There’s a life-saving detoxification therapy that can rid your body of heavy metals that have accumulated over years and maybe making you sick.
It’s called “claw” therapy. And it's improving the health of patients.
But most mainstream doctors are not on board. They ignore the link between modern chronic diseases and the heavy metals that are spewed out by factories, mines, power plants, chemical farming and traffic emissions.
I offer EDTA "claw" therapy here at the Sears Institute for Anti-Aging Medicine. My patients tell me they feel better almost immediately.
These dangerous toxins make their way into the air we breathe or into our food supply and drinking water. And they don’t see the benefit of natural “claw therapy.”
Yet they’ll tell you it’s “controversial” or “experimental,” or worse, “snake oil.”
A former colleague of mine left the United States because he was hounded for using this therapy.
Dr. Bruce Shelton was an alternative medicine pioneer who practiced in South Florida, about an hour away from where the Sears Institute for Anti-Aging Medicine now stands. I consulted with him a few times, when I was thinking about adding ʻʻclawˮ therapy to my own practice.
He used a chemical compound called ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, or EDTA as a chelating agent to rid his patients of heavy metals that had accumulated in their bodies and were making them sick.
Calling EDTA “claw” therapy is appropriate because of EDTA’s unique ability.
It grabs dangerous metals and other toxic pollutants that are dissolved in your blood or stored deep in your fatty tissue or organs... and escorts them painlessly out of your body in your urine.
It’s that effective.
I’ve championed the detoxifying benefits of EDTA for more than a decade now, and offer it at my clinic. I’ve also used it successfully as a frontline treatment against a wide variety of inflammatory conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.
A large, taxpayer-funded study recently revealed it can halve the risk of heart attack in some patients.1
The problem is... despite the rash of scientific evidence supporting the healing power of ʻʻclawˮ therapy, the medical establishment hates it. Insurance companies won’t touch it.
Powerful Shield For Today’s Toxic World
As I mentioned, you won’t hear about this therapy from most doctors. They’ll tell you your liver and kidneys are your body’s detox system — and they do just fine by themselves. You don’t need to add to what nature has already provided for.
But here’s the trouble with that theory: Your liver and kidneys were made to filter organic toxins. The kind of waste materials your body made naturally, back when we lived in a clean, chemical-free environment.
You see, our bodies were never designed to absorb massive doses of heavy metals or other wildly toxic pollutants that trigger disease in our organs and organ systems. But the medical community that hounded Dr. Shelton was relentless — and still is.
In the end, Dr. Shelton ran into so much opposition, he moved his practice from Florida to New Zealand, where EDTA therapy is an accepted detox procedure utilized by many physicians.
In this article, you’ll see just how far behind the scientific curve conventional medicine really is when it comes to EDTA, not to mention its remarkable cleansing and healing abilities.
I’ll also show you the research that supports EDTA as a weapon against multiple diseases.
You’ll learn how easy and safe it is to get EDTA therapy, as well as some natural remedies you can use to do ʻʻclawˮ therapy in the comfort of your own home.
Tools To Fight The Toxic Burden Waging War On Every Cell In Your Body
In today’s world, you can’t escape being exposed to heavy metals. Unfortunately, these elements occur almost everywhere in nature. They have a density that’s at least five times greater than water.
Our ancient ancestors had very little exposure to heavy metals, except those that occurred naturally in their environment. Today, our exposure is constant and massive.
The good news is, there’s much we can do to counteract our toxic world. More on this in a moment.
First, let’s look at how heavy metals became so prevalent. A recent study by MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment calculated that outdoor air pollution causes more than 200,000 premature deaths in America every year — along with millions made ill and infirm.2
You probably already know their names — mercury, cadmium, lead and arsenic are among the most damaging to human health and wildlife.
Here’s how insidious they are.
Many of these heavy metal-laden particles are so tiny they penetrate deep into your lungs and bloodstream. Then they circulate to different organs and tissues, causing rampant inflammation.
The unprecedented release of heavy metals and toxins has created an alien environment for your body.
But they don’t stop there.
Other heavy metal particles end up getting stored in the fatty tissue around organs, where they can accumulate for years... until a disease strikes.
And the danger doesn’t just come from industrial pollution.
About 34 tons of mercury are used each year for “silver” amalgam fillings, in around 120,000 dental offices in America, according to EPA estimates. Studies show that every time you chew your food with these toxic fillings, mercury vapor is released in your mouth.
Tobacco smoke is another high danger zone. If you’re a smoker or secondhand smoker, you should know that tobacco smoke is loaded with the heavy metals like cadmium and lead.
E-cigarettes are definitely not the safer alternative the industry claims it is. They are even worse.
The vapors from these devises create a toxic chemical soup of cadmium, chromium, lead, manganese, and nickel — increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer even more.3
The way most people talk about this problem is that these things are poison. And there’s a truth to that. But far more serious is the oxidative damage they do to cells and your body’s immune reaction to this toxic burden.
These accumulated heavy metals cause our bodies to react by producing inflammatory diseases, like:
Diabetes
Heart disease
Alzheimer’s
Cancer
Stroke
Liver and kidney damage
Asthma
Pneumonia
Chronic bronchitis
Accelerated aging
A recent study of taxi drivers in Brazil revealed that long exposure to traffic emissions sent the drivers’ levels of mercury, cadmium, lead and arsenic through the roof.
What’s more, their high heavy-metal readings corresponded directly to high levels in inflammation markers and heart disease among them.4
In today’s modern world, you MUST do something to counteract the effect of the heavy metals and other toxic compounds that get into your blood and attack every one of the 50 trillion cells in your body.
Stack The Deck In Your Favor With “Claw” Therapy
Back in 2003, the government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) attempted to settle a 50-year-old argument.
They wanted to know if EDTA ʻʻclawˮ therapy really worked to prevent disease, or if it was just snake oil. The government-funded TACT (Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy) study was widely expected to drive the final nail into the coffin for chelation therapy.
They tested the effect of EDTA using 1,708 stable patients, all with a history of at least one heart attack. They used a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial — the “gold” standard of scientific methodology. The results were finally published in late 2013.
And the researchers were astounded by what the results revealed:5
EDTA ʻʻclawˮ therapy reduced the risk of heart attack by 18%.
Among the 633 heart patients who were also diabetic, there was a whopping 52% reduction in further heart attacks and a 43% reduction in heart attack death.
Notable reductions in the number of strokes and the severity of angina (chest pain) and bypass surgeries were also recorded.
Then, in 2018, researchers updated the study. This time they focused primarily on diabetic patients who underwent chelation therapy. They found6 a:
41% overall reduction in the risk of any cardiovascular event.
40% reduction in the risk of death from heart disease, stroke or heart attack.
52% reduction in recurrent heart attacks.
You can be sure that if a new medication developed by a pharmaceutical company reduced the risk of heart attack, the cardiology community would be jumping for joy.
You’d think it would be just as happy about EDTA, which also cuts heart attack and stroke risk — especially in high-risk populations, like those with diabetes.
You’d be wrong.
You see, there’s no profit in this natural therapy — so it’s a non-news item.
EDTA isn’t new.
It was first discovered in Germany in the 1930s and has been used in medicine in America since the 1950s to treat mercury and lead poisoning. Doctors in the 1950s also started using EDTA treatment for atherosclerosis, the dangerous buildup of plaque in the artery walls that can restrict blood flow and lead to heart attacks.
Through much of the 1960s and 1970s, EDTA was even covered by Medicare.
But then, in 1981, without proper examination of the scientific evidence and with no formal explanation, the United States Public Health Service ruled that EDTA for atherosclerosis — and anything other than lead and mercury poisoning — was “experimental.”7
Since then the mainstream medical community has shunned the treatment. But the science supporting EDTA has continued to mount. And the latest studies show that it isn’t just effective against arteriosclerosis.
Researchers have also been looking into...
Alzheimer’s Disease: In a recent meta-analysis, American and Chinese researchers found that levels of aluminum, mercury and cadmium were significantly higher in Alzheimer’s patients. A number of studies show that heavy metal chelation can target the proteins involved in creating brain plaques that affect people with Alzheimer’s, and can help slow the progress of the disease.8,9
Parkinson’s Disease: Despite widespread skepticism in the medical community linking heavy metals to Parkinson’s disease, researchers have found a lot of evidence that consistent exposure to toxic particles containing manganese, copper, lead, iron and mercury raises the risk of developing this dreadful condition. Studies show Parkinson’s patients often have a large buildup of iron, and EDTA has an extremely strong affinity for binding with iron.10
Diabetes: We already know from the government's TACT study that EDTA can be a highly effective therapy for diabetics with cardiovascular complications. Research now also shows EDTA can slow the progress of diabetic nephropathy, a kind of kidney damage that’s common in advanced stages of diabetes. And some practitioners have noted that EDTA can help reduce insulin resistance in diabetic patients. Its power to boost circulation can also help ward off diabetic neuropathy.11
High Blood Pressure: EDTA binds to excess metals and minerals, like calcium, that collect in the plaque blockages in arteries. Flushing these out of your body, can improve circulation as your arteries become more flexible. The kidneys also play an important role in blood pressure regulation, and there’s a strong link between elevated levels of lead, kidney damage, and high blood pressure. EDTA is an extremely powerful lead chelating agent.12
I’ve been helping my patients use chelation for years to rid their bodies of heavy metals and other toxins. It’s a safe, easy and fast solution, with a very low risk of side effects. Let me show you how it’s done...
Purify Your Body With These Easy Steps
You’ll find plenty of detoxification kits — or “detox in a box” — at pharmacies and health food stores.
But there is little, if any, scientific evidence that any of these quick fixes work.
I’ve found the most effective approach combines both intravenous EDTA chelation along with oral chelation.
Chelation can improve your heart health and blood vessels, improve liver and kidney function, increase blood flow to the brain, and so much more.
Simple tests reveal which heavy metals are flowing through your blood and how to safely clear them out of your system. You may be shocked by what you discover!
IV chelation delivers calcium disodium EDTA directly into your bloodstream. It’s a fast and painless procedure that only takes about 10 minutes.
In no time, this “claw” binds to the heavy metals and toxins in your bloodstream and those that have accumulated in the fat around your tissues, like your liver, and pulls them out.
IV chelation is quick and painless. I use it in my clinic to flush out the toxins we all have from our modern environment.
Patients tell me they feel better almost immediately.
EDTA is the only procedure able to remove toxic metals from human organs, tissue and blood.
If you would like more information about IV EDTA chelation, please contact the Sears Institute for Anti-Aging Medicine at 561-784-7852. My staff will be happy to answer any questions you have.
Even if you don’t do the IV chelation, you can still get great results with oral chelation at home. Here’s what I recommend:
First, try activated charcoal. Hospitals have been using this form of charcoal for many years as an antidote for drugs, poisons and medicinal overdoses. It’s a great general internal cleanser and is especially powerful against heavy metals. Like EDTA, activated charcoal grabs heavy metal molecules and pulls them from your body.
Taken orally, it has the ability to extract and neutralize many more times its own weight in gases, heavy metals, toxins and poisons. Just a tiny amount can absorb and wash away years of toxin and heavy metal buildup. Look for activated charcoal as a very fine, black powder in your local health food store or online. Take 20 grams to 30 grams of powdered activated charcoal mixed with water once a day for one to two weeks.Another detoxifier is modified citrus pectin. The inner peel of citrus fruits contains one of the most potent detox substances I've found. In one USDA study, people taking modified citrus pectin for six days excreted 150% more mercury... 230% more cadmium, and... 560% more lead.13
What’s great about modified citrus pectin is that while it eliminates toxic metals and pesticides, it doesn’t deplete your body of zinc, calcium or magnesium. But make sure you get the right kind. Most pectin is made of large long-chain carbohydrate molecules. These are too big to digest and will just pass through your body. The citrus pectin used in clinical studies is formulated for absorption, so it can easily find and bind to toxins. Look for “modified” citrus pectin.You can also use milk thistle ( Silybum marianum ). This medicinal plant is one of the best herbs I’ve found for clearing toxins from your blood. It’s been used by traditional healers for more than 2,000 years. But most modern doctors know nothing about it.
Milk thistle has a potent antioxidant called silymarin that helps detoxify the liver and restore healthy liver function. And it’s a great iron chelator.14 Look for dried milk thistle extract in your health food store or online. But make sure it has a minimum of 80% silymarin, the active ingredient for liver cleansing. Take one 200 mg capsule twice a day.
To Your Good Health,
References:
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