What is a chelater and how often do you use it?

Remove heavy metals: Chelation uses chemicals to bind heavy metals in the blood and remove them. It definitely has a role to treat a rare blood disease (thalassemia), a rare copper metabolic problem (wilson's disease) and accidental exposure to toxic metals. There is experimental work with diabetes that is largelly unproven. Beware of nonphysicians that are pushing chelation for many different ailments.

Removes toxin: It is an IV treatment to remove toxins but has limited clinical indication.