Research Chelation Therapy

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched three clinical studies on autism at its research program on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. Initial studies will define the characteristics of subtypes of autism and explore possible new treatments.One study will define differences — both biological and behavioral — in autistic children with diverse developmental histories. In another study, NIMH researchers will examine the use of the antibiotic minocycline to measure its usefulness in treating regressive autism. Past research suggests that autism may be linked to changes in the immune response that cause inflammation in the brain.

A third study addresses the widespread but unproven theory that autism may be treated successfully by chelation therapy, which seeks to remove heavy metals from the blood. Chelation is more commonly used to treat lead toxicity, but many families seek the treatment to try to remove mercury and other metals from their autistic children’s blood. This practice is based on the belief that many cases of autism were caused by exposure to thimerosol, a mercury-based preservative previously used in childhood vaccines.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, since 2001, all vaccines recommended for children 6 and younger have contained either no thimerosal or only trace amounts, with the exception of inactivated flu vaccine, which is manufactured in formulations both containing and free of thimerosal.

Autism is a mental disorder that arises in early childhood and is characterized by delays in development of social and communication skills, as well as restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.

09/20/2006 08:22 PM | By Nina Muslim, Staff Reporter

The following is a copy of a letter sent to Gordon Adams, chair, District Municipality of Muskoka.

Today I listened to a wonderful presentation by Samantha Hastings, director of policy and programs with this district, while at a Probus Club of Central Muskoka meeting in Bracebridge.

I am a retired school teacher, formerly environmentally ill, who discovered about six years ago that I had a heavy load of heavy metals, especially high in arsenic and aluminum, enough that a file on me was opened at the Poison Control Centre by my former doctor in Newmarket.

Moving to Utterson in Muskoka has helped reduce the load, along with some homeopathy, oral chelation, certain foods and herbs.

During the first two years I experienced much distress and loneliness while going through this cleansing, having left my beautiful home and friends in Newmarket, where evidently I had been unknowingly breathing these chemicals (and others). These contaminents do feed cancer, evidently, apart from other health conditions.

Can you imagine my despair when I read of the possible use of ‘brown fields’ as sites for future public or low-cost housing? Good heavens, these are for people who need your help to provide better homes for them. What is the point of providing homes on land that no one else really wants because of the toxic wastes that they contain from dumping and/or former industries such as tanneries, foundries, lumber mills, etc. going back to the early days in Muskoka?

I trust that hydro lines and towers and/or radio, telephone towers or pesticide factories are nowhere near.

In my research on my own problems I have discovered many chemical and metal problems, airborne, waterborne and from the land from material sources or present or past industries. I have two books here which are illuminating and frightening, to say the least.

One is ‘Toxic Substance Focus on Children’ prepared by Cathleen Cooper, senior researcher, Canadian Environmental Law Association, which was prepared for that association and Pollution Probe.

The second book is ‘Health and the Environment’ provided by Health Canada.

I have become aware of the former tannery site in Huntsville and reports of serious health problems in that area and questions still being reported about that site.

In Bracebridge, I know of one tannery site right on the Muskoka River which evidently caused a builder to go bankrupt and the Ministry of Environment ended up taking all the soil away at a cost of $3,000,000.

Alongside that area of lovely town homes, there is another small group of lovely looking town houses on the river or close to it where oil seeped into their basements from a former oil business there. It was reported to me that those homes could not be rented or sold (about 2004). Further down river, there is a beautiful piece of riverfront property close to the Wellington St. bridge. It was approved by Bracebridge council as a home-building site until someone noticed pipes sticking out of the ground. That property at one time had the largest tannery in the British Empire with hides even being brought from South America.

Although tannenbark was often used, at one point a form of arsenic was used on the hides. This was not uncommon in the chrome tanning of leather.

I asked Samantha Hastings about public housing being built on brown fields and she mentioned that they were being considered because they are less costly and that problems would be remediated. What do you do with contaminated or toxic soil? Do you cart it away to a dump or create another brown field? Does the District of Muskoka have millions of dollars to go ahead as the Ministry of the Environment was called on to do?

It seems to me that here is an issue that Sierra Legal Defence could be interested in, considering their court cases in B.C. where companies who pollute have been called to account in court cases and have had to clear up the pollution.

It is apparent to me that it would be a criminal act to allow homes to be built on these brown fields, jeopardizing the workers and then the adults and children living there. One cannot even claim ignorance of the problems anymore.

The aforementioned pipes in the ground near Wellington St. bridge (reported in the Bracebridge newspaper in the summer of 2005) could possibly be going down to drums or chambers containing toxic waste similar to what caused three very sudden deaths at the Huntsville Tannery back in the 1950s.

Is it possible that the underground vats, drums or whatever could cause seepage into the Muskoka River and then on into Lake Muskoka, affecting the town’s and others’ water supply?

While on this topic, I believe it is essential for the town’s water, the lakes and rivers to be tested not only for bacteria but also for chemicals and heavy metals. I was informed that a lake near Huntsville (and the former tannery property, now a pipe factory) was heavily polluted with arsenic. Some people may still be using lake water for drinking or household use, using filters and UV radiation but that is not going to decontaminate the water.

An added item: a new little park at the corner of Taylor and Pine looked so lovely that I thought I would stroll through it. Can you imagine my amazement to see that ‘Roundup’ had been used right by the little pool, with big drains that go who knows where? Irresponsible? Appalling!

I can no longer remain quiet on these issues as I know the toll it has taken on my own life. I know others and see some more with oxygen tanks who have sought refuge in Muskoka. How can we let businesses, industries, politicians, land grabbers and commercial interests ruin this precious natural playground where there has been good air and water quality?

It means our own health, our children’s health and ongoing in perpetuity. We are meant to be stewards, guardians of this and it is our right.

I do intend to send numerous photocopies out to the media and anyone I think might be involved or interested, including some local politicians and the local town councils.

Who is watching over it all over time, keeping the records active, knowing what is going on and what has happened before, providing a much bigger picture?

You have a big mandate. Please protect us.

Nancy Weller King
Utterson

A miracle! That’s how Dr. Dhananjay Shah refers to Chelation Therapy, the painless solution with no side-effects to your medical problems. Although Dr. Shah has been promoting this therapy for the last five years, he has in the short span successfully treated over 600 people, some of them, well over 70 years, for a number of ailments ranging from heart disease to hypertension.
“Chelation (pronounced key-lay-shun) comes from the Greek word ‘chele’ meaning claw-like, as in a scorpion or crab. The therapy was founded in 1893, by a Swedish doctor and although has been proved successful, is greatly suppressed. I believe that it is the perfect alternative to surgeries and is completely pain-free without any side effects,”explained Dr. Shah. We don’t know if this is factual, but there are just three doctors in India who are accurate at providing this treatment. One of those three is Dr. Shah, the other two are from other parts of the country.
Chelation therapy is administering a man-made amino acid called EDTA (Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acid) into the veins. EDTA is most often used in cases of heavy metal poisoning (lead or mercury). That’s because it can latch onto or bind these metals, creating a compound that can be excreted through the urine.
Besides binding heavy metals, EDTA also ‘chelates’ (naturally seeks out and binds) calcium, one of the components of atherosclerotic plaque.
“Before the patient is actually treated with this kind of therapy, a total body profile is taken where reports of the kidney, liver, diabetes level, cardiac risk, cholesterol and so on. Accordingly, the treatment is suggested. But generally, the synthetic amino acid is infused in 5 per cent of glucose, saline or mannitol, depending on the requirement. The amino acid is given intravenously using an insulin needle, leaving no scar or mark behind. Of course, the cost depends on the nature of the ailment,” continued Dr. Shah.
When asked why this form of therapy, which has such a phenomenal success rate, is not popularised, he said, “I believe that Chelation Therapy is suppressed and people are not aware of how well it works. In the West, the awareness is greater. Still, I have patients coming in from all over the city and from abroad as well. This therapy can work for any ailment, and I have been able to treat patients in city and from abroad for blockages, strokes, hypertension, stress and diabetes. And every day I see around 20 patients.”
The therapy is given at Dr. Shah’s clinic at Evershine Nagar in Malad and again the number of sittings required depends on the intensity of the ailment. “There is no hospital stay required, the patients come in and once the session is over they can leave. There is no trace of the needle point as well,” he said.
The recovery of the patient does not mean the end of the treatment. “The treatment, coupled with diet and lifestyle, is what gives you good health. The patient needs to follow a healthy diet as well as adopt a healthy lifestyle,” Dr. Shah added.

BY INDIRA RODERICKS | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:25:48 IST