AK Alternative Medicine Clinic

Learning about the value of IV chelation therapy utilizing EDTA (ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid) was a pivotal point in Dr. Denton’s career. Shortly after she received training by the American College of Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) in 1985, she resigned her position as a board certified emergency room physician (director of three emergency rooms) to enter private practice in the field of alternative medicine. Dr. Denton discovered that through this therapy, she might be able to keep people from having to undergo bypass surgery or repeated visits to the emergency room. She eventually became board certified in the field of clinical metal toxicology, which specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of heavy metal poisoning from lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium and others. This is an area that receives very little attention in medical school even today, and yet can be the missing piece of the puzzle of solving a person’s chronic illness. (more…)