We live in a toxic world. These toxins are leading the way as the number one underlying cause of all disease. Cancer rates increase while we observe pesticides concentrating in breast tissue. Auto-immune disease is linked to common drugs such as Acutane, yet we continue to prescribe as if that only happens to someone else. We are ignoring all the warning signs. Probably the most significant toxic category is heavy metals. Metals such as lead, arsenic, aluminum(found in deodorant and cookware), cadmium, gadolinium(contrast agent in imaging studies), and many others are directly linked to many diseases. Simply google lead and any number of health issues, and immediately you will find numerous articles, many hosted on our major medical and governmental health publications, yet it is being ignored. Chelation therapy is the dosing, either in intravenous or oral form, of an agent which has a high affinity for binding to a toxic metals. Once bound, toxic metals are carried out of the body through the kidneys to be removed. The choice to do chelation or not, is often made after an evaluation of total toxic metal load or burden, by taking a chelating agent and collecting urine for 6 hours. A sample of this urine is than sent to a lab for evaluation to determine the presence and measure of total body burden. Patients who have undergone chelation therapy praise its effectiveness in treating many ailments. Chelation therapy has shown to be beneficial in the treatment of depression, anxiety, memory loss, hypertension, circulation disorders, cancer, auto-immune disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and a host of others. What ever the purpose, chelation serves as a foundation to all detox protocols, because removing toxic heavy metals from the body, allows others therapies natural and drug therapies to work as they should.
