Chelation therapy has its uses for removing heavy metals but is extremely dangerous if used in the wrong hands. The article does not mention that children with Autism have died who have been treated with Chelation. It also doesn't mention that the high number of drop outs could have easily proven that the very tiny benefit shown could have been nil.

If you want to reduce cardiac disease and don't want to use modern medicine the CHANGE YOUR DIET and EXERCISE! A good healthy low fat diet with veggies, whole grains, lean meats, etc. is safe and it won't kill you. The problem with our society is that people want to do whatever they want and not have any consequences or take a pill/treatment and "fix it." That is not how life works no matter how much we try to make it so.

Why couldn't the benefit shown be from the heparin, which has an anti-clotting effect and wasn't given to the control group? Or was the amount of heparin too small to have a systemic effect? It seems like the heparin could benefit heart patients the same way aspirin therapy does.

Moreover, I'm highly suspicious of this study because of the unusually high dropout rate. This study was funded by an alternative medicine organization, and the results could easily be skewed by having some of the high risk individuals or those with impending problems encouraged or incentivized to drop out, therefore inflating the success rate of the chelation group. I would really like to know if the percentage dropping out of the control group was as high as for the experimental group. I suspect not.

I think that it is important to note that this is not the same as using chelation therapy to treat people who have heavy metal poisoning, such as welder who refuse to use respirators.

EDTA chelation therapy for heart and vascular disease has been utilized by doctors for 60 years. Many studies were published in the past, most of which were positive, but none were large enough to have statistical significance. Still doctors continue to do it because of clinical results in patients. This is the same substance and process of chelation that is used to treat heavy metals, and the effect the treatment has on calcium has been seen as a positive side benefit if you can justify the treatment for metal toxicity. We have published a short history of chelation therapy for heart disease here:

EDTA chelation therapy for heart and vascular disease is an alternative therapy that has been utilized for 60 years. Many smaller studies and papers have been published in the past. We have posted a short history of the treatment here Cardiologists are now faced with a low cost competition to their monopoly on treatment, and there will be considerable backlash.

Despite warnings from friends and family, my mother in law had chelation therapy as opposed to double bypass. That was 20 years ago, she will be 90 this year. She is in amazing condition, physically and mentally, and she even looks younger than her 3 daughters.

Say/think what you will - my father underwent cheation therapy - his heart ejection rate went from 15 to 45. He died from congestive heart failure 12 years ago, but after two bypass surgeries (6 each time), I have no doubt the chelation therapy improved his quality of life and allowed us to have him with us 4 or 5 extra years.

"Our findings are unexpected" Just how many times do we hear that from some of these experts? Chelation has it's uses ,but like natural chelators and diets ,etc. you need to know what you need to supplement youself with to safely do this. How long do we have to wait for the mainstreme doctors to realize the effect of heavy metals on the body and to do the tests for them?

Chelation therapy was used during WWII for the men that painted the warships. Paint had lead in it back then. One of the benefits besides lead removal is improved ciruclatiion. Metals are in the air, foods, our dental fillings and water. www.acam.org The American College for Advancement in Medicine; www.iaomt.org International Association for Oral Metal Toxicology. Yes, it removes metals and minerals and calcium build up in the arteries is the cause of plaque buildup within the cells of the arteries. The patent ran out on EDTA the initial compound and there was no financial incentive to use it. DMPS, DMSA are also compounds used by certified chelation physicians that are not mainstream. It is extremely beneficial and an alternative to surgery. Yes, diet and exercise help, but not if the toxicity has already manifested. The source of toxicity needs to be removed prior to beginning chelation therapy.

I can show you the graves of several people that used chelation therapy in home town, 1 being my father. He had 33 treatmments. This stuff kills.

Chelation itself though over the counter supplements like IP6 taken in the evening before bed can have profound preventative medicine effects on people. As long as you do not interfere with your bodies ability to uptake the minerals that it needs, removing excess is always a good thing. This is especially true when it comes to things such as iron which most Americans get too much of due to food fortified with it... or other heavy metals.

I have had chelation therapy and found it to be beneficial for me. I was having extreme chest pain before I had chelation therapy and it alleviated the pain about halfway through the treatments. The only downside was that my health insurance would not cover it. I think 5 to 6 thousand for treatment is way less than what it costs for a bypass or angioplasty. If you are having chest pain and the accepted ways of treatment are not helping you, you owe it to yourself to try this non invasive treatment

My father felt great also right upto his massive heart attack. I miss wrote on my earlier post, He actually had 44 treatments the Dr. recommended 33 treatments. When he was first diagnosed his worst blockage was 40% after a couple of years and 44 treatments later his autopsy showed 99% blockage.

My father died at 53, for your families sake get real treatment. Bypass is not that bad, I am speaking from experience.

Did the individuals treating these dying autistics have a lab do a trace mineral analysis to see if they actually had excessive levels of heavy metals in their systems? And were patients supplemented with vital trace minerals such as magnesium while all this chelating was going on? If not, there may be a case for malpractice.