posted May 09, 2006 08:20 PM
Sorry Harpyr - I come around here once in a while in spurts LOL... I worked on using on of our products that would remove lead from the blood stream. The thought is that the lead (or other heavy metals) has a stronger affinity for the chelator (EDTA is often used) than it does for organs or cells in the blood stream.
The binding factors allows the lead (or heavy metal) to follow it on the chelators natural pathway out of the body. Normally through urine and sometimes through feces.
Adults have the ability to excrete lead at a much faster rate than children (the enzymes in children are not as advanced and the lead / heavy metals often stay in the tissues causing disorders in the future). Most adults that are exposed to various heavy metals clear them quickly UNLESS the amounts are inhaled (such as in the case sometimes with inhalation mercury poisionings).
The substance you are talking about is found in most vaccines and some feel there is a link between the chemicals / mercury and toxicity leading to Autism.
Most of the documentation is from Autism groups. There are also several extensive studies that correlate the rate of autism with parents that inhaled a significant amount of marijauna and other illicit drugs.
Dateline just came out to my county to discuss new treatment being instituted by either a hospital in Tucson or through our local hospital. I only got a small part of it as it was at a meeting for special education professionals / grants. They have a new treatment agent that works as a chelator to remove substances from the blood. They are using it in several autistic patients to see if the treatment will reverse the symptoms associated with austism.
The premise is that the children have a built up of these toxic agents and therefore the use of the chelator will bind to those metals and be excreted from the body.
I hope it works - the agent we used did not work in rats. It looked great in vitro- lots of binding. The problem was the molecular structure was such that when it came time to be filtered through the kidneys, it ended up collecting there - basically not being able to pass. In the end, the rats that had received the lead plus chelator had 100 times more lead in their kidneys that rats that just received lead.
I hope this helps. When I have time (as I stated in another post, some things that are extremely extensive have be put on the back burner while I finish writing a grant, then I will make sure I can get all the information you may need.
Take care
~Pidaua