Hi, I'm Doctor Datis Kharrazian
and I want to talk to you about concerns
for heavy metal chelation
and autoimmune disease.
So, one of the treatments
that takes place when someone
has autoimmune disease
is they look for heavy metals.
And if you have ever had
your heavy metals tested
or the way the system
works is you basically
can have them measured in the blood
or you can have them
measured in the urine,
but the most common thing
they do is the challenge test,
where some individual
will ingest a chelator.
And once they ingest a chelator,
they'll do a post urine test
and they'll see what types
of heavy metals are found in that person.
Well the truth is everyone
has very high levels
of heavy metals.
So if you test it you're gonna find it,
it's just one of the facts
of being a human being
living in modern society,
you're gonna have levels of heavy metals.
Whether they're causing
autoimmune disease or not
that's a big jump,
even though we do know there's research
that links environmental
exposures and heavy metals
to autoimmune disease.
But beside that,
the key issue however,
isn't just the fact
that heavy metal are linked
to autoimmune diseases
and that everyone has high levels
is that many autoimmune disease
patients will get worse,
will get really,
really sick if they do chelation therapy.
So chelation therapy really
involves taking a chelator
and once you have this chelator,
the goal is for it to
bind to heavy metals.
But recent studies show
that chelators like EDTA,
DMPS, DMSA can actually
redistribute these heavy metals
into neurological tissue.
And the biggest concern for us is that
when someone does autoimmunity,
is that when they going
through this chelation process
they're not redistributing
metals into other areas
and there's some things
that really have to be done
to make sure a person is
actually healthy enough
to handle chelation.
First of all,
they should have healthy
blood-brain barriers.
So measuring things
like blood-brain barrier
protein antibodies,
S-100B markers are critical.
Making sure the patient doesn't
have interstellar
permeability or breakdown
of the tight junctions.
You can have chemical binded compounds
get through the gut and then present as
antigen presenting cells if they bind
to proteins. Chemicals can induce
immune activity chemicals and bind
to proteins found in blood like
albumin and then cause immune reactions
and these can be significantly elevated
during the chelation process.
So when you're looking at autoimmunity
in this whole model of chelation therapy
is a treatment or cure, one things that
we all see clinically as many many many
patients get worse when they do therapy
and many of them don't recover, for
some they definitely, there are some that
have benefits from the treatment.
But the point is that there has to be
a thorough workup to make sure a person
has some degree of health and it's not
going to have any side effects that have
any risk factor for
their autoimmunity when
they are going to
consider chelation therapy
if they do have high heavy metal load.
So we're going to go
over all these concepts
and really talk about how chemicals impact
immune system and how chelation therapy
can be contraindicated different states
of immune function with autoimmune disease
patients and really review the literature
of all the various factors that involve
with chemical induce toxicity
the chronicle institute autoimmune program
on critical strategies and
treatment applications.
Hope to see you there.
Thank for your attention.
