Chelation Therapy Is It Good

For You?

Dr. Peter Dobie

Chelation therapy consists of the supervision of chelating

agents by an expert doctor to take care of harmful metal
poisoning. Chelating agents which are also called as chelants
are applied to get rid of heavy metals from the human body
in situations of poisoning, overdose or accumulation. These
agents bind to metals inside the blood and tissues.
These develop complexes known as chelates which are inert
chemically and it is quite easy to excrete them without
interacting any more inside the human body. By doing so,
detoxification of toxic metals is done by chelation therapy for
example lead, arsenic or mercury. Chelating agents are given
by doctors either orally or injected into the body directly
through a vein or muscle, but this depends on the type of
metals intoxication and the agent used.

Chelation Therapy & Its Uses

Poisoning caused due to heavy materials such as lead,

mercury and arsenic

Drugs containing metal ions are overdosed in a human

body

Build-up of huge amounts of iron in your body on account

of recurring blood transfusions, which include the case of
thalassemia patients who need blood transfusions on a
frequent basis

Amassment of enormous amounts of copper in the human

body because of Wilson's disease, a health condition in
which the human body struggles to excrete copper easily

A number of scientific tests have already been done to check

the consequences of chelation therapy in other illnesses
for example cancer, heart problems and autism.
Nevertheless, no good evidence to support the application of
this therapy for these disorders has still been found.

Here are a few example of chelating agents:

Organic dithiol compound dimercaprolt was the one of the

very first chelators, and it was developed as an antidote
for an arsenic-based chemical agent(also called as BAL).

DMSA (Dimercaptosuccinic acid) is the most widespread

chelants to treat the poisoning caused by lead, arsenic or
mercury. It was created in 1970s. It is a modified edition
of BAL, have significantly less negative impacts.

DMPS (Dimercapto-propane-sulfonate)
mercury and arsenic chelator.

ALA (Alpha lipoic acid) is often considered as an effective

nutritional health intake which transforms into dithiol
dihydrolipoic acid.

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