I have recently gotten SIGNIFICANT improvement in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by working with an alternative MD in Florida. He chelates, uses ozone therapies, diet, etc. But he also has created a metal and body detox that was extremely helpful in my metal removal process, and I've seen it with my own eyes work miracles with an autistic child in the clinic (in an amazingly short period of time). It's called "Metal Free" and its synergistic companion is "Body Detox." Both are by BodyHealth (bodyhealth.com). Metal Free can be used concurrently with chelation, or without doing chelation. I've put some info below in the hopes it helps others the way I know it's helped me. Lots of other info is on the BodyHealth website, including case studies, etc. To your health!!!

The natural ingredients in Metal-Free stick very tightly to heavy metals so they won't be dropped off and cause trouble elsewhere. The bonds are very tight and enable the heavy metal to be removed from the body without dropping it off at some other site. Other chelators like EDTA and DMPS have a weaker bond, and may bind to a heavy metal in one area of the body and drop it off at another. For example, if lead is picked up from the bone by EDTA and dropped off in the brain, a worse condition can result.

Metal-Free is an oral spray that is absorbed via the oral mucosa and is assimilated throughout the body. Based on kinesiology testing Metal-Free can cross the blood brain barrier.

When heavy metals are bound to Metal-Free, the complex is removed via the bowel or into the hair. Clinical cases show that the amount of heavy metals that increase in the stool after an oral challenge with Metal-Free are significant, with values from 2x to 10x over baseline. Metal Free is technically not a chelator. It is composed of a unique short protein chain, called a peptide, very small and easily absorbed. The way it interacts with the heavy metal is to wrap around it in such a way, that the heavy metal is not free to interfere or block important body processes. The way the Dr. describes it is the Metal Free forms a surrounding cage around the mercury, arsenic, lead, aluminum, uranium or cadmium which the body then removes by excreting it in the stool and then out of the body. Note, does not stress the kidneys like chelation can do!