Chelation Therapy – Is It Good For You?

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Chelation Therapy Is It Good For You?
Dr. Peter Dobie
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Chelation therapy consists of the supervision of
chelating agents by an expert doctor to take care
of harmful metal poisoning. Chelating agents
which are also called as chelants are applied to
get rid of heavy metals from the human body in
situations of poisoning, overdose or
accumulation. These agents bind to metals inside
the blood and tissues. These develop complexes
known as chelates which are inert chemically and
it is quite easy to excrete them without
interacting any more inside the human body. By
doing so, detoxification of toxic metals is done
by chelation therapy for example lead, arsenic or
mercury. Chelating agents are given by doctors
either orally or injected into the body directly
through a vein or muscle, but this depends on the
type of metals intoxication and the agent used.
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• Chelation Therapy Its Uses
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• Poisoning caused due to heavy materials such as
  lead, mercury and arsenic
• Drugs containing metal ions are overdosed in a
  human body
• Build-up of huge amounts of iron in your body on
  account of recurring blood transfusions, which
  include the case of thalassemia patients who need
  blood transfusions on a frequent basis
• Amassment of enormous amounts of copper in the
  human body because of Wilson's disease, a health
  condition in which the human body struggles to
  excrete copper easily

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A number of scientific tests have already been
done to check the consequences of chelation
therapy in other illnesses for example cancer,
heart problems and autism. Nevertheless, no good
evidence to support the application of this
therapy for these disorders has still been found.
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• Here are a few example of chelating agents
• Organic dithiol compound dimercaprolt was the one
  of the very first chelators, and it was developed
  as an antidote for an arsenic-based chemical
  agent(also called as BAL).
• DMSA (Dimercaptosuccinic acid) is the most
  widespread chelants to treat the poisoning caused
  by lead, arsenic or mercury. It was created in
  1970s. It is a modified edition of BAL, have
  significantly less negative impacts.
• DMPS (Dimercapto-propane-sulfonate) functions as
  a mercury and arsenic chelator.
• ALA (Alpha lipoic acid) is often considered as an
  effective nutritional health intake which
  transforms into dithiol dihydrolipoic acid.

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