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High Level SINGLE Exposures in History vs Low Level "METAL COMBOS" of Today

In the 1940's, chelation therapies were "invented" for the purposes of "grabbing tightly" and removing the metal ions in acute metal poisonings. Protocols were created toward identifying and reversing very high and very recent exposure, i.e. if a worker "fell in a vat of lead paint."  Today's  "low and slow" exposures are very different from the acute exposure from the past. Chronic small trickles cause DEEP TISSUE buildup of metals, requiring advanced testing and treatment protocols. Metals in COMBINATION cause severe symptomology and are trickier to remove. The well known safety and effectiveness of chelation in general remains unchallenged by any US health authority. 

Most people have no immediate reaction while metal poison is GOING IN,

so we do NOT learn what is happening and to avoid it!  But for everyone, getting the poison OUT usually causes many reactions and is a long, slow process.  Rushing always causes a chemical backlash.

Any chelator's job is to "root out" the metals AND "neutralize them" and "flag them for removal." But the stirring up often makes things worse on the way to getting better, just like refurbishing a house makes a huge mess on the way to improvement.  Chelation is practiced by individual clinics of many different disciplines, and chelation experts compare and contrast which methods work best in different types of metal combinations.

Most doctors today have NOT been educated about heavy metal toxicology.

Most doctors know little of the exposure risks and the well-documented diseases they cause, nor do they know of their effective removal and disease reversal. Unless an MD, ND, or DO has had personal experience with metal overload, they will likely know very little of chelation's effectiveness. Doctors do not realize that prescribing "partial/weak chelators" can be akin to playing with fire. 

Moreover, chemical compounds follow their own laws of action. 

They do not follow the directions of doctors. Medications that are targeted at other issues entirely can act as weak chelators that stir up metals but do not remove metals. Examples: 

-cycline antibiotics stir up mercury. Zinc affcts gadolinium. Cilantro affects metals. Geriatric done surgeries and even a diet change for the better can cause metals to be re-mobilized, requiring a metals cleanup campaign, to prevent re-poisoning from "unknown source."

Chelation Requires Replenishing of Minerals ad Electrolytes (the small&GOOD metals):
Important minerals (vitamins) and other repair nutritionals that your body needs get washed out during the chelation process (zinc/iron/magnesium are good metals) so they need to be replenished regularly, but as the mercury, lead, arsenic etc (bad metals) load decreases in your body (as normal function returns to nerves and glands and organs), your body grains the ability to hold on to and use electrolytes and minerals better.
 

"Low and slow is the way to go."
Biologically speaking, chelation makes the most sense as a low dose oral pill, taken for a few days in a row per "round," repeating as the next round every few weeks, for a campaign lasting a few months or years. Reactions can be controlled, oral is safer than IV, and there is no way to rationalize solving a decades old problem in weeks. It takes time to get poisoned; it will take time to get un-poisoned. To CN and to most respected experts in the field, "low and slow is the way to go."

Each bound-together-complex of chelator+metal is more easily excreted than the metal alone.  However, some chelator+metal complexes cannot be "seen" at the testing lab because the new chelators are so good at "permanantly binding/neutralizing" the metal, that the metal can no longer be spotted up by normal testing methods.  The metals found in the lab sample are compared to the amount of other metabolic waste also generated by the individual in that same time period.  Metal amount per unit of kidney work, for example.

The dose (mg per body weight) of chelator given is NOT UNIFORM in all patients, hence one patient cannot be easily compared to another patient.  Chelator dosages vary from office to office, based on the protocols of the practitioner.  Helpful supplements can also be taken to liberate the metals that are buried deep within tissues.  CHALLENGE TESTS, if safe for you, SHOULD BE DONE THE VERY SAME WAY EVERY TIME, SO THAT YOUR RESULTS CAN at the very least BE COMPARED TO EACH OTHER OVER TIME. 

SOME challenge tests and some chelation protocols are not safe for SOME patients with particular COMBINATIONS of metals, as they re-distribute SOME metals into new body tissues, thus causing more and different symptoms.  Side effects from challenge testing span from NONE to SEVERE.