The History and Critics of Chelation Therapy

I often wonder how many people are turned away from considering chelation therapy by lies of the critics.  Such a shame.  When it comes to health there is a sea of false data easy to adopt if you aren’t careful.  Powered by the big pharma, a huge business interest, supported by people in the shadows with scetchy credentials whose employers remain hidden, ideas are assumed from “experts” in medicine protecting  us from some scam, as if we could not protect ourselves.
You have a responsibility, especially in these times of endless critics of all things good and wholesome,  of checking out the source of your data.  Who are they?  Who do they work for?  What is the economic interest?   Are they qualified to render the opinion you use as guidance?  The critics of chelation therapy have been at it for a long time.

Ask yourself this,  if a treatment or drug is approved by the FDA AND it is common practice in all of medicine to use an approved substance for a use other than its approved use, if there is an observation on the part of a doc for some other benefit, what is the beef with EDTA chelation therapy?  You see, years ago, just after WWII intravenous EDTA was used to remove lead in ship yard workers who were painting battleships and took on a toxic body load of lead.  What was observed is their blood pressure went down and some other circulatory problems improved.  But…. they were using EDTA to remove lead.  Since those days brave doctors who dare help their patients with treatments that actually work and restore health have been using EDTA based on those observations and clinical results of thousands of patients who have benefitted.

Doctors in standard medicine do this all the time, seeing psyche drugs causing weight gain in patients they prescribe psyche drugs, normally used for depression, to people who are underweight. There are tons of examples. 

Here is the real rub.  Ever ask yourself why circulatory problems develop?  Why high blood pressure?  Why, why why should be the most frequent used word in conversations with your doctors.  Dr. Maulfair cites in his educational seminars the fact that medical literature, standard medical literature,  in over 4,000 papers relates small increases in body burdens of lead with increase blood pressure.  That is why edta chelation therapy helps people with heart disease and other circulatory problems and inflamatory conditions!!!!   That was a scream.

I have spent years observing the health improvements of edta chelation therapy in my husband’s medical practice.  I see what happens for his patients  I wish everyone in this country with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and any problem of aging could avail themselves of this kind of medical care.  EDTA is approved for the removal of heavy metal overloads and if it were not legal it could not have been used for all these years. But the jealous profession of medicine and the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies conspire to do the least for you.   They are misleading their stock holders who stand to make good money with the less expensive wholistic medical treatments some of us enjoy.  There is a big difference between 2 years of chelation therapy to treat heart disease and a bypass operation, thousands of dollars difference.  The body burden of toxins and heavy metals is what starts the decline in your health and eventually leads to symptoms and drug use.  Ask yourself what causes inflamation, what causes plague in arteries, what kind of plague causes heart attacks?  Heavy metal toxicity is at the route of most heart problems and the FDA approves EDTA for removal of metals.  The rub is in the consideration of what constitutes a heavy metal overload as the level of metals in our bodies is now considered normal because we all have them.  Endless chasing of tails unless you do this….. demand to control your own body and select your own treatments and run your own health.  Use docs as consultants and talk to your employers about medical savings accounts and any thing else you can think of that returns the decisions to the patient and the doctor.

For more information check out the American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology, abcmt.org, The International College of Integrative Medicine, icimed.com or contact us and we will send you comments and information from our patients, listen to what they have to say about the improvements.  Thanks again for listening.  Coleen

Chelation Therapy Confusion

The news regarding chelation therapy generated by the detractors and critics causes confusion for many people who may be interested in chelation therapy for their family.  Chelation therapy, using a chelating agent that removes toxic metals (EDTA), for people with heart disease has been utilized by physicians since the 50s for many circulatory problems.  Very safe, very effective when using the approved protocols of IV therapy.  Thousands of people have improved health and many with very marked improvements.  Increasing circulation can prevent amputations as well as improve heart disease and the problems for diabetics.
Other chelating agents have been used to remove mercury other metals in children with autism with  very good results.  The critics are busy trying to stop a study of DMSA to chelate mercury in autistic kids.  My information cites that fact that the National Institute of Health developed and funded the use of DMSA to treat lead toxicity in children.  But a study using DMSA to chelate mercury, now underway in Philadelphia, is threatened with discontinuation.  A real shame.  Edit- perhaps a real shame but for the real scoop on how to help kids see Dr. Rashid Buttar’s blog at drbuttar.com/blog/2008/08 to get his view of DMSA.

There is a simple fact at work here.  EDTA is not patentable, the patent ran out years ago.  There is not one single drug company that would not be hurt by its acceptance.  You see, if a patient utilizes chelation therapy they avoid expensive drug treatment and surgeries, jealous medicine can’t stand that.  Pharmaceutical companies squirm.  Keep in mind they want to ban some bio-identical hormone replacement hormones compounded by pharmacies.  On that note, a drug company has a form of one of the hormones soon to be released on the market in combination with other things and the compounding pharmacists are competition.  So big pharma is trying to wipe them out through the FDA.

Back to chelation.  For those a bit in the dark, the most widely used chelating agent is EDTA, it is used as a food additive to preserve food, it appears in the bottom of that little tube they use when they draw your blood. Why?  Because it keeps the blood from clotting so they can run tests.  Interesting.  What is the cause of 90% of heart attacks?  Blood clots.  See the connection.  EDTA chelation therapy can help prevent blood clots by reducing the stickiness of platlets, those little guys in your blood stream that clump together when you cut yourself to make a blood clot so you do not bleed to death.  Preventing abnormal blood clotting is a real plus when you have heart disease.  Think of how many blood thinners you would not have to take.

Now, there is the use of intravenous chelation therapy for kids with autism.  We do not do that in our office so I am not speaking from great observation here but there is a death of child from western Pennsylvania that is cited by the critics to showcase the DANGERS of chelation therapy to scare people away.  What they do not say is the chelating agent used when the child died was the wrong one, it was a drug error.  The technicians used the wrong agent and dropped the calcium levels in the child.  Had they used caEDTA (calcium EDTA)  the child would be fine.  A medical mistake.  Do you know how many people die and are harmed by drug errors improper precriptions and use in standard medical care??   Tens of thousands every year. 

Now to make the matters worse, friends of chelation tout oral chelation as a replacement for intravenous chelation therapy for people with heart disease, diabetes, arthritis or people who want to prevent those things.  I was just on one website selling oral chelation and all the references they cited to back up their claims were studies using INTRAVENOUS chelation therapy.  Apples and oranges, no worse, apples and ice cream.  So there is competition within the ranks of the good guys trying to bring the public a new and effective answer for chronic health problems and the aging process.  EEEEEE GADES.

What remains is that you need to protect yourself with a little study and research and look at the data and if you find something weird, it probably is weird.  Think for yourself and work out for yourself what should be done for health. You are being lied to at every turn.  The more confused you become the easier it is to sell you a bill of goods and take away your rights to good medical care.

Dr. Maulfair's Birthday Reminds me...

You may have known I am quite partial to my husbands’ work and today is his birthday, he is happily working away seeing patients and exhibiting his high energy, as usual.  He is one of those rare docs who takes his own advice.  He does not ask his patients to do things he is not willing to do.  He uses chelation therapy as a preventive treatment and it sure pays off.  Into his 70’s he has the energy of a person much younger.  He enjoys his work and will work for many years to come because he makes real differences in the health of others and of course that is the most rewarding thing he could do.  He gains much happiness from the success of others.
He and many doctors like him, practice scientific preventive medicine and the positive outcomes are measurable.  His own vascular study revealed the arterial age of 51 years, so there you go.  Chelation therapy as a preventive program can prevent the problems of aging.  Scientific and measurable.

Look at all the bad news regarding health lately.  Heart disease remains the top killer and there is no reason for this other than lifestyle changes and out of the main stream treatments are not emphasized, knowledge of their benefits is not widespread.  YOU should be the one deciding what you are going to do about your health.  Pharmaceutical companies and some jealous medical business interests will continue to try to keep you in the dark and discourage you from trying something else.   I guess they expect poor or bad results because that is their lot in life.  They are accustom to poor outcomes.  Well, there are other ways to handled heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and the ravages of the aging process.  Educate yourself and escape from the expected.  You do not have to feel and be old when your age advances.  Really, you don’t.

Get The Lead Out!!!

If you have a chronic degenerative disease or just want to avoid illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure, you need to understand chelation therapy.  There is a great deal of false data and confusion out there regarding the use of this therapy and what form it should be in; should you have intravenous treatments in a physicians office or take oral supplements containing the chelating agent at home?
Dr Maulfair has been helping people utilizing chelation therapy for over 35 years with stellar success and happiness that comes with seeing someone really turn their health around and start living again.  His patients are the endless source of the direct observation that chelation therapy improves circulation throughout the body, reduces blood pressure, helps the body avoid the ravages of diabetes, and contributes to overall well being.  Working with the other physicians attending some patients he has demonstrated that it is possible to put the patient first keeping friendly relationships with some doctors that may not agree with him.  Some doctors and critics have a hard time observing the obvious and if they do and it fails to agree with what they think they blame positive results on the placebo effect.

Yes, doctors already know the body heals itself and repairs in spite of doctors’ drug pushing and they know some things resolve on their own in spite of the treatment.  You can give someone a placebo and get a good result in some of the cases.  It is true throughout the world of help in any form.

If there is a placebo effect of 20% that remains constant in the medical literature then should you not expect a much higher cure or help rate than 20% if you are giving a treatment to someone?  Yet chronic degenerative disease like heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes continues to worsen over time and people need more drugs and procedures to alleviate symptoms.

Chelation therapy has a better track record when administered as an infusion directly into the blood stream than when taken orally.  Why?  By definition you are administering a chelating agent that attracts a heavy metal.  The chelating agent has a negative charge and the heavy metals in your body like lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury and others have a positive charge.  This is simple attraction.  They are attracted to one another and bind, continue to circulate until the kidneys send the bonded metals out of your body in urine.  When you take a chelating agent by mouth you are sending it into your digestive system and it needs to do the work it does in the blood stream.  If your digestion is in perfect shape you may absorb some of the chelating agent, but not all.  If you do absorb it and you took it with water that had lead in it the chelating agent is already bound to the lead in the water and is not available to remove any lead from your body.  One other problem.  That lead bound to the chelating agent may have had a chance to remain in your digestive system and leave in your stool but now it is carried into your blood stream like any nutrients would be and it should not be there.

Heavy metals accumulating in your body are dangerous no matter your level of symptoms.  We pick them up from the air we breathe, the food we eat and the things we put on our skin.  If you work in an environment where there is exposure you have a double wammy.  A small amount of lead is found to cause higher blood pressure; you can induce high blood pressure with lead accumulations and this fact is seldom brought up in the popular media or common medical information.  Metals are found in the muscle of the heart at autopsy of heart disease patients.

Metals cause all kinds of havoc in the body, lead and mercury cause neurological problems for instance.  Any wellness program or concern for the prevention of the problems of aging needs to include a preventive chelation program.  Get the metals out!!  There are doctors all over this country who  administer chelation and many of them are certified by the American Board of Clincal Metal Toxicology.  Seek these guys out and learn what you can about the real causes of ill health and the problems of aging. Check out icimed.com and acam.org for qualified doctors near you and get the metals out!!