Chelation Therapy
***Disclaimer: This blog is not meant to be used as legal or medical advice. It is written as my person perspective on how medical professionals could blend western medicine with other modalities*** Welcome to another exciting episode of The Integrated Pharmacist Podcast! Today's topic is chelation therapy. Chelation is the process of binding heavy metals in order to flush them out of a system. This was originally performed in pipes. This is the traditional method of water softening created in 1930. During World War II, the University of Oxford used the chemical ethylene-di-amine-tetra-acetic acid (or EDTA) to combat lewisite - a chemical weapon that uses arsenic. Since then, the same chemical has been used to treat lead and mercury poisoning. In the 1950's, it was used on a large group of battery factory workers, again for lead poisoning. However, the doctor discovered that patients who had previously experienced angina no longer...