhythm bring the pharmaceutical industry hundreds of millions

> of dollars each year.

>

> Meanwhile, chelation therapy is a potent, safe, inexpensive and

> virtually risk-free heart and circulation treatment... and recent

> research suggests it may in fact, be the single most powerful

> treatment for CVD.

>

> A Godsend for victims of heavy metal poisoning...and those who want

> to prevent, and reverse, atherosclerosis

>

> In the days after World War II, men who worked in battery factories

> or painted ships with lead-based paint began coming down with lead

> poisoning from their high exposure in these jobs. A safe, harmless

> chemical called EDTA was found to be extremely effective for

> removing the lead from the men's bodies — an effective cure for lead

> poisoning. But something else happened to many of the men who were

> treated with EDTA: they enjoyed an apparent reduction in symptoms of

> heart disease.

>

> How does it work? Let's start with a few basics.

> A chelate is a chemical compound in which the central atom (usually

> a metal ion) is attached to neighboring atoms by at least two bonds

> in such a way as to form a ring structure.

>

> Chelating is the process in which the metal ion reacts with another

> molecule to form the chelate.

> EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) is an amino acid. It was

> synthesized in Germany in 1935, and first patented in the U.S. in

> 1941.

>

> Chelation therapy itself can be understood simply as the removal of

> calcium deposits (from your arteries, where you don't want them) and

> other harmful minerals that promote blood clotting and

> atherosclerosis.

>

> Since these harmful deposits are also known to cause excessive free-

> radical production, EDTA chelation also functions as a powerful free

> radical buster...protecting cell membranes, DNA, enzyme systems, and

> lipoproteins from the destructive effects of these ravenous

> molecules. Some experts believe that the primary benefits of

> chelation are due to its free radical-fighting effects. 8

>

> And perhaps one of the most compelling, but often overlooked,

> explanations for chelation's anti-aging, energizing effects is that

> EDTA " resuscitates " your cells' mitochondria. Mitochondria are

> the " power plants " of every cell in the body — the site in which the

> energy-producing ATP is generated. Without ATP, life can not exist.

> 9 Loss of mitochondrial function has long been considered to be one

> of the primary causes of the aging process. 10

>