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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:02:03 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Opinion re chelation therapy?


I view cryonic suspension as true life insurance.  I intend to avoid having to 
"collect" on it 
by hopefully surviving until it may not be AS necessary.  


Pursuing this intention I have been reviewing popular summaries of the 
controversial therapy 

known as chelation.  The iv version uses EDTL and costs somewhere around $5,000 
to $8,000 out of 

pocket, as the health insurance groups in the United States do not pay for it.  
Oral chelation 

seems a remarkably cheaper alternative relying upon a daily minimum intake of 
1000 mg of L-

cysteine (in combination with 4,000 to 5,000 mg of vitamin C to avoid kidney 
stone formation).

Or so I have recently read.


Without simply relying upon current authoritative pronouncements from the 
medical establishment 

(who have substantial financial reasons to oppose oral chelation), is there any 
cryonet reader 

familiar with unprejudiced summaries of studies to support or undercut the oral 
chelation 
claims?


The best internet site I have found which clearly supports oral chelation 
therapy is:

http://www.oralchelation.com


Karl Loren hosts this site and quite frankly I do not feel myself capable of 
determining if the 

numerous medical references he sites supporting oral chelation's effectiveness 
are valid or not.  
I am not a biologist.  


Unless I find some meaningful health risk factor involved I intend to pursue at 
least oral 

chelation therapy myself as I have some very simple to evaluate physiological 
symptoms involving 

peripheral circulation which, if the literature is correct, should show 
measurable positive 
change in one to two months time.  Low risk, high potential reward.


If this therapy is legitimate, this would make it very important to cryonics 
members.  In short, 

the claims begin with the reduction of high blood pressure and continue to 
include the avoidance 

of many forms of heart bypass surgery. As I know of no double-blind studies 
conducted on bypass 

surgery to date to validate THAT approach, I am NOT demanding the same of either
version of 
chelation therapy. 


Any input you might have would be appreciated with the exception, again, of 
simply relying upon 

the questionable "opinion" of the medical establishment.  They already reject 
it.  I know that.  

I am instead only interested in what the facts of the matter are, if these are 
possible to tease 

out of the human hubris surrounding one of America's major financial industries:
heart disease 
treatment.

-George Smith
A signed-up cryonics member

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