School of Advanced Nutritional and Medical Research

Ca EDTA and Hemochromatosis

Can you please comment as to whether Ca EDTA has any benefit for reducing iron stores in someone with Hemochromatosis?

Thank you for your time and comments.

I find that IP-6, as a major IRON CHELATOR takes some training to use safely and effectively. (Ref. MSG#517)

Gary,
Can you explain/elaborate on this?

Dear Doctors:
Well to begin with, get the book "The IRON TIME BOMB" by Bill Sardi; he is a good researcher who is the best-informed advocate for IP-6 that I have had the pleasure of speaking with at length. He makes me look like milk toast in his advocacy for IP-6. His experiences with IP-6 and CANCER are DRAMATIC and almost unbelievable. He has even consulted on its use with anemic CANCER patients where he had to provide some iron and a different time of the day and still saw some exciting results.

We all know that I try to drive everyone to look at something about IRON overload so that we understand more about the true dimensions of the problem. For example, check out www.iron overload.com to see that INFECTIONS and DIABETES are major areas where we should be looking at lowering iron stores.

Of course, those that pay attention to the blood viscosity issue I am trying to bring to everyone's awareness will understand that Dr. Ken Kensey, Board Certified Cardiologist and major creative mind with over 100 patents to his name, found that until he met me, the best answer for extending the lifespan of heart patients was to GIVE BLOOD regularly. He likes the hematocrit at about 28. See the graphic 6 minute video on my website; call and order this DVD for your office, get it and the books from www.RHEOLOGICS.com. His books on blood thinning and on the ORIGINS of Arteriosclerosis will make many more interested in maintaining far lower Ferritin levels than most of us have now.

His is a great way to lower blood viscosity so that everyone has the viscosity of menstruating females. The problem is that you have to carefully dispose of the blood and not everyone qualifies to donate blood and you may not have time to start phlebotomies for your practice. Dr. Kensey covered this in detail at my conference on RNA last month; however, he has not permitted his talk to be included in the set of tapes that you will be ordering (1-800-580-7587) if you want to learn how to utilize the new line of RNA products we will be starting to ship JUNE 1.

With that said, remember Proctor and Gamble hired me as a consultant on their orally effective form of Desferoxamine that prevents photo aging of skin if applied topically but orally and topically increased average lifespan of the animals 20%. My billionaire friend, however, would not spend the $50 million minimum it would probably take to get this approved as it is a new substance and it would have to go through more studies, although P and G already had a pile of studies they showed me.

Nonetheless to get it approved for IRON overload in the US would be expensive although I projected an annual market of 1 billion a year looking at the incidence or thalassemia and Hereditary Hemachromatosis, and P and G wanted to give this away with the patents; it is why I bathe in EDTA everyday. Their research has shown that if we remove the metals from the surface of the skin that we do not get sun damage as easily, so we can tolerate 10 minutes a day and thus we can make our own VITAMIN D in adequate levels for optimal health. Furthermore, wrinkling and age related changes and even skin cancer were markedly delayed in appearance. I believe the age spots on my skin are clearly disappearing. But I foresaw a huge anti-aging market for the product, and since HH is an orphan disease, the FDA might permit far less than the usual 700 million in studies to get this approved.

This fact has kept me pushing ORAL EDTA for everyone, since if you had the time to read the 500 references (abstracts) on my website, you would find that oral EDTA has been shown to enhance Fe absorption in iron deficiency and to enhance excretion in iron overload. This is not as strong or as dramatic effect as IP-6 but can easily be done daily for a lifetime and can be taken with the other supplements whereas IP-6 MUST be taken all by itself.

I have other doctors in our group who have stayed with IP-6. I personally saw no change in my health and found it to inconvenient to be taking it by itself but there are so many cases of iron overload that can be helped and many will never go for the repeated blood donations every 6- 8 weeks, which Dr Kensey likes. This should be a fun topic and we will put it out to our discussion group and see where this takes us.

Sincerely,
Garry F. Gordon, MD,DO,MD(H)