What is Chelation therapy? How would I find supportive MD of complimentary/alternative therapies?

Question

I am sick of meds... I am 50 and am having success with natural energies, nutritional suppliments etc. If I ever have to be hospitalized, I would want a supportive MD. I have talked with others about my desires, and am told that If MDs in this area of FL are open, they lose credibility and have even left the area to practice. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I have a couple of suggestions. First, are there any Naturopathic Physicians (N.D.s) in Florida? These are excellent doctors who specialize in alternative therapies, including chelation.

Second, you can find a list of qualified doctors in Functional Medicine (including N.D.s, D.C.s, D.O.s and M.D.s) at the website for "The Institute of Functional Medicine". They are located in Gig Harbor, Washington and have trained doctors from all over the country (including many doctors from leading medical schools). You can find their website by doing a web-search. Doctors that take a Functional Medicine approach focus on finding and treating the cause of ill health, rather than using drugs to mask symptoms. These doctors have to be 'masters' of biochemistry and physiology, which makes them 'rare' in the medical world. They can be miracle workers for patients with chronic health issues.

Hope this helps you. Best wishes and good luck.

Answer 2

Chelation Therapy: Unproven Claims and Unsound Theories Saul Green, Ph.D. Chelation cure, as mentioned listed here, is a sequence of intravenous infusions containing disodium EDTA and more than a few different materials. It is normally performed by means of swallowing EDTA or different sellers in capsule sort. Proponents declare that EDTA chelation cure is robust towards atherosclerosis and lots of different critical wellness disorders. Its use is preferred given that sufferers had been ended in consider that this can be a legitimate option to based clinical interventions comparable to coronary skip surgical procedure. However, there's no medical proof that that is so. It may be used to regard nonexistent "lead poisoning," "mercury poisoning," and different alleged poisonous states that practitioners diagnose with checks on blood, urine, and/or hair. I suppose AmyP is proper once more. I pulled the above from a further internet site - you'll google it if you happen to wish to.

Answer 3

In the late 70s and early 80s I worked in a holistic clinic in Southern California which specialized in chelation therapy for a long time. It's a process by which a person is injected via a very slow IV drip with a substance known as 'EDTA' which is known as a 'chelating agent.'

Ostensibly, EDTA binds with calcium in the walls of arteries upon which plaque accumulates, causing the plaque to dissolve and be eliminated through the metabolic pathways.

Chelation is the treatment of choice for heavy metal poisoning such as plumbism (lead) and mercury poisoning -- but has come under fire as a treatment for atherosclerosis.

Proponents of chelation attribute this to the very profitable cardiovascular surgery industry. Detractors call the science flawed and say that chelation does not work with calcium in the blood vessels as it does with heavy metal poisoning.

The results I witnessed during my tenure at the clinic I mentioned varied from apparent complete recovery to extrinsic cardiovascular collapse and death.

The treatment is expensive, you can expect to pay $100+ or so per treatment for 16 or so monthly treatments. There will be a need to replace vitamins and minerals which are removed during the process as well as the undesirable calcium from the walls of the arteries. This poses a very substantial expense as well for the duration of the treatment.

There is no guarantee that your results will be favorable.

The number of practitioners on the east coast who perform chelation therapy has increased since I was involved with the procedure.

My only concern is the fact that this therapy has been around a long time now and if it is so effective why isn't it totally mainstream by this point in time.