Lets talk about how chelation actually helps reduce heart disease. What exactly is going on?
Dr. Gordon: When we use the word chelation today, most doctors are going to assume you are talking about intravenous chelation. Basically IV and oral do many of the same things. There are more than 30 distinct mechanisms that may contribute to the beneficial effects. These include increasing the cyclic AMP to cyclic GMP ratio, affecting the level of calcium in the platelet membranes, and the level of calcium in red blood cells, and many others. All blood cells die. Your red blood cells die after about 120 days. All older mammalian cells accumulate increased intracellular calcium that leads to decreased physiological and biochemical performance. Because EDTA ties up calcium so avidly, it was used by blood banks for 15 years to prevent blood from clotting. Once you tie up calcium, blood can’t clot.
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