Chelation Therapy, Oral Detoxification For Health
Chelation Therapy, Oral Detoxification For Health
Chelation Therapy, Oral Detoxification For Health
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Chelation
Symposia
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Chelation
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Health
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Research
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Oral Detoxification
to improve the health of all living
creatures. The potential benefits are
finally becoming understood, and
the risks are minimal compared to
the benefits.
Years ago, I had to guard against
giving the impression that Chelation
therapy in any form was some kind
of a panacea for all health problems.
Those of us treating documented
severe heart disease patients met
with tremendous resistance back
then. I had been program chairman
for ACAM when a leading expert
on lead from Columbia University
Medical School, who was my invited
main speaker for an early ACAM
conference and who was to speak
on the adverse effects of lead on
children, was researching DMSA. He
stalked out of our conference after
he heard the speaker before him, Dr.
John Olwin, a vascular surgeon from
Rush Medical College and a worldclass expert on using IV ethylene
diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) for
vascular disease, state that lowering
lead levels with IV EDTA would be
helpful for cardiovascular disease.
The expert refused to speak to our
group, since he was only interested
in studying lead toxicity for children.
He was shocked that ACAM would
permit someone to suggest that there
was any connection between lead
and cardiovascular disease. Now,
we find lead to be a 'Silent Killer,"
so-called in 2006 in Circulation,
the voice of the American Heart
Association. Until recently, Chelating
doctors have focused on Chelation
therapy primarily for severe heavy
metal poisoning or for vascular
disease.
Moving Beyond Simple
Cardiovascular Care
I have lectured around the world
about the massive increases of
lead and mercury building up in all
living things for many years. There
is extensively published literature
today that cleariy documents that
getting the lead out is crucial for
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heavy metals and their removal.
We need to keep open minds about
which treatments will eventually
become
widely
adopted
and
which, over time, should fall by the
wayside.
IIS
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and also the National Geographic
photographs, which you can review
and download.
I have written more about the
mechanisms of action of EDTA than
any other researcher/author in the
world, yet I know that we still lack
adequate knowledge to maximize ail
the potential benefits. We will need
to learn more as our world becomes
increasingly toxic. Most experts
agree today that there is no safe
level of lead or mercury. I am totally
convinced of the long-term safety
and minimal risk from continual
administration of these metal-binding
substances or chelators, including
Malic acid, garlic, DMSA, EDTA,
ascorbic acid, and even fiber. The
alternative, to just live with these
toxins, is no longer feasible. I have
decided to vigorously promote the
use of chelators all over the world.
Once you review some of the over
500 articles I have selected from
the over 7000 articles written on
just EDTA over the past 35 years,
you can better decide if you want to
personally choose an ODP protocol
for yourself and/or your family.
As one of the major early
proponents introducing IV chelation
therapy to the world, I have had
to defend myself from medical
society challenges and medical
boards' litigation. Therefore, I have
amassed an extensive library on
the subject. I want to share as much
of that information as possible with
you, here and on my website. For
your convenience, I have placed
500 abstracts on oral EDTA on my
website {www.gordonresearch.com),
where use of the available Search
feature will help provide easy access
to information that may change your
life, as it has mine. Just use any
word, such as lead, mercury, EDTA,
DMSA, Malic acid, or garlic etc.
Then you will conveniently access
some of the scientific information
that I have collected over the past
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The
surprisingly
dramatic
responses from detoxing our horses
reminded me that over 15 years
ago, a top racehorse vet in Canada
attended an ACAM conference
where I was in charge, and he
gave me his book. He explained to
attendees from the podium that he
regularly chelated his clients' horses
intravenously. Like most doctors
today, back then I was only focused
on the cardiovascular and circulatory
benefits from IV chelation, never
thinking that, in time, pollution would
become so serious that we would all
need a lifetime gentle detoxification
protocol. Now, low-level lead levels
are adversely affecting everything,
including the cardiovascular system,
thus removing lead alone could
explain some of the often rather
dramatic improvements seen in
chelated patients who may clinically
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improve (again, often dramatically),
but who, all too often, may not have
enjoyed any reversal in obstructing
areas of plaque. I initially focused on
trying to reduce obstructing plaques,
believing that the limiting blood flow
to crucial area is the main reason for
symptoms. Yet, we have learned that
we can restore most heart patients
to apparent high-level cardiovascular
status with IV EDTA Chelation
therapy, and yet often we find there
is no accompanying reduction in
plaque; in some cases, plaque even
becomes worse, even when the
patient takes 30 or more IV chelation
treatments. I have explained several
reasons for this paradox in prior
articles, where I list over 30 possible
mechanisms of action for IV EDTA
chelation. One small example from
that list is that improved nitric oxide
metabolism associated with "getting
the lead out" can dramatically
improve endurance and blood flow.
Over the years, I have been
consulted routinely about patients
whose coronary calcium levels soar
while on IV or oral chelation. As
mentioned, we have seen plaque
become even more obstructive, yet
often the patient may have become
symptom-free in spite of this clear-cut
worsening of their case technically.
This indicates to me that IV chelation
does not predictably routinely reverse
coronary arteriosclerosis, but getting
the "lead out" with IV chelation or with
my ODP protocol may be just as or
even more important than reversing
plaque. The optimal solution is not
either IV or oral; the answer is both.
Today, with
ultra
hi-speed
coronary CT scans, we have an easy
measurement for coronary vessel
calcium levels, so more patients can
now be treated more adequately on
a preventive basis and will come to
realize that detoxification is a lifelong process, My ODP now also
electively incorporates therapeutic
levels of vitamin K-2 and more
recently, the Herbal Reniedy from
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Thailand (HRT; actual technical
name is Pueraria Minfica), which is
a bio-mimic estrogenic adaptogen,
to enhance the desired effects
of calcium relocation whenever
significant vascular calcification is
documented. My complete protocol
routinely lowers pathologic calcium
in coronary arteries, while reversing
osteoporosis.
I believe that ODP will, over time,
provide highly effective symptomatic
improvement in well over 80% of
patients, particularly novi/ that we
have ancillary approaches with diet,
exercise, the new fibrin-digesting
and anti-inflammatory enzymes, and
useful supplements like ribose, Lipoic
acid, resveratrol, co-enzyme Q, etc.
Any or all of those can be added to
the basic protocol, so that, with all
these additional well-documented
nutrients available to us today for
cardiovascular disease, I seldom
fail to achieve the response my
patient seeks. I have often cancelled
recommended heart transplants
in children and adults because the
response has been so good.
The benefits seen with my ODP
protocol alone are not achieved as
rapidly as IV chelation results may be.
I would not expect the ODP protocol
to provide the dramatic increase in
endurance that IV chelation gave me.
By my eighth IV {over a three-week
interval), my disabling angina was
completely gone. At that point, and
for the first time in years, I also had
no dyspnea on exertion. I could run
up a mountain and wear out my twoyear-old Irish Setter. My response
was so dramatic that I have devoted
the past 35 years to trying to learn
how and why IV chelation provides
these effects in some patients. I
believe that with my protocoi, we can
now start to deliver some of those
benefits to millions around the world
who simply want to "get the lead out"
and start to enjoy a far higher level
of health.
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Now, since I believe we have
these choices, when do we
absolutely need IV chelation? That
decision must remain in the hands
of the physician. It never hurts to
do both, but I argue here that I do
not believe IV chelation alone is
ever enough. If we are to really stop
most fatal heart attacks, we need
long-term daily protection. I believe
nothing currently available today
exceeds the efficacy I achieve with
my patients on my ODP protocol.
Clearly, when a patient calls about
an acute condition, such as the
recent onset of stroke or pulmonary
embolism or heart attack, I have
always explained that, ideally, IV
chelation should be started as soon
as possible. Meantime, however,
we can use oral enzymes including
Wobenzym, Nattokinase, and/or
Boluoke. These enzymes can, in my
estimation, save lives. The use of
tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA)
first illustrated that clots could be
dissolved after they form. Tissue
Plasminogen Activator is rather
expensive, must be given IV in a
hospital environment, and has a very
narrow window of opportunity with
which to work. It has been proven
useful for dissolving fresh blood
clots. Nattokinase and Lumbrokinase
(Boluoke) offer similar effects, but
I prefer to take them preventively,
although there have been reports
of favorable effects even days
after a stroke or heart attack, often
using double doses of these oral
preparations, which may be more
effective in some cases than the IV
injection of tPA.
These enzymes and other
therapies like Hyperbaric Oxygen
(HBO) therapy and IV chelation
offer surprising benefits, even a few
days after a major circulatory event.
Oral enzyme products may provide
some fibrin-digesting activity and
anti-inflammatory activity. They can
be used along with Essential Daily
Defense, the key product resulting
from Dr. Morrison's research.
Essential Daily Defense is a crucial
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ago with Dr. Lester Morrison. Three
capsules in each packet of nine pills
form the key part of the formula
called Essential Daily Defense.
This contains a unique heparin-like
mucopolysaccaride from red algae,
identified by Dr. Morrison (after ten
million dollars in research), as an
agent for reversing and preventing
arteriosclerosis,
I
was in radiology
in 1964 in San
Francisco at Mount
Zion
Hospital,
because
my
disabling
angina
onset at age 29
forced
me
to
close my general
practice and go into
residency.
Since
then, I have actively
studied the benefitrisk ratio for most
therapies
offered
There was a
to
cardiovascular
time when patients
patients. Remember
with
vascular
most
fatal
Mis
calcification
had
are due to acute
to hope that the
blood clots. Clots
three-hour iV EDTA
do not easily form
treatment
would
in the presence
treat their problem.
of heparin. There
"The horses were suddenly winning while competing
This was because
is a gentle, safe
the IV EDTA threeagainst top jumpers, some of which are worth millions; anticoagulant effect
hour
treatment
with our combination
most had trained rigorously for years."
lowers
serum
of
EDTA
when
calcium levels, often by 50%, and
worked very well on everyone so far.
in the presence of the particular
therefore induces a tripling of ParaI treat the bones and the vascular
mucopolysaccaride that I have found
thormone (PTH) production. This
tissues concurrently, since 1 believe can replace injections of heparin for
spurt of PTH theoretically should
that as we prevent and reverse
life-long protection.
help lower pathologic calcium levels
osteoporosis, there will be less
Dr. Morrison's goal was to
in many tissues. I have studied the
vascular calcification. Since lead
lower clotting tendencies. I find
subject of pathological calcium
contributes to bone-related issues,
this formula reduces the need for
increases associated with aging
1 also incorporate my ODP-based
aspirin-related therapies, since it
of our vascular tissues extensively
approach with the above.
works as he intended and described
for many years. We all get calcified
in detail in the three books that
vascular tissues the older we
Beyond Chelation improved
summarize his years of research
are. The average aorta at age 80
A key part of my ODP protocol is
in solving this problem. I often find
contains 140 times more calcium
called Beyond Chelation Improved.
that with this product as a vital part
than age ten.
This product contains nine pills in
of my anti-clotting protocol, along
one convenient cellophane packet,
Calcified vascular tissue is a
with many other things including
which is usually taken twice a day. I
proven risk factor for heart disease.
Omega 3 supplementation, etc., I
co-developed the Beyond Chelation
One problem is that it contributes
am able to routinely offer effective
Improved formula more than 20 years
to stiffness and loss of elasticity.
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all-natural, anti-clotting, anti-platelet
approaches for my patients v^^ho
often do not tolerate drugs like Plavix
or Coumadin. However, my patients
are warned that they must assume
full responsibility if they decide
to discontinue their Coumadin. I
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escape, but after seven years with
my nonstop protocol, you should
have only 500 times too much lead
stili remaining, which stiil can help
kill you if you become injured and
inactive. Remember, if you are
not able to weight bear, inactivity
accelerates
osteoporosis.
This
accelerates the loss of bone lead and
its subsequent increase in your other
tissues, impairing immunity, leaving
you vulnerable to hospitai-acquired
infections. That is a hidden benefit of
becoming as lead-free as possible.
After 15 years, you will be much
less likely to die of complications
should you Inadvertently wind up in
a hospital.
Pro-Oxidative Therapies
I have given many lectures on
pro-oxidative therapies, a vital
adjunct to detoxification. Nothing
else deals as effectively with the
pathogen burden. You may view
more on these topics online at
http://www.gordonresearch.com/
category_presentations.html.
You
can also view the entire proceedings
from my highly successful, exciting
March 10, 2007 conference. If you
have a patient suffering from cancer
and all else is failing, please watch
the presentation by Dr. Contreras.
Dr. Contreras documents how to
administer oxygen therapies with
high-dose IV vitamin C. Vitamin C
alone will not work, as cancer cells
are hypoxic and the vitamin C must
be metabolized intracellularly into
H202. He documents substantial
benefits using this protocol, after all
chemo and radiation and all other
alternative cancer therapies have
failed. I have been teaching the
methods and reasons for alternating
between high-dose, pro-oxidant
therapy and my new ultimate form
of vitamin C (Bio En'R-G'y C) for
truly effective, life-long antioxidant
therapy. Since the recent JAMA
article alleging that antioxidants are
harmful, the study of pro-oxidant and
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antioxidant therapies is vital; we owe
it to ourselves and our patients to
understand the genesis ofthe JAMA
article's confusion.
I am excited to have codeveloped a professional version of
vitamin C that is proven to provide
benefits no form of vitamin C has
ever provided before. Bio En'R-G'y
C with GMS-Ribose Is also uniquely
tolerated in very high doses without
gastrointestinal (GI) upset. This
formula has been documented to
lower Reactive Oxygen Species at
ppb levels, a benefit never achieved
before with any vitamin C product in
the world. Clearly, Bio En'R-G'Y C
is a nutrient system and not just a
vitamin C.
Dr. Contreras's research with
pro-oxidant
therapy
documents
significant life prolongation and tumor
reduction in over 90% of terminal
cancer patients with his IV vitamin
C and oxygen in a new protocol with
Perftec. Yet, we do not want highlevel pro-oxidant activity every day
of our lives, so now we can safely
cycle back to effective antioxidants,
based on this new stabilized form of
oral Bio En'R-G'y C formula.
In general, vitamin C, like all weak
organic acids, is also a chelator,
thus workers in lead factories taking
vitamin C orally have lower levels of
lead than those not taking it. This
means that high-dose IV ascorbic
acid is working both as a pro-oxidant
therapy and a cheiator. I believe that
learning more about the benefits
and risks of aggressive high-dose
IV vitamin C treatment may save
lots of lives, since such treatment
combines at least those two vital
functions at once. It can lower heavy
metal levels while aiso lowering the
total body burden of pathogens and
tumor cells. I almost always prefer
to augment that chelation effect with
EDTA and my oral ODP protocol.
I hope you will come to future
ACAM conferences and learn more
about oxidative therapies, since we
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Part Two ofthe article will appear in
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Garry F. Gordon, MD, DO. MD (H) received
his Doctor of Osteopathy in 1958 from the Chicago
College of Osteopathy in Illinois. He received his
honorary MD degree from the University of California
Irvine in 1962 and completed a Radiology Residency
from Mt. Zion in San Francisco, California in 1964, For
many years, he was the Medical Director of Mineral
Lab in Hayward, California, a leading latjoratory for
trace mineral analysis worldwide.
Dr. Gordon is on the Board of Homeopathic
Medical Examiners for Arizona, Co-Founder of the
American College for Advancement in Medicine
(ACAM), Founder/President of the International
College of Advanced Longevity (ICALM), Board
Member of International Oxidative Medicine
Association (lOMA). and an advisor to the American
Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology (ABCMT). He is
also a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee
for The National Foundation for Alternative Medicine.
With Morton Walker, DPM, Dr. Gordon coauthored The Chelation Answer. In addition, he
was (he instructor and examiner for alt chelation
physicians. Currently, he is responsible for peer
review for Chelation therapy in the State of Arizona.
As an internationally recognized expert on
chelation therapy. Dr. Gordon is now attempting to
establish standards for the proper use of oral and
intravenous chelation therapy as an adjunct therapy
for all diseases. He lectures extensively on The End
Of Bypass Surgery Is In Sight and The Future of
Chelation.
Dr Gordon is President of Gordon Research
Institute and a fud-time consultant for Longevity Plus,
a nutritional supplement company located in Payson,
Arizona. He is responsible for the design of the
majority of their supplements, which are widely used
by alternative health practitioners around the world.
Dr. Gordon is coauthoring a book about Chelation
therapy and heavy metals detoxification with science
writer David Jay Brown, tentatively tilled. Ultimate
Detoxification: EDTA Chelation Therapy and Beyond.
Author's Note: I have extensive references
to support the concepts I have expressed here.
My last article published in ACAt^ Journal 2001
has 183 pertinent references. That article, and
others mentioned here, can be viewed at www,
gordonresearch.com/townsend. When there, use
the Search feature if you want to learn more about
specific topics such as autism, cancer, mercury,
multiple sclerosis, etc.
Financial Disclosure
G. Gordon, MD, DO, MD (H), is a consultant to
many companies around the world involved in nutritional
product formulation, development, and marketing.
These include several companies providing metalbinding products for use in his Advanced Nutrition
Detoxification protocols, which he is introducing around
the world. Dr. Gordon has not been paid to write this
article.
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