Q:
Is the pill form of Chelation Therapy an effective alternative to the more expensive IV therapy?
A: No, not by a long shot. The same rule applies for chelation therapy as it applies for just about everything else: You get what you pay for.
Your body only absorbs between 5 and 18 percent of the capsules, they can take hours to digest, and they’re packed with other fillers that reduce their efficacy – not to mention that a lot of people just find them hard to swallow.
I’ll tell you what I find hard to swallow – the idea that pills like this could be as effective as I.V. treatment.
Another question that comes up fairly often is whether the rapid-infusion EDTA (chelation) is as effective as the traditional form. No, no, no!
The best advice I could give you would be to stick to the protocol outlined by the absolute authority on chelation therapy, the American College for Advancement of Medicine (ACAM). Dr. Elmer Cranton, the former president of ACAM and one of the most respected physicians in alternative medicine, has had 40 years experience with chelation therapy. Here are his thoughts on rapid-infusion chelation:
“The only method of chelation therapy proven to be both safe and effective in clinical studies, backed by nearly 50 years of experience, is slowly administered infusions over three hours or longer of the full dose of disodium EDTA (with added magnesium).
“EDTA remains outside of the cells within the body, while much of the benefit occurs inside of cells. By bathing exterior cell walls with EDTA for several hoursit is possible to gradually balance mineral and trace element metabolism within the cells. That process is facilitated by slow and prolonged infusions. This iswhy the so-called ‘short bottle’ of disodium EDTA (half the dose in 90 minutes) is less effective than full-dose, three-hour infusions.”
At one time, I was giving two- to two-and-a-half-hour infusions. It was so much more convenient for my patients and for me. But, I decided, who am I to change something that has been working with safety and efficacy for 50 years?
So I went back to the proven protocol, and recommend that you do, too.
