SPECIAL RESEARCH REPORT

UNCLOG  arteries and
restore cardiovascular
function

THE ATHEROSCLEROSIS PROCESS

As we age, cholesterol, calcium, and other minerals accumulate on the inside lining of our blood vessels and, over time, clog them. This process is referred to variously as hardening of the arteries, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, and arterial plaque buildup (see Figure 1). To ignore this process can be exceedingly dangerous and may result in rampant cardiovascular disease. Examples of such diseases are high blood pressure, angina (chest pain due to poor blood circulation to the heart), heart attack, peripheral vascular disease (poor circulation to the legs and feet), and stroke. Most of these conditions are physically disabling and depressing to the patients.

Figure 1. The atherosclerotic process.

When plaque builds up in blood vessels, blood flow (carrying oxygen and nutrients) is restricted. It's like water flowing through a pipe clogged with mineral deposits; if the deposits are thick enough to create a complete blockage, the water will stop.

It is no different with your blood vessels. If there is excessive plaque buildup and the vessels become partially or completely blocked, not enough blood can reach the body's tissues, which become starved for the oxygen and nutrients they need. Consequently, they will not function optimally and may even die. An example is peripheral vascular disease in a diabetic, where there is insufficient blood flow to the lower legs or the feet. Depending on the degree of compromise, the patient may experience pain upon walking, even short distances, or cramping in the legs or feet. Left unattended, gangrene of the feet may ensue, followed by amputation (if one seeks conventional treatment).

Another example is coronary (heart) vessels that become so clogged that there is insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle itself (see Figure 2). Symptoms might be a tightness in the chest, chest pain, or discomfort in the jaw or left arm. If the blood supply is restricted for too long, a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, can occur. In this case, actual muscle tissue of the heart dies. If too much of it dies, the heart will no longer be able to pump blood to sustain life, and death will result.

Heart With Muscle Damage and a Blocked Artery

Figure 2

PLAQUE BUILDS UP THROUGHOUT THE BODY

It is important to recognize that hardening of the arteries is not a localized or segmental disease. It does not affect only one part of the body at a time. If your coronary arteries are clogged with plaque, it's a sure bet that the arteries in your brain (the site of strokes), kidneys, lungs, sex organs, and other vital organs are in a similar state. But there is something that can be done to prevent or reduce plaque buildup.

WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT?

The answer is EDTA – ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid-

EDTA is a remarkable arterial cleansing agent with the ability to effectively remove the plaque, cholesterol and heavy metals which congest, restrict, and impede blood flow and oxygen throughout the 75,000 miles of blood vessels within the body.

It’s an amino acid, with a composition very similar to common vinegar. It was synthesized in the 1930’s, and first used in intravenous injections as a vital treatment for people who had been exposed to toxic levels of lead, mercury, aluminum and cadmium. Following these initial uses, patients’, who were suffering from angina and coronary artery disease, symptoms dropped dramatically. This prompted the first studies to discover the other therapeutic effects of EDTA, principally in atherosclerosis and other heart diseases.

With 50 years of results, and thousands of confirming studies, articles and reviews, EDTA has been proven to be a safe and incredible treatment which has already been used by over 2 million patients.

EDTA CHELATION (pronounced “keelation”)

EDTA binds molecules (called chelation), such as metals or minerals and holds them tightly so they can be removed from the body.

This chelation process is comprehensive. EDTA clears the bloodstream of heavy metals by seeking them out and binding to them. The body then flushes out the EDTA, taking the metals along with it. There are two theories for why chelation therapy works. One is that EDTA binds to free radicals, highly active molecular fragments that can damage tissue and perhaps the lining of the blood vessels. The other is that it binds to calcium and other minerals in the bloodstream, resulting in a series of actions that improves cellular and vascular health.

In the same way that an eggshell dissolves in vinegar EDTA will take calcium and other clogging materials off your arteries and washes the debris out through the kidneys.

When an individual undergoes chelation therapy, the EDTA makes clogged arteries and blood vessels more open, pliable and flexible by reducing inflammation and plaque density. This therapy improves blood circulation, which in turn lowers blood pressure and improves cardiovascular and vascular disease. Chelation therapy with EDTA also helps diabetes and osteoarthritis and helps people with memory loss and cataracts because of the way it clears the heavy metal toxins from the bloodstream.

Clinical experience with EDTA chelation therapy has convinced thousands of licensed physicians in North America that it is a safe and effective treatment for atherosclerotic vascular disease, as it consistently improves blood flow and relieves symptoms associated with the disease in greater than 80% of the patients treated.

There are over 3,000 research studies, papers and articles supporting the efficacy of EDTA Chelation Therapy over the past 50 years. There’s not much on the medical landscape this well documented. Many are referenced at the end of this report and hundreds more are indicated for review at other web sites.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

EDTA chelation is the therapy by which intravenous or oral infusions of EDTA gradually reduce atherosclerotic plaque and other mineral deposits throughout the cardiovascular system by literally dissolving them away. It has frequently been compared to a "Liquid Plumber” in the cardiovascular system, because it dissolves plaque and returns the arterial system to a smooth, healthy, pre-atherosclerotic state. EDTA is a chemical compound in which the central atom (usually a metal ion) is attached to neighboring atoms by at least two bonds in such a way as to form a ring structure. Chelating is the process in which the metal ion reacts with another molecule to form the chelate.

EDTA Chelation has been proven effective in the elimination toxins and dangerous arterial plaque in hundreds of medical studies conducted by many of the world’s most highly respected medical institutions over 50 years.

The therapy can be understood simply as the removal of calcium deposits (from your arteries, where you don't want them) and other harmful minerals that promote blood clotting and atherosclerosis. Since these harmful deposits are also known to cause excessive free radical production, EDTA chelation also functions as a powerful free radical buster — protecting cell membranes, DNA, enzyme systems, and lipoproteins from the destructive effects of these ravenous molecules. Some experts believe that the primary benefits of chelation are due to its free radical-fighting effects. 1 And perhaps one of the most compelling, but often overlooked, explanations for chelation's anti-aging, energizing effects is that EDTA "resuscitates" your cells' mitochondria. Mitochondria are the "power plants" of every cell in the body — the site in which the energy-producing ATP is generated. Without ATP, life can not exist. 2 Loss of mitochondrial function has long been considered to be one of the primary causes of the aging process. 3

Roto-Rooter is a better metaphor for conventional medical treatments for heart disease, all of which are closely tied to the concept of the cardiovascular system as plumbing. When a pipe/artery gets clogged, simply ream it out or flatten the deposits (angioplasty). If that doesn't work, just cut away the bad sections and replace them with a new piece of pipe (coronary artery bypass graft, or CABG). CABG, known affectionately in the medical profession as "cabbage," is the most frequently performed surgery in the United States. At $100,000 per procedure, that’s definitely a lot of "cabbage," not only for cardiac surgeons but also for hospitals. These figures provide a powerful incentive for physicians to reject an effective, but inexpensive and unpatentable treatment like EDTA chelation.

BLOOD CLOTTING

EDTA helps prevent heart attacks, stroke, varicose veins, and more by inhibiting blood clotting. Because EDTA inhibits blood clotting so well, by tying up calcium, it is routinely added to blood samples that are drawn for testing purposes. Blood can't clot if the calcium is tied up. Inhibition of blood clotting can help prevent stroke, heart attack, phlebitis (painful inflammation of a vein), pulmonary embolism (potentially fatal clot to the lung), or varicose veins. Generally, these conditions are associated with aging.

RESEARCH PROOF- EDTA CHELATION WORKS

In the 1950's, EDTA was first used for clinical use in Michigan to treat battery factory workers who were suffering from lead poisoning. Following the treatment, the patients who were suffering from angina and coronary artery disease symptoms dropped dramatically. Additional studies were commenced to study these effects.

In 1955, research conducted at providence Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, found that EDTA dissolves “metastatic calcium” i.e. calcium that has been deposited where it is not wanted, namely arteries, joints, kidneys and even the bones in the inner ear. Chelation therapy appeared to be a powerful antidote to- and preventative against-atherosclerosis, arthritis, kidney stones and otosclerosis (hearing loss related to the calcification of the bones in the ear)

The first systemic study of EDTA in people with Atherosclerosis was published in 1956. Twenty patients with confirmed heart disease were given a series of 30 EDTA treatments intravenously. Nineteen of the patients experienced improvement, as measured by an increase in physical activity and in another study conducted four years later, a similar group found that three months of EDTA infusions caused decreases in the severity and frequency of anginal episodes, reduced use of nitroglycerin, increased work capacity and improved Electrocardiogram results

Since these early studies, hundreds of papers have been published on the favorable effects of chelation therapy in a variety of chronic diseases.

One other study included 92 patients who were referred for surgical intervention. At the end of the study, only 10 required surgery either during or after their chelation therapy. 5 In another study of 2,870 patients with various degrees of degenerative diseases, especially vascular disease, almost 90% of the patients showed excellent improvement. 6 In one small, controlled crossover study of patients with peripheral vascular disease, results showed significant improvements in walking distance and ankle/brachial blood flow. 7

And when, in one study, 65 patients on the waiting list for CABG surgery (for a mean of 6 months) were treated with EDTA chelation therapy — the symptoms in 89% improved so much, they were able to cancel their surgery. In the same study, of 27 patients recommended for limb amputation due to poor peripheral circulation, EDTA chelation resulted in saving 24 limbs. 8

It soon became clear from these and later studies that EDTA treatments result in progressive and widespread improvement and stabilization of cardiovascular function. This is in contrast to standard treatments, such as angioplasty or CABG, which instantaneously restore normal function in the few treated arteries, but leave the rest of the body completely untreated (there's every reason to believe that if arteries are clogged in the heart, they're also clogged in other vital organs, like the kidneys and brain). High-tech treatments for heart disease, such as angioplasty and CABG, long hailed as medical breakthroughs, are in fact, oversold, overpriced, and ineffective, especially when compared with EDTA chelation. The truth of this assertion has been demonstrated on numerous occasions over the last 2 decades:

• The average mortality for CABG surgery is 4% to 10%. 9,10 In fact, CABG has no overall effect on improving survival. According to one study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, "As compared with medical therapy, coronary artery bypass surgery appears neither to prolong life nor to prevent myocardial infarction in patients who have mild angina or who are asymptomatic after infarction in the five-year period after coronary angiography." 11 By contrast, mortality rates for EDTA chelation, when carried out according to accepted protocols, approaches 0%. 12
• Grafted coronary arteries are more than 10 times as likely to close up again within 3 years compared with coronary arteries that are not replaced with a graft. 13 Improved blood flow following EDTA chelation therapy is permanent as long as regular EDTA therapy (either oral or I.V.) is maintained.
• Significant cerebral dysfunction, especially in older patients, is commonly seen following CABG. 14 Because EDTA chelation restores blood flow to the brain, it often results in improved cognition and memory. 15
• Atherosclerosis is typically a body-wide disease. If your coronary arteries are occluded, it's a safe bet that arteries in your brain, kidneys, lungs, and other vital organs are also occluded. Angioplasty or CABG can clean out only a few arteries supplying the heart.

Virtually every study that has looked at the efficacy of EDTA chelation in vascular disease has demonstrated significant clinical improvement

INTRAVENOUS VS. ORAL EDTA

Oral EDTA has been used for at least as long as its IV cousin. Intravenous EDTA chelation has a direct and powerful effect on the body almost instantaneously. Not as convenient as swallowing a few capsules of oral EDTA per day, an IV EDTA session usually lasts about 3 hours, during which about 1000 mg to 3,000mg of EDTA (plus vitamin C and other nutrients) are administered. The number of treatments necessary (generally about 20 to 50 sessions) depends on the individual’s condition. Typical candidates for IV chelation are people who have been diagnosed with serious atherosclerosis, heavy metal poisoning, or symptoms of vascular occlusion or significant calcification of tissues. A series of needed sessions of IV EDTA will cost about $2,000 to $4,000. Oral EDTA chelation costs significantly less, about $49 a month.

In 1954, Dr. Harry Foreman and his colleagues performed a landmark study to determine how much orally administered EDTA the body absorbs. The scientists found that the body absorbs approximately 5% of orally consumed EDTA and that it can take up to three days for the EDTA to be totally excreted. If someone consumed nutritional supplements that contained 500mg of EDTA, then we can assume from Dr. Foreman’s research that about 25mg will be absorbed each day and that 750mg will be absorbed each month. That equates to almost the same amount of EDTA administered in one intravenous chelation treatment using a low-dose optimum protocol and affirms oral EDTA’s effectiveness over time.

LIQUID VS CAPSULES

When you swallow a liquid it ends up in the stomach for digestion, just like capsules. There is no “greater absorption” by liquids (otherwise every supplement would be “liquid”). In fact, the capsules will breakdown and the EDTA will be in solution in just a few minutes in your body and ready for absorption. What does not get picked up by the stomach travels the entire digestive tract. The only difference is in how the product is taken and how convenient this is for the consumer. Liquids are “messy” and there is often a bad taste but some people cannot take capsules generally because of gastric considerations and so liquids maybe a better option for them. The vast majority prefer capsules.

SAFETY

EDTA is used by the carload and FDA approved as a food and blood preservative. (You may have heard of it in the O J Simpson trial where it was used in Simpson’s blood sample for preservation). It is so safe it is used in baby food and every other kind of food and drink imaginable.

More than 200,000 children in the USA alone have been treated with EDTA for lead poisoning. And two million patients have received EDTA intravenous Chelation therapy from Doctors. It is very safe!!

EDTA, as an anti-clotting blood thinner, is three times safer than aspirin

The safety aspect of the use of chelation treatment has been phenomenal, with hardly any serious reactions being recorded amongst the host of seriously ill people to whom chelation therapy has been correctly applied.

By 1980 it was estimated by Bruce Halstead, MD, (Halstead 1979) that there had been over 2 million applications of I.V. chelation treatment involving some 100 million infusions, with not a single fatality, in the USA alone.

EDTA chelation is one of the most effective, least expensive, and safest treatments for heart disease ever developed,

ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION (ED)

Erectile dysfunction may be an early warning sign of coronary artery disease, even in men without typical risk factors, new research shows. In a small study done in Italy, men with erectile dysfunction showed more signs of being on the road to coronary artery disease than men without erectile dysfunction."Erectile dysfunction should be part of a cardiovascular risk assessment. These patients should be considered at high risk for coronary artery disease and should have high priority for aggressive treatment," says Chiurlia, in a news release.

Chiurlia works for the Institute of Cardiology at Italy's University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The study appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. It's "not a surprise" that erectile dysfunction and artery problems can go hand in hand, the researchers wrote. Erectile dysfunction often stems from blood vessel problems tied to atherosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries, the researchers write. They probed that connection by studying 143 men living in Italy.

All of the men were white, had similar heart health profiles, and didn't have known coronary artery disease. Seventy men were being treated for erectile dysfunction at a local clinic. Erectile dysfunction related to blood flow was verified with special Doppler testing.

In the study none of the men had coronary artery disease -- at least, not yet.

However, men with erectile dysfunction were more likely to show three early warning signs of coronary artery disease:

• Higher levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), which is used as a marker of inflammation.
• Abnormal blood vessel response to changes in blood flow.
• Calcium deposits in heart arteries (coronary artery calcifications).

"We think that erectile dysfunction represents the 'tip of the iceberg' of a systemic vascular disorder, thus potentially preceding severe cardiovascular events," says Chiurlia, in the news release. ( See “LOSS OF LIBIDO AND ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION”)

PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE (PAD)

Peripheral Artery Disease, or PAD, is caused by blockage in the arteries that slows the supply of blood to the legs. The arteries carry blood to your muscles and organs and when those arteries are clogged with plaque, it becomes difficult for blood to reach all the areas it needs to reach. PAD is not very well known among the general populace, though health professionals know it to be a painful and dangerous disease. The most common symptom of PAD is claudication, which is pain in the calves or thighs after you walk just a block or two. Usually the pain goes away after having rested for a little while. Claudication occurs because not enough blood is flowing to the muscle. During exercise, muscles needs more blood, and because of the restricted arterial blood supply associated with PAD, exercise can be painful.

PAD greatly increases the chances of heart attack or stroke. PAD usually affects older people but can affect everyone when smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol are involved. PAD affects 8 to 12 million people in the United States, although most who have the disease have never heard of PAD.

Increasing blood flow through the process of chelation and by removing excessive minerals and heavy metals from the body oral chelation helps in relieving Peripheral Artery Disease symptoms.

DON’T YOU NEED CALCIUM IN YOUR BODY FOR BONES?

Yes you do- and some people may assume that EDTA depletes the body of needed calcium. However, when EDTA lowers blood calcium, it also stimulates the parathyroid gland to produce a hormone called parathormone. This hormone is responsible for removing calcium from places such as the inside of arteries and depositing it in the right places, such as bone. So, chelation makes you physiologically younger because it moves calcium from your arteries and actually makes your bones stronger.

DON’T STOMACH ACIDS DESTROY ORAL EDTA?

When taken orally, EDTA, like other amino acids of similar molecular weight, passes through the stomach unaffected where it is then absorbed directly through the epithelium cells of the duodenum. Often misunderstood is the fact that stomach acidity has nothing whatsoever to do with the digestion of proteins, which all takes place via enzymatic reaction later in the duodenum, and that orally consumed Free Form Amino Acids are likewise not affected.

All Free Form Amino Acids, including EDTA, need no digestive process to enter the bloodstream. They are already small enough molecules to enter the bloodstream immediately; and that's why they are used so effectively in IV parenteral solutions. Thus all Free Form Amino Acids, including EDTA, will pass unharmed and unchanged into the duodenum where they then are directly assimilated into the bloodstream. Again, they are not, as mistakenly alleged by some, broken down or destroyed by the gastric processes.

STENTS- Does EDTA effect metal in stents and joint replacements?

EDTA has no effect on intact metals used for implants in the body, or anywhere else for that matter. EDTA binds only dissolved and positively charged (oxidized) metal ions dissolved in solution. Stents and joint replacement are made from alloys such as highly refined stainless steel, vanadium alloys aned titanium, that will not dissolve in body fluids.

ESSENTIAL MINERALS

It's always important to supplement your diet with a good mineral supplement because: 1) physical or emotional stress causes a drain on the body's resource of minerals, and a mineral deficiency can result in illness. 2) According to the 1992 Earth Summit Report, America's soil has suffered an 85% mineral depletion in the last 100 years, which means we're only getting a fraction of the minerals we need from our food.

It's especially important to take a mineral supplement when you're doing chelation therapy. Since EDTA is so effective at clearing debris from the arteries, it may result in the depletion of certain elements, as well. That's why it's recommended you take a broad-spectrum mineral supplement when using Advanced Formula EDTA Oral Chelation. You should take the minerals and the Advanced Formula at different times of day: Advanced Formula should be taken with meals, and the Minerals should be taken in between meals on an empty stomach or at night before bed.

LINUS PAULING ENDORSED EDTA CHELATION THERAPY

This is a Foreword to “A Textbook on EDTA Chelation Therapy” edited by Elmer M. Cranton, MD.

Linus Pauling, PhD is the only person ever to have received two full, unshared Nobel Prizes. He was one of the world's greatest biochemists and scientists. Before his death he wrote and researched extensively in the field of alternative and nutritional medicine.

Dr GARRY GORDON MD, DO

Is a world renowned expert and is considered the father of modern EDTA chelation therapy. He is the founder of American College for Advance in Medicine which has over 1,000 MD members who deliver intravenous therapy. A long-time advocate of the effectiveness of Oral EDTA alone and of its use as an adjunctive to intravenous EDTA, Dr. Gordon stated, “Let’s look at a group of my patients with any level stageable heart disease and simply see how many of them are alive after 5 years, compared with those on standard therapy. I couldn’t believe it when I went to the meetings with the cardiologists and found that they consider the diagnosis of congestive heart failure to be virtually a death sentence, because over 60% of their patients are dead within the first year. I haven’t lost one patient with congestive heart failure in 10 years. I have taken patients who were inoperable, who had already had every known form of bypass surgery, until there were no more veins in their legs to strip out to put in their hearts. They were sent home to die and I could get those people back to full functioning. I’ve had doctor friends who wouldn’t take the IV at first, but who are now on oral EDTA and are able to pass a treadmill stress test that they couldn’t pass for 5 years. I’ve seen lots of good things happen with oral EDTA-based programs.”

Dr Gordon’s preferred oral formula combines garlic together with the EDTA. He states that “ Garlic has become the darling of the country. Even Jane Brodie of the New York Times, who has always attacked all the health claims of the nutritional supplement industry, has published articles lauding what garlic can do. Garlic will chelate lead and mercury absolutely, without question. We have all sorts of research on this. Even red dye #40 will be chelated out by garlic.”

“I’ve known people who had such poor circulation that their feet were black bordering on gangrene. After oral EDTA, their black feet became pink again!”

EDTA MAKES STRONGER BONES AND REDUCES CHOLESTEROL

By improving calcium and cholesterol metabolism. EDTA can help to lower cholesterol, the principal component of atherosclerotic plaque. Dr. Gordon relays one experience: "I had a patient at Stanford University who could never get her cholesterol below 500. Once she started taking 6 tablespoons a day of the EDTA-based chelation formula, she got down to 200. So this stuff can work wonders."

Dr Gordon has consistently observed a reduction of serum cholesterol by an average 20% or more in his patients who use oral chelation.

“Thousands of patients who follow the oral chelation program have all successfully avoided strokes. Heart attacks were also greatly diminished “he says. ‘We’ve never had more than two heart attacks per year among all our patients, even among those with severe heart disease.”

Dr. Gordon comments, "The more chelation we give people, the less osteoporosis they have and the less calcium accumulation there is in their blood vessels."

EDTA IMPROVES SKIN QUALITY AND REDUCES WRINKLES

One further comment by Dr. Gordon: "We can count the crow's feet next to a woman's eyes and show that those crow's feet disappear with IV chelation therapy. So we know that we are reversing cross-linkages." Cross-linking is an aging process caused by the destructive joining of proteins and resulting in loss of function.

GARLIC AND MALIC ACID AS CHELATORS

Dr. Gordon’s use of Garlic is based on much favorable research. “Atherosclerosis”, a journal focusing on the major disease of arteries, recently published a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study showing that garlic appears to prevent plaque buildup in arteries. In a 4-year study of 280 adults, German researchers found that subjects taking nearly one gram of garlic per day (900 mg) had up to an 82% reduction in the plaque volume in their arteries, compared to controls who took placebo, a "dummy" powder, instead.

Garlic is believed to work by making blood less "sticky," preventing the clinging of plaque to arterial walls. The results of the study substantiate that garlic may have more than a preventive effect and even possibly, in the researchers' words, "a curative role in arteriosclerosis therapy (plaque regression)."

Better Chelation with malic acid. The latest research has also led to the conclusion that malic acid, an organic fruit acid, operates as a chelating agent in tissues throughout the body including the brain.

EDTA IMPROVES SEXUAL POTENCY

Reduced blood supply is often the culprit in sexual impotency. Improved circulation improves libido and potency and will noticeably improve sexual feelings and performance in both men and women.

TOXIC HEAVY METALS

EDTA removes toxic metals from the blood. Studies have shown that as people age they continuously accumulate toxic metals: lead, mercury, aluminum, iron, cadmium, and arsenic, among others. The accrual of these toxins invites an increased risk for various diseases, especially heart disease. The less of these metals we have in our bodies, the more likely we are to be physiologically healthy or simply feel good, and the lower our risk for heart disease. Because EDTA is so effective at removing unwanted metals and other minerals from the blood, it has been the standard, FDA-approved treatment for lead, mercury, aluminum, and cadmium poisoning for more than 50 years. EDTA normalizes the distribution of most metallic elements in the body.

Some dangerous heavy metals that are removed from your body using EDTA chelation therapy are:

MERCURY:

Some symptoms: dizziness, fatigue, hyperactivity, migraines, mood swings, insomnia
Sources: dental "silver" amalgam fillings, fresh water fish (bass and trout), fungicides, insecticides, paints, saltwater fish (tuna and swordfish), shellfish

LEAD:

Some Symptoms: ADD, cardiovascular disease, impotence, liver dysfunction
Sources: ammunition, lead based paint, pesticides, auto exhaust, cans (if lead soldered), solder, hair dyes

CADMIUM:

Some Symptoms: Arthritis, cancer, lung disease, kidney disease, vascular disease, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease
Sources: batteries, ceramic glazes, smoking food, fungicides, mines, paints, power plants, seafood

ARSENIC:

Some Symptoms: Liver dysfunction, hair loss, chronic anema
Sources: Coal combustion, rat poison, pesticides, seafood from coastal waters

ALUMINUM:

Some Symptoms: liver dysfunction, neuromuscular disorders
Sources: Aluminum foil, antacids, aspirin, antiperspirants, nasal spray, bleached flour, cans, commercial cheese

WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT EDTA?

Why would anyone opt for invasive, less lasting options, such as angioplasty or CABG, when a safe and effective alternative for restoring normal or near-normal circulatory functioning of the vasculature exists? It seems that EDTA should be the first line of treatment, with the invasive surgical procedures as the last-resort alternative, not the other way around.

Few, if any, would opt for surgical treatment if they were aware and informed about the value of EDTA chelation. However, there are organizations and institutions that see political gain in cloaking the truth about EDTA's benefits.

It is clear that most of the opposition to EDTA is due to the threat that this therapy represents, not to patients' health, but to the bank balances of orthodox physicians (those who specialize in CABG, for example), hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies. Conventional treatment of cardiovascular diseases is big business in the United States, bringing in tens of billions of dollars each year.

Each CABG might cost $100,000; each angioplasty costs about $25,000; drugs for reducing cholesterol, lowering high blood pressure, and normalizing heart rhythm bring the pharmaceutical industry billions of dollars each year. And these are only a few examples. By contrast, the cost of chelation therapy, cited above, is minimal. The patent for EDTA has long expired and the modern drug establishment is unwilling to pour in the millions of dollars required for extensive testing of a substance that they will not have exclusive rights to when they are done. You may be hearing more about chelation soon.

The National Institute of Health is currently doing a large clinical double-blind trial on EDTA chelation therapy for coronary heart disease with thousands of patients. This $30 million IV Chelation study is a ten year study and is scheduled to run through 2013. This is an acknowledgement of the seriousness which the medical establishment now takes EDTA Chelation therapy.

The lack of acceptance by mainstream medicine should not prevent those interested in its claims from examining the objective evidence. It should not require “ double -blind” control studies to impress the observer with the possibility that people are actually getting better when severely ill people, with advanced circulatory problems, sometimes involving gangrene, show steady improvement in their functions, better muscular coordination, the disappearance of angina pain, increased ability to walk and work, restoration or improvement of brain function, better skin tone and more powerful arterial pulsations, along with the restoration of normal temperature in the extremities.

STATIN PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW-

Lipitor, Lescol, Mevacor, Pravachol, Zocor, Crestor, (a seventh statin, Baycol was removed from the market during the summer of 2001 because of potentially serious side effects.)

(The obvious improvements to your health like eating right, exercising, losing weight, less salt, less sugar etc.- we won’t deal with all those here—you’ve heard them before and you know what you can do, how to do it and if you want to do it!)

This may be the first time you have seriously rubbed shoulders with the Drug Industry. Your Doctors want you to take powerful Statin prescription drugs to reduce your cholesterol and various other—probably at the same time- drugs to reduce your blood pressure.

Your Doctor may have told you that if he/she had his way he would prescribe these drugs for everybody in the world since they are so good at achieving reductions in cholesterol count or blood pressure. When I hear this I get nervous. The same people doing all the studies are now telling you we all need to take powerful drugs with significant side effects for the rest of our lives! What they don’t tell you is what this all has to do with eliminating Cardiovascular Disease!

We’re not going to inundate you with 500 pages on the efficacy of Statins and Blood pressure lowering drugs (Follow this link- www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/statin.html), but we will take the other side and give you some data and places to look to form your own opinion amongst the bewildering array of experts and pseudo experts.

We are worried about the side effects. You may have heard about the usual ones, cast aside as “rare”-“Side effects occur infrequently and include muscle aches, constipation, weakness, abdominal pain, and nausea.” etc.etc. Believe me they’re not so rare.

What they don’t tell you are the other ones where the brain’s normal memory functions are impaired.

READ THIS…

Jim Matthews (CBS TV News)
O’Fallon, Ill., May 24, 2004

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FINALLY...

LOSS OF LIBIDO AND ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION

What... nobody mentioned that to you?
Maybe they thought you were past that “phase” in your life and it wasn’t going to bother you.

READ THIS…

The following link will help you understand the current thinking on Satins and Cholesterol: http://www.statinalert.org/mainpage.html

WHAT CAN I DO?

Immediately begin a course of oral chelation with ADVANCED FORMULA EDTA ORAL CHELATION capsules from THE ARTERY HEALTH INSTITUTE. It’s the answer to dissolve plaque throughout your circulatory system. Blood nutrients, hormones, oxygen and other vital substances will once again reach every cell in your body. You will feel better quickly and you will be more energetic and alert. The recommended course is at least 6 months although you should see major benefits within 6 weeks. You should continue to take the product to enjoy the benefits of improved artery health and…
you have nothing to lose  with our unconditional guarantee (see below)

TESTING CHOLESTEROL AND BLOOD PRESSURE

In order to check the effectiveness of Advanced Formula EDTA Oral Chelation for your cholesterol management we recommend that you purchase a home cholesterol test from your local drug store or on the internet.(About $10 each test) Before you begin your therapy program take your total cholesterol measurement. After 90 days check the measurement again and you should see a decline. Check regularly thereafter. For your blood pressure management we recommend purchasing a home blood pressure unit ( with arm cuff- not wrist or any other measurement way) such as "Lumiscope" (about $50) or any other quality unit from a drug store or the internet and measure your blood pressure before beginning the program and then regularly therafter. You should see a decline. We recommend at least a 3 month program and it is unrealistic to expect measureable results in less time. Once you know you are getting control of your cardio and artery health you will enjoy a new found confidence which can only accelerate your well-being.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO WORK

Some effects can be immediate, such as increased circulation and feeling in your extremities. However, it takes about 3 months for results to show on a blood test so PLEASE GIVE THE PRODUCT TIME TO WORK.

WHAT’S IN IT

* Daily Value not established

Other Ingredients: Rice Flour, Silica and Gelatin capsule.

Made in the U.S.A.

WARNINGS

If you have advanced cardiovascular disease and are interested in intravenous (IV) chelation, you can find a chelating physician near you by contacting The American College for the Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) , 24411 Ridge Route, Suite 115, Laguna Hills, CA 92653

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