Chelation: The Love Therapy

Removing heavy metals from our blood and tissues greatly improves many of our biological functions not the least of which is the working of our sexual apparatus.

Chelation therapy is a revolutionary technique that removes heavy metals like lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury from the body.   It also moves calcium from the joints to the bones, and from the arteries to the blood. The net result of the latter is improved circulation.

Circulation is important for sexual health in both sexes but is more important for the sexual response in the male, particularly the aging male, whose circulation tends to get blocked in the lower extremities.

As we age our arteries fill up with calcium both inside the artery and in the muscular wall of the artery. Some physicians have likened our aging arteries to a garden hose left out in the sun for a couple of years. It becomes brittle and hardened.   The amount of calcium in the human aorta increases 143-fold from age ten to age 84.   Chelation removes this calcification from the arteries and other tissues.

Chelating agents are introduced into the body intravenously. This therapy has been used to treat vascular conditions since the early 1950s.   Because it competes with more invasive and toxic treatments like angioplasty, bypass surgery, and drug therapies, it has been roundly ignored and condemned by mainstream physicians—so you won’t have heard about it in the national media.   In one study, 24 of 27 scheduled amputations of the leg were not needed after chelation therapy.   Also, of 65 patients referred for bypass surgery, 58 did not require it after the therapy.

Although improved sexuality may be a less dramatic effect of chelation therapy, it is still very welcome in the quality-of-life department.   Aside from improving arterial blood flow to the genital region—which improves duration and strength of erections, chelation frequently lowers blood pressure, which allows patients to reduce or discontinue blood pressure medication.   Heart or blood pressure medication accounts for a least 40 percent of male impotency problems.   In one study, mean blood pressure was improved in 73 percent of patients after chelation therapy.

After chelation, both males and females feel and look younger.   Patients have more energy, clearer thinking, greater walking distance, and improved memory and skin texture.   Hands and feet are no longer as cold.   With more endurance in general, patients generally feel a lot friskier, which leads to improved sexuality.   One patient was a 75-year-old insurance executive who was on 14 different medications for heart, blood pressure, asthma, prostate, sleep, and mood.   He had almost no memory, impotency of long standing, staggering gait, shortness of breath walking a short distance or going up stairs, and near-blindness from cataracts.   After 100 chelations, nutritional and hormonal support, and cataract surgery he was off all of his medications, he could walk any distance, play golf again, and had good sexual performance.   His friends who hadn’t seen him in several years were amazed at his transformation.

Another mechanism by which chelation improves sexual performance is the removal of metals. Excessive iron in the blood, especially in the presence of vitamin C, can cause free-radical damage and has been implicated in causing vascular disease.   This was the case with a man in his mid-fifties who was very sexually active and physically fit, who suddenly became impotent.   His hormone levels, testosterone, DHEA, and thyroid were all normal and he was not on any drugs.   When his serum iron and ferritin levels were checked, they were sky-high.   He had been taking a multivitamin with large amounts of iron in it for over 20 years.   After quitting this multivitamin, and donating blood several times, his potency returned.   Since men don’t menstruate, they don’t lose blood and almost never need additional iron supplementation.   For healthy men and postmenopausal women, donating blood is good for overall health and improves libido in general.

Circulation is the key to good nutrition for all of the cells in the body. Our endocrine organs, particularly thyroid and adrenal glands, have very high rates of blood flow.   Both of these glands are key for both male and female sexual health and if they are malnourished because of faulty blood flow, they will not be able to manufacture adequate thyroid, DHEA, progesterone, and especially testosterone, the sexy hormones in both sexes.

How is chelation done?

Chelation is done in the office of a doctor trained in chelation therapy. A complete medical work-up is performed prior to starting chelation therapy.   A number of lab tests are done, depending on the condition of the individual patient.   Complete chemistry panels for blood, thyroid, kidney, and liver function are standard. A urinalysis after an injection of DMPS shows the types and levels of heavy metals in the body’s connective tissues.

The main active chelating agent in the IV is usually EDTA (a common food preservative).   Other chelating agents might be used to remove specific heavy metals, such as DMPS for mercury. Along with the chelating agents, nutrients are also introduced in the infusion, including magnesium chloride, ascorbic acid, vitamin B12, and B complex.

Chelating sessions last from one to three hours with patients simply sitting in a lounge chair reading or chatting with others.   A series of chelations, which are can be given weekly or more often depending on the patient’s condition, is 20 to 30 IVs.   Doctors are usually members of ACAM (American College of Advancement in Medicine) and can become a diplomat in chelation therapy after attending workshops and passing oral and written exams given by the ABCT (American Board of Chelation Therapy). The ACAM office is in Laguna Hills, CA at 949-583-7666.

I feel that chelation is one of the best anti-aging techniques.   With better blood flow to the genitalia, less dependence on blood pressure and heart medications, more energy, and a more youthful appearance, it is no wonder than many chelation patients have dubbed it “the love therapy.”

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