EDTA Chelation and the removal of Calcium placque causing arteriosclerosis

Calcium deposits in the arteries causing arteriosclerosis? Calcium deposits in kidney causing kidney stones? Calcium anywhere other than in bones and teeth, where it is supposed to be, causing "mucho problemas"? I’m wondering. (As a young, late 30s person with arteriosclerosis, that I got when I was even younger despite eating my veggies, I’m interested). Apparently in some countries like Switzerland, it is more accepted.

The February 2004 issue of the health newsletter "Prescriptions for Healthy Living"
reported that a 75-year-old man who was suffering from arteries clogged in the legs took 5,000 mg. (5 grams) of Calcium EDTA per day. In addition to the intermittent claudication, he was blind for the last 3 years. Four months later, (he was alto taking other supplements) his intermittent claudication went away -- and his vision returned!
(Note, he took his EDTA orally; maybe he could have cut the dose way down if he had taken it sublingually, see below)

Sometime I’ll try to go online and find more sources on this. Has anyone found anything on it? So far, the gist of it, without believing everything advertisers say, is:

Chelation is famous for removing toxic metals like mercury, but here we’re talking about a different use for chelation: removal of calcium deposits from the body in corners where calcium isn’t supposed to be, using EDTA.

EDTA removes calcium deposits, (presumably without removing the calcium from places it is supposed to be, like bones and teeth).

So how to go about it? It used to be that the only reputed effective way was through injections in a doctor’s office, because EDTA swallowed as a capsule is mostly not absorbed well. But there was some study, maybe unofficial, showing that EDTA given in an enema and held for about an hour was absorbed very well. Some companies are taking that info and running with it: by selling EDTA suppositories, but the suppositories are VERY expensive. Yet plain powdered Calcium di-sodium EDTA is widely available and cheap.

There are two kinds of EDTA: magnesium Di-Potassium EDTA and
Calcium di-Sodium EDTA. Apparently, the calcium di-sodium version stings if used in a suppository or an enema, so just buying some of the calcium di-sodium version and using it in an enema won’t be a good idea. The calcium di-sodium one is very cheap and easy to find though. The magnesium version, which doesn’t sting in an enema, I haven’t found a way to buy yet.

Another way to make sure EDTA is absorbed is sublingually (held under the tongue for 2-20 minutes). Absorption, according to some sources, is much better that way. So that looks like the only affordable way for the common person to use EDTA: buying plain Calcium di-Sodium EDTA and using it under the tongue. (I don’t know why it wouldn’t sting there, if it stings in the enemas)

Here is a link to a new Yahoo Group on the subject; and a summary of that group:
“Chelation Therapy: what is it? Can it help me avoid a major stroke or heart attack? Can it help me avoid having major surgery such as carotid endartectomy,heart bypass surgery? Can it help me walk again without pain? Can it help clear blocked arteries and reverse arterioclerosis? What if I've already had bypass surgery or a stroke, can it help me live a better life and prevent another one from happening?
These and many other questions are to be explored in this group whose sole mission is to learn how we can get well from this terrible illness or cope better with it and live a longer life.”

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chelationtherapy/

Here are three sources to buy plain EDTA. If it only takes a little under the tongue two times per day, then I would think these bottles would last awhile:

http://www.innovativemedicine.com/products/catalog/index.php?id=lp007

http://www.divservices.com/index.icl6.htm

http://www.sciencelab.com/page/S/PVAR/10412/SLE1396

(If you have to do a search in any of these sources, try “Edetate”, some of the pages use the full chemical name).

Also, this search string I just punched in gave quite a list of results, some might be useful:
+edta +calcium +arteriosclerosis

(IMPORTANT: Mercury removal may need to be dealt with before calcium deposit removal. The chelation substance called EDTA, which is used to remove calcium deposits, has a reputation by SOME people for moving mercury around without actually removing it from the body entirely, so if a person still has mercury problems, other chelation would be best first, to get rid of the mercury before using EDTA to get rid of the calcium deposits. The “Chelation- Andy Cutler forum” on curezone talks about Andy Cutler’s mercury removal protocol, which uses agents other than EDTA, and is the best that I’ve read for removing mercury. )