Chelation Therapy

Chelation, removing a metal from the blood using a binding agent, gets a bad rap from those in the ignorance (as opposed to those in the "know"). A big case was the child who "died from chelation" when he died from druggus mistakus--or oops! we gave him the wrong stuff.

A metal like lead or arsenic or mercury or antimony can be clawed from (literally chelate) the body orally or intraveneously. The former is achieved by competitive inhibition: that is, by introducing a substance that more easily binds to the cell, the offending substance can't find a recepter and is excreted. There are I.V. drugs that do the same thing and pose more dangers because the body dumps the metal and other needed substances much faster.

Oral chelation often uses Calcium in large doses to compete with lead and other metals. It can be extremely effective.

The characteristics of mercury and lead poisoning are eerily similar to Autism. Aluminum and antimony toxcity causes problems too as does arsenic. Well, duh!

Remember that pesticides, herbicides (used on golf courses) and any other agent used to kill bugs, including bleach, work by destroying reproductive ability or are neurotoxins or both. If you live near a golf course, your intake of antimony and arsenic is sky high. Antimony, like mercury, is used to stabilize all injected drugs and immunizations. All sorts of heavy metals are used in cosmetics--that trend is changing in Europe but not in US.

Anyways, the child died not from chelation--which can be beneficial--but from the wrong drug used to chelate which pulled all his Calcium out. That will stop your heart--ever hear of calcium channel blockers? Too much causes death, but that's a subject for another day.