Finding out about Chelation

[Guest guest]

Dear Listmates,

I don't have much time to post these days but I have been following

the discussion re chelators and methods of their use and wanted to

drop by with a suggestion. Newer list members may not have heard of

Andy Cutler (a PhD chemist and who was in effect the main adviser on

the Autism-Mercury list for some years)who has written two books, the

first of which contains an lot of information about chelation

including his description of how chelators work:

http://www.noamalgam.com/ The books are easily purchased with PayPal

and should arrive within a week.

I myself have not tried chelation, but my take on it is that if you

do do it, the precautionary principle should always be paramount and

risks kept down to an absolute minimum.

While there are medical practitioners who supervise chelation it

should always be kept in mind that most doctors (MDs)are not

scientists and do not know how to read and to assess scientific

literature.

The editor of the BMJ wrote a short article on this subject " Doctors

are not scientists " which I recommend; in fact I was thinking of

posting it here regularly every few months so new list mates could

see it: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/0-h

It's quite a salutary warning, in my opinion.

Margaret

[Guest guest]

HEAR HEAR Margaret!

>

> Dear Listmates,

> I don't have much time to post these days but I have been following

> the discussion re chelators and methods of their use and wanted to

> drop by with a suggestion. Newer list members may not have heard of

> Andy Cutler (a PhD chemist and who was in effect the main adviser

on

> the Autism-Mercury list for some years)who has written two books,

the

> first of which contains an lot of information about chelation

> including his description of how chelators work:

> http://www.noamalgam.com/ The books are easily purchased with

PayPal

> and should arrive within a week.

> I myself have not tried chelation, but my take on it is that if you

> do do it, the precautionary principle should always be paramount

and

> risks kept down to an absolute minimum.

> While there are medical practitioners who supervise chelation it

> should always be kept in mind that most doctors (MDs)are not

> scientists and do not know how to read and to assess scientific

> literature.

> The editor of the BMJ wrote a short article on this

subject " Doctors

> are not scientists " which I recommend; in fact I was thinking of

> posting it here regularly every few months so new list mates could

> see it: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/0-h

> It's quite a salutary warning, in my opinion.

> Margaret

>