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"Oral chelation formulas are usually based on one of two key ingredients: • Most formulas are based on edta. edta works great when administered directly into the blood stream through standard chelation therapy, but it's usefulness when taken orally is open to question. There are some studies that indicate that there may be less than 5% absorption when taken orally • There's really only one oral chelator that's "proven." It's telatively expensive and difficult to handle, which is why you rarely find it (at adequate dosages) in oral chelation formulas. It's cysteine." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Other penetration enhancers include bisabolol, a naturally occurring terpene alcohol derivative widely used as a skin conditioner and also an anti-aging ingredient (see chapter 9), and ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA), a sodium salt that binds to calcium normally present in skin and disrupts the normal bridges connecting cells. edta is also a hormone disrupter. [END BOX] What Is Really in Your Deodorant or Anti-Perspirant? The biggest concern about antiperspirants in recent years has been whether their contents contribute to the risk of breast cancer in women." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Oral chelation formulas are usually based on one of two key ingredients: • Most formulas are based on edta. edta works great when administered directly into the blood stream through standard chelation therapy, but it's usefulness when taken orally is open to question. There are some studies that indicate that there may be less than 5% absorption when taken orally • There's really only one oral chelator that's "proven." It's telatively expensive and difficult to handle, which is why you rarely find it (at adequate dosages) in oral chelation formulas. It's cysteine." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"In an attempt to clear up the controversy, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health has launched the first large-scale study of edta chelation therapy for patients with coronary artery disease. More than a hundred centers, clinics, and doctors' offices are participating in this five-year placebo-controlled double-blind study that began in 2003. We know that chelation works with kidney disease, in which toxic metals such as lead and cadmium damage the enzymes in the kidneys, leading slowly to kidney failure." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Possibly when edta binds to the calcium deposited in arteries, it removes the deposited calcium and opens up the plaque to being scavenged away. Certainly the anti-oxidant effect of this therapy should permit slow improvement in the arterial circulation. The therapy involves 20 to 30 intravenous infusions of edta with minerals over a period of three to five months. Each infusion should last three to four hours. Kidney function and urine tests need to be followed." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.) "In this therapy edta (calcium disodium versenate) is slowly infused into the body. The edta attaches to minerals (lead, mercury and cadmium) and causes them to be excreted by the kidney. Recent studies have shown that this form of therapy appears to act as a powerful anti-oxidant. More than 500,000 patients have received this treatment worldwide. Among the conditions that have benefited from this therapy are heart pain (angina pectoris), impaired circulation to the legs, high cholesterol and mental confusion with arteriosclerosis of the arteries to the brain." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"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. 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." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Chelation therapy is an easily administered alternative to drugs and surgery that involves the infusion into the bloodstream of the amino acid edta, which moves through blood vessels and removes toxic metals. "Chelation therapy is a treatment that has been around for many years," says Dr. Calapai. "It involves using an intravenous application or induction of a protein substance that helps to bind heavy metals, to drag them out and throw them out of the body through the urine. The treatment takes about three hours to perform." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "He also uses disodium-magnesium edta chelation therapy to remove calcium from soft tissues, where it doesn't belong, and to try to get it back into the bone, where it does belong. The chelation process, which is an intravenous treatment, helps with soft tissue decalcification, in addition to removing heavy metals. Depression and Other Mental Disorders in Older Adults According to the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, nearly one-fifth of all older adults have mental disorders that are not considered a normal consequence of aging." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In food processing, edta and its acetate salts are used as chelating agents to decrease metals in food mixtures. edta is used even more commonly as a preservative in salad dressings, mayonnaise, sandwich spreads, condiments, magarines, juices, and drinks. The sequestering action is a result of its chelating effect, which allows edta to prevent changes in the color or flavor of foods, particularly from metals. EDTA is on the safe list even though it is under further study. Results of research for any harmful effects or tumorigenic properties have not been conclusive." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"If you're in an advanced state of coronary disease, you should seriously consider tracking down a doctor who specializes in edta chelation therapy. Note: chelation therapy is not for everyone. It involves going to a doctor's office for a series of approximately 30 four-hour intravenous "drip" sessions. In addition, although it costs a fraction of what bypass surgery costs, it is not inexpensive—usually running a little over $2,000 for the complete set of 30 sessions. On the other hand, if you are not in an "advanced state," there is an even easier alternative." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Intravenous Treatments for Cardiovascular Health_ There are several intravenous treatments that have proven very effective in the cardiovascular arena. edta chelation therapy is crucial, I believe, for treating coronary artery disease and arterial sclerosis. I have seen many people who were about to receive coronary bypass operations, or some other drastic treatment, improve tremendously, even dramatically, using chelation therapy." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Decades ago scientists thought that hardened arteries might be softened if the calcium in their walls could be removed, which was the basis for initiating the edta treatment. The first indication that edta might be beneficial for atherosclerosis came in 1956 when the first reports from doctors announced that patients felt better after treatment. The book Bypassing Bypass states that six million chelation treatments have been given safely over the last forty years but it includes warnings of serious side effects." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"Calcium edta is FDA-approved for lead toxicity, but DMPS is not FDA-approved for general distribtion, but may be obtained on an idividual prescription basis from compounding pharmacies. Many children excrete more than one heavy metal. These heavy metals can vary, but lead, mercury, arsenic, tin, nickel, and aluminum seem to be the most common. Sometimes mercury does not come out until a child has excreted a significant amount of lead. A relatively small subset of children, however, can react negatively to DMSA and DMPS, because they contain a form of sulfur." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Calcium edta is used for lead, cadmium, aluminum, and other metals. A provocation test with DMSA is the most commonly used test, and it is the one that I most often employ. DMSA is an FDA-approved drug for lead toxicity. It is an effective chelator for heavy metals, and has an extremely good safety record among children. DMSA provocation testing has been studied by Dr. Jeff Bradstreet and others. Dr. Bradstreet tested 221 autistic children and eighteen normal children. His study showed that the autistic children excreted three times as much mercury as the normal children." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Chelation Therapy uses di-sodium edta to remove mercury, lead, cadmium and other toxic metals from the blood by intravenous infusion, pill or other form. The solution may also be combined with other substances such as vitamins. The process is used for treating atherosclerosis and other health problems following testing of blood, urine or hair to diagnose the need for the treatment. Decades ago scientists thought that hardened arteries might be softened if the calcium in their walls could be removed, which was the basis for initiating the edta treatment." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"Bouillon, Chinese restaurant dishes, chicken broth or flavoring, and may also be present in glutamate, hy-drolyzed protein, sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, or yeast extract. edta. Margarine, salad dressing, frozen dinners, and other processed foods. Aspartame. Artificially sweetened foods. Propyl Gallate. Frozen dinners, gravy mix, turkey sausage. Alginate. Ice cream, salad dressing, cheese spread, frozen dinners. Bromates. Baked goods, bread crumbs, refrigerated dough." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"A strong substance, edta attracts lead, strontium, and many other metals, as well as calcium. Although there is controversy surrounding the use of this agent, it has not been found to be toxic when used correctly. Prior to beginning a course of edta chelation therapy, you must undergo a thorough physical examination. This includes a series of laboratory tests, including evaluations of cholesterol, blood, kidney function, liver function, glucose, and electrolytes. In addition, electrocardiogram and chest x-rays are routinely performed. Other studies often assess vitamin B12 and mineral status." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"In this therapy edta (calcium disodium versenate) is slowly infused into the body. The edta attaches to minerals (lead, mercury and cadmium) and causes them to be excreted by the kidney. Recent studies have shown that this form of therapy appears to act as a powerful anti-oxidant. More than 500,000 patients have received this treatment worldwide. Among the conditions that have benefited from this therapy are heart pain (angina pectoris), impaired circulation to the legs, high cholesterol and mental confusion with arteriosclerosis of the arteries to the brain." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"However, as an extra precaution, when most biomedical practitioners administer chelation therapy, they use either oral medication, such as DMSA, or a slow IV drip, using calcium edta. Another precaution that they take is to frequently administer extra minerals to patients prior to and during their courses of chelation, even if their mineral status appears to be normal, according to laboratory testing. Many children show evidence of multiple mineral deficiencies, and these need to be addressed prior to embarking on a course of chelation therapy." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Treatment involves the use of edta, a synthetic amino acid that breaks down the calcific nanobacteria shell, along with the antibiotic tetracycline. For more information, read The Calcium Bomb by science writers Douglas Mulhall and Katja Hansen. You can visit the Web site of the Nanobac Laboratory (located in Tampa, Florida) at www.nanobac.com. An extensive discussion on nanobacteria and the therapy program can also be found on Dr. Roberts's Web site www.heartfixer.com." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "DetoxMaxPlus contains edta, which binds and removes toxic metals, along with the arterial nourishing effects of phosphatidylcholine in a combined formula. This is chelation in a more convenient and less expensive form. Whatever the technique—oral or IV—to rid the body of toxic minerals, this is a needed treatment in medicine. It is critical to detoxify patients. If we can reduce high blood pressure by taking away heavy metals, this is better than prescribing a drug. The effect will last longer. Once you start on a drug for blood pressure, doctors will always increase the dosage." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"But, they were using edta concentration fifty to five hundred times higher than the mercury. They also found that magnesium offered significant protection against this toxicity. Magnesium has been shown to promote normal microtubule formation in the brain, again emphasizing the importance of magnesium in our diet. Oral chelation with edta would make more sense, since a significant amount of the body's circulating mercury is excreted into the hepatic circulation (liver) and enters the gastrointestinal tract, primarily the large bowel." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"A high-speed agitation process renders the PC particles so small that they readily absorb through the gut and into the cells, where they then release the embedded edta. The combination of ingredients, along with enhanced absorption, yields impressive therapeutic benefit. Along with PC, you get heavy metal removal, and thus help neutralize another source of inflammation and plaque. We recommend DetoxMaxPlus to patients with symptomatic CVD, certainly for anyone with plaque and resistant cases of inoperable heart disease where nothing else has worked well." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"See blood purification and fasting Q When supervised by a qualified physician, edta intravenous chelation therapy is safe and causes few side effects. Q In a study reported in the Journal of Advancement in Medicine, edta was used to treat 3,000 people with coronary artery disease and other vascular problems. Nearly 90 percent experienced significant improvement. Q Hair analysis is an excellent means of determining the concentration of minerals in the body. (See hair analysis in Part Three." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"The earliest types of chelation involved synthetic agents such as BAL, penicillamin e and edta administered intravenously for acute toxic metal poisoning. 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)." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"The three other chelating compounds that bind minerals and remove them are penicillamine for copper, desferoxamine for aluminum and iron, and edta for iron and other compounds. 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." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Chelating agents, such as certain flavonoids and edta, bind such ions and decrease their harmful potential.) Professor Rice-Evans's research has determined that the flavonoids in green tea, which belong to the "catechin" family of flavonoids, have greater efficacy as antioxidants than the same quantity of vitamin C, vitamin E, or beta-carotene. However, it should be noted that flavonoids work synergistically with vitamin C and vitamin E." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Another double-blind study reported that 4 gtams pet day of vitamin C in combination with a drug known as edta (which also helps remove elements such as vanadium from the body) was helpful to depressed bipolar patients but not to those experiencing mania.37 Until more is known, people with bipolat illness should avoid supplements containing vanadium and consider supplementing with vitamin C. Inositol (page 537) is a nutrient found in large amounts in the brain, but its possible role in mood disorders is unclear." - 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., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

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