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Matt Kelly explains how chelation drugs bind toxic metals so your body can excrete them, but warns these prescription medications carry serious risks. Improper administration can be lethal.

Matt Kelly explains how chelation drugs bind toxic metals so your body can excrete them, but warns these prescription medications carry serious risks. Improper administration can be lethal.
What's the good side of them? If you have too much metal in you that's toxic, it'd be wonderful to send these drugs in with their little claws, either the 4 claws of the ADTA family or the 2 claws of the thiol family, and grab up these metals. And then what happens? They make a complex around that. The toxic metal goes to your kidneys and you urinate it out. So get rid of it. Keep that in mind, that pathway through the kidneys. Why are these by prescription? Because you can literally kill somebody by misadministering any of these chelating drugs. And of course, nobody wants to do that. First do no harm, right? Now, what could be the negative sides of chelation drug therapy? The main negative side is not the drug itself, like with most drug problems. It's improperly administered drug.