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DIY Chelation: Not Recommended

Posted on June 14, 2008

Says Hilary Godwin, chair of environmental health sciences at UCLA and the mother of an autistic son in a June 16th LA Times article about the dangers of over-the-counter chelating products: Parental anxiety drives people to try anything. Anything and everything (including a certain kind of enema), all in the name of detoxifying autistic children s bodies of supposed excessive heavy metals, toxins, and so forth. Dr. Michael Shannon, chief of emergency medicine at Children s Hospital in Boston and a specialist in lead poisoning, says this about the dangers of over-the-counter do it...

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