Aspies For Freedom

I can not comment on the chelation thing - I'd never even heard the term until I joined AFF.

However, I can comment on the cardiovascular disease. Despite my age I have next to no CVD, which is more commonly known as 'furring of the arteries' or 'arteriosclerosis'. However I have a rare problem called Prinzmetal's Angina which means my arteries randomly go into spasms and cut off the blood supply to my heart. It is treated by calcium channel blockers and nitrates to relax the blood vessels. I think that if there were another treatment that worked I would have heard of it. I correspond with other sufferers world-wide and the treatment I've been getting seems to be the standard.

This seems to be a fairly comprehensive history of chelation therapy:-

http://www.relfe.com/IDetoxamin/history_...erapy.html

google search
hope these help in your quest.

I speed read as I was searching & chose the one mentioning it's invention deliberately, as of them all it seemed more accurate.

During my search which also used  other Google pages, I found that it has commonly been used  (effectiveness queried ) for cardiovascular problems.

Thanks very much  Erkolos for that extremely useful article.

There is always a possibility that any tests are false / mistaken. If I were to want chelation, I would thoroughly research it first.....but that is how I approach things.
These parents, for whatever reason are desperate & desperate people are gullible.

unfortunately, I was unable to read the 'heavy metal part due to a large advert which I couldn't remove.
In my opinion, if therer are to be studies, they should be repeated many times by different organisations.

I would really be interested in having my brain neuroimaged & told the results.

My only concern about proving once and for all that chelation doesn't work, is that those people might put their efforts towards a real "cure" (i.e. pre-natal testing), or towards more dangerous pseudo-cures (aversive ABA, exorcism, etc).

I think there's enough evidence against chelation out there, so it's only the real nutters still doing it.

True enough.

Basically, they've taken mercury out of vaccines now, so in a couple of years when the numbers have dropped, the theory will be disproved once and for all. In the meantime, at least they're not donating to a genetic cure that could wipe us all out...

I can see that it does paint a negative picture of what autism is, though... Ah, dilemma.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many people have had their fillings from teeth removed?  unfortunately many young children in the UK do have them.
I know that doing this actually increases the amount of mercury ingested, but a lot don't.

About the teeth. I broke a filling a year or so ago and got so sick. My hip-joints hurt like hell. At the same time I read about a soccer player who had been having joint-aches, supposedly caused by lead or some other heavy metal, so I asked my dentist about it, hoping for a straight answer (I've been a scrap metal collector for years and have learned a lot about how metal degrade, so I thought that some kind of residue of the fillings had travelled down through my body) but she said "No Way!" and "Not Possible!" and so on. She might have been scared of me making some demand for free repair of the filling; which wasn't even in my mind at the time. That was a disappointment. I only asked for an educated opinion.

The chelation trend might be a way to find the cause outside of themselves instead of inside themselves.

Excellent & well done for showing us this. ( also for your comments on the discussion group ). *claps *

It might interest more people if you copy & paste the story. I would have done it, but this is your finding.

I think that -

http://www.autism-watch.org/about/bio2.shtml

- is a very enlightening website!

Unbelievable Neo - and that guy is a doctor.

I know, I could not beleive what I was reading!

Ten brownie points to erkolos for finding it.

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