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How to Bypass the Bypass

Also critical to the Gordon protocols is oral chelation with calcium EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetate).  “The ability of EDTA to remove toxic metals is critical to your overall health and particularly important for preventing and fighting cardiovascular disease,” says Dr. Gordon. 

Dr. Gordon discovered that by manipulating the molecular environment of a patient’s bloodstream, utilizing a unique synergistic nutritional support formula based on the life’s work of Dr. Lester Morrison, of Loma Linda University Medical School, he was able to document significant improvements of blood flow to the legs, head, and heart of patients experiencing problems of blood clots, heart spasms and arrhythmia. 

So impressive were his results that, even without adding powerful intravenous chelation treatments, fewer than five percent of his patients found the need to go on with previously proposed or strongly recommended heart of blood vessel surgery.  If chelation and oxidative therapies were added (when indicated), this number diminished to less than one percent.

Dr. Morrison has already extensively documented a better than 70 percent reduction in second heart attack rate with his nutritional formula.  Some fifteen years ago, when Dr. Gordon worked with Dr. Morrison, he added oral EDTA to Dr. Morrison’s formula.  Using this along with other anti-atherogenic nutrients, Dr. Gordon was able to make the Morrison Heart Formula easier to take, more concentrated, and even more effective.

“EDTA not only binds lead and cadmium, both closely associated with vascular disease, but also picks up free iron,” notes Gordon’s colleague and supporter Robert J. Rowen, M.D., in his excellent newsletter, Second Opinion.  “You already know that iron can be as deadly as it is life giving.  Iron, when it’s bound by enzymes and proteins, is healthy in the right amounts. When the iron isn’t bound, it’s a powerful generator of highly destructive free radicals, but it’s also available for EDTA binding and removal!”

Excess free iron is now widely recognized as an important contributor to heart disease.  Thus, we need to be able to remove iron from the body.  Meanwhile, lead and cadmium are seriously underrated for their contribution to heart disease.  These must also be removed, advocate Drs. Gordon and Rowen. 

Now how about effectiveness?  According to Dr. Rowen, “The medical literature around the world has repeatedly shown a dramatic kidney and fecal elimination of lead via oral EDTA chelation, some two-and-a-half to three times as much as without!  (This compares favorably to the five-fold excretion of lead induced by IV chelation.)  One study documented removal of 1,200 to 2,600 mg lead in just five days with oral chelation. Elimination far outstripped any possible increased intestinal absorption of lead pulled into the system by the EDTA.  A compilation of the literature over the past 50 years documents such an overwhelming consensus of the safety and efficacy of oral chelation that the [Food and Drug Administration] has approved it for the treatment of lead poisoning.

“Remember that modern humans have 1,000 times the lead in our bones as our 16th-century ancestors.  It does not take a nuclear physicist to realize we all could stand to lower these awesome poison levels, and this simple and inexpensive treatment can do just that!  Now, if there’s enough absorbed oral EDTA to reach for lead, it stands to reason that the other toxic metals (such as cadmium and free iron) will be picked up as well.”

How to Enhance EDTA Efficacy

According to Dr. Gordon, “The overall benefits of oral chelation with EDTA can be markedly enhanced by adding the beneficial lipid lowering effects of red yeast and beta-sitosterol, as well as a combination of grape seed extract, fish oils, methylsulfonylmethane, phosphatidylserine, red marine algae, Ginkgo biloba, high-allicin containing organic garlic, among more than 50 other ingredients, most of which are well documented and known to improve circulation, reduce strokes, and promote health and longevity.” 

So keep these ancillary nutrients in mind as you use oral chelation. 

Use Oral Chelators Daily

It has been noted that oral EDTA effectively lowers lead from soft tissues and organs but not from bones, say both Drs. Gordon and Rowen.  Thus, stored heavy metal would serve as a source of permanent exposure, as the lead slowly escapes the bones, they add.  “It’s really quite important that we use oral chelation therapy daily so that we can take care of our long-term endogenous lead exposure,” says Dr. Gordon. 

Indeed, recent research, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrates that reducing lead levels is a key to improved kidney function among persons with serious kidney disease.  We also know that environmental lead exposure is associated with high blood pressure, cancer, dementia and other organ dysfunction.

Say Drs. Rowen and Gordon, “The bones are the greatest reservoir of lead in the body.” 

Prescription for Bypassing the Bypass

You’ll need to read Healthy Living regularly to learn about all of the protocols deemed important to bypassing the bypass.  Certainly, in these special reports with Dr. Gordon, we’ve given you important steps to take. 

Recommended EDTA-based Formula

Cardio-Chelate™ from Metabolic Response Modifiers (also known as MRM) was created to meet the needs of those interested in the “alternative” approach to heart and circulatory health.  Besides EDTA, the formula also supplies methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), N-acetyl-cysteine, and vitamin C.

While EDTA stands alone in its ability to remove toxic metals and abnormally metabolized minerals from the body, vitamin C, MSM and N-acetyl-cysteine can enhance its effects. These nutrients are vital for supporting the liver during the detoxification process.  MSM and NAC are precursors to glutathione, a powerful free radical scavenger involved in the liver’s detoxifying enzyme system.  Vitamin C is a proven antioxidant and has been shown to prevent free-radical damage to cells in the arteries.  Be sure to supplement with a quality multiple vitamin and mineral formula.  Beyond Basics, also from MRM, is designed to be used to complement their oral chelation formula.

Dosage

Take two capsules, one to two times daily, with meals.

Availability

Cardio-Chelate is available nationwide at natural health centers and from health professionals.  To find a natural health center in your community carrying them, contact MRM toll-free at (800) 948-6296.

FYI:  Lead and Osteoporosis

If you have osteoporosis, oral chelation is something you need to seriously consider.  Osteoporosis patients are exposed to a significant release of the lead, which is released from their failing bones.

Editor’s note:  We are grateful to Dr. Gordon for taking the time out of his busy schedule to speak to us about oral chelation and hope to bring you more breakthrough reports.  Dr. Gordon is available to patients on a fee-based consulting basis and can be reached via email at ggordon@gordonresearch.com or by phone at (928) 472-4263.