Chelation therapy is a procedure that has and continues to have a lot of supporters and doubters. Science is split right down the middle on whether chelation therapy is a legitimate treatment for ailments such as heart disease and arteriosclerosis. The beginnings of chelation therapy are the only thing that scientists can agree on and that is that EDTA, a man made amino acid, is good at removing toxic heavy metals from the human body. Many years ago this chemical EDTA was used to remove things like aluminum and lead from human