Chelation and Cardiovascular Diseases

Dr. Serafina Corsello, who has performed chelation therapy for over ten years on hundreds of patients, and receives it herself as a preventive measure, refers to chelation therapy as "a non surgical bypass".16 What she sees as so remarkable is the fact that many patients who come to see her are inoperable according to their physicians and are told to "get their affairs in order" and wait till their time is up. She has seen patients like these improve significantly and return to a much higher quality of life that they had before the therapy, with an increase in overall energy and a decrease in blood pressure.17 She has seen marked improvement with high cholesterol, has seen a decrease in platelet aggregation, a decrease in blood pressure due to the removal of calcium in the vessels and has found that patients can diminish and even eliminate the need for cardiac medications.

Dr. John Sessions in Texas has over 1000 articles on chelation therapy and its effectiveness and has treated over 3,000 patients effectively with chelation therapy. He supplements patients on an individual basis and uses hair analysis and a comprehensive history and physical to determine deficiencies in things like zinc, chromium and selenium deficiencies (selenium deficiency, we know, causes heart disease).19 He has done thermography studies (infrared scans of the face, hands and feet) and circulatory disorders that show up in these areas mean patients are more prone to strokes and peripheral vascular disease. After chelation, he found that the circulation goes back to normal.20 One of his patients shared that he had blockages in his legs and severe pain when he walked very short distances. His doctor told him to take aspirins every day. After 95 chelation treatments and changing his diet plus taking vitamins, he is free of pain, has no blockages and walks without pain.21 Another patient had two blocked arteries and after 40 treatments showed no signs of blockage any more. He walks two miles three times a week at 66 years old. His son, who is an MD, told him that it wouldn’t work…and even though it did, he still won’t recognize it as an effective therapy!

Dr. Kirk Morgan, director of the Morgan Clinic, wrote an article about myocardial ischemia treated with nutrients and chelation therapy. He used the following criteria: patients had to have the presence of exercise induced angina pectoris, stress induced EKG proof of disease and refusal to submit to coronary artery bypass surgery. He found that marked EKG abnormalities became normal and symptoms were relieved over 15 months (about 40 treatments).

Dr. Michael Janson, a wholistic physician for fifteen years with 8 years experience with chelation therapy, has seen significant results with peripheral vascular disease, healing of leg and foot ulcers (preventing the need for amputation), over 90% of cardiac patients reported relief of angina and got off of traditional medications.24 One of his patients had a severe heart attack, had an angioplasty. Soon after his physician suggested he have a bypass operation. After switching to a vegetarian diet and receiving chelation therapy, he lost 42 pounds, walks 3-4 miles a day and feels terrific…without having bypass surgery.

Dr. Dan Roehm, a board certified wholistic MD from Florida, states, "There is no technology that compares to the results of chelation therapy. It’s so good and inexpensive that those in traditional medicine don’t want people to know about it."26 His patients go on a high complex carbohydrate diet with high fiber, no animal fats or meats and they are encouraged to engage in light exercise based on their individual tolerance. He adds, "The body is a victim of the fuels and substances we put into it. If that connection isn’t there, people pop pills. That’s the horror of our drug culture. We have a tired and sickly society."

To the degree that occluded blood vessels feeding the body are restricted in blood flow, the vascular system will be deficient in the amount of blood and oxygenation of that blood so that legs and feet can’t get the nutrients they need and what results is hypoxia and dying out of these cells. People who risked losing limbs due to gangrene have been saved by chelation therapy. This is well documented. As well, diseased tissues throw off a lot of free radicals. Chelation reduces free radical peroxidation and so slows the premature aging process, helps with cardiovascular disease, decreases incidence of stroke and improves oxygenation of the blood.