EDTA has been used for a long time to help remove heavy metals from the body. It does not have a high affinity for mercury, so it has not been terribly useful for that purpose, but has been used to help de-calcify the body when over-calcification, a condition that has been running somewhat rampant over the past couple decades, is an issue.
Some schools of thought that suggest we need more calcium in the diet to help with bone issues are receiving a lot of debate because of the imbalance of magnesium to calcium in the body, and the discoveries regarding how a calcium supplement, in any of it’s many forms, it supposed to be most effectively processed and used in the body in order for supplementation to be useful.
In this process, a wide-scale effort was made in the food industry to “enrich” a great many of our foods with additional calcium…more it seems as marketing point, to get on the “calcium supplementation bandwagon,” as compared to suggesting it come from other parts of the diet instead (such as whole food greens).
Even some companies in the pharmaceutical industry latched on to this concept and came up with calcium supplements to help with bone loss issues, especially in women, but for which the research seems to show the uptake and use of these calcium supplements to benefit the bone are negligible to possibly almost useless…the latest alternative thought even indicating that it is *harmful* more than anything else.
So in comes EDTA.
EDTA is a chelating agent that can remove excess calcium very readily and effectively. So much so, that the mineral balance in the body needs to be paid close attention to when using this agent, to make sure magnesium and calcium levels are maintained in a healthy ratio to each other.
Men with prostate calcification can use the rectal suppositories, getting the EDTA agent physically right next to the calcified organ to help the EDTA permeate the back of the gland and “wash” the calcium build-up to help provide some relief to the sufferer.
Often times people with meshes inserted for surgical reasons find that if further surgery is needed at some point down the line, that the mesh previously put into place has a hard calcium coating covering the mesh once the surgical area has been opened back up.
There is one big drawback to using EDTA…the “redepositing” issue that it can cause.
When EDTA loosens the excess calcium, or even mobilizes lead, which it is also used for very often (children who suffer from lead poisoning) the risk becomes that the heavy metal can “redeposit” itself into other areas of the body…such as the brain.
It is this writer’s opinion, that although EDTA can be a great agent to assist with heavy metal removal, if coupled with a quality zeolite…a volcanic ash with a cage-like-trapping molecular structure that irreversible binds these metals (and it fortunately just happens to have an affinity for the worst of the worst heavy metals like mercury, lead and cadmium)…we have a great one-two pairing punch that will provide multiple benefits, at the highest level of safety we can manage. Our understanding of zeolite is such that it does nothing in the body…except to pass through, grab and trap the heavy metals…and continue to pass through via the urine.
Ideal.