The chelation based on faulty premise

Friday, December 4, 2009 - 21:56 in Health & Medicine

The risky treatment for autism that removes metals from patients' bodies is often prompted by results from an uncertain test. No treatment is more emblematic of the world of alternative therapies for autism than chelation. The influential autism recovery group, Defeat Autism Now, calls removing metals from the body "one of the most beneficial treatments for autism and related disorders." Chelation is one...

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