Chelation is a natural alternative to reducing inflammation and infection in the body. Metals like lead, mercury, iron, calcium, and arsenic when build up in your body can be toxic. Chelation therapy is a treatment that uses medicine to remove these metals so they don’t make you sick. It grabs onto an electrically-charged mineral ion, much like a pincer does and removes them from the blood. It is one of the standard treatments for many such types of metal poisoning.
From where do these metals get inside the body?
The residues of the polluted world in which we live are found in everyone. In a landmark study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, researchers found an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in the blood and urine of nine volunteers. Of the wide variety of chemicals found, 76 cause cancer in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development.
Why do blood tests not show the presence of such metals?
The body’s innate wisdom knows that poisons cannot stay in the bloodstream – or else death would result. Thus the body looks for safer places to “park” toxins. Mercury gets put into fatty tissues, which includes the brain because it is 60% fatty tissue. Organophosphates (from insecticides) come in through the lungs and skin and are deposited into soft tissues (muscles, connective tissue and joints). The body will deposit lead in bones. Blood tests only see what is in the bloodstream, not what is in bones, organs, and tissues. So, advanced testing methods are used to measure the body burden of metals.
What is the solution to remove these toxins?
Chelation therapy involves injecting a type of medication called a chelator or chelating agent. Once injected, they circulate through the blood, bind the metals and collect all the heavy metals into a compound which then gets filtered through the kidneys and released in urine.
EDTA, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid is a synthetic amino acid that binds to the metals and escorts them out of the body. EDTA is never broken down in the body; it goes in and comes out as EDTA with no pharmaceutical-like side effects. It has a 40-year record of safe use and is typically given in a series of IVs delivered once a week for perhaps 30 weeks. Oral chelators are used in between.
But the question remains how chelation helps people with heart diseases. This happens because heart disease is largely a result of chronic inflammation, and chelation works to restore healthy arteries by reversing chronic inflammation and infections