One-Minute Push of Calcium EDTA
The 1-minute straight IV push method of administration of
CALCIUM EDTA has been safely used in Europe
for over 30 years. Doctor Blumer near Zurich, Switzerland
has given tens of thousands of these without adverse effect
and followed his patients for up to 30 years afterward. He
has reported an unbelievable 80-90% reduction in the incidence
of heart attacks and cancer in his patients who took at least
30 of these. These pushes may be given 2-3 times a week
when the patients' need for detoxification is greater, or
monthly when they are being primarily given for preventive
purposes.
We have physician colleagues that have taken over 2000 IV's
of 3 gram dosages, at the slow 1.5 - 3 hour rate which has
been the primary method of administration of EDTA in the United
States. I recommend that my patients should understand that
the proven benefits and the minimum risk associated with the
clinical use of EDTA suggests that if they feel the benefits
from these IV pushes, they may safely plan to continue to
use these IV push treatments preventatively for as long as
they want, but probably less frequently once their primary
health problem has been resolved.
We have all seen or heard about dramatic benefits in some
patients receiving the old slow IV EDTA infusions. Now I have
been hearing those stories and more from physicians following
the basic simple protocol I am proposing here. And we are
hearing about even more dramatic success stories from the
physicians that I work with who are going ahead and developing
more complex and specialized protocols to be used in the treatment
of advanced complex diseases.
By starting with this basic approach you will be amazed at
the clinical responses you will be seeing in your patients
with virtually any health problem. You may become interested
in attending more conferences and sharing with your colleagues
ideas that arise out of this affordable and convenient new
application of IV EDTA. Since the 1-minute push is painless
and takes so little time, the opportunity exists to offer
other IV therapies during that same visit, depending of course
on the patient's needs. This 1-minute application hopefully
might even finally induce all of the health practitioners
offering this wonderful heavy metal detoxification technique
to REGULARLY do this for themselves as well as their families
and staff.
I assure you that based on the compliments I get everywhere
I go that you will look and feel so much better that your
patients will just ask to do whatever YOU are doing for YOUR
health. This way there is no need to sell the benefits of
effective heavy metal detoxification to your patients. They
will ask for it. The provocative urine and fecal mineral tests
appropriately done I assure you, will routinely find such
elevated levels in virtually every patient, that they will
want the treatment described in this protocol now. That documentation
in your chart protects you and your medical board regarding
any charges of over utilization etc.
However your diagnosis is NOT lead poisoning EXCEPT when
the report really reveals levels way above the levels you
will discover in all of us. I suggest the diagnosis is that
you have "evidence of increased body burden of toxic
metals," that in your professional opinion, is not in
the best interest of the patient in attempting to meet their
stated health goal. SEE urine and fecal testing guidelines
on my website.
In other words, patients with arthritis, cancer, asthma,
autism etc. all deserve to receive PHYSICIAN SUPERVISED ELECTIVE
HEAVY METAL DETOXIFICATION from you, but if you call this
"poisoning", you will have to be prepared one day
to defend that diagnosis in court. The lead industry and all
other polluters have their "experts" just like the
cigarette industry had. You will need to have LOTS of experience
and special knowledge to warrant third party reimbursement
for this treatment on your patients if you plan to use a diagnosis
of either toxicity or metal poisoning, since the polluting
industries can safely argue that most of us are "safely"
enduring this level of mercury etc in our bodies, and in their
eyes these toxins have nothing to do with health. Of course
I am convinced that these "average" levels are lowering
the vitality and health of everyone on earth, but patients
must understand this is my opinion and why.
I am concerned that although I can prove the substantial
benefits and only remote risks are associated with the routine
ingestion of EDTA, most health professionals or the public
they serve simply do not understand the facts, which is why
I have placed so many abstracts on my website, so that everyone
can be fully informed and decide for themselves. Calcium EDTA
is about as safe and costs about the same as Vitamin C. I
am convinced that I can rationally argue that EDTA should
today be seriously considered to be a conditionally essential
"nutrient" for those desiring optimal health while
living on our seriously polluted planet. Therefore, my position
is that all of us seriously underutilize EDTA. For example,
not taking at least 800 mg orally every day, since it provides
so many health benefits in every condition through its non-
controversial and readily provable detoxification effects.
See my website for 500 + PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS from mainstream
literature documenting the detoxification benefits of oral
EDTA.
I suggest that patients should not plan to stop the oral
chelation nor the elective IV pushes, even after they have
seen all their symptoms go away; this includes normalizing
blood pressure levels, increasing energy, relief of vague
non-specific symptoms, etc. that patients on this program
routinely enjoy. EDTA based heavy metal detoxification, augmented
with other oral chelators including garlic, which actually
helps remove mercury from the brain, helped by malic acid
and dl Methionine are a basic part of my approach to every
chronic degenerative disease. The other ESSENTIAL parts of
my approach are correcting the hypercoagulability and lowering
the microbial load. If you learn to address all THREE of these
issues concurrently, there is virtually no patient that you
cannot significantly help. We have two well known 90+ year
old CHELATING physicians who have personally taken over 2000
IV chelations in their lifetime. They appear 20+ years younger
than their chronological age. This conclusively has convinced
me that there is little possibility for most of us ever overdoing
EDTA therapy. The Intravenous CALCIUM EDTA that I use is available
from Apothecure Pharmacy in Dallas, TX. A common package size
provides 30 mg vials and each cc contains 300 mg. (twice as
concentrated as the old Disodium EDTA we have used in the
past)
This is given through a 23-gauge butterfly infusion needle
and usually we simply take an empty disposable 10 cc plastic
syringe and give the CALCIUM EDTA directly in the vein with
this syringe without any dilution. This is administered over
10-120 seconds. LONGER is permissible, as you have to feel
comfortable, and some still prefer to put this in some solution
and infuse it over 30 minutes, but I hope, for maximum detoxification
effects, it is not given any slower. Some may add other IV
therapies, before or after the administration of the EDTA
push, at the same visit, depending on the other therapy and
the reason it is being given, particulary if giving an oxidative
therapy, I believe EDTA may more advantageously be given after
the other therapy.
The dose is 50 mg per Kgm body weight so a 70 Kgm
person might get up to a 3.5 Gm dose but since it has been
documented to provide such profound benefits at the 2-3 gm
dosages, we actually rarely give over 3 Gm per person (10
cc); and for long-term maintenance dosages, excellent results
are reported in Europe with just 1.5 to 2 Gm (5 - 6.66 cc)
when given by this direct IV push method. I tend to try and
use the higher permissible dose when doing the provocative
test, which should ideally be done on either the first or
second treatments. Sometime a small dose of 1.5 Gm on the
first visit allays the patient's concerns and then you can
do the provocative with the highest permissible dose on the
second visit. I generally use the largest permissible dose
because I am training Physicians and patients on the first
or second IV push to look at this new technique as a provocative
test, like looking at the oil dipstick on your car to see
how dirty the oil has become. The hair test is useful for
screening purposes, but this IV push really uncovers substantial
toxicities not seen on hair, as the exposure may have been
some time ago.
Subsequently, if, as is the case with a few elderly weak
or low body weight patients, they inform you that their first
push where you gave the full dose, perhaps 3 Gm., made them
a little weak for a few hours, there is no real need to stay
at that higher level, so plan to reduce to as little as 1.5
GM. However, as they detoxify over the first 5-30 of these
IV pushes, we find that generally they can easily tolerate
the higher doses. This, of course, is not to exceed the dose
that they are eligible to receive based on the 50 mg per Kgm
dose rule, and depending on renal status. Thus, never hesitate
to use the lower doses of 1.5 to 2 Gm dosages for ANY Reason,
following the first provocative test. We have learned from
Dr. Blumer's experience in Switzerland that most of the
dramatic LONG-TERM benefits of reduced heart disease and cancer
are achieved in his patients with as little as 1.5 to 2 Gm.,
although he felt somewhat more confident of routinely achieving
the full benefits at the 2 Gm dose.
I believe however, that we have become so toxic today, that
those whose weight warrants and who clearly tolerate well
the dose of 3 Gm, as 98% seem to, should receive that full
dose for the extra detoxification effect. I also must report
that I have had dramatic success in patients who can not or
will not take the IV's and instead have worked with me on
higher doses of oral EDTA, such as the over 6 GM daily by
mouth I have been on now for 6 + months, and over 2 Gm daily
for years. (as in 15 Essential Daily Defense)
The parenteral dose of EDTA must be somewhat lower in patients
that have known renal insufficiency. I have long ago carefully
spelled this out in what is now known as the ABCT/ ACAM protocol,
that I originally wrote almost 30 years ago, and has been
SAFELY used on over 1 million patients. We know that about
1-2 per 100 chelation patients may see some transient decreased
renal function with parenteral EDTA chelation, although I
am not aware that this has ever been reported with oral EDTA.
However, it seems clear that if the lower doses outlined in
the old protocol are adhered to, and adequate time between
infusions (or pushes) is given, we actually have shown the
reversal of renal insufficiency with EDTA so frequently that
we have come to virtually routinely expect to document evidence
of improving renal function in over 99% of cases treated as
outlined in the protocol. We have even successfully administered
IV EDTA to patients that were on dialysis and some of these
patients no longer need dialysis.
Nonetheless, living in a litigious society, good medical
practice requires some type of informed consent in treating
patients in anyway that is even slightly "off label".
In other words, you are now using EDTA for its FDA approved
purpose of treating increased body burden of toxic metals
as revealed on laboratory tests. However, since the rapid
administration was not routine in the US, you need to inform
your patients that in the United States, most EDTA has been
only administered by slow infusion. I suggest you can explain
that this 11/2 - 3 hour treatment has been extremely useful
to the over 1 million patients who have received IV Chelation
therapy under the old ACAM protocol that I originally wrote,
and certainly many physicians may wish to continue to offer
that method that we all have become so accustomed to, but
since that method was not very effectively removing mercury,
alternate the old slow IV with the IV push technique.
Our deteriorating environment along with the increasing recognition
of the adverse effects on our health of even the "average"
levels of toxic metals that we are all routinely exposed to
today, makes me convinced that we now will find even more
advantages for our patients, particularly in many non cardiovascular
related conditions, to also offer EDTA using the rapid 1 minute
approach. This is because we can readily document vastly augmented
detoxification benefits over anything ever seen with the slower
1-3 hour approach, or even with other available, often more
toxic and clearly more expensive, chelators. We can prove
this in almost any patient by sending a fecal and a 6-hour
urine mineral test off after the old method of chelation and
then repeating these two tests a few days later using my well
proven oral EDTA product (EDD), combined with 1-minute IV
EDTA technique. The resulting dramatic increase in toxic metals
seen in urine and feces using this protocol will astound and
convince you.
This new approach is documenting excretion of toxic heavy
metals coming out in levels never routinely seen before with
any method of administration or any other chelator currently
available anywhere. It still remains to be determined if the
1-3 hour Disodium EDTA Chelation method may still have some
superior anti-aging or other benefits. I believe it is possible
that it may be somewhat more effective in certain conditions
and those doing well with that approach may still see additional
benefits if they occasionally do the rapid IV method for its
enhanced detoxification effects.
I still believe that the parathormone induction is very beneficial
in some conditions, potentially in osteoporosis. This induction
is only possible with the slow IV use of DISODIUM EDTA, which
however, is so painful for some patients that many have unfortunately
given up chelation entirely, to their own great detriment.
Clearly Disodium EDTA MUST continue to be given slowly, and
since many will want to continue because it has helped so
many patients, we can look to the outcome of major studies
currently planned for Disodium EDTA to help us determine its
proper place. I always believed that this slow IV administration
method provides enhanced benefits for our patients where we
knew we were dealing with various aspects of metastatic and
pathologic calcium accumulation. Now, however, the research
about nanobacteria and pathologic calcification being treated
with rectal suppositories and tetracycline may largely supplant
the need for the slow IV drip of Disodium EDTA.
NOTE: I am convinced that rectal administration of CALCIUM
EDTA is not better absorbed than orally administered EDTA.
Therefore, unless it is artificially prevented from being
excreted from the body, rectal suppositories should not be
providing any benefits above those obtained with oral and
rapid IV Calcium EDTA. It is claimed by some that they are
seeing a higher blood level after many hours with their rectal
suppositories, however, I prefer to maintain good blood levels
of EDTA by taking small more frequent oral doses, so that
the heavy metals EDTA attracts are not kept in the body, but
are continuously being excreted. Perhaps the main indication
for rectal suppositories is when the patient is unable to
swallow or has an extremely sensitive stomach.
Unfortunately, since some patients failed to see reversal
of their elevated coronary calcification levels as measured
on E.B.T. (Electron Beam Tomography) or on coronary ultra
fast cat scans with the old chelation technique as adopted
by ACAM some 30 years ago, we now find a big interest in more
effective approaches and certainly the work with rectal suppositories
deserves careful consideration. There is always something
more to learn and I prefer to use the oxidative therapies
to the rectal suppositories in combination with this protocol,
but there is a need to accumulate more data. The inability
to reverse some coronary calcifications with the old protocol
that I initially wrote, has put pressure on chelating doctors
to broaden their approach to Cardiovascular disease and treat
every associated risk factor vigorously, whether it is elevations
of c-reactive protein, homocysteine of Lpa. This protocol
is merely another step in helping to develop new protocols
that can save at least some of the best and most predictable
of the chelation benefits we have all seen in nearly 1 million
patients, most of which I now suspect may have been due to
improved NO (Nitric Oxide) induction, and not due to any roto-rooter
effect or actual plaque removal.
Obviously with all of these potential considerations, we
have to cover at least the relevant aspect of this for our
prospective chelation patients planning to receive the rapid
I minute IV push. Some of these patients may still be laboring
under the belief that any form of chelation works essentially
as a form of "Drano" and is cleaning their arteries.
It is nice that many patients feel as though this must be
happening when they can function so much better after a series
of these. But as a procedure that arguably may be considered
by some to be experimental, because we are not waiting for
full-blown metal poisoning to develop, and therefore we are
providing it as an elective procedure and we are giving it
more rapidly than is commonly done in this country may well
warrant your providing a full informed
consent.
I recommend obtaining an informed consent for the protection
of all involved, and I believe we must try to inform our patients
as accurately as possible the benefits and potential risks.
You should explain that detoxification can lead to increased
NO and, therefore even though they may soon have more energy
and be able to do much more physically, they may still have
the 90% obstruction or more, in a major vessel than they started
out with. This is confusing for patients who see their marked
increase in exercise tolerance, and can not understand how
they may at the same time look worse on their next arteriogram
or heart scan, and some, particularly those who fail to stay
on my effective natural anti-clotting therapies, which I build
around oral chelation, may even sustain a heart attack or
stroke. There are answers to every problem and we cannot cover
all of molecular cardiology here, but for example, calcium
pump in endothelial cells can not function effectively to
pump calcium out of cells until fully cleared of all toxins.
Furthermore, the chronic hidden infections that we all have,
like chlamydia, CMV, nanobacteria etc. may require oxidative
therapies and my chronic infection protocol.
Furthermore, there is a need to adequately address the subject
of renal function and why monitoring is needed. After the
successful safe treatment now of over 1 million patients with
EDTA, is seems clear that I am not recommending these patients
be required to have any creatinine clearance testing, unless
there is some abnormality seen in other tests that require
further evaluation. I believe in the interests of controlling
medical costs, that a simple Urinanalysis provides enough
information for monitoring most patients, unless there is
a history of some known renal problem or previous abnormal
renal function test then an occasional serum bun and creatinine.
We recognize that any renal testing related to chelation
therapy, unless it is for DOCUMENTABLE metal poisoning cases,
is not considered reimbursable by some insurance companies
such as Medicare, since they feel the test is being done to
monitor an uncovered experimental therapy. In this case, most
of your patients will be choosing ELECTIVE heavy metal detoxification
the same as they might choose to have plastic surgery. This
logically makes any renal monitoring you order, UNLESS for
other reasons, unrelated to their receiving EDTA, which reason
must be documented in the chart, a non-reimbursable procedure
for most patients.
We do not want to waste patient's precious economic resources
on low yield extensive renal tests, but since some forms of
renal abnormalities are rampant in the population, good medical
practice requires your good judgment on this critical issue.
This is particularly in view of the probably somewhat incorrect
or slightly misleading admonition in the old protocols that
administration of EDTA slowly increased the safety for the
kidneys. It now seems on reconsideration of this point, that
since we have successfully chelated patients who were already
on dialysis, that in fact, patients with compromised renal
function automatically take far longer for the EDTA to clear,
and the rate of administration is minimally if at all important
in safety. Total dose and FREQUENCY of administration however
appear to be important factors in potential for renal toxicity.
The new concept that I advocate of NEVER giving parenteral
chelation with EDTA without concurrently providing oral EDTA
is because oral EDTA is only 5-18% absorbed so the remainder
can remain in the intestine where it is able to chelate any
toxic metals presented through the bile and through the bowel/capillary
interface by the IV EDTA. This oral EDTA then can trap and
hold these toxins; largely eliminating the enterohepatic reuptake
of these toxins that was apparently an unrecognized aspect
of all parenterally administered EDTA. This enterohepatic
reuptake was markedly decreasing the detoxification efficiency
of all parenterally administered EDTA, now shown by the augmented
excretion levels being seen in fecal tests on patients receiving
concurrent IV and oral BROAD spectrum chelating agents as
found in EDD (Essential Daily Defense). Remember, we seldom
have only 1 metal present in excessive amounts and no single
chelator adequately binds all the toxic metals that we are
routinely finding on the Doctors Data reports.
Provocative Urine and Fecal Testing
I urge patients to get this test (Provocative
Urine and Fecal Test) done on the first or at least by the
second IV push. Of course it is best to obtain those measurements
early on and to have them in the doctors chart for documentation
that you were treated for elevated body burden of toxic metals
as established by laboratory test. Today this is easy since the
values seen are generally significantly elevated on one or more
of the toxic metals on almost everyone living today on planet
earth. Furthermore I look at this important provocative testing
as providing useful and sometimes life-saving LAB information.
The provoked urine and fecal mineral test is often more informative
than a treadmill ECG, which test after all carries real potential
for harm and the knowledge gained is far less useful in terms
of patient outcome than what you will uncover with provocative
mineral testing.
The urine is collected for 6 hours after the IV push (with
10- 15 oral caps of EDD) and carefully shaken before the aliquot
is poured off and sent to Doctors Data and the next day a
part of the next stool specimen can be submitted. This may
be 18- 36 hours after the push was given. I prefer to do these
tests for both toxic and essential minerals, since low excretion
of essential minerals is a good indicator of deficiency, as
in copper etc.
Fortunately there is NO record of any serious renal or other
damage ever occurring from a single injection of EDTA that
I am aware of from the over 7000 articles on EDTA that I have
reviewed over the past 30 years. Based on my extensive experience
with risk to benefit ratio on medical practices particularly
involving chelating agents, I do NOT require more than a comprehensive
Urinanalysis by dipstick to determine general renal status
before doing this initial provocative test. Subsequent plans
for giving 30 or more of these IV pushes over time will require
occasional renal monitoring with BUN and Creatinine and based
on history and physical, possibly even more intensive testing.
I believe with the levels of toxicity we are documenting
in fecal and urine tests with this protocol may provide some
of our patients, at least theoretically, with documentation
making them potentially eligible for some possible legal action
against various providers of these toxins, such as may exist
with mercury and vaccines and or dentist exposures. Thus,
our patients deserve to be shown accurately just how relatively
toxic they are and I know of no way better than following
this protocol and collecting URINE and FECAL material for
testing to establish this information. Thus the maximal dose
of EDTA for their body weight and renal status permits us
to recover in the urine and fecal mineral tests the highest
amount of toxic metals. This then indicates just how badly
poisoned they really are, since we are all relatively toxic,
and this information can help in your prognosis, as you will
uncover some toxicities that until now you have not dreamed
of. These toxic burdened patients are walking in and out of
your offices with every form of general non-specific health
complaint that may seem too non-specific to alert most of
us to the contribution these heavy metals are making to our
patients' symptoms. The more carefully you can document these
relatively more "poisoned" patients, the better
some of those patients may be able to later collect if there
is found a potential source for their toxicity and liability
can be established.
There is no need today for the rather excessive level of
renal monitoring that I felt forced to require of physicians
30 years ago using EDTA for what even today is still considered
to be experimental purposes since then we were using EDTA
for treatment of heart disease. We now have over 1 million
safely treated patients' data to rely on and we are NOW back
to using the EDTA for FDA approved indications, i.e. treating
increased lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium and other heavy
metal body burdens. Thus I believe, the frequency and type
of renal monitoring should largely be left to the physician
in charge of the patient, who is looking at benefit to risk
issues, overall health issues, economic considerations, planned
frequency of administration and even the medical condition
for which treatment is being offered. For example, the literature
makes it clear that chelation therapy for impaired renal functioning
associated with low-level lead toxicity, particularly with
elevated levels or uric acid, is almost predictably markedly
improved.
Oral EDTA
The rapid IV EDTA treatment is leading to such dramatic outpourings
of toxic metals including mercury that frankly, there is no
other chelator with this degree of well-established safety
and this amazing affordability available anywhere in the world
that can compete with the successes we are seeing. The concurrent
use of ORAL
EDTA products such as ESSENTIAL
DAILY DEFENSE (10-15 caps per day) further
dramatically augments that effectiveness, as you will see
for yourself in monitoring your patients urine and fecal tests,
as well as the symptom improvements reported in a host of
complex medical conditions. (Please see research on NO-
(Nitric Oxide) and circulation, NO and Diabetes, NO and
immunity, and then review old chelation literature.) This
perspective will enable you to better understand the dramatic
improvements in health from so many diverse conditions as
are currently being reported by Physicians now utilizing this
new use of an old therapy. Without understanding the importance
of inducible NO and endothelial dysfunction, the reported
benefits in so many seemingly diverse conditions would normally
have to written off as unbelievable or at least ascribed to
a powerful PLACEBO effect. Now the urine and fecal tests prove
that something very basic is going on- effective heavy metal
detoxification.
Please recommend 10 to 15 of the oral broad-spectrum chelator
EDD, containing EDTA and other chelators such as Garlic, malic
acid, dl methionine, etc. the day you give the IV push. The
first dose can be 5 caps on arising or this even works if
given as little as 2 to 4 hours before the IV and another
5 capsules again immediately when the IV push is given
to help prevent any enterohepatic re-absorption of toxic metals.
The third dose may be taken that evening, or even just 4 +
hours after the IV push. Failure to concurrently administer
ORAL chelators is markedly curtailing therapeutic effectiveness
when providing chelation therapy for metal detoxification.
Of course, I believe that common sense suggests that since
oral chelators are extremely inexpensive, yet have well documented
heavy metal detoxification benefits, patients should remain
on these between IV's, and possibly for life at lower maintenance
levels.
ESSENTIAL
DAILY DEFENSE, previously known as GARLIC PLUS, is a totally
safe oral nutritional broad-spectrum detoxification and blood-thinning
supplement. The FDA approved dose of the EDTA component in
these capsules is 1000 mg per 35 pounds of body weight. Each
EDD - Essential Daily Defense capsule contains 133 mg, thus
the 10- 15 capsules daily dose recommended above with the
push is conservative, and may safely be consumed continuously
for years. Note: 15 capsules provide 2 GM of EDTA, which is
really technically only an adequate dose for a 70-pound person,
although since I plan to use this therapy long-term and we
are not generally treating acute life threatening levels of
toxic metals, this suffices. Technically, you could go considerably
higher in the oral dose on the days the patient is not getting
the IV push, I have found no need to use more aggressive oral
doses as a routine. A guideline to for a Therapeutic level
of Essential Daily Defense is 1 cap per 10 pounds; maintenance
dosages are 1 cap per 20 pounds of body weight.
However, there is another case to consider, there are patients
where the administration of IV 's may be impractical. For
these cases, we need to try to accomplish a meaningful provocative
test and offer this as an ORAL provocative challenge. In such
cases we should plan to administer after calculating the full
1000 mg of EDTA dose for every 35 pound of body weight so
that a 175-pound patient may now receive a full 5 gm of ORAL
EDTA as a provocative test when they are not able to take
the IV push. Taking that quantity of EDD is approximately
37 capsules and since that may seem to the patient to be difficult
to take so many capsules we might also provide 3 gm of the
dose as 1 level tsp of ORAL EDTA (pure powder in water or
juice, pleasant tasting and easy to take) and the other 2
gm as 15 capsules of the EDD. This is because without the
addition of EDD to the provocative test, we are not getting
any of the necessary thiol groups (SH-as we now get from the
organic hi potency garlic in the EDD) to broaden the spectrum
of our oral provocative toxic metal challenge test and we
would not see as much Mercury for example. Furthermore the
malic acid component will pick up Aluminum and Iron, in some
cases better than the EDTA.
For the patients receiving parenteral EDTA of any kind, the
toxic heavy metals presented to the GI tract by the portion
of the IV EDTA that does go through the liver and into the
bile, is trapped and held in the intestine by the generally
poorly absorbed oral EDTA, which in this case is an ADVANTAGE,
since we want an effective chelator in the bowel at all times
to catch the heavy metals presented by the liver, as well
as to trap and hold any toxic metals we may be already consuming
in our diet.
I tell my patients that choose to undergo elective physician
supervised heavy metal detoxification that this is like plastic
surgery, and is generally entirely elective, but here you
do something for how you feel, not just how you look, I explain
that I believe we were not intended to carry the high levels
of toxic metals we are showing in virtually everyone tested
as outlined above. If we do not plan to stay on some low level
of oral chelation for life, these toxins will simply re-accumulate
and the newly found high level of optimal health that this
heavy metal detoxification program is giving, will again gradually
be lost by the patient. Hopefully many will find it within
their budget to also get perhaps monthly IV pushes to augment
the benefits of the oral program.
Latest Findings
Patients whose primary focus is effective management of their
cardiovascular disease are told that I have successfully prevented
heart attacks and strokes with the continual use of my Beyond
Chelation oral formula. BC contains 9 capsules in packages
that are taken twice daily. THREE of those capsules are Essential
Daily Defense, thus we can count on the EDTA/sulfated polysaccharide
content to significantly reduce clotting tendencies. Lester
Morrison, a PhD. MD developed this concept which greatly improved
when I helped him by adding the Oral EDTA to his Formula.
This alone reduced heart attack rates by 91% in his $10 million
study for the development of his Institute's Formula, which
is the basis for my heart attack prevention program.
The benefits from using BC are of course dose related, and
therefore, it must be taken twice DAILY for full effect. In
some patients where a greater heavy metal detoxification effect
or heparin-like benefit is needed, I recommend extra Essential
Daily Defense capsules, 1-2 with each meal. However, since
we have become so aware of the important connection between
Chronic Inflammation and Heart Disease, as dramatically shown
in the May issue of Scientific American under the title "The
Fire Within", I now feel compelled to routinely recommend
an anti-inflammatory product such as Wobenzym Med or FYI to
my heart attack prevention program. Both of these help maintain
C- reactive protein levels at their lowest and safest levels,
and thus effectively also help lower fibrinogen levels. With
the new interest today in the coagulation panel performed
by Hemex, I have found that for patients with significant
molecular or anatomic risk factors, I MUST protect the patient
AND myself with the use of the safe alternative natural anti-inflammatory
products, Wobenzym Med and/or FYI. In some cases based on
history or lab tests, Endozym, containing Nattokinase, Plasmin
Plus (a earthworm derivative providing Tissue Plasminogen
Activator or streptokinase like action), and/or Heparin are
clearly necessary.
For a daily anti-inflammatory I use either Wobenzym Med 5
bid or for increased patient compliance and as an alternative
when on occasion Wobenzym has not been available, FYI-MED.
Mucos of Germany has $50 million in research supporting the
efficacy of Wobenzym. This provides me with the documentation
needed in recommending a product that I intend to have the
patient use continuously for many years. It is clear that
anti-inflammatory protection lowers not just heart attacks,
but cancer and brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
disease, as well as providing serious protection against chronic
the ravages of chronic arthritis. . I am pleased to announce
that the results of preliminary research done with FYI (FOR
YOUR INFLAMMATION) were so dramatic that Longevity Plus offers
a limited money back guarantee for your patients with Rheumatoid
Arthritis. Briefly, the results of that study are as follows.
The single blind study on 30 active patients found that following
the recommended dose on the label of 4 tid for 10 days then
2 tid for 80 days, the clearly abnormally elevated C- reactive
protein (all were initially about twice the maximal accepted
level), had all dropped, and the average value was now 55%
lower. This means that it was working on every single patient
and shows that the unique combination of 12 ingredients in
this product can be used whenever a natural anti-inflammatory
product is needed and will provide predictable results.
What is remarkable however is that fully 50% of these proven
Rheumatoid Arthritis patients had become asymptomatic! Further,
all of the patients reported a minimum of 40 % improvement
in their symptoms. Thus, for those that can not obtain Wobenzym
for any reason, we have arranged a realistic alternative,
and for those looking for effective management of Rheumatoid
Arthritis in their patients, this provides a second reason
to consider using one or the other of these effective anti-inflammatory
products in the long-term management of your cardiovascular
patients.
I have become so confident regarding the effectiveness of
this program in my patients that I have not referred any patients
for any form of vascular surgery in over 10 years and I have
not had a single patient that I am aware of following my program
have either a heart attack or a stroke. However, I emphasize
to all patients that there is no long-term protection conferred
from taking these nutritional products. They must NEVER run
out of these and they must at minimum take the BC formula
every 12 hours. Those however that have another Basic Vitamin
Mineral program can choose to purchase the Essential Daily
Defense separately; however, they are told they must also
purchase the other critically important nutrients that are
found in the 9 pills. They need Gingko Biloba and Phosphatidyl
Serine, Salmon oil (EPA) and Primrose Oil; all of these that
are conveniently supplied in their BC packet must be taken
bid.
The infection connection to hypercoagulability is so well
understood today that I further explain to all of my patients
that even an entirely normal level of C-reactive protein can
suddenly rise within hours when an infection activates, and
that local infections on the coronary arteries will be associated
with even greater increases in C-reactive levels LOCALLY,
and that the usual blood test can not reveal locally elevated
inflammation conditions. Yet, local infection/inflammation
ALWAYS is accompanied by serious increases in blood viscosity
and hypercoagulability.
We now know that every artery removed at bypass surgery will
reveal evidence of some form of infection, and the more infections
present in any given patient, the sooner they will have their
fatal heart attack. Therefore, I explain that there is a real
need for taking LOW levels of our anti-inflammatory products,
Wobenzym Med, FYI, or Endozym everyday, even if their tests
reveal entirely normal results on C-reactive protein testing.
A safe affordable approach for someone having difficulty swallowing
too many tablets will be FYI 2 bid, Endozym 2 bid, or Wobenzym
Med 3-5 tablets bid. And, in some cases all three of these
products can be safely taken in aggressive levels with anyone
showing elevations of C-reactive protein until this has been
brought to the safest and lowest levels. Wobenzym Med has
traditionally required 10 tablets tid when dealing with serious
problems from hepatitis and trauma to cancer. FYI is used
for THERAPEUTIC purposes at 4 tablets tid and ENDOZYM at 4
tablets tid. Anyone that has attended a Hemex workshop would
also consider using Heparin orally or by injection in addition
to 1 or all of these natural anti-inflammatory products.
The other big issue in heart disease is the pro and con of
using antibiotics with all of the interest today in Nattokinase.
Certainly there is good rationale in patients showing elevated
titers with Nattokinase testing to use an antibiotic, although
some physicians and patients may want to offer a non-drug
approach to their patients like the IMMUNI-T products that
I have developed in my chronic infection protocol with things
like transfer factor etc. and I strongly advocate the use
of OXIDATIVE therapies for treatment as well as prevention
in all patients. I am confident that we will find there is
always more than one infection present in any heart disease
patient and that increasingly these will be antibiotic resistant.
Thus, please consider the use of Ozone, Ultraviolet Blood
irradiation, H202, or high dose (50 Gm in 50 minutes or more)
IV supported with the new well tolerated Beyond C oral form
of Vitamin C that I have helped develop that permits taking
far higher doses of Vitamin C orally than was ever feasible
for anyone before.
My total approach permits the effective detoxification and
the control of every form of infection involving the patients
arteries, whether this infection is from the mouth, and perhaps
almost unidentifiable with available diagnostic tests today,
or the routine chlamydia, CMV etc with which we all have been
shown to be chronically infected. There are many other useful
tips that I have learned that allow me to expect to routinely
cancel many proposed heart transplants in children and adults.
I offer one free consultation for 15 minutes by appointment
for any physician to discuss any case. Call (928) 472 4263.
Sincerely
G F Gordon MD DO MD (H)
Addendum
Further information and useful reading about EDTA is available
on my website at www.gordonresearch.com.
"Agreement for the Advanced Metal Toxicology Protocol"
ICIM
lecture, where the 250 slides can be reviewed will cover
almost every conceivable question. Instatape taped the presentation
I made in March 2002 for Physicians training for certification
by the AMERICAN BOARD of Chelation Therapy (now renamed
The American Board of Heavy Metal Toxicology). The 3-hour
lecture that goes with the 250 slides on my website is available
at 1-800-NOW-TAPE.
You may also join our email discussion group on request.
Click
here and enter your email address!
The tape that explains much of this to your patients is
called "Detoxification with new EDTA program. Steps
to maximize your health". This is a 1-hour interview
that was seen on public access TV in the Phoenix area by
a chelation physician, Dr Bruce Shelton, who interviewed
me. He has found that this videotape markedly increased
his practice; copies may be made and loaned to your patients.
The videotape is available at Longevity Plus (1-800-580-PLUS)
for $10.00.
Compounding
Pharmacies
ApotheCure,
the first to formulate Calcium EDTA IV at the request of
Dr. Gordon, provides guaranteed sterile CaEDTA IV verified
by independant outside lab testing. Apothecure uses only
the highest grade of pyrogen free Calcium EDTA available.
Every batch of injectables is tested for sterility and all
raw materials are tested for pyrogenicity. These records
are kept on file for five years and are available by request
for any physician. Apothecure is the only compounding pharmacy
to have the only TRUE German formula for DMPS injection,
and the Germans are the experts in this area. We especially
recommend ApotheCure as your supplier for CaEDTA IV.
ApotheCure, Inc., 4001 McEwen Rd,
Suite 100, Dallas, TX, 75244
(800) 969-6601, (972) 960-6601,
(800) 687-5252 (fax)
Abrams
Royal Pharmacy is one of the largest family owned
and operated independent compounding pharmacies in the United
States. Abrams Royal Pharmacy takes pride in combining elements
of old fashioned pharmacy traditions with the latest in
compounding technology and education.
8220 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX, 75231
(800) 458-0804, (214) 349-8000,
(214) 341-7966 (fax)
College Pharmacy
in Colorado Springs, is one of the largest, most comprehensive
compounding centers in North America. Our pharmacists are
recognized internationally for their expertise in biologically
identical hormone replacement therapy and other alternative
therapies.
3505 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Suite
101, Colorado Springs, CO, 80918
(800) 888-9358, (719) 262-0022,
(719) 262-0035 (fax)
Women's
International Pharmacy is dedicated to providing
custom compounded doses of natural (human-identical) hormone
therapies to men and women with the purpose of focusing
on patient's individual needs, which would include the ability
to provide alternate strengths or dosages that are often
not available with manufactured drug items.
Women's International Pharmacy,12012
N. 111th Ave., Youngtown, AZ, 85363
(800) 279-5708, (623) 214-7700,
(800) 279-8011 (fax)
People's Pharmacy
People's Pharmacy, 3801 South Lamar
Street, Austin, TX, 78704
(512) 444-8866, (512) 444-8799 (fax)
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