Acknowledging the Importance of Chelation In Our Lives

Oral chelation is the process of solubilization of metal salts by making chemical complex or sequestering. It can be done by using ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) salts that are having a multidentate spiral shaped ligand texture which surrounds the metallic and the other ions.

When we intake anything ‘orally’, it simply refers to mouth. Hence, this process means ‘oral chelation’. This term can be contrasted with ‘intravenous’ which means something enters inside you not through your mouth but through your veins. This is generally done by a doctor or a medical practitioner by inserting syringe needle into a vein, often in your wrist.

The word ‘chelation’ was originated in Greece from the word – chele, which means the claw or paw of a lobster or a crab. It refers to a grabbing reflex. By the term chelation we simply mean ‘grabbing action’. Oral chelation means dissipating matter by taking the preparation made orally.

Cysteine, N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine and EDTA are the main ingredients of oral chelation. EDTA is basically an artificial amino acid. Since it is considered as an alien particle by our body so the full particle coated with EDTA, are expelled by it later.

EDTA is a crucial part of oral chelation. Its chemical and physical composition is like this that it is easily attracted to the bulky particles. There is no magnetic power, but in case, EDTA is in your blood stream, and some bulky particles like lead, mercury, iron, etc., and the EDTA comes in contact in such a way that the heavy particle gets glazed with EDTA, and then it is shown exit by your system.

Our body, sometimes, do not realize that certain constituents which it is desirous to keep inside are actually dangerous for it. EDTA comes as a solution for it. EDTA crusts materials like iron mixed with carbon, which are extremely dangerous for lives if kept inside the bodies. So, these particles glazed with EDTA are urinated and expelled out of the body. That is how we get rid of these heavy particles.

EDTA ( ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) is an antioxidant and a known sequestrant and a part of the oral chelation process. Almost all the household, body and food products have this constituent added in them. When EDTA is added as an antioxidant, it helps preventing discoloration, rancidity and textural breakdown due to the presence of oxygen.

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