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Chelation Therapy:

What's The Problem?

By William G. Drew Ph.D

Chelation therapy is a safe, effective and relatively inexpensive treatment that restores blood flow in patients suffering from athero­sclerosis.  Chelation therapy is used to reverse the symptoms of hardening of the arteries, also known as atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis.  Atherosclerotic plaque formation is caused by multiple complex factors with the end result being plaque formation which blocks the flow of blood.  Plaques are composed of fibrous tissue, oxidized cholesterol (primarily oxidized LDL-cholesterol) and calcium with some heavy metal involvement.  Plaques can lead to heart attacks, strokes, senility and peripheral vascular diseases that often necessitate amputa­tions of the extremities. 

Cardiovascular Disease is Big Business

Plaques in arteries are big business for or­ganized medicine.  In 1994 there were 373,000 open heart procedures in the US and 748,000 worldwide.  But bypass surgery is exceptionally dangerous with upwards of 10% of patients dying as a result of the surgery.  But the problem doesn't stop there.  Bypass surgery represents the mechanical repair of only a small portion of the arterial tree and to make matters worse, it uses diseased "pipe" to make this repair.  Total costs average about $45,000 and can be as high as $60,000 or even more.

   Balloon surgery, or angioplasty, is far more popular and is practiced by greater numbers of physicians.  In fact, the competition for patients between hospitals and cardiologists has never been more intense or aggressive.  At the present time there are in excess of 1,800 independent and hospital-based cardiac catheterization centers in the US  The costs associated with cardiac catheterization when performed by cardiologists is in excess of $20,000.  The cost of angioplasty now averages $22,000.   

How Chelation Therapy Works

Chelation therapy is a non-surgical therapy that utilizes a synthetic amino acid called ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) to bind and remove undesirable substances from the body including heavy metals and calcium, known components of arterial plaques.  Actually, the EDTA used in intravenous chelation therapy is not pure or free-form EDTA, but a sodium and magnesium salt of EDTA, possibly Edetate. 

   With more than 6000 published studies and with more than 4 million chelation treatments having been performed, chelation therapy has been proven to improve blood flow through­out the entire vascular system.  Every single study of chelation therapy for atherosclerosis ever published has found, without exception, highly significant im­provements in blood flow throughout the entire body along with many other benefits.   

   Thousands of studies point to the inescapable conclusion that chelation therapy dramatically improves health.  This is primarily related to the ability of certain amino acids to bind (i.e. chelate) and remove those materials that cause arterial blockage.  For example, throughout your lifetime your body has been accumulating dangerous heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, thallium, thulium, beryllium, mercury, etc.  The ability of these metals to spawn millions, even billions of free radicals within just a few minutes is legend. 

   If you think that you are not afraid of free radicals you might better think again.  Free radicals as are equally as dangerous as gamma radiation or other forms of radioactivity and can cause rapid aging as well as make many disease states much worse.   

   Free radicals are increased by the presence of heavy metals and act as a chronic irritant to blood vessel walls and cell membranes.  Think of these heavy metals as "free radical generators."  Until these free radical generators are removed from the body, they will continue to deplete your body's store of antioxidants.  So you have to take more antioxidants just to neutralize the free radicals generated by the heavy metals.  As your body levels of heavy metals increases you must also increase your levels of antioxidants just to stay even.  If the accumulations get large enough, they can easily overpower the nearly depleted reserves of antioxidants.  It's at this point that your health begins to plummet.  Millions upon millions, even billions of free radicals are now released to totally wreck your body.

Chelation Clears Blocked Arteries !

   EDTA removes these metallic irritants, allow­ing leaky and damaged cell walls to heal.  Once the free radical-generating-metals have been removed, the body's immune system cells move in to remove the material along with other debris built up in the arterial walls.  Plaques literally smooth over and shrink, allowing more blood to pass.  Arterial walls become softer and more pliable, allowing easier ex­pansion. 

   Thousands of studies now show that without exception, intravenous EDTA chelation therapy leads to blood flow increases.  Health restoration is directly related to increased blood flow.  And if this weren't miracle enough, the cost for intravenous chelation therapy is only a fraction of the cost of coronary or peripheral bypass surgery. 

   The average cost for an intravenous chelation treatment is $175.00 in North Carolina and somewhat lower across the southeastern US where the average cost is $125 per treatment.  A complete cleanout of the cardiovascular system usually requires about 30 treatments. 

   If all you were paying for was the chelation treatment itself 30 chelation treatments provided by an ACAM-certified physician would cost between $3,500 and $3,750.  But there are additional costs involved.  There are the costs of the initial physical, routine blood work, required and necessary intravenous supplements every seventh treatment and the cost of the nutritional supplements which must be used on a daily basis to prevent serious depletion of essential minerals and vital metals such as iron and zinc. 

   Together these costs add up and easily reach totals ranging from $5,000 to $6,000 for the 30 treatments.  In other words, while you are paying direct costs of $125 for the treatment at the time you receive it, you end up paying from $166 to $200 per treatment when the other variables are figured in.  While $5,000 to $6,000 may sound like a lot of money to clear arteries, remember two things:  (1) compared to the surgical alternatives, there is no comparison, and (2) chelation restores your health and vitality with the end result, you feel good!  That doesn't happen with the surgery.         

 

   It costs upwards of $300 million to receive FDA approval of pharmaceuticals today.  Ac­cordingly, pharmaceutical companies will not undertake such expenditures of time and fi­nancial resources to get FDA approval for drugs unless there is a strong probability that they will realize a profitable return on their investment.  With drugs that enjoy the profits that patent protection affords, paybacks are assured.  But with drug products that are al­ready in the public domain such paybacks are not possible and therefore are viewed as "useless" therapies by the FDA, the AMA and all of the major pharmaceutical manufacturers. 

   EDTA is not patentable.  Because of this, the FDA erroneously contends that EDTA chelation ther­apy is useless because it hasn't been validated by double-blind clinical trials.  Yet there are double-blind studies that clearly prove the supreme effectiveness of chelation therapy.  In fact, many studies show its superiority.  The only thinking conclusion that can be drawn from these facts is that the FDA has chosen to ignore the published facts.  It's funny that demands for "scientific medicine" only apply to therapies that the FDA doesn't want approved.  But what they never tell you is that there are NO double-blind studies on the bypass or angioplasty procedures either.  Imagine that. 

   The current health care delivery system effectively ex­cludes the development and utilization of al­ternative medical treatments even if such treatments are proven to help patients and have been proven to be safe.  The antiquated and highly touted FDA approval process (?) not only dis­courages innovation, but discourages all but the largest pharmaceutical companies from seeking FDA approval for a treatment.  This approach, which is supposedly currently under attack, works to exclude the contributions of innovative practi­tioners, scientists and smaller pharmaceutical companies that do not have the financial re­sources to complete the costly FDA approval process.  This atrocious approval process is highly effective in preventing low-cost treat­ments (e.g. EDTA, Vitamin E, Vitamin C) from gaining access to the markets.   It represents megamarketing at its best!

Insurance Company Reluctance to Pay

   The FDA does not regulate the practice of medicine but limits the marketing and advertis­ing claims for drugs.  The FDA has approved marketing claims for the use of EDTA to treat lead poisoning and several other conditions.  Treatment of atherosclerosis is not yet an al­lowable claim for inclusion in the marketing literature of EDTA. Because of this, insurance companies have refused to pay for EDTA chelation therapy.  The question this automati­cally raises is "Why?"

   Most medical insurance companies, includ­ing Medicare, claim to be financially depleted by paying for so many expensive surgeries.  While this is probably true it is not the entire story. 

   Insurance company premium levels are determined by costs.  As costs increase, premium payment levels also increase.  State insurance commissioners monitor such increases and regulate premium payment levels.  The fact is most insurance companies cannot afford to cover low cost therapies such as chelation because the department of insurance in any given state would subsequently demand that consumer health insurance premiums be lowered. 

   But that is not the only reason that insurance companies will generally not cover chelation.  Segments of the health care industry which profit greatly from surgical procedures are politically powerful.  Physicians who review claims for medical insurance companies often favor the extremely expensive and risky pro­cedures, such as bypass surgery, while refus­ing to pay for equally beneficial or more bene­ficial and far less expensive and immeasurably safer chelation therapy.  While insurance poli­cies do not specifically exclude chelation ther­apy in their policies, patients have often had to resort to the courts in order to collect their insurance benefits.  If the fear of censure could be removed along with the fear of FDA raids, many health insurance companies would reim­burse patients for less-expensive approaches to health care including chelation therapy.

The REAL Underlying Threat

   Here is the real kicker.  If you could elimi­nate cardiovascular diseases, you would effec­tively eliminate virtually 80 percent of all dis­eases suffered by mankind.  EDTA has the potential to restore the cardiovascular system to near perfect health.  This, by inference then means that EDTA has the potential to elimi­nate most all of the diseases suffered by man worldwide.  If a therapy this effective were granted full approval by the FDA, the result would be massive wholesale improvement in the health of millions of Americans.  The num­ber of patients needing to be hospitalized would dramatically decrease.  Insurance pre­miums would plunge precipitously and health care costs would return to manageable levels.  But the medical establishment is not about to let this happen.  Similarly, the insurance industry, which is caught in a public service catch 22 relating to allowable premium charges, is not about to let it happen either.

   Organized medicine is currently a $1.4 trillion industry, up from $900 billion in 1993.  Any treatment that would eliminate cardiovascular and circulatory diseases would significantly impact the entire medical monopoly.  If EDTA chelation therapy effectively eliminated all cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, this form of therapy would potentially impact the industry to the tune of about $4 billion per day!  If EDTA therapy proved to eliminate only one-half of the cardiovascular and circu­latory problem, the impact would still be gar­gantuan at about $2 billion per day!

Oral Chelation to the Rescue

   Oral EDTA preparations are highly effective chelating agents.  Most are able to bond with heavy metals and remove them from the body as well as form stable and soluble complexes with calcium.  Heavy metals chelated by EDTA and calcium chelated by EDTA are easily excreted by the kidneys.  It is essential that lots of water be consumed during any type of chelation therapy as the removal of toxic metals is extremely reliant on fully functional kidneys and an open, functioning intestine. 

   In order for orally administered EDTA to be effective in the arteries it first must be assimilated (i.e. absorbed into the blood stream).  EDTA is assimilated in the first section of the intestines -- the duodenum.  It is not damaged or destroyed by stomach acid.  In fact, stomach acidity has nothing to do with the assimilation of free form EDTA or any other amino acid for that matter.  And, no digestion is required for EDTA to be assimilated.  It simply moves into the blood stream from the duodenum with more than 80% being assimilated (i.e. absorbed).  

   Spirit of Healing (SOH)  has recently introduced a new oral EDTA chelation program built around a product sold under the trade name Oral Chelate.  Oral Chelate is actually a mixture of free form EDTA buffered with a combination of 16 other free form amino acids and vitamins.  The daily dose is 3 capsules which provides a dose level of 400mg of EDTA.  The assimilated dose, if 80%, would be  320 mg.   The Spirit of Healing Chelation Program recommends taking 6 capsules daily for a total of 800mg of EDTA per day.

  SOH Oral Chelate taken daily provides relatively constant blood levels and subjects the body to the cleansing benefits provided by more than 5.6 grams of EDTA per week (5600mg).  In contrast, intravenous chelation with EDTA typically employs a dose of only 3.0 grams per infusion.  Most i.v. chelation patients receive only one treatment per week.  With i.v. chelation, most of the effect is measured in the first 24 hours.  This means that during the other 6 days in the week little chelation is possible.     

  SOH Oral Chelate contains 17 total ingredients. Each bottle contains 4.8 grams of two different chelating amino acids in addition to 12 grams of free form CaEDTA.  This is important because EDTA, by itself, will not remove all metallic minerals and heavy metals from the cardiovascular system .   

      SOH Oral Chelate also supplies a host of nutriants, full complex B vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin D.  SOH Oral Chelate also contains lipoic acid and reduced glutathione which are also strong chelators.  Oral Chelate also incorporates Chlorella which helps to pull various forms of vaporus mercury out of  cell membranes so the EDTA can bind to it.  So it is clear that Oral Chelate really has no competition.  When used with Min-er-All,  a colloidal mineral complex,  there is nothing on the market which can even begin to compare.  Min-er-All is available through Spirit of Healing.   

   Oral chelation with Spirit of Healing's Oral Chelate products can be just as, if not superior to intravenous chelation.  As mentioned above, SOH Oral Chelate contains 17 nutrients and 12 grams of EDTA at a cost of $29 per bottle.  It would take 4 injections of intravenous EDTA chelation to obtain the 12 grams of EDTA available in one bottle of  SOH Oral Chelate.     

   EDTA cannot remove plaque from the walls of arteries when the body's pH is too acidic.  Since most people eat a faulty diet entirely too rich in simple and complex carbohydrates, the result is an acid pH.  Keeping the body's pH alkiline enables EDTA to chelate inorganic calcium and heavy metals from the arterial plaque.

   Nutritional deficiencies are typical in patients suffering from diverse cardiovascular diseases including atherosclerosis.  Nutritional deficiencies reduce the effectiveness of EDTA.  Equally as important, EDTA is "blind" so to speak and can chelate good nutrients from the body at the same time it removes the bad things.  So it is important that anyone undergoing any form of chelation therapy replace the "good" nutrients, particularly minerals, on a daily basis.  Since the Spirit of Healing program produces such powerful effects, it is very important to provide as many nutrients as possible during the SOH chelation program.    

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