Does chelation do anything for kidney stones?
Dr. Gordon: Yes, amazingly enough, it obviously is going to put the stone back into solution, depending on the amount of calcium in the stone. There’s a whole research society in Germany that’s specialized in the use of EDTA. They get the tough cases where the stone inside the kidneys is almost the size of your thumb (they call it a staghorn calculus). They would put the EDTA in the backward way, through the penis, up through the bladder, up through the tube and then let you lay in bed and drip the EDTA, just like you could dissolve a stalactite or a stalagmite. I use EDTA with people with small stones, and I tell them that they are very likely to drop that small stone and pass it. Remember that all the EDTA you put into your body leaves in your urine virtually unchanged. When it goes out unchanged it still hasn’t lost its affinity, which is called its chelating ability or metal-binding power. It always has to attract to itself a “date,” and that “date” is a metal, and that metal will
