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You wrote: > >Has any of you, with Parkinson, tryed Chelation Therapy. I received some >information on this subject and like to share it with you. > >Although used successfully for over 30 years, Chelation is still a >controversial therapy and considered experimental by " mainstream" medicine. >Chelation is the intravenous treatment of heavy metal accumulation in the >body that is the cause of many health problems. These include hardening of >the coronary arteries, leg circulation problems and strokes, so called >auto-immune diseases as rheumatism, neuro-degenarative diseases as neuritis >and other diseases that plague modern mankind. Metals (mercury, lead, >cadmium, arsenic, to name a few) act to trigger the formation of "free >radicals" producing damage in our bodies. By removing heavy metals, free >radical damage is significantly reduced or reversed. > >If you have taken this therapy, did you experience any improvements in your >health and/or relief from your PD symptons? I would like to hear from you, >by sending your reply to: > >Regards, Fred > >Fred Zwartjes >[log in to unmask] > Chelation therapy is useful only in the treatment of (massive) heavy metal poisoning such as lead poisoning. Even then, its use has been essentially abandoned in mainstream medicine because the very act of chelation (binding the toxic metal and releasing it into the bloodstream for excretion) can, and does cause worsening of the toxic effects. Little babies, who have been chronically lead-poisoned from eating flaking lead paint, when given chelating agents, often suffer acute swelling of the brain from sudden release of the lead "burden". Even true heavy metal poisoning (such as the recent celebrated Internet case, in China, of the young woman with thallium poisoning) today is treated with kidney dialysis for removal of the heavy metals. The "free radical" theory has been around for decades and has never been shown to be associated with *any* diseases. IMHO, the only value of chelation therapy today is for the bank accounts of its promulgators. Best, Bob -- ******************************************************** Robert A. Fink, M. D., F.A.C.S. Phone: 510-849-2555 Neurological Surgery FAX: 510-849-2557 2500 Milvia Street Suite 222 Berkeley, California 94704-2636 USA E-Mail: [log in to unmask] World Wide Web: <http://www.dovecom.com/rafink/> CompuServe: 72303,3442 America Online: BobFink "Ex Tristitia Virtus" ********************************************************