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Bob Anibal writes: > quackery - a man who worked for me was discovered wih Wilson's disease and > chelation therapy was the treatment and it worked. If you would like to Bob, Wilson's disease is something totally different. It is a condition that is proven to be due to an excess of copper in the system due to an enzyme defect. Chelation *agents* are used to decrease the copper (which actually *increases* when it is being "mobilized"), but "Chelation Therapy" is something which is touted by non-scientific people to "cure" diseases which have nothing to do with excess metals. Chelation is not new. We used it back in the sixties for lead poisoning in children. That was when the quacks seized on it and began to sell it to an unsuspecting and desperate public. It is like what happened at the end of the 19th century with "electricity". As electricity was discovered and exploited, the snake-oil folks came out of the woodwork and touted "electrotherapy" for virtually everything. Best, Bob *********************************** ROBERT A. FINK, M. D., F.A.C.S. Neurological Surgery 2500 Milvia Street Suite 222 Berkeley, CA 94704-2636 USA Phone: (510) 849-2555 FAX: (510) 849-2557 WWW: <http://www.dovecom.com/rafink/> mailto:[log in to unmask] "Ex Tristitia Virtus" ***********************************