You are right. I don’t know what happened to guy with the leg problem but he said it was vascular. This was in an MD’s office, not a faith healer.
If you go to a reputable MD he /she would never do chelation spuriously without a challenge test first. I had to beg the chelation doc to even get the test.
And taking supplements orally to do chelation does not usually work. There is only one product I know of that ends up with the chelator in the blood and my doc developed it.
You need IV treatment properly supervised with doctors and nurses monitoring you frequently. Most people do not need so many treatments. My body had trouble detoxifying.
BTW, when my doc added a hydrogen peroxide bag to my metal chelators bag, I stopped getting my frequent respiratory infections.
Here is California we are having a DROUGHT! And the local weather lady suggest that they just take the fire fighting planes and just scoop up ocean water and drop that all over the state.
Thankfully the news anchor suggested that the salt might be a problem and she said, “Oh, really? Ok, todays weather is…”
Just to clarify about chelation, the NIH study was done only on those who had a prior heart attack. It said nothing about other vascular disease. Also, all of these patients were also receiving conventional therapy. I say this because I once had a patient who refused standard treatment for heart disease in favor of chelation, despite my best efforts to convince her otherwise. She died of a massive heart attack within the year. Right now, chelation therapy is not FDA approved for anything except heavy metal toxicity. Unfortunately, in the past, there have been charlatans who have claimed it as a cure-all for multiple diseases. I would suggest that if you go to somebody who suggests chelation rather than standard therapy instead of as an adjunct (and does not explain the risks and that it is experimental) that you run fast and far.
I know a woman who believes it is against the law for anything on TV to be a lie, or made up (save for fictional programming, obviously), so if she sees a documentary on the moon landing being faked, or the alien autopsy, she believes these things must be true, because it’s illegal for TV to lie.
I also saw an interview with a woman who thought the movie The Exorcist was a documentary, and therefore proof that possession happens. Her reasoning? “People’s heads don’t spin all the way around!”
I had a police officer, who had responsed to my call of handicap-parking violation (this was from the same asshole who did it practically every day in his shiny mercedes), tell me that she couldn’t write a citation for parking w/o a permit because the car belonged to a car-dealership and had dealer plates. :mad::dubious::smack: Wha…the, huh!!!
(This was a young officer and I had the feeling she just didn’t know what to do. And nothing happened.)
“Well, yeah, of course I manipulated her. You’re a guy, you know as well as I do that a lot of time women need to be manipulated because they don’t know what’s best for themselves.”
– One of my ex’s exes
Yes. I should have mentioned that chelation for heart/vascular problems is NOT a substitute for traditional medicine. The people I have talked to have gone for chelation for heart problems when told by mainstream medicine that there is nothing more we can do.
There is no guarantee your patient would have lived with standard therapy either.
And yes. Run far from charlatans. I go to an MD who is governed by his peers such as the AMA.
I repeat. We need more studies. My docs’ patients were set to do one and it was cancelled by the AMA. I forget the reason we were told.
Stupidity - Two items reported in the Stuart, FL, news paper the same week - A Florida man went into a gun store, bought a gun, came out, and in the parking lot shot himself in the foot.
If I recall the circumstances correctly, another FL man was fishing off a dock, saw his line get eaten by a shark, and got into the water to free his line. I remember he knew the shark was there and for some reason got into the water and was attacked.
I talked to a surf boarder there in Stuart just after a surfer was killed by a shark. He said they all knew that at a certain time in the evening the sharks came in closer, but they still surfed. He was going to stop surfing in the evening though, since his buddy was killed.
I had a friend who worked in electronics repair. One time he went on for half an hour bitching about being pulled over for speeding before I finally got him to explain why he thought he should be exempt. He said the police couldn’t stop him for speeding because he installed their radios. Uh, whut?
As an aside, I remember a state rep (Joe Jackson, NC) who got pulled over for speeding. He told the officer it was illegal to prevent a government employee from attending session. He cited some obscure law from the early 1800’s meant for horse and carriage societies. The legislature since struck down the law.
Many years ago, when I was stationed in Keflavik, Iceland, it was an extremely clear, cold day, and you could clearly make out Snæfellsjökul mountain and glacier on the horizon. I pointed out to one of my cow-orkers (actually she was several ranks higher than me) that Snæfellsjökul was where the entered the Earth in Journey to the Center of the Earth. She asked me what year that happened as if it was a historical event.:smack:
P.S. Being from New York, I could not believe the visibility in the clean air of Iceland. Seeing a mountain clearly from 60 miles was not unheard of, and at the time I had 20/15 vision, and could actually make out details. They also had a couple of sets of tourist binoculars set up at one end of the base that was on a plateau that you could use to see across the bay. The lack of trees helped, also…
