It’s indisputable that exercise and proper eating habits are two inescapable disciplines that we must have in order to maintain health and fitness. However, in our polluted world today, these two alone can’t guarantee our being safe from diseases. Hence, we take vitamins and supplements and such.
One way that we can assure ourselves of a healthy heart — after all, it’s one of the most important organs we have to protect — is to take up chelation therapy. This is when a chelating agent is administered in order to get rid of heavy metals in your body. One of the desired effects of this therapy is to unblock arteries by removing plaque that causes heart disease.
Traditionally, chelation therapy is used to remove lead, arsenic, mercury and other dangerous metals from the body. In layman’s terms, how this happens is that, chelating agents (such as EDTA) chemically bind themselves to the metals and thus help the body flush them out. The process of chelation was used heavily during World War I to counter the effects of poison gas.
However, the medical community today apparently does not endorse chelation therapy as a proven method for treating heart ailments. This type of therapy is actually considered as being part of alternative medicine. Still, this should not be cause for concern because alternative medicine doesn’t have a bad batting average, in my opinion.
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November 4th, 2008 at 8:28 am
This did wonders for me. I stopped getting headaches and many of the digestion problems I had went away. It was amazing therapy and I highly recomment it for others.
jh
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