EDTA chelation therapy and strokes:  strokes are caused when tissue suddenly loses its blood supply and suffers or succumbs to oxygen deprivation.  Causes are related to hemorrhages (ruptured blood vessels), blockage from a blood clot somewhere upstream, or blockage from a piece of plaque that broke off upstream and lodged in the way.  Depending upon the size of the area damaged, the result will be any where from a small area of malfunction, to more widespread areas or even death.  The length of time the area is blocked also is important for recovery or lack thereof.

 

Treatment of strokes with chelation is shutting the barn door after a horse got out.  It may improve chances of fewer and fewer horses getting out in the future, or it may entice a few horses to return with improved blood flow downstream.  PREVENTION of strokes with EDTA chelation therapy is a horse of a different color, so to speak.  It is understood that chelated patients get less strokes, or get strokes less often than non-chelated patients.  Three dimensional plaque is rough surfaced and contributes to turbulence in the blood vessels which creates dynamics in blood flow that are conducive to clot formation.  Reducing the roughness of the plaque reduces the turbulence and therefore reduces the formation of blood clots which lead to strokes.

 

HOWEVER, THE BEST TREATMENT FOR STROKES ONE WEEK TO TWENTY YEARS AFTER THEY OCCUR IS HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY!!!!!

 

There's a little more about this stroke thing, especially as it is related to carotid artery evaluation and surgery.  If you have ever had a carotid angiogram, which surgeons use to determine candidates for endarterectomy (cleaning out the plaque in the artery), you may recall the reporting of plaque amounts:  "less than 50%", or "50% to 70% blockage," or "70% to 90% blocked," or "95%," or even "100% blocked."  Each of those very widespread guesses is used to categorize whether you are not a candidate for surgery, whether you are not YET a candidate for surgery, whether you are a candidate for urgent surgery, or whether you just better go home and wait for the other carotid artery to become 100% blocked.  With the statistics of surgically induced strokes not very favorable, it makes an awful lot of sense to do chelation therapy instead of surgery in almost all cases.  Again, the flow dynamics favors better plaque removal from larger arteries, and experience does show carotids clear faster than arteries to the heart or to the lower legs.

 

Any questions?

 

jboy