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Another Meme Crashes? ... Sudden Inkling Chelation Works
NIH Trial Gives Surprising Boost To Chelation Therapy ... With a result that is likely to surprise and baffle much of the mainstream medical community, a large NIH-sponsored trial has turned up the first substantial evidence in support of chelation therapy for patients with coronary disease. Known as TACT (Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy), the highly controversial trial was presented today at the AHA by Gervasio Lamas. The trial was sponsored by two NIH institutes, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. – Forbes
Dominant Social Theme: The gullibility of people who waste their money on chelation is a terrible tragedy. Much better to let them die of heart attacks than to see hard-earned savings frittered away.
Free-Market Analysis: We've been aware of chelation and its usefulness for several decades. While our position regarding healthcare has gradually changed, we still believe that chelation is useful. Now, apparently, the FDA will have to do the same.
Here's what we believe: Strive to keep the body in balance, or return it to balance. A natural state is a healthy state. Avoid the poison of pharmaceuticals whenever possible. A long-term diet of Western medicine is not recommended. Within this context, chelation would not seem to be a very likely candidate for natural health. Here's something from Wikipedia:
Chelation therapy is the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body. Chelation therapy has a long history of use in clinical toxicology. For the most common forms of heavy metal intoxication—those involving lead, arsenic or mercury—the standard of care a number of chelating agents are available.
DMSA dimercaptosuccinic acid has been recommended for the treatment of lead poisoning in children by Poison Centers around the world. Other chelating agents, such as 2,3-dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid (DMPS) and alpha lipoic acid (ALA), are used in conventional and alternative medicine.
No approved medical research has found any benefits to chelation therapy for any use other than removal of heavy metals from the body, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers over-the-counter (OTC) chelation products to be "unapproved drugs and devices and that it is a violation of federal law to make unproven claims about these products. There are no FDA-approved OTC chelation products." ...
Alternative medicine uses chelation therapy as a non-standard treatment for some ailments, including heart disease and autism. In 2010 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned companies who sold over-the-counter (OTC) chelation products and stated that such "products are unapproved drugs and devices and that it is a violation of federal law to make unproven claims about these products. There are no FDA-approved OTC chelation products."
Okay. We can see from this excerpt that chelation was developed to help soldiers suffering from poison gas attacks and later began to be applied to those with heart disease. FDA officials in recent years have been almost pathological about denouncing chelation as a kind of modern-day snake oil, on a par, say, with raw milk – another FDA bête noir.
We know from speaking to people at treatment centers that chelation seems to work. People travel hundreds of miles, desperate for treatment of circulatory ills and heart disease. They often take several courses of treatment.
Chelation intravenously acts as a kind of plunger, scouring clean arteries and veins. Some people will undergo treatment even if they aren't sick, as a preventive regime. Clinics keep opening up to administer chelation and another treatment ... intravenous vitamin C.
Not so long ago it was proven in clinical trials that intravenous vitamin C indeed has a variety of beneficial effects. We await studies regarding the preventive effects of raw milk. So far as the FDA is concerned, this would be a trifecta of doom.
The FDA continues to make questionable decisions. Drug therapies are routinely approved with terrible side effects, including causing birth defects. Meanwhile, the FDA spends an inordinate amount of time confiscating raw milk. How exactly the FDA knows raw milk is bad for you is unclear. Presumably they've done double-blind tests. Not that we believe in the published results of such tests anymore.
All drugs that come out onto the market have undergone some sort of double-blind test – and yet many still can do considerable harm. It is hard even to keep track of what's been withdrawn from the market.
The system is evidently and obviously configured to support a certain kind of medicine, one that doesn't recognize any of the body's natural healing powers but instead treats it like some sort of inert engine that has to be constantly tended to and "fixed."
Chelation and vitamin C therapy have been demonized for decades, to the point where the rhetoric created a recognizable subdominant theme. They were regularly trotted out as evidence of quackery. And yet, as more and more drugs are pulled off the market, often thanks to Internet exposure, comes word that both intravenous vitamin C and chelation do indeed have health benefits.
Conclusion: And so it goes in the era of the Internet Reformation. Change keeps occurring and elite memes continue to topple. Sometimes the change is imperceptible and sometimes radical – but it's happening all around us.
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Posted by Danny B on 11/07/12 11:05 AM
"So ... we agree with you but antibiotics help "
Whoooaa, not so fast there. That statement is true but, only to a point.
Antibiotics are much like chemotherapy. They do a lot of damage.
I'll try to post without all my accustomed links. Start at the beginning.
The mother delivers GI tract bacteria to the fetus in the womb.
Mother's milk contains 20% sugars that the baby can not digest. They are there specifically to support the GI bacteria.
GI bacteria are our first and most important line of defense against pathogens. Humans have more bacteria cells in their bodies than human cells. Don't forget beneficial viruses too. Only half of our DNA is human. Much of our genome is virus and virus-like DNA. We have about 2--3 lbs of bacteria in our GI tract. 35% of fecal matter is bacteria (dry weight)
We die without GI bacteria. We can die from the wrong bacteria. There is even a new procedure to do a transfusion of GI tract bacteria to cure deadly syndromes. It MUST be from a family member to work correctly.
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OK, just one link. Dr.David Williams has a very good newsletter that has recently produced a lot of important info on beneficial bacteria. He also mentions that modern pesticides and herbicides are destroying important bacteria in the soil.
Just one course of antibiotics can kill off huge amounts of bacteria in the gut. The COMMON result is for increased disease resulting from a weaker immune system.
This is even true for IV antibiotics.
So, while antibiotics are an excellent treatment, there has to be a restoration of GI flora after any antibiotic treatment.
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Posted by Danny B on 11/06/12 09:36 PM
Ahh, one of my favorite topics. This is a very dangerous subject. Chelation leads to cancer which leads to doctor incomes. Chelation reduces the incidence of cancer by 90%. Just imagine what that would do to the money flow.
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Cancer is all around us.
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Cancer is almost entirely caused by pollutants. Chelation gets rid of pollutants.
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Not to worry though. Some are hard at work to keep cancer going. HFCS is cancer's nutrient of choice.
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The cited study was started 10 years ago. They took their good time releasing the results.
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Chelation therapy has the possibility of curing about 90% of disease when combined with a healthy lifestyle. The AMA would never tolerate that.
I started a thread "Cancer remedies" at Burning Man a couple of years ago. Man, did it create a storm of criticisms.
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It has been known for a long time that most cancers are an infection. Even Pasteur admitted on his deathbed that it was the terrain, NOT the germ that was important.
This has , of course been strictly suppressed.
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I think that's enough links for now. You get the idea. Chelation therapy is close to a perfect cure for heart disease. That would cut out 30% of income at many hospitals. The VA released a study claiming that bypass operations do not increase life span.
Follow the money.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Thanks.
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Posted by whatevertrevor on 11/06/12 02:39 PM
Impressive.
I didn't know you knew about intravenous vitamin C. There are over 2 million hits on it and some books about it but it seems to be the worlds best kept health secret. I've heard it is better than DMPS or DMSA as these are supposed to chelate essential minerals as well as heavy metals from you.
In a non-topsy-turvey world intravenous vitamin C would be the main stay of all doctors surgeries and hospitals the world over, but as you know, the world doesn't work that way.
"The FDA continues to make questionable decisions. Drug therapies are routinely approved with terrible side effects, including causing birth defects. Meanwhile, the FDA spends an inordinate amount of time confiscating raw milk. How exactly the FDA knows raw milk is bad for you is unclear. Presumably they've done double-blind tests."
Hahaha. Very good. Very dry.
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Posted by CelticFire69 on 11/06/12 02:28 PM
Good piece as usual!! (I have never seen anything bad from y'all) There is a real need for individuals to completely re access their approach to healthcare. The body is a biological structure intent on self repair and yet modern medicine treats it like an inferior mechanical device. Then all solutions from mainstream I have seen focus on symptomatic treatment that will create ever more symptomatic ailments to be treated. The never ending growing residual income machine. Great income for the purveyors as long as it lasts, but murderous and cruel to the patient. Insanity.
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Posted by kkhinton on 11/06/12 02:27 PM
Re Chelation Therapy
There are two components to Natural Health
1. Natural Living - living in accordance with the biological requirements for the human species.
2. Natural Healing - All matter is in motion, every cell repairs itself therefore it needs no mover - nothing to make it heal itself including 'Chelation Therapy' - simply another meme to cover the false theme of medicines.
The following is for your consideration from the archives of Click to view link ...
Little Johnny for President
LJ (Little Johnny) put his hand up - 'Excuse me teacher' he asks - 'but is it true what it says here in my biology book?'
T (Teacher) responds - 'What's that?'
LJ - 'It says that all cells have the capability of Response, Reproduction and Repair - is that true?'
T - 'Well yes it is'
LJ - 'And is it also true that all things are related and co-related - that nothing exists in isolation?'
T - 'Yes, that also is true.'
LJ - 'and that all matter is in motion?'
T - Why yes Johnny - now what are you getting at?'
LJ - Well, if one cell has the ability to heal/repair itself and all cells are joined together as one and they are all in constant motion of breaking down and building up…why do we need to take something to make us do what we are already doing?
Reply from The Daily Bell
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation." So ... we agree with you but antibiotics help and so it seems do chelation, intravenous vitamin C, even homeopathy - acupuncture, etc.
