There are a lot of ideas that bear looking at but nay doctor who breathlessly blasts emails to the world sound really now better. Chelation had some theoretical underpinnings. When I scrubbed and did carotid endartectomies and other (aorta Bifems, etc.) you can really feel the plaques are “gritty”. Of course atheromatious plaques are almost pure cholesterol. But the immune system sends in macrophages to try to “clean up” and they die and become calcified so that is the source of that.
I guess the thought was circulating chelating agents would bind that calcium and reduce the plaque or something. It never IMHO was ever really well thought out. They had a chemical, they could make money, it never showed ay clinical results, some people got taken for suckers.
Another one I had more respect for came along the H. Pylori from ulcers. Once they discovered that this bug lived in stomach acid they started looking for it elsewhere ad low and behold, there were reports that it was living in the slime on your teeth. Then it was hypothesized that people were developing antibodies that were contributing to the atheromas because, surprise surprise, they were living in arteriosclerosis plaques as well. So they started antibiotic trials for cardiovascular disease. Didn’t work. But “A” for effort.
Thanks. So you can see why I am skeptical of commercialized fantastic claims.
1st sentence should end “Should really know better”. Google really like to screw with me.