Chelation Therapy

Chelation therapy has an important role to play in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease.

As well Chelation therapy has many other uses.

Diabetes

As early as the 1960's, Chelation therapy was shown to help diabetics, allowing some patients to reduce or even stop taking their medications. This result was attributed to the fact that diabetes damages blood vessels, and Chelation therapy seems to reverse some of that damage. Many of the difficult complications of diabetes are due to vascular degeneration and may be improved with Chelation.

Alzheimer's Disease

Chelation therapy also helps remove aluminum from the body, a metal that may contribute to Alzheimer's disease. Drs. H Richard Casdorph and Morton Walker, authors of: Toxic Metal Syndrome: How Metal Poisoning Can Affect Your Brain, state that Chelation therapy has been shown to help at least 50% of elderly people who have tried it. They document greater mental clarity, improved memory, and increased IQ, working best in patients with early stage Alzheimer's, a condition for which conventional medicine has little to offer.

Cancer

An 18-year follow up study was done in a small city in Switzerland. A group of 59 patients were given a series of Chelation treatments. Another group of 172 patients was observed as controls. Both groups of people were selected from a neighborhood adjacent to a busy highway. All persons were equally exposed to the same amount of lead from automobile exhaust, industrial pollution and other carcinogens. Exposure to carcinogens was no greater for the studied population than exists in most other metropolitan areas through out the world. After 18 years only one of the 59 Chelation patients died of cancer, while 30 of the 172 non-treated group died. Death from atherosclerosis was also reduced. Garry Gordon M.D., is quoted as saying, "Anything that reduces your burden of toxic metals, which feeds the fire of free radicals, sufficiently safeguards your immune system so that your body can more effectively handle early cancers".

Other conditions

Chelation therapy is also known to be helpful in alleviating the disability and discomfort of degenerative illnesses such as arthritis, scleroderma and lupus. Allergies and chemical sensitivities also appear to be improved. There is some evidence that degenerative brain conditions may benefit from chelation therapy, improving memory and cognition.

Heavy Metal Detoxification

The use of I.V. and/or oral DMPS chelation has been proven to be the most effective method of removing mercury stores from the body. Many supplementary treatments are also used in conjunction with the chelation treatments. EDTA chelation treatments have been proven to be very effective in removing other heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, aluminium etc.

Specific tests can be performed to determine toxic metal load, and new patients are frequently screened for risk of heavy metals.

Methods of Chelation Therapy

Not all patients are open to I.V. therapies and for this reason we do have other options available that may be as effective for some conditions. Speak to your naturopathic physician about your choices.