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CHELATION THERAPY
WHY HAVEN’T I HEARD OF CHELATION BEFORE?
If EDTA chelation therapy is safe and effective as indicated by many published studies, and by the experience of hundreds of doctors, why haven’t you heard more about it? That is a good question!
Until quite recently, relatively few patients have been informed that this therapy is available. Many heart specialists may not have even heard of the treatment and would be reluctant to prescribe it if they had. The American Medical Association has not yet approved chelation therapy for atherosclerosis, although it does endorse its use in the treatment of lead and other heavy metal poisoning. Many insurance companies will not compensate policy holders for chelation therapy unless it is given for proven lead poisoning of a serious degree. If chelation therapy is given for atherosclerosis, it is often labeled "experimental" or "not necessary " or "not customary" by medical insurance companies and payment is denied. They deny payment to patients for chelation therapy even though they do pay for bypass surgery, and even though chelation might have saved them tens of thousands of dollars. Like many other aspects of our lives, a considerable amount of politics seems to be involved—in this case, medical politics.
Politically powerful traditional medical groups and manufacturers of cardiovascular drugs have consistently suppressed knowledge of chelation therapy, perhaps because of a large vested interest in competing coronary related health care. The cost of all medical care for victims of heart disease in the United States, including coronary bypass surgery and prescription drugs, exceeds $40 billion per year. Obviously, many hospitals, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies would experience a decline in need for their services if chelation therapy were to become universally popular.
Physicians who remain skeptical about chelation therapy are those who have never used it. They are either completely uninformed about the research that has been done to document the safety and effectiveness of chelation therapy, or they are committed by training or source of income to other therapeutic procedures, such as vascular surgery and related procedures. Many physicians have merely accepted criticisms of an editorial nature stemming from such sources, without digging into the true facts for themselves. Recent reports of clinical trails alleging to disprove chelation therapy are all so flawed in design that they offer no evidence at all. Doctors, however, are usually too busy to read every word, and often accept the misleading summaries and abstracts, without analyzing the data for themselves. The bypass and cardiovascular drug industries have been extremely well marketed—to the medical profession as well as to the public.
WHAT ELSE IS INVOLVED IN A COMPLETE PROGRAM OF CHELATION?
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Your lifestyle counts. Chelation therapy is only part of the curative process. Improved nutrition and healthy lifestyle are absolutely imperative for lasting benefit from chelation treatments. Chelation is not in and of itself a "cure-all"—it reduces abnormal free radical activity and removes unwanted and toxic metals, allowing normal healing and control mechanisms to come in to play. Healing is thus facilitated, allowing health to be restored with the help of applied clinical nutrition, antioxidant supplementation and improved lifestyle. A full program of chelation therapy involves all of these factors. Chelation therapy is also compatible with other forms of therapy, including bypass surgery. If cardiovascular drugs are needed, they can be taken with chelation with no conflict.
In addition to receiving the recommended number of chelation treatments, patients eager for long-term benefits should follow a healthy lifestyle, take a spectrum of nutritional supplements, be physically active and eliminate destructive lifestyle habits such as tobacco and excessive alcohol.
HYPERBARIC OXYGEN
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Hyper baric oxygen treatment (HBO) involves treatment of the entire body in a small chamber totally immersed in 100 percent oxygen, at pressures greater then the normal atmosphere. HBO stimulates new blood flow, keep organs alive and functioning, even when they are deprived of adequate blood flow. HBO also helps fight infection. HBO is especially helpful in cases of gangrenous of chelation has time to work, and to restore brain function following a stroke. Many patients receive hyperbaric oxygen treatments on the same day that they receive chelation for the added of the tow type of therapy.
NUTRITIONAL
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A scientifically balanced regimen of nutritional supplements reinforces the body antioxidant defenses and should include vitamins E, C, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, PABA, beta carotene, and coenzyme Q10, and others. A balanced program of mineral and trace element supplementation should also include calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, selenium, manganese, vanadium and chromium. The exact prescription testing Dr. Cranton’s Prima NutrientsTM, the best high-potency multiple vitamin, mineral, trace element formula, provides a balanced foundation supplement, all in one bottle and at reasonable cost. Dr. Cranton’s Antiox Packets provide a much more complete regimen at elderly patients. Chelation patients are placed on the AntioxPacketsTH, one twice daily with meal. That is what Dr.Cranton and his family takes.
DESTRUCTIVE HARBITS
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It is important to eliminate the use of tobacco. This applies to cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cigars, snuff or chewing tobacco. It has been a consistent observation that patients who continued to use tobacco following chelation will experience less improvement and for a shorter time in comparison to non-smokers.
Relatively healthy adults are often able to tolerate the moderate use of alcoholic beverages without generating more free radicals than they can detoxify. Anyone who drinks alcoholic beverages excessively risks harmful free radical damage. Victims of chronic degenerative diseases should minimize the consumption of alcohol.
EXERCISE
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Finally, sustained physical exercise is very helpful. Even a brisk 45 minute walk several time pre week will help to maintain the health benefits and improved circulation resulting from chelation therapy. Lactate normally builds up in tissues during sustained exercise, and lactate is a natural chelation produced within the body. Which brings us to the final question!
IS CHELATION THERAPY FOR YOU?
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Only you can make decision!
Chances are your doctor won’t help you decide. Patients who chose chelation therapy often do so against the advice of their personal physicians or cardiologists. Many have already been advised to undergo vascular surgery. Occasionally, a patient never hears about chelation therapy until he or she is hospitalized and a friend or relative begs him or her to look into this non-invasive therapy before proceeding to surgery. In an impressively large number of instances, a new patient comes for chelation on the recommendation of someone who has been successfully chelated. Many patients have benefited even after one or more failed bypasses.
You are encouraged to communicate with someone who’s shared your dilemma, someone who can tell you about his or her own experience with chelation therapy. Fell free to contact others with problems from the Clinics. Most patients who have been helped will be happy to give you their side of the story.
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