So, with a given patient, when would you do IV chelation and when would you do oral chelation?
Dr. Gordon: Basically, my position is this: the oral is an insurance policy to guarantee that you stay alive long enough to take the IV when and if you choose to do so. I tell everybody that the IV produces a “youthifying” effect to deal with several basic aspects of aging, including the calcification of your blood vessels. The total oral formulation is the only way I know to keep people alive who don’t want to die of a heart attack, stroke, cardiac spasm, arrhythmia, or blood clot. People who are symptomatic really have no choice. Once they have any symptoms of heart disease, or fail a treadmill test, or have silent ischemia picked up on a Holter monitor, or whatever method happens to bring them to our attention, anybody who is in trouble, I tell them they have to take IV and stay on the oral, because taking the oral too means the beneficial effect of the IV will not be lost rapidly. In other words, if I take a 90-year-old guy- that’s a man with a 90-year-old body- I give him 30 IV ch
