By Leon Chaitow N.D., D.O., M.R.O.

Heart disease

Harvard University asked more than 22,000 doctors, all at least 40 years old, to take aspirin every day for four years. By then, 104 had heart attacks; five were fatal. In contrast, of those who took an inactive dummy pill, 189 had heart attacks and 18 died.

Doctors have got excited about these results because, while 500 people a day die of heart disease in the UK, the drugs used to prevent this happening have some unwanted effects and have not been proved to be totally effective. Aspirin, on the other hand, is universally regarded as safe, cheap and convenient.

But even as the Americans stampeded to their medicine cabinets (helped by a massive publicity campaign mounted by aspirin manufacturers), warnings were sounded by British experts. Sir Richard Doll points out that if aspirin helps people who have already had heart attacks, then it does so at the expense of causing more strokes. The benefits to healthy people are even less obvious.

This sounds familiar. International authorities have recommended that anyone with higher than average levels of cholesterol circulating in the blood should start corrective treatment with drugs. Yet the Helsinki Heart Study (on 19,000 men aged 40­55), the World Health Organization study (on 10,000 men), and the Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention trial (3,800 'at risk' men), have all shown that any reduction in the number of expected deaths from heart disease is balanced by an increase in deaths from other causes.

The implication is that these may be caused by the 'preventive' drugs themselves; an idea supported by the many non­fatal effects reported in the drug users. These include more gastrointestinal complications (and surgery to put them right), more gallstones and more cataracts.

Because of this predilection to use drugs as preventive medicine, many people are becoming wary of health screening. Having regular check­ups, particularly if they involve an enthusiastic, interventionist doctor who monitors blood pressure and goes in for cardiograms and stress tests, may actually be dangerous to health.

Aspirin, too, is not the innocuous substance it is made out to be. Children's aspirin was withdrawn from over­the­counter sale after many years of assumed safe use. It causes gastrointestinal bleeding and pain. Drugs, it seems, are a very poor form of preventive medicine.

The irony is that we have all the information we need to stop heart disease without drugs. Evidence is that these alternatives are not only safe and effective ways of staying alive, but that they can actually reverse the process of conditions like atherosclerosis, even at the emergency stage when a man is scheduled for bypass surgery.

That was the experience of Richard B, a 42­year­old businessman and amateur athletics coach, who remembers running a fast track 200 metres in the middle of the pack, floating easily across the finish line ­ and waking up in intensive care.

He knew about diet and exercise and it hadn't saved him from a heart attack. It turned out that he was genetically unable to produce a cholesterol­controlling enzyme. Unable to walk after his spectacular collapse, he was whisked to the front of the waiting list and booked in for double bypass surgery. The operation was due to take place the day after his wedding.

He was too doubtful to go in for it. Bypass surgery is not a permanent solution and is frequently ineffective. A 1,000­man study by the American Veterans Administration found that bypass surgery was of no benefit for anyone but those with the rare left­main artery disease. Bypassing clogged arteries is one thing; but what about the ones that are left? These too will become clogged, and more surgery will be needed, until the unfortunate patient runs out of replacement tissue. It makes much more sense to do something about root causes.

Richard opted instead for chelation. This treatment, combined with a low­fat, high­fibre, low­sugar diet, and supplements of vitamins and minerals, enabled Richard to report to his disbelieving consultant three months later that he was back in athletics training and did not need any operation.

The consultant wanted to conduct an angiogram, in which a dye is injected into the arteries and examined under X­rays. Richard refused, because during a previous angiogram his heart had stopped while he was on the table.

There was no real need. Here was a man who couldn't walk because of the pains in his chest, now back to an hour's running ­ not jogging ­ a day, plus circuit training, and all without drugs.

Besides, American scientists had already established a precedent, with a paper published in 1977 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Their patients, average age 48, all had angiograms to diagnose extensive blockage due to atherosclerosis. After 13 months on a low­fat diet they were angiogrammed again: in nearly half, the existing deposits of arterial plaque had begun to disappear. With the known benefits of chelation, and the technology to check on how the arteries are functioning without invasive measures, Richard felt confident to refuse more surgery.

His case is typical of those gathered in the files of chelation centres throughout the world. And from those supplied by the Chelation Centre, London, for this book, it is clear that even though their cases are supervised by a consultant physician and endocrinologist and have full test data available, many doctors and surgeons find it very difficult to believe that their patients have been able to recover so well.

One professor of cardiology at a leading American university school of medicine confirmed the excellent physical status of a patient who had used chelation therapy, but felt moved to add a handwritten postscript: 'As you know I really don't believe chelation is effective!'

All good closing­of­the­ranks stuff. Unfortunately, this dubious sort of behaviour is resulting in a safe and effective treatment being denied patients ­ not on the basis of serious scientific analysis, but as a result of sniggering humour.

The patient who made this correspondence available was a man aged over 60 who had received a triple bypass operation at this same American university. Six weeks later he began to experience severe recurrent angina. At first he responded to calcium channel blocking drugs, but after a few more months is angina got so bad that he was unable to walk.

On his own initiative, and still suffering despite the best that high­tech medicine could offer, he began chelation therapy. He had 20 treatments in all. Eight months after his first chelation session he reported back to the university: he was totally without symptoms. Not only was he able to walk, but was walking up hills and was working a full day. No shortness of breath, no side­effects from the chelation.

His physical examination proved his blood pressure to be 150/90. His pulse was 77. His chest was clear. His heart not enlarged, and with a murmur and a '4th heart sound'. He had stopped all his drugs two weeks before the examination, because he was feeling and functioning so well. 'As you know I really don't believe chelation is effective!. The only comment.

If this was an isolated case of benefit, where calcium blockers and operations and/or surgical operations had brought no relief, then perhaps it would be understandable. But the evidence has been accumulating for years; and patients who have tried, or who want to try, chelation must by now be very familiar to American heart surgeons.

The attitude in Britain is little better, although perhaps slightly less aggressively and blindly 'anti'. In fact, a patient who wrote to the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity, for their opinion on chelation was told, quite reasonably, that there were two sides to the argument and there was no reason at all why he should not explore the matter for himself.

But the BHF also passed on another example of deeply entrenched dogma. They told him:

You may or may not be aware that chelation therapy has been around for some 30 years and opinions regarding its value vary enormously . . . One of our professors who is an expert on atheromatous coronary artery disease and has done a lot of research on it recently summed up the situation by saying that the evidence of benefit is almost non­existent and the experimental basis for supposed advantage is very weak. The general consensus of opinion seems to be that there is no advantage over calcium antagonists such as Adalat.

The BHF has made no secret of the fact that it has funded a lot of research into this group of drugs over the years.

Mr SC, another 60­year­old, was also a victim of this dogma when, following angioplasty ­ surgery to repair the blood vessels in his chest ­ in the heart unit of the prestigious Stanford University School of Medicine in California, he experienced considerable pain from 'residual' angina. This side­effect of surgery had been predicted, but not the degree.

He was placed on calcium blockers, a high dose of six 10 mg tablets three times a day. Even so, the angina did not stop. After only two chelation infusions, the angina disappeared.

This story had a happy ending. Mr SC's regular doctor (he does not live in America) is a cardiac surgeon. And when Mr SC returned home after chelation, this doctor was so impressed he proposed to use angioplasty and chelation as complementary treatments in future. The patient reports this surgeon's more open­minded view of the process:

His opinion is that EDTA removes only a microscopic layer of plaque (as well as smoothing the artery wall due to healing of the cells that line the arteries). He feels, however, that the removal of even a microscopic layer of plaque in arterioles supplying blood to artery muscles could improve blood flow to the artery muscles substantially and would likely prevent artery spasm, thereby preventing much angina pain in an extraordinarily short space of time.

What can chelation achieve in a patient with heart problems? Let's follow the history of one man in more detail. (As with all case histories, I am grateful to the late James Kavanagh of the Chelation Centre of London and Pagham, West Sussex, for providing full data. Names of patients have been changed and, unless their specific permission was given, have only been identified to me by initials.)

The case we'll follow is of a 62­year­old man whose chief complaint was angina. This had come on after surgery to his prostate and was so severe that it used to wake him up, on average, three times a night. Luckily for us, this gentleman is scientifically trained and kept precise notes of his progress before, during and after the chelation programme.

In addition, we have access to the reports of two doctors he consulted for examinations during 1982, when his severe angina began after his prostate operation, and a full proposal for treatment from a specialist in an American coronary unit. This surgeon had seen the previous medical records and from them suspected 'significant' disease of our man's coronary arteries. Subject to a full physical examination in the United States, the proposal moved on to plans for surgery and warned of a possible cost of up to $20,000, a sum of money which puts into perspective the comparatively modest cost of chelation.

An opinion from the chief of this American unit was that our patient ­ let's call him George ­ would need an angiogram and probable angioplasty, with possible bypass surgery. George was told to proceed "immediately' with this schedule, and certainly not to leave it longer than two months. His angina by then had become unstable.

George did not have the bypass. His angina 'virtually ceased' after his first chelation infusion. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.

George's problems really started in 1972. A specialist professional in a demanding job, he had an episode of dizziness and his doctor found his blood pressure had got way too high. To control it he was first given Reserpine, a drug isolated from the Rauwolfia plant, whose constituents are a traditional sedative. Reserpine pulls out of the tissues, nerve endings and the brain, circulating chemicals that act on blood vessels to raise blood pressure.

One of Reserpine's side­effects is that it can affect mood, and George's blood pressure medication was changed several times over the years until he had finally settled on two Catapres tablets a day. Catapres contains clonidine, a chemical which works on the central nervous system. It reduces blood pressure, slows the heart and is a mild sedative. It does nothing to treat the root causes of high blood pressure, but effectively does away with the symptoms ­ the body's warning signals that something is wrong and needs attention.

Towards the end of the 1970s, George was bothered by a fluctuation in his heartbeat and occasional chest pains. That was addressed with a prescription for two tablets of Trasicor a day. Trasicor is based on oxyprenolol, which is one of the class of drugs known as beta­blockers. These chemicals are firm favourites of some professional musicians, who find public performances so nerve­racking that they are unable to play, and even some sports people. The beta­blockers work by blocking nerve endings called beta­receptors. These are the receptors that pick up nerve stimulus to the heart ­ which can be sent down the line due to emotional stress, fear, aggression, tension and so on. The nerve signals, if received, would normally cause the heart to increase its work rate ­ so it beats faster.

Case histories

Beta­blockers are also used to treat angina, as if there are any deficiencies in the arteries supplying blood to the heart, when the nerve signals speed up the heart, the increased flow of blood against the resistance of a restricted artery can cause severe pain. George didn't experience full angina, though, until a few years later. In 1982 he had microsurgery on an enlarged prostate gland. Despite the drugs he was using, immediately after the operation he developed severe angina and was put on oxygen for three days. In an effort to control the angina, he was given two more drugs to take in addition to the two he was already taking. These were Nitrobid (four a day), a drug which relaxes the walls of blood vessels, reducing the amount of blood flowing to and from the heart; and Dyazide, later changed to three capsules of Adalat a day.

Adalat is one of a class of drugs known as 'calcium antagonists, an interesting choice knowing what we know about chelation's effects on calcium. Adalat works by slowing the entry of calcium (carried in the blood) into the heart and blood vessels. The idea is to prevent the flow of blood from 'silting up'; again, they do nothing to address the underlying problem.

By the time George's angina became worrying ­ despite all these drugs ­ it was the end of 1985. By then he reported his symptoms as:

Blood pressure of 180 or 170/100 without medication, controlled at about 145 or 150/95 with medication.

Onset of angina after four hours of working in the office, needing Nitrobid to control it.

Regular waking at night: three times, sometimes four times a night, needing more Nitrobid and sleeping pills to allow sleep.

'Permanent feeling of lack of air (oxygen), requiring rooms to have low temperatures and windows open even on coldest nights. Inability to remain by a fireside or to sit in stuffy rooms, trains, shops, etc. I could not remain in a heated shop for more than a few minutes'

Ability to walk only about one and a half miles (2.4 km) at steady pace, and not up hills or steps. Shortness of breath.

Heavy chest pressure at end of day's work.

'General malaise and disinterest in life, with condition and sleeplessness interacting to provide general deterioration in health,
Christmas with the family was not pleasant. 'Life was difficult for my family due to my inability to stay in a room at a comfortable temperature, said George.

At that point, faced with a recommendation for a $20,000 bypass operation with no guarantee of improvement afterwards, an old friend in Nairobi, Kenya, suggested that George investigate chelation, since doctors in Nairobi had successfully treated numbers of people with similar conditions.

Treatment began on 15 January, 1986 after series of tests and I continued with my previous dosage of Catapres, Trasicor, Nitrobid and Adalat.
After first chelation infusion, angina virtually ceased with no reminding' pains to call for the next medication due. Felt much brighter and began to make plans for remainder of year. Began to sleep properly, with maximum of one waking per night, but still with windows open, however cold.

After second treatment on the 17th, found I could lie in bed on left side for 20 minutes before turning to right. Previously this was possible for only a few minutes. I had a feeling of some movement at left side of heart on Monday, 20th and Tuesday, 21st. Had severe heartburn in night due to acidity as a result of taking too many "make­up" yellow chelation supplement pills. This caused racing of heart and was assuaged by taking Milk of Magnesia antacid pills. Quite frightening at the time.

On Monday morning, 10th February, after taking one Nitrocontin tablet with early morning tea, had a pain of some sort across top of heart. Before chelation, I usually had 'relaxation' pain in this place after taking nitroglycerin. Only one single, non­sharp, pain was felt. During the morning I noticed specks of white material up to 1/16 inch (1.5mm) or more across with white vapour trails swirling slowly in my urine.

Throughout the first eight infusions, I gradually began to feel better, with much improved attitude to life. I began to breathe easily without the feeling that there was chewing gum stuck around my heart. I found I could sleep in a heated room with minimum ventilation, shovel snow slowly and do jobs around the house with enthusiasm again. Also, at various times during chelation, I had a 'feeling' at weekends that something around my heart was moving ­ not a pain, but a 'feeling', first on top and left side, then underneath and then at back of heart, etc.

I had had arterial pains in my right calf and ankle swelling in my left ankle (especially after flying) before chelation. This was described as venous thrombosis by Dr T. I felt some slight pain in the right calf artery and in the veins of my right leg during the second week of chelation. Thereafter the pains, both right arterial and varicose, ceased.

After eight infusions I felt altogether better. I reduced my Nitrocontin tablets (Nitrobid not available in UK) from four to three per day on 31st January, also Adalat capsules from three to two per day. On 7th February, I reduced my two Catapres tablets per day to one. I expected to reduce my Nitrocontin further, but Dr P required me to continue with this reduced dose until the end of treatment.

I can now write for ten hours, with considerable concentration and without onset of angina. I think I see colours more brightly. No change was noticeable to general vision or hearing, but a change of glasses did improve vision.

From eighth infusion onwards to the twentieth my ability to walk quite fast for long distances became much improved, including walking non­stop up a fairly steep long hill near my house. I have continued to feel 'movements' at weekends in various parts of my body, including right side of head and a return to top side, underneath and back of heart. I now sleep through the night regularly with normal minimum of room ventilation. I sometimes need a sleeping pill the night after an infusion.

I cleared a 5 inch (12.5cm) depth of snow from our house drive and footpaths (quite extensive) at beginning of March.

After the twelfth infusion my BP was down to 130/80 despite reduction of BP­reducing pills. I reduced my Nitroglycerin to 1 1/2 (2.5 mg) tablets per day.

After the twentieth infusion, I had very definite movement activity all around my heart on the Saturday night and this woke me from sleep. It subsided without medication and I felt similar movements in the centre of my right calf. I wondered whether this was debris or plaque being moved. The faint feeling or slight pain in right calf remained. On Sunday, I slept well again.

I feel the treatment has done all that I could have possibly hoped for and after a few months' rest I intend to have more chelation infusions.

I have lost weight (about 8lb/3.6kg) but am still 5 or 6lb (2.5kg) overweight. At or around the twelfth­fifteenth infusion, I developed excess fluid around my heart and could feel slight bubbling beneath my heart at night. This was confirmed by X­ray and Dr P advised cutting fluids while on chelation. This I did and I believe the fluid had gradually dissipated by the end of the treatment.

I informed Dr P of the slight 'pain' in my right calf. This was possibly brought about by my climbing 190 steps non­stop one day.

Six weeks have gone by since my treatment ceased on 21 March, and the pain in my right calf and a slight pain at the back of my right knee have now virtually disappeared and I do not feel them even on morning waking (as I did before chelation).

A few months after completing his chelation programme, George reported: 'I am feeling fine, though working a nine­hour day. I think in future it would be better to cease the work stress and I have this in mind a year from now!'

'Smoker's legs' and claudication

Probably the most seriously ill person whom we have treated, is how Chelation Centre's James Kavanagh described the lady whose case history we next look at.

'Smoker's legs' is the slang description for her condition. We'll refer to her as Eileen (not her real name). She was 64 years old when she arrived for treatment, barely able to walk even with a stick.

About 13 years before she had needed a heart operation to fix up her aorta, the huge artery growing out of the heart from which a complete system of arteries develops. It had become blocked, and the operation was described as 'aorto­iliac reconstruction in which the 'bifurcation was cleared out completely and was widened with a heart­shaped patch'

Unfortunately for Eileen, her condition had continued to deteriorate despite this excellent ­ and literal ­ unblocking and patching­up job. She needed another operation, but the surgeon refused to operate because of the state of her arteries. She would probably not survive the procedure.

Her blood pressure was a phenomenal 200/155. Asked about this, Eileen commented it had 'always been rather high'! She had been taking drugs to control it for years.

Her husband tells the story:

It was a lucky day for Eileen when she saw the article in Here's Health magazine about chelation therapy.
She had already had an operation for a blockage at the lower end of her aorta some 11 years ago and when a similar problem presented itself last year a senior consultant thought a second operation was far too dangerous.

I don't doubt that he was right, but it created a very traumatic situation which seemed insurmountable ­ until we saw the article. Fortunately tests showed she was suitable for treatment. Twelve months ago she could only walk, very slowly, for a few paces with the aid of a stick. She was unable to climb any stairs. Today she walks well, climbs steps and has even been dancing. An additional bonus is that she has been able to give up her blood pressure tablets ­ she has taken them for years ­ and her general feeling of well­being is a pleasure to see.

Staff at the Chelation Centre did not think that Eileen was going to get better, as several times she arrived for an infusion still hobbling with her stick. It turned out that, encouraged by her husband, between sessions she had been overdoing her newly returned ability to walk and was actually suffering because her muscles were redeveloping.

At the end of her programme, the Centre's summary recorded her as looking, in her face, 15 years younger, able to walk more than a mile unaided 'and very gracefully' with her blood pressure stabilized at 135/80 and all drugs withdrawn.

'Thanks to chelation therapy', says her husband, 'Eileen has been given a new lease of life for which she and I are profoundly grateful'

Another person with walking problems, whom we'll call Gerry, had a classic case of what is known as claudication, and it was so bad that he could only cover 25 yards before the pain stopped him.

Claudication literally means limping, or lameness. It usually turns up in people with circulatory problems as intermittent claudication. It is usually caused by the arteries being severely diseased. The pain starts up soon after walking, becomes so bad that the person has to stop, and then disappears completely when the legs are rested.

Gerry reports:

In January I could walk no farther than 25 yards and was in acute pain at the end of it. I would have to return to my car walking flat footed on my left foot because it was too painful to take weight on the ball of my foot. There was a gradual improvement in that by July I could walk 200 yards ­ but slowly and with a lot of pain.

I started chelation in July and noticed no improvement until the sixth infusion, when I realized one day that I had walked from Oxford Circus station to Wimpole Street with only marginal discomfort in the leg.

After the seventh infusion I found a considerable improvement again, and after the eighth I was able to walk briskly, and I recall telling Dr P and several of the patients that I had turned a corner. The improvement continued and I have now had 11 infusions.

Two days ago I walked one and a half miles (2.4km) at normal walking pace with no discomfort in the leg. I sat for a few minutes and did the return walk, at the end of which I had only marginal discomfort in the leg. Yesterday I set out on a brisk walk (service marching pace of four miles [6.4km] to the hour) without any problem.

My legs were marginally uncomfortable at the end of it, but what one has to remember is that years ago, before claudication became apparent, my legs, like those of other fit people, would have some mild degree of discomfort after a brisk one­and­a­half­mile walk.

As a means of testing chelation, Gerry purposely did not lose weight or stop smoking during the 11 infusions! 'The benefits I have seen could only have come from chelation', he says. 'Now that I have conducted my own clinical trial, weight loss and cessation of smoking will be effected.'

Gerry also reported 'side­effects' ­ early improvements in fact: 'Better hearing, eyesight, mental alertness and erections.'

Another man who continued to smoke through his treatment worried James Kavanagh: 'He did not make as much progress as he might have done, and I was sure that his next step would be surgery.'

Michael (not his real name) had severe claudication when he first came for chelation. He had been unable to sleep properly for months, since as soon as he put his legs anywhere near the horizontal the pains in his calf became unbearable, since gravity was no longer able to help the flow of blood. He could walk only 100 yards (91m) before seizing up and had been forced to stop work. He looked very old.

The cause of his condition seemed to be his heavy smoking plus slightly high blood cholesterol readings. The tests showed severe circulatory disease in his legs, but no one could judge the exact extent of it since Michael was not about to let anyone cut into him. A professor at a leading London hospital had recommended an invasive check of his lumbar area and he had refused. In fact he wasn't all that happy about chelation, and had seemed to agree to a course ­ twice a week for three months ­ only because he was more afraid that if things got worse he would have to agree to invasive investigations.

He was, in the consultants terms, 'a real problem.' The Chelation Centre really thought he would need surgery, but Michael was set against it. The Doppler, sound­wave test used at the Centre revealed massive obstructions in his arteries. And he would not stop smoking.

Yet, against the expectations and against the odds, chelation was able to make a real impression in the three months. A revealing measure of the improvement was a walking treadmill test three months after completion of the initial course, which shows whether the improvement is lasting and is maintained. Michael initially stopped in pain at one minute 30 seconds at 2 mph (3.2kph) on the flat; his follow­up showed he could go for three minutes 50 seconds.

This added to the other effects: the night­time resting pain was relieved, and the Doppler test showed minor improvements in the flow of blood where previously there had been all the signs of an irreversible continuation of the blocking; these combined to relieve Michael of a great deal of anxiety.

James Kavanagh hoped that Michael's GP would be able to find the funds to enable him to take another course of treatment and would help him stop smoking, but could only be pleased at the results: 'He is able to walk and produce his own lactic acid (a by­product of exercise) to help himself and he now works fulltime again. And he is much more happy and confident as a result.'

Another huge improvement in claudication was seen in a 54­year­old man we'll call Peter, who could manage a maximum of 150 yards (137m) on a slight incline before being stopped by the pain in his right calf. This is no way for a 54­year­old to face life.

This man, a flight engineer, had faced ­ and passed ­ regular flying medicals. They had not picked up, or looked for, the cause of his problem ­ a generalized arteriosclerosis of the right leg with blockages ­ which the Chelation Centre tests found out to be due to very high levels of cholesterol.

Peter had given up smoking years before, so it was clear that the dramatic improvement in his condition was again due only to chelation. Dramatic? Well, he had only ten infusions starting in November. When he booked in for his seventh infusion in March, he had already taken part in a ten­mile (16km) crosscountry walk without any claudication pain.

After ten treatments, he was reporting that his walks on the Downs were back to the distances he was covering five years previously, walking a regular 4­5 miles (6.5­8km) with no pain.

Other ailments

Some people show their circulatory problems by not being able to walk too far; others are more dramatic ­ they pass out.

These are the 'cranial' cases. People with disease of the arteries that take blood and oxygen to the brain. On the way, the blood passes through the neck, and at the carotid arteries, the main highways from heart to head, Doppler sound testing can reveal where and how bad the obstructions are.

Luckily for the 'cranials' chelation can be as dramatic as their habit of falling over several times a day.

Catherine (not her real name) was 66 and was blacking out three or more times a day. This was not only embarrassing, but dangerous. If she felt herself 'going' at home she could usually avoid the corners of tables or 'arrange' to drop saucepans where they would do least damage, but she was rightly worried that she might collapse while out shopping and be hit by a car.

But it was an embarrassing moment that highlighted her condition at the Chelation Centre. The first thing staff knew about it was when she turned up for her first infusion and passed out in the toilet. Since then the locks have been changed so that they can be opened from the outside in emergencies.

The problem with cranial insufficiency is that you feel bad all over even when you're not falling over. The brain needs massive amounts of oxygen. When it doesn't get it you can feel washed out all the time, and generally ill every day for no good reason.

Catherine not only came across as a morose person, but looked ill, with a yellow/gray complexion. That was to clear by her fourteenth infusion, so that she looked totally normal. Much more satisfying ­ and quicker ­ was the fact that she had not a single collapse since her first infusion ­ a remarkable result.

The Doppler scans showed how her cranial circulation improved and she was so much happier in her outlook. And, said James Kavanagh with the 'before' and 'after' reports to hand: 'As with many cases, the kidney function improves with chelation treatment and this can assist well­being'

The sound­wave scans are a popular, non­invasive tool. 'Around 75 per cent of people attending the Clinic come only for the Doppler exam, said Kavanagh. 'Some exhibit a moderate/ severe stroke risk'

A lady we'll call Janice, aged 55, came into this category. She had already used surgery and the Gerson cancer therapy to deal successfully with three malignant melanomas three years before. Now the Doppler showed problems in her carotid arteries; follow­up tests showed the cause to be her high cholesterol level. Without effective preventive treatment she was a candidate for a sudden and severe loss of blood supply to the brain.

Janice has started a course of chelation confident that she can successfully rid her arteries of plaque and improve her health.

Eye improvement

FD, 67­year­old man. Rapid left eyesight degeneration over previous six months. This was said to be avascular, that is, in an area not reached by the bloodstream, and so untreatable by chelation.

But FD had been so astonished by his wife's health changes hat he decided to try treatment himself, on the basis that all deposits and their dispersal, plus nerve regeneration depend on good blood supply ­ and chelation would help bring that about

Last report was that the deterioration seemed to have halted. A prominent eye specialist is reviewing the case.

Arthritis subsides

HW, 60­year­old woman. Despite operations for relief of obstructions in the blood supply of her legs she had been in constant pain for many years. After the second infusion, she was able to spend most of the day on her feet without pain. Useful side­effects included the disappearance of varicose veins in her leg and an almost 1/4 inch (7mm), six­year­old vein on her wrist.

A severe arterial thumping sound in the area of her ear became less noisy. Arthritis of her knuckles subsided to such an extent that she is now able to exert her full grip instead of being able to close her hand only partially.

After a stroke

KB, 57­year­old woman. Stroke nine years previously had left her with considerable paralysis still on her right side. The Doppler sound scan showed an impaired blood flow in the carotid arteries at the neck, and this was corrected with six infusions.

With this restored blood supply, nerve regeneration becomes possible and she was recommended to start physiotherapy.

Record run

AP, 40­year­old man. Previous investigations of his heart involved catheterization, passing a tube into the heart to try to find out what is going on. This apparently revealed severe 'blockages' and he had been offered bypass surgery.

During chelation his chest pains gradually abated and he finally proved he was 100 per cent fit in great style: following his twelfth infusion he ran, complete with overcoat and overnight bag, via two underground trains to catch a train at Victoria station within 14 minutes of leaving the Clinic. It was 'an amazing performance', say staff. He arrived puffed, but without pain.

Mucus problem clears ­ after 30 years

SK, 58­year­old man. There was a gradual improvement in his angina after the fourth infusion, and there were valuable sideeffects. His eyesight improved and, most surprisingly, after only the second infusion a serious nasal mucus discharge ceased. This had been going on for 30 years, since he had received a blow on the head.

The Doppler readings on his carotid arteries support his own reports of progress and he is now completely free of all drugs.

Never too late?

TS, 82­year­old woman. She could only walk one block due to intermittent claudication. She had coeliac disease (allergy to gluten, the protein found in wheat) and severe potassium loss. Her kidney function was impaired and as a result she had to be given only a half­dosage of EDTA for the first five sessions ­ long enough for this to improve.

Her kidneys now perform better and she walks double the distance. Just as delightful to the Clinic staff, she recovered her sparkling personality and outgoing nature, 'suspected but not seen before to such an entertaining degree'.

IB, 72­year­old woman. Angina and intermittent claudication disappeared after eight treatments despite extreme cold weather in London after the warmth of her native Trinidad. She spent most of her days visiting and shopping in London, rather than resting. Eyesight problems of occasional black 'floaters' stopped after the second infusion.

Avoiding the bypass

RB, 40­year­old man. Crushed by angina, although suffering only occasional attacks, he was offered a coronary bypass operation. An athletics coach, and aware of the benefits of treating the whole body rather than isolated parts, he opted for chelation.

Residual angina proved to have gone after no further pains occurred for two weeks following the fourteenth infusion.

Putting back the sparkle

BP, 55­year­old woman. Her ankles were swollen after only little walking. She was overweight although she ate very little and felt generally 'two degrees under', with lack of energy.

The Doppler test showed only slight abnormalities in cerebral arteries. Following ten infusions, the water retention in her ankles cleared up. She has lost one and a half stones (9.5kg) and has regained a real sparkle to herself, much remarked on by friends.

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