EDTA Chelation Therapy (CaNa₂ EDTA) plays a vital role in the health and integrity of every tissue of the body

Wake up. Be Aware. Protect Yourself.

Are you concerned with your arterial plaque? You need to find out all you can about how to reverse this life-threatening disease – because you can. It’s vital today for people with high blood pressure, or cardiovascular disease, or heart disease, and cancer and so much more, to get rid of the heavy metals in their body. Toxic Heavy metal toxins such as mercury, arsenic, lead, aluminium, cadmium and nickel, are all clinically proven to cause dysfunction and damage in the lining of your arteries. There have been numerous and very established scientific studies that have confirmed this problem of impaired endothelial function (within the lining of the arteries) being now linked with all major coronary heart diseases. Heart Disease, being the ending result of an injury that began at the very thin wall of endothelial cells lining the inside surfaces of the heart and blood vessel walls.

If you have a normal blood lead level, but if it’s the end of normal your chances of getting cancer are 68%, and an early death increase of 46%, and your cardiovascular death risk just went up to 33%.

For fifty years it has been known that cadmium buildup in your kidneys will trigger your high blood pressure. Your body taking cadmium is totally unavoidable today, it’s now ubiquitous in the foods we all eat. But the heavy metal Cadmium isn’t the only toxic metal in our life that stores and builds up in the kidneys causing hypertension. Arsenic, lead and mercury can also damage the kidneys. The endothelial lining of the blood vessel iEDs damaged by these metals. And this is the main problem, these metals start damaging the enzymes being produced which are crucial for cardiovascular health, normal blood flow, and normal blood pressure. They also damage the channels within the cell membranes of blood vessels and heart cells so that now the potassium, calcium, magnesium and other important minerals do not flow like they should – which starts to cause your blood pressure to increase.

Remember, the many decades it took before doctors and science both started to realise that the minimum “safe” lead levels for children was far too high for children to have normal intelligence and brain function?

There’s no such thing as ”Normal” blood levels.

Undiagnosed heavy metals are a huge source and create a high percentage of the cardiovascular diseases of today, and definitely a cause for high blood pressure, so the medical and scientific community started to realise that the so called “regular” heavy metal blood levels, or “normal” levels, have been set way too high for people wanting healthy longevity. But what if you have hypertension, and you haven’t checked your levels of lead correctly? Because not only does the lead destroy the kidneys, but now your brain function is air risk? Most likely, the most common underlying condition that leads to atherosclerosis or cardiovascular disease is known as “atherosclerosis”, or the hardening of the arteries. And over time what happens is the disease starts to cause the narrowing or the blocking of arteries in your heart, your brain, and so many other parts of the body.

Narrowing of or the blocking of arteries may even start early in your life. Roughened (artery linings) by fat deposits, the clotting material known as fibrin, the cholesterol, calcium, and cellular debris, the artery linings get thickened and start to become thick with hard surfaces, so they are no longer able to expand and contact as they are supposed to. With the narrowed channels, the blood now starts moving slower, and with difficulty through narrowed inner channels. The clot can now form more easily, and start blocking the lumen, or channel, which subsequently starts to deprive the brain, heart, and all other organs that need blood supply.

Heavy Metal Overload in the walls of coronary arteries seems to decrease levels of nitric oxide, a compound known as “Endothelial Relaxing Factor,”- without this substance normal blood flow is impeded therefore increasing the risk of vascular blockages. Heavy Metal Overload in the adrenal glands reduces the production of hormones, which cause early aging, stress, decreased sex drive and aggravation of menopausal symptoms. Heavy Metal Overload can lead to unresponsiveness of diabetics to their medications. Heavy Metal Overload can lead to neurological diseases such as depression and loss of thinking power. It can also aggravate conditions such as osteoporosis and hypothyroidism. For obvious reasons, removing metals from the body safely has been a concern of physicians for many years.

“Free radical attack is one of the main causes of atherosclerosis and premature aging.”

(Walker, Morton MD; Shah, Hitendra, MD Everything You Should Know About Chelation Therapy)

EDTA Chelation Therapy has been proven to protect cell membranes, DNA and enzyme systems by reducing the destructive effects of free radicals.

Why EDTA Chelation? Intravenous EDTA Chelation brings these benefits to every blood vessel in the body, from the largest arteries to the tiniest capillaries, most of which are far too small or deep within the brain and other vital organs for surgical treatment. In many cases, the smallest blood vessels are the most severely diseased. The benefits of chelation occur from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet, not just in blocked segments of a few large arteries.

EDTA Chelation Therapy has been proven to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, reduces the need for bypass surgery. Reduces blood pressure in about 60% of high blood pressure patients. Removes calcium from arteriosclerotic plaque. Reduces heart valve calcification, improves heart function and so much more!

Free radicals are reactive molecules that are unstable because they are missing an electron. In an effort to replace their lost electron, they frantically bump into and damage the molecules that make up the cells in your body. In the process, they cause oxidation of body tissues.

It’s impossible to be alive and not have some oxidative damage, because free radicals are produced by normal processes in the body, such as the production of energy and immune function. Free radicals also come from environmental sources including heavy metals, household chemicals, ultraviolet radiation, tobacco smoke, food additives, foods that have been fried in oil that’s been used over and over again (typical in many fast-food restaurants), and other pollutants. Once free radicals are released, they will multiply exponentially in chain reactions, unless they are stopped by antioxidants. Free radical attack is one of the main causes of atherosclerosis and premature aging.

When a free radical comes in contact with the inner lining of your arteries, microscopic injuries result. This process is called lipid peroxidation (the process that causes fats to become rancid) and is recognized as one of the underlying causes of atherosclerosis. Eventually the build-up of fat, cholesterol, toxic metals and other substances at the site of injury narrows the arteries. The key is to neutralize free radicals before they damage your arteries … and that’s done with antioxidants.

The body can’t use toxic heavy metals for any beneficial purpose, so it warehouses them in the most inert or inactive tissue (i.e. fat, ligaments and especially bones) and they silently accumulate over time.

Of course, the acute exposure of significant amounts in chips of lead paint can be measured in the blood shortly after exposure and found to be elevated. But we were never taught in medical school (or considered) the damage caused by smaller, daily accumulations. Back in the 1970s, the World Health Organization (WHO) established 60 micrograms of lead per deciliter as a toxic level. However, with more scientific knowledge, that amount has been reduced to 30 micrograms per deciliter.

And here is the greatest misunderstanding: The body tucks away the accumulations as it’s normally equipped to automatically flush out various toxins at their onset, but today’s world is so polluted, the body’s detoxification pathways are often overwhelmed.

Therefore, as a defense mechanism – it resorts to storing heavy metals for possible elimination at some future time. When it can’t, however, degenerative diseases ensue. The body’s inherent detoxification pathways were not designed to handle heavy metals at our current levels of daily exposure, nor can our immune system destroy them.

The silent and slow buildup of lead within our bodies, moves on to play a high role in high blood pressure, but also diabetes and even kidney disease. It’s not so easy to diagnose heavy metals with a simple blood test because most of the metals in your body are actually stored by your body somewhere else. They are stored in the bones and the soft tissues of your body. And what happens as we age, and we start experiencing lower mineral counts, sometimes leading to osteoporosis and bone loss. So when the heavy metals, which are hiding in the bones start to actually leach out from the bone and hit important organs. They hit the blood vessels, the heart, kidneys and more acting as a TRIGGER for your high blood pressure and unfortunately, heart disease. Or the many other names you get like, angina, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias and also these toxic metals can also give you cancer.

The main cause for stroke and heart attacks is atherosclerosis. There’s an inner lining of your blood vessels, it’s called the endothelium. This endothelium is extremely important, it’s critical that it does not stop functioning. It produces the very potent and important vessel dilator known as N.O, or Nitric Oxide as well as prostacyclin, which acts to slow the blood clotting while also helping to keep the arteries dilated. And believe it or not, it also produces a third crucial blood product known as heparin. Heparin stops clots from forming.

The endothelium layer is a storage site for heavy metals, and when too many heavy metals are deposited in the endothelium, it’s unable to produce the vital substances needed for healthy blood flow and cardiovascular health. These are the N.O., heparin. and prostacyclin.

When the metals are removed the circulation of oxygen and nutrients starts moving, and improvement throughout the whole system begins.

The safety and efficacy of EDTA is unquestionable, backed by more than six decades of support by the FDA, in the past, the theory was that EDTA Chelation Therapy was a “biological rotor rooter” for sticky solid plaque, and had a unique mechanism with harmful solids converting into a watery liquid, then pulled away and removed as a normal and natural process by body functions – and this is even believed by some people today. But with the discovery of Nitric Oxide (N.O.) being produced in increased amounts AFTER EDTA CHELATION THERAPY – along with the buildup plaque being eliminated by regular body functions of metabolism. So the body achieves a new level of health on its own, after the metals are removed, and reaches new levels of homeostasis – it’s this that seems to be what is really happening giving us a clearer explanation of the incredible benefits of EDTA chelation. And why EDTA Chelation stops and blocks the calcium channels with arterial walls which causes arterial vasodilation.

The book that changed everything

Dr Valentin Fuster MD, published a book in 1999 entitled The Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque. Now this was at the time of him being the actual President of The American Heart Association, plus being the Chairman of the Cardiology Department at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC. Showing how heart attacks are not occurring in the areas of the most plaque buildup, located near the hardened deposits of large cholesterol, and are instead being triggered in the new fresh and most “vulnerable” plaque. This is where the plaque gets infected with specific germs like the Epstein Barr Virus, Cytomegalovirus and the Herpes Virus, plus several other germs that we get infected with. Now the process of proving and studying these germs being more infectious and abundant when sufficient amounts of N.O. is not produced – is now underway.

Both a very strong anti-oxidant, and powerful vasodilator, N.O. production is reduced when the endothelium suffers damage – vasodilation is reduced, and oppositely, vascular constriction starts. As a direct result of toxic metal insult, the reduction in N.O. production starts restricting blood flow, increasing blood pressure, and the vascular lumen reduces in size – in other words, your risk for heart attack and stroke has increased. What is extremely vital, it seems, is that the secretion and production of N.O. must not be decreased, or the imbalance in function will ultimately cause hypertension – the quiet killer.

Disturbing vascular homeostasis locally, most likely leads to platelet deposition, and many elements start unleashing to cause aggregation which together leads to smooth muscle proliferation. Fibrosis, thrombus formation, and atherosclerosis might be the result. When the metabolic imbalance is first started in the endothelial level, the place where damages trigger an inflammatory response, is the first connection in-between agulation and inflammation.

Since its inception more than a half-century ago, EDTA chelation therapy has become widely accepted and practiced for the removal of toxic metals. It has a high degree of clinical and published validation.

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13. DETOXIFY OR DIE

Dr. Sherry A. Rogers; Prestige Publications 2002