The Integrated Pharmacist

***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...

***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*** Today's topic is biological dentistry.  This may sound like a misnomer at first.  All dentists work on biological patients, right?  This term refers specifically to dentists who recognize dental work and the mouth as an important part of the whole body.  These dentists also call themselves holistic or integrated dentists.  From what I have found, there is a strong emphasis on how issues in the mouth can affect the entire body. This outlook makes sense to me, because the mouth is like a gate to the rest of the body.  If you think about it, we really only have two holes that are built to allow something into the cavity of the human - the nose and the mouth.  If we allow foreign objects to sit in the mouth, it doesn't take too much effort for it to get...