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Life Flow One
The Solution For Heart Disease

An Article
by Karl Loren

There is a New Revelation on Health

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This is the story about the most significant change in the Vibrant Life Life Glow formula in 15+ years!  For 15 years we have been selling the vitamin formula, Life Glow.  We sell MORE Life Glow than all our other products combined.  The change announced here is significant!

The beginning of this story was in November 1981, my mother's death from a heart problem.  You never, I suppose, expect that your mother will die!  When it happens it gets your attention.

It got mine!

Prior to that time I was a "normal" businessman.  I had taken a major in accounting at Ohio University, was a Ranger during my two years in the Army, served as an Aide-de-Camp to a General, got my MBA degree from Harvard and was an experienced international businessman by 1981.  I had worked in the White House in the Kennedy Administration and thought I was pretty big stuff!  Click here for a more detailed biography.

Death Of A Loved One Leads To Considerations About Death

But, death of a loved one has a way of humbling you, and perhaps thrusting you into a bit of worry.  The death of your mother can't fail to bring you closer to the thought of your own death.  Eventually I came to write about your right to die, thinking of my mother at the time -- and my mother-in-law.  I also wrote about natural death.

I started looking into this "death from heart disease" subject and found that there was no science to it.  It was junk science.  In accounting the debits were always supposed to equal the credits -- and business was a fairly logical part of life.

I found one famous heart surgeon who told me, in his book, that "no one knows the causes of heart disease!"  I looked for a book that would give me more hope about man's most common destination -- death from heart disease. 

You would think that such a commonly traveled path would have a better map!

Eventually I found that book in Dr. Elmer Cranton's Bypassing Bypass.  I then found Robert Moore's book, Heart Failure.

Can you imagine my surprise when some high official in the International Academy of Accounting said to me that debits sometimes did not equal the credits, and that the balance of the account depended on the color of paper used for the ledger?  He told me that sometimes 2 + 2 did not equal 4!  Well, of course, that didn't happen, but what did happen was that a whole batch of books by experts on heart disease told me a whole batch of different theories about why my mother died.

To say that I was in confusion was an oversimplification!  I came to understand the "medical model" much better later, and wrote about that.  You should click on and read about those two books, above.  The links take you to Amazon.com.

I am trying to set the stage for you to understand my launch into a field of human activity which has, by now, become fascinating, satisfying and at the same time quite puzzling.

The Medical Model

Since I did NOT have the disadvantage of a medical education I was not bound up with fixed ideas about health and heart disease.  I simply took my bookkeeper's mentality into this new arena and thought to myself -- there has to be some basic explanation of the most important question of life!  (Eventually I wrote about the Puzzle of Life!)  The question of death from heart disease certainly looked like the most important question of life.

And so this part of my search began, in 1981, with the death of my mother in Cleveland, Ohio.

The journey has been slow and bumpy at times, and lightning fast at other times -- and I now realize that it has always been a matter of observation and selection of data.  There are tons of data there to be looked at -- and if you can discern the true from the false, and match up the valid data with your own observations -- you can come through with a workable technology.

My first piece of truth was when I started reading about the ultimate defense against death from heart disease -- the bypass surgery.

When I studied in depth I found out how shallow, indeed, the technology was for this, the most profitable medical procedure in history.  When I first started looking into this the bypass surgeons were taking in more money than any other procedure -- many billions of dollars per year.  But, when I looked at the actual statistics I found that the success rates of these experts was low indeed.

I decided that bypass surgery was a foolish fraud most of the time -- and eventually wrote about it.  Even later I learned how fraudulent the American Heart Association has been, and wrote about that.  Then I realized that all of so-called "modern medicine" was still in the smokestack era and wrote about that.

That first piece of truth started me down this path of discovery with a critical eye for more false data.  More false data was not hard to find.

I had no particular axe to grind in favor of or against butter -- but when I started hearing that margarine was good for you, safe, and nutritious, and that butter was bad for you, evil and caused death -- well, I knew that something was wrong here somewhere.

I also saw that the "bad butter" datum was completely aligned with other data.  Now, I had not been suspicious of that other data because it was complex beyond my understanding.  But, the butter bit?  Well, that did not seem complex.  If the butter bit was false, then perhaps other pieces of the dependent network of health concepts was also false?  I eventually wrote about butter and the evils of margarine!

Butter

I guess I'm just not a guy who will accept assertions that are so much at variance with my own view of the world.

After all, butter had been around for thousands of years and was as natural as any food made by God and nature.  Margarine, even before I understood it's complicated chemical nature, was obviously a waste-product turned into money.  (The first margarines were often made from the oil of cotton seeds which would otherwise have become land fill.)

My journey continued as I started learning of some very strange things being done to good food.

I learned, for instance, that the milk I loved so much as a boy was not the milk my own kids were drinking.  My milk had cream that rose to the top.  It came in glass bottles, from a farm that was only a few hours distant.  My kids, I discovered, were drinking a highly processed "food product" that had little resemblance to the milk I had drunk as a kid.  I learned that homogenized and pasteurized milk had been "sold" to me as an improvement, but was actually a false food -- a chemically altered substance that, believe it or not, might be the number one cause of heart disease.  I eventually wrote about milk.

I discovered that "real" milk was an illegal commodity -- smuggled out of barnyards at night by neighbors of the dairyman -- neighbors who didn't like the store-milk that was being forced down our throats.  I had Harold Steuve, owner of the raw milk producing company, Alta Dena, on my all-night radio show as a guest -- often.  I toured one of his farms and his dairy farms.

By now the destination for my journey had become engraved in bronze. 

I set out on the mission of discovering the truth and the lies in the field of health.  I didn't realize how brave I was being and when I started exposing the lies that I found -- I found that I was suddenly outside the "main stream" of health and society. 

About that time a big change occurred in my life.  I had sold a business and was looking for what to do next in life -- decided to become a public speaker, did lots of TV and radio appearances, but eventually decided to use my public speaking skills in talking about health and heart disease.  I became a distributor with Royal Nutrition (MLM Company) and started lecturing on heart disease.  I didn't have any particular training in the subject, but I learned quickly and I observed with certainty that the oral chelation formula being sold by Royal Nutrition "worked."  It was a formula somewhat similar to Life Glow, based on a daily dosage of 700 milligrams of cysteine.

I left that Company to start my own, based on one product -- then called "Life Flow."  It was very similar to the Royal Nutrition formula, but I had increased some of the nutrients to make it better. 

There was a time when twenty different companies were selling oral chelation products -- all of them generally ethical.  Then the FDA swooped down and raided them all -- closed them all except Vibrant Life!  All of them gave up the good fight and fled the scene.  One day I'll add more details as to why we were spared.

It was then, for many years, a lonely journey.  I followed my own conscience, occasionally finding a guide-post along the way.  I changed the formula, calling it "Life Glow" when I decided that 1,000 mg of daily cysteine was a better dosage.

While I was developing Vibrant Life, with Jean Ross, I also spent some years as the "US Information Officer" for the St. Jude Clinic in Mexico.  Jimmy Keller, the Administrator, told me that the three previous persons who had held that position were all arrested, held in jail, threatened by the police, and not released until they had each agreed to sign a false affidavit that the St. Jude Clinic was a fraud.  I never have feared a fight with evil!  Click here to read more about Jimmy Keller.  I learned a great deal from Jimmy, and even learned more about integrity when I visited him in Federal Prison.

Also during those years I took on the Internal Revenue Service and beat them, repeatedly, in Federal Court.  This culminated with my victory over the IRS in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Click here to read the actual court documents.  The point here is that I have never been afraid to stand up for what I have believed to be right -- the IRS wanted me in jail, and I fought back and won. 

Back in these years I was attending meetings of the National Health Federation -- when Dr. Kurt Donsbach was the President.  As far as I know he was the one who "invented" oral chelation based on the use of cysteine as the chelating agent.  I know I heard him speak about his "oral chelation formula" many times -- and decided that I wanted to learn more.

When Dr. Donsbach told me, and millions of others, that certain vitamins (including cysteine) would prevent heart disease and reverse existing symptoms, I accepted that data without much investigation.  When I found that it worked, I was pleased and off running on my journey rather than picking my way, here and there, amongst the rocks of ignorance that had strewn my path earlier.

Back in those early years I was an enthusiastic student of Durk Pearson.  I had read his Book, Life Extension, many times.  In fact when Jean Ross (my wife) and I would travel somewhere, I would let her drive so that I could read aloud to her from his Book.  I still consider him a very valid resource for health information.  I got my technical data on the subject of the amino acid cysteine from him. 

Book:  Life Extension by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw

I became one of the world's most ardent champions of something called "oral chelation."  I learned more in a few years than most doctors ever learn about heart disease -- plaque -- toxic metals -- free radicals -- and a host of other components of the TRUE story about heart disease.

There is nothing quite so dangerous as a success based on incomplete data.  There was no question that the formula I designed WAS and IS very successful.  I have had literally thousands of people tell me that their blood flow has improved, that they have avoided bypass surgery, that they are alive and well when the friends are dead -- that their eyesight has improved, and many other simple improvements.  Click here to read testimonials.  When a man has been wearing socks to bed every night during the winter because his feet are cold, and he then discovers that taking a few of my tablets causes his feet to be warm, that may seem a small thing -- but to him, it was definitely not a small thing.

And so as the years went on I became more and more confident of my knowledge of how I could eliminate heart disease -- just with what I knew.

I was traveling down my path in easy peace of mind -- knowing that I was helping mankind.  I was getting validated for my successes on this path.  I had become the King Of Oral Chelation.  That is easy to prove today.  You need only enter the phrase "oral chelation" in any of dozens of Internet search engines -- see what comes up.  In many cases out of the first 30 listings one of my 4,000 pages will occupy 25 of those first 30 rankings!  You could say that I have gotten to the top of my form.

But in the meantime the world was changing in some very dramatic ways -- ways which I had been asserting the need of, but missing the fact of.

Oh, yes, it is true that orthodox medicine is often a fraud, and bypass surgery is nothing more than a temporary patch job -- it is certainly true that medical drugs are much more expensive than they are effective.  It was obvious that there was much foolish health technology.  I was working successfully in exposing the lies and fraud in and around medicine.  I caught stuff that others didn't see -- I publicized truths which had been hidden for decades.

Back 15 years ago there were dozens of heart doctors who wrote books making terribly foolish and false statements about heart disease.  I dispatched them with ease.  Many of these false claims involved data as simple and objective as the census statistics.  Many of these guys claimed that "heart disease has always been with us -- it is only because of modern medicine making us live longer that we live into the age range where heart disease starts to be the cause of death."

So false!

The truth is that there were millions of people who lived beyond 60 years -- back in the 1700s and 1800s, millions of people lived into their 60s and 70s.  They did not die of heart disease.  I wrote about that.  This was just a complete proof of the lies being published by the heart experts.  In fact, the census statistics showed that people who were 70 years old in 1850 lived LONGER than people who are 70 years old today!

Fascinating!

There were and are many other "facts" which have been published by the experts -- facts which were so easy to refute that it was laughable.  When modern doctors tell you that your life expectancy has been increased because of modern medicine, just click here to see the actual census statistics from the late 1700's -- that show the average life expectancy for a female aged 60 in the year 1850 -- it shows 17.0 years while a similar female aged 60 in the year 1950 has only 15.7 years of life expectancy.  In my school 17 is bigger than 15!

But, even though it was easy to prove these fools to be fools, it turned out to NOT be easy to get my message out.  Finding the truth has always been easier than promoting it to others who were not particularly looking.

So, my success in the "vitamin business" has really been a success in the business of communication and promotion.  I have been very skillful in writing and reaching people -- with books, radio, TV and now a massive presence on the Internet.

What I missed was that, underneath, things were getting better and better, based on the ascendancy of biochemistry and the obvious failures of traditional medicine.  I'd like to think that I had some hand in this, but it has happened so rapidly, and so much out of my sight that I have been fighting a battle that has already been won!

Despite the terrible fraud of much modern medicine, despite the giant drift toward government-controlled medicine, the "health world" was changing so dramatically that I would suddenly find myself left behind in a field where I had felt myself one of the leaders.  I think of "health insurance" as a guarantee of disease -- but health insurance is on a self-destructive downward spiral.  I've written about this.  Government health coverage is dead -- it may take a few decades for the body to decay, but it cannot survive its own poisons.

I remember talking to a medical doctor who had two educational specialties and had more than 20 years of clinical experience.  I was talking casually and mentioned "free radical."  She said, in what appeared to be all innocence to me, "what is a free radical?"  I didn't believe her, of course, and joked about her joke. Then I realized that she really didn't know what a free radical was.  What she had really become an expert at was figuring out how to bill Medicare for more money for her specialty than any other doctor in hundreds of miles around.  I have probably now compiled more information about free radicals than any other web site you will ever see.  I've also included lots about these things in my Book.

It reminds me of the foot doctor who could collect $30 for a "foot treatment" and managed to interpret the Medicare rules so that he could get paid for each toe!  It happened.  It was legal.  What could be asserted as a "price reduction" to only $20 per treatment, turned into a ten-toe treatment now worth $200 compared with the $30 he used to charge.  I began to see, even more clearly, that many doctors had given up on "health" care and were after "money" care -- they were going to win within the system.  I was trying to win while remaining outside the system.  That system is broke and fixing won't work!

Meanwhile there were other forces at work -- forces that wanted to actually improve the care of health and who were NOT driven by money to lower their ethics to the gutter level of government-mandated health care.

Oh, there are villains enough on my path, but there were heroes too.  I fear, now, that I saw the villains very clearly, but missed the heroes.  One of those heroes is an old casual friend, now an intensely close guide to my new understandings in this field -- but more on that later.

The heroes were working away in complicated biochemistry at the same time I was struggling to learn about simple free radicals.  Much of the data in biochemistry is confused, even chaotic, but the basic truths are there -- the basic truths for health do not lie amongst the pharmaceutical companies whose products only kill.  (Click here to read about one of the most evil drug companies in existence -- you see, I do know how to expose the bad guys!)  Hopefully those drugs kill bad germs, or bad cells, but about all they can do is stop something that they think is bad. 

The whole idea of helping the body do something good is foreign to traditional medicine -- but is the guiding star of the biochemist

People are starting to wake up.  I would like to think I helped.   Man is becoming ever more demanding that those who would serve him with health service, actually deliver on that promise.  The more we get enmeshed in government mandated health practices, and health insurance which ensures disease, the more that all than thinking men and women start looking for alternatives.

These alternatives are sprouting up like pleasant flowers after a drought! 


I'd like my friends to realize that any knowledge they might think I have, about the technical nature of "oral chelation" or vitamins, is not properly identified as my primary value to them.  My greatest skill is an honest inquiry in my search after the truth, and next is my skillful communication about the truth I have discovered.

What do you do when you discover that the truth of yesterday has given way to the new truth?

What do you do when the anchors that have given you stability today are replaced by new and better anchors?

If you are old, skilled and unethical, you continue to assert that the truth is still the same.

If you are old, skilled and honest, you struggle with the new challenge of telling your friends that there is a better way than the 'best' way you have been promoting for years.

One of my current heroes in Congress is Representative James Rogan.  He happens to be my personal Congressman.  I've met him.  He was one of the "House Managers" who attempted to get Bill Clinton convicted in the Senate.  He comes from what the Democrats consider a "vulnerable district" because there are more registered Democrats than  Republicans and because he is now just a second-term Congressman.  His comment that I am delighted to emulate was:

James E. Rogan, CongressmanJames E. Rogan, Congressman

"There is more honor in taking a principled stand and losing, than in compromising oneself and staying in office. This office is built on a trust placed in you by the public. To violate one's conscience is to violate this trust."

The Original Premise

When I started in this business I listened to all the experts I could find, including some intravenous chelation doctors.  Here is basically what I believed to be true.

Some damage would be caused to the inside of the artery -- such as the damaged caused by the special enzymes in homogenized milk.  The body would try to protect that damaged area by building up a layer of cholesterol over the area.  Cholesterol has an opposite electrical charge from the calcium floating in the blood stream, so some calcium would be attracted to the cholesterol that was covering the damaged area.  Now that the outer layer on this spot was calcium, IT has an opposite electrical charge from the cholesterol floating in the blood stream, so the spot was now covered with a layer of cholesterol.   That layer, in turn, attracted another layer of calcium -- the process continued until this buildup of plaque was so great that the blood was stopped and you had a heart attack.

I understood that the EDTA used for intravenous chelation therapy would "grab" the calcium that was caked up on these spots, exposing the soft cholesterol.  The soft cholesterol would wash away, exposing another layer of calcium that would be "grabbed" by the next administration of EDTA.

And, so the process would continue until the spot was all cleaned up.

Not only did I understand this concept, but I believed it to be true and not only did I believe it to be true, this was the story being told by most of the intravenous chelation doctors.  I recorded two lectures back in those years -- where I explained this process.  I still use that same cassette tape.  In fact I have sold or given away well over 100,000 of those cassette tapes and have had people call to tell me that they have invited neighbors and friends to their home to play these tapes for them.

Yet that story was not quite right!  It was an explanation that made sense to a patient, but it didn't sit well with scientifically trained medical professionals.  They wanted an explanation that fit with their extensive training.

In fact, Dr. Elmer Cranton put it this way:

Only after the advent of an "acceptable" scientific explanation does an innovative, therapeutic approach stand a chance of being acknowledged by the medical community.  Until a physician can explain why a patient has improved with a chosen treatment, his observed cures have little credence among scientists.

 
Bypassing Bypass by Dr. Elmer Cranton

I encourage you to buy this book.  Click on the book cover to go directly to Amazon.com where you can order it now.  I have written a book review which should be published on this link within a few more days.

Back in the early 1980s when I started lecturing about oral chelation I had to have some explanation for how it worked.  I read all the best authorities and the explanation I gave, and believed to be true, was the one just a few paragraphs above.  Dr. Cranton reflects upon that understanding, in those early years, saying:

Hoping to make a difficult subject more understandable, a chelation doctor once described chelation as a kind of liquid plumber -- a "chemical roto-rooter" that increased blood flow by reaming calcified plaque out of the arteries.

The explanation stuck, and it has haunted chelation specialists ever since.  The "chemical plumber" theory is totally invalid, for although EDTA is certainly a calcium chelator, its affinity for calcium is far lower than it is for metals such as iron, copper, lead, cadmium, etc.  EDTA will quickly drop calcium to pick up one of these other metals.  Furthermore, calcium, as we will see, plays but a secondary role in plaque formation.

So I, Karl Loren, helped promote a very valuable therapy (both I/V chelation and oral chelation) but I was repeating the invalid explanation of why it works.  I counted on Dr. Cranton to steer me right -- now I've decided that even he has his blind spots -- as I've found an even better source of information.
Click to Link to the First Chapter of this Book

Dr.  Cranton's Book, the Second Edition, came out in the early 90s and when I read it I realized that my description of how intravenous chelation "worked" had been wrong.  Ninety percent of all chelation doctors were also describing their own procedures inaccurately -- and many of them do even today.  I immediately changed how I talked about it, but my cassette tape had been so successful that I did not throw it away -- and to this day still send out thousands of those tapes every year -- describing intravenous chelation as I originally understood it.

I felt I had to set the record straight, and wrote my first book, Life  Flow One, The Solution For Heart Disease where I explained the new theory behind heart disease and how chelation therapy worked.

Even that explanation is now growing a bit thin -- and thus this long article is my new effort at setting the record straight.

As my business grew and prospered I moved from a period where I just told people that "it works" to a period when, preparing to write my Book, I started really studying why it worked.

I had carried with me the original explanation from Dr. Kurt Donsbach, that the amino acid      L cysteine was the chelating agent, and that it removed calcium.  When I learned, from Dr. Cranton, that it was not removing calcium, but was removing toxic metals, I simply went looking for the mechanism by which cysteine might be able to remove toxic metals from the body.

I found that mechanism.

I realized along the way that my guiding star was to be biochemistry -- and wrote about that as the Introduction for my Book.

I had known, all along, that EDTA would not be absorbed into the body when taken orally, because it is an artificial amino acid.

Thus, I was set up to promote the use of oral chelation, based on cysteine, and to attack as frauds those who claimed that you could achieve "oral chelation" with a substance (EDTA) which could not be absorbed into the body.

First, a comment about cysteine as a chelating agent.

Cysteine -- The Great Natural Chelator

The amino acid cysteine is well covered by many scientific studies. Click here, for instance to go to a central page from which you can click to hundreds of studies about cysteine.  There are many more studies in another location -- click here.  This last link includes not only studies about cysteine, but many studies about toxic metals, including more than 100 studies which mention toxic lead.

For instance, I found the following study:

Chronic, low level exposure to toxic metals is an increasing global problem. The symptoms associated with the slow accumulation of toxic metals are multiple and rather nondescript, and overt expression of toxic effects may not appear until later in life.
 
The sulfhydryl-reactive metals (mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic) are particularly insidious and can affect a vast array of biochemical and nutritional processes.
 
The primary mechanisms by which the sulfhydryl-reactive metals elicit their toxic effects are summarized [in the full report].
 
The pro-oxidative effects of the metals are compounded by the fact that the metals also inhibit antioxidative enzymes and deplete intracellular glutathione. The metals also have the potential to disrupt the metabolism and biological activities of many proteins due to their high affinity for free sulfhydryl groups.
 
Cysteine has a pivotal role in inducible, endogenous detoxication mechanisms in the body, and metal exposure taxes cysteine status.
 
The protective effects of glutathione and the metallothioneins are discussed in detail.
 
Basic research pertaining to the transport of toxic metals into the brain is summarized, and a case is made for the use of hydrolyzed whey protein to support metal detoxification and neurological function.
 
Metal exposure also affects essential element status, which can further decrease antioxidation and detoxification processes. Early detection and treatment of metal burden is important for successful detoxification, and optimization of nutritional status is paramount to the prevention and treatment of metal toxicity.

(Click here to see the entire study -- use your back button to return to this page.)
I found other studies mentioning cysteine in connection with the removal of toxic metals from the body.

I thought I had satisfied my own need for scientific justification for promoting the cysteine-based oral chelation formula.  Like the chelation doctors for decades, I knew it worked, was not quite sure why, and found a reasonable explanation. 

EDTA Not Absorbed

And, my claim that EDTA was not useful as an oral chelator was validated by my opinion leader, Dr. Elmer Cranton.  In fact, on his web site he has a full explanation of his position on the use of oral EDTA for chelating purposes.  Click here to read that statement.

That's about where I was until just a few weeks ago.  I was convinced that cysteine was the absolute necessity for oral chelation.  I knew that the Life Glow formula "worked" so that has never been in question.  I have never been as sure of "why" it worked, but it sure did work.

I also saw the EDTA-based oral chelation formulas as useless, and said so.

You can imagine what I thought when I read the following in one scientific study!

Determination of the relative efficacies of collagenase inhibitors indicates that EDTA and Ca-EDTA are about one hundred times more effective on a molar basis than L-cysteine and its derivatives, N-acetyl-L-cysteine and D-penicillamine.

Even if only 5% of EDTA is absorbed when taken orally, it has been found to be 100 times more effective as a chelator than cysteine!  This certainly got me started doing some serious review of my position and my Life Glow formula.  (Click here to read the entire above study, use your back button to return to this page.)

Then, a friend asked me to look at another web site, where scientific studies on oral EDTA were published.  For the moment I won't tell you the name of the other web site, but suffice it to say that it was the web site of another very famous doctor -- one who I had heard lecturing and knew casually.

It was a bit upsetting to have my world turned upside down.  I struggled for a few days with this.  I then sent the doctor from the oral EDTA web site a simple message, inviting some dialogue.  He responded -- we then agreed that I would fly to his town for a meeting.  That was done just a few days ago.

There is so much, now, to tell you, and yet it is still being studied.

I have found a new Socrates -- a very wise -- actually brilliant doctor.

So, I am now talking with the foremost expert on the planet for longevity research and anti-aging nutrients -- and there is so much more.  I will be telling your more about him in due course.

But, the result of all this recent and intense investigation is that I am now convinced that our Life Glow oral chelation would be a better formula with EDTA added to it!  That is a very dramatic change for me -- but I took the time of all the above words to let you know that I am  not afraid of  changing my mind and position when I see better data than what I had been operating on.  I hope my long story, above, leads you to believe that, even though I have changed my position on this, I am a trustworthy source of continued information which you can use for your health improvement.

It turns out that EDTA does NOT have to be absorbed into the body to do good for the body.  That explanation will be for another day -- but while it is traveling through the intestine it is picking up toxic metals from the body, and taking them out through the stool. 

Here is a sample of the type of studies which I have looked at:

The 88 abstracts and portions of 27 published articles come from mainstream medicine and indicate an increase of excretion of lead with oral EDTA from 3 to 30 times (without exception). Virtually every one of these articles describes significant lead lowering benefits from the oral ingestion of EDTA.

This is inherently a more efficient way that having to rely on a needle in the arm and process all those toxic metals through the kidneys.

 


Toxic Lead

This part of the story starts with toxic lead. 

If you thought that heart disease was a serious problem, you will be amazed to learn how much MORE serious lead is in our bodies.  The lead, itself, leads to not only heart disease but also cancer.

When you get the lead out of your body, you accomplish the same results that I have spoken about when I talked about removing the toxic metals so that fewer free radicals would be created and so that your arteries could then be brought back to health and your blood flow increased.

Click here to review more than 100 scientific studies on the effects of toxic lead in your body.  These studies include, for instance, the following:

The number of reports concerning the chemical toxicology of metals which are released in the environment by natural as well as anthropogenic sources, have been increasing constantly.

Lead, cadmium, and manganese have found a variety of uses in industry, craft, and agriculture owing to their physical and chemical properties. The environmental burden of heavy metals has been rising substantially by smelter emission in air and waste sewage in water.

Further, organic compounds of lead and manganese used as antiknock substances in gasoline are emitted into the atmosphere by automobile exhaustion. Such environmental contamination of air, water, soil, and food is a serious threat to all living kinds.

Although these metals are known to produce their toxic effects on a variety of body systems, much emphasis has been placed on their effects on the nervous system owing to apparent association of relatively low or "subclinical" levels of metallic exposure with behavioral and psychological disorders.

Clinical and animal data on environmental exposure show that while lead and manganese are most toxic to the nervous system, cadmium exerts profound adverse effects on kidney and the male reproductive system. It appears that the consequences of exposure to lead in adults are less severe than the types of exposure associated with hyperactivity in neonates.

Except for a few reports, hyperactivity has indeed been observed in animals exposed to either of these three metals.

Experimental work has also shown that these metals produce behavioral changes by altering the metabolism of brain neurotransmitters, especially catecholamines.

Recently, it is hypothesized that these metals exert their toxic effect by damaging biological defenses which exist in the body to serve as protective mechanisms against exogenous toxins. A voluminous publication list with diverse opinions on the biological effects of metals is available and there is an urgent need to compile assessment of the existing literature to identify the future theme of research work.

The problem of metal toxicity becomes even more complex owing to simultaneous or successive exposure of the general population to different physical, chemical, biological, and psychological factors in the environment. The net toxic manifestations produced by multiple exposure should, therefore, be different from those produced by a single factor as the result of their additive, synergistic or antagonistic action.

Even though a metal may not exist in sufficient amounts to cause any disability, the toxicity could result when a second factor is also present.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS) 
(Click Here to go to the page with this study, number **2** out of 100 on that page.)

And, if you want more information about the use of oral EDTA to handle lead in the body, click here to review 26 different studies that show how EDTA removes lead from the body. 


All of the above changes in my attitude about oral chelation were taking place during mid-March, but there was yet another dramatic change.

On about March 11, 1999, I discovered that one entire batch of Life Glow was suffering from the problem that the tablets were crumbling, or cracking.  I put up an announcement about this a few days ago.  Click here to read that announcement.  This had happened a couple of other times, but never so soon after we received a new batch of the product.  In the past we had given refunds and replaced the bottles with new bottles from a different batch -- while the laboratory tried hard to figure out what was causing the crumbling.

Ultimately they have decided that the formula would be much easier to manufacture if it is put in capsules rather than into tablets.

So, there I was, with a large number of bottles of  Life Glow going back to the factory to be ground up and put into capsules at the same time as I was coming to the conclusion that the formula would be far more effective if it had EDTA added to it.

I've done that!

The Life Glow formula which we ship out on and after March 13, 1999, will be the "same old formula" but with EDTA added.  It will now require 20 capsules to equal the ingredients in the 10 tablets of the previous form.  These 20 capsules, however, will now include EDTA.

As of this very moment I don't even know how much EDTA we have been able to squeeze into the capsules.  I could have gone to an even higher number than 20, but figured I had to draw the line somewhere -- and some people don't like the idea of having to take 20 capsules instead of 10 tablets.

However, the good side of this news is that the capsule is easier to swallow and will dissolve far more quickly in the stomach.

So, that's my story.

Unfortunately it costs quite a bit more money to put this formula in capsules, instead of tablets, but it does give us a better package and has allowed me to add a new ingredient that will greatly improve the effectiveness of the formula.

If you have any questions on this, please call me -- I will be available to talk personally with anyone who wants to talk to me on this -- and I will, as always, answer personally every personal eMail message I receive.

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Footnotes

  Bypassing Bypass, by Dr. Elmer Cranton, page 53.  (Return to text.)

  Bypassing Bypass, by Dr. Elmer Cranton, page 56.  (Return to text.)



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