The Future Of Chelation Therapy

Dr. Garry F. Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H)
Phoenix, AZ November 2002

I’m so glad that all of you have come this evening and we have a lot to cover.  So relax and just try to get the overall picture, because my website does have everything that I’m going to show you and at the conclusion tonight I will be handing out the actual slides that you are about to see.

Chelation therapy changed my life.  On the eighth treatment, I who had been sick about 30 years of my life with everything possible and never been able to be athletic, could suddenly leap over tall buildings in a single bound and it causes me to spend the next 30 years of my life to figure out, what’s it doing?  How can I get that benefit for other people?  And I would teach you tonight that it is very simple to avoid heart attacks in any of your patients when you learn all about thrombosis and rheology and blood viscosity, and we’ll cover that.

This is a great turn out and I congratulate all of you for being here.  Because it is my belief that oxidative therapies have a larger portion of benefit to contribute to mankind than just chelation, which we have over-emphasized and improperly placed in clinical practice because of what had happened to me.  I had chest pain, I had angina; I now know from my genetics why.  I have some serious genetic problems and it has led to me picking out more supplements than any man, woman and child should ever have to swallow, but at age 67, I’ll be 68 in January, I feel better than I ever have in my life.  And I can do far more. So the thing is that where we’re at is that you are going to get an overview here of a talk that I gave to the 3^rd International Anti-Aging meeting in Monaco about two months ago.

And at that meeting I didn’t have the time that I have tonight, so I’ve expanded tonight’s lecture.  However, tonight’s lecture is an abbreviation of what I presented in this town three weeks ago to an audience of 110 people who came in to my lecture, “The Future of Chelation is Heavy Metal Detoxification.”  And it was all recorded, all 12 hours.  The tapes will be available very reasonably priced, and with the handout I’m going to give you of these slides, plus the knowledge that I’ve now given you that everything I’m going to show you can be taken off my website.  Because to me it’s old hat.  Once I’ve shown it to you I’m on to new information.  I have no need to secrete any of my information because I have lots more where that came from.

All of you know the study is going to happen.  Julian Whittaker told me three weeks that he was rather worried about the study and thinks it could be the end of chelation.  Folks, it’s just the beginning, but he doesn’t understand.  Julian has never sat long enough to understand from me where I have repositioned chelation so that it will change the life of every man, woman and child on the planet, because of my basic position: no one can enjoy optimal health on a poisoned planet when autopsies of every person in this room will show an average of 1,000 times greater levels of lead, as you’ll see shortly, in tissues like your bones, than anyone had before the Industrial Age.

So, if I’m going to push chelation, the risk-benefit ratio becomes important.  Dr. Cranton and I have an ongoing battle.  He states that my treatment is so dangerous that if you, for example, even give people rectal suppositories of EDTA, they’re likely to get cancer of the rectum.  It seems to only be safe in his office if you put it in the vein.  I think that’s ridiculous.  So he and I have an ongoing dialogue and I’ve asked him to debate me.  But he’s about a year and a half older than I am, and he says he’s too old to debate me.  And I recommend if he gets on oral chelation, he might be able to debate me soon.

Most of you aren’t aware that there was a 50% increase in life span and you’re not aware there was 90% reduction in cancer mortality with EDTA in the Dr. Blumer study which is going on now for better than 20 years.  And no one has been able to refute the data. There’s a reason.  Because we inhibit an enzyme that is responsible for cancer being able to grow and enlarge, and we all have cancer most times in our life, which is another part of my website.  Go to my website, type in the word cancer, and you’ll see that we have 18 years, 15,000 patients, no cancer.  You may want to know how we did that.

Anyhow this is important for you to understand that with Blumer’s work, which is in Switzerland, he wound up blaming the lead in gasoline as being perhaps a unifying hypothesis.  Well, it’s as good as any other hypothesis.  I can tell you that it was only this year, after 150 years of using nitroglycerin, that it got published in Nature what nitroglycerin really does and how it works.  So you’ll have to forgive me if I do have to study another 50 years.  I will not know overnight all the things that explain the miracle of chelation.  But I can assure you that when you learn more about what the four molecules of vinegar that we call EDTA do, you will wind up doing as I am doing, and sharing it with your family, your children, babies that are 1 and 2 years of age because they absolutely have higher blood lead levels than any other children because of many reasons.  And it’s interesting that even JAMA published the fact, way back in 1954, that oral EDTA works.  But what’s really kind of interesting is all the doctors that I’ve trained, and I helped form ACAM, and we have 1,000 doctors that I have helped along the way with a protocol that I wrote, which was wrong.  The protocol was written prematurely, which is why the protocol, everybody keeps asking me, when are you going to write the protocol for calcium EDTA, the new 5-minute push?  And I say look, I’ve taken you back to the package insert.  You don’t need a protocol.  You’re a licensed doctor.  And we can all work together and find out how much increase you see if you do lipoic acid or how much better do you get if you use my oral Essential Daily Defense or you use some other product, or you triple the intake of vitamin C, or you add homeopathy.  Or you do it with DMPS.  We can all learn and share with each other the way to detoxify our fellow man.

But what I’m really concerned about is this simple article, July 2002, American Journal of Kidney Disease:  They point out that anyone doing parenteral chelation, when you stop chelating the patient, the patient goes back to totally re-leading their tissues because all patients carry their own toxic dump site in their body, it’s called bone.  If you understand this simple premise:  If you could chelate every day aggressively for seven years, which is the amount of time it takes to turn over your bone, this might not be so true.  But unfortunately, planet earth is so dirty that there’s no way to find out how healthy you would be if you lived in a lead-free environment unless you moved to the biosphere.  So you need to understand that what this says is very simple, EDTA takes the lead out of the kidney and the brain and the endothelium, which is how I can now speak to managed care and be invited to speak at places like Harvard, because when you talk endothelial dysfunction, nobody fights you.  Because this is a fact that you can back up.

But you never get the lead out of the bone.  And the skeleton is a permanent source of poisoning for other tissues, so if you clean my brain and all my body tissues with 30, 50, 100 chelations and I feel great. If you don’t do anything about maintenance, I will be back where I was at.  And so that’s obvious, and of course that means to me very simply, let’s learn about a simple thing called oral EDTA.  It’s at a little place called Harvard and it’s published in Primary Care, and it says, “lead exposures particular concern” and it says “it leads to asymptomatic,” that means you don’t know that you have this lead exposure, but you’re chronically ill with anything from hypertension to kidney impairment, and cognitive disturbances.  Anybody you see in your office have any of those problems?  Well, hypertension is one of the most common causes of office visits in the country.  You think anybody is talking about lead as being a contributor to the process?

And then the mercury story, which was in yesterday’s USA Today.  If you get the front page of yesterday’s USA Today, you can triple your practice.  Because it’s archived in Environmental Health. That’s an extremely prestigious journal.  And they spent a whole page in USA telling you about chronic fatigue and headaches and migraine and depressed immune systems because people are eating fish.  And it talked about blood levels of mercury, and this is tied to NIH, folks, you can quote the article.  Everything I’m showing you is designed to permit you to be the leader in your community that you should be.  If you understand what I can teach you, you can stand up proud and tall, because you have the knowledge to treat anybody who calls your office.  I don’t care what the diagnosis is.  There is no diagnosis that wouldn’t be easier to treat if you detoxified the patient.

It is very interesting to notice Miami inner city totally poisoned, Russia totally poisoned.  Doesn’t make any difference what part of the world you’re in, if you take the teeth of aboriginal tribes, everybody is poisoned.  We have worked with a guy by the name of Clare Patterson, and I’ll get to that.  And we have shown there’s no place that is not going to be approximately in order of magnitude greater, that’s about 1,000 times higher in lead levels than prehistoric man.  So this is nothing that we’ve dreamed up, and Clare Patterson, when I ran ACAM as Program Chairman for the first approximate 10 years, came back to speak two times at my request.  He’s from the California Institute of Technology.  He’s the world expert on this and he can tell you that your bodies are so filthy that when you shed a hair or a dead piece of skin on your neighbor sitting next to you, you have transferred enough lead that you wrecked the experiments.  You had to be put in space suits.  It is more expensive to have a lead-free environment than a germ-free environment.  That’s the world you live in and none of you understand this.

But it gives you a plausible tie-in with yesterday’s front page story about mercury being the cause of healthy people getting chronic fatigue.  But, of course, I’ll tie it better than that for you because it will all tie in to why we need oxidatives.  Because once the heavy metal has knocked the immune system out, the infections that every one of you carry, and you know them as well as I, EBV, cytomegalic virus, herpes virus 6, simian virus 40, all of you have it.  But those start to grow out of control when you do not have the heavy metals out.

But Clare Patterson is one of these references.  All of these are showing you the skeletal concentrations are 500 to 1,000 times what they were.  So the issue becomes, how can you become an expert in metal toxicology?  We have now changed the American Board of Chelation therapy, the name is in the process of being changed to the American Board of Metal Toxicology.  How can I download that information  so that you can be responsible enough to know who in your community that you see truly should be covered by workman’s comp or private insurance, because you can defend the diagnosis of heavy metal poisoning/toxicity?  And on my website with 1,000 pages that are there under Ggordon@ Gordonresearch.com, I explain to you how to discuss the test results so that you are credible.  I record everything I do with all patients.  I’m on the Board of Examiners in this state for alternative medicine and homeopathic, and I’m in charge of peer review for chelation therapy in this state, which is mandated under our legislature that specifically recognizes chelation therapy.  So I do walk both sides of the street.  I have to protect the public and I have to educate you, and I want all of you to make a very, very good living while you change the health of millions of people; not just the million who’ve had the 3-hour treatment, but with a new 5-minute or 1-minute treatment, I would like to help treat tens of millions, and with the oral, I will be taking it to foreign countries that have been totally poisoned:  behind the Iron Curtain, Egypt, etc.  And I can show you with the literature here, every child will pee out 5 to 10 times more lead by simply giving them EDTA, which sells at the same price virtually as vitamin C per pound.  And it has at least the same safety ratio when you understand it.  In spite of Dr. Cranton’s allegations.

Economic gains that would result if I took the children and took the lead out.  Well, this is a crazy place called the Center for Environmental Health from CDC.  We assume the change in cognitive ability from declining the blood level on the basis of publishing in nationals.  It comes down to a simple thing:  That as you lower the blood lead on average IQ’s go up 2.2 to 4.7 points, so is there any reason you wouldn’t be chelating your children and your children’s children?  Is there any reason when you see the next line, that if they do this, amazingly enough, that each point in IQ raised increases worker productivity 1.7% to 2.38%.  That’s not bad folks for something that costs the same as vitamin C and is equally safe.

Maternal-borne lead is an independent risk factor.  You’ll get to the point, as the paper yesterday said, mothers that are going to get pregnant should be pre-treated.  And you’ll understand when you read all of these slides, and I repeat, everything I show you goes on my website.  There’s already about 500 slides on my website and 1,000 pages.  Why?  Because I had a big fight with ACAM.  They essentially suggested that I was a quack and didn’t know what I was talking about.  And I wound up asking them to make the references available to chelating doctors so they would give honest information to patients, because if you tell from a podium a class of doctors that EDTA by mouth is a waste of time and Dr. Gordon is the one wrong doctor, you wind up lying to patients.  And I had to put every reference, so I have 500 published references, abstracts, on my website, so you can read them yourself and draw your own conclusions.  Because it’s an exciting story, as you’ll see when I go through them.

Lead exposure, what it does to the brain, an enzyme.  What it does to women’s health and how it ties in, a lot to learn.  Toxic threats to the development of children.  Extensive laboratory and clinical studies of neurodevelopmental toxicants, including lead, etc., etc., demonstrate the vulnerability of the developing brain to environmental agents.  Do we have 14 million children that need Ritalin?  If you’re a licensed doctor in California, we’re trying to force you to think about doing lead testing and when you see the data you’ll understand why I get so hostile about the ignoring of this information.  Should children with developmental behavior problems be routinely screened for lead?  Well, it becomes a complicated issue, because you see like when you got out of medical school you were told that half of what we taught you was nonsense and half might be valuable, we don’t know which is which.  Well I’m handing out an article to those of you who don’t get over to ACAM tonight that says to you, you have not been taught the truth  about chelation.  Because it’s important that you have accurate information, because if you come to the conclusion that you will not deplete trace elements and leave people depleted, and that there is nothing but benefit, then the indication for treating these children before you put them on Ritalin will be pretty strong.  But if you believe somebody like that who says you’re going to have these children wind up nearly dead from mineral depletion because he has not looked at these references:  we sent them all to him and we can prove that he’s received them all.  So there’s a problem, same data, but that’s how law is.  The practice of law, they all point to the same case and they say this proves the guy should go free and the other one says, no, he should go to jail for 20 years.  They’re all looking at the same reference. 

So it all depends on the point of view.  But if you read these articles, it’s clear that children with behavioral developmental problems are more likely to have significantly higher blood lead, a known, and more importantly, a treatable neurotoxin.  As an expert on lead I have to teach you that blood leads are useless, they are only recent exposure.  As an expert on this, you either learn how to do x-ray fluorescence of the tibial plateau or you do things like provocative testing.  There’s an awful lot to cover.

This is from the state of California and the reference got left off, “chronic overexposure to lead may result in severe damage to your blood forming, urinary, reproductive…”  This is in a statute in the state of California.  And it can cause excessive tiredness, weakness, insomnia, headache.  Now does that sound like a Valium deficiency or could it be low level lead?  Just something to think about.  Hyperactivity and colic.  This is right from the statute in the state of California:  effects of over exposure to lead.  And it goes on, subchapter, generally hazardous.  All this, whether you type in FDA or EPA, or anything, you’ll have language that if you have read it, you are on solid ground to tell anybody who calls your office, even if you’ve never heard of the disease, that you’re going to look into seeing what heavy metal detoxification might do to help them. 

This is the National Network for Child’s Care.  All you do is go to Pubmed or Google and type in lead, lead in childhood, or lead and health, and it’s all there.  Children exposed to lead in a variety of ways through particles in the air.  And then the lead content of household tap water varies, etc.  Lead accumulates over a lifetime.  You understand, there is nothing complicated about this.  This is the National Network for Child Care, and the University of Illinois Cooperative:  Influence of lead.  Changes and sustained detention, response initiation and reactivity, all of this stuff is what they’re treating with Ritalin.  And those of us who have been in my field, I have only practiced medicine for 43 years, have learned that we don’t wind up using much drugs. We tend to get at causes.  Even extremely low levels have adverse immunological; that’s where you start to tie in the oxidative therapies, because it’s the depressed immune system that has set the stage for us to need to understand everything about oxidative therapies.  Because when patients have failed with the standard ACAM protocol that I wrote years ago that is now sadly out of date, always I’ve turned those patients around with the simple things we’ll cover tonight.

But the first thing I always grab for is the oxidative therapy that you’re here learning.  And so, influence of lead, we’ll go on rapidly through this.  Zinc is protective against it and you can lower the sperm count, and all metal toxicity is greatly influenced by the availability of a central antagonistic.  So we don’t have to fight this anymore.  JAMA now agrees that everybody needs a good vitamin and mineral, so it’s less of a fight than it was to realize that when you give selenium, you can virtually prevent mercury toxicity, so I don’t have to treat a patient who’s got a mouthful of mercury and force them to spend $20,000 they don’t have, if I mainly am focusing on saving their life, I will do it with selenium and will explain.

German environmental survey that smokers are higher in cadmium.  If you live with a smoker you get about .3 mcg of cadmium per day just by living with a smoker.  In fact it’s almost impossible to get clean data to find out what your cadmium levels would be if there was no smoking in a population.  Effect on kidney function:  when you read these it gets really exciting.  Just type in on any search engine:  lead and kidney function, and you’ll conclude that about 90% of dialysis would never have occurred if somebody had taken care of the low level lead.  And we recognize, as the paper yesterday quoted, there’s a wide spectrum of difference in tolerance.  One person can tolerate this level of mercury, and the other person can tolerate that level.  And of course part of it is how much selenium did you have to offset it.  But a lot of it is whether you have a glutathione estransferase deficiency.  About 51% of whites have that, and about every Indian that I’ve tested.  If they are full-blooded American Indian working the same job as anybody else, such as driving a truck, they have 3 to 5 times the level of toxic metals. 

So that’s why you’ll eventually get into doing genetic testing for detoxification.  You’ll become an expert at all the variability, but you don’t have to spend a fortune when the treatment we’re talking about can be as simple as something that you buy for 10 or 12 cents a pill.  And it says that a lot of pollutants induce changes that are going to bring about kidney failure, and lead is one of the most dangerous.  People don’t think about that, they don’t realize.  Is chronic low level bringing on Alzheimer’s? Relationship between learning achievement:  They did find in Taiwan that the Chinese kids that had the higher level were more unable to express themselves but they maintained mathematical functioning, which is an interesting thing to think that maybe lead is selective to knocking out certain parts of your brain.  Those kids in China beat us on all math anyhow.  They happen to be gifted in that area, on any studies.

The health effects include reproductive dysfunction, toxicity to the kidneys, and it all ties together when you take the three legs of my stool.  The three legs are real simple:  we have toxicity that’s damaged the immune system, so the infection has had a chance, in all of us, and the infections induce hypercoagulability, and you’ll love when you hear how that’s going to tie together in the big story.  This is where you start to get into the picture, that we have a published paper now that EDTA therapy increases nitric oxide.  Once you understand that and you understand the power, all the incredible things that nitric oxide does, you could explain virtually every benefit we’ve seen on thermography, blood pressure changes, treadmill endurance, by simply the fact that the blood vessels are no longer in spasm.  So you don’t have to reverse plaque to change people’s lives.  But when I take you into blood viscosity, the story gets extremely exciting.

Arsenic:  You may not have known it, the American Heart Association, this is the one that President Bush said we can’t afford to take the arsenic out of the drinking water.  Let’s go ahead and have this epidemic.  What’s the epidemic?  It says that carotid atherosclerosis is a major marker for overload of arsenic.  I’m sure most of you weren’t aware of that. 

Particulate air pollution:  This came out of the American Journal of Cardiology, March 2002.  The particulate matter in the air on the bad days is clearly inducing the progression of atherosclerosis and helping bring on systemic inflammation, so now I’ve tied in to your brain chronic inflammation with heavy metals.  Because if you get into my new language, I have to take you through detoxification and inflammation and blood coagulation if you’re going to keep your patients alive and not lose your friends.  And it’s a great practice builder:  If you don’t lose any of your old patients, you know, it’s fun to see the old patients.  You’ve been seeing them for years and they come and give you a hug.  It’s a great practice, just keep your old patients alive.  It’s a neat trick.

So cadmium overload in toxicity.  Smaller amounts.  As you start to get into the cadmium story, low levels are causing a tremendous amount of damage.  And amazingly enough, we’re only about an average of 50 times higher.  So cadmium is not like lead.  I told you lead was 1,000 times higher.  Cadmium’s only 50 times higher, so it’s probably not too important.  Anyhow, cadmium and blood lead in relation to low bone mineral density and tubular proteinuria.  When you want to study something and you want to go to the Cadillac, you forget about our wonderful schools in our country.  The Karolinski is always the leader, and when you see something out of them, they’ll tell you the highest blood cadmium had fourfold the risk of the kidneys being already shot.  So these things tie very tightly together.  And you being able to detoxify these patients, even if they’re smoking you’re going to cut down how many people are going to pay the price of failed kidneys and hypertension and living on drugs.

And then the iron story.  It has been covered so well today, I’m not going to spend a lot of time.  This is a very important story to me.  I was hired by Proctor & Gamble and they had spent millions of dollars, and we have an iron chelator that is orally effective and 100% safe.  Only one problem:  you can’t have it.  But they will give it to any responsible organization that will develop it, because they’ve had it with America’s $500 million per drug approval.  They’ve walked away and they want to give it to any responsible entity.  The iron chelator that we’re discussing has terrible side effects:  The animals lived 20% longer, the skin didn’t wrinkle, they didn’t burn when they were out in the sun, skin cancers were materially reduced.  So terrible effects like that I’m sure you wouldn’t want to do.  But when you understand that I’ve now told you that a lead chelator EDTA has a 50% increase in life span on rotifers and iron chelator has 20% increase on rodents, it might get you thinking for the commonality.  Is it possible that we can’t have too many free metals on board?  Is it possible that our levels of albumen, which are fixed, you know low albumen equals early death.  Albumen is your major chelator.  But we have moved these numbers, as I’ve told you 1,000-fold so we don’t have adequate ability to tie these metals up and the metals are free, they catalyze. 

Why does the FDA allow us to add EDTA to all of our foods by the railroad tank car?  Why do we allow it?  Why was it approved by the FDA?  Because EDTA prevents the oxidative destruction of the nutrients in food.  Something for you to realize.

Iron chelation’s a great story.  And it ties into the inflammatory response and you can understand that it’s a two-edged thing.  But don’t ever think you’ve got it all figured out because you always want to remain flexible because remember this is all medical school and half of what I’m teaching is going to have to be burned in 5 years, because the next slide suggests this:  serum iron level, coronary artery disease and all cause mortality in older men and women.  This is Charlie Henekin, he’s at Harvard School of Public Health, he does big-time studies.  When you read his stuff, you’re not able to dismiss this study.  And it says, amazingly enough serum iron levels were characterized according to sex-specific quantities and it turned out that across the board, those people who had better levels of iron in all categories, had less all cause mortality.  It was only 4,000 people, but it’s suggestive that I don’t know enough yet as to what to damn and not to damn.  Because I’ve taken the position that I’m certainly going to keep my ferritins down below 100 and I’m going to keep iron out of supplements that I would develop, but it’s just something to think about because if we damn something too heavy, we might miss somebody whose life we could have helped tremendously.  Because we get categorized, and we have to remain flexible.

In fact, lower serum iron levels were associated with an increase of coronary artery, cardiovascular and all cause mortality.  That is not what you and I would have expected, and it’s published in a little throw-away journal, American Journal of Cardiology, so just try to remain flexible as we try to learn.

This was the Arizona Republic about a week ago but it was yesterday’s USA Today.  Fish eaters’ mercury level.  And this again is Environmental Health Perspectives and this is peer reviewed by NIH, so this is not trash.  Why do I make such a big point of it?  Because I need to have you able to quote the right literature.  I don’t tell somebody unless the levels are 5 or 10 times greater than what I normally encounter, that their diagnosis is heavy metal toxicity.  The rest of it I merely state that their data shows that they have an increased body burden of such and such a toxic metal, which in my professional opinion may be greater than what is in their best interest for the health problem for which they’re consulting me.  Which may be to live longer, be smarter, run faster, or because they have cancer.  Those are the words.  They’re on my website.

This is to let you know that the FDA, a mercury amalgam ruling came down and they are now declassifying mercury.  It looks like it’s going to be a highly dangerous element for dentists to keep using it, and Congressman Dan Burton, our good friend, is starting hearings on Capitol Hill later this month to embarrass the entire mercury industry as to exactly what’s going on with the whole dental story.  So this is just to tie into the fact that you are on a winning team when you have the courage to learn what we’re teaching you here. 

I mentioned that if I taught you enough about selenium, you’d understand that if I gave you 1,000 mcg of selenium a day, that would be toxic, that’s a really big dose.  But what if it didn’t go up in your plasma or serum, one week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks.  I’ve done this with some cancer patients with 4,000 mcg of selenium and it didn’t go up, for sometimes six weeks, and when it finally goes up they can get symptoms, the nausea, the metallic taste, some paresthesias, numbness, but during that time what was I doing?  I was tying up every atom of mercury.  We estimate there’s about 40 million atoms of mercury in the average cell in your body.  I was tying up every one of them into a lifelong marriage so that the mercury was not able depress glutathione synthesis and I was therefore able to see results in treating my cancer patient who couldn’t afford to take it all out. 

Lead toxicokinetics.  It’s going to take Tom Haselik, he’s the only guy that’s able to figure out all the math to make us understand.  What is the first lead, and why does somebody who’s worked in a dental office for 20 years, the mercury doesn’t come out?  And somebody else you add DMSA 500 mg a day for 2-3 days and then give 15 of an oral chelator like Essential Daily Defense and an IV push, and you see tons of mercury, and the dentist it didn’t come out and you know he’s got it.  What’s holding it back?  Those are the complexities.  Why do sometimes different metals that you didn’t expect come out and then only later does the mercury come out?  Much for us to learn, I’m not going to get into more than to tell you there’s problems.

We ought to know that there’s a lot of fighting, is it DMPS, is it DMSA?  We really don’t want to have to win the fight, what you want to do is get the patient well.  And it wants to be affordable.  Well the DMPS people are good friends of mine.  I was the first one to bring DMPS to this country.  I brought over polystisplanis bone from the Carlgrew Institute in Germany better than 20 years ago.  All the documentation because we were prepared to treat every man, woman and child in Germany in case of radioactive fallout.  I know everything about these things. I’ve had a lifetime to study these things.  And body line, DMPS is so well absorbed that it’s hard to defend using it intravenously unless you have gastric irritation.  But on the other side, do you want the drug at all?  I mean, if you can get mercury out of the child’s brain with garlic, which we can prove you do, why do we need a drug?  You have to weigh benefit, risk, cost, you’ve got to look at the whole picture.

Obviously, to protect the chart and we still are in a litigious society, I like to treat the chart and I like to have a dramatic finding on a provocative challenge in a whole bunch of heavy metals because then the patient understands you know what you’re talking about and if you do understand what you’re talking about, this is your retirement program because these patients will stay with you for life because they’ll feel that much different when you take the toxic metals out and you won’t be losing them.  They’ll stay alive when you see the rest of the picture.  But this is a big story, we won’t go further into it.  I just want to make it clear that there isn’t any final analysis at this moment.  But it’s important to understand one thing.  I am not going to stop eating fish in a world in which we have the lowest levels of EPA in our country of virtually any country, and if you read Integrative Cancer Therapies filled with 358 references, you can’t treat inflammation of cancer without giving the patient enough EPA’s to get the cell membrane which is where the bullet to bring about the vagosetic index is in the cell membrane.  If you don’t have the right oils it won’t work.  And so I’m going to eat my fish, but I’m not very worried about it because I’ve studied these kinetics a great deal and mercury is extremely attracted to EDTA and we have a study now, Dr. Shelton presented 2-1/2 weeks ago, and it’s on my website under the word ‘homotoxicology’ that proves that although Julian Whittaker did a study and he just gave the push, the 5-minute push and didn’t see mercury using Doctor’s Data on 15 people, we went back with 49 people and followed my concept which is to treat the whole body and we used the oral chelator that I designed and some homeopathics from Heal, and we have documentation that mercury’s coming out of those people.  So it’s not anything that you think you know, and you need to keep open and flexible because EDTA is cheap and safe.  And the gut is an important part of the equation.  Ignoring the amount of toxic metals in the gut is a serious mistake and if you wind up doing fecal analysis you’ll see things there, when you said my god I didn’t help the patient, nothing was in the urine.  Well it was just because you didn’t look in the right compartment.

Lead mobilization during calcium EDTA and the treatment of chronic lead, and this was the one I told you about, says that you can’t stop and expect the patient not to go right back to the illness they had when they came to you.  And this goes into some more of the changes that will lead about to dementia.  And even though Boyd Haley has scared the devil out of people, saying if you have one filling in your mouth and you take EDTA it looks like you’re going to have permanent brain damage, and I said to him when we were both on the cruise, both speaking, I said Dr. Haley I have here in my hand, because I’ve got 7,000 published papers about EDTA and I’ve read them all more than once.  And I said, you know, it’s interesting you’re saying to patients who would like to come to my chelating doctors that they don’t dare come and see anybody and get EDTA if they have a single filling in their mouth.  Don’t you think after treating a million people and ACAM will be 30 years old this year, that maybe we would have seen all this Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s that you’re alleging is going to happen?  I said is there an explanation for why it’s not seen?  And he said well it could be that I’m doing cell cultures with a single mineral involved and so other than that, if you understand what I told you, it’s all nonsense.

The genetics is interesting.  My genetics, I will show you rapidly.  I recommend that you learn about it.  When you have positives from both sides, it can be rather interesting.  The testing for cardio, osteo, immune, I did all of mine.  It’s about $925.  I’m very glad I spent the money and it shouldn’t be reimbursed by insurance, it’s nobody’s business.  It should be as private in the patient’s chart, as an Aids test is.  It’s nobody’s business.  Because it might hurt somebody in the future obtaining insurance.  But it ties to coagulation and about 30 diseases, from Lyton 5 disease to protein S to protein C disease, to sticky platelets.  There are so many diseases that you’ve never heard about and they are all tied to the 2 million people who die each year of what is in the final analysis, a blood clot.  And Coumadin, and Heparin and aspirin and Clavix aren’t hitting it.  But you have the opportunity if you really pay close attention to altering it with totally natural products in most of those patients; not all.  There are going to be some that you’re going to have to use some stuff on.  We’ll get into what the appropriate testing is, but in any event, rapidly, I had a little problem with this one.  I was double positive on CETP and that means that I would have the inability to remove cholesterol from my system and lower HDL levels, and I had an increased risk of developing atherosclerosis.  So by age 29 I had disabling angina, I had to close my practice.  I went into radiology in Mt. Sinai in 1964 because I couldn’t stand, I was that sick.

So I paid the price and I understand the steps, and you go to the next one and the CETP which is positive sides: health implications; well, it turns out you can get into some treatment and all of this treatment is listed right out of John Hopkins and Human Genome Research.  And I was also positive on the kelsotonin both sides, and that meant, without knowing that, I’m Mr. Health, I take everything in the world, I exercise, and I still had 3 standard deviations lower in bone density.  So it’s important to know these things or you wouldn’t do the extra mile.  So then I was also positive on this test, and this was the IL1B, and it turns out that that means that I not only would have hypochlyhedria, which hounded me my entire life as a child.  My stomach hurt almost the entire 20 years of my life and when we did the first hair test and magnesium levels were undetectable.  So I have a real knowledge of what it takes to build things back up and you deal with deficiencies.  But I did it blindly from my knowledge of spending over $1 million in the last 10 years going to every meeting in the world to get my health so that every month I feel younger and can do more than I could last month.  But now that you have genetic testing, it makes it a lot easier to understand what you’re doing.

This journal, Integrative Cancer Therapies, is one that you will want to review.  The third issue.  It’s $95.00 an issue, but it is absolutely going to move, and this is the title of the meeting that we are going to put on in conjunction with IOMA on April 2^nd through 6^th, so hold onto your seats, because I had just been moderator of the ABEIM that we had in Fort Worth with only 47 speakers from 7 countries on cancer.  That’s a lot to learn.  And it’s a shame that there’s so many people treating cancer who have studied it so little, and there’s so much they’re missing and they’re not giving their patients the benefit of full knowledge, which is important.  Because sitting on a Board of Medical Examiners and seeing all the complaints from patients, it’s really important that we give a full informed consent and we understand what we can and can’t deliver.

Since the issue’s going to come up:  Well Dr. Gordon, if you’re to back a 5-minute chelation, everything you wrote and taught us about benefit of parathyroid stimulation and how that was going to get rid of the 140-time accumulation of calcium on the aorta, is all gone to naught.  We have to throw that away, don’t we?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  Maybe there’s more to learn.

Inflammation is a big story.  If you get this Scientific American, if you haven’t got it, it’s on my website.  The original slides.  You ought to have them.  You need to understand these slides.  You need to show them to your patients.  You need to understand the lesion and then you’ll understand the limitations of EDTA, even the current protocol as practiced at ACAM, and you’ll understand how easy it is to step into the new century and not lose any patients.   Everybody understands that this is Ritger’s work and it’s very exciting.  But this is the picture you have understand.  What are those foam cells and what bugs might be in here?  If you read up on all the bugs that are in there, we find bugs in there that in general some of the bugs we don’t even have names.  So there’s a lot we don’t know yet.  But this folks, is death.  That is death.  That’s a pimple or a cold sore, whatever you want to think it is, if one day you wake up with a cold sore on your lip, think of what it is if you wake up with that cold sore and it’s on your left anterior descending.  And you don’t see it.  And you’re walking across the street and you drop dead.

We have proven that in general you can find a spot that’s about 2° centigrade warmer within about 6 inches of where the fatal clot is that the patient is now dead from, and that we were taught was post-mortem clotting is ante-mortem clotting, so there’s a lot to learn here.  But this picture, you’ve gotta see that picture, because through war where we had a lot of battles, and the people who bled easily all died on the field, so you are a self-selected group of people who don’t bleed too easily, and you’re in an environment where omega-3’s which are a great way to keep you from having sticky blood, are deficient in your diet, and you’re always under stress, which is pumping up your adrenal system, so it’s not too hard to make a case that maybe you want to be protected every day.  Because in case, just in case, one of you had a little pimple on your left anterior descending today, and the passing blood happened to take that little piece of skin off of the roof, and at that moment the body says, my god, this poor guy’s going to bleed to death.  There’s an opening in this artery, we’d better put a tire patch right here.  And the tire patch is supposed to be platelets, but if you’ve looked at platelets under dark field microscope, and there are some new answers to dark field and you don’t have to believe the nonsense that has been preached.  There’s some significant new ways from Etta Jenson and we’ll make sure that you learn that at the next meeting.  But we can take you into straight science today and we will indicate to you that there’s a device that you can now get that will show the patient is too viscose, in other words, are they running on tomato ketchup, weight 80 motor oil, when you need to just do a chem and it get it back to weight 10 motor oil.

But it all ties to this death, because this is when that big event happens.  So this is the picture.  Get it in your mind and figure out what are you going to do.  Are you going to just use gingko ?  There’s a lot to these stories, but there’s a lot of choices.  But wouldn’t it be nice if you have an affordable test that would tell you if the choices you have made were the right choices for the patient?  That would be Nirvana.  I have found that we can deal with inflammation with stuff like curcumin.  And if you read, if you just pump in that word curcumin and you go to the literature, you would never see a cancer patient again without using that.  Or at least artemecia, or at least carnivora, or 50 other things that we could mention.  But we won’t get into that lecture tonight.  But I want you to know that it’s the fun when you go to every meeting to learn that something called piperene, which is just pepper animlongum, and aribetic medicine of pepper, not the kind you and I get, will take and make that curcumin work 20-fold better, so now you have an anticortisone.

In that same product, I’ve used cat’s claw.  Now cat’s claw came out several years ago and we all tried it and it didn’t do diddly.  And we were disappointed.  Now we’ve gone back and talked to the witch doctors down there in the Peruvian rain forest.  They said, you know, we sold you the cheap stuff.  The good stuff is when it really gets matured.  At the right time it has a totally different energy, and that would be the TOA-free.  So then I bought the TOA-free and it was pretty expensive, and it didn’t do in our country what it was doing in other third world countries, where it could stop hepatitis, turn around advanced cancer.  It wasn’t getting the bang for the buck.  And I had to go back to the drawing board and say, what’s going on?  Well, what is cat’s claw?  It’s bark off of a vine, about this big around.  The vine’s 20-30-40 feet.  And how many of you really have the digestive innards to dissolve bark?  So we went back, you know maybe if we can pre-digest it just like they did with methoky B and some of the things they do with MGNtra.  If you can get the actual molecules freed, because it turns out this is a huge story.  We won’t go into it more, but you’ve now seen the world oxyndol alkaloids can increase immune function by 50% in even small amounts.  So I put that into products, because I’m really into treating inflammation, but if you treat inflammation, what happens?  You reduce by 60% the likelihood of prostate cancer, 50% the chance of colon cancer, by 50% all Alzheimer’s and all Parkinson’s.  And if you get a good formula that I’ve been lucky enough to find, the patient doesn’t wind up needing their knee or hip replaced.  So inflammation’s worthwhile learning about.

But the thing is you’ve got to go out in that forest and you’ve gotta find out what works.  And it’s very interesting to see observational studies of cancer patients.  Even with chemo and radiation we’ve have seen a reduction in side effects and even in secondary infections.  Well, anyhow, this is more on cat’s claw.  It’s easy to type in that word.  We have just completed a $600,000 study that was blinded by the University of Puerto Rico, and I have all of that sitting in my bag.  We found that we could take rheumatoid patients and all across the board they had significantly elevated c-reactive.  We dropped it an average of 55% in all patients, there were no exceptions.  Dropping c-reactive is guaranteed.  But what was more fun, many of the rheumatoid patients became asymptomatic after 4 months.  There’s a lot to the story.  So this is why a lot of people like cat’s claw, because it’s anti-viral for cardiovascular support, for chronic fatigue, for GI.  Instead of tearing the gut up like methyltrexate does, the methyltrexate kills how many people a year?  17,000-27,000 a year.  So I kind of have some hostile feelings toward those people, because I want my patients to stay alive.  You don’t have to take in new patients if you can keep your old ones alive.  And your chart’s are really nice and easy to follow then.

So anyhow, potential benefits:  irritable bowel gets treated, systemic, it even treats mycotoxins.  Cat’s claw is a complex array, about 80 active ingredients.  You don’t need to learn all of them, but I’m just taking one thing to titillate your interest. 

Anyhow, this is the new story: When I was flying back from a trip, I pick up Forbes.  I’m always reading wherever I am, I always have something in my hand.  And this little article in Forbes said, the plot thickens, you track your blood pressure, soon you’re going to do another vital sign.  You’re going to do your blood viscosity.  Well that titillated my imagination because our good friend here has shown us, Bob Rowan, that oxidative therapies lower viscosity.  And I always knew that EDTA lowered viscosity and giving blood, lowering your iron, lowers viscosity.  And even things like the locostatins lower viscosity.  So I contact the company and Dr. Kensey will be speaking on our next program, and he will have at my booth at ACAM this weekend the device, you can see the real log.  Takes a minute and a half to do, and you can have this device in your practice.  This is Ken Kensey, he took 12 years, $11 million to develop, this will be interesting for you to know that this is some of the Library of Congress and where you can get the book.  And this is the physical principals of circulation, and he says many things in here like, if you thin the blood the arteriosclerosis plaque tends to reverse itself.  Interesting things that you have never seen before.  And he says people can look extremely healthy and they can be so viscose that they’re ready to die at any time.  And you can do this in your office, in fact it can’t be done any place else.  So you’ll be able to lease the machine, $500.00 a month, it will cost you $50.00 every time you do the test.  He says the test is worth at least $250-$500.00 a test and you can charge what’s right, because when you get into blood clotting thrombosis and hemostasis, folks this is the cutting edge, and when I introduced you to Dr. Bick who is the editor book, Thrombosis and Hemostasis, and is the editor of the journal by that name, and is the head of the research society by that name, and runs Thrombocare Laboratories in Dallas and is a full professor, M.D., Ph.D., you’ll have a lot of information because he’s the guy that says 70% of the 1.9 million deaths which are going to occur in the next 12 months are avoidable if we found competent doctors who would understand how to prevent the fatal clot.  That’s about 1.4 million deaths could be avoided if I can find a group that will understand it.

And it turns out this man is actually having this guy, David Thaxin and Spencer King, and these guys are endorsing his book.  Now who are these guys?  Well this guy happens to be the president of the American Heart Association.  And who’s this guy?  Well he’s just the president of the American College of Cardiology.  These are lightweights, obviously.  But he’s got these guys fooled into thinking that this test, which is being used by big Pharma, the big boys who know that the drugs that we currently use are not working adequately to thin the blood and are not safe.  And they’re spending $2 billion to come up with a new one.  And all of them are putting the same device into their research protocols.  So wouldn’t it be fun to finally have the same machine being used in your office that’s being used by the big boys, and they’re killing the patients because every time you get a drug that is approved, it had to be synthetic.  And if it’s synthetic, it’s clearly poisonous to somebody.  So we’re going to be on fun ground.  I’m taking you into a whole new path. 

An Introduction to Hemodyme and Dynamics, that’s the name of the book, and he says this book takes you into a whole new way of understanding atherosclerosis and the clinical manifestations.  It is highly recommended for anybody who treats the disease.  So you’re all going to want to get the book, obviously, because you treat atherosclerotic disease.

Shear stress is the term you get into.  But that’s the role of transforming growth factor beta-1 and tissue type plasminogen activator.  This is in the American Heart Association.  So once you get into this language, there’s tons of new information to learn.  And we are convinced you can perturb all of it favorably with that little thing that they kept asking, what in the world do you think EDTA can possibly do when you swallow it? Well I knew one thing:  since I got into using oral EDTA and I married to Dr. Lester Morrison’s formula in 1985, I have seen so few deaths that I have gotten so cocky that I don’t send anybody to the bypass, even if they’re 98% blocked LAD.  But I’m an expert at what I say and I don’t recommend all of you take that position.  I can state it because I have the clinical records in my files to back me up.

But the blood clot is the end result of the whole story.  So blood clots are death.  There’s a little number, total deaths from thrombosis, this from the American Heart Association, only 1.9 million in 1995, it’s just 2 million a year.  So a diagnosis of thrombosis is as useless as a diagnosis of anemia.  It tells you nothing.  So you’re going to have to figure it out.  Well, it could be anti-phospholipid syndrome, sticky platelets, post-thrombin, other mutations, protein S, protein C, homocysteine, it could be Lp(a) and dysfribinogen, it could be a few things.  Now, we don’t have to learn all that tonight, but at some point we’re going to have to learn some of this.  Because these are the arterial conditions that happen, and we know cigarette smoking makes it thicker, and hypertryglyceride.  It gets to the point that anybody with pulmonary embolism should be worked up immediately.  And anybody with early stroke or heart attack, you are incompetent if you haven’t looked into it spending between $1,500, which is for the usual tests, and $3,000 if you do all the minor tests.

Patients who’ve had a heart attack usually don’t mind, and insurance companies do cover this kind of care.  This is cutting-edge care, but it’s all covered.  And you know, my good friend Dr. Shelton had to pay $1 million when he did everything right when a patient walked into his office that was three weeks after minor orthopedic surgery and the patient said, Dr. Shelton I have the flu.  Dr. Shelton said I’ll be happy to see you.  And the patient said, I’ve gotta leave town tomorrow and last year you cured my flu with that wonderful homeopathic thing that you do.  And I want that to be done again.  And Dr. Shelton looked at him and said, something doesn’t look like flu.  I’m just not comfortable.  So he did an EKG.  And it came back with a minor perturbation.  And he said, I just don’t know what’s going on, but I’m going to have you see the cardiologist today.  There’s something going on.  The cardiologist saw him within 15 minutes.  The cardiologist said, he’s right, there’s something going on and I don’t know what it is.  You go to the emergency room.  In the emergency room the doctor said, they’re both right and we don’t know what’s wrong.  And about 20 minutes later he was dead.  Now, it’s very bad for you to accept patients who are wealthy, because the lawsuit against Shelton was for $12 million and he had done nothing wrong, as you can see.  But there was some idiot out there that the attorney suing him was able to find that was able to say, one out of a thousand cardiologists could have read that EKG and said, this is a possible pulmonary emboli.  And you would have sent him right to the emergency room and maybe they would have given him TPA immediately.  And maybe he’d still be alive.  So because you were not in that select group of one out of thousand cardiologists who could read that squiggle, we’re suing you.  Interesting, huh?  So you need to understand this stuff.

The thrombofilia is hereditary and acquired.  And they sound a little complicated, yes.  But when somebody asks me, can I go off Coumadin, the answer is yes.  But I said, you’re playing the odds.  You’re trusting me when I tell you that I have taken patients off Coumadin who have afib, I’ve taken patients off Coumadin who have heart valves, and I’ve been very lucky.  I haven’t had any lawsuits and I haven’t had any unusual deaths.  And finally I got too cocky, and a buddy of mine who’s an editor of a major textbook on alternative medicine sent me his best buddy, and I gave the same speech.  I said, buddy, I’d like you to do the tests.  He said, no, I don’t think it’s that important.  I just want to get off the Coumadin.  I said well, fine.  I record everything I do.  He got a small clot.  He’s now getting the tests done.  He’s still alive.  But the point is that it is important for you to know that patients have a right because they feel, a lot of them, very lousy on Coumadin, and Coumadin when you read up on it the benefit-risk ratio stinks. And your job is to be an educator.  And so if you don’t understand all of it, go to my website, type in the word Coumadin, let the patient read it.  I have an informed consent and I make the patient make the decision, so you don’t carry any liability.  You don’t need to.  Let the patient realize they’re making the decision.  But if you do these tests, you will find that Coumadin is not the answer.  And that they are being deluded with false assurance, and that you’re saving people’s lives when you go to the next page.

The next piece of information is really my hashing over EDTA, because this little thing, Riker Labs took out patents based on this article published in 1961 that none of you have ever seen or read.  ACAM doesn’t think it’s important for you to know it, but here it is.  “Gastrointestinal absorption of Heparin and synthetic heparinoids,” which I put in the oral chelation that I have used since 1985, based on $10 million worth of research with Lester Morrison, that has enabled me to see no clots in my patients.  Because if you don’t have anybody getting a heart attack and you take them on with 80%, 90% free vessel disease, you get cocky.  Don’t ever get too cocky, the good Lord will bring you back to your knees.  But anyhow, the crux of the story, it’s been going on, there’s substantial benefits.  It turns out  EDTA can make sulfated polysaccharides of a particular molecular weight which was part of the $10 million, and I haven’t spelled it out.  And I have competitors who have no compulsion whether the patient lives or dies, who sell a product and they don’t have any idea what the correct sulfated polysaccharide is, so the label to you would read the same.  This is a wake-up call for all of you.  I know how to read a label.

When somebody tells you product A is equivalent to product B, do some questions.  Because there’s a lot to it.  Just in the use of Wobenzym alone, the iron chelator in there is the rutosid, and when you watch the lecture that you saw today by Dr. Hesselink and you saw all that in there about bioflavonoids, understand that Wobenzym would never have become world famous in Europe, be the second leading product after aspirin in all of Europe.  How could it become so famous?  It’s got nothing to do with the pancreas.  Everybody reads the label, they say Wobenzym, it must be an enzyme.  What if it was an iron chelator?  What if rutin is a major iron chelator?  What if corsitin is a major anti-viral?  What if infection is immediately going to drop c-reactive?  And what if dropping c-reactive means much lower blood clotting? You’ve got to be able to understand these things.

Product A is not equal to product B.  $40 million worth of research behind Wobenzym should carry a little bit of meaning.  And so it’s these kinds of things.  The textbooks that we have, with Dr. Morrison this book is widely available.  This book is the textbook by Charles Conless, it discusses his entire life and how he spent $10 million that he got from NIH and the American Heart Association.  And I worked with him for over a year to find a way to get it from two terrible ounces of something as hard to get down as psyllium to two capsules.  And it was because of the 1961 article by Nature suggesting EDTA, and we used the Chandler loop, so I’ve been into blood clotting since 1983, which is why I’m kind of excited. You know if you’ve been onto something for 15 years and all of a sudden the whole world starts to say, hey blood clotting is important.  And say, wow, I’m vindicated.  They’re finally paying attention.  Which is why I’m a little wound up about the excitement of this.

So anyhow, the Morrison story:  his formula was called Reginol, it was given in powder.  And he did it to 118 patients.  United States, 65 advanced patients - - and he did a 3-year study, two patients had acute MI but complete recovery because they were on the product.  This is why I got so cocky.  And I got to the point I said, you know, IV EDTA is wonderful and I think there’s no other medical society in the world that has two 95-year-old members still practicing medicine.  So the fact that we have Dr. Bekay, Dr. John Baron, after having 2,000 and 3,000 chelations, suggests to me that chelation has a tremendous safety index.  But you can’t tie me down for 10,000 hours.  I’ve got too much I have to do.  So that’s why I’m cheating and hoping that I can get much of the benefit with the 5-minute push, but because I realize that much of the world can’t get the 5-minute push, I have personally only been on oral now for 11 years.  So I haven’t had any IV’s at all.  I’m just trying to experiment with my body to see, is there hope for those who can’t find one of you?  Who can do the magic of doing an oxidative therapy and combining it with a 2, 3, 4, 5-minute chelation.  Because that is giving me feedback from you people doing these things, that’s vindicating my belief that we can get the best part of chelation, which is the heavy metals.  We’re giving up something, and I’m never going to knock that.  And the patients never need to know.  And there’s nothing wrong with having sat in the chair for 3 hours and have an achy arm.  Because you may have a tremendous anti-aging benefit that we might not be getting.  But most people looking at me say there might be, that maybe, a lot of the benefit doesn’t require the 3 hours.  The way I feel each day suggests and the benefits that my friends have.  Because I do have a lot of patients worldwide who can’t get in to one of you people.

This is explaining to you the whole study, only one death out of 118 is highly significant.  And this is what made me cocky.  And this is what’s fun, because I give you that for no charge.  The pill that we sell you as an oral chelator we charge you for what, organic garlic and malic acid, which is a major iron-aluminum chelator, in case you didn’t know why it was in there.  And DL-methionine which is a major mercury chelator.  Because most people don’t read labels.  But I spent years figuring out something that’s going to be affordable, that’s going to keep the average man alive.  And it was all tied to this kind of thinking.

This is the big story why all of us are in this room tonight.  This is the story about Paul Ewald.  Theoretical medicine, Amherst University, bright enough that PBS featured him for almost 40 minutes recently on a special.  Bright little guy.  Book is called Plague Time.  He says stealth infections are in every cancer, you might have any name for it, you might think that it’s heart disease, he even says the schizophrenia’s are these infections.  Well, that’s one man’s opinion.  There’s going to be somebody out there calling him a liar, I’m sure.  He’s got a lot references, he’s pretty bright.  And if you get the book it is very useful for helping you, because then you become an expert.  If I send you to CCID.org, John Martin, M.D., Ph.D.  He’s from Harvard and the Center for Disease Control.  He’s got pretty good credentials.  Having been in CDC, he’s able to blow the whistle on all the liars.  Who are the liars?  The liars are the ones that aren’t willing to stand up and admit that when we gave the polio vaccine, we did have monkey virus and we introduced it in all of you and you all have it.  It’s been transmitted through the placenta, it’s been transmitted from mother to child.  Everybody has it.  But the big cases, if you read New England Journal of Medicine is just Hodgkin’s and lymphomas and stuff like that.  But when you go to his website you see children; one tried to murder his brother and the mother was smart enough to say, I don’t think that’s a Ritalin deficiency.  That’s not my boy.  So that mother said, I’m not just going to take a damn prescription for Ritalin, I’m going to see a real doctor.  Found a neurologist who actually did an MRI and found the holes in the child’s brain.  And stuck with it, and they found out the holes were because of vestin 40.  And I have diagnosed this on an autistic child that has been seen by the leaders in alternative medicine.  The biggest names in our field, and the family contacted me because they said the child still doesn’t talk and we’ve spent $1 million.  We’ve seen everybody in the field and they all tell us you’re the world expert on mercury.  And they said, if we get the mercury out of our child, he’s going to talk. 

And I said it’s a little more complicated than that.  If I did zap and all the mercury left your child, I had a magic magnet, he still is not going to talk.  The blood in his speech center was as thick as axle grease.  I did the $1,500.00 panel on coagulation as the first test, because I wanted to be in command to prove to these people that I know things that nobody else seems to think about.  And by proving that, then I could get into genetics.  If I take the thick blood, half of it will be about infection and about half of it will be genetics.  So I took careful histories.  Mom’s mother has been sick her whole life.  We drew her blood and it’s a perfect overlay for what the child had, which skipped one generation.  So now they know that I’m not going to cure their child by any waving of a wand, but they at least know I’m now contributing significant information.  And I said if blood is as thick as ketchup in this child, then obviously the speech center is not profuse, so it would be hard for him to be able to form a thought there.  In addition to that, if the blood is that thick, would it mean that he’s hypoxic and that maybe things like peripheral oxygen measurements would be low?  And if that’s true, would certain kinds of infection that all of us tend to have, have a ball growing.  So I said, let’s meet John Martin.  And John says, you know the PC are lies.  Because a lot of it’s viteria, that’s a virus that’s infection to bacteria. When you learn all this you don’t waste lots of your patient’s money.  I have to make you so credible that when you treat the patient and you use the correct language, and even if the patient is dead the next day, which happens.  I spent 4 months of my life defending one of our doctors in this state.  He gave a shot of adrenal cortex and it was another millionaire, and the patient was dead the next day.  It was very bad.  And they’re out looking for you. 

And a nice pathologist in Tucson said that it was murder, essentially, that the patient is dead of gangrene and it must have been faulty injection technique.  Well I blew the case sky high.  I can do a lot of detective work.  And I proved that the patient really had disseminated encephalomyelitis and actually was AIDS positive, but the pathologist said, well you’re wrong Dr. Gordon.  The ELIZA was positive but the Weston blot’s negative.  I said, have you read the literature?  Weston blot’s don’t count on dead patients.  You did the wrong test, dummy.  So anyhow, this is just four months of my life to blow that, but I had to save the doctor’s license because he was a good doctor and I didn’t want to see him go down.

But there’s a lot.  You’ve always gotta remember, somebody is going to die and the choice of language that you use is really important.  And that’s why we’re trying to bring you into this new age of understanding enough to be able to talk about it.  Effects of Total Pathogen Burden on Coronary Artery Disease Risk and C-Reactive Levels.  American Journal of Cardiology.  And I’m going to go rapidly through this because you’re going to read it, but across the board, 68% of patients the higher the antibody load the CMV, chlamydia, hepatitis A, herpes simplex, HSV1, I don’t have to go any farther.  That’s all anybody’s going to talk about.  Impact of Viral and Bacterial Infection Burden on Long-Term Prognosis in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease, published in Circulation.  All are associated with the future risk of cardiovascular death.  So maybe oxidative medicine should be part of your approach to patients.  But you better know how you’re going to express yourself.

Prospective Study of Pathogen Burden in the Risk of Myocardial Infarction or Death, Circulation 2001.  Increasing pathogen burden was significantly associated with increasing risk of MI or death.  Maybe we can lower pathogen burden.  Now I have obviously found ways to do that orally and it’s explained on my website with my chronic infection protocol where I’ve done a lot of magic.  But nothing is going to touch what you can do when you have UBV and ozone and learn all of oxidative and how to use high-dose C, and these are the tools.  Greater pathogen burden, but not even an elevated C still increases it.  So you can’t rely on a c-reactive.  If you read everything, which is what I do because I live in the courtroom and I have to defend you guys, you need to know that what you get from here, antecubital has little to do with what you take out of the LAD the morning you do the guy’s bypass.  Because when you have his chest open, because he’s there cause he’s hurting like hell, and you drew the antecubital as he entered the operating room, and now you got the chest exposed and you draw the blood right out of the LAD before you take it out.  It’s only 10 times higher folks, just 10 times higher on c-reactive and fibrinogen.  Read this and understand that obviously that’s why a tiny perturbation in the distal blood flow is significant for the area of concern, which could be fibromyalgia, where the infection is so active that that part of the muscle in that patient is getting no perfusion and no toxin removal.  Or a part of a brain that’s not working.

And infections tend to walk themselves off.  That’s why TB stays where it does.  That’s why you’re going to have to learn a lot about this.  And that’s why you’re going to learn: how are you going to thin blood?  And that’s where the nattokinase and the experience of Wobenzym and these kinds of things can change your ability to treat these diseases.  And when you understand that when you pull iron away, 30% of patients aren’t diabetic anymore.  And infections hardly will grow, in fact when the idiot doctors in neonatal medicine used to give, they said gee the baby weighs 2 pounds, we’ve gotta do something.  Always do something, you know that way they can kill.  These kids are so anemic we’ll give them a shot of iron.  And the kids started dying left and right.  It became clear that iron feeds infections, so there’s a lot to think about.  I’m telling you these things are complicated and you don’t want to jump to conclusions, but you need to realize these are not simple.  But pathogen burden and what can you do to keep it down, because you can have a normal c-reactive and do a complete blood clotting panel today and come down with a serious infection tomorrow and the numbers change in 24 hours, and now the patient is ready to die.  That’s why it’s useful to have something at home that works, and when you read my website you’ll see that the President of the American Heart Association says aspirin gets one of the three pathways.  Two-thirds of the patients are still going to drop dead.  He says the same thing about all existing anti-coagulants.  Read the literature so you can give your patients an adequate informed consent. 

If you stop aspirin, which I do on every patient – why?  Because the benefit-risk ratio is lousy.  When you interrupt cyclooxygenase enzyme what are you doing to the production of prostacyclin on the patient’s arteries and why was that particular enzyme so important?  Cytomegalic, seral positive activity and c-reactive have independent and combined predictive value.  Impact of viral and bacterial infections burden on long-term prognosis.  Patients with coronary artery disease.  Infections, inflammation, the risk of coronary heart disease.  Antibody levels to these things are all higher in cases than in control.  It goes on and on and on.  It’s not hard to find.  My friend Joe Mercola, we differ on some things.  I’m going to differ with even people on the Board.  We’re all allowed to have opinions, as Bob Brolin said when he introduced me, he says Dr. Gordon can sometimes be up there a little bit.  Well, I’ll never be in complete agreement with everybody, but I read different things than you read.  And that’s why we all come together. 

So the thing is, this article, Amoxycillin and Azithromycin and what happened.  When you read these studies you’ll find out that at the end of the year when you stop the Azithromycin, the chlamydia comes right back.  So why spend a year being on Azithromycin?  But yet I can’t condemn the guys.  At least they didn’t split his chest open.  Aren’t you lucky that there’s a couple cardiologists that are intelligent enough to treat angina with antibiotics?  But you guys are going to be at the next level.  Understanding the antibiotics aren’t going to do diddly.  You have to treat the whole patient.  I spent 13 years never using antibiotics, and that’s my protocol.  And I can try to teach it to you with transfer factor and immunity and things that I’ve developed, and it’s on my website.  I developed a vitamin C that you can take in huge quantities with no diarrhea.  So I have my approach to not using the antibiotics, but whatever works.  He was treating patients with rheumatoid.  I just took a natural anti-inflammatory where our antibiotic was the oil or oregano, which is what we use in the FYI product.  I have natural things and nothing will grow on a plate with oil or oregano and garlic, hardly anything will grow, so you have your alternatives.  You might scare people with that much garlic on your breath, but there’ll be no vampires in your house.

And so I take my garlic every day and that’s what I added to the EDTA.  With the vitamin C that I’ve been working with, and you’ll be hearing more about this, we have found that we can markedly enhance the uptake by using that bioperine, which enhances uptake of nutrients by about 30%. Well we’re finding that bioperine in the presence of ribose, and take the average heart attack patient and if you give him ribose, it is just uniquely taken up in a different pathway to the heart.  So patients post-surgical given ribose will be back to full recovery in half the time.  So we put that in with this stuff, and we found a way to make vitamin C, pretty sophisticated.  And we also found a way, a lot of people are going to say, oh, it’s gotta be beet.  Well maybe there were some active factors in beet and we identified those and put it in, because beet wasn’t easily available, and when the supply is not reliable we chose to do another thing.  But what we got into then also involved adding a special form of a sulfur to the pathway and then we also told you very simply put the sodium, which some people want to attack and say why did you use sodium?  Well it’s very clear that there are some particular steps where the transport is entirely sodium dependent and is specific for ascorbate.  So we have our preferences, others will have others.

This is the book that empowered me by using the American Heart Association book.   Costs you $120.00.  I keep getting my copy stolen so I keep buying them.  The Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque.  On page 437, it says the aspirin interference with only one of the three pathways, and anti-coagulant agents interfere only partially.  So you’ve got solid documentation when you tell a patient that what you’re on may not be the most effective approach that we could come up with because as doctors in alternative medicine, we can study the fatty acids and prove that pentoic acid is more active than aspirin alone in any study.  By the time you cheat and throw in other things like gingko and garlic and oral EDTA, and then Lester Morrison’s sulfated polysaccharide, you’d think that I might bleed to death cause I’ve got so many things working.  But the nice thing is all of these are gently perturbing the whole bleeding and clotting cascade and I never lose any blood on anything even if I get wiped out at high speed.  But of course that was the trick, that the Wobenzym people when they sell a million tablets at a time to the Olympic teams of Russia, Germany and Austria, because they don’t turn black and blue because the iron chelator’s in there.  So you just have to remember all these tricks.  Iron chelation is a good trick.

Natto is a food.  If you can eat this you’re made out of better stuff than I am.  This is fermented tofu, and it has been eaten for 1,000 years and in Japan where I teach all the time, I live in Japan maybe 3 weeks out of the year, I go to any restaurant, there’s only 100,000 restaurant Tokyo.  I won’t walk down the street where I can smell the stuff because I won’t be able to eat for the next 5 hours.  It makes my appetite go away.  So you think sweaty socks are bad.  This was discovered 18 years ago, fermented by bacillus natto during fermentation and it acts as plasmin, whereas with the oral EDTA/sulfated polysaccharide I was working as heparin, so I’m getting both sides of a complicated issue.  Thrombosis is a disease caused by thrombi formation within blood vessels.  It leads to complications like heart disease, infarction, senile dementia, diabetes is caused by pancreatic defect.  Deep vein thrombosis after surgery.  You can’t believe how many people are getting clots and nobody puts them on any kind of protection after surgery.

Nattokinase is more important and more potent and much more economically feasible than any current thrombolytic agent including urokinase.  It’s a two-prong attack, it dissolves fibrin, it can be used intravenously but it’s very effective taken orally.  Costs people about 14 cents at the doctor, closely resembles the property of the endogenous fibrinolytic agent plasmin.  We actually do sell plasmin, but it takes a ton of earthworm to get a kilogram of plasmin.  And we sell that because it’s been used for a thousand years in China.  And guess in Chinese medicine what the indication was for using plasmin, which is earth worm?  It was for blood stagnation.  Isn’t that amazing.  Eastern and Western medicine coming full circle.  So plasmin is actually sold in China, but it’s 66 cents a capsule and you need about 6 a day, at the doctor’s price.  That product has been shown on about 100,000 Chinese given post stroke, if we give them this, amazingly enough a whole number of these patients get out of a wheelchair even if it’s been 6 months since they had the stroke.  So there’s a lot to it and if you really go to every meeting on this stuff you’ll understand that infections, as you all heard in your lifetime that maybe cancers often try to hide a little from the immune system and maybe part of it is a fibrin coat, infections have reached the same accommodation and it’s all explained in the book, by Paul Ewald that you’re going to have to read.  That book explains how we agree to let the bugs live with us as long as they don’t kill us.  And the best trick we were able to work out is a wall between us and the bug and the infection.  And that little wall is fibrin. 

So if you were an athlete and you really wanted to win a race.  I was putting on an ACAM conference years ago and some guy in the front row got up and he said, doc you know I’m a Vet up in Canada, and I’m the top racehorse Vet in all of Canada.  And guess how I treat racehorses?  We give them intravenous chelation for several days before we have them run races.  Well, there’s a lot behind that story.  It was the use of EDTA that allowed, I repeat, on the 8^th chelation I went out water skiing that weekend, and usually one time around the lake I was shot.  Five times around the lake I wasn’t even getting tired.  Something caused ATP production to go way up.  I sit because heavy metals accumulate in the mitochondrial membrane?  What was it?  What changed me so dramatically that I could then run up a mountain for the first time in my life?  What was going on?  And then, feeling very good I go over with a buddy and we are studying ozone therapy in Germany, and I take auto major ozone.  And the next day, again, a similar effect.  And in fact the guy teaching us said, you know I’ve had to deal with my patients, I have any patient who thinks they’re getting a stroke, call me and I will go by and make a house call and I will do intravenous ozone.  And he said I abort every one of the strokes and I haven’t had to put a patient in the hospital in over 10 years.  In a major practice in a big town.  So there’s a lot we don’t know.  If I feel pretty good does that mean I could feel 20% better tomorrow if I lowered my pathogen load?  These are interesting things to conjecture.  But the fibrin thing, when I did take a bunch of plasmin, I suddenly could do almost 20% more exercise the next day, suggesting that these infections that we all carry are impairing oxygen gradient across the delivery of capillaries and wherever that fibrin coat is going, there’s a lot to learn here, folks.  And it’s all fibrin and the coagulation cascade and TPA, and I don’t want to put you to sleep with big things like this, but I wanted to make it very clear that the fibrinogen which we all know is a risk factor, we do know that goes up whenever c-reactive goes up immediately with infection, but I told you it goes up where the infection is most active.  Fibrinogen is the late phase.   And then it goes that direction into thrombus.

But here you have this other pathway that we can use to prevent that thrombus and help break it into fibrin degradation products, and those FDP’s are what is a hot story in medicine today because it is clearly interfering with the functional delivery of nutrients and oxygen to your cells.

Then you get into the whole story of what goes on with insulin resistant in all these patients with these metabolic disorders, the Type II diabetes, all of these patients have set the stage for a form of coagulation defect.  And so they’re all waiting to have their big heart attack and stroke.  But meanwhile, they’re operating at a low level because they have impaired fibrinolysis and that goes through the p-1 pathway.  So the difficult thing is going to become, which patient needs what therapy, how are we going to monitor it, how are we going to be sure.  And I’ve given you a couple of hints here.

Review of disorders that might be prevented with nattokinase: angina, several apoplexy’s, senility, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, deep vein thrombosis, arterial embolism.  So this new metacarbolic, biological enzyme with potent fibrinolytic activity rivals the pharmaceutical agents.  It’s been around for 2,000 years now.  And so it’s a great story.  We’ve done about $1 million of studies on it and it seems to be 100% safe.  We found no evidence of lack of safety.  And so here you have something that’s backed by research that shows that it would work in stroke, angina, venous stasis, thrombosis emboli, atherosclerosis, fibromyalgia, fatigue, claudication, retinal pathology.  So you say, wow, even works in endometriosis.  We all understand that a picture’s worth a thousand words.  Your patients can’t quite comprehend.  Do you mean that cold I had 2 years ago, that flu, you mean some of those guys are still in my system?  Because we all have a basement and an attic and we accumulate junk in the basement or the attic or garage.  Well this is the basement or the attic for your patient, and it’s plaque and it’s devitalized area and that becomes the home, but that home then has got that accommodation.  And so then you can get into all the tests and I’ve done a lot of these tests.  And you’re going to say, well, you know the anti-oxidized LDL antibody, only Vizjoni does that.  Interestingly enough, my brother’s test was the worst out of 1,000 people but he didn’t know what it meant so he threw the test in the wastebasket.  It was unfortunate, because he was dead two weeks later.  And I’d asked him to get this panel done, but he wasn’t into molecular and he couldn’t quite follow it.

But I think these tests are terribly active and so now I picture myself as being a molecular cardiologist and I like these kinds of tests.  Because then it gives you a place to go.  But whether you use the coagulation panels, it turns out that all of us have a kind of fox hole mentality.  We all think it’s the guy sitting next to us that’s going to have the heart attack.  And it’s never Mr. Patient who’s sitting in front of you, so the tests are useful because they can help us motivate patients, and whether it’s homocysteine, which all of you have some idea but you’d like to keep that down to 6 and 7.  And a lot of people can’t get it there unless you learn about trimethylglycine.  And so I put the trimethylglycine into the vitamin C product because there was no other place to add it.  And that’s another methylating agent.  And so looking at all the risk factors that I want to deal with, and we also know that if you do a homocysteine test, 27% of the time the patient really has a defect, but because you didn’t do a methionine load you didn’t see the defect.  So you need to understand the limitations of tests.  That’s part of my job, having been the director of Mineral Lab and having taught hair mineral testing around the world, how accurate it is, what is it’s limitation, and what are the limitations of provocative testing, and how are you sure what anybody’s got about anything?

And then we know that we’ve talked about arterial wall flexibility and arterial wall stiffness and ventricular wall stiffness, and we are convinced that my neighbor from Madison, Wisconsin, Johan Bjergsten, the world’s expert on cross linkages and things like aluminum, was taking chelation preventatively because he understood that if he used an electrical field and EDTA, he could even reverse the cross linkages, and so since I’m very deeply into anti-aging and I go to all the meetings of the American Aging Association where we have the scientists doing work at the National Institute of Aging, I think there’s a tremendous interest in what these things are doing and I just wanted to mention to you because you may not have recognized pulse pressure is a major predictor of difficulties for your patient and there’s another article that’s been published on it.  The Hemex story, David Berg did a big contribution for ACAM doctors.  I helped get him there to speak and other places, and he did a good job.  He’s even spoken at IOMA.  And he taught us that chronic fatigue and patients with recurrent TIA’s and irritable bowel and Lyme disease and infertility have a high propensity for failing some of the tests.  The issue will become what’s an adequate test?  Are we going to put everybody through $3,000 of the test, because when I have you buy the textbook and if I have you go to the website of Thrombocare.com with Dr. Bick who gave us all those slides that we went over when I told you the name of all the diseases that we’re carrying in all of us.  We’ve genetically self selected, and I said 70% of people with a stroke or a heart attack have some defect.  So there’s a lot to the story, but what David did for us I think is he brought to our attention the possibility that if we lower the infection load, that you’re going  to need far less medicine to deal with the genetic contribution to the coagulation defect.  And if you can keep that load down, part of my concept is I would love to have patients stay under long-term management whereby once a month they actually have gotten 30 5-minute IV pushes.  They came into your office once a month for life.  There’s a lot of advantage to that.  By seeing the patient monthly, first of all, somebody sees them and that changes behavior.  Because they know they’re going to see the nurse and they’re likely to take their weight and do a blood pressure, and so there’s a certain amount of change in patient behavior.

Patient compliance is part of your management problem.  If you’re going to keep people alive they have to see something.  And people like the idea of having chelation as a painless process, and the calcium EDTA is extremely well tolerated.  And they love the idea that they’re getting the benefit of a therapy at 10 cents apiece.  And I tape everything.  For $70 at Radio Shack you get a device, that I don’t talk to a patient on the phone but what both sides of the conversation are recorded.  So you know if the patient dies that the attorney will be playing the tape, so you learn how to express yourself giving hope, not implying promises.  So our problem then is how to communicate adequately to our patients and when you use the words that we’ll get into here like physician-supervised detoxification, chelators I mentioned already.  Consuming natural chelators can produce dramatic benefits.  And garlic is a major one.  We are convinced that garlic will take the mercury out of the child’s brain.  We don’t think we have to use drugs to get the benefits.  And lowering unhealthy levels of toxic metals from the environment, and lowering lead which increases IQ, etc. 

So oral EDTA when it’s thought of as being 4 molecules of acetic acid it doesn’t seem quite so mysterious.  And tying nitric oxide to the story really helps.  The Scientific American, this was a great article, this was about May of this year.  It’s a great article saying yes to nitric oxide.  Because what they’re saying is the patent office is being inundated by patent applications by Duke University, and there’s only 32,000 papers on nitric oxide, so we’re still learning about it but we think we understand a little bit.  It was extremely exciting to find that one of the things they found is that nitric oxide alters the stoichiometric ability of hemoglobin to deliver oxygen to tissue, cause you know it has to go through an actual molecular current, change in its molecular structure when it gets in the low oxygen environment and that’s when it will drop 40% more efficiently and deliver the oxygen.  That much more in the presence of nitric oxide.  So there’s lots to explain some of the benefits we see.

Timeline of chelation:  don’t have to explain.  But the nanobacteria story came in and that one, it’s the rectal suppositories I feel are on very shaky ground and other friends of mine agree with me that there’s not enough data to suggest that we need to use a rectal suppository because that’s the same skin that you have at the mouth, and if you look at Compazine, aspirin suppositories, the level that you give by suppository or oral is the exact same dose.  The data about enhanced absorption is extremely shaky and we think that patients are being defrauded unless they have a weak stomach, when I started taking oral EDTA as a powder I did get real good loose bowels, a real detoxification even at a quarter teaspoon, and there’s about 3 grams of EDTA in a teaspoon.  So 750 mg was a pretty good shot because I only put 133 mg of EDTA in a capsule, when I combine it with malic acid and the organic garlic and the DL-methionine and all the good stuff that I have put in what I call the oral chelator, Essential Daily Defense.  So the nanobacteria people, fine, let them use antibiotics.  It’s fine.  There’s a lot of cardiologists who now are not operating on people.  But we would like to think further.  We want to think this thing through carefully.

I’ve shown you today that it’s total pathogen burden.  And do we think that nanobacteria because they admit it responds easily to tetracycline, they just say that you can’t get through the calcium shell and that they need this miraculous high blood level of EDTA, which is on, again, very shaky ground.  So the true story will still unfold.  But when I get into some more slides like this one, you’re going to say, wait a minute.  I, Dr. Gordon, have lectured for 30 years about bone loss and arteriosclerosis.  I’ve been the first person to tie it together.  If your bones are disappearing, where’s the calcium going?  What leaves the bones is becoming possibly part of your metastatic load.  Now, we saw today Dr. Hesselink show us some interesting slides.  And his last one I told him deserves a 2-hour workshop, when he got into the genomes?  And when he threw up that thing about metadione and vitamin A, I thought this is really interesting.  He’s showing it as antibacterial.  And I’m showing it to you here as a treatment that is clearly enhancing bone density and preventing pathologic calcification of arteries and it might be because it’s doing it from the genome antibacterial, just to stimulate your imagination.

Anyhow, there’s several references from Lancet another thing about vitamin K.  Lots to learn.  So we’re not going to throw out the baby with the bath water.  IV sodium EDTA has helped a million people.  You never stop when you’re ahead by a million people.  But how are we going to add it to a practice when there’s already 30 chairs filled with people sitting there 3 hours, and some people come in and they leave and the other patients say, how come he got to leave so fast?  And so you’re stating, well we are looking at the possibility that a significant part of the benefit of chelation can be given to broader classifications of patients, including autistic and hyperactive, patients who really want to live longer and patients who are chronically fatigued, because we’re beginning to be convinced at this medical office where you are sitting that all of us would fare better if we could get rid of a lot of our toxic metals, and that patient is merely being treated for that and if you want to switch over and try some of these treatments you’re welcome to do so.  But I as your doctor, if you’re very worried about heart disease, are going to be sure that I give you an anti-inflammatory and an anti-thrombotic and I’m going to keep you on oral chelation so that we never lose the benefit that you’ve had till now.  I suggest that with the two videotapes that I’ve produced for Dr. Shelton for the public, which are available from the company, and the tapes from 3 weeks ago of 12 hours, by playing these tapes which you can do your own self with you being the key doctor or lending to your patients, that anybody can double their practice over night by becoming the local office in interest in metal detoxification, and USA Today just doubled all your practices with the article published yesterday.  Everybody will read it. 

The nanobacteria story.  It’s a great story and it’s going to be a good controversy and Dr. Cranton has taken the position that it’s not real and I’m taking the position that it might fall a little bit into the area of infections, cell wall deficient, all kinds of infections that we don’t fully understand yet.  I will try to have Etta Jenson who’s been working with Mike Sheehan up in Santa Rosa, and she spent many, many years at McGill as a microbiologist, and she’s taken that dark field microscope and made what I feel since I have looked at it for over 20 years, I feel she’s got accurate representation of what we’re really seeing.

So Dr. Cranton will have a website which tells everybody, don’t listen to Dr. Gordon, you’re going to be in very bad shape.  And nanobacteria don’t work.  But the new thing is physician-supervised elective heavy metal detoxification.  That is my goal, to help any doctor that wants to learn other uses for chelation.  This is a full-time effort for me and that’s why we have chosen to  make this conference available in April.  We’re going to try to get much more deeply into this and I’m going to go rapidly because time will be disappearing.

I’m going to hand this out at ACAM.  You’ve not been taught the truth about chelation.  The good news is while most that you have been taught about chelation is wrong, it’s not too late to learn the facts.  Change your thinking, triple your practice.  You can now ethically afford affordable, painless, convenient chelation to anyone in your sphere of influence.  This is not the end of chelation, it’s only the beginning.  Don’t miss the boat.  A detoxification practice is what everybody in your town is looking for and IV calcium EDTA is a good way to have a highly compliant patient population, and if they come into your office every month they probably won’t drift off to GNC and get lousy supplements that allow them to die, and you might be able to keep control and see to it that they get products that you have looked into that actually work.

Guarantee yourself good practice.  Stay in touch.  On my website there is a search feature that allows you to put in any word from cancer to informed consent and see what I’ve had to say about it, and if you contact me by e-mail I will have you join, we have over 100 doctors on my e-mail discussion group which is only to invited doctors, so you can compare notes. But that way you can converse back and forth.  So if you e-mail me we’ll add you to the thing.  We will send you an e-mail saying do you definitely want to be joined, if you want off, just let us know.

So anyhow I’ll be teaching with Ising on March 13^th, we’re going to have an exciting program and Isham and I think by having Bruzinski there, and I expect probably be able to have Roger Bick teaching this, a lot about thrombosis, there’ll be a lot of things happening. 

Anyway, the rapid push, we get into that.  I just want you to understand that when you put something in the vein, if it’s DMPS or whatever it is, some of it, even EDTA, is going to go into the gut.  Goes through the liver and now it’s got a toxic metal associated with it.  When it’s in the gut, you are an idiot if you don’t keep in the gut something to prevent enteropathic re-uptake, because you’ve just moved the mercury around in the patient.  Please, don’t chelate anybody without concurrent use of an oral chelator.  You can choose your pick.  I don’t care.  Vitamin C is a weak chelator,  there’s lots of things, but let’s give the patient the benefit.  You are moving toxic metals around.  And if you understand that’s what’s useful, then in a sense I could give you, if I was writing the exam question right now, and you are all doing good thinking, I’d say, could you justify my swallowing oral EDTA every day if instead of being 5-18% absorbed it was zero absorbed.  Could you justify it?  If you can’t I’ll fail you on the test.  Because EDTA is going to prevent the oxidation of bile and it’s oxidized bile that is carcinogenic.  EDTA is going to keep the mercury that’s in the fish I eat in my gut because it has a high affinity, you’ve got to learn the facts.  You’ve got to  learn that everything you think you know is just about 180° off sync.  But we’ll cover that at another time.

The thing is, now that I’ve spent the time to make it a solid thing, there are some very money-hungry people who are sending out a 10-page glossy saying Gordon is wrong, it should be magnesium EDTA.  Well there’s only one detail.  There isn’t any source of approved magnesium EDTA and their pill looks like it’s plain fraudulent.  So that’s going to be something that you need to know about, because your patient will say, well you told me oral chelation is good.  I got this glossy from this company, 10 pages with lots of the pretty pictures I’ve just shown you, and 2 doctors, one the son of the other, and they don’t seem to be licensed, but they’re swearing it works.  So anyhow, there’s a lot of concern about who’s going to jump on this and how much fraud is going to come, because obviously there’s going to be chelators, I tell everybody I prefer an oral chelator that is a broad spectrum chelator on everybody, so that I’m dealing with the iron and the nickel and the arsenic and the mercury and the lead, not just to jump to what the patients, the minute they hear that you’ll give them a prescription, they’ll say, that’s all I want.  I don’t want anything else.  Well, I can tell you this.  I have had Dr. Terry Chapel tell me that at ISON we’ve had a few doctors state that their patients did get a little suggestion of trace element depletion.  I said, that’s interesting.  We only sell thousands and thousands of bottles of Beyond Chelation around the world.  We’ve never seen it.  Is it possible that since I had 30 years in the field of trace element research that when I put together a multiple it works?  And other people don’t know what they’re doing.  I said, I’ve never encountered a trace element deficiency in anybody that’s on a broad enough spectrum.  But I cheat.  I put in all the trace elements of the Great Salt Lake.  I don’t leave anything out.  But in any event, it is going to be a lot of nonsense and so you’re going to have to help your patients so they don’t get defrauded and get into junk.  And magnesium EDTA is not the answer.

This is the kind of stuff you want to see.  You want to see a patient have lead off the chart, you want to see a patient have mercury off the chart.  You want to see mercury off the chart and you don’t care if it’s urine or if it’s coming in feces.  You don’t care.  You want everything coming off the chart.  These patients will love you and will stay with you.  And you don’t give up if the patient’s worked for 20 years in a dental office and nothing comes out.  You don’t say, ‘means you don’t have mercury.’  You say, ‘there’s something else going on that’s controlling your body’s ability to release the mercury.  Maybe you first have to release stuff that’s only going to be seen in the feces,’ because in every case we’ve always known that the more mercury came the longer you stayed with it.  But there’s more to learn about all of these things.

In any event, this is a quick overview of some approaches that Gary Osborne was using when he first jumped into this.  And I’m going to show you.  He said, we’ve developed over the past 3 years a progressive heavy metal detox protocol.  But he said this is going to change, and change, and it’s going to change weekly.  So don’t bite into one thing or the other.  Start with a supra IV, mercury levels are higher on day 3, etc., etc., and he’s got lots of stuff.  And you’ve got it in your slides.  It’s critical there’s some DMPS he wants, and then he wants to use the calcium EDTA by mouth in addition to that.  I’m not using the calcium EDTA, I’m using the broader spectrum.  Essential Daily Defense because of the malic acid and the garlic; I have a far broader protection for the patient than merely EDTA.  Then he’s getting into some stuff, a concentration he’s made with Celtic salt and potassium chloride, magnesium chloride; he’s using all kinds of different things.  And then they do a nice job, and this might be because you know what, Nicholas Gonzales, who’s treating pancreatic cancer so effectively:  he took the time to work with William Donald Kelly, who I spent my week with and I didn’t come out as favorably influenced as Nick Gonzales was.  He stayed with it and he’s now about 43% 5-year survival in pancreatic carcinoma, versus about 1% for people at Sloan-Kettering.  So he’s doing something correct, and of course he will tell you that he couldn’t do it without pancreas supplements, which is nice of him to say Wobenzym works.  But what he’s doing is he’s altering the program based on what whether he thinks they’re slow or fast oxidizers.  I vary the program based on the genetics, because if they’re apo E-4 they cannot safely plan to be a vegetarian their whole life because it will perturb insulin metabolism too much unless they’re an expert at glycemic indexes, and this is all in the literature.

I also do a lot of work on blood grouping, because the second book, not the first one, but the second book by Wiseberg, The Answers in Your Blood, when you get that book.  With 5,000 dead charts in a Miami hospital of blood group A’s, average died 25 years younger than the blood group O’s.  Move to Japan, blood group A’s are the longest-lived people on the face of the earth.  There’s nothing wrong with being blood group A, just match your blood group to what should be your lectin-lectin interactions.  You get off the dairy, excess beef and wheat if you’re A.  In any event, you have to know a lot.  And there’s a lot to learn.

But metabolic typing that he’s doing has been useful, and so they were doing at Apothecure.  There’s a lot of things that they’re interested in putting in some of these bottles.  And there’s got different panels, and different challenges.  And he uses Doctors Data and Great Smokies and comprehensive liver detox and heavy metal challenge.  He puts in some sodium ascorbate and magnesium and DMPS in the IV and the dextrose and the EDTA and lactate.  Everybody’s going to work out a different way.  But what I contributed to it was so rewarding to me when a doctor right in my state of Arizona, says Dr. Gordon, you’ve changed my life.  He says, I’m now able to take people who couldn’t afford ever and for a lousy $3.66 if I’m giving 2 grams, which is a fairly standard dose for a 110-pound person, or 3 grams for $4-5.00.  He says, I’m able to just eat the cost of it and not have to charge somebody a lot of money, and he said, I took a patient that was inoperable, far advanced congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, unable to walk.  On the tenth time the patient was in, I had given him some oxidative ozone sauna and the 3-minute push, and by the tenth treatment the patient is jogging.  He says, Dr. Gordon, you’ve made us all want to come to work. 

So it’s fun to get that kind of feedback.  And so that’s kind of where I’m at.  We don’t need somebody to tie it down.  I wrote the last protocol and I’m regretting it like crazy.  Because I’m putting all my life into trying to pull the last protocol back and to change the thinking of all the people who thought they got it straight the first time.  And so we now know that there’s a lot of things that you can put in.  And whether you use DMPS and you’re going to do it IV or taurine or you’re going to do lipoic acid, all of us are going to experiment.  And we’re all going to come back with things.  And Dr. Shelton’s the only one who experimented with something, did 49 patients and published it, and it’s on my website.

So this is one person’s approach to it and that was interesting.  What I think Gary Osborne did for all of us is he was methodical in forcing every patient to do urine and feces.  It’s hard to get feces, 24 to 36 hours after the IV.  It wasn’t a simple process and some of them resented paying for it and it’s messy, etc.  But he learned what none of us would have known.  Because it was in my literature but I hadn’t paid enough attention to it, that fecal losses of heavy metals may be the primary place that some metals for various reasons are appearing.  And so the homotoxicology one by Bruce Shelton which I told you was presented at our conference three weeks ago, 49 patients, and he explains to you that cadmium levels continue to increase – anyhow, he’s go the 49 patients and he’s to be giving a further report on that, probably at the April meeting, because this is a very interesting paper, absolutely showing that when you go beyond just the IV push; which Julian Whittaker did 15 patients.  Saw no mercury, he did see a lot of heavy metals.  But what’s the heavy metal of concern today?  Everybody’s really focused on mercury and we need affordability.  As I repeat to you, for merely getting it out of the child’s brain, I have the 2-year old children on the Indian Reservation, we open my capsule and we put it in applesauce.  And it’s costing them about 10 cents a pill.  Anyhow, this is the homotoxicology.  The newly introduced calcium EDTA chelates mercury and lead as well as the other metals.  Still it absolutely proves that a protocol with the supplements under observation, which I developed, removes both of these metals.

And so basically homotoxicology serves as a bridge.  When you learn, and I have used Heal products for years, I’ve been to all the meetings in Germany, Heal is owned by the Coit family and they’re the same family that owned Porsche and BMW.  Their company, Heal, is in 40 countries.  They just had 450 attendees at their expense in Baden Baden two weeks ago.  And they have protocols that allow you to treat virtually every disease.

Now in this country you can only get about 1/3 of their products.  But if you need the other 2/3, you simply write to Wal-Mart in Stuttgart and they send it to you.

Then he talks about some of the Heal remedies that he used, which I have a lot of familiarity with because I used all of these.  Because they have protocols that allow you to say to any patient, yes, I believe I have something for your ALS and your MS and your carcinoma of the thyroid or whatever.  And this is the results of some of the things that he did.  And again, it’s on the website.  And it explains that he used the Longevity Plus Beyond Chelation vitamin pack daily, etc.

Now, endothelial function is the key thing that we’re talking about.  Alterations in endothelial function result in impaired release of NO.  And that alone is a tiny part of the story.  When you read the book by Dr. Bick, which is only about $250, the textbook on thrombosis and hemostasis.  There are so many functions of the endothelium, it will boggle your mind that we didn’t think of it.  Endothelium: after all you have a quarter of a million miles of vessels in your body, and if we think that even the veins and the lymphatic channels all have endothelial cells.  If I took every endothelial cell out of your body, it weighs nearly 2 kg, making it one of the largest organs in your body.  And so when I teach to treat endothelial dysfunction, I’m moving you into the medicine of tomorrow.

And the endothelium, as I said, is subject to all of these changes and these infections.  And this is some of the literature, but this is just the 500 references that I took the time to type and put on my website.  And so all of you have heard me say that Blumer’s giving tens of thousand of the EDTA.  Dr. Inescu is using the short push also in his practice in Europe and he will cover that when he’s over here.  I believe he is using a fully reacted magnesium EDTA that I do not have in this country, and because I don’t want to make any more waves having spent 30 years fighting with the FDA and FTC, I think since I can do a huge amount of good for patients with what is legally available to us, and compounding pharmacists have won their fight all the way to the Supreme Court, I’m comfortable having you learn how to use calcium EDTA.  That’s not to say that that’s the end-all and be-all.  Clearly, I hope that we all continue to evolve and we learn better and better tricks to do.  But we’re letting you know that this is what they did do in Europe, and the only part of your informed consent that’s really relevant is to say to the patients that in this country the doctors routinely gave it as a slower drip, and in Europe for some reason, they commonly did it as a push.  And so you have to use a little judgement.  It it’s a little 80-pound lady, do you really want to put it in in one minute or would it be okay to take 5 minutes?

The point is this:  it should be painless.  You should use some judgement.  But I have a lot of patients say, I don’t feel a thing doc, get it in now I want to get going, 30 seconds, you know, let me get out of here.  So that’s the story about this.

On my website, provocative testing, read it.  It tells you what you should say to the patient.  Human hair:  I’m a world expert on that and it will give you some incredible information.  This is very powerful, showing the limitations of ICP in routine hair analysis.  By detection limits, it is evident that there’s published reference material have to be used with caution.  Well that’s true.  There’s been a lot of bad information, I can assure you.  But this is back all the way in 1998, Mount Catholic University is now coming along, publishing in 2001, elemental anomalies in hair as indicators of endocrine pathologies and deficiencies in calcium and bone metabolism.  Folks, this is stuff you’ve never seen.  You didn’t have any idea that if you have a reproducible laboratory, these are numbers that I always said were soft.  We didn’t tie the calcium into great significance.  Now the explanation is coming.

Relationship of lead to cadmium, essential elements in hair, teeth, etc., of environmentally exposed people, so you need to know that you have people that will state that you can use these.  However, they said here, in a disease like ALS, we don’t think we’re seeing anything.  But they didn’t happen to measure mercury.  And we’ve seen, with Gary Osborne, that the ALS patients, it actually seemed to be that they have the biggest sensitivity to it and it seems to be the mercury that’s tied at the DNA level.  So that’s the stuff you get out.  If you look at DMPS, it kind of stops working after the 5^th and 6^th, then EDTA will kick in and do a tremendous amount for the next 15-20 then it stops working, then you have to get into homeopathy.  Because you’re now you’re trying to get down to the last stability constant and help the body kick that stuff out.  When you finally get the last molecules of mercury out, a lot of these patients no longer needed to be kept on heparin.  That’s interesting.  That meant that the mercury was depressing the immune system enough that when you could get that immune system up you could hold the total pathogen burden at bay, and you now no longer needed the patient’s maintained on heparin.

It seems that Mathias Rath is telling everybody if you take enough  proline and lysine, that you can inhibit collagenase and that that way, along with your high dose of vitamin C, you are not going to get cancer.  So the collagenase inhibition is a good story.  So you can read the collagenases are cleaved, etc., etc., and inhibited by EDTA.  And it even shows you that you inhibit it with citrate and EDTA, but inhibition appears to be due to masking rather than to removal.  People that take Beyond Chelation, for some reason they tell me within two days, and you know they haven’t gotten rid of anything.  But you mask the negative effect when you give those free metals a temporary date or partner for the evening, even if it was only some garlic, some malic acid, some EDTA.  Just something to think about, because that’s what this is saying.

So you are sold, that the only way you win the fight is to get all that stuff out of my bone, and I’m telling you, forget it.  You can’t get it all out of my bones.  Whatever wants to come out of my bone immediately gets picked up, and the next result is it doesn’t go back to my brain.  So the possibility of treating lead poisoning by oral EDTA; 1 gram is associated with an increase of urinated lead went from 99 to 323.  I’m taking nearly 5 and 6 grams of oral EDTA a day on top of all the garlic and malic acid and all the other stuff I’m doing.  EDTA localization test:  With 4 grams, and this is again oral, 10-15% of oral is absorbed.  Non-exposed individuals excrete 10 times the amount of lead.  Two grams is recommended if anybody shows incipient intoxication; well who has incipient intoxication based on today’s talk?  100% of the people that you see and associate with and are in your family have incipient intoxication.  Particulate-exposed lead workers, again, it works.  This is a JAMA article.

Dr. David Perlmutter gave the talk that was the Clinician Award of the Year back in March in Florida.  That talk brought tears to my eyes, I bought the tape and I’ve given that talk with his permission to a couple of groups.  I can tell you that he has the goods on Ritalin company and if you take their own package insert and their own promotional materials, you can find them guilty of fraud.  And just combine what they say compared to what’s published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet and JAMA, and they are lying to everybody and I don’t know how they get away with it.  Another one of my subspecialties is to get everybody off that.

Lead poisoning, detoxification, that’s where we’re taking you.  If you happen to go to an ICON meeting and you happen to go to a training course, some of the stuff you have to learn, Michael Godfrey’s doing lots of stuff.  I don’t want to overwhelm you.  You don’t have to know everything to help people with simple things, but you need to have back-up people, Doctors Data, I’m available to you when you get stuck with something, you say I’ve never run into uranium before or whatever, we’ll try to provide you with answers.  But you need to know there’s a lot to learn about what is the limitation, what’s coming out?  Is manganese important?  Is it not?  How much is safe to take in?  There’s a lot to learn about every one of these things. 

And so that led to the examinations and even when I gave a lecture, I gave 10 hours of teaching at ICON at the last meeting back in Grand Rapids, and in spite of that, we’re just starting to put the new information together that we’re covering.  The textbook, Metal Binding in Medicine by Marvin Seven, that’s when I first got into the field of chelation.  This book explains to you that it is far more than a simple compilation; this is all the top people in the world who first got together in a room after chelation had only been available for 10 years, now it’s what they said. 

The Scientific Basis of Chelation, this is one I already covered about heparin.  We even reverse hypothyroidism by simply getting rid of the lead poisoning.  Formation of mutagen in cooked foods and what the FDA has to say about this.  1% EDTA prior to cooking reduces the mutagencity of foods.  So you can actually, the addition of iron of course doubles the activity.  Calcium EDTA suppresses the production of TBA reactive, so it is the most powerful antioxidant we have.  That’s EDTA folks.  And in addition to that, it is also anti-thrombotic.  Oral EDTA is an effective antidote to a lethal action of cobalt, at the same time it will enhance absorption cobalt if you’re deficient on it as well as enhancing B-12.  In addition oral EDTA protects against intoxication with oral iron.  But at the same time,  if you are deficient in iron, oral EDTA iron complexes are agreed by the World Health Organization to be one of the safest ways of giving iron to children in Third World countries.  So I’ve just told you that EDTA is smarter than any of us had dreamed.  It seems to know when we need to take the iron out and when we need to deliver the iron, and the same with cobalt.

This is the toxicological profile by the people at the Food & Drug Administration.  It’s kind of nice to know what they say.  And they’ve suggested that this stuff is a lot safer than they even thought, and they continue to feel that it’s very safe.  And so then, EDTA not only combats depression of cholesterol in the liver but it actually treats cirrhosis and lowers portal hypertension.  And this is the article that I mentioned that nitroglycerin has been used for 130 years and they just found out that the reason it works is because of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase which transforms the nitroglycerine into nitric acid.  Give me another 50 years and we’ll able to tell you exactly what’s going on.  Right now we know enough to responsibility, ethically and scientifically offer EDTA to every patient.  Nonetheless, the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners wants the whole process stopped.  And the state of Wisconsin is attacking Dr. Kiddily, Dr. Bob Waters, and wants virtually to put them out of practice for the use of EDTA, which is part of the ongoing attack from the Federation of American Medical Licensing Boards which, unfortunately, ACAM I feel caved in too early and didn’t do what I would have suggested.