Chelation
Nation
Chelation - 101
...a Schoolroom Primer
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Here is one molecule of the chelator called EDTA.
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It is "chemically shaped" like a cage, or like an actual claw.
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To view this idea in 3-dimensional space, make a claw with your LEFT hand, that is facing toward your right.
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The O's above are your fingertips.
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The N's above are your wrist.
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If you held a tennis ball in that hand, that would represent one tiny spec of tightly bound LARGE ATOM poison, represented as the red M (for "metal") in the picture above.
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A small metallic mineral like Magnesium for example (akin to a golf ball in your claw hand), would bounce right out, so would not be trapped and removed.
Fatty organs:
(helicopter and airplane)
brain, all nerves, liver, interstitial fat, skin, gall bladder, colon
Watery organs: (ship)
blood, kidneys, muscle, eyes, spleen
Excretion organs:
(train and bus)
Bladder, colon
This animation above describes the "swapping off" transport of how metals get carried out of the body. Metals are traded, to varying degree, like a baton in a relay race. Each "chelator vehicle" is USUALLY specially designed to operate in only one environment at a time: either the fatty (oil) tissues like liver, brain, cell walls, or the water (blood) environment like the blood, kidneys, lymphatic fluids, and cell interiors.
Distribution and "Hard to Get" Areas
Imagine Oil and Vinegar salad dressing... The spices that are dissolved in one layer probably can't also dissolve in the other layer. It's the same with chelators.
If a metal poison is lodged in a fatty tissue like brain, nerve, liver, belly fat, cell walls, a chelator may have to be the kind that is dissolvable in fat.
If a metal poison is lodged in a water-based tissue like blood, kidney, bladder, eyes, a chelator may have to be a kind that is dissolvable in water.
Some chelators seem to be able to cross over into both zones: OSR, HOPO
At first, the metal stays local to the point of entry. Some metals get absorbed into bone right away: Lead, Cadmium, Gadolinium
Over months to years, the metal gets distributed throughout organs, tissues.
Heavy metal seems most difficult to remove from the very ends of extremities, and from the fatty tissue, and from the brain.
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Roughly one in four people don't have the genes necessary for good Excretion and Detox through the liver and kidney
DETOX Phases Simplified
Phase I of Detox:
The first step in the two-step process for neutralizing toxic chemicals happens in the LIVER, during which enzymes convert the majority of them into forms that can be neutralized only in phase II.
Phase II of Detox:
The LIVER uses one of two major enzyme pathways to change a toxic substance into a less toxic form that is also easier for the body to throw out as trash, because liver cells add a neutralizing agent (usually a form of sulfur) to a toxic element to make it less harmful.
Phase III of Detox:
This is the actually flowing river of bile (like soap for fat) and the flowing river of urine from the kidney to bladder that brings the neutralized waste along for the ride OUT of the body.