While practicing in California, I had several patients tell me that they were taking chelation treatments and that after many years of  feeling weak and tired or continuing to have frequent chest pain, or joint pain, they were feeling terrific.

These were not just patients I was treating, but patients I had sent to specialists from cardiologists to rheumatologists to allergists to endocrinologists, and around in circles. Now they were telling me that the quality of their lives was better, and many were taking less medicine or had to have their medicines reduced and were feeling better because of less medicine.

Later, a friend of a friend asked me if I wanted to go to a chelation seminar. So, I convinced myself that I should go and see what these "quacks" were doing.

Interestingly enough, there were quite a few medical doctors at the convention, as well as Ph.D. types from major teaching institutions. I was still not impressed enough at the time to acknowledge that the procedure was worthwhile, knowing that I had not been taught about chelation in medical school.

But, why was I not taught about it? I questioned myself. Much of the information at the seminar was very enlightening but still in the forefront of medical therapy, or was it? Well, I went home questioning myself about what had been presented at the convention, what the patients had shared, and what the physicians around me were saying.

In mid 1979, my father had a heart attack. He did not do well initially. He was 70 years old. I thought, this is it, there is nothing that I can do to help him.

Initially they wanted to do bypass surgery, but he was too weak. Then he started to rally and got a little stronger. They thought he might be able to go through surgery. Then the chelation "bird" whispered in my ear.

During this time I was learning about chelation from physicians in California who had been using it for years. I spent months learning the fine details of its use. I learned from physicians who I felt were years ahead of their time about other techniques and therapies for keeping the body healthy, vigorous, and young in one's later years of life.

But, getting back to my father; as he became stronger, the physicians became more stubborn in their insistence for him to go into surgery, and it took all I could do to convince my mother to hold off and delay it.

What really convinced me to start my father and mother on chelation, were the responses I heard from patients who had been chelated.

The stories of improvement, decreased pain, and increased energy and vitality were really astounding.

I brought my father to California with his suitcase full of medications and slowly gave him 60 treatments. I took him off all his medications except for two. One was aspirin and the other was a drug to be used as needed.

When he left California, he was able to walk several miles a day. He went back to his doctors in Philadelphia. They did another angiogram and told him his blockage was gone. He told them he had taken chelation. They looked at each other and asked, "What is that?" Then, they turned to him and said it could not work and that his case was a case of "rare" spontaneous remission which happens only occasionally and that he was really "lucky."

My father had a nice long life (he died at 94). He didn't have any further heart attacks, even though, local physicians almost killed him three times in the last five years of his life, by overdosing him with coumadin, putting him in a coma for two weeks from an allergic drug reaction and overdosing him with five different blood pressure medicines and partially shutting down his kidney function for a flu reaction.

My mother has memory  problems which started several years after her local physician, for no reason,  abruptly stopped her estrogen therapy which she had taken successfully for forty years. Other than that she still dances, exercises and sings regularly. She is now 86 years old.

Needless, to say I am extremely appalled at the way people are treated by the medical community. With the overwhelming information available, physicians still over medicate patients daily causing them great harm.

Since I started using chelation therapy along with the conventional treatments, I have found that those patients following my prudent suggestions have had superior outcomes for their problems. I feel that there are beneficial therapies to be found in homeopathic and conventional medicine...

... And, it is the physician or the patient who thinks that there is only one way to go who is the fool!