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.

Pharmaceutical Drugs and Health

Of course there are uses of pharmaceuticals that make sense.  The problem is people think that is all medical care consists of.  All pharmaceutical drugs are considered toxic by the body.  When used they should be taken in the smallest amount for the shortest period of time to overcome some problem you cannot address by diet and lifestyle changes or supplements of vitamins and minerals whether administered by mouth or intravenously.
In our medical practice we find mineral deficiencies, nutrient depleted diets, environmental toxins, heavy metal toxicity, hormone deficiencies, food sensitivities and much much more at the bottom of people complaints and symptoms.  We can handle migraine headaches with simple use of minerals and B complex vitamins.  We can handle digestive disorders with proper diets and probiotics.  This is health care reform.  Give the body what it needs, remove impediments to health and you feel great and get on with your goals in life.  Think about it. 

 The body develops a symptom, something is amiss.  You go the doctor and often are given a prescription without ever uncovering why you have the symptom.  No real cause is looked for or found.  If you are not looking you are unlikely to discover the cause.  Disgusting.  Now… you go home, take the pharmaceutical and you have two problems, the symptoms you had before warning you of something not right AND the toxic effects of the drug you just took.

This is normal health care.  If you could see the flimsy science, the unprofessional displays of the latest drugs at the meetings doctors attend you would be appalled.  Like Oz you can be fooled into thinking taking a drug is medical care.  We had the pleasure of talking with some medical students recently.  Very special medical students as they are husband and wife naturopathic doctors returning to medical school for a D.O. degree.  Dr. of Osteopathic Medicine.  You would think they would be in a program that is friendly to diet and nutrition and osteopathic manipulation, not so.  They were in the process of MEMORIZING which drug to use for which symptom.  That is not all.  THEN which 5-6 drugs to use to overcome the side effects of the first drug!!  That is medical education.  Schools are supported by big pharma and the curriculum expresses that fact.  Hold the party line and teach only the party line.

We certainly see eye to eye with chiropractic, naturopathic doctors, physicial medical modalities, physical therapy and all the great and good surgeons, orthopedic doctors and obstetricians and others none of us can be without.  The doctor who will not look for underlying causes and provide his patients education and care based on the fundemental requirements of health needs to change.  Guess who is going to change this?  You.  Only when patients ask for and demand to know more about their conditions and problems and the constituants of HEALTH will this change.  Demand something more and maybe you will help change society for the better and in the years to come we will have docs who really get great results in helping their patients.  You know your body is not crying out for prozac or zocor.  You already know that.  You do not have a drug deficiency.  You have a deficiency of information and truth.

Manners

Last week I was all stoked to write an article in defense of good manners, care for one another and truth. Fed up with the daily examples of bad of manners demonstrated by simple things like roadside trash in Pennsylvania, or few acts of kindness, truth, or decency in life around me and in the press I felt like screaming for all the noise to stop. I decided not to write it but I have changed my mind.
I see the demonstration of bad manners in the garbage along the roads I drive as a minor disappointment contrasted with the impact of tasteless, degrading topics and programs on television and the hateful public belittling of good people. Many times I have commented about how thankful I am my child is grown and not at home; there is little on the public airwaves I can stomach let alone accept knowing its influence in our homes with children. I used to think a home without a television was an extreme response but even if you watch the educational channels you have commercials pop up that are not even appropriate for adults let alone kids. It is as if the worst dirty jokes, the most degrading observations of others are preferred. I look around and wonder who in my life prefers this and I find no one. Not one.

You can see productive, positive people made fun of any time of day on any station or paper. “It goes with the territory”, I think not. Do you ever wonder who is behind such campaigns?

What kind of person would spend any time trying to critizise Oprah? Her good works are many. She is a person of great goodwill. Who did not appreciate the excitement of Tom jumping on the couch over Katie, when he first introduced her to the public? My husband said everyone missed the fact that he is so fit he could make that jump!!! The audience loved it. Shortly thereafter the psyches and pharmaceutical companies saw their chance. They cannot bear enthusiastic emotions let alone good things in life!! Perhaps it was then you let your attitude change, can happen. I also remember reading the Gentleman’s Quarterly article on Cruise and quietly thanking them for their friendly and timely pages of an interview with Tom. They were not taken in and must not be totally driven by ad dollars.

There are so many Oprahs and Toms that suffer the same public ridicule and I am totally and completely fed up. There are thousands of good doctors across this country that are openly criticized because they cross someone else’s business interest with complementary alternative medicine. Critics who cannot help their fellow man cannot resist the chance to bring down people who do or to lie about effective medical treatments. There are doctors in this country who work hard helping people with serious chronic diseases and there are nincompoops who write page after page in criticism and lies about effective non-prescription-drug treatments. I have experienced enough of this already!! It is a form of hatred. You do not agree with someone’s views so you make fun of them, or worse.

My very special neighbors have a sign in their home expressing their philosophy. I need to share it with you.

“Small people talk about others.
Normal people talk about things.
Intelligent people talk about ideas.”

That sums up how I want to live and love and associate. When you do not, you encourage explosive hatred. I do not want to live in a society of carping critics whose business interests are hidden. Who drives these people? Who appreciates their work? There are so few of them let’s stop giving them our ears.

I will actively support people of goodwill and speak out when others do not.

Coleen Maulfair