X-Message-Number: 11182
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:50:20 -0700
From: "Tony B. Csoka" <>
Subject: Re: opinion on oral chelation therapy

George Smith wrote:

> Unless I find some meaningful health risk factor involved I intend
> to pursue at least oral chelation therapy myself as I have some
> very simple to evaluate physiological symptoms involving peripheral
> circulation which, if the literature is correct, should show
> measurable positive change in one to two months time.  Low risk,
> high potential reward.

George, one other parameter you might want to measure before and after
chelation therapy is the actual amount of calcium deposits in your
coronary arteries (if you have any). There is a technique know as
"Electron Beam CT coronary artery calcium scan" that can measure the
amount of calcification directly. Check out these sites for a
description of the process:

http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/specclin/CHAMP2.html

and also

http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/specclin/CHAMP.html

I don't know if oral chelation therapy works or not, but if it does work
you should see a significant decrease in your coronary calcium score
after treatment. It would be nice to see that this treatment is as
effective as people say it is.

> 
> If this therapy is legitimate, this would make it very important to
> cryonics members.  In short, the claims begin with the reduction of
> high blood pressure and continue to include the avoidance of many
> forms of heart bypass surgery. As I know of no double-blind studies
> conducted on bypass surgery to date to validate THAT approach, I am
> NOT demanding the same of either version of chelation therapy.
> 
> Any input you might have would be appreciated with the exception,
> again, of simply relying upon the questionable "opinion" of the
> medical establishment.  They already reject it.  I know that.  I am
> instead only interested in what the facts of the matter are, if these
> are possible to tease out of the human hubris surrounding one of
> America's major financial industries: heart disease treatment.
> 
> -George Smith

Apparently oral chelation therapy works by an antioxidant mechanism, not
by a direct "metal-removing" system as with intravenous chelation
therapy using EDTA. The main ingredient in oral chelation is the amino
acid cysteine. You can get cysteine, and also the powerful antioxidant
n-acetyl-cyteine, and many other amino acids in bulk at this site:

http://www.jomarlabs.com/prices.asp

Good luck! 

Tony B. Csoka, Ph.D.

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