“Published research and extensive clinical experience showed that EDTA helped reduce and prevent arteriosclerotic plaques, thus improving blood flow to the heart and other organs. The scientific evidence indicates that a course of EDTA chelation therapy might eliminate the need for bypass surgery.” Dr. Linus Pauling, MD, PhD, Scientist, Two-time Nobel Prize winner and the "Father of Vitamin C""I now achieve more lasting results with less risk, enhancing the benefits of surgery, and often avoiding surgery, by providing chelation therapy for my patients."Dr. Peter J. Van Der Schaar, Cardiac Surgeon, Director, International Biomedical Center, The Netherlands. Chairman of American Board of Chelation Therapy"That such a breakthrough treatment for Heart Disease, Diabetes and Stroke has been purposely withheld from the public is a crime."E. W. McDouagh, the author of “Chelation Can Cure”"The Meta-Analysis (of 22,765 patients) revealed a correlation coefficient of 0.88, which indicates a high positive relationship between EDTA therapy and improved cardiovascular function.
Eighty-seven percent of the patients included in the meta-analysis demonstrated clinical improvement by objective testing."L. Terry Chappell, M.D. and John P. Stahl, Ph.D.: The Correlation Between EDTA Chelation Therapy and Improvement in Cardiovascular Function: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Advancement in Medicine, Vol 6, Number 3, Fall 1993"Because I know that this treatment has saved my father’s life, there will never be enough days or ways for me to tell about the miracle healing power of chelation therapy.I am extremely grateful that chelation is available in our country. Also, I tremendously admire the heroic doctors who provide the treatment for their patients."Skoshi Thedford Farr, Genesis Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma"I have taken seventy-four chelation injections. In this way, I have bypassed the triple bypass, which would have put my life on the line and would have cost me about forty thousand dollars.I continue to take chelation therapy, following a strict diet in accordance with the program set forth by the American College of Advancement in Medicine, including no refined sugars, no caffeine, no nicotine, no red meat, and no fat.
And I take my nutritional and pharmaceutical chelating agents faithfully.Even in my younger years, I hadn’t felt as well as I do today."Floyd B. Coleman, M.D., Waterloo, Indiana ( who has 100 per cent occlusion of a major coronary artery and 90 to 95 per cent occlusions of the rest of coronary arteries and was advised to have coronary bypass surgery)"The conclusion to be drawn is that in the dosage of 3 gm EDTA per day chelation is a safe and effective modality for occlusive vascular disorders. The therapy appears to enhance renal blood flow, increase the out put of urinary calcium, and lower the blood pressure in the arms and legs. It substantially lessens the requirements for nitroglycerin and other cardiovascular medications used for relief of angina. Patients in the program reported marked improvement in daily exercise tolerance."Clinical Studies of 216 patients (who suffered from coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension and cerebrovascular disease) by Keith W. Sehnert, M. D. and Ann F. Clague Ph.D. in August 1983"An accumulated experience with several hundred patients has demonstrated that the overall relief from the manifestations of occlusive vascular disease has been superior to that obtained with other methods.
In occlusive vascular disease of the brain there has been uniform relief of vertigo, and the signs of senility, even when advanced, have been significantly relieved.In summary, the treatment of atherosclerotic vascular complications with the chelating agent EDTA is supported by a large volume of information."Norman E. Clark, Sr., M.D., Director of medical research at the Providence Hospital in Detroit, in the article in August 1960 issue of “ The American Journal of Cardiology”, Vol. II, Number 2"In the annals of medicine, numbers of patient case histories stand out, and for chelation therapy it is no different. The classic case of diabetic gangrene reversal, deserves repeating. It’s the case that startles anyone because of the photographs accompanying the patient’s record. It’s the case that set a precedent for the treatment of diabetic gangrene.Heretofore the process of gangrene was not reversible. But now, with administration of chelation therapy, it is. The treatment has saved the limbs of over 950 patients who were scheduled to have their lower limbs cut off but did not require amputation because they received chelation therapy instead."
The Chelation Answer, M. Evans and Co., 216 East 49th Street, New York, NY 10017, 1982.Are multivitamin supplements useless? Does the science all point to these pills being a complete waste of money and time? This is simply not true, and you should know why. In a letter in Annals of Internal Medicine, nutrition experts from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Tufts University, and the Harvard School of Public Health gather scientific evidence to show that the conclusions to stop your multivitamins are just plain wrong (Guallar et al., “Enough Is Enough”). First, be aware that multivitamins are not miracles. They can’t cure every disease, nor are they designed to do so. However, they are intended to supplement a diet that may not be reach recommended levels of all vitamins and minerals. And this is not an usual – national surveys say that many American adults do not meet vitamin and mineral intake recommendations from diet alone: at least 90% don’t get enough vitamins D and E, 60% a low in magnesium, and about 50% are lacking enough vitamin A and calcium.
Taking a daily multivitamin helps to fill many of these nutritional gaps effectively, safely, and at low cost. But this campaign against multivitamin supplements has recently taken on a new life. Where did it start? Three recent publications has set new fuel for this most recent fire. But do these articles really condemn multivitamins as useless? The first article, conducted by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, gathered data from vitamin studies involving more than 400,000 people. To quote the article directly: “Two large trials [with 27,658 individuals] reported lower cancer incidence in men taking a multivitamin for more than 10 years.” Although there appeared to be no overall effects on cardiovascular disease, there is no reason to discount these cancer results out of hand. The second article was conducted as part of the Physicians Health Study (PHS II), which examined the effect of a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement on cognitive function in male physicians.
The main conclusion of this study was that there were no significant cognitive health benefits in people over the age of 65 taking a multivitamin/mineral compared to those who took a placebo pill. However, as explained in the PHS II report, the subjects of this trial had a decent diet and were highly-educated men, so the benefits on cognition were not expected based on previous studies using multivitamins. Nonetheless, previously published data from PHS II (the same study group) showed other benefits from multivitamins, including reduced risks of cancer and cataracts. So following a conclusion that these cognitive data provide “no benefit” of multivitamin use is clearly not examining all the evidence. The third study was a little unusual: it used a high-dose multivitamin/mineral supplement to prevent a recurrent cardiovascular event in people who already had a heart attack. The main conclusion of this study was that there was no benefit or harm of the multivitamin regimen.
However, a closer look at the data showed that people taking high-dose multivitamins showed fewer cardiovascular events (such as stroke, heart attack, etc.) versus the placebo group at every time point after the first year of the study. But the results never reached statistical significance, so an overall conclusion about the multivitamins could not be made. Several limitations plagued this study’s conclusions. First, it was primarily designed to test the effect of chelation therapy with vitamin therapy on cardiovascular events and not just focused on multivitamins. The individuals in this study were low in number , on multiple prescription medications, and approximately 30% of them had diabetes. Additionally, almost half left the study before its conclusion! Furthermore, this supplement was not a typical multivitamin: it contained more than the daily value (%DV) of 15 of vitamins and minerals, but contained other non-essential compounds (like citrus bioflavonoids). Despite all of this, there was a result from this study that is not often discussed: of the individuals who did not take drugs to lower their cholesterol (statins), the multivitamin regiment showed a significantly lower rate for cardiovascular events versus those who took a placebo.
In other words, the use of statins – while certainly of benefit to individuals who have had a heart attack – may have hidden the cardiovascular benefits of the multivitamin therapy. If anything, the conclusions of this study should not suggest that multivitamins are “useless,” but are instead deserving of further investigation, especially in individuals who cannot take statins because of allergy or other side effects. If we go beyond these three articles, the benefits of taking multivitamins are multifold: they supply micronutrients to those in more critical need, such as older adults, people who have poor access to fresh fruit and vegetables (and children who refuse to eat them), people who are obese, women who are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant, and some people who are ill or injured. The fact of the matter is that multivitamin/mineral supplements are designed to supply the body with micronutrients that allow for its proper function – they are designed to keep us in good health.