edta

Someone sent me a warning from á forum that EDTA was dangerous, but didn't have the full text on it, so if anyone has gotten the same letter or looked in the forum, here's the answer to that.

I just had a discussion with Boyd Haley about this. The above
sentence was taken out of context. In fact, what he said was that
EDTA when combined with mercury outside the body and then ingested is
100 times more toxic than mercury alone. EDTA used as a chelator in
a mercury toxic person has a different effect. I asked him in the
context of my son who has tested high in aluminum and mercury and his
answer follows (posted with his permission) in it's entirety below.
Please read it carefully to understand the issue properly.

His response:

Andre: It would take a long time to explain the chemical complexity
of what I am going to say but I will try to keep it simple and
straight forward. But the bottom line is you should continue to use
the EDTA to remove the other heavy metals as they exacerbate the
toxicity of mercury currently existing in your child's body more than
anything else---it is important to get them out before the mercury
will be extractable. The synergistic toxicity of mercury plus other
heavy metals is more damaging than the small amount of mercury-EDTA
that could be formed using EDTA as your doctor recommended. I would
guess he is using the TD-DMPS to lower the blood mercury levels to
decrease any negative effect the EDTA may have.



The mercury-EDTA complex is more toxic than mercury alone, but in
this context it is the mercury-EDTA complex outside the body that one
is about to ingest. Once mercury is in the body it binds to proteins
so tightly that the presence of EDTA has no affect on it and vice-
versa. That is, very little to no mercury-EDTA will be formed in the
body by EDTA chelation of a mercury toxic individual. Especially
since the EDTA will be loaded by other metals that are more easily
accessible from the cells.



Boyd E. Haley

Professor

Department of Chemistry

University of Kentucky Tweet