HEALTHY LIVING RESULTS

I was 40, a smoker and had bad peripheral artery disease also called atherosclerosis. I had this disease since I was a teenager. I was lying in a hospital bed waiting for them to get rid of an infection and start cutting off toes. The doctors said they could fix the problem with toe amputation and long bed rest but when I got back on my feet the disease would come back eventually and very possibly worse. Up to this time I had 19 surgeries and many bouts of large open wounds and it just kept repeating itself.

Fear is a great motivator. So, after the surgery I said enough is enough. I quit smoking on April 1 1980. It helped tremendously. Next I did research to find ways to clear my blood vessels of what ever was clogging them up. I ran across articles about a procedure called chelation therapy. This therapy was approved by the FDA for lead removal but not for peripheral vascular disease.The procedure was very controversial and I could find no local doctor who would talk about it. However, I knew someone was doing it somewhere so I started my search for a doctor who did chelation therapy.

After the recovery period and for many years thereafter I held off the disease with diet changes and increased walking exercise. They both helped a lot but it was the no smoking which really improved my condition. I had a few problems but was able to cure them by natural means. Honey is great for wound healing.

We traveled to Florida in 1992 and took our business with us. This work was very hard on feet but loads of fun. While there I opened an old wound on one of my feet. I was very glad I had done all the research and carried the information with me in case I needed it. I was able to find a doctor who did chelation therapy close by and I started IV chelation immediately. You can do the treatments every other day so I did until I had completed ten total chelation procedures. I was amazed that my wound had healed by the time I completed the fifth treatment.

The ten treatments not only cured the wound but made my legs feel and preform better than ever. I was now able to walk miles without calf pain. I waited about two months and did another 10 treatments which got rid of all the calf pain and I could now walk five miles or more. This was fantastic because I had not been able to do that since I was a teenager.

Since I had such good success I did a total of 60 IV chelation treatments in six different doctors offices while I traveled. I did this over a span of six years. My peripheral vascular disease was a thing of the past. Then in 2004 I thought I could feel some very minor symptoms returning. With my experience I knew it was coming back if only slightly. But I had learned now to take action immediately so my further research showed there were now many oral chelators on the market that were not available when I started chelation therapy.

I researched four different oral chelation products and found that taking straight EDTA powder in large quantities is best for me. I found I could duplicate IV chelation with oral EDTA at a much cheaper price and it was far more convenient. I am now over 70 and do not have any circulation problems. I pass all the medical tests with ease. Not only that I walk, run and work a full day without problems. Chelation therapy works in both IV and oral forms. I am living proof.

Read my whole story and all the details of how chelation therapy saved my feet and legs from amputation. You can find sources, lists and the product that did it for me.

Chelation (pronounced key-LAY-shun) is a term derived from the Greek chele, meaning, “claw.” A chelation agent is a chemical agent that, like a claw, grabs and chemically bonds with metals or other minerals and toxins. Simply put, chelation is the process in which chemicals bind with minerals. While chelation is a naturally occurring biological process (hemoglobin binds with iron to provide oxygen to tissues), synthesized chelation agents were first developed during World War II as a way to clear toxic metals from the body. Chemists discovered they could create a ring of molecules, which surround or “sequester” mineral molecules and carry them from the body through normal elimination.

Chelation is a well-known method of heavy metal and toxin removal in which a special chemical compound called a chelate - such as dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), dimercaptopropane sulfonate (DMPS), or ethylene diaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) - is given, usually intravenously. The chelate finds and forms a single attachment to the toxin with one reversible bond. With that bond intact, the toxin is grabbed onto, pulled off the cell and carried from the body. However, the toxin is not neutralized during this process and is potentially able to attach to other cells on its way out.

A synthetic amino acid, which has been useful as a heavy metal chelating material, is EDTA (Ethylene Diamine Tetra-Acetic Acid). It is an FDA-approved treatment for lead, mercury, aluminum and cadmium removal, and has been used for lead chelating for over 50 years. EDTA also assists in restoring blood vessels jammed with calcium and arterial plaque. Basically EDTA is non-toxic and has few noticeable side effects. Unfortunately, it can also chelate necessary minerals and other elements from the body, so the treatment should be supplemented with vitamins and minerals.

Chelation is the sole treatment used today for lead poisoning. But since the process removes other metals, too, in addition to mineral deposits, calcium-based plaques and other poisons, it benefits other medical conditions. Atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries by plaque deposits) and arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and diabetes can be treated with chelation, as it has a very positive effect on the bloodstream.

In the textbook of EDTA Chelation Therapy by Cranton, clinical studies and research has shown that EDTA chelation treatment is just as beneficial as bypass surgery and angioplasty, or even more effective. It’s hard to do double blind studies to prove or disprove the clinical results of bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty.

A complete program of chelation therapy involves dietary changes, away from highly refined and processed foods. The use of nonprescription nutritional supplements is emphasized, more than expensive and highly profitable drugs patented and marketed by the pharmaceutical industry. Chelation therapy is performed in doctors’ offices, without the need for hospitals, surgeons, cardiologists and the large team of health professionals who profit greatly in dollars and reputation from the $6 billion per year bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty. It is a well-proven therapy and has been performed on more people than have received bypass surgery.

Criticisms of chelation assert that the results have not been proven in double blind, controlled research. However, these critics of alternative medicine tend to be blind to the idea that most medical treatments, which are done daily in doctor’s offices and hospitals, are also “unproven” because they have not been researched in these strict criteria either.

In fact, the United States has the most advanced high technology hospital and surgical care in its history, yet 800,000 people die each year from arteriosclerosis and complications thereof. It is absurd to deny patients the option of undergoing EDTA chelation as a less expensive and at least just as effective alternative to surgery and angioplasty. The reduction in cost would be a great savings to medical insurance companies and hopefully result in lowered insurance premiums.

Chelation Improves Quality of Life

Chelation patients have a tremendous increase in their expected life, although the chelation doctors are reluctant to admit it. It turns out that intravenous chelation therapy greatly reduces the risk of cancer as well as further heart disease. The chelation treatment deals with basic sources of all illness — the tiny particles of metal, which accumulate over time and which greatly, increase the production of free radicals in the body. As the interior source of free radical production is reduced, by more than one million times, the acceleration of aging stops and people generally feel much younger.

When the toxic metals are removed from the body by intravenous chelation therapy, billions and billions of free radicals are prevented from being created because the metals are now gone. When they exist in the body, they encourage a huge production of free radicals.

It puts a stop to all toxins being created in the body, straight away.

The two major killing diseases in this day and age - heart disease and cancer - can be reversed and prevented.

What chelation handles is the damage caused by free radicals; the therapeutic benefit of the chelating substance in reducing free radical activity and even reversing damage that had been done by those free radicals is astounding.

This informative article is not intended to provide medical counsel for individuals, but is for education of the reader. Qualified health practitioners dispense medical advice.