CHELATION THERAPY
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© February 2022, LD Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All
information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
Contents
II.
ARICLE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
III.
TWO CHELATION TESTIMONIALS
IV.
PROBLEMS WITH CHELATION THERAPY
1. Chelation Randomly And Erratically Removes Vital Minerals
2. Chelation Throws The Body Chemistry Out Of Balance
3. Chelation Can Worsen Kidney and Liver Activity
4. Toxic Metal
Removal Is Not Adequate
5. Chelation Only Removes Some Toxic Metals and Does Not
Remove Toxic Chemicals
6. Chelation Does Not Address Most Of The Deeper Causes Of
Illness and Worsens Overall Health
7. Chelation can damage higher brain centers and the
connection with the Holy Spirit or Guidance.
8. Chelation removes toxic metals in an unnatural order. This is not a safe way to detoxify the
body.
9. Chelation slows or stops development. This is the expansion of the energy field of a human being
and the expression of the full human genetic potential.
V.
CHELATION AND THE SHEPHED CONCEPT – A CLARIFICATION
VI.
HOW A DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM REMOVES TOXIC METALS
__________________________
Definition. The word chelate means to grab on or hold on. Chelation therapy is the use of specific chemical substances called chelators that bind to and help remove toxic metals from the body.
These chemicals can be synthetic or natural. The therapy can be administered intravenously or orally, and occasionally in other ways such as rectally.
Chelation therapy is used mainly by holistic doctors and naturopaths. The use of chelating agents to remove toxic metals is in the medical textbooks, and has been for years. However, chelation therapy to remove calcium from the arteries for example, is not an Òofficially approvedÓ conventional medical therapy.
Confusion
with chelated minerals. Chelation
therapy is completely different from the concept of chelated
minerals. The latter are
minerals that are tightly bound to specific mineral transporters so that they
are absorbed faster and better into the body inside the intestinal tract. In fact, our bodies naturally chelate or bind minerals in the stomach and intestines in
order to absorb them properly.
Chelation therapy,
however, has nothing to do with absorbing minerals. It has to do with removing minerals by the use of specific
chemicals that bind tightly to minerals and then move them to the kidneys for exretion.
II. ARTICLE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Chelation
therapy is better than bypass surgery for blocked arteries. It is safer, easier and less costly. However,
we never recommend standard chelation therapy because:
- It is not too effective compared to a
development program, and therefore not needed.
- It is not safe enough. It removes some vital minerals along with the toxic ones. These cannot be replaced by just taking vitamin or mineral supplements or by adding vitamins and minerals to an intravenous drip.
Chelation is also hard on the kidneys, which must remove the chelating agents and the toxic metals. Dr. Paul Eck first noticed this problem about 44 years ago because he found that chelation therapy decreases the sodium/potassium ratio on a hair mineral analysis.
- Chelation
therapy is a symptomatic therapy that does not address the deeper causes of
disease.
Some people today are told that the more they chelate their heavy metals, the better. In our view, this is incorrect and dangerous advice, as this article will explain.
So far,
everything chelation therapy offers can be done
better with a complete development program, so that is what we suggest. However, it is true that a development
program is much more work than sitting in a chair for a few hours to receive a
series of intravenous drips of a chelating agent.
III. TWO CHELATION TESTIMONIALS
1. Below is an email we received. The patient was a young adult, and seemingly healthy at the time he had chelation. Today, unlike the past, people who seem healthy may not be that healthy, and this can complicate any therapy.
Dear Dr. Wilson,
I was treated by my naturopath with 2 chelation treatments to remove heavy metals in June, 2012. The
day after the second treatment I had a severe migraine. Tylenol nor
Advil would help at all. The
morning of the next day the headache continued until I collapsed at work. My first aid attendant at work called
911 and I was in the emergency room in 17 minutes. They did a scan and found I had a brain stem
hemorrhage. The doctors said that
in another 30 minutes I would have died.
My blood pressure was so high I was put into a
drug-induced coma, where I remained for the next 9 days! When they took me out of the coma, they
told my children that I was alive, but will likely have "serious
deficiencies".
I have made a good recovery, but can no longer do a
lot of the things I enjoy. My
short-term memory is poor. I was
active and enjoyed hard work, and activities like windsurfing, kayaking and
rock climbing. The doctors advise
against these.
- J.S.
One can argue that the timing of the manÕs hehorrhagic stroke was purely coincidental, and not related to his chelation therapy. However, we think this is unlikely.
One must ask, why would something like this occur from giving a chemical that removes toxic metals? Possible answers are:
1. Removing calcium deposits that were coating the inside of the arteries of the brain may have weakened the artery wall, resulting in its rupture.
2. Chelation therapy removes vital minerals along with the toxic ones. In this instance, removing a vital mineral may have caused the blood pressure to rise too high.
3. Chelation therapy is hard on the kidneys. In this case, the chelating drug may have interfered with kidney function, and this may have raised the blood pressure.
In fairness, this case is extreme. However, we have received a number of client reports that chelation therapy just did not solve their health problems or that chelation therapy caused adverse effects, but not as extreme as in the case above.
2. Rosemary
G. asked that her experience with chelation be
included in this article. Several
years ago, at age 64, Rosemary was diagnosed with mercury toxicity. Her symptoms included extreme fatigue,
a kind of free-floating fear, depression, anxiety, skin problems, and other
emotional disturbances.
She
underwent more than 20 chelation treatments to remove
the mercury, using DMPS and DMSA.
She reported that the treatments did not help her symptoms, but in fact
made her more ill. Her first hair
tissue mineral analysis revealed a 0.4 mg% mercury level. This is over 10 times normal. She had been told that her mercury
level was normal using a urine challenge test for toxic metals!
After only three months on a development program, Rosemary began to feel normal for the first time in many years. A retest hair mineral analysis showed an almost 100% increase in her hair mercury level to 0.74 mg%. This indicates an active elimination in progress. Rosemary is continuing on her development program and feeling still better, as there is more mercury yet to be eliminated.
IV. PROBLEMS WITH ALL
CHELATION THERAPY
These
include the following:
1.
Chelating agents randomly and erratically remove vital minerals. All chelating agents, both natural and
synthetic, remove some essential mineral compounds from the body. This is a serious problem today for two
main reasons. First, many people
are already extremely deficient in many essential minerals such as zinc,
chromium, selenium, manganese and others.
If one removes even a little of the essential minerals, the person can
become much more ill, even though the deficiency state can be subtle.
The other
problem with removing some essential minerals is that it further unbalances or
upsets the body chemistry, often in ways that are difficult to repair. For this reason, removing vital
minerals from the body in a random way is usually the worst problem with all chelation – synthetic or natural - that we observe.
Physicians
that offer chelation say they replenish the vital
minerals with either oral supplements or minerals added to an intravenous chelation bottle.
However, in our experience, this is not true. The proper foms of the minerals
often come from food and cannot be duplicated with pills or IV minerals. In fact, replenishing minerals in the
human body is a delicate, exacting process and it cannot be
done by just ÔdumpingÕ them into the bloodstream or with mineral supplements.
I believe
that a complete development program can replace the vital minerals lost through
chelation therapy, however. For more about this, please read Introduction To Development on this website.
2.
Chelation throws the body chemistry out of balance. Chelation
rips toxic metals out of the arteries, veins and some tissues without regard
for the overall balance of the body chemistry. Replacing minerals with IV pushes and piles of vitamin pills
does the same thing, or worse.
If one
unbalances the body, the vitality always suffers, even if symptomatic
improvement occurs. This is a
major problem with chelation, using either natural and synthetic chelating agents.
3.
Chelation can worsen kidney and liver activity. This occurs for two reasons;
- All
chelating agents are toxic, or potentially toxic. The synthetic chelators such as
EDTA, DMPS, DMSA, penicillamine, deferoxamine
and other drugs are known to be toxic for the kidneys, in particular.
- Toxic
metals that are lodged in fairly safe places such as fatty tissue are mobilized
by chelation therapy and moved into vital organs such
as the kidneys. There the metals
accumulate, causing damage to vital organs.
For example,
kidney damage causes high blood pressure, buildup of toxic ammonia and other
chemicals, and hastens death.
Chelation seems to
damage methylation in the kidney. Methylation
is a method of detoxification. We
believe this is the case because giving clients who have undergone chelation trimethylglycine, a methylating agent, seems to help them a lot.
The toxicity
of chelation therapy may not be apparent at
first. However, newer chelation protocols demand that the doctor check the
patientÕs liver and kidney function periodically, exactly for this reason. Unfortunately, standard liver and kidney
blood tests are not sensitive enough to detect subtle damage to these vital
organs due to chelating agents.
Natural
chelators such as high-dose vitamin C, zeolite, chlorella, cilantro extract, distilled water, reverse
osmosis water, charcoal tablets and others are less toxic, but still damaging
in various ways, and should be avoided.
The safest agents are sulfur amino acids, garlic, modified citrus
pectin, and the alginates. While
safer, these are quite yin in Chinese medical terms and must be used sparingly,
if at all.
4.
Removal of toxic metals is not thorough enough. Most, if not all of the chelating
agents only work in the blood and in the tissues and organs located near larger
blood vessels. Repeated use of the
chelating agents can go somewhat deeper, but then the hazards of chelation such as removing more essential minerals also
increase.
In contrast,
development science begins at the cellular level and works at this level. The metals can slowly be removed at
much deeper levels, as a result, and much more thoroughly. Several patients of mine had previously
undergone 40 or more chelation treatments. This is usually considered enough to
rid the body of lead, mercury or other metals. However, when these patients went on a development program,
they began to eliminate significant amounts of these toxic metals that
supposedly had already been removed.
The only explanation I can think of is that deeper deposits were now
being removed that were not reached by the chelating
agents.
5.
Chelation only works on some toxic metals and does
not remove toxic chemicals.
Chelating agents can remove some mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic,
copper, iron, aluminum and perhaps a few other toxic metals. However, they will not remove very well
about a dozen other toxic metals for various reasons. They also do not remove toxic chemicals.
In contrast,
a development program removes all toxic metals and all toxic chemicals, as
well.
6.
Chelation does not address most of the deeper causes
of illness, and worsens overall health.
While
toxic metal removal is helpful in some cases, many times the metal accumulation
is due to many other bodily imbalances.
These include Yin Disease, Sympathetic Dominance, mineral
deficiencies, chronic infections, imbalanced mineral ratios and more.
No
matter what anyone claims, chelation therapy is an
allopathic, or drug approach to healing.
By
this I mean that it does not address underlying imbalances, it is somewhat
toxic, it never balances the body, and it usually reduces the overall vitality
of the body.
This is
important because naturopaths and holistic doctors claim to avoid allopathic
approaches, but often offer chelation. While it is an alternative to bypass
surgery for heart disease, for example, it is still very allopathic in its
philosophy and methodology.
Granted, it
may extend life because it can remove calcium deposits from the arteries of the
heart, brain, liver and elsewhere.
However, this is not the same as improving overall vitality and health.
7.
Chelation can damage higher brain centers and the
connection with the Holy Spirit. Removing even tiny amounts of certain forms of zinc and
selenium with chelation therapy can damage finer
brain centers. When this occurs,
one may feel less connected to God or the Holy Spirit because this connection
requires higher brain cortex activity.
This can be
a devastating adverse effect of chelation
therapy. Please consider this when
you are tempted to undergo chelation therapy.
8.
Chelation removes toxic metals in an unnatural order.
In
development, all of the toxic metals are removed in the bodyÕs own order. This is a complex and delicate
process. The practitioner simply
keeps balancing and supporting the overall stress response by balancing the key
mineral ratios and oxidation rate, and the body does the rest.
Chelation therapy is
more of a ÔsledgehammerÕ approach that literally rips the toxic metals out of
the enzyme binding sites in a totally unnatural order. This can cause problems such as those
described in the email above.
In addition,
because the order is unnatural, some reaccumulation
of the toxic metals might occur, necessitating more chelation
therapy in the future. It is also
possible that toxic metals that the body either cannot remove well enough or
that reaccumulate for other reason will end up in
more vital organs. This does not
occur with a properly designed development program.
9.
Chelation slows or stops what is called development on this website. Development is very special and is the
central goal of a development program.
It involves the expansion of the energy field of a human being and the
expression of the full human genetic potential. This can drastically improve a personÕs physical and mental
health and tends to causes a longer, happier life.
V.
CHELATION THERAPY AND THE SHEPHERD CONCEPT
Chelation therapy
involves giving a drug of other substance that binds toxic metals such as lead.
However, we find the body cannot eliminate lead and other toxic metals very
well if the shepherd concept is not
in play.
The shepherd
concept is that the body uses certain minerals, especially zinc, calcium and
magnesium, as shepherds to guide the safe and rapid elimination of toxic
metals. For details, read The Shepherd Concept.
In most
cases of chelation therapy, the shepherd concept is
not involved. In part, this is because the body is out of balance and too low
in adaptive energy. Also, most bodies are very deficient in the shepherd
minerals.
Responsible
practitioners supplement minerals, but may not know how much to give. Much worse is the problem that chelating
drugs tend to binds up calcium, zinc and other vital shepherd minerals,
rendering them biologically unavailable to the body.
The result
is the chelating drugs and the toxic metals tend to build up in the kidneys, in
particular, and damage them.
VI. HOW A DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM REMOVES TOXIC METALS
The
development program approaches the problem of toxic metals very differently
from chelation therapy. The program employs over 20 methods to remove toxic metals
at the same time.
They include
balancing the oxidation rate, improving the organs of elimination, making the body
more parasympathetic, removng the need for
adaptations to stress, improving digestion, improving hydration, improving
oxygenation of the tissues, and more.
This method
is much safer and removes much more of the toxic metals. For details about the methods, read Toxic Metals.
VII. OTHER TOPICS RELATED TO CHELATION THERAPY
IS DRINKING DISTILLED OR REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER A FORM OF CHELATION?
Not exactly because it does not involve a chemical or herb. However, the effect is very similar. That is, drinking mineral-free water will bind to and leach out of the body some minerals. It is sometimes called Òhungry waterÓ. Unfortunately, it does not just leach out toxic metals, but also removes vital nutrient minerals, as well.
For this reason, please do not drink reverse osmosis or distilled water. The only exception is that distilled water is occasionally helpful during a healing crisis for a few days or a week if one is eliminating toxic metals and needs to get them out faster.
There are other problems with distilled and reverse osmosis water, even though they are fairly pure and chemical-free. For more on this important subject, please read Water For Drinking on this website.
HOW
EFFECTIVE IS CHELATION THERAPY?
Heart disease (arteriosclerosis). Chelation
therapy definitely removes some toxic metals that lodge in the arteries. By so doing, it can improve blood flow
to the heart and other organs.
Over one thousand studies confirm this.
However, chelation therapy for heart disease is not medically
accepted. The likely reason for
this is that it competes directly with heart bypass and other common surgeries
that are major sources of income - literally in the billions of dollars - for
physicians, hospitals, drug companies and others who sell or supply various
medical items.
The claim
that chelation is not well-researched,
or that it is more dangerous than most heart surgery, is false. The ignorance and deception by the
medical journals and authorities on this subject are a sad reflection upon a
medical profession that supposedly exists to help people, rather than to harm
them or take their money.
The
statistics on bypass surgery, for example, show clearly that there are many
side effects that would be prevented if development, chelation
or other methods such as sauna therapy were tried first. The cost of chelation
and natural methods is often one tenth to one-one hundredth of bypass
surgery. Thus, bypass surgery is
quite insane today. Unfortunately,
chelation therapy is also unsafe, in my
experience. It is also not needed
because a properly
designed development program will clear the arteries and do it better than chelation possibly can.
Chelation for other diseases such as
dementia, diabetes, impaired circulation, and others. Fewer studies support the benefits of chelation therapy for other conditions, but it may help
reduce some symptoms because toxic metals cause so many ailments in modern day
society.
HOW
WE RECOMMEND REMOVING TOXIC METALS
Toxic metal
exposure is universal today.
Everyone has toxic metals.
To read why I say this, read Everyone Is Toxic. All children are born with some toxic
metals that pass through the placenta from their mothers. This is why removing toxic metals with
a development program BEFORE one becomes pregnant is very critical if one
wishes to have healthy children.
It does not matter how beautiful a young woman looks, or even if her
blood or hair tests indicate that she does not have toxic metals. They are just hidden in these cases.
After birth,
vaccine exposure is an important source of mercury and aluminum, along with
food, drinking water, pharmaceutical drugs of many kinds, over-the-counter
drugs, cosmetics, and other environmental sources. These include, but are not limited to air pollution, dental
amalgams and other dental materials, and contact with toxic metals at home and
at work.
In
development work, we assume that everyone has toxic metals. I have yet to work with anyone who is
not quite toxic. Toxic metals are
not the most important assessment.
It is far more important to figure out a personÕs energy level, exact
oxidation rate, ability to eliminate toxic metals, ability to digest and
assimilate nutrients and a few other parameters of health.
Once this is
done, Dr. EckÕs system involves designing a healing program that includes at
least 20 methods to gently and safely remove ALL the toxic metals and ALL toxic
chemicals in the body at the same time.
They include improving the vitality level, balancing the autonomic
nervous system (see Understanding The
Autonomic Nervous System), improving the eliminative organs, the use of
antagonists and synergists and much more.
For the specifics of these methods, read Toxic
Metals And How To Remove Them on this site.
WHERE
DO SAUNAS AND COFFEE ENEMAS FIT IN FOR TOXIC METAL REMOVAL?
In my
experience, saunas are the finest single additional modality with a development
program for toxic metal elimination.
They combine a number of effects that together produce wonderful
results. They are also safe and
very cost-effective. One can build
or buy a light sauna for several hundred dollars or less. Click here
for information about saunas.
In
essence, sauna therapy helps rejuvenate the skin, the largest eliminative organ
in the body. It helps decongest
the internal organs by shunting blood to the body surface. It helps to spare and protect the
kidneys, as most all toxins eliminated by the kidneys can be eliminated in the
sweat.
Heating the
body assists it to kill pathogenic microorganisms, and helps destroy weaker,
toxic metal-laden cells. Saunas
also drastically increase circulation, assisting to dislodge stored toxins and
assisting nutrients to reach all the cells to improve energy output.
The sauna is
also a powerful inhibitor of the sympathetic nervous system. According to Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology, when
heat is supplied from outside, normal heat production, a sympathetic activity, shuts down.
Also, shunting blood to the body surface to remove heat requires and
causes inhibition of the sympathetic system.
Infrared
energy supplied by far infrared and infrared light saunas adds other benefits
such as deep tissue heating, decoupling of toxins from water molecules,
production of heat shock proteins that help regenerate cellular structures, and
more. Saunas also have a long
history of safety that extends over literally thousands of years..
For
all these reasons, saunas are the finest single modality for toxic metal
removal. As added benefits, they
are also the best methods I have found to remove toxic chemicals, another
serious health hazard. They are
also powerful infection-fighters, and able to dig out old chronic infections
that deplete one's energy and secrete biological toxins that are hidden causes
of systemic disease.
Coffee enemas. These are also superb for removing most
toxins from the liver and large intestine. They should be included in any detoxification protocol for
this reason. For more information
about this unusual but very helpful therapy that can be done in the privacy of
your home, read Coffee Enemas on this website.
Home | Hair Analysis | Saunas | Books | Articles | Detox
Protocols
Courses | Contact Us | The Free Basic
Program