If someone acquires an illness, the causal factor is an infection or a poisoning.   The first course of action is to discard any possibilities of a bacterial, parasitic or viral infection by using pertinent lab values, serological studies and gold standard cultures.  If none of these admonitions pan out, the disease is caused by a poisoning.  The most common poisonings result from the administration of metal salts.  A quick mass spectrometry or HPLC determines the causal agent and treatment follows.

Most chronic degenerative conditions like:

Diabetes

Autoimmune syndromes and lupus

Arteriosclerosis and myocarditis

Neuralgias and paresthesia’s                        

 Result from the acute or chronic ingestion of metal salts.  Our pluralistic society preserves foods with metal salts and this action while resulting in an increasing gross income for corporations and miniscule loss from spoilage, causes untold cases of acute renal failure, hypertension and heart attack. 

Iron salts cause diabetes mellitus and liver necrosis.  Chromium and Nickel cause autoimmune syndromes.  Heavy metals ruin the countercurrent multiplication apparatus in the kidney and provoke renal failure.  The accumulation of transition metal ions in the circulatory system causes hardening with resultant emboli and stricture.  Any metal ion administered chronically or in a huge bolus provokes an illness or organ failure.  Big business preserves foods with metals to increase profit.  What are the little men of this world to do when fresh produce and meat is not available for consumption.  Any baked goods, pastel or grain concoction can be considered suspect.  What can we do?

Chelation therapy reverses the degenerative processes of metal intoxication.  The problem with chelation therapy is cost and compliance.  Chelation by a physician is costly and may take up to ten years for completion.  A patient must meticulously and assiduously persevere in a prolonged chelation course to achieve health once again.

The chelation agents available are many.  Russian agents are unknown to western civilization.  The main agents known to American medicine are BAL, EDTA, desferoxamine and stibocaptine.  British anti-lewisite is efficacious against heavy metals.  EDTA is a commercial agent that can be administered orally that removes most divalent cations from the body.   Desferoxamine is an agent used for iron therapy and also mercury, it is given parenterally.   Stibocaptine is a Russian agent with poorly known qualities.  There exist other agents but this author is not familiar with them.  It is of the author’s opinion that chelation therapy is best administered by a physician trained in their use as all medicines have acute toxicities and side effects that are best noted and treated by those trained in their use.  As always, Medicine is expensive and the long term treatment with chelation agents might be out of the pocket book of many to whom it is most surely deserved.