My mother-in-law had a leg amputated and was told by the experts that the other one had to be removed, but we got her to a physician specializing in chelation and she kept her leg and came back from her death bed! Her heart specialist, whom she refused to see again, berated her for getting Chelation Therapy even though he had testified to the amazing, unexpected improvements he had observed in her! A sane, sensitive, straightforward doctor would have been thrilled whatever the reason for the cure, but he saw her use of chelation and the cure as an attack upon everything he had been taught.

Am I being unkind to suggest that her second leg represented a first class trip to Europe for that surgeon? Maybe.

William Douglas, M.D., wrote, “If chelation therapy were to become an accepted therapy for all heart and circulation problems, then by-pass surgery, angioplasty, amputation, and a number of other surgeries would be virtually obsolete—putting the surgeons out of business.” Could that be a motive for some physicians refusing to investigate chelation? It could be, while other physicians swallow every critical statement from the AMA.

Honest skeptics are now willing to take another look at chelation. “For years I didn’t believe that chelation worked for heart disease, but I’m now reconsidering,” says Chauncey Crandall, M.D., head of the preventive cardiology department at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Palm Beach, Fla. “We’ve had patients who have been asking for this for years and years and years, and we’ve recommended against it, but the tide is turning.”

Roy Heilbron, M.D., is a board certified cardiologist now based in Santa Fe, NM. He said of the new study, “This trial finally proves scientifically, through the strongest possible scientific study ever done, that chelation works. I’m a clinician, and you always hear of this kind of thing going on; anything that reduces surgeries is going to be great for the patient but bad for the industry. Surgery is their biggest money maker.”

We must be fair with some medical personnel. There are a bunch of quacks out there (well, yes, even in establishment medical groups) and many people have been harmed, even killed by incompetents (well, yes, even in the establishment medical groups) but physicians should be careful what they recommend to their patients. Their first thought should be and is in most cases: “Do the patient no harm” and it’s encouraging when they do some good.

Honest physicians work long hours and are often very dedicated people who deserve their good incomes, but they must take time to investigate for themselves alternatives to surgery and deadly drugs. Even the National Institute of Health is now doing this but individual doctors must not depend on NIH to do their research, and the public must not depend on any health professional. We must take charge of our own health.

Thanks to Dr. Lamas, Chelation Therapy has been brought into the light of the 21st century and will save the lives of many desperate, discouraged, diseased patients. However, expect establishment doctors, hospitals, the CDC, and surgeons to scream like a stuck pig.

The attacks started before the study was finished! The Medscape Journal of Medicine in 2008 screamed, “We conclude that the TACT [Lamas’ study] is unethical, dangerous, pointless, and wasteful. It should be abandoned.” That was long before the study was finished. So, the long knives have been out a long time and I expect even more because of this authoritative report published in the July 2014 issue of the American Heart Journal. While Chelation Therapy is “safe and effective,” this report is also “inconvenient evidence,” even embarrassing, for those who have fought chelation for 50 years.

David Gorski, a surgical oncologist, attacked the study and JAMA where the study results were published March 27, 2013 by declaring, “If published at all, TACT should have been published in some crappy, bottom-feeding journal, because that’s all that it deserves.” I don’t mean to be mean but could Dave be concerned about his next European trip or his new sports car? Sounds as if the good doctor is struggling with the straps of his straight jacket. He and many of his colleagues are dismissive, derisive, and damming of anything that does not emanate from the inner sanctum of the medical establishment stamped “Approved” by the AMA.

One medical critic of the new study said with a straight face, “Every now and then somebody will get killed.” Anyone want to talk about the numerous mistakes made in America hospitals every day; or how about the amputation of the wrong limb; or about surgeons at a major clinic removing my uncle’s healthy kidney leaving him to die in a few weeks! No, we had better not talk about people dying from mistakes, bad treatment, dangerous drugs, etc.

Dr. John Mandrola quoted another physician who declared, “The machine depends on people being sick to function. If people take control of their own health, the machine falls apart. And it is a billion-dollar business. Who wouldn’t aggressively denounce anything that threatens it?”

Mandrola, a cardiologist at Baptist Medical Associates in Louisville, wrote an article for Medscape Medical News, Nov. 20, 2013 headed: “Chelation Therapy: Promising for Diabetic Patients but Disruptive to the Medical Establishment.” Excellent!

Even NIH almost dismissed the study by declaring it “modestly reduced cardiovascular events” in heart patients; however, if I had heart problems I think a 26% improvement for heart patients and 49% benefit for heart patients with diabetes would be very exciting.

The American Heart Association declared: “Investigators caution that the results need to be reproduced and understood before consideration of clinical application.” That means: “Don’t expect us to recommend that patients stop taking dangerous drugs and having by-pass surgery and angioplasty. We need to look at this for many years before we rock the medical boat.”

I say, turn the boat over.

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The incredible results: Chelation Therapy was safe with no serious side effects for up to five years and beyond. The data supported the fact that cardiac events included fewer deaths, fewer heart attacks and fewer strokes. And fewer hospitalizations for any heart problem!

The stunning results are compelling and consistent–and maybe unwanted because of the flack they are getting. The results were not unexpected to the physicians who have practiced Chelation Therapy for more than fifty years or by patients of chelation. Some of the “Big Pharma” authors of the study said their findings were “unexpected and additional research will be needed to confirm or refute our results and explore possible mechanisms of therapy.”

Dr. Gervasio Lamas, a specialist at the Columbia University Division of Cardiology at Mount Sinai in Miami Beach, headed a study that revealed that Chelation Therapy along with high-dose oral vitamin C reduced heart attack, stroke, and death! Chelation has long been approved to remove toxic metals such as iron, lead, cadmium, copper, etc., from the arteries. However, medical personnel discovered in the early 1950s that the treatment also cleaned sludge out of the arteries. That was a positive “unintended consequence.”

Lamas was a skeptic but has become an enthusiastic supporter of further studies in Chelation Therapy. His results, funded by the National Institutes of Health, were published in the July 2014 issue of the American Heart Journal. The study is known as TACT, (Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy). The results were also published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Lamas’ ten-year study ending in 2011, involved 1,708 patients at 134 clinics carried out by colleagues from Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic. The study was a double-blind “randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial” (RPCCT) which is the best, most respected medical methodology possible. All participants were over age 50, had experienced at least one heart attack, were 82 percent male, 94 percent Caucasian and about half were obese.

This recent study should change the way the world medical facilities treat heart patients and diabetics; although the change will be sluggish (like clogged veins) because physicians have historically been among the slowest professionals to change their minds and methods. That is especially true if the new information reduces medical fees and gives pharmaceutical officials heartburn.

The prudent thing would be to take care of yourself so you won’t be vulnerable for heart attacks, strokes, etc. Medical “wisdom” today says the answer to those problems is surgery; however, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that “As many as 90% of all heart bypass surgeries are not necessary…that patients who receive them do not live longer than patients who don’t. And that bypass and angioplasties directly kill nearly 20,000 heart patients every year.” Better read that again!

Moreover, Harvard Magazine (Sept.—Oct. 2014) reported for patients with stable coronary disease, who comprise a large share of angioplasty patients, “It [angioplasty] has not been shown to extend life expectancy by a day.” That was “by a day.” Cardiologist, Dr. Michael Ozner, author of The Great American Heart Hoax wrote: “70-90% of these procedures are unnecessary…and have never been shown to prolong life or prevent heart attacks.”

If you talk to surgeons, they will recommend angioplasty or by-pass surgery (neither of which have been proved to be effective). Likewise, if you talk to a brick mason about a new house, you will get a brick house. Surprised? Well, what do you expect surgeons to do? They have been trained to use the knife.

What you expect and should demand is truth even if his knife gets rusty from disuse. William Douglas, M.D., admitted, “Under the best conditions there is a 1 to 4 percent possibility of heart attack while on the operating table [for by-pass surgery]; under the worst, there is a 10 to 17 percent death rate.”

Dr. Douglas went on to say there is a 20 to 30 percent chance that the new graft will suffer further blockage within two years! Why would anyone go through all that when there is a safe, inexpensive and painless alternative?

Chelation Therapy has helped reverse symptoms of diabetes, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, and numerous other diseases. Why haven’t you heard of it? Real simple. Not much money in it (compared to surgery) and many in the medical establishment are not interested although chelation has been around for a hundred years.

Chelation is an intravenous injection of a synthetic amino acid called simply, EDTA which goes after the clogged arteries with gusto and removes the clogged mess in 75,000 miles of blood vessels in the body. When the oxygen-rich blood finally hits the vital organs, the patient feels younger and feels like “a new person” as one man told me.

Chelation is not new nor is it untested. It originated in 1893 with Alfred Werner who received the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his work. Mainstream medicine men either know nothing about chelation or they are adamantly opposed although about 1,000 American physicians now do Chelation Therapy on 100,000 patients each year. This therapy is normally done with patients who have diseases caused by hardening of the arteries.

Give them time. Most physicians are very slow to accept anything that appears to be innovative, successful and inexpensive, but more and more physicians are taking chelation treatments when they have major heart problems!

More than 500,000 patients have received over four million chelation treatments over the past 30 years in America and not one death has been a direct result when properly administered by trained physicians. The physicians competently trained in chelation therapy will most likely be members of either ICIM – the International College for Integrative Medicine or, ACAM – the American College for the Advancement in Medicine.

In fact, the American College for Advancement in Medicine reveals, “Every single study of the use of chelation therapy for atherosclerosis which has ever been published, without exception, has described an improvement in blood flow and symptoms.”

Not one death! How many people die each year from aspirin and other approved drugs? Chelation Therapy consists of 30 to 40 IV treatments in a physician’s office at a cost of about $4,000.00 for the total treatments. (Costs will vary across the nation.) I have interviewed patients who were facing amputation of both legs but after chelation treatments, they are walking four miles per day, cutting firewood, etc. Some patients tell of cold feet, blackened from lack of circulation, turning warm and with blackness going away after a few treatments!

Some patients experience side effects such as vein irritation, headache, mild pain or fatigue, and occasionally a mild fever; but these side effects are easily controlled by adjusting the treatments.

Maybe, just maybe, this study by a large group of reputable physicians may drag Chelation Therapy out of the shadows and into the sunshine of medical respectability. It’s about time. It will save lives.

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