Poisoned! What You Don't Know About Heavy Metals Is Killing You! by Dr. Pamela J Owens

Author:Dr. Pamela J Owens [Owens, Pamela J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781491787960
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2016-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chelation Therapy

Background and Description

Chelation therapy is a method used to “bind” toxic heavy metals within the body so they can be efficiently eliminated through the urinary or fecal waste. In addition, chelation therapy has been shown to help reverse atherosclerosis, prevent heart attacks and strokes (Lamas et al. 2013), and is considered by some to be a safe alternative to bypass surgery and angioplasty (Periasamy et al. 2014).

Because chelation therapy helps remove the body’s load of toxic heavy metals and the free-radicals they generate, it can also help reduce systemic inflammation and decrease the amount of oxidative stress that you may be experiencing (Roussel et al. 2009). Decreasing systemic inflammation, in turn, will reduce your risk and symptoms due to degenerative diseases such as arthritis and autoimmune diseases. Chelation therapy can be administered by intravenous (I.V.) infusions or taken orally. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is the most commonly used chelating agent, but it is only approved by the U.S. food and drug administration to treat lead and other heavy metal toxicity. However, there are a growing number of physicians who recommend chelation therapy for cardiovascular and other diseases as well.

Physicians that have been specifically trained in I.V. chelation therapy generally perform the treatment on an outpatient basis. Most doctors recommend twenty to thirty treatments over the course of several weeks. Generally, a very specific supplementation regimen of vitamins and minerals are taken along with the chelation therapy in order to fully optimize the results.

Oral chelation therapy is a viable option for non-emergency removal of heavy metal burdens in the body. Because only a very small percentage of oral EDTA is actually absorbed into the body, the results from oral chelation therapy are generally less dramatic and require longer periods of treatment. However, there are several advantages to oral chelation therapy, including convenience and low cost as well as continuous long-term maintenance of health.

Chelation Therapy for Heavy Metal Disorders

The treatment of heavy metal disorders is the most common use of chelation therapy. This includes genetic diseases such thalassemia (which results in iron overload) and Wilson’s disease (which results in copper overload), along with the accumulation of other toxic heavy metals in the body.

Chelation therapy is generally designed to “systemically” remove the toxic heavy metals from the entire body and has shown promise for the treatment of other conditions described more below. There are various types of chelating agents that may be prescribed, depending on an individual’s specific heavy metal burden (see Table 7 for more information).

Chelation Therapy and the Brain

Many of the most debilitating effects of heavy metal poisoning are neurological in nature. Disorders range from deficits in learning, memory and movement to severe and even fatal neurological diseases. In addition to acute toxic effects, many heavy metals disrupt the balance of other essential minerals, such as zinc, copper and iron. It has been proposed that the combination of these two events may contribute to certain degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (Budimir 2011). This idea is supported by the observation that

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