Chelation Therapy
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Chelation Works!
(SECOND OPINION- JULY 1993 Dr. William Campbell Douglass')
Chelation therapy, the treatment of hardening of the arteries with a synthetic amino acid administered into a vein, has been almost ignored to death by the conventional medicine industry. If it were to be accepted for the valid modality that it is, the pharmaceutical industry, the doctor industry, and the surgical industry would suffer grievous economic harm.
Why the insurance companies would be opposed to a therapy that prolongs life is beyond me. Chelation therapy, by prolonging health, and perhaps life, causes a positive cash flow to the insurance companies- the longer you live, the longer you pay premiums and defer their cost of "insuring" your life. Why would they refuse to pay for a treatment that increases profits? The only answer I can come up with is the don't-rock-the-boat syndrome.
Ignoring this rapidly growing technology hasn't worked, through, so the horror stories have begun to appear in the lay and scientific press: Chelation can destroy the kidneys (not true-it may even help osteoporosis); it doesn't work (haven't heard that one recently because it obviously does work).
But the most effective and invidious ploy against chelation has been the blaming of terminal patients' deaths on the treatment. Here's a typical scenario: A 70 year-old man has had two by-pass operations. He is in such bad shape that he can't go to the bathroom without help. His brain is obtunded and he is considering suicide. He has a chronic bladder infection and possibly an infection of a heart valve secondary to the operation. He had a stroke following surgery - a somewhat common occurrence - and cannot use his right hand. And certainly not least important, he is in constant pain from the huge incision the surgeons had to make through his chest in order to stomp on his heart.
The family, realizing that he is worse off than before the surgery, takes him to a doctor specializing in chelation therapy. They were not stupid suckers; they are not uneducated peasants; the facts are quite simple: Dad went in for coronary bypass surgery; they spent $100,000 of the insurance company's and their own money; Dad's much worse off. It's as simple as that. Modern medicine has made an invalid out of a loving husband, father, and grandfather.
According to modern medicine, it's time to give up. I forget who said it: "It's better to die than go against the faculty of medicine." But people are now turning against the "faculty of medicine" and are seeking other avenues of therapy - in droves. Chelation is an alternative to drugs and surgery that has been rapidly gaining the confidence of people the world over.
If you just want the cold, hard facts on chelation therapy, then move on to page three. But you should read this story. Medicine isn't just chemicals and sold steel - it's about people, good and bad.
THE HUMAN SIDE
As with so many things in life, I became a chelation advocate (and Public Enemy Number One with my medical society) because of a chance encounter with a dying man in an emergency facility at a small hospital in Port Charlotte, Florida. One of my colleagues had asked me to switch nights on duty with her, which I did. At eight o'clock in the evening, a 45 year-old man was brought in with severe chest pain. As I was interviewing him, he had a seizure. We were well - trained in cardiac emergencies - this was Retirementville, U.S.A., where many people died in a cardiac death every day - we really knew our stuff, and we were proud of it. Chest pain plus convulsion equals ventricular fibrillation - and a rapid death unless immediate action is taken.
My patient, whose name was Al, had chosen the perfect place to have a massive heart attack.
Because of his complaint, we had immediately started an intravenous drip when he came in " just in case." The electrodes had been placed on his chest in the ambulance so we had immediate confirmation of the diagnosis when he convulsed: ventricular fibrillation. The electrical paddles, used to convert the heart to a normal rhythm, were at my side, a breathing tube was ready, and the oxygen was flowing. Everything required to bring Al back from the brink of death was in place and immediately applied. The whole life - saving procedure - defibrillation, intubation, respiration, the administering of certain drugs - took four of us about 45 seconds. Boy, was he lucky to be at the right place at the right time.
His wife witnessed this entire drama and, after he recovered, told him about it. He was one of the few patients who ever thanked me for saving his life. Most of them never knew who yanked them from the jaws of death: they only knew the doctors they met after regaining consciousness in their hospital bed the following day - those doctors got the credit and the Christmas cards: we got the complaints about the bill: "What's this for? I've never seen you!"
TABLOID WISDOM
A month later, Al brought a tabloid newspaper, the National Inquirer, into the emergency department and asked me about a "new treatment" called chelation therapy, prominently featured in the tabloid. He was considering taking this miracle therapy. It was said to "dissolve away" the rust and the crud in the arteries and thus enable the patient to avoid coronary bypass surgery. He had endured one of those, and one was enough.
I patiently explained to Al, an uneducated, very smart, and street - wise Italian restaurateur who could afford any treatment he wished, and who wanted to stay viable for his pretty new bride, Marty, that this was a tabloid article and therefore wasn't worth the yellow paper it was written on.
As I said, Al was street - wise: I wasn't: "Listen Doc, just because this ain't in the AMA what-a-you-call-it journal don't mean it's a lie. I know it ain't the truth, necessarily, but do you know enough about it to say its bull?" He really had me. It was difficult for him to talk to me like that, he told me later after we had become good friends. He had an immense respect for doctors but he'd jump on anything, or anybody where his health is concerned - Al was a survivor.
After a number of false starts, I found to my surprise, an organization of doctors who advocated chelation therapy. I studied their research information, listened to their case histories went to their meetings, and have been an enthusiastic supporter and practitioner of chelation therapy ever since. I have treated hundreds of patients, starting with Al, and have seen some truly remarkable results.
The story of Al has a sad, and for me, frustrating ending. He did so well on chelation that he began to feel invulnerable - so much that he went back to smoking and working 14 hours a day. In spite of this abuse of himself, he continued his lifestyle completely free of pain or other symptoms of heart disease for five years. He felt so great that he decided to stop the treatments in spite of Marty's urging and my warning. Six months after stopping the treatments he had a massive heart attack and died in the same hospital were we met. The doctor blamed the chelation therapy and me for his death. Marty's retort to them was even more unprintable than Al's would have been. She could have cooperated with these doctors, ruined my career and made a bundle - "pretty young girl's husband dies at the hand of a quack" - the local medical society said so - case closed: it would have been easy. I tell you this story so you can appreciate how tough it is for a doctor to practice outside the mainstream. I'm surprised we aren't all in jail.
THE SCIENTIFIC SIDE
If you're picking up the chelation story here, then you've missed the reason why you should have great respect and admiration for your chelation doctor, but you probably do anyway.
Chelation refers to the ability of certain chemicals to bind with calcium, iron and other metals, and remove them from the body. We know there is a lot of calcium in those plaques that appear in the arteries of patients with "arteriosclerosis." Presumably, if calcium could be "clawed out" of a constricted vessel ("chelation" comes from the Greek word, chele, meaning claw) then the plaque could be slowly dissolved away. This is probably part of the explanation for how chelation works, but there is a lot more to it than that. In fact, the more we learn, the more mysterious it gets.
The primary chelating agent used in clinical practice is called EDTA, ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid. EDTA is a synthetic amino acid first produced in Germany in 1930. It was used as a preservative in cloth, and later as a stabilizer for food, such as mayonnaise (check your Hellman's mayonnaise label and you'll see that you have been eating EDTA all of your life). In the 1950s, Dr. Norman E Clarke, chairman of the research department, Providence Hospital, Detroit, Michigan began research on the effects of EDTA chelation therapy on cardiovascular disease.
"I'VE SEEN ONLY BENEFITS"
Dr. Clarke's motivation for investigating the possibility that EDTA would do in the human body what it did for mayonnaise, a rather preposterous idea on the face of it, was based on the hopelessness he felt after 30 years of treating arteriosclerotic vascular disease with no positive results: "I knew, having been in cardiology quite a number of years, that arteriosclerotic vascular disease was a helpless, hopeless situation for the cardiologist." Few cardiologists, then or now, have the courage to admit they do very little to help their patients.
Dr. Clarke gave some historic testimony before the scientific Board of the California Medical Society in 1976 that few doctors are aware of. He reported that he had personally administered 120,000 infusions of EDTA chelation and never saw "any serious toxicity whatsoever. "I've seen only benefits."
The first dramatic results seen by Dr. Clarke were in patients with blocked arteries as a result of diabetic vascular disease. He reported cases of gangrene of the toes, due to blockage of the arteries that were saved from amputation of the foot by intravenous chelation therapy. This dramatic reversal of a "surgical problem" by the use of medication had never been achieved before. Surgeons were not enthusiastic, however, and, strangely, neither were most cardiologists. Almost 20 years after Dr. Clarke's remarkable testimony, they're still not enthusiastic.
He next reported on the use of chelation in elderly patients with senility due to arterial blockage in the brain. He had similar dramatic results and remarked to the scientific board: "After all these years and after all the experience, I am just as certain as can be that has ever been brought out for occlusive vascular disease.
I would like to emphasize that Dr. Clarke was not reporting on Alzheimer's disease, another matter entirely, involving a younger population. Alzheimer's generally affects people in their late 50's and early 60's, who lose their minds as though they were much older. It's a condition for which chelation therapy has been, in most cases, disappointing. Because of the ability of chelation to bind and eliminate toxic metals from the body, the therapy might be useful as a preventative, but there is no way to prove that.
THE CANCER CONNECTION
Whether or not it helps Alzheimer's, though, one solid reason for preventative chelation therapy is this: There is compelling evidence that chelation can prevent cancer.
In 1972, a Swiss report indicated a preventative affect against cancer as a result of chelation therapy. The research had been done on the use of chelation in the treatment of lead poisoning but the follow-up studies on those treated revealed that the participants in the lead-treatment study had 600 percent decrease in the incidence of cancer as a compared to people in the same community not given chelation.
It is not generally known, even by most doctors, that almost all chemotherapy procedures used in the treatment of cancer involve some form of chelation. Most antibiotics work through chelation and even aspirin is a chelating agent. So, if your doctor says he doesn't believe in chelation is a valid therapy, tell him he doesn't know what he is doing, from the biochemical point of view, and go back to his chemistry books. (Be sure to have another doctor lined up first.)
The one area where chelation is accepted is in the treatment of heavy metal poisoning - especially lead. They can't deny it works there. But it is also effective in the removal of iron, a far more serious problem in the general population. The removal of chelated iron may be the most important action of chelation because excess iron not only causes arteriosclerosis but cancer and infection. So, there are many reasons why you should take prophylactic chelation therapy. You can read more about the dangers of excess iron in Second Opinion, volume 1, numbers 8 - 9.
OTHER BENEFITS
Patients who come in for chelation for their vascular disease are often pleasantly surprised to note their arthritis improved. The reason for this is not known. It may be due to removal of iron, or calcium, or both, or it may be due to the improvement of the circulation to the joint - or all, or none, of the above. But, for whatever reason, the improvement on arthritis is often dramatic.
In my experience, the first sign of improvement is often seen in the skin. Many patients remark in their improvement in their skin color, the disappearance of blemishes and better skin turgor.
With heart patients, the first sign of improvement is usually in exercise tolerance. I have had patients who had difficulty crossing the living room who, after 20 treatments, could walk to the mailbox, a hundred yards down the path, with no difficulty. (Sometimes my bill would be in there. It's easier to collect when the patient can walk to the mailbox and he couldn't before.)
The procedure is relatively simple. The doctor will check you out for kidney malfunction, heart failure, and any other condition that would indicate the need for a modified, more cautious approach. There are few patients who cannot tolerate treatment. You will sit in a reclining chair for two to three hours taking an intravenous drip. The most common side affect is boredom, so bring an interesting book.
You should commit yourself to 30 treatments. Don't expect miracles with the first infusion - you didn't get in this terrible shape overnight.
There are other methods of clearing the arteries, which are complementary to chelation. Hydrogen peroxide, also given intravenously, has a chelating effect, although the mechanism by which it works is different. And we now have a third therapeutic weapon, photoluminescence, which treats the blood with light and has a mechanism of action similar to hydrogen peroxide - a marked increase in the oxygenation of the body's organs and tissues. In the chelation protocol of the near future, all three of these treatment modalities will be used together for the alleviation of many diseases.
ACTION TO TAKE:
1) Read Dr. Morton Walker's book on this subject, The chelation Answer. See the enclosed insert for ordering instructions.
2) Watch your iron intake - read my articles to see if you should, or should not, be taking iron.
3) Find a doctor who understands the importance of iron metabolism and ask him to check your ferritin level (a mirror of your iron status). If he says he'll just do a serum iron level then he doesn't understand the problem.
4) If you are over 60, or unhealthy at any age, take preventative chelation therapy. Listed below are organizations that can help you find a qualified therapist.
American College for the Advancement of Medicine
Box 3427
Laguna Hills, CA 92654
Phone: In CA, (714) 583-7666; Outside CA, 1-800-532-3688
Send a SASE with $0.52 postage free list.
International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation
P.O. Box 13205
Oklahoma City, OK 73113
Phone: (405) 478-4266
Send request and $5 for list
American Board of Chelation Therapy
70 West Huron
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone (800) 356-2228
Call of write (send SASE) for free list.