Chelation Therapy – Your Solution To High Blood Pressure
November 22, 2009 by Anju Mathur, MD
Filed under Health Fitness
Blood pressure has two measurements – systolic, which is pressure of blood against artery walls when the heart pumps, and diastolic, which is pressure when the heart is at rest. When blood pressure is higher than–0/90 that is considered high blood pressure or hypertension. Normal blood pressure is 120/80 or lower. High blood pressure occurs because the flow of blood encounters resistance in the arteries.
Approximately one third of adult Americans have high blood pressure, and 30% of them don’t know it! This is why hypertension is also known as “the silent killer.” It has no outward warning signs and no definitive cause. Left unchecked, high blood pressure elevates your risk for heart attack, stroke, kidney damage, and other conditions that may result from too much pressure in delicate blood vessels and tissues. Your heart also enlarges as it struggles to pump blood effectively through the body, which decreases its efficiency.
Calcium, cholesterol and various minerals can form deposits inside blood vessels, making them smaller and sometimes completely stopped up. This process, which increases blood pressure because it slows blood flow, has several names – hardening of the arteries, arterial plaque build up, arteriosclerosis or atherosclerosis.
Traditional medicine tends to prescribe drugs for lowering blood pressure, with no attention to the cause of high blood pressure. If results are not forthcoming with drugs, more drugs are prescribed, with little or no regard for the side effects of the medications. Certainly drugs can lower blood pressure. But at what cost in side effects and neglect of the cause of the high blood pressure?
There is another solution. Chelation therapy is not new – it was invented in the early 20th century to remove heavy metals from the body and it is still a valid therapy for such. An IV drip is used to stream specific chemical compounds into the blood. To assist the heart and lower blood pressure, the agent used is EDTA (ethylene diamine tetra-acetate acid).
It is not known exactly how chelation therapy works, but there are two similar theories. Both involve the EDTA binding itself to harmful particles in the bloodstream and thereby rendering them harmless and allowing them to pass out of the body. One theory says EDTA binds to damaging free radicals, and the other says it binds to calcium and other minerals that cause arterial plaque build up. In either case, it works, and harmful particles are removed, increasing blood flow.
As an added benefit, EDTA chelation has blood-thinning effects and discourages the formation of potentially dangerous blood clots that can cause a heart attack or stroke.
Increasing blood circulation by chelation therapy is definitely the safest way of controlling high blood pressure. It is a tested and effective cure.
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