chelation therapy, oral detoxification for health

Chelation, Heavy Metals,Heart Disease, and Health:An Oral Detoxification ProgramThat Is Now Essential for OptimalHealth and Longevity - Part Oneby Garry F. Gordon MD, DO, MD (H)Introduction

At the recent OrthomolecularMedicine meeting in San Francisco,I mentioned to Dr. Jonathan Collinthe tremendous success I wasenjoying with our horses, usingan oral protocol called the OralDetoxification Program™ (ODP).My ODP protocol was dramaticallyimproving the horses' performancebeyond any expectations. Not longbefore, they had started competingin Grand Prix Jumping and had gonefrom being lame and tired and worthvery little to jumping as high as fivefeet, five inches and becoming starsof the horse show. We collected35 Blue Ribbons while competingagainst some 4500 top show-jumping horses at an annual GrandPrix Horse Show held in Thermal,California. The horses weresuddenly winning while competingagainst top jumpers, some of whichare worth millions; most had trainedrigorously for years. Our horseshad only been on the ODP protocolfor two to three months, and twohad been quite lame three monthsbefore the show began. I had noidea that our rather nice but ordinaryhorses would suddenly come to lifeas they clearly did. Today, in fact, we

now individualize their doses basedon their show schedules. GrandPrix horse shows are generallywon by the horse with the greatestendurance, so I "get their lead out."Today, many horses, like Barbaro,needlessly break legs. Until now,no one considers the level of leadand toxins in the bones of horses orhumans. I intend to change that.

I have studied chelation therapyextensively, and in years past,1 was director of a large TraceElement testing lab with offices inAmsterdam, Tokyo, and the SanFrancisco Bay area, testing lead,mercury, etc. in thousands of peoplefrom around the world. Despite thoseexperiences, and despite reviewingthousands of articles I had collectedand lectured about, I did not fullyappreciate that the time had come totake action. Then, I was shocked intoaction by a series of photographsaccompanying an October 2006National Geographic article,"Chemicals Within Us." Seeing thephotographs of children with leadtoxicity suddenly made me realizethat, almost without exception,everyone is toxic today. If we are allto enjoy a higher level of health, wemust start to routinely consume safe

synergistic nutrients that can help usovercome these toxins. I came upwith this idea for an advanced totalnutritional detoxification protocol,using substances with which mostof us have some familiarity, althoughwe may not have seen the potentialsynergy achievable with the rightcombination. I made these nutrientsinto a comprehensive protocol that,with a few alterations, both myhorses and my patients consumetwice daily.

My own experience with IVchelation over 35 years ago changedmy health dramatically; nonetheless,I never dreamed that similarpowerful results would be possiblewith any oral-based protocol, so Idid not really try. Since then, I haveattempted to develop a programthat simulates, for my patients, thebenefits that I enjoyed after my firsteight intravenous (IV) treatmentswere completed. I have continued toresearch this idea, spending a smallfortune going to conferences aroundthe world. Over these years, I haveparticipated in many other usefulprojects which include developingstabilized forms of vitamin Cand Detoxx programs employingnutrients like stabilized rice bran. I

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also worked with Dr, Lester Morrisonon mucopoiysaccarides. Using oralEDTA with mucopoiysaccarides,I have been able to routinely lowerblood viscosity as well as theincidence of fatal blood dots. Thesedevelopments and many otherscame together finally in one protocol- ODP (More details on the ODPprotocol can be found on my website- www.gordonresearch.com - wherevarious potential applications for thisprogram, including those for pets,children, and adults, are discussedin greater depth.)

Previously, I had employed manydifferent treatments with which I hadworked before, but I had never put itall together in one protocol. Once Icould see how dramatically helpfulthis approach was with horses, Iwanted to learn what it could do formany other athletes: either two- orfour-legged. And, of course, all thishas implications for anyone who justwants to optimize their health.

In the past, I had not consideredusing any form of chelation therapyfor apparently well athletes. Now. itshould be apparent that we have awidespread need for detoxificationfor everyone, not just athletes. Thus,the "walking wounded" who needto "get the lead out" will see resultswith my ODP protocol: longer lives,more energy, and less developinghealth problems. Today's levels ofpollution have now made a life-longdetoxification program beneficialfor everyone, particularly if we wantto achieve our maximum intendeduseful lifespan and enjoy optimalhealth. It seems obvious now thatif IV chelation continues to helpso many patients, we need a realDetoxxx program for those who donot have the time or finances, orwho feel they need to wait until theyare sick enough to qualify for IVchelation.

Once I realized that tired lamehorses could become champions,the thought crossed my mindthat, yes, it might be fun to keepthe details of our Blue-Ribbon-winning protocol a secret and have

fun continuing to beat others incompetition. I quickly decided thatrather than just collecting more blueribbons, I preferred to share what Ihave learned. As you read the restof this article, I think you will agreethat once the word gets out, my ODPprotocol has the potential to changethe face of athletic competition.I believe that ODP will raise thebar in all competitions so, to becompetitive, everyone will need to beon effective long-term detoxification.Performance is easy to measure,whereas total body burdens of leador mercury are complex and nearlyimpossible to accurately assesswithout costly test equipment, likethat needed for the X-ray fluorescentmeasurement of bone offered atHarvard School of Public Health. Ihope that this information will helpothers develop other even newer andmore effective long-term strategiesfor lowering heavy metals in all livingcreatures.

Years ago, we lacked knowledgeabout long-term adverse effects ofeven very low levels of toxic heavymetals, such as we see in everyonetoday. We were also still learningabout what we now see as the long-term safety of prolonged chelation.When I wrote the protocol for IVchelation for American College forAdvancement in Medicine (ACAM),a process that took almost one yearof my life, I had been warned that nodeaths were ever to be attributed tomy protocol. Thus I spent so muchtime satisfying that demand from theauthorities that the wider potentialapplications of Chelation therapyhad to wait. Now, we have had overten million patients around the worldwith no known fatalities when mybasic protocol was followed andproof that renal toxicity was almostnon-existent. And, in fact, Chelationtherapy generally protects kidneyfunction. Today, we have multiplepublished studies from mainstreammedicine documenting the dangersof very low levels of lead andmercury. So, now is the time tobegin to utilize this knowledge

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to improve the health of all livingcreatures. The potential benefits arefinally becoming understood, andthe risks are minimal compared tothe benefits.

Years ago, I had to guard againstgiving the impression that Chelationtherapy in any form was some kindof a panacea for all health problems.Those of us treating documentedsevere heart disease patients metwith tremendous resistance backthen. I had been program chairmanfor ACAM when a leading experton lead from Columbia UniversityMedical School, who was my invitedmain speaker for an early ACAMconference and who was to speakon the adverse effects of lead onchildren, was researching DMSA. Hestalked out of our conference afterhe heard the speaker before him, Dr.John Olwin, a vascular surgeon fromRush Medical College and a world-class expert on using IV ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) forvascular disease, state that loweringlead levels with IV EDTA would behelpful for cardiovascular disease.The expert refused to speak to ourgroup, since he was only interestedin studying lead toxicity for children.He was shocked that ACAM wouldpermit someone to suggest that therewas any connection between leadand cardiovascular disease. Now,we find lead to be a 'Silent Killer,"so-called in 2006 in Circulation,the voice of the American HeartAssociation. Until recently, Chelatingdoctors have focused on Chelationtherapy primarily for severe heavymetal poisoning or for vasculardisease.

Moving Beyond SimpleCardiovascular Care

I have lectured around the worldabout the massive increases oflead and mercury building up in allliving things for many years. Thereis extensively published literaturetoday that cleariy documents thatgetting the lead out is crucial for

optimal health {Nawrot TS, Low-level environmental exposure tolead unmasked as silent killer.Circulation. 2006; 114: 1347-1349). Iam convinced that my ODP protocol,along with IV chelation, can safelycancel nearly 90% of heart bypassand stenting operations for coronaryarteriosclerosis. We need to beginto use the ODP protocol for farbroader, non-cardiovascular-relatedapplications. We should no longerfocus on simply preventing heartattacks. We all need more energyand better memories, and we nolonger need to base the decisionon whether or not to treat on howadvanced our occlusive vasculardisease has become. Today, forinstance, one in four children isprescribed drugs for everythingfrom ADHD to autism, depression,diabetes, or cancer. We need tostart treating at the preconceptionlevel and help eliminate illnessesin children. Detoxifying childrenat all ages will lead to improvedperformance in sports or scholastics.As this improvement becomeswidely known, others will becomemore interested in lowering the levelof toxins in their bodies. In turn, thismight lead to a greater demand forcleaner water, food, and air.

Over the past 20 years, I havereceived hundreds of testimonialsfrom clients around the world whoreport many benefits from what Ipreviously categorized as a formof oral chelation. However, theterm oral chelation has becomeso abused that we may need todrop it. We have autistic childrenwho need heavy metal detox andheart disease patients unsure Ifthey need Chelation therapy or justsome oral program. Those whoneed their mercury and lead levelslowered have no idea what reallyworks and what is hype. They areconfused about where to turn andwhat to do. so many wind up doingnothing. Patients are told by somedoctors that orally ingested EDTAis worthless; while other doctorssuggest that taking oral EDTA is sucha great approach that, particularly if

administered with liposome or takenrectally or topically, no one everneeds IV chelation.

Today, we can often benefitcardiovascular patients, sometimesdramatically, even without any form ofChelation therapy. No one can fail toappreciate the importance of recent,often dramatic new developmentsin nutrition: supplementation withribose, Lipoic acid, co-enzyme Q,carnitine, magnesium, garlic, vitaminK-2, vitamin C, stabilized rice bran,omega 3, Wobenzym, resveratrol,etc. The documented benefits fromthese and other advanced nutrienttherapies are changing nutritionalmedicine and have led to a new fieldcalled Metabolic Cardiology. Someof these developments can eliminatethe need for pharmaceutical therapy.For example, we now recognizethat most people do not get enoughminerals such as selenium ormagnesium, nor do they receiveenough fiber or vitamins C, E, D,or K. Some so-called oral chelationprograms simply employ certainnutritional concepts that mayimprove heavy metal excretion, butdo not offer adequate nutritionalsupport to really help lower overallmorbidity and mortality from heartattacks and strokes. Other so-calledoral chelation programs just employa few herbs and provide little hopefor any real long-term benefit to theuser, often at high price, claimingmiraculous overnight removal of alltoxic metals, which is clearly notpossible.

I think that the most potentiallyharmful aspect of these poorlyformulated products is that they canfurther confuse consumers whosoon find that those products dolittle or nothing - and who then turnto drugs to help deal with their healthissues. In contrast, with an adequateexplanation of what to expect alongwith my ODP protocol, patients willbe warned not to expect overnightmiracles. This way many may staywith the protocol long enough toreally sea their symptoms abate andtheir need for drug-based therapiessubstantially reduced. Everyone


today has numerous neurotoxinsand carcinogens in their blood atall times, and the longer they followmy ODP protocol, the lower all toxinlevels will become and the betterthey will feel.

No one can really providesignificant long-term detox benefitsover a lifetime by simply usinga single chelator, whether thatis EDTA, DMSA, Malic acid, orascorbic acid, delivered by any route- inhaled, used topically or rectally,or liposome-treated, for a few weeksor even a couple of years. We nowlive on a toxic planet, and. if youstop my Detoxxx program, heavymetals wil! reaccumulate, and youcannot eliminate much of your bodyburden of toxins overnight. Short-term treatment can be very usefuland may stop angina and/or offeroften-dramatic symptomatic relief,but 1 like to think in terms of no moreheart attacks for the next 20-plusyears. We are all living longer, nowlet's live better.

My early oral chelation protocol,Beyond Chelation, routinelyhelped eliminate most symptomsof advancing cardiovascularproblems. I believe many of thebenefits seen were largely due toDr. Morrison's mucopolysaccaride/EDTA contribution. His researchdeveloped a safe nutritional programthat routinely lowers blood viscosityto the level seen in menstruatingfemales, who, incidentally, seldomhave fatal heart attacks. We nowunderstand how blood viscosity andcirculatory health are related.

Since my ODP protocol predictablyeliminates most heart attacks andstrokes, you may then focus on othergoals, such as helping your patientsavoid health problems associatedwith aging, such as Alzheimer'sdisease, cancer, osteoporosis, etc. Ibelieve my earlier basic protocol ofBeyond Chelation (and later. BeyondChelation Improved) has added manyyears to patients' lives around theworld. If you are planning to live intoyour 80s, the added protection frommy far more comprehensive ODPprotocol will make sense. Clearly,

we are all living longer, and theAlzheimer's Foundation predicts thatby age 85, 50% of patients will haveAlzheimer's disease. I am unawareof any of my patients developingAlzheimer's disease in the past20-plus years. This is not just dueto lower blood viscosity or lower

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heavy metals and their removal.We need to keep open minds aboutwhich treatments will eventuallybecome widely adopted andwhich, over time, should fall by thewayside.

Dr. Garry Gordon is enjoying great success using theOral Detoxification Program with his horses.

lead levels that Beyond ChelationImproved produces, but BeyondChelation has always includedingredients like Phosphatidyl serineand Ginkgo, which have been aroutine part of my oral protocol forover 20 years now. All my patientsare instructed to take their nine-pillpackets twice a day.

Recently, I worked with autisticchildren and successfully co-developed a protocol getting mercuryout of all children, without exception,even when IV chelation previouslyhad produced little or no effect.Sometimes, we found excretionlevels off the chart at Doctors Datalab on urine and or feces. This heavyexcretion sometimes continues formore than six months to two years.This "autism" program does notrequire the use of IV therapies. Imention these applications to showthat we are all still learning about

Building an Open Diaiogue andSharing Information

Although it is still too early tolay down any hard and fast rules,hopefully, we can begin an opendialogue. I now have over 1100physicians as members of my Forumon Anti-Aging and Chelation Therapy(FACT) online discussion group. Alllicensed health professionals areinvited to join and search on our sitefor comments from the group on anytopic from DMPS to Lipoic acid toautism. You are encouraged to offeryour observations and commentsif you join the FACT group at www.gordonresearch.com. In addition,I created a special area on mywebsite (www. gordonresearch.com/townsend) to support thecomments in this article and furtherthis discussion. There you canfind many articles I refer to here.

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and also the National Geographicphotographs, which you can reviewand download.

I have written more about themechanisms of action of EDTA thanany other researcher/author in theworld, yet I know that we still lackadequate knowledge to maximize ailthe potential benefits. We will needto learn more as our world becomesincreasingly toxic. Most expertsagree today that there is no safelevel of lead or mercury. I am totallyconvinced of the long-term safetyand minimal risk from continualadministration of these metal-bindingsubstances or chelators, includingMalic acid, garlic, DMSA, EDTA,ascorbic acid, and even fiber. Thealternative, to just live with thesetoxins, is no longer feasible. I havedecided to vigorously promote theuse of chelators all over the world.Once you review some of the over500 articles I have selected fromthe over 7000 articles written onjust EDTA over the past 35 years,you can better decide if you want topersonally choose an ODP protocolfor yourself and/or your family.

As one of the major earlyproponents introducing IV chelationtherapy to the world, I have hadto defend myself from medicalsociety challenges and medicalboards' litigation. Therefore, I haveamassed an extensive library onthe subject. I want to share as muchof that information as possible withyou, here and on my website. Foryour convenience, I have placed500 abstracts on oral EDTA on mywebsite {www.gordonresearch.com),where use of the available Searchfeature will help provide easy accessto information that may change yourlife, as it has mine. Just use anyword, such as lead, mercury, EDTA,DMSA, Malic acid, or garlic etc.Then you will conveniently accesssome of the scientific informationthat I have collected over the past

30-plus years since I co-foundedwhat became known as ACAM.

I also have developed over mynearly 50 years of medical practicemany in-depth protocols for treatingvarious conditions like cancer,multiple sclerosis, ALS, Parkinson's,Alzheimer's, etc. Those may beaccessed only by joining FACT,which, as noted earlier, is onlyfor licensed health professionals.Currently, over 1100 healthprofessionals members tell me theyfind this discussion group invaluable.Members can query FACT on anysubject and often quickly get helpfrom colleagues. FACT works asan open and searchable "curbsideconsultation" from colleagueson almost any health-relatedtopic. Access to FACT requiresregistration. Members are thenassigned a password that will permitthem to read daily updates, askquestions or search my protocols onmany topics from autism to prostatecancer, etc. Practitioners enjoy themany positive comments there fromthe leading chelation doctors whohave started to incorporate newideas they picked up on this site.For example, many are interestedin sharing results they are seeing inpatients after they finally try the shortchelation, particularly after years ofoffering only the three-hour versionof IV cheiation. Many commentthat this approach permits them tooffer help to patients who could notarrange the necessary time fromwork or finances for the longer form.Most seem to feel that the shorter IVhelps more patients faster, no matterwhat the diagnosis.

Medical progress often means thatthings we previously believed mayno longer be true. I know that manyideas that I expressed over 30 yearsago in writing and teaching aboutchelation therapy were simply wrong,like my belief in the early years thatwe had found a magic "roto-rooter"that routinely diminished plaque onarteries. Clearly, I was wrong, andthat concept is no longer valid. Manychelating doctors, including those atACAM, were initially worried about

using my short chelation employingIV calcium EDTA. In particular, theyargued that if the patient's vesselsare already calcified, IV calciumwas contraindicated, but, in fact, thetruth seems to be that high transientlevels of IV-administered calciumcan actually provide many beneficialactions in the body. If loweringlead levels is as important as manyexperts now believe, then clearlycalcium EDTA, which is routinelyextracting more lead than the slowinfusions of sodium EDTA may windup becoming the treatment of choicefor many patients.

Doctors using the FACT websitegenerally report better results thanthey were seeing with the three-hour treatment, which many haveused for 20 years. Of course, manydoctors using FACT have learnedmore about my other detoxificationprograms and now employ thebroader protocol: my ODP protocol.There are many added componentshere; in its simplest form, theprotocol adds the proprietary form ofwell-tolerated and better-absorbedvitamin C complex called Bio En'R-G'y and the Advanced BeyondFiber with inulin and stabilized ricebran. When these are employed,along with metal-binding nutrients,then you have the basis of my ODPprotocol.

I believe that the doctors usingthis broader protocol may skew theresults reported by the 1100 doctorsusing the FACT discussion group.Since we all have better nutritionalsupport programs for our patients,the IV EDTA is no longer the mainactive component in our therapy.With the new short form of CalciumEDTA, our IV chelation efforts aremore focused on what I believeshould be its primary function, whichis mainly enhancing lead and heavymetal excretion. This may lead you,as a practicing health professional,to see that, from the first visit on,this advanced ODP protocol isprotecting your patients more thanten chelation treatments would,because of the vastly improvedtotal protocol, particularly with the


oral heparin-like activity we provide,virtually eliminating the formation ofpathologic blood clots.

In addition, most chelating doctorstoday know much more about heartdisease and nutritional approachesto heart disease treatment thanwe knew 35 years ago back in theinfancy of the chelation movement.I believe that most of us nowroutinely use a more sophisticatedand broader spectrum in theirmanagement of their cardiovascularpatients - indeed, all their patients.Many of their patients today withcardiovascular disease are receivingfar superior nutritional support toanything we dreamed about 35years ago when I wrote, for ACAM,that first protocol for safe use of IVEDTA in vascular disease. When Iwrote that protocol, I was stronglymotivated by the demand of theState of California authorities whosaid in essence, "develop a protocolor we will stop all further chelationby members of your group." Today,many of us are incorporating the newwell-documented menaquinone-7form of K-2 along with programsusing at least some of the elementsof my ODP protocol in treatingcalcified coronaries.

The ODP Protocol Response:Getting the Lead Out

My basic ODP protocol involvesspecial combinations of stabilizedfiber, combined with an advancedform of stabilized vitamin C andcalcium EDTA. The horses clearlyhave responded beyond my wildestdreams to this simple ODP protocol.I think that since athletes no longercan legally continue to abuse theirbodies with drugs, many of themmay want to learn about the dramaticbenefits they can enjoy from this legaldetox protocol that I am convincedwill help any athlete, at any age,perform better. Of course, those whoare on my ODP protocol will start toraise the bar for all other athletes.Those not on an effective protocolthat really is getting the lead out willtruly be competing with a handicap.This applies equally to scholastic

performance at all levels Includingspelling or math competitions forchildren. It is documented, by theCenters for Disease Control and theEnvironmental Protection Agency,that the higher the lead, the lowerthe IQ, the energy level, and evenlifetime earnings potential will be.Programs like ODP can help keepour country more competitive inworld markets, since when ourwork force is healthier, we are morecompetitive.

We know there are probablythousands of toxins adverselyaffecting us, and my protocol helpsdeal with many of them, but focusingon lead and mercury helps tosimplify our understanding regardingwhy this Is a marathon, not a sprint.This is a lifetime project. Lead isprimarily concentrated in bones,where it is not readily assessable tochelation. There are no chelators ordetox programs that, contrary to wildclaims being made, can significantlyaccess our average thousandfoldincrease in bone lead stores in theone to three months most programsare claiming. Any real treatmentmust be continued long enough forbones to completely remodel. Forchildren, this is five-plus years, foradults, 15-plus years.

The surprisingly dramaticresponses from detoxing our horsesreminded me that over 15 yearsago, a top racehorse vet in Canadaattended an ACAM conferencewhere I was in charge, and hegave me his book. He explained toattendees from the podium that heregularly chelated his clients' horsesintravenously. Like most doctorstoday, back then I was only focusedon the cardiovascular and circulatorybenefits from IV chelation, neverthinking that, in time, pollution wouldbecome so serious that we would allneed a lifetime gentle detoxificationprotocol. Now, low-level lead levelsare adversely affecting everything,including the cardiovascular system,thus removing lead alone couldexplain some of the often ratherdramatic improvements seen inchelated patients who may clinically

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improve (again, often dramatically),but who, all too often, may not haveenjoyed any reversal in obstructingareas of plaque. I initially focused ontrying to reduce obstructing plaques,believing that the limiting blood flowto crucial area is the main reason forsymptoms. Yet, we have learned thatwe can restore most heart patientsto apparent high-level cardiovascularstatus with IV EDTA Chelationtherapy, and yet often we find thereis no accompanying reduction inplaque; in some cases, plaque evenbecomes worse, even when thepatient takes 30 or more IV chelationtreatments. I have explained severalreasons for this paradox in priorarticles, where I list over 30 possiblemechanisms of action for IV EDTAchelation. One small example fromthat list is that improved nitric oxidemetabolism associated with "gettingthe lead out" can dramaticallyimprove endurance and blood flow.

Over the years, I have beenconsulted routinely about patientswhose coronary calcium levels soarwhile on IV or oral chelation. Asmentioned, we have seen plaquebecome even more obstructive, yetoften the patient may have becomesymptom-free in spite of this clear-cutworsening of their case technically.This indicates to me that IV chelationdoes not predictably routinely reversecoronary arteriosclerosis, but gettingthe "lead out" with IV chelation or withmy ODP protocol may be just as oreven more important than reversingplaque. The optimal solution is noteither IV or oral; the answer is both.

Today, with ultra hi-speedcoronary CT scans, we have an easymeasurement for coronary vesselcalcium levels, so more patients cannow be treated more adequately ona preventive basis and will come torealize that detoxification is a life-long process, My ODP now alsoelectively incorporates therapeuticlevels of vitamin K-2 and morerecently, the Herbal Reniedy from


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Thailand (HRT; actual technicalname is Pueraria Minfica), which isa bio-mimic estrogenic adaptogen,to enhance the desired effectsof calcium relocation wheneversignificant vascular calcification isdocumented. My complete protocolroutinely lowers pathologic calciumin coronary arteries, while reversingosteoporosis.

I believe that ODP will, over time,provide highly effective symptomaticimprovement in well over 80% ofpatients, particularly novi/ that wehave ancillary approaches with diet,exercise, the new fibrin-digestingand anti-inflammatory enzymes, anduseful supplements like ribose, Lipoicacid, resveratrol, co-enzyme Q, etc.Any or all of those can be added tothe basic protocol, so that, with allthese additional well-documentednutrients available to us today forcardiovascular disease, I seldomfail to achieve the response mypatient seeks. I have often cancelledrecommended heart transplantsin children and adults because theresponse has been so good.

The benefits seen with my ODPprotocol alone are not achieved asrapidly as IV chelation results may be.I would not expect the ODP protocolto provide the dramatic increase inendurance that IV chelation gave me.By my eighth IV {over a three-weekinterval), my disabling angina wascompletely gone. At that point, andfor the first time in years, I also hadno dyspnea on exertion. I could runup a mountain and wear out my two-year-old Irish Setter. My responsewas so dramatic that I have devotedthe past 35 years to trying to learnhow and why IV chelation providesthese effects in some patients. Ibelieve that with my protocoi, we cannow start to deliver some of thosebenefits to millions around the worldwho simply want to "get the lead out"and start to enjoy a far higher levelof health.

Chelation ChoicesNow, since I believe we have

these choices, when do weabsolutely need IV chelation? Thatdecision must remain in the handsof the physician. It never hurts todo both, but I argue here that I donot believe IV chelation alone isever enough. If we are to really stopmost fatal heart attacks, we needlong-term daily protection. I believenothing currently available todayexceeds the efficacy I achieve withmy patients on my ODP protocol.

Clearly, when a patient calls aboutan acute condition, such as therecent onset of stroke or pulmonaryembolism or heart attack, I havealways explained that, ideally, IVchelation should be started as soonas possible. Meantime, however,we can use oral enzymes includingWobenzym, Nattokinase, and/orBoluoke. These enzymes can, in myestimation, save lives. The use oftissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA)first illustrated that clots could bedissolved after they form. TissuePlasminogen Activator is ratherexpensive, must be given IV in ahospital environment, and has a verynarrow window of opportunity withwhich to work. It has been provenuseful for dissolving fresh bloodclots. Nattokinase and Lumbrokinase(Boluoke) offer similar effects, butI prefer to take them preventively,although there have been reportsof favorable effects even daysafter a stroke or heart attack, oftenusing double doses of these oralpreparations, which may be moreeffective in some cases than the IVinjection of tPA.

These enzymes and othertherapies like Hyperbaric Oxygen(HBO) therapy and IV chelationoffer surprising benefits, even a fewdays after a major circulatory event.Oral enzyme products may providesome fibrin-digesting activity andanti-inflammatory activity. They canbe used along with Essential DailyDefense, the key product resultingfrom Dr. Morrison's research.Essential Daily Defense is a crucial

part of the ODP protocol. It offers agentle but vital heparin-like effect thatI believe significantly contributes tomy remarkable success preventingany reported fatal Mis in users of myODP protocol. I always recommendthat patients with any acute conditionalso get IV treatments, even IVmagnesium and/or ascorbic acidcan offer huge benefits if EDTAis not available. This IV can beadministered as either the new shortform of IV chelation or the standardversion or given one after the other,as an IV Myers Cocktail after an IVchelation treatment.

Generally, IV Chelation therapyalways will work quicker, and perhapscleanse deeper, as Simonizing doesmore than just wash a car. IV EDTAgenerally, in one day, removes asmuch lead as two to three weeks oforal chelating. This enhanced leadexcretion seems to be particularlytrue with the new short form ofchelating that I have recently helpedintroduce to the world. This IV usescalcium EDTA. This form of EDTAtreatment is entirely painless andthus can be conveniently given infive to 15 minutes, saving patientsvaluable time and money. The morerapid infusion time means that bloodlevels of EDTA will be higher. I havealso found that the short form of IVchelation routinely removes morelead per treatment than we see withthe three-hour standard chelation.There will probably be somecontinuing need for the originalthree-hour treatment for many years.That protocol has proven itself, andthere is no need for it to be replaced.However, I always look for ways tomake other people feel as good as Ido, having had only four IV chelationsin the past 15 years, after needingnearly 200 IV chelations prior tothat, but not going a day withoutsome oral chelation every 12 hoursfor the past 20-plus years. Now withthe increasing mercury levels in ourenvironment, I have increased mypersonal program and have addeddaily Heavy Detox (with DMSA).


Treating Vascular CalcificationsMost doctors are more familiar

and therefore more comfortable withthe original IV Chelation therapy.There is no right or wrong answerregarding who needs the shortertreatment and who needs the longer,older treatment. However, recentlythe three-hour form of chelation hasbecome slightly less necessary,since it appears that vascularcalcifications are routinely reversiblewith advancedtargeted nutritionalsupport therapy thatincludes vitaminK-2 (menaquinone-7), which by itselfroutinely lowerspathologic calciumin vascular tissue.Nonetheless, I alsoprefer to increasebone health atthe same time asI lower vascularcalcium levels.

There was atime when patientswith vascularcalcification hadto hope that thethree-hour iV EDTAtreatment wouldtreat their problem.This was becausethe IV EDTA three-hour treatmentlowers serumcalcium levels, often by 50%, andtherefore induces a tripling of Para-thormone (PTH) production. Thisspurt of PTH theoretically shouldhelp lower pathologic calcium levelsin many tissues. I have studied thesubject of pathological calciumincreases associated with agingof our vascular tissues extensivelyfor many years. We all get calcifiedvascular tissues the older weare. The average aorta at age 80contains 140 times more calciumthan age ten.

Calcified vascular tissue is aproven risk factor for heart disease.One problem is that it contributesto stiffness and loss of elasticity.

thereby increasing the workloadfor the heart. This may contributeto rising blood pressure along withother factors. I now routinely expectto reverse both osteoporosis andvascular calcifications with newerapproaches I have developed.Herbal Remedy from Thailand andvitamin K-2 (which I formulated intoa synergistic formula. Beyond BoneDefense) with strontium, Boron,curcumin, and other factors, has

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"The horses were suddenly winning while competingagainst top jumpers, some of which are worth millions;

most had trained rigorously for years."

worked very well on everyone so far.I treat the bones and the vasculartissues concurrently, since 1 believethat as we prevent and reverseosteoporosis, there will be lessvascular calcification. Since leadcontributes to bone-related issues,1 also incorporate my ODP-basedapproach with the above.

Beyond Chelation improvedA key part of my ODP protocol is

called Beyond Chelation Improved.This product contains nine pills inone convenient cellophane packet,which is usually taken twice a day. Ico-developed the Beyond ChelationImproved formula more than 20 years

ago with Dr. Lester Morrison. Threecapsules in each packet of nine pillsform the key part of the formulacalled Essential Daily Defense.This contains a unique heparin-likemucopolysaccaride from red algae,identified by Dr. Morrison (after tenmillion dollars in research), as anagent for reversing and preventing

arteriosclerosis, Iwas in radiologyin 1964 in SanFrancisco at MountZion Hospital,

because mydisabling anginaonset at age 29forced me toclose my generalpractice and go intoresidency. Sincethen, I have activelystudied the benefit-risk ratio for mosttherapies offeredto cardiovascularpatients. Remembermost fatal Misare due to acuteblood clots. Clotsdo not easily formin the presenceof heparin. Thereis a gentle, safeanticoagulant effectwith our combinationof EDTA when

in the presence of the particularmucopolysaccaride that I have foundcan replace injections of heparin forlife-long protection.

Dr. Morrison's goal was tolower clotting tendencies. I findthis formula reduces the need foraspirin-related therapies, since itworks as he intended and describedin detail in the three books thatsummarize his years of researchin solving this problem. I often findthat with this product as a vital partof my anti-clotting protocol, alongwith many other things includingOmega 3 supplementation, etc., Iam able to routinely offer effective


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all-natural, anti-clotting, anti-plateletapproaches for my patients v hooften do not tolerate drugs like Plavixor Coumadin. However, my patientsare warned that they must assumefull responsibility if they decideto discontinue their Coumadin. I

with - I believe that, to minimize thedanger, we should always providebroad-spectrum, super-nutritionalsupport. That is because a betternourished body can tolerate theseoften still poorly identified toxicreactions, like chronic neurotoxicityand carcinogenic potential fromthe usual array of over 100 organictoxins present in virtually al! humanstoday.

My ODP concept goes beyond providing another oralchelation product. It is meant to help us all focus more onour vital need for long-term detoxification...

will, whenever possible, urge thatthey also take the Nattokinase orBoluoke; however, due to cost, somehave to rely on just the protectionprovided by the old standby. BeyondChelation Improved. If possible, Iprefer patients stay on my morecomprehensive ODP protocol wherethe unique stabilized vitamin C andBeyond Fiber add so much, And, ofcourse, enzymes - like Wobenzym,or those with Nattokinase, suchas Endokinase, or Lumbrokinase,(Boluoke) - whether used aloneor together in low doses, provideoptimal protection, which, in myopinion, vastly exceeds the benefitsfrom Plavix or Coumadin and relateddrugs.

Beyond Chelation Improved alsoincludes three tablets of BeyondAny Multiple, so that all mineral andvitamin needs are included in thepacket. I find few formulas exceedthe total nutrients in this therapeuticstrength multiple, which is anotherkey part of my ODP protocol.Because our increasing levels ofchronic toxicity also increase theneed for many nutrients, this formulacontains things like resveratroi, betaGlucan, and Lipoic acid, as well ashigh levels of vitamin D, selenium,and ultra trace minerals like cesium.Since there are many toxins, suchas the residual toxins from ever-present flame retardants that arepresent in all of us today - toxinsthat nothing can effectively deal

Understanding Chelation andLifetime Detoxification

Like many of you, I still offerIV chelation to my patients. I loveto observe the often dramaticimprovement we sometimesseen in our IV-treated patients.Obviously with patients with recentstroke or gangrene, I will also useeverything from HBO to iV chelationand Nattokinase or Boluoke andWobenzym. But, I fear that due toconfusion and tack of knowledgeabout what was loosely called oralchelation, the end result of thisconfusion is that most of us today failto recommend enough oral chelatorsfor our patients. It seems that somepractitioners are afraid to add to theconfusion. In the consumer's mind,it's either one form of chelation orthe other. This confusion means thatmany doctors fail to effectively lowerblood viscosity or provide safe anti-coagulants over a lifetime. Far toofew patients understand - unlesssomeone educates them on the long-term implications of today's pollutionand the need for continued lifetimedetoxification - that although all theirsymptoms may have disappeared,they can still have a massive Ml atanytime, unless they make use ofthe substantial protection offered bythe ODP protocol. My ODP conceptgoes beyond providing another oralchelation product. It is meant tohelp us all focus more on our vitalneed for long-term detoxification.

and I hope this concept will helpmany more patients receive optimaltreatment.

Remember the tortoise and thehare. You won't necessarily win therace by the speed with which youimprove your patients' conditions;the real race will be won when yourpatients understand the long-termview, when you inform them whatyour protocol can and cannot do,and when they understand howvital it is that they never stop theiroral protocol. I am now convincedthat the Beyond Chelation Improvedformula was a very importantbreakthrough in medicine. In 1941,Dr. Morrison published his researchon cholesterol in the Journal ofAmerican Medical Association(JAMA), but he almost immediatelyconcluded that cholesterol was notthe main culprit. He then went towork on researching clotting andblood viscosity. I am convinced thisis where the future lies and that, ina few years, we will see that statinshave been an expensive experimentfor our country. Statins causeprovable harm and provide littlebenefit compared to the protocol1 have developed. Certainly, theywill not cause horses to win blueribbons. We have many reasons toexplain why we generally find today,after adequate testing, that ourpatients tend to be hypercoagulable,particularly at the time they suffertheir acute Ml or stroke. The reasonsare complex and include genetics(five percent of Americans haveLEIDEN 5 as a risk factor), stress,chronic infections, and heightenedlevels of toxins. I believe that, today,combating this clot-forming tendencyhas become essential for long-termsurvival for the majority of patients.I consider aspirin to be totallyinadequate and the benefit-to-riskratio causes me to not bother using it.Also, taking aspirin provides a falsesense of security; and since patientsdo not realize how little protection itprovides them, consequently, theydo not bother to look further andfind out about programs like my

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ODP protocol, which really providesclear-cut, long-term benefits with nodownside.

I am convinced that the total ODPprotocol, particularly if I add eitherBoluoke or Nattokinase, will resultin far fewer deaths and/or needfor any subsequent hospitalizationor surgical intervention than anyprotocol currently offered anywhereelse in the world. I routinely advisemy patients against most invasiveprocedures for coronary arterydisease, since I am convinced theyall carry significantly greater riskthan my approach. There are manycomplex reasons for the success ofmy protocol. I am sure I have not yetfully identified all of them. With over100 active ingredients in the totalprotocol, the complex synergies atwork will not be easy to separateand study. Those too busy to learnabout the ten million dollars that wentinto the formula might misconstrueBeyond Chelation Improved as justanother oral cheiation product. TheBeyond Chelation Improved productis clearly far more complex that theoral or rectal administration of EDTAor the application of DMSA or DMPSon the skin. Those approaches areclearly inadequate when you realizethe minimum 15-year requirementfor ongoing therapy. I hope my ODPconcept helps us move beyondthe confusion that an imprecisionof terms has contributed to thisongoing IV vs. oral Chelation therapycontroversy.

There are antioxidant benefitsfrom the several of the oral chelatorsin my ODP formula. I would expectmy protocol will lead to improvedenergy and vitality, which, overtime, may also help lower the totalbody burden of pathogens. Withdetoxification, enhanced immunitywill follow. That alone helps controlthe level of pathogens. However, tolower the total pathogen burden of illpatients dramatically, some oxidativetherapies should be considered.

I am confident that taking my newcomplete ODP complete protocoldaily for life provides greaterprotection against sudden death

than 50 IV chelation treatmentstaken over one to three years, whichis too short a time for long-termbenefit to develop. Experts agreethat the oral EDTA, which is a smallpart of the ODP protocol, has onlyabout five percent to 18% absorptionrates. This is a vital component inproviding the heparin-life effect weneed. Remember that there areonly a few drops in the bottom of alavender tube for a CBC, but that isall it takes to prevent those bloodspecimens from clotting.

The protocol also lowers leadlevels slowly, continuously, overpatients' entire lifetimes if theychoose to follow my ODP protocol.However, 1 do not believe thatbeing lead-free or mercury-free isenough to prevent fatal blood clots.My ODP protocol involves muchmore. However, we have many otherreasons to focus on safe long-termlead and mercury detoxification.Those references relate to IQ andworker productivity over time, aswell as lower lead levels' link tolowering all causes of morbidity andmortality. The New England Journalof Medicine (NEJM) publishedresearch stating that calcium EDTAreduces the likelihood of renal failureas weil as the subsequent need fordialysis. A Harvard School of PublicHeaith study, published in JAMA ayear ago, links cataract developmentto the level of lead in bones. Thisshows bone lead is in equilibriumwith all tissues, including the lens ofthe eye.

The multiple health benefits fromtoxic metal removal achievablewith my new ODP protocol seemto increase the longer the protocolis continued. However, even afterseven years on this protocol, adultsstiil will have lowered their boneiead ieveis by only 50%. Dr. ClairPatterson from Cal Tech has spokenat ACAM twice at my invitation. Hisimpressive world-wide researchhas proven that average bone ieadlevels today are well over 1000times higher than bone lead levelswere just 400 years ago, anywhereyou live on earth today. There is no

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escape, but after seven years withmy nonstop protocol, you shouldhave only 500 times too much leadstili remaining, which stiil can helpkill you if you become injured andinactive. Remember, if you arenot able to weight bear, inactivityaccelerates osteoporosis. Thisaccelerates the loss of bone lead andits subsequent increase in your othertissues, impairing immunity, leavingyou vulnerable to hospitai-acquiredinfections. That is a hidden benefit ofbecoming as lead-free as possible.After 15 years, you will be muchless likely to die of complicationsshould you Inadvertently wind up ina hospital.

Pro-Oxidative TherapiesI have given many lectures on

pro-oxidative therapies, a vitaladjunct to detoxification. Nothingelse deals as effectively with thepathogen burden. You may viewmore on these topics online athttp://www.gordonresearch.com/category_presentations.html. Youcan also view the entire proceedingsfrom my highly successful, excitingMarch 10, 2007 conference. If youhave a patient suffering from cancerand all else is failing, please watchthe presentation by Dr. Contreras.Dr. Contreras documents how toadminister oxygen therapies withhigh-dose IV vitamin C. Vitamin Calone will not work, as cancer cellsare hypoxic and the vitamin C mustbe metabolized intracellularly intoH202. He documents substantialbenefits using this protocol, after allchemo and radiation and all otheralternative cancer therapies havefailed. I have been teaching themethods and reasons for alternatingbetween high-dose, pro-oxidanttherapy and my new ultimate formof vitamin C (Bio En'R-G'y C) fortruly effective, life-long antioxidanttherapy. Since the recent JAMAarticle alleging that antioxidants areharmful, the study of pro-oxidant and


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antioxidant therapies is vital; we oweit to ourselves and our patients tounderstand the genesis ofthe JAMAarticle's confusion.

I am excited to have co-developed a professional version ofvitamin C that is proven to providebenefits no form of vitamin C hasever provided before. Bio En'R-G'yC with GMS-Ribose Is also uniquelytolerated in very high doses withoutgastrointestinal (GI) upset. Thisformula has been documented tolower Reactive Oxygen Species atppb levels, a benefit never achievedbefore with any vitamin C product inthe world. Clearly, Bio En'R-G'Y Cis a nutrient system and not just avitamin C.

Dr. Contreras's research withpro-oxidant therapy documentssignificant life prolongation and tumorreduction in over 90% of terminalcancer patients with his IV vitaminC and oxygen in a new protocol withPerftec. Yet, we do not want high-level pro-oxidant activity every dayof our lives, so now we can safelycycle back to effective antioxidants,based on this new stabilized form oforal Bio En'R-G'y C formula.

In general, vitamin C, like all weakorganic acids, is also a chelator,thus workers in lead factories takingvitamin C orally have lower levels oflead than those not taking it. Thismeans that high-dose IV ascorbicacid is working both as a pro-oxidanttherapy and a cheiator. I believe thatlearning more about the benefitsand risks of aggressive high-doseIV vitamin C treatment may savelots of lives, since such treatmentcombines at least those two vitalfunctions at once. It can lower heavymetal levels while aiso lowering thetotal body burden of pathogens andtumor cells. I almost always preferto augment that chelation effect withEDTA and my oral ODP protocol.

I hope you will come to futureACAM conferences and learn moreabout oxidative therapies, since we

all face cancer or antibiotic-resistantinfections such as Lyme disease,etc., everyday. I find that oxidativetherapies can offer a realistic solutionto antibiotic-resistant infectionsand, with the coming epidemics ofinfections experts predict, you willneed this new information.

We need to learn how tomaximize, for the majority of ourlives, effective antioxidant therapies,which we can enhance withconcurrent administration of somenutritional metal-binding agents ororal chelators. Some oral chelatorsmay increase the antioxidant effectof other nutrients, while concurrentlyhelping to lower levels of heavymetals at the same time. They mayeven help stabilize other usefulnutrients, such as vitamin C, which,in the presence of the metal-bindingagents I have selected, may finallyturn out to be even more useful thanLinus Pauling predicted. VitaminC could, with the help of some oralchelators, turn out to be the idealoral chelator, universal antioxidant,and all-purpose nutrient supportmolecule that we all have hoped itwould be.

To help further my work in thisarea, I am currently co-authoringa book about Chelation therapyand the detoxification of heavymetals with science writer DavidJay Brown. We summarize themost important Chelation therapyresearch and present the mosteffective detoxification protocols, sothat physicians and their patientscan have easy access to thisvaluable information. The bookincludes sections on the dangersof environmental toxins and heavymetals, as well as information onhow to improve cardiovascularhealth, circulation, brain function,and cognitive performance usingChelation therapy and nutritionalsupplementation. The working titlefor the book, which will be availablein the fall of 2007, is UltimateDetoxification: EDTA CheiationTherapy and Beyond.

! hope this information provesvaluable to you in your own healthand in helping to improve the healthof your patients,

G.F. Gordon, MD, DO, MD (H)President, Gordon ResearchInstitute600 N. Beeline HwyPayson, Arizona 85541928-472-4263ggordon@gordonresearch.comwww.gordonresearch.com

Part Two ofthe article will appear inthe July issue of Townsend Letter.

Garry F. Gordon, MD, DO. MD (H) receivedhis Doctor of Osteopathy in 1958 from the ChicagoCollege of Osteopathy in Illinois. He received hishonorary MD degree from the University of CaliforniaIrvine in 1962 and completed a Radiology Residencyfrom Mt. Zion in San Francisco, California in 1964, Formany years, he was the Medical Director of MineralLab in Hayward, California, a leading latjoratory fortrace mineral analysis worldwide.

Dr. Gordon is on the Board of HomeopathicMedical Examiners for Arizona, Co-Founder of theAmerican College for Advancement in Medicine(ACAM), Founder/President of the InternationalCollege of Advanced Longevity (ICALM), BoardMember of International Oxidative MedicineAssociation (lOMA). and an advisor to the AmericanBoard of Clinical Metal Toxicology (ABCMT). He isalso a member of the Scientific Advisory Committeefor The National Foundation for Alternative Medicine.

With Morton Walker, DPM, Dr. Gordon co-authored The Chelation Answer. In addition, hewas (he instructor and examiner for alt chelationphysicians. Currently, he is responsible for peerreview for Chelation therapy in the State of Arizona.

As an internationally recognized expert onchelation therapy. Dr. Gordon is now attempting toestablish standards for the proper use of oral andintravenous chelation therapy as an adjunct therapyfor all diseases. He lectures extensively on The EndOf Bypass Surgery Is In Sight and The Future ofChelation.

Dr Gordon is President of Gordon ResearchInstitute and a fud-time consultant for Longevity Plus,a nutritional supplement company located in Payson,Arizona. He is responsible for the design of themajority of their supplements, which are widely usedby alternative health practitioners around the world.

Dr. Gordon is coauthoring a book about Chelationtherapy and heavy metals detoxification with sciencewriter David Jay Brown, tentatively tilled. UltimateDetoxification: EDTA Chelation Therapy and Beyond.

Author's Note: I have extensive referencesto support the concepts I have expressed here.My last article published in ACAt^ Journal 2001has 183 pertinent references. That article, andothers mentioned here, can be viewed at www,gordonresearch.com/townsend. When there, usethe Search feature if you want to learn more aboutspecific topics such as autism, cancer, mercury,multiple sclerosis, etc.

Financial DisclosureG. Gordon, MD, DO, MD (H), is a consultant to

many companies around the world involved in nutritionalproduct formulation, development, and marketing.These include several companies providing metal-binding products for use in his Advanced NutritionDetoxification protocols, which he is introducing aroundthe world. Dr. Gordon has not been paid to write thisarticle. .^


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