Hey guys,

I've also read that mercury is not good for chelating mercury, but now I don't know if that is the case. It will likely depend on what form of EDTA is being used. I'm pasting below part of another post about EDTA that I wrote a little while ago, with an article discussing why EDTA has gotten such a bad rap. Not sure if the article is totally accurate, but I knonw my doctor swears by EDTA as a great mercury chelator.

~TIa
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Hey guys,

I just did some more research on this....

I did find a couple of articles/statements explaining why Calcium EDTA is supposedly a good chelator for mercury, and why it has been wrongly pegged as not being able to chelate mercury....Part of the article is below. (Both articles I read seem to be linked with these suppository products though....and whenever anything is linked to a product, I view it with caution).

What do you guys think?

~Tia

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http://www.chelationtherapyonline.com/articles/p42.htm#mercury


The Mercury Detox Results From Aruba

Aruba -- Dr. Carlos Viana, OMD, Viana Natural Healing Center, Kibaima, Aruba, on Oct. 3 sent the following letter to World Health Products:

We purchased Detoxamin to try on our patients. As a member of The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, we are always looking for safer methods to detoxify heavy metals. Many physicians do not realize that EDTA is a method for reducing somatic mercury. Many physicians are looking at the heavy metals excreted by the kidneys through EDTA IV chelation and do not find mercury being excreted in the urine. These physicians then wrongly assume that EDTA is not a good chelator of mercury. In fact, EDTA has a greater affinity for mercury than copper, lead, zinc, in that order.

The excretion route of mercury is though the large intestine. Traditionally, to detoxify mercury many physicians will use DMSA because it is an oral drug. Therefore, it was logical to look for the mercury in feces because that drug was working through the gastrointestinal (G.I.) tract. Very few physicians were looking at chelated heavy metals in feces with a drug that works through the blood/kidney/urine route.

Second, of the physicians that did look for mercury in their patients' feces and did not find much excreted mercury, it is probably because they did not check the third bowel movement. After IV EDTA treatment mercury will not present after the next bowel movement, but will present after the third bowel movement.

At our clinic we are finding benefits with Detoxamin suppositories over IV EDTA in removing mercury.

1.) Because mercury is going to be found in the large intestines normally, EDTA suppositories will chelate the mercury in the large intestine first.

2.) The EDTA that travels into the blood stream and binds with lead will be excreted through the kidney/urine and EDTA that bines with mercury in the body will travel back to the rectum where it will bind more securely with EDTA that has not crossed into blood.

3.) With Detoxamin we do not have to wait for the third bowel movement!

The next day's bowel movement already has a mercury burden.

We are very impressed with initial clinic trials of Detoxamin suppositories and are looking forward to extending our chelation use. Please feel free to quote our letter.