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Chelation Therapy

I am considering EDTA therapy- is there any danger and is there real benefit?

Also concerned about drug interaction.

I recently had a neurological episode about 1 month age after increased lovastatin intake. Confusion of left hand vs right. Short duration MRI and Corotid Artery neg.

Could that be related to my drug intake?

I have 65% blockage in the LAD confirmed by cathertization. Predomently it is soft plaque. No stint was placed due to location at split. No other artery blockage. I have no pain and routinely perform at 80-90% max for 40-60 minutes without pain or discomfort.

I have been taking for years multi vitamin, 150 X3 b complex , 490 mg x2 mg niacin (975 mg/day), 1000 mg x2 mg fish oil (2000 mg),  900 mg/ meal chloestoff (2700 mg), 1000 mg x2 glucosamine (2000 mg),  320 mg x2 Saw Palmeto (640 mg)
2 Tbls Flaxseed oil (dinner), 1.5 oz Pomegranate Juice (dinner), 6 oz red wine (dinner)

20 mg Lovastatin (dinner) for last 10 months LDL droppped from 150 - 70 then increased back to 90. Dosage was increased to 40 mg one month ago.




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Chelation confuses the hell out of me and from all the reports I have read about it on the internet, there seems to be a lot of contradiction with regards to what is already known fact about artery disease, atherosclerosis.
I understand that plaque is mainly calcium and can perhaps see that this could be broken down by chelation. Chelation is actually a process already existing in the body, but they increase it. Now, if you remove the calcium based plaque, that leaves a lot of pure fat underlying it. Chelation will never remove the fat, nothing will. The plaque forms in the first place to try and trap the fat against the artery, preventing it from bursting free and clotting smaller arteries. If you remove the plaque, isn't there a high sudden risk of these ruptures, creating strokes/heart attacks?  
The other concern is how often you would have chelation IV therapy. If you have one regime of treatments and then consider yourself free of plaque, this will last all of a few weeks. Due to the fat still being there, surely the body will immediately try to trap it by creating new plaque? So, where does it end? Surely it's a cycle that is never broken.
Reports 'claim' it reduces reduces free radicals and allows arteries to heal. This still doesn't explain what will happen to all the fat left behind, in fact, I can't find a single report which deals with this problem. Due to blood being mostly made up of water, fat has no chance of being dissolved into it and being removed. The fat has lost its tiny submarine (protein lipid) which was demolished by the immune system.
Maybe, just maybe, if we understood how the Liver coats fat with protein, cageing it, then perhaps something could be researched to put all free fat trapped in arteries into lipids. Perhaps a special protein could be developed which bonds to loose fats, enabling it to be once again taken into the blood stream and then be filtered out. Maybe nobody has thought of this concept, but as far as I can see it's the only option. Unless of course, a friendly virus is cultured which could eat the fat, die, then be filtered out of the body. This would of course have to evade the immune system which would strip out the fats again.
Perhaps someone can tell me why chelation is considered such a great treatment and how it deals with fat.
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