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| 1) Do I need to discontinue all my conventional medication in order to be able to undergo Chelation Therapy? |
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| 2) Do I need to ask my doctor for permission if I consider doing Chelation Therapy? |
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| 3) I was told Chelation Therapy creates kidney problems. |
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| 4) My doctor says people can die from Chelation Therapy. Is this true? |
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| 5) Can't I just do Chelation Therapy at home? My sister is a nurse and she can insert the IV. |
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| 6) Can't I just do Chelation Therapy without having to quit smoking? |
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| 7) After the basic treatment sessions I'm considering only doing chelation therapy once every 6 months or so; does that make sense? |
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| 8) I know someone who does oral Chelation Therapy with pills. So why in the world should I spend all this time and money on an IV when I can simply take a pill at home? |
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| 9) Why are quite a number of regular doctors so strongly against Chelation Therapy? If chelation really works, wouldn't they be offering it, too? |
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10) I’ve heard that a new double-blind study on the effectiveness of Chelation Therapy is currently underway in the U.S. Will this settle the argument once and for all? And why hasn’t there been a double blind study before now?
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| Do I need to discontinue all my conventional medication in order to be able to undergo Chelation Therapy? |
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| No. You will need to continue your medicines until the Chelation Therapy shows positive results. Only then, and in conjuction with your specialist, will cutting back or discontinuation of your medication be considered. |
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| Do I need to ask my doctor for permission if I consider doing Chelation Therapy? |
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| No. It is your choice and personal right to do Chelation Therapy. Your doctor or specialist has no authority to stop you from doing anything. |
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| I was told Chelation Therapy creates kidney problems. |
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| This is not true. Anybody who wishes to do Chelation Therapy will first undergo a blood test for basic kidney function screening. Based on the results of this screening, a safe concentration of the active ingredients in the infusion is determined and administered. |
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| My doctor says people can die from Chelation Therapy. Is this true? |
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| NOBODY has ever died from Chelation Therapy performed by doctors who work according to the ABCT/IBCMT protocols. It is important to consider the fact that more people have died during bypass surgery or angioplasty than have ever died from Chelation Therapy - not to mention those who never even made it to the operating room because they died while being on a waiting list. |
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| Can't I just do Chelation Therapy at home? My sister is a nurse and she can insert the IV. |
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| No. Chelation Therapy always has to be administered under the supervision of a physician. |
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| Can't I just do Chelation Therapy without having to quit smoking? |
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| In principle, you can continue smoking, however, the effectiveness of the treatment may be greatly reduced. So we ask our patients to at least have the intention to stop smoking. You only have one life, one body, and you only get one chance. So get everything out of the treatment that you can. |
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| After the basic treatment sessions I'm considering only doing chelation therapy once every 6 months or so; does that make sense? |
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| Not really. The best way to ensure lasting benefit from Chelation Therapy is by doing a maintenance treatment once a month. Skipping occasionally due to sickness, vacation, etc. is no real problem, as long as you generally follow the once-a-month regime. |
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| I know someone who does oral Chelation Therapy with pills. So why in the world should I spend all this time and money on an IV when I can simply take a pill at home? |
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| Effective oral Chelation Therapy does not exist. The problem with oral Chelation Therapy is that EDTA is broken down in the stomach and thus never reaches the circulatory system to do its job. Manufacturers who claim they have an oral chelation preparation generally don't have much more to show for than a fancy multivitamin. No matter what they say, EDTA intravenously is the only powerful way to chelate. |
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| Why are quite a number of regular doctors so strongly against Chelation Therapy? If chelation really works, wouldn't they be offering it, too? |
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| Unfortunately, the general view is that Chelation Therapy is not a proven method. Any trial showing the effectiveness of Chelation Therapy has so far been disregarded. The fact that many millions of Chelation treatments over the past decades have kept many patients from bypass surgery or leg amputations is called "a coincidence" and categorized as "spontaneous recovery" by regular medicine. |
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I’ve heard that a new double-blind study on the effectiveness of Chelation Therapy is currently underway in the U.S. Will this settle the argument once and for all? And why hasn’t there been a double blind study before now?
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Many trials have been done that were not recognized by conventional medicine because they considered the trials to be too small. Because conventional medicine did not want to be involved in these studies, there was a lack of money to set up larger trials. The current study, set up by The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US and thus executed at a much larger scale, should settle any dispute about the efficacy of Chelation Therapy.
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