Chelation Therapy

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Lead, mercury and arsenic serve no function in the human body and are poisonous. If accumulated in large enough amounts, they can cause severe illness and death . However, this is not the only case. Even metals that are proven essential to human body functions such as iron can become toxic if they accumulate in large amounts. It is when there are excessive amounts of these heavy metals in your body that the function of chelation therapy comes into play.
The main function of chelation therapy is to BIND.
Through a process of inserting metal binding agents known as chelators into the body these flow into the bloodstream to the body organ in which the accumulated amounts of toxic metal is located. These chelating agents bind to the toxic metals

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