Chelation Story

Oral chelation with EDTA is known and approved by the FDA for removing both the minerals lead and cadmium both toxic to the body. The EDTA removes the minerals from your body through your urinary tract. Even a slightly increased lead level raises your chance of death by 46 percent? In a study article an analysis which lasted 16 years and had 4,292 people in ages from 30 to 74 years. It was found that 15% of the subjects had a slightly elevated blood lead level. This is statistical the same as 15% of the total US population. Among these people with slightly elevated blood lead levels there was a 46 percent increased death rate (all-cause mortality) compared to those with completely “normal” blood lead levels.

Any detectable lead level is a risk to your health! In other words there is no safe lead levels.Another study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported a consistent and direct correlation with blood lead levels in children and their worsening IQ levels in the age category of three years to five years old. The study researchers concluded with saying, “These findings suggest that more U.S. children may be adversely affected by environmental lead than previously estimated.”

Oral Chelation Results In Just One Day Of EDTA The University of Michigan recently had a large conference on the subject of toxic heavy metals. Along with the overwhelming evidence of the benefits of chelation for a wide range of conditions, a study on oral chelation was presented showing the heavy metal urine analyses on 14 patients ages 29 to 73, before and after only one dose of an oral chelation EDTA product. Results showed a significant excretion of all six of the toxic heavy metals most commonly encountered. Here are the average percentages of heavy metal excretion increases in the 14 patients after just one day of oral EDTA: Aluminum: 229 percent; Arsenic: 661 percent; Cadmium: 276 percent; Lead: 350 percent; Mercury: 773 percent; and Nickel: 9,439 percent! So please don’t be scared into thinking that oral chelation is a “health hazard” because you may lose some trace elements along with the toxic ones.

It is true that EDTA can also cause you to lose the important trace minerals zinc and calcium if you don’t get enough in your diet. That is why the simple recommendation to supplement with zinc and calcium or a good multi mineral and multi vitamin when you are doing oral chelation has proven to more than make up for this trace mineral excretion. Essentially, the potential of trace mineral depletion of any consequence to your health is minimal according to the research by Dow Chemical and also a report published in Food Chemical Toxicology. This is one of the most asked questions by customers of oral chelation.

Oral EDTA Actually Increases Some Minerals Bio-availablity Also EDTA appears not to deplete the trace minerals cobalt, chromium, and copper. Fortunately, EDTA causes a slight retention of the beneficial trace mineral magnesium. Other research shows that trace minerals become even more bio-available with oral EDTA. The National Institutes of Health and Office of Dietary Supplements Bioavailability Conference, the ENVIRON International Corporation’s report regarding mineral absorption revealed that EDTA is a dietary factor that enhances the absorption of zinc with protein, cysteine, citrate, and methionine.

Many people (“doctors”) make the statement, “EDTA is not recommended for oral use” because of the claim it takes out dangerous amounts of trace minerals is to say the least, seemingly not correct. This is the same thing as saying do not eat fruits and vegetables because you might consume pesticides. It is just like throwing the baby out with the bath water.

There are over 120 recent papers and studies showing that EDTA is beneficial to cardio vascular health. This is something I have been trying to show you my readers for many years now. EDTA is safe and it is effective. It is inexpensive and it sure beats surgery and drug side effects. It cured my vascular disease and with a change in the food I consume it has not returned. Main stream medicine is going to fight this for years because of all the money involved but eventually the Alternative Medicine doctors like Rowan and Cutler will win the day and more and more people will be introduced to oral chelation therapy.

This idea for this post was given to me by a reader LH. It appears that EDTA has an interaction with coumadin and anyone taking this drug and EDTA should be aware of it. The interaction appears to be both positive and possibly negative.

The study was published in 2002 Volume 22 issue 8 of Pharacotherapy. The abstract sums up the findings of Heidi Braun Grebe, Pharm.D. 1 and Philip J. Gregory, Pharm.D. Abstract States: Chelation therapy originally was administered exclusively to patients with heavy metal poisoning. Now some physicians are administering this therapy for numerous conditions, most commonly coronary heart disease. A 64-year-old man experienced impaired warfarin anticoagulation after undergoing chelation therapy. His international normalized ratio (INR) fell from 2.6 the day before to 1.6 the day after therapy was administered. Whether chelation therapy decreases the effectiveness of warfarin anticoagulation is uncertain. However, because of this potential interaction, clinicians should consider increased INR monitoring in patients undergoing chelation therapy.

One thing not mentioned in the study is that EDTA has a very short chemical half life in the body. It only has an effective presence in the blood of about 24 hours max. It stated that the patients INR fell from 2.6 to 1.6. The normal range for INR is 0.8 to 1.2. Many doctors when giving patients coumadin like to keep the range as high as 2.6.

As I have said I am not a doctor so it is up to the patient if they wish to take EDTA. However, it would be my recommendation that if you are on coumadin that you try to monitor your levels.

All alternative medicine and alternative therapies are a two edged sword. On the one hand EDTA reduces the need for coumadin. Ward Dean MD from Vitamin Research Products states”Oral Chelation products (with EDTA) will also reduce the requirements for coumadin.” The patient above seems to have undergone IV chelation not oral chelation. Therefore the drop in INR was probably restored in a day or two.

Oral chelation takes longer to be effective because of the absorption rate. Will the oral EDTA drop the INR as much is anybodies guess. You have to weigh the trade offs. EDTA will help clear the blood vessels which may eliminate the need for coumadin. However, what is the effect while you are getting to the goal of clear blood vessels. Without plaque in your vessels you reduce the risk of all heart disease. Thinning the blood is a band-aid treatment. Thin blood does flow better but the plaque in your vessels is still getting worse.

The American Medical Associations position in 1961 stated that a vegetarian diet can clear obstructions in heart blood vessels. The safest alternative while on coumadin is to radically change your diet and improve your heart disease that way and reduce the need for coumadin. You can also do EDTA therapy and watch your INR levels to make sure they do not get out of the normal range.

Our recommendation also states that all people with heart and vessel disease should follow a diet like the Rave diet. Your heart disease will not physically improve if you do not change your diet.

How come the medical community no longer tells us emphatically about the natural things that will cure disease. I have never had a doctor or even a chelation therapist tell me about diet. I have never had a family doctor tell me “you know if you would change your diet you might be able to really help your peripheral vascular disease.” I further understand that most doctors do not receive nutritional training.

In 1961 the American Medical Association was quoted as saying, “All coronary occlusion can be eliminated by 97% through a vegetarian diet” this was published in their Journal of the American Medical Association. If they believed that this was true should they not be yelling it from the roof tops? 50% of our population’s deaths are caused by this very condition, coronary occlusion. Coronary occlusion is clogged heart arteries.

Does it not make some sense that those of us who suffer from PAD & PVD would also benefit from a vegetarian diet? I am here to tell you that it does. I have taken IV chelation and oral chelation for yeas and it cleared up my circulation problems. It was not however until after I changed my diet to near vegetarian that the symptoms stopped coming back.

I follow the Rave Diet which is a diet as a cure disease diet. As you will see from the thousands of available testimonials it is very effective.

Thank you for all the emails and phone calls with your questions and challenges. If any of you have stories where EDTA has improved your life please send them along and I will publish them here.

I know it helps to show how people have improved their own health especially when friends and some doctors are telling you EDTA does not work or is dangerous. It is always a large shock to hear that so many people have occluded (plugged up) arteries or veins and are living with this fear hanging over their head without attempting to improve their own health.

Look anywhere on the web and you will find no proof of harm from EDTA. It is of course up to you but you have very little to lose and so, so much to gain.

I have been taking approximately 4 capsules a day since about February 1st. I do not have any bothersome symptoms but every time I see the pollution in the air on the front range of Colorado I wonder how many metal and other toxins are in what I breathe. This year the plan is to take three or four regimens. The amount will be determined by how I feel. Three regimens a year should fairly well keep my circulation in good shape. Stay tuned I will let you know.