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What Are The Mechanics Of Chelation Therapy?

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Are These Vitamins Natural?	Oral chelation means taking Cysteine or EDTA through the mouth
Is This MLM?	Where Can I Learn About Cysteine?
Do Viruses Cause Disease?	Where Can I Learn About Niacin?
Why Do People Take Vitamins?	What About Prayer?
What Is Oral Chelation?	EDTA Compared With Cysteine
What Is Fraudulent Taheebo?	What Is This Niacin Flush?
Why So Critical Of The AHA?	What About Black Walnut As An Oral Chelation Nutrient?
How Long Should I Take Life Glow Plus, What Results Can I Expect?	Why Should I buy your product when there are many others available at lower prices?
My Hands Have Gotten Warmer!	Does Life Glow Plus Lower Cholesterol? What if my cholesterol goes UP after taking Life Glow Plus?
What About Coumadin?	Karl Loren: What Are Your Credentials For These Claims?
What Are The Mechanics Of Chelation Therapy?	What Does Karl Loren Recommend For Diet?
Will Taking ZOLOFT Interfere With Taking Life Glow Plus?	Why Does The FDA Do What It Does?
Can Oral Chelation Prevent Or Cure Cancer?	Where Do The Colostrum Cows Come From?
Can Phenylalanine Cause High Blood Pressure?	Is Dilantin Dangerous?
Prescription Drugs Are Now The #4 Killer!	ADD In Kids?
Karl, would you please listen to this cassette tape?	How Is Drug Marketing Changing?
Karl, I feel tired all the time!	Useful Role Of The FDA?
How Do You Treat Dog Bites?	What About Tobacco
Help Me Get My Son Off Cytoxin	What If You Take Less Than The Recommended Dose?
What Is A Good Cleansing Program	Ritalin The Schoolyard Killer
How Can A Doctor Commit Murder and Get Away With It?	What Is The Shelf Life Of Your Vitamins
Do You Have Independent Labs Test Your Ingredients?	What About Human Growth Hormone? HGH?
For Your Transfer Factor? Where Do The Cows Come From? How Healthy?	Another Chelation Doctor Proves His Ignorance of how EDTA works -- Dr. Whitaker
Complexity Leads To Death -- Simplicity Leads To Life	This Woman Is Doomed!
What is the VERY BEST Schedule For Taking Your Oral Chelation Capsules	Karl, What About The Calcium Deposits In My Breasts? Microcalcification?
What Can I Do About My Bent Penis -- Peyronie's Disease	Do Viruses Cause Disease?
The Mechanics of HOW Chelation Works	The "heated cholesterol" Fraud?
They Want Me To Get Tested! What Should I do?	Muscle Testing -- Kinesiology -- Valid Or Not?
Dr. Julian Whitaker Claims Oral Chelation Is No Good! What Do You Say?	What About Seasilver? Or The Latest MLM?
The Q2 Machine: Mysterious Science Pulls In Greedy Suckers	What About Coral Calcium? Mr. Barefoot?
Milk! The (Now) Dangerous Food!	How To Tell If MSM Is The Real Stuff!
Comparing Clathration with Chelation	Is It True? That You Refuse To Sell Anything To Anyone Taking Certain Drugs?
Can Chelation Cause Mercury To MOVE From The Body INTO The Brain?	How Can I Buy Cheap EDTA?
Low Body Temperature -- Wilson's Syndrome	How Can I Help Persuade My Friend To Use Alternative Methods?
Formatting Karl's Newsletter?	I'm A Reporter. Will You Help Me With My Story?
What Is The Vibrant Life Guarantee?	Karl Loren's Advice About Diabetics
What Are The Vibrant Life Purposes?	What is the Mohs Procedure For Skin Cancer
The Bio terrorism Act Of 2002 -- The Beginning Of The Need For Recognition of Change	Acid Reflux Esophageal Cancer
Mental Causation Of Heart Disease	My Husband Just Had A Massive Heart Attack In The ER!
Oral Chelation Frauds	What Treats Autism?

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 3:19 AM
To: karl@karlloren.com
Cc: KARL LOREN
Subject: ORAL CHELATION

11th November, 2000

Dear Mr. Loren,

    I have been reading your site about oral chelation in relation to heart disease. I am not a medical person and would like you to help me understand more about this process. You have said that the chemical which in placed in the veins binds to the heavy metals in the blood and then can remove them. Please explain how it removes them and if this is through the kidneys, does it expose the kidneys to greater doses of these heavy metals, which could cause problems. My husband is looking at bypass surgery at 47 years of age, and he has been a vibrant, active, fit man. His heart attacks have really taken us by surprise and I am learning lots about health that I didn't believe I would need to know.

    I look forward to hearing from you.

   Regards, Lyn

November 11, 2000
Dear Lyn,

You asked about how chelation works and whether it might be harmful to the kidneys.

Here is a mechanical explanation of the chelating process -- and a comparison of intravenous chelation therapy with oral chelation.

There are two places where heavy (toxic) metals exist in the body: One is free floating in fluids, mostly blood, and the other is "stuck" into some tissue -- these are tiny -- about the size of several molecules. So, a tiny molecular amount of metal can be "stuck" in any organ, lung, liver, heart, flesh, etc. You could have many thousands of these "pieces" of metal in your body -- this did not exist a few hundred years ago.

Whether they might be "harmful" to the kidneys on the way out is almost moot since they are very harmful while still inside the body. The "harm" caused by metals is because they act as "multipliers" of free radicals. This is not well understood by most medical doctors since there is no possibility that any drug could remove metals or reduce free radical activity. Vitamins and various natural substances can neutralize free radicals, but drugs mostly just create them, not stop them.

There are both "intravenous chelation therapy" and "oral chelation."

IV chelation uses the artificial amino acid, EDTA, only, to remove metals. EDTA will NOT remove those metals that are "stuck" into tissues, but does a great job in removing metals that are free floating. It does this by "binding" to the metal. When the EDTA and metal are bound together, the body then regards this artificial amino acid as a "foreign body" within the blood stream and processes it out through the kidneys. Indeed, you do have metals passing through the kidneys, but this is not very serious compared to leaving the metals IN the body. Nonetheless IV doctors always look into the health of your kidneys before they do the IV chelation.

When a person has "weak kidneys" an IV doctor might refuse to do the chelation therapy, but this is rare. The danger of the IV chelation to the kidneys is not so much the toxic metals passing through, but the burden of "processing" a fairly large amount, in a short period of time, of an "artificial" substance -- the EDTA.

EDTA is also not very effective in binding to (and thereby removing) mercury. Because many people have silver fillings, which are full of mercury, most people have mercury toxicity. The EDTA works wonders, but cysteine is actually a better chelator for mercury than EDTA.

EDTA has something like a "half life" inside the body -- that is, once EDTA is put in the body there are a few hours during which it is "doing its thing" and being processed out of the body through the kidneys. Within a few minutes a small amount of the EDTA (bound to metals) would be processed through the kidneys. After several hours generally all of the EDTA that had been used would be gone from the body. The dose of EDTA, for IV chelation, is approximately one gram, or 1.5 grams, administered over a three hour period; that amount and speed of delivery is arrived at as the most efficient, and safe, amount for this process. Then, the IV doctor expects you to return for further treatments -- perhaps 20 or 30, at the rate of one per week, or perhaps 3 per week.

Oral Chelation (my formula) uses EDTA also, but since only 5% of oral EDTA is absorbed into the body, only this tiny amount is working in the same way as described above. Since my daily dose of EDTA is 500 mg, the amount of EDTA getting inside the body is very small compared to an IV chelation treatment. Nonetheless, this tiny amount does exactly the same thing for OC as happens with IV.

About 95% of the oral EDTA stays in the stomach and intestines. It passes through on whatever schedule you have for bowl movements. In these areas, however, it has wonderfully useful activity -- first, it does the same action of "binding" to metals that might be included in your food, or whatever has gotten into your stomach. This means that these metals don't have a chance to invade your body -- but get bound to the EDTA and go out with your stool, into the toilet. This EDTA can also attract metals that are inside the body -- attract them through the wall of the intestine, into the stool, and out into the toilet.

EDTA happens, also, to be one of the most effective of free radical scavengers and therefore the EDTA prevents all sorts of free radical damage that could originate in the stomach and intestines, and also invade the body, causing harm.

But, my formula also relies on to "natural" amino acids -- cysteine and "NAC" (N Acetyl Cysteine) for chelating. These substances "chelate" in much the same manner as does EDTA. However, cysteine (and NAC) have the ability to "unstick" toxic metals that are stuck into tissues. In this way the cysteine is a more thorough chelator that EDTA. So, the cysteine and NAC "grab ahold of" metals, whether free floating or stuck into tissues, and hang on.

Cysteine and NAC, bound to metals, are not usable as food, and not usable for building structure, so the body processes them out of the body in the same way that EDTA is processed out -- through the kidneys.

However, cysteine is a "natural" substance while EDTA is an artificial amino acid. And, there is a much smaller amount of cysteine doing this, daily, than when EDTA is used intravenously. So, the kidneys DO get exposed to the metals passing through, but the kidneys can process the cysteine with less burden than they would process EDTA.

Thus, the oral chelation process is much more gentle on the kidneys than intravenous chelation therapy.

The oral chelation is slower because the process depends on the materials being absorbed through the mouth -- intravenous chelation is always faster.

Oral chelation would be more thorough since it removes some toxic metals that IV chelation does not.

Oral chelation is certainly more convenient, and generally less expensive.

An important fact here is that it is NOT safe to use cysteine by itself. Some dangerous formulas offer cysteine with a few herbs, and call it "oral chelation." When cysteine is used by itself it can lead to kidney stones. The absolute prevention of this is simple. You need to take vitamin C in an amount of about 4 or 5 times the amount of cysteine (and NAC). The vitamin C will prevent the cysteine from causing kidney stones.

But, you can't just take cysteine and vitamin C, either.

A large dose of Vitamin C, with NO B Vitamins will cause the symptoms of Vitamin B deficiency.

Vitamins must be "balanced" and the Life Glow Plus (and Super Life Glow) have the proper balance among all the various ingredients.

When you compare oral chelation with the possibility of bypass surgery, it should be a very easy decision.

If there is an urgent need, in a condition of high heart danger, the intravenous approach is faster and therefore better, but if you feel you have, say, 30 days in which to work on it, the oral chelation approach will be less expensive, more gentle on the body, and more thorough.

Most people who have the symptoms of poor blood circulation get dramatic improvement within 30 days. This does NOT mean that the oral chelation is "improving blood circulation." What it means is that the oral chelation is removing metals from the body. This is NOT a drug claim. Doctors don't yet acknowledge that metals in the body are harmful, and they certainly can't claim that any drug will remove them.

So, this formula is NOT in danger of being classified as a drug.

The symptoms that show improvement are often as simple as these:

fingers or toes that were cold or numb, get warm
dizziness that might be cause by lack of blood (and oxygen) to the brain, disappears
sharp pains in the legs from lack of blood (oxygen) disappears

When you have a couple of 60 years or more, almost always both of the spouses know which one of them has cold feet in bed. It is one of those strange things where both are very aware, but they have accepted it as "natural" and they don't think this is something that can be changed.

Yet, when the spouse with cold feet takes Life Glow Plus, usually within a month or so, BOTH spouses have absolute certainty that the previous cold feet are now warm. This may seem like an insignificant thing, but it can be a very dramatic shift in your outlook for a healthy future,.

That which was accepted as permanent, without even much worry, is now suddenly seen as a dangerous symptom, but also seen as GONE with use of my oral chelation formula. This is no small miracle.

Let me know if you need further information. I will send you, separately, a copy of my Wednesday Letter -- actually two of them.

The first I'll send is the Wednesday Letter for May 2000 about the dangers of bypass surgery.

The other that you should read is the Wednesday Letter for April 2000, describing more of the differences between intravenous chelation and oral chelation.

One more thing. Don't let some doctor scare you into having an angiogram. They are dangerous, not very accurate, and expensive.

Ultra sound is far more accurate, not dangerous and much less expensive.

My article on that is published in the September edition of the Wednesday Letter.

Sincerely,

Karl Loren

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