• EDTA Chelation Therapy

    May Help Restore Cardiovascular Functions

How Arteries get Plaque Build-up and Why It’s Dangerous

As we age, cholesterol, calcium, and other minerals accumulate on the inside lining of our blood vessels and, over time, can clog them. This process is referred to variously as hardening of the arteries, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, and arterial plaque buildup (see Figure 1). To ignore this process can be exceedingly dangerous.

Atherosclerosis contributes to and accounts for rampant cardiovascular disease in adults of the United States and other developed countries. Examples of such diseases are high blood pressure, angina (chest pain due to poor blood circulation to the heart), heart attack, peripheral vascular disease (poor circulation to the legs and feet), and stroke. Most of these conditions are physically disabling and depressing to the patients.

When plaque builds up in blood vessels, blood flow (carrying oxygen and nutrients) is restricted. It’s like water flowing through a pipe clogged with mineral deposits: if the deposits are thick enough to create a complete blockage, the water will stop.

It is no different with your blood vessels. If there is excessive plaque buildup and the vessels become partially or completely blocked, not enough blood can reach the body’s tissues, which become starved for the oxygen and nutrients they need. Consequently, they will not function optimally and may even die. An example is peripheral vascular disease in a diabetic, where there is insufficient blood flow to the lower legs or the feet. Depending on the degree of compromise, the patient may experience pain upon walking, even short distances, or cramping in the legs or feet. Left unattended, gangrene of the feet may ensue, followed by amputation (if one seeks conventional treatment).

Another example is coronary (heart) vessels that become so clogged that there is insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle itself (see Figure 2). Symptoms might be a tightness in the chest, chest pain, or discomfort in the jaw or left arm. If the blood supply is restricted for too long, a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, can occur. In this case, actual muscle tissue of the heart dies. If too much of it dies, the heart will no longer be able to pump blood to sustain life, and death will result.

More Health Benefits of EDTA

EDTA improves heart, brain, kidney, lung, and all organ functions by reducing atherosclerotic plaque in the vascular system. As mentioned above, EDTA is extremely efficient at cleaning out the plaque from the walls of the vascular tree, restoring healthy functioning on a multitude of levels within the body. EDTA is effective for any condition where there is reduction or interruption of blood flow because of plaque. Plaque is not localized in just one area of the vasculature. Therefore, EDTA can “clean house,” improving function in all organs of the body. This makes it effective for many degenerative diseases (see Table 1).

It is important to recognize that hardening of the arteries is not a localized or segmental disease. It does not affect only one part of the body at a time. If your coronary arteries are filled with plaque or are occluded, it’s a sure bet that arteries in your brain, kidneys, lungs, and other vital organs are in a similar state. Atherosclerosis is a “silent” disease that does its damage throughout the entire body and often does not make itself known until it is too late to do much about it – at least according to the measures of mainstream medicine.

When blood circulation to your vital organs is hindered, the cells of these organs are deprived of the essential nutrients they constantly require, and they are unable to adequately remove the toxic residues of metabolism. In short order, the body gives up, ultimately yielding to organ or tissue disease or death.

How EDTA “Cleanses” the Cardiovascular System

For decades now, EDTA has been shown, through a process called chelation, to improve blood flow safely and relieve symptoms associated with atherosclerotic vascular disease. Although the mechanisms involved in chelation are complex, it can be understood simply as the removal of undesirable calcium and other minerals that promote plaque formation, blood clotting, and atherosclerosis.

EDTA chelation is a therapy whereby repeated administrations of a delicate organic acid (EDTA, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) gradually reduce atherosclerotic plaque and other mineral deposits throughout the cardiovascular system by literally dissolving them away.

The Many Potential Benefits of EDTA Chelation

Why Doesn’t Everyone Know About EDTA?

  • Reduce excessive heart contractions
  • Increase intracellular potassium
  • Reduce heart irritability
  • Improve heart function
  • Reduce heart-valve calcification
  • Detoxify snake and spider venoms
  • Reduce varicose veins
  • Heal calcified necrotic ulcers
  • Dissolve small cataracts
  • Eliminate heavy-metal toxicity
  • Make arterial walls more flexible
  • Manage high blood lipid levels
  • Reduce rheumatoid arthritis symptoms
  • Prevent cholesterol deposits
  • Reduce blood cholesterol levels
  • Lower high blood pressure
  • Help avoid bypass surgery
  • Avoid angioplasty
  • Reverse digitalis toxicity
  • Remove calcium from atherosclerotic plaques
  • Dissolve intra-arterial blood clots
  • Normalize cardiac arrhythmias
  • Provide an anti-aging effect
  • Remove mineral and drug deposits
  • Dissolve kidney stones
  • Reduce serum iron levels
  • Reduce stroke/heart attack aftereffects
  • Reverse diabetic gangrene
  • Restore impaired vision

Adapted from Walker M, Gordon G, Douglass WC.
The Chelation Answer.Second Opinion Publishing, Atlanta, 1994.

Why would anyone opt for invasive, less lasting options, such as angioplasty or CABG, when a safe and effective alternative for restoring normal or near-normal circulatory functioning of the vasculature exists? It seems that EDTA should be the first line of treatment, with the invasive surgical procedures as the last-resort alternative, not the other way around.

Few, if any, would opt for surgical treatment if they were aware and informed about the value of EDTA chelation. However, there are organizations and institutions that see political gain in cloaking the truth about EDTA’s benefits and punishing those who advocate its use.

Except for abortion, it is unlikely that any other issue in modern medicine has been more highly politicized than that of EDTA chelation therapy. It is clear that most of the opposition to EDTA is due to the threat that this therapy represents, not to patients’ health, but to the bank balances of orthodox physicians (those who specialize in CABG, for example), hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies. Treating cardiovascular diseases is big business in the United States, bringing in tens of billions of dollars each year.

Each CABG might cost $50,000 or even up to $100,000; each angioplasty costs about $15,000; drugs for reducing cholesterol, lowering high blood pressure, and normalizing heart rhythm bring the pharmaceutical industry hundreds of millions of dollars each year. And these are only a few examples.

By contrast, the cost of chelation therapy is minimal. The degree to which this therapy reduces the need for conventional therapies, and therefore the incomes of those previously mentioned, is the degree to which they feel threatened by it. Powerful medical societies and government agencies, for example, lobby to keep the knowledge about EDTA’s benefits under wraps. They have harassed, vilified, and smeared physicians who have used EDTA chelation to help their patients and, in some cases, have even driven them from their profession. The reason everyone doesn’t know about EDTA chelation therapy is politics (=money).

The Rebirth of Blood Flow

The accumulation of atherosclerotic deposits in the cardiovascular tree is associated with aging. It is inevitable that plaque formation will begin in our mid-years – for some, even in their youth – and will progress rapidly, unless healthy interventions are implemented: diet modification, appropriate exercise, and effective supplementation.

EDTA chelation therapy can successfully remove plaque from arteries, veins, and capillaries and restore blood flow to normal or near-normal functioning – often even in severe cases. The removal of this plaque allows the blood, laden with oxygen and nutrients, to fuel hungry body cells and tissues for optimal functioning.

For those who have not yet reached the symptomatic stage, preventing the onset of atherosclerotic diseases is a desirable goal. EDTA chelation can be used as a preventive measure, because it can retard the plaque buildup that progresses with aging, and it may even reverse plaque buildup in many cases. Think of it as an insurance policy. EDTA may very well be able to slow, or even reverse, to some extent, the aging of the cardiovascular system.

For those whose atherosclerosis is severe enough that they are experiencing symptoms, EDTA chelation may not only keep them from falling under the horrific CABG knife, but offer them instead the experience of renewed energy, clearer thinking, improved sexuality, warming of feet and hands, ability to walk or hike pain-free, stronger bones, diminished or eradicated chest pain, improved cholesterol, reduced blood pressure, or improved vision, among many other benefits. Restoring blood flow can be like being born again! It can be like a new life for you to enjoy.

EDTA chelation is often labeled as the “Liquid-Plumr®” for the cardiovascular system, because it gently and gradually dissolves plaque and returns the arterial system back to a smooth, healthy, preatherosclerotic state.

Studies EDTA removes lead & toxic metals from the blood have shown that as people age they continuously  accumulate toxic metals: lead, mercury, aluminum, cadmium, and arsenic, among others. The accrual of these toxins invites an increased risk for various diseases, especially heart disease. The less of these metals we have in our bodies, the more likely we are to be physiologically healthy or simply feel good, and the lower our risk for heart disease. Because EDTA is so effective at removing unwanted metals and other minerals from the blood, it has been the standard, FDA-approved treatment for lead, mercury, aluminum, and cadmium poisoning for more than 50 years. EDTA normalizes the distribution of most metallic elements in the body.

EDTA may help prevent heart attacks, strokes, varicose veins, and more inhibiting blood clotting. Because EDTA inhibits blood clotting so well, by tying up calcium, it is routinely added to blood samples that are drawn for testing purposes. Blood can’t clot if the calcium is tied up. Inhibition of blood clotting can help prevent stroke, heart attack, phlebitis (painful inflammation of a vein), pulmonary embolism (potentially fatal clot to the lung), or varicose veins. Generally, these conditions are associated with aging.

EDTA makes stronger bones and reduces cholesterol by improving  calcium and cholesterol metabolism. EDTA can help to lower cholesterol, the principal component of atherosclerotic plaque. Dr Gordon relays one experience: “I had a patient at Stanford University who could never get her cholesterol below 500. Once she started taking 6 doses a day of the EDTA-based chelation formula, she got down to 200. So this stuff can work wonders.”

Some people may assume that EDTA depletes the body of needed calcium. However, when EDTA lowers blood calcium, it also stimulates the parathyroid gland to produce a hormone called parathormone.5 This hormone is responsible for removing calcium from places such as the inside of arteries and depositing it in the right places, such as bone. So, EDTA chelation makes you physiologically younger because it moves calcium from your arteries and makes your bones stronger.

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