On the topic of heavy metal poisoning I triple-dog-dare researchers to combine their studies of this and idiopathic hypertension. Heavy metals are cumulative so levels pertain to time which is bad because it its harder to connect cause and effect with greater time-spans. It took me far too long to find the connection and to start chelation therapy.
If by quacks you mean doctors with 30+ years of experience, well, I love those doctors especially those with a passion for biology and chemistry. They are starting to awaken and write books now that they can not be cancelled for no longer blindly following dogmatism that has caused the medical industry to stagnate for decades. By this point in their career they have paid off all their debts and are no longer required to bow to the master. My most recent purchase was "Disolving Illusions" by Susanne Humphries, MD. It's a great read. Mainstream doctors refer to her as a quack but in reality they see her as a threat or they would just ignore her.
I don't want to get into an hours long debate about this and you sound quite sold on the treatment. But, there is legitimate chelation therapy for people with real heavy metal poisoning and there is a pseudoscience treatment sold as a type of cure all for imaginary problems and removing "toxins".
The methods being described in the articles are not what I have been doing. Those are for acute high dose metal poisoning and are very dangerous even when they are truly required. Even the oral versions I use warn not to use them long term for the reasons stated in the articles. If people are getting IV high dose chelation as a method of therapy then yes I would agree that is dangerous and reckless behavior of whatever doctors are doing this. That would be akin to getting TPA shots for therapeutic reduction of arterial plaque.
I used my methods on and off watching my BP over a period of time and watched for the valley floor.
It is a combo of the economics, and the need to do something, anything - they encourage quackery. ~10k fine when a doctor trained as a gp killed a kid with chellation, along with a temporarily suspended license. A GP isn't trained on administering chelation, iiuc. I encourage you to get a second and third opinion from people who administer chelation in a hospital setting
I appreciate you offering the advice but I know from experience I will just get blank stares and overly confident statements when I am doing something outside of the lines that GP's must color within. Throughout the years I have had mostly good results after I have completed enough of my own research with the occasional small mishaps that I also learned from and in some cases even led me down new rabbit holes. I have kept my margin of error small enough over the decades that I have not ended up in a medical facility. I would encourage GP's to not give up on learning new things even if they can mostly apply them in their personal lives and rarely in a professional setting.
Something must give sooner than later as the USA is spending far too much money to get piss poor results. This system will eventually implode on itself and people will be forced to take a similar path I have taken. I am not saying this to be mean to the medical industry but rather to encourage them to evolve and break the dogmas and financial conflicts that are holding them back even if it means spending some money to reform the legal system.
What hammock said. They are right in that heavy metal deposits are unlikely to show up in a blood test. That's the root of the problem in that they are embedded in tissue in vital organs. To get them out requires a combination of many different enzymes to break down biofilms and then EDTA to bind to the metals so the body can remove them.
In my case it was a matter of hit-or-miss trial and error. I have basically gone through hundreds of self experiments to find the cause of idiopathic hypertension and heavy metal chelation was the second thing I found that made notable improvements. The first was also related to metal or metalloid, a lack of it in fact. I needed selenium and a handful of other elements to fix the thyroid.
I removed myself carefully off two BP meds including a very dangerous one and moved out of the red into the amber by USA standards. With time I will figure out the other causes and get into the green.
