Chelation is the use of a substance to bind with metals in order to pull them out of tissue, and drag them into the blood where they can then be filtered out to the kidney.

The word “Chelation” comes from the Greek word “chele” which means a claw of a crab or lobster and implies a strong, pincer-like grasping.

Its use predates the pharmacologic era. It has been used for an array of medical conditions, especially cardiovascular. Interest in it from conventional medicine waned with the advent of stents and drug therapy.

Some of the heavy metals we test include: