EDTA is a synthetic amino acid. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. EDTA is approximately one-third as toxic to the body as aspirin. EDTA chelation therapy in an intravenous solution was first introduced into medicine in the United States in 1948 as a treatment for lead poisoning. Shortly thereafter the U.S. Navy advocated the use of chelation therapy for sailors who had absorbed lead while painting ships and military facilities using lead-based paint. The U.S.

Our Oral Chelation / Age-Less Formula does contain EDTA. EDTA is a synthetic amino acid that has been used in intravenous solutions as a therapy for heavy metal poisoning and cardiovascular disease. While it is effective as an intravenous therapy an oral dose of EDTA is rather poorly absorbed (4%-15% of total dose).

Dr. Gordon: Garlic is already becoming the darling of the country. Even Jane Brodie of The New York Times, who has always attacked all the health claims made by the nutritional supplement industry, has published articles lauding what garlic can do. Garlic will chelate lead and mercury, absolutely, without question. We have all sorts of research on this. Even red dye #40 will be chelated out by garlic. An animal that will turn red on red dye #40 won't do that on garlic.

ANSWER: Yes, but we only use a small amount of EDTA in the formula. EDTA is a synthetic amino acid that has been approved by the FDA. It is the only synthetic ingredient in our formula. The 16 other natural chelators are effective at chelating heavy metals and improving the functions of the circulatory system.

Chelation Therapy is a safe, effective and relatively inexpensive treatment to restore blood flow in victims of atherosclerosis without surgery. Chelation Therapy involves the intravenous infusion of a prescription medicine called Ethylene Diamine Tetra-Acetic Acid (EDTA), plus vitamins and minerals at therapeutic dosages. EDTA chelation infusions are administered by slow drip, circulating through the blood stream treating the entire arterial system removing undesirable metals from the body.

Dr. Gordon: EDTA is closely related to vinegar, ordinary acetic acid! It's actually a weak acid. If you put an eggshell in vinegar, it'll dissolve. In the same way, EDTA will take calcium off your arteries. But, amazingly enough, it washes part of the calcium down, out through the kidneys. At the same time, through a complex action of the parathyroid gland, EDTA actually stimulates bone growth.

Dr. Gordon: There are 7,000 known articles in our possession about EDTA, and I am sure if I hired somebody and we really went to work, there would be another 3,000 that we haven't found. So there would be about 10,000 articles on EDTA. Today there is a group that has proposed that one of the biggest actions of EDTA could be its ability to tie up transition metals, such as copper and iron, which are known to catalyze free-radical activity by a factor of up to several thousandfold.

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Dr. Gordon: Everybody in the country is being told by their doctors to take aspirin to prevent blood clotting. They're all doing it. But it's not hard to get the figures (because they are well-published) that there are 3,000 deaths a year from aspirin poisoning. There's no human being that can swallow an aspirin who will not have a corrosive effect on the membrane of their stomach and cause a microhemorrhage right where the pill hits the stomach. That's a simple fact.

Yes, the BD Vacutainer® K2EDTA Plus Plastic Tube has received routine FDA clearance for red cell grouping, Rh typing, and antibody screening. The differences are the types of closures and the labeling. The lavender stopper can either be rubber or a Hemogard™ closure on a Plus Plastic Tube. Product 367899, a 6 mL Plus Plastic Tube, has a distinct pink Hemogard™ closure and a label that meets the American Association of Blood Banks requirements.