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Chelation therapy is a treatment in which a substance called
EDTA is infused into a vein in the arm for a period of about three
hours in the doctor’s office. EDTA chelation therapy has been used
by physicians for more than 50 years with an impressive safety
record. This therapy has been used to treat the
following:
Cardiovascular diseases
Diabetic vascular
disease
Decreased mental functioning
Auto immune
diseases
Degenerative diseases
Intermittent
Claudication
The
term chelation therapy comes from the Greek word Chele, which means
“to claw”. Like a crab’s claw, EDTA grabs or binds a molecule of a
metal and carries it through the bloodstream and is excreted in the
urine.
Origin of Chelation Therapy
EDTA
was first synthesized in the late 1930's. It was used in the 1940's
to treat workers in battery factories who had lead poisoning. In the
1950's, Dr. Norman Clarke, Sr, then director of research at
Providence Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, used EDTA to treat
patients with lead poisoning. He then found out that lead-poisoned
patients who also had angina chest pain due to blocked heart
arteries) reported less chest pain. In addition, the patients noted
improved memory, better vision, hearing and smell and had increased
energy. Since that time, thousands of doctors have chelated millions
of patients with heart disease and other conditions with
EDTA.
How Does It work
No
one knows for certain how EDTA works but the leading theory today is
that of free radical elimination.
EDTA chelatin therapy can help
the body fight against disease/ EDTA removes heavy metals such as
iron, lead, arsenic aluminium, mercury, beryllium, antimony etc from
the body. These heavy metals are used by the body to make free
radicals which in turn cause a lot of damage to cells.
EDTA
removes only “free” metal atoms from the body, leaving the bound
species intact. By removing the free radical burden from the body, a
wide range of positive effects are then obtained including
improvements in the conditions listed above.
Links:
www.acam.org
http://www.drcranton.com/
http://www.holisticcenter.org/
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