| Chelation therapy, the use of chelating agents such | | | | and others. The adverse effect on human health of |
| as Detoxamin EDTA to remove toxic heavy metals | | | | these heavy and light metal poisons has become so |
| from the body, was once looked down upon by a | | | | great that a name has been assigned: Toxic Metal |
| large segment of the medical community as not | | | | Syndrome. It has been estimated that more than |
| having been proven to be effective. This is because | | | | 90% of all the people living in the industrialized world |
| early clinical studies of chelation therapy were flawed | | | | have at least one of the health problems associated |
| due to using too few subjects, unacceptable study | | | | with living in a toxic environment. |
| design or scientific bias. But these problems were | | | | Listed below are only a few of the behavioral, |
| largely overcome after the publication in the Journal | | | | structural and functional abnormalities linked to three |
| of Advancement in Medicine in 1993 of a study by | | | | of the most problematic toxic heavy metals: |
| L.T. Chappell et all, who looked at the effects of | | | | Mercury - Depression, hallucinations, |
| chelation therapy on nearly 23,000 patients. Of them, | | | | obsessive-compulsive behavior, chronic fatigue, |
| more than 85% showed an objective benefit from | | | | suicidal and aggressive behavior, anxiety and |
| chelation therapy. Since that time, the number of | | | | attention deficit disorder. |
| success stories has continued to increase. | | | | Lead - Spinal cord alterations, kidney damage, |
| Unfortunately, the problem of toxins such as heavy | | | | increased heart rate, suppression of the immune |
| metals accumulating in our bodies has also been | | | | system, birth defects. |
| increasing. We are repeatedly told by | | | | Copper - Skin problems such as eczema and rashes, |
| environmentalists that planet earth is getting more | | | | headaches, muscle pain, decreased red blood cell |
| and more poisoned from the build up of toxins | | | | count, cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis, convulsions and |
| including lead, mercury, aluminum, cadmium, arsenic | | | | seizures. |