DEAR DR. GOTT:
I am responding with our personal experience that ties in with the enclosed article you wrote.

My husband was diagnosed with a 50% heart blockage. Since he was not looking forward to surgery, he tried chelation. We interviewed the doctor in our town who also had a chelation center. We were assured it would handle the blockage.

After 30 treatments, I begged my husband to have another echocardiogram to compare to the previous one that indicated the blockage. Thank goodness he agreed because the blockage had worsened to 70%!

My husband had successful aortic valve replacement and bypass surgery at the Ross Heart Institute at Ohio State University. His recovery was wonderful. I am very thankful to the doctors there. I believe they not only saved his life but improved the quality of it as well. [Read more...]

DEAR DR. GOTT:
I was happy with your answer to the person who wrote to you about chelation.

My father had it done because the doctor convinced him his body was full of lead and that his heart was like concrete inside. My mother also got hooked by this guy. Both were also told they had to buy special vitamins because the chelation would leach iron and other nutrients from their bodies.

My father was 80 when all this was going on and refused to let me take him to a cardiologist. I even went so far as to get various pamphlets from the American Heart Association about how dangerous chelation can be.

My father never experienced improvement from the procedure and, after several treatments, passed away. Following this, I immediately took my mother off them and got her to the doctor. By the time I got her there, she had already done irreversible damage to her body. [Read more...]