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AUTISM FIRST STEPS
AUTISM DAILY NEWSLETTER
Saturday January 5, 2002
INDEX:
* Review of the 2001 ARI/DAN Conference in
San Diego, by Tim O'Shea
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Review of the 2001 ARI/DAN Conference in San
Diego, by Tim O'Shea
AUTISM AND MERCURY: THE SAN DIEGO
CONFERENCE
- Tim O'Shea
Inquiry into vaccine safety is exploding like never before, even
in the popular press. Research coming from dozens of mainstream medical studies
can no longer be easily suppressed, as it has been in the past, especially with
the prevalence of online information exchange.
On 15-17 Sep 00, some 2000 people, mostly MDs, assembled at the Town and
Country resort in San Diego to hear the latest research on autism. Following
the Apr 00 Congressional hearings on autism and vaccines, this epidemic can no
longer be ignored. The figure of one autistic infant for every 150 is now
widely documented. (Bernard, Megson)
Such celebrity unsheathes the usual double-edged sword:
- the focus of research on the causes of autism
- the hawking of allopathic as well as Alternative-Lite
cures for autism
Both were well-represented in this gathering. Nevertheless, some critically
significant information emerged from this confused assembly, chiefly in the
presentations of three of the lecturers:
- Stephanie Cave, MD
- Amy Holmes, MD
- Andrew Wakefield, MD
Cave presented some very enlightening data on mercury toxicity, drawn largely
from the brilliant work of Sallie Bernard. Cave explained how by age two,
American children have received 237 micrograms of mercury through
vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA ‘safe’ levels of .1 mcg/kg. per
day. That’s one tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.
Three days in particular may be singled out as spectacularly toxic:
Day of birth: hepatitis B - 12 mcg mercury
30x safe level
At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50 mcg
60x safe level
At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg mercury
78x safe level
Then at 15 months the child receives another 50 mcg, equivalent to 41x
safe level. These figures are calculated for an infant’s average weight in
kilograms for each age. (Nathan)
These one-day blasts of mercury are called “bolus doses.” (Halsey) Although
they far exceed ‘safe’ levels, there has never been any research conducted on
the toxicity of such bolus doses of mercury given to infants all these years.
Inconceivable.
Historically, the toxicity of mercury has been known for more than a century.
Mad Hatters were more than a fantasy from Alice in Wonderland. Mad Hatter’s
disease has been well known in England since the mid 1800s. Hat makers
would routinely go mad as a result of inhaling the vapors from the
mercury-based stiffening compound they used on felt to make top hats. (Bernard)
SOURCES OF MERCURY
It is interesting to learn that common household remedies that were used up
into the 1960s like mercurochrome and “teething powder” were often the cause of
acute mercury poisoning and disease.
In the U.S., EPA mercury toxicity studies have involved contamination from
fish, air, and other environmental sources. This is inorganic mercury
(methylmercury). Methylmercury has long been associated with serious
neurological disorders, demyelinating diseases, gut disease, and visual damage.
(Merck)
The mercury in vaccines, however, is in the form of thimerosal.
Thimerosal is 50x more toxic than plain old mercury (methylmercury). Reasons
for this include:
· Injected mercury is far more toxic than ingested
· No blood brain barrier in infants
· Mercury accumulates in brain cells and nerves
· Infants don’t produce bile, which is necessary to excrete mercury
· Thimerosal is organic mercury. Once in nerve tissue, it is converted
irreversibly to its inorganic form
- Autism: A Unique Type
of Mercury Poisoning
Bernard patiently explains that the reason thimerosal is a much more toxic form
of mercury than one would get from eating open-sea fish has to do with the
difficulty of clearing thimerosal from the blood. Thimerosal is converted to
ethylmercury, an organic form which has a preference for nerve cells. Without a
complete blood-brain barrier, an infant’s brain and spinal cord are sitting
ducks. Once in the nerve cells, mercury is actually changed back to the
inorganic form, where it becomes tightly bound. Mercury can then remain for
years, like a time-release capsule, causing permanent degeneration and death of
brain cells.
Bernard also notes that the body normally clears mercury by fixing it to bile.
But before six months of age, infants don’t produce bile. Result: mercury can’t
be excreted.
Four separate government agencies have set safe levels for methylmercury, but no
safe levels have ever been set for thimerosal, because thimerosal isn’t
included in toxicity studies! (Bernard)
Theoretically, that means that the above excesses of safe levels of mercury on
the single days listed above are actually 50x higher!
Does the fact that the mercury is accompanied by a vaccine somehow place it
above scrutiny?
Sallie Bernard’s exhaustive, landmark study of vaccines and mercury toxicity -
Autism: A Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning - was probably the main reason that
even Congress began to see the obvious connection between
MERCURY AND VACCINES
Here’s a curious coincidence. Autism was discovered in the late 1930s by Leo
Kanner. Kanner noted that autism was a brand new type of condition, totally
different from any other type of mental disorder. (Bernard) So when was
thimerosal introduced into vaccines? The 1930s.
A few years ago, Bernard and her associates began to notice a striking
similarity between the symptoms of autism and the symptoms of mercury
poisoning. The more research she did, the more it seemed that these two
diseases virtually identical.
Autism and mercury poisoning both damage the same systems:
- brain and nerve cells
- gastrointestinal
- eyes
- muscle control
- immune
- speech
Although mercury toxicity has been studied for decades, and EPA safety levels
had been set, during all that time a child’s greatest exposure to mercury –
thimerosal in vaccines – was never even included in the toxicity studies! All
they have ever talked about was methylmercury from seafood and the environment,
totally ignoring the two most toxic sources of mercury for children: vaccines
and dental amalgams.
Reason: the EPA has no jurisdiction over drugs. That’s the FDA’s job.
This is why vaccines and amalgams don’t even figure into the equation when it
comes to setting ‘safe’ levels of mercury.
But the FDA does have jurisdiction over drugs and drug companies, right? And
over drug company publications, like the Merck Manual, which is the
standard cookbook for drugs and diseases, found in every doctor’s office in the
world. Surely the FDA, as the government agency charged with safeguarding the
nation’s health, would want the section on mercury toxicity to warn doctors
about the two biggest sources for children: thimerosal and dental amalgams,
wouldn’t you think?
Yet looking at the most current edition of the Merck Manual, (1999), in
the section on mercury poisoning (p 2636), thimerosal and dental amalgams again
are not even mentioned! How can this be, when mercury is widely acknowledged as
the third most deadly toxin in the world (Pilgrim) and thimerosal and
amalgams dwarf the trace amounts of mercury from fish and other environmental
sources of mercury?
Sniff – sniff…only one thing can put a blackout of information over an entire
area of study for years at a time in this way – big money.
Such an omission probably wouldn’t have anything to do with the revolving door
that exists between the FDA, the EPA, the NIH, and the sweet positions held by
their members before and after those grueling years of public service… Or with
the 800 waivers of the conflict of interest rule that the FDA has
granted in the past two years to “experts” who are paid consultants to the drug
companies, consultants who are also members of the FDA Advisory committees that
make decisions about whether or not to approve vaccines and drugs…(USA Today,
25 Sep 00) No, of course not…
SOAKING UP THE MERCURY
In the San Diego conference on autism, Dr. Amy Holmes gave perhaps the only
lucid presentation about treatment. She explained how chelating drugs, which go
through the blood like PacMan, munching up mercury, alone don’t do much good
for autism. That’s because most mercury clears from the blood very soon.
Mercury in thimerosal is stored in the gut, liver, and brain where it becomes
very tightly bound to the cells. Once inside those cells, or inside the blood
brain barrier, the mercury is reconverted back to its inorganic form. Locked
into these cells, the mercury can then do either immediate cell damage or else
become latent and cause the onset of autism, brain disorders, or digestive
chaos years later.
Dr. Holmes reports good success using alpha lipoic acid as an agent that
can cross the blood brain barrier to soak up mercury. Once the mercury is
brought back into the bloodstream, standard chelators like DMSA can then take
it out.
Dr. Holmes has used her protocol on about 300 autistics so far, and shows
consistent increase in IQ scores.
FDA: PROTECTOR OF WHOM?
In the face of all this new awareness, it was astounding that in Jul 00, the
FDA came out with the parallel-universe pronouncement that “vaccines have safe
levels of mercury.” Especially after their 1998 position that
“… over-the-counter drug products containing thimerosal and other mercury forms
"are not generally recognized as safe and effective" (FDA, 1998). --
– Bernard
As if there were any doubt who’s really running the show, inconceivable also is
the impotence of FDA’s request to the vaccine manufacturers to
discontinue the use of thimerosal in vaccines. (MMWR, 9 July 1999)
Request. The same month, the CDC added its mousy suggestion of the same thing –
hey guys, uh, since all these kids are turning into vegetables and uh, most of
our researchers know it’s the mercury, uh, would you mind not putting any more
thimerosal in your vaccines, please? No hurry, though. Whenever you’re ready…
No need to dump all those batches of vaccine just because people are finding
out it’s the mercury that’s destroying these autistic children’s brain cells…
(CDC, July 1999, Nov 1999)
The members of the FDA who decide which vaccines get approved make up the
Advisory Board. In his recent House investigation on vaccines, Rep. Dan Burton
found out that financial statements of Advisory Board members are “incomplete.”
Noting that this is the only branch of government that allows incomplete
financials, in Sep 00 Burton called the Advisory Board’s sweetheart
arrangements with the vaccine manufacturers a “violation of the public trust.”
This includes 70% of Advisory Board members owning stock in vaccines,
owning patents on vaccines, and accepting salaries and benefits as employees of
the drug companies. (McGinnis, Burton)
A MATTER OF TRUST
Still think you can trust the government or your physician with your children’s
blood? Despite the facts and events cited above, consider this joint statement
of the US Public Health Services and The American Academy of Pediatrics on 7
Jul 99:
“There is a significant safety margin incorporated into all the acceptable
mercury exposure limits. There are no data or evidence of any harm caused by
the level of exposure that some children may have encountered in following the
existing immunization schedule….Infants and children who have received
thimerosal-containing vaccines do not need to be tested for mercury exposure” (MMWR,
vol 45, 1999)
These are blatant Orwellian distortions. No harm? What about the autism
epidemic, and all the evidence linking it with mercury, cited above? What about
the single day doses of mercury cited above that are dozens of times in excess
of EPA’s own safety levels? And if everything is so safe, then why did they ask
the vaccine pushers to kindly discontinue thimerosal from vaccines as soon as
possible, at the end of this same statement?
It is beyond the scope of this chapter to really go into the politics of
mercury. In researching mercury toxicity, a whole area of dry-rot has been
unearthed which deserves its own chapter. This is the shocking story of how the
American Dental Association and the California Dental Association have been
systematically hiding the truth about mercury toxicity in fillings for decades.
‘Silver’ fillings aren’t just silver. They’re 50% mercury, and they’re
extremely toxic, and every dentist knows it. (www.altcorp.com) (http://www.amalgam.org/)
In a ludicrous blast of irony, both the ADA and the CDA have inserted into
their ‘code of ethics’ strict commandments forbidding dentists from ever
revealing to patients the realities of mercury toxicity. No dentist is allowed
to recommend removal of mercury amalgams for health reasons, nor may tell the
patient about mercury toxicity even if the patient asks. This gag order has
been in place for since the beginning of American dentistry. Exaggeration?
Check their websites out:
http://www.amalgam.org/#anchor69176
http://www.amalgam.org/#anchor69541
Think dentists put mercury into their own families’ teeth? Ask them.
Anyone who is not a dentist is not constrained by the Inquistorial gag order
imposed on American dentists by the ADA against telling patients what many
perceptive researchers in the field of mercury toxicity already know – that no
children should ever get mercury amalgam fillings.
LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WEST
With media circuses featuring clowns like OJ, Bill Clinton, the little Cuban
boy, and the Bush/Gore twins, America has long been the home entertainment
center for most of Europe. So it was no surprise when at the San Diego
conference, two of the presenters expressed the same sentiment – Dr. Stejskal
of Sweden and Dr Shattock of Great Britain – noting how researchers across
Europe are generally appalled at the massive amounts of vaccines given to
American children under two years old. Although Europeans are not as obsessed
with vaccines as we are, they do vaccinate. But most of Europe gives very few
vaccinations to children under two years old, primarily because of the unformed
gut, immune system, and blood brain barrier. This intellectual isolation of
ours regarding vaccines is a tribute to the suffocating brain control exerted
on us by the popular press and all media. Sheep to the slaughter, we don’t know
enough to be appalled by our own ignorance.
AUTISTIC GUT
Headlining the September 00 San Diego Conference was Andrew Wakefield,
the British surgeon whose shocking new discoveries show that mercury toxicity
alone is not the only factor linking vaccines with the autism epidemic. Dr.
Wakefield’s research centers around the MMR vaccine –
measles/mumps/rubella – which does not contain thimerosal.
Expanding on his presentation at the Apr 00 Burton hearings, Dr. Wakefield
explained how at least ¾ of autistics have pathologically blocked
bowels, due to the huge swelling of the tissue lining the intestine. In
virtually every autistic patient they examined, this lymphoid nodular
hyperplasia is both an immune response and an autoimmune response which
Wakefield and O’Leary have clearly linked to the presence of measles virus from
the MMR shot. No other virus was found in those cells. It is a brand new bowel
pathology.
Wakefield showed graphs of the US and UK 10 years apart that were identical in
tracing the skyrocketing incidence of autism just after the MMR vaccine was
introduced. He also showed how the incidence of measles had dropped over 85% on
its own, before the MMR was ever introduced.
One incredible study cited by Wakefield showed how 76% of children whose
mothers were exposed to atypical measles became autistic after the MMR shot! He
calls this a “background susceptibility” or predisposition to autism.
Wakefield reminds us that in neither country have there ever been comparative
studies on giving multiple vaccines (polyvalent) on the same day. This custom
of ours, with both the DTaP and the MMR, is not scientific by any stretch, and
is primarily for the convenience of those administering the shots, and those
being paid per vaccine. As a result, there is a good chance of geometric ill
effects.
Then Wakefield cited the original MMR study from the 1969 Journal of the American
Medical Association, vol. 207. (Buynak) Not only was the safety of multiple
vaccines never mentioned; there was no follow-up to the study to see if
their conclusions were correct. In the usual manner of testing vaccines on the
live population, MMR was simply tacked onto the mandatory schedule, and we‘ve
never looked back.
Despite studies in 1981 on Air Force personnel showing major synergistic
adverse effects in the gut from the combination of Measles and Rubella
vaccines, the mandatory schedule went unchanged. (Crawford)
With no opposing studies whatsoever, the British government has decried the
work of O’Leary and Wakefield, an indication that the political influence of
drug companies extends to that side of the pond as well. (Shattock)
ONE PILL MAKES YOU LARGER…
The most striking feature of the San Diego autism conference was its
Alice-in-Wonderland fascination with the minute details of all the body’s
systems which the disease screws up, and the falsely optimistic,
self-congratulatory tone of medicine’s supposed remedies. Like it’s just
another unfortunate disease which has accidentally winged its way in on us from
the cosmos, but don’t worry - everything’s under control. Nobody really put
together the horror of this manmade epidemic or thought it bizarre that all
this time was being wasted on treatment choices without anyone shouting Hey!
We’re poisoning our kids! And we know it! And it’s still going on every day.
And nobody can force the vaccine manufacturers and the FDA to stop injecting toxic
mercury into American infants until they’ve figured out a way to replace the
billions the cartels will lose by leaving thimerosal out of vaccines, or by
halting MMR.
DARK AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
Lest the reader get the impression that medical science has now solved the
mystery of autism, and that everything is fine now, the reality is that aside
from the cutting-edge research cited above, most of the other presentations at
the San Diego conference were room-clearing recitations of aimless scientific
non-sequiturs, illuminating this or that step of the Krebs cycle which is
disrupted by the toxic onslaught of an infant’s blood. Penetrating insight:
poison a child with the most toxic metal on earth and cell metabolism goes
haywire. Gee, really?
Still other presentations exemplified the Alternative-Lite take on holistic
nutrition, which is going to nurse the poisoned child back to a normal
dependency on drugs and potions: i.e., health. Chatty women with no credentials
were somehow allowed to address this medical assembly and regale it with
recommendations for healthy diets made up of chicken mcnuggets and soy milk!
Then there were the requisite exorcisms of gluten and casein, droning on and on
about unsubstantiated “food sensitivities” that must be avoided in the
‘autistic diet.’ No marvel that several of these experts were quite obese.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT? STARVATION PREVAILS
At the San Diego conference, there was a glaring absence of authentic holistic
nutritional concepts:
- enzymes
- problematic processed foods
- pasteurized vs. raw milk
- problematic white sugar
- problematic white flour
- synthetic vs. whole food vitamins
- colon detox
- chelated minerals
- hydration
- flora
- clean antioxidants
- clean meat: no hormones or antibiotics
- oral EDTA for metal chelation
- organic whole grains
- complete proteins
- estrogen mimickers in food and water
- the glut of partially hydrogenated soybean oil in supermarket foods
Although the critical importance of EFAs was peremptorily mentioned,
even the basic concepts of good fats, as taught by world-class experts like Udo
Erasmus and Mary Enig, were conspicuously absent. In a conference that is
supposedly looking at one of the most rampant, epidemic causes of myelin
disruption, such an information gap tends to stand out.
THE GENUINE ARTICLE
It was very instructive that conference attendees were presented with two
obvious realities:
- there is no specific curative diet for autism, different from the standard
healthful detox diet
- even if there were, this group would be the last to know
Mainstream medical people are Johnny-come-latelys to the holistic nutrition
forum. Real experts have been pointing out the toxicity of the standard,
processed American diet since the beginning of the 20th century, including:
Harvey Wiley, MD
Royal Lee, DDS
Weston Price, DDS
JH Tilden, MD
Henry Lindlahr, MD
Edward Howell, MD
Stan Bynum, PhD
Henry Bieler, MD
Alexis Carrel, MD
Otto Warburg, MD
- www.thedoctorwithin.com, Conventional Medicine
Who knows these names today? Their work was built on fundamental principles of
physiology and homeostasis, and backed by years of clinical study. But without
a huge PR machine behind them, their discoveries were for the most part buried
with them, except for true holistic practitioners who have gone out of their
way to research these natural ways.
Playing a ludicrous game of catch-up, today’s medical experts, like those at
the San Diego conference, see the glitter of alternative medicine and holistic
nutrition, and with no regard for the solid traditions of holistic nutrition,
now marshal their considerable publications resources to create the illusion
that We Were There First. This phenomenon is known as Alternative Lite(www.thedoctorwwithin.com)
The cleansing healthful detox diet is the same for autism as for any other
biochemical imbalance, employing three basic principles:
- only give the body the nutrition it needs, with complete bioavailability
- no metabolic residues
- no empty, devitalized foods of commerce
For everything the patient eats, there is a decision: will this clog or
nourish? Such a conscious diet is not a temporary chore, or
disease-specific – it’s a lifestyle change.
The above fundamentals were painfully wanting from the overall level of
perception at this conference.
TREATMENT FOR AUTISM: STEP RIGHT UP
Just off the Auditorium, there was the inevitable Exhibit Room, in which
science seemed to be checked at the door, and the marketplace took over. Here
was a living circus of Alternative Lite: new supplements and procedures, most
created and marketed by the drug companies in their efforts to hoover in on the
burgeoning area of commerce now becoming so popular - Alternative Medicine.
What do we see on the midway:
--- State of the art live blood cell microscope analysis, frightening subjects
by incorrectly identifying ‘parasites’ and ‘microbes’ in the blood, convincing
them to adopt an experimental regimen of supplements.
--- Fruits and vegetables in capsules, flavored by allergenic non-foods like
high fructose corn syrup. Very nutritious – a sure cure for the autistic.
--- Flax seed oils, hawked as EFAs, oxidizing in their clear plastic bottles
--- Brain machines whose electrodes when applied to the skull will
automatically normalize those nasty brain waves made irregular by the very real
lack of neuronal myelin
--- An ocean of synthetic vitamins, with some very nice labels
--- A sea of cookies, sanctified by their lack of gluten and casein
--- A variety of MLMs, talking more about their compensation plans than about
their individual Magic Bullets
--- An array of portly diet counselors, with varying degrees of lack of
credentials
--- Several Krebs cyclists, each with his own Missing Component
No big surprise here. The San Diego conference was held and attended by the
profession for whom the Germ Theory of disease permeates their collective DNA.
All their education, diagnostics, treatment, and 99% of their research is
predicated on the idea that bugs cause disease and that medicine’s job is to
find the drug for each bug. Into this milieu, the original research of
Wakefield and Bernard has been thrown – a new quantum in vaccine awareness.
What can be done with this knowledge? Medicine can only use the tools it has:
germ theory, drug economics, spin control. Expecting medicine to understand the
significance of novel scientific research like that of Bernard and Wakefield is
like expecting a cat to fly.
GLIMMER OF HOPE
Despite these formidable obstacles, doubts are creeping into the overall public
“consciousness” from many different directions about the safety of vaccines. At
1 in 150, the fact of autism as an epidemic can no longer be covered up.
The work of Wakefield, O’Leary, Megson, and Bernard is getting more and more
difficult to explain away. Rep. Dan Burton seems relentless in his efforts to
acquaint Congress with the meretricious relationship between the FDA Advisory
committee and the vaccine manufacturers. The massive advertising campaign about
the safety of vaccines in the popular media, which is certain to be stepped up
in the next few months, is going to look very hollow in the light of clean,
unbiased research that is not funded by parties who stand to make billions from
certain pre-determined results. And the internet makes this well-referenced,
scientific work accessible to the public without the usual monodimensional
smokescreen from the popular press.
Ultimately, the value of the San Diego Conference on Autism was its signal that
autism will not be allowed to slip from the public awareness, like so many
other feature stories that come and go. The simple truth has been unveiled, and
anyone who looks can see it clearly: our prime question should not be asking
how we can cure autism once it occurs. The evidence is now overwhelming that in
most cases, this new epidemic that we call autism is a preventable disease.
[excerpted from the revised edition of The Sanctity of Human Blood]
© New West 2001
www.thedoctorwithin.com
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