healingways
CHelATION
Therapy
Offers whole-Body detox
by lee walker
d
r. Jeffrey Morrison, founder of treatments.”
The Morrison Center in New It’s uplifting for health care prac-
York, serves on the board of titioners to see patients who formerly
directors of the American Academy had to pop nitro pills to walk from the
for the Advancement of Medicine, or parking lot to the doctor’s office, un-
ACAM (formerly American Academy dergo treatment and reduce their nitro
of Medical Preventics). This leading intake to once a week. Smith has also
authority and educator of physicians witnessed the improvement of patients,
and health care providers on the who prior to chelation, could barely
For the past 50
proper use of chelation therapy first walk because of poor circulation. After
advises, “The accumulation of toxic treatments, some took up walking one
years, more than
metals in the body’s tissues can lead to two miles daily.
to elevated blood pressure, the risk of Chelation therapy’s long and varied
a million patients heart disease and neuro-degenerative history began in 1893, when French-
have undergone
conditions.” Then Morrison points to Swiss chemist Alfred Werner developed
accumulating case studies that prove the theory of coordination compounds,
chelation therapy
the relationship. known today as chelates. Chelation
A family history of heart disease (key-layshun) derives from the Greek
for a wide range
led Gary Gallo, a medical doctor with chele, meaning to claw. Chelating
of circulatory
the Chelation Center of Naples, to use agents are substances that can chemi-
chelation therapy to reduce his own cally bond with toxic minerals, metals
problems. Yet, at
high mercury levels. “Mercury attacks and chemicals within the body. They
present, the u.S.
the nervous system, kidneys and heart,” encircle and carry away the unwanted
notes Gallo. He explains that the pres- matter from the body via excretion.
Food and Drug
ence of heavy metals in the body helps Werner received the
free radicals to form. This can lead to Nobel Prize for his work in 1913 and
Administration the buildup of plaque in the arteries, as went on to establish the science of
only approves
well as irregularities in heart rhythm, chelation chemistry.
arthritis-like joint pain, chronic fatigue, Germany put Werner’s discovery
the therapy for
motor dysfunction and the decline of to use in the manufacture of industrial
mental acuity. paints, which required the elimination of
treatment of heavy
A recommended series of 30 treat- heavy metal contamination. Rather than
metal poisoning.
ments, which can only be administered be dependent upon imported citric acid
by a physician, is accompanied by for their manufacturing process, the Ger-
What do these
comprehensive testing before, dur- man chemists invented a safe amino acid
patients know that
ing and after chelation. “Many people known as ethylenediamine tetra-acedic
show improvement with 20 treatments,” acid (EDTA), now also used in chelation
officials have yet to
comments Diana Smith, a registered therapy.
nurse with the Chelation Center of Further experimentation and
understand? Naples. “When they feel the difference, research into this science from the
patients go on for another 10 or more 1940s to the 1980s led to the applica-
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