The wellbeing of the body depends on the health of its smallest functional building block. We therefore might as well say that the entire body will work well the moment that all the cells do so, which make up the larger structures of tissues and organs. Dr. Bruce Halstead M.D, at that time president of the American College for the Advancement in Medicine, was among the first to research the effect of chelation therapy on the cellular level. He makes this point in his extensive work, published in 1979 as The Scientific Basis of EDTA Chelation Therapy, where he summarizes that, “EDTA tends to stabilize the intracellular membranes of the cells of the arteries, and thus protects the biochemical integrity of the cells.” This biochemical integrity includes all ninety-eight enzyme systems that are active in one facet or another of arterial metabolism, and forty-six of which get depressed when there occurs a steady increase of calcium in the blood.But EDTA does even more, as it enhances the self-purging mechanisms of the cell. In their book Everything You Should Know About Chelation Therapy Dr. Morton Walker & Hitendra Shah describe, how.
“Lysomes are small structures inside the cells that help flush a cell of its waste products, similar to the action of a toilet in the home. When toxic trace metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, or excess levels of calcium or zinc block the lysomal membrane, the function of the lysome will be blocked, too. Intracellular lysome function may have been impaired by the accumulation of intracellular heavy or toxic metals over the years at the lysomal membrane. Chelation therapy cleans from the lysome an accumulation of unwanted waste, which may be impairing lysomal function. Blockage contributes to the development of many chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and more. Removal of these heavy metals will allow the lysome (the cell septic system) to detoxify more efficiently – even to improve myocarditis due to lead poisoning.”
“… Any toilet that becomes stopped-up begins to back up. Like a septic system, lysomal membranes that are blocked cannot get rid of toxic materials. Because EDTA is an amino acid, it does not just float in the blood stream, but it also profuses through the tissues, the capillary bed and the tissue fluids, pulling out toxic metals from the trillions of cells of the body. When EDTA gets near a cellular membrane, it binds with any toxic divalent mineral, which is a heavy metal such as lead, tin, mercury and others that are impairing membrane function and contributing to free-radical damage and lipid per-oxidation of these important cellular membranes. The chelating agent pulls out that toxic mineral. Toxins are then floated from the cell by osmosis because there is a greater concentration inside the cell than outside, and that toxin eventually will be excreted from the kidneys. EDTA, therefore, is a membrane stabilizer, which works differently than vitamin E and is potentially more powerful.”