CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, OSTEOPOROSIS) HYPERTENSION, DIABETES AND THE MANY OTHER USES OF CHELATION THERAPY.

We are born with hard bones loaded with calcium and soft blood vessels with elasticity and strength. But we die with soft bones that are wanting for calcium and hard brittle blood vessels loaded with calcium deposits. Why, over the course of our lifetimes, does our calcium move from where it does the most good to places where it does harm and ultimately causes our death?

The calcium pumps within our cells are constantly removing calcium that tries to enter intracellularly much the same as a bilge pump removes small amounts of seawater that leaks into a boat. When the bilge pump gets old and stops, the ship sinks. When our body wide calcium pumps get old and stop, we die. A buildup of intracellular calcium beyond acceptable levels is what causes our death.

What causes the calcium bilge pumps to break? Well, that's the story of medicine, nutrition, oxygen, vitamins, poisons, infections, hormones, injuries, the environment, etc., etc.. Everything we are dealing with causes this problem. Calcium has a tendency to leave our bones and leak into our cells and it is most evident in our arteries where in combination with cholesterol, it clogs our plumbing system and stops our circulation.

This calcium probably is not however limited to our blood vessels. Stones of calcium affect our kidneys and gall bladders, calcium deposits clog our joints and cause arthritis. Intracellular calcium affects our muscles causing fibromyalgia and simple intracellular ionic calcium affects metabolism that leads to problems such as diabetes. Many other "heavy metals" such as mercury, lead and arsenic cause a whole range of other problems.

There needs to be a safe way of removing this normal with aging but abnormal buildup of calcium and heavy metal poisoning within our cells.

The answer is Chelation Therapy.

Chele is the Latin word for the claw of the crab. A chelating agent is a chemical that "wraps around" or "crab claws" around a heavy metal molecule and aids its movement from one place to another.

The chemical most widely used for safe chelation is EDTA, which when used according to protocols developed by the American Academy for the Advancement for Medicine (ACAM), has a close to 50 year history in well over a million chelation treatments without any significant morbidity or deaths. Our office uses the ACAM approved protocols to do chelation. In the case of heavy metals, the chelation principles are simple. Lead and arsenic molecules cannot pass through the kidney system by themselves. The EDTA/Lead or EDTA/Arsenic chelated compound easily passes through the kidney and leaves the body.

EDTA is not a good chelator of mercury but there is another compound called DMPS that can chelate mercury. But we need to first discuss calcium, the metal that causes our death when in the wrong place.

Our body has a very strict calcium regulation hormone system. It is tied to the parathyroid glands which produces parathormone.

If our calcium blood levels drop, the parathyroid glands sense it and secrete parathormone. Parathormone does several things. First, it causes the dissolving into the blood stream of readily available calcium. The most readily available calcium to the blood stream is the calcium in our hardened arteries. It dissolves the plaques in our blood vessels!

The second thing that is important is that is causes our bones to make new bone through an intricate change in the balance of bone breakdown and bone formation.

EDTA introduced intravenously binds serum calcium and lowers bloods calcium levels. The Parathyroid senses this and parathormone causes the dissolving of cholesterol/calcium plaques that line the vessels. Calcium also comes out of intracellular areas (where we don't want it) to replace this void as well and then the parathormone also causes our bones to pick up the "new" untrapped calcium to put the calcium back into our bones and make new stronger bones. Not only are our blood vessels "cleaned up" but a part of normal aging is reversed.

Of course EDTA is indiscriminate and takes the good minerals along with the bad and flushes them out. It is very important for a chelation patient to be on a supplementation program that replaces the good minerals that are lost.

It is also important to note that cigarette smoking strongly interferes with chelation. We will not chelate people who smoke or use tobacco in any form.

There is in fact a very strict protocol that must be followed for the safe sojourn into the process of chelation. It is our plan to monitor patients progress with appropriate lab work, biological terrain analysis and heart rate variability measurement as well as insistence on strict adherence to the ACAM protocols.

We believe that proper chelation heavy metal clean out with proper supplementation will make our homeopathic/EDT procedures that much more effective. Vulnerable Plaque?

In 1999 the President of The American Heart Association; Dr Valentin Fuster MD wrote a revolutionary new book called THE VULNERABLE ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE. This book and its concepts are changing the face of Cardiology as its practiced in the United States and the rest of the World.

Dr Fuster besides being President of The American Heart Association is also Chief of Cardiology of New York Cities Mount Sinai Hospital and its Medical School.

He suggested that Cholesterol Plaquing of Coronary Arteries isn't as important as when the fresh new VULNERABLE PLAQUE gets INFECTED with GERMS that can cause an immediate hypercoagulable state developing to a blood clot that can cause a fatal heart attack. In other words areas of coronaries that may be 70- 90% blocked off with Cholesterol Plaques that get all the attention of bypass surgeons and angioplasties are relatively safe as compared to areas of 5-10% blockages that are VULNERABLE to infection. WE ARE OPERATING ON ALL THE WRONG PLACES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many private cardiologists are not yet aware of these concepts although this book was reviewed on the Front Page of The Wall Street Journal as well as other Chiefs of Cardiology at places like Harvard and UCLA. The information has yet to filter into the trenches of mainstream medicine.

Dr Fuster even went so far as to suggest that prophylactic antibiotics be used as a prevention for heart disease BUT THAT IS BECAUSE HE ISN'T FAMILIAR WITH WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING HERE with Heavy metals as the cause of Plaquing plus Terrain Analysis and Pleomorphism!

One of the fathers of the Chelation movement; Dr Garry Gordon MD MD (h) has actually created a line of Oral Chelation agents that can be used along side of IV Chelation therapy or even in mild cases in place of it.

It is interesting that mildness and severity may be defined as toxic metal load and abnormal Terrain/Darkfield reports as compared to the older methods of degree of Plaquing found in coronary arteries. You can have relatively clean coronaries but still be at severe risk depending on things like abnormal Redox and/or severe forms of the Endobiont. There is actually as we said earlier a blood test known as C-Reactive Protein that can also give us these risk levels.