110 - Chelation Therapy for Heart Disease

It’s a pseudoscience that seemed to work at first, but now the same researcher who “proved” that it worked has proven that it doesn’t. Do we need to purge people of heavy metals to make sure they don’t have heart attacks? No… but you won’t believe the price tag we’ve had to pay to gain this wisdom.

 

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References:

1) Editorial expressing concerns about TACT1: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1672219

2) Results from the TACT2 trial: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2822472

3) Editor’s note on the whole saga: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2822475

4) Dr. Stephen Barrett’s commentary on TACT1: https://quackwatch.org/chelation/research/tact/