The Chelation Controversy: How to Safely Detoxify Your Body and Improve Your Health and Well-Being

Gregory Pouls, Maile Pouls

Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2005 - Health & Fitness - 60 pages

Safely Rid Your Body of Stored Chemicals and Heavy Metals

If you live in this modern world of ours, your body is being exposed to oxidizing chemicals and heavy metals such as aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, and lead on a daily basis. When your body starts accumulating toxins faster than it can eliminate them, it begins to store them in your tissues. These stored toxins initiate degenerative processes in your body that can lead to diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and arthritis.

Chelating agents--substances that latch on to and carry toxins out of the body--can help you free yourself of this destructive load. In The Chelation Controversy, Drs. Gregory and Maile Pouls discuss the use of chelating agents, including those taken orally and those given intravenously. The authors also familiarize you with some of the controversy surrounding chelation therapy.

In addition to a comprehensive guide to the "big six" heavy metals and a discussion on the harmful effects of oxidation, the authors cover the most common prescription IV and oral chelating agents. They also provide guidance on what to look for in an oral chelation formula and describe the nutritional substances and antioxidants that can support your detoxification efforts.

If your exposure to toxins is higher than average or if you simply want to preserve, maintain, support, and enhance your health, energy, and vitality in this toxic world, The Chelation Controversy provides the information you need

to put this therapy to work for you.

Contents

• 1 The Big Six Heavy Metals: 5
• 2 Free Radicals Oxidation and Antioxidants: 15
• 3 Chelation: 21
• 4 IV Oral Chelators and Supportive Nutrients: 33
• 5 Who Benefits?: 49
• Recommended Laboratories: 51
• Oral Chelation Formulas: 52
• AtHome Laboratory Studies: 54
• Notes: 55
• Index: 57
• About the Authors: 60

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About the author

"My main goal in life is to reach as many people as possible with scientifically valid information regarding how to use nutrition and alternative medicines safely and wisely. I want for all Americans to fully understand the benefits of becoming 'nutritionally sufficient' and to possess 'balanced body chemistry'. I want to create a comprehensive natural health program that assists people to 'get well and stay well'. As a doctor, I want to help people avoid the pitfalls and toxicity of disease-management health care. I want to teach people about how to take charge of their own heath with basic and advanced concepts of nutrition and wellness education. I want to serve people as an author and educator regarding disease prevention through nutrition and detoxification, awareness of chemical exposure and nutritional deficiencies as related to human health, awareness of personal environments, and as a resource for solution-oriented products. I have a tremendous amount of referenced literature about nutrition, health, human-made chemicals, and the environment. These are my passions." Dr. Gregory Pouls, DC, FICN

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Chelation Controversy: How to Safely Detoxify Your Body and Improve Your Health and Well-Being; Basic health guides; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Authors: Gregory Pouls, Maile Pouls
• Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2005
• ISBN: 1591200563, 9781591200567
• Length: 60 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies; Health & Fitness / Body Cleansing & Detoxification; Health & Fitness / General; Health & Fitness / Healing; Medical / Alternative & Complementary Medicine; Medical / Clinical Medicine; Medical / Toxicology