We expose ourselves to chemical poisoning everyday simply by stepping into traffic roads.Toxic chemicals are all around us.Toxic chemicals accumulate in our body with time. Chelation of heavy metal is a non evasive system for the removal of heavy metals from the body.This process is to help us to remove heavy metals accumulated within us in amounts that are toxic to body.Chelation therapy is a process by which a molecule encircles and sticks to metal and remove from tissue.there are medical studies showing certain illness are associated with excess of certain toxic elements in our body such as mercury autism,lead poisoning or aluminium fatigue.
Chelation therapy is an FDA approved therapy for treating mercury,lead and other type of heavy metals poisoning .Chelation Therapy removes metals that build up in body.It rejuvinate the heart and blood vessel,improve lever,kidney function and increase blood flow to the brain and more.Stephanie Watson,March 26,2013,Harvard Health Blog
Cilantro helps in removing heavy metals,restoring the normal function of body cells.Garlic has sulphur which oxidises mercury,cadmium and lead and make them water soluble.Green algae containsChlorella,whose three layered cell wall of cellulose microfibrils helps heavy metal detox. Malic acid, found in unripe fruit,sour candies,raw apple cider and vinegar,helps to reduce the aluminium toxicity of the brain, and helps to avert Azheimers disease.Pectin in Apple peel,bananas ,grapes,okra,beet root,carrots and pith resist heavy metal absorption.Make sure they are organic.Toxic truths,THE HINDU,January 27,2014
Recent research suggested use of natural products and sources to treat lead poisoning with minimum side effects.For details refer the paper -Treating lead toxicity: possibilities beyond synthetic chelation.Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical sciences University JKIMSU,Vol 2,No1,January - June 2013.
The following theories have been advanced to support claims that chelation therapy successfully treats heart disease and other disorders. None has been tested and proved worthwhile by scientific studies:
1. EDTA chelation therapy might directly remove calcium found in fatty plaques that block arteries, thus breaking up the plaques.
2. Chelation therapy may stimulate release of a hormone that in turn causes calcium to be removed from plaques or causes a lowering of cholesterol levels.
3. Chelation therapy may reduce the damaging effects of oxygen ions (oxidative stress) on the walls of the blood vessels, which could reduce inflammation in the arteries and improve blood vessel function.
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART03408/Chelation-Therapy.html
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The heavy metal poisoning can be acute when symptoms come on quickly , a few hours after excessive exposure , short term or chronic , which is characterized by late onset , months or years , for small or moderate exposure to toxic substances or multiple products , causing irreversible damage , the paralysis and cancer type.
Heavy metals are widely used in industry and are in various products
The treatment has no side effects at therapeutic doses
A study done in medical clinics in the United States and Canada between 2002-2011 aimed at verifying the safety and efficacy of EDTA in the detoxification of heavy metals therapy in patients with coronary disease followed for a period of 55 months . The result showed improvement in overall heart health by 18% , reduced deaths by 7% , heart attacks by 23 % , hospitalizations by 28% , heart complications and diabetes in 39 % , cardiac surgery in 19% and stroke by 23 % .
I suggest reading the article :
Morris , Jeff . What the Results of the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy ( TACT ) Mean . April 2013. Journal AMMG
Indeed a very good question. I am very happy to learn new things. The environment is getting degraded day by day. The pollution as heavy metals in mining sites and metallurgical industry sites are increasing at an alarming rate which is affecting our eco-system as well as humans. I think the suggestions as discussed above are fruitful in gaining knowledge in this this interesting area. Also more information may be suggested by some experts in this field.
There are three main strategies which are used for chelation, each one has a different application and a proper treatment program should be chosen after careful lab evaluation by a physician. The most common and recognized form of chelation therapy is an intravenous treatment with EDTA.
Clinical experience has shown that EDTA improves metabolic and circulatory function by removing toxic metals (such as lead and cadmium) and abnormally located nutritional metallic ions (such as copper and iron) from the body. This is accomplished by administering a synthetic amino acid, EDTA (ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic acid) , by an intravenous infusion using a tiny 25-gauge needle.
DMSA (meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid), is a water-soluble, sulfhydryl-containing compound which when given in pill form, is an effective chelator of heavy metals, especially mercury and lead. Initial studies over forty years ago identified DMSA as an effective antidote to heavy metal poisoning. DMSA was subsequently studied for twenty years in the People's Republic of China, Japan, and Russia before scientists in Europe and the United States "discovered" the substance and its potential usefulness in the mid-1970s.
www.peterbennett.com/therapies/chelation_therapy.html
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