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"Using chelation as a treatment for CFS or FM is extreme even for believers in chelation. Its major suggested use in alternative medicine is as a treatment to clean out plugged arteries. A number of small controlled studies found no support for this hypothesis, but in 2002, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)—both of are part of the National Institutes of Health—announced that they had launched the Trial to Assess chelation Therapy." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"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. The 2002 federal study on the use of complementary and alternative medicine in America showed that 0.1% had ever used chelation therapy. The therapy is promoted by the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). USER COMMENTS: EDTA chelation therapy saved my life 2 years ago." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"You are deluding yourself if you think chelation or drugs alone will reverse your condition while you remain overweight and nutritionally malnourished. chelation will not dissolve your atherosclerosis, as claimed. The studies done on this therapy are not impressive.26 In spite of chelation, patients generally continued to deteriorate unless they changed their diet, lost weight, and lowered their cholesterol. In other words, changes not related to chelation. The areas of vulnerable plaque that cause heart attacks have a large fatty core of cholesterol." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Holistic approaches that may be helpful Intravenous chelation therapy has been reported to be an effective treatment for PVD.20, 21 A partially controlled study reported improvements after ten chelation treatments.22 However, two double-blind studies found no difference between chelation therapy and a placebo in patients with intermittent claudication (page 276).23,24 Preliminary reports suggest acupuncture may reduce pain and improve blood flow in TAO,25, 26 but controlled studies are needed to better evaluate these claims." - 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.)

"The abnormal heart rhythms then cause blood to pool, so clots form, which can lead to strokes. The chelation Sensation? You may have read about a development called chelation therapy—basically an arterial Drano. In the process, a solution is injected into your veins, and it is supposed to bind with the calcium that hardens arterial plaque and subsequently clear it through your urine. The theory that chelation therapy works to diminish the calcium in your plaque has never been proven, but there's anecdotal evidence that it can help clear arteries in some people." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"This would ideally supply balanced amounts of key minerals, replacing those minerals that might become displaced or imbalanced from heavy metal toxicity and through the chelation process itself. Two evening-formula capsules would be taken before dinner or at bedtime with water. Because the chelation process needs to be slow, I would suggest you do this type of detox program for a minimum of a month and up to three months if high toxicity is suspected." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Being a proactive patient, Joe asked me in 1980 about an alternative therapy he started researching—intravenous chelation. This therapy binds harmful substances like lead, cadmium, and arsenic so the body can excrete them. My recommendations on chelation have always varied from patient to patient, depending on the situation. I've seen it help several patients in the past who had angina, so, with that in mind, Joe and I discussed the pros and cons of this treatment as it pertained to his health situation. Ultimately, we decided that he should give it a try." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Chelation therapy has proven helpful in enhancing cognitive function in many Alzheimer's patients. In chelation therapy, certain agents are administered to bind with toxins such as heavy metals and cause the body to excrete them. There are oral chelation formulas available over the counter. Intravenous chelation employs ethylenedi-aminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). Note: Intravenous chelation therapy must be administered and monitored by a qualified doctor. Laboratory tests are required before commencing treatment." - Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND, Smart Medicine for Healthier Living : Practical A-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Adults (Get the book.)

"Chemicals and heavy metals enter the body over a life span of normal breathing, eating, drinking, cooking, going to the doctor and dentist, and the bad habits we pick up over the years such as smoking, drinking, drugs, and so forth. chelation is a great way to relieve our bodies of possible current and future problems. chelation also improves metabolic function and blood flow by cleaning blocked arteries. CESIUM CHLORIDE Nature's most alkaline mineral is Cesium. In 1984, Keith Brewer, Ph.D." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"In spite of chelation, patients generally continued to deteriorate unless they changed their diet, lost weight, and lowered their cholesterol. In other words, changes not related to chelation. The areas of vulnerable plaque that cause heart attacks have a large fatty core of cholesterol. Removing the lipid from the plaque can make it smaller and more resistant to rupture. Use common sense; chelation could no more suck fatty substance out of a coronary artery than it could suck the fat off your left hip. There is no way chelating agents can selectively remove the lipids in atheromas." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"This is an example of a case in which a father was initially quite skeptical about biomedical intervention, including chelation therapy for heavy metal overload. However, after the father observed positive changes and improvement in his child, the father became convinced of the efficacy of this approach. The child's changes have been noted not only by his ABA therapist and parents, but by all of his family members, his teachers, and others who knew him prior to biomedical treatment. Patient #15 This child was first seen when he was five years, four months old, and was on the autism spectrum." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "He has had a positive response to chelation therapy, as well as to IV-vitamin C, minerals, and B-complex. At a follow-up visit, his mother stated that he had experienced the "best run of his life in the past two months." He is also receiving phosphatidylcholine, which is helping him be-haviorally and cognitively. He is still reported to be doing "great," with huge improvements in eye contact and speech. He is speaking to everyone. Patient #10 This girl was first seen at five years old, and now is seven." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Monitoring chelation treatments. 5. Medication Medication for autism. • Medication for ADHD. • Medication for asthma. Medication for allergies. • Medication for co-morbid disorders. Now let's see how each of these elements was incorporated into a comprehensive Healing Program. As you will note, most children needed only very limited elements of the entire array of treatment options. For example, in only one of the following fifteen cases did I apply the specific carbohydrate diet, and in none of these cases did I apply the low-oxalate diet." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "I also recommended the use of chelation therapy, in which a substance called DMSA is administered, to help flush out heavy metals. In addition, I began to give Paul the medication known as secretin, which is a neurohormone that has many receptors in the brain's amygdala, a primary memory center that is closely linked to fear and to understanding facial expressions. In the late 1990s, a doctor had achieved some amazing results with secretin, and had promoted it as a magic bullet against autism." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Afterward, he learned all he could about nutritional medicine and began a supplement program along with IV chelation. In 2000, he developed chest pain. It turned out he was going through a stressful period in his life and had inadvertently gone off several of his medications. I repeated his coronary angiogram and saw three pristine grafts. Normally, one in three vein grafts close within one year and half close within seven years. But all three of Bill's grafts looked great at fourteen years. My patient June required single-vessel stent placement in 1997, when she was seventy." - 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.) "Carefully controlled scientific studies, however, have been lacking, and although many doctors use chelation for toxic metal removal in CVD patients, the application per se for CVD has not been officially sanctioned. It is, in fact, opposed by medical organizations such as the American Heart Association. Medical insurers, including Medicare, will not cover the procedure." - 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.)

"Chelation is a great way to relieve our bodies of possible current and future problems. chelation also improves metabolic function and blood flow by cleaning blocked arteries. CESIUM CHLORIDE Nature's most alkaline mineral is Cesium. In 1984, Keith Brewer, Ph.D., treated 30 patients with various types of cancer with cesium and the results worked: All 30 patients survived their cancer. Cesium starves cancer cells by diminishing their fermentation, and raises a person's alkaline (pH) level to the range of 8.0 or above." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"You may have read about a development called chelation therapy—basically an arterial Drano. In the process, a solution is injected into your veins, and it is supposed to bind with the calcium that hardens arterial plaque and subsequently clear it through your urine. The theory that chelation therapy works to diminish the calcium in your plaque has never been proven, but there's anecdotal evidence that it can help clear arteries in some people. It's very enticing but still experimental. An even better Drano promises to be a new drug that is a super HDL called alpha-1 -Milano." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"That was the problem: When my father started the IV chelation therapy, he was using about 65 units of insulin a day, but neither he nor any of the medical staff had ever bothered to monitor his blood sugar to see whether there was any change while he was doing the IV chelation process. He was sick because he now only needed about one-third the insulin he had been taking. As a result of improper medical care and self-care, he had been overmedicating himself in the hospital! (Please remember this important point." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"NDF is taken orally while chelation is given intravenously over a three hour period. chelation is given once or twice weekly for 20 to 30 treatments. Dr. Marcial Vega has noted that patients taking NDF often notice disappearance of varicose veins. Additionally, patients with schizophrenia may become well after several months of therapy. They remain well. NDF is a food supplement which can be obtained from Health Horizon Phone 305 442-1233 or 800 771-0255 or from our Natural Health Team 800-4162806." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"There are oral chelation formulas available over the counter. Intravenous chelation employs ethylenedi-aminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). Note: Intravenous chelation therapy must be administered and monitored by a qualified doctor. Laboratory tests are required before commencing treatment. Because chelation affects the kidneys, kidney function must be monitored during the course of the treatment. PREVENTION ¦ Unfortunately, there is no known way of preventing Alzheimer's disease. Taking therapeutic doses of certain nutrients may help, however." - Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND, Smart Medicine for Healthier Living : Practical A-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Adults (Get the book.)

"Live Cell Therapy • chelation Therapy • Hyperthermia • DMSO Therapy • The Cesium Chloride Protcol • Oleander Treatment (oleander plant) • Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide • IP6 • Dr. Simoncini's Baking soda treatment • Edgar Cayce's Castor Oil Packs • Dr. Budwig Diet • Dr. Clark's Parasite/Cancer Treatments • Moerman's Anti-Cancer Diet • Red Clover Tea55 • Liquid Cellular Zeolites (www.mywaiora.com/500006) • And more...." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"A classic. The chelation Way: The Complete Boo\ of chelation Therapy, Morton Walker, D.P.M., Avery Publication Group, Garden City Park, N.Y., 1990. A very comprehensive survey of the subject. Here you will find discussions of both intravenous and oral chelation, as well as a chapter on the politics and economics surrounding its use, as well as a chapter on the research done on its effectiveness, and the struggle to get such studies before the medical profession. See more on chelation under ASCVD (following reading list for Chapter 12). The New Microbiology Cell Wall Deficient Forms, Lida H." - Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D., Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine (Get the book.)

"Even if chelation helps your coronary arteries, that doesn't mean it will do anything for your fatigue. In fact, I would urge you to be leery of taking any intravenous treatment that hasn't been proven effective. By definition, these treatments introduce drugs and other substances directly into the bloodstream. If any of the materials in the infusion have the potential to be toxic, putting them directly into the bloodstream increases those chances." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Anthocyanins also may have a role metal chelation and metal storage in vacuole (Hale et al, 2001, 2002). However, although ROS-mediated signal transduction mechanisms may be altered in a flavonoid-deficient background, flavonoids might be better regarded as part of the cellular context in which the response takes place than as a specific signaling mechanism (Figure 9.3). A Control 1h 2h 3h 4h 7d WT El H H ¦ tt4 B El El m H ¦ ¦ m ¦ B Contro 1h 2h 3h 4h 7d WT Figure 9.3 Flavonols and oxidative stress." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"The patient slowly decreased his medication during the EDTA treatment and stopped them completely at the last chelation (March 14, 1986). His blood pressure at the last chelation was 124/84 mm/Hg. He has not taken any blood pressure medication since the last chelation treatment. He also decided to take another flight physical to renew his private pilot license. He passed without any problems. References 1. McDermott MT. Endocrinology Secrets. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley and Belfus Inc., 1998. 2. Ross R. Factors influencing atherogenisis." - Michael Friedman, ND, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology (Get the book.)

"A number of small controlled studies found no support for this hypothesis, but in 2002, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)—both of are part of the National Institutes of Health—announced that they had launched the Trial to Assess chelation Therapy. This carefully designed double-blind placebo-controlled trial will tell us about the treatment's efficacy as well as its toxicities." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"A partially controlled study reported improvements after ten chelation treatments.22 However, two double-blind studies found no difference between chelation therapy and a placebo in patients with intermittent claudication (page 276).23,24 Preliminary reports suggest acupuncture may reduce pain and improve blood flow in TAO,25, 26 but controlled studies are needed to better evaluate these claims." - 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.)

"In a treatment called chelation therapy, the practitioner employs a chemical that's normally used to bind heavy metals (like mercury and lead) to treat people poisoned by these metals. Some doctors have the idea that unexplained fatigue and chemical sensitivity are due to heavy metal toxicity. While exposure to heavy metals can cause many symptoms, there is no good evidence that heavy metals have any role at all in CFS, fibromyalgia (FM), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

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