The Perfect Storm

Guest Post:

This is not word wrapped and pretty, but it’s my working hypothesis.  Please contribute and or correct anything you deem correctible.  Never mind the mispells, that will be dealt with.  Just need your input?  Forward on to friends or someone just learning they have an autistic child.  I claim no intervention/idea/thought here is scientific, or tested or proven, but I do claim that this is what mothers gave me as their running hypothesis.  Many researchers also helped me find some interesting tidbits. 
 
Thanks 
 
THE PERFECT STORM
by KATHY BLANCO

A “perfect storm” is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances will aggravate a situation drastically. 
The situation of the state of our nations health is eroding rapidly.  When we study a toxin, is it never studied in context of the numerous toxins
with it, and it’s synergistic effect?  Just as we know that mecury and aluminum combine to make their neurotoxins more potent, so is the perfect storm
which gathers upon us, with every breath we take, every food we ingest, ever infection we get, and every faith and hope, that the “authorities” that regulate our
health and well being, are asleep at the switch.  This article may take you down a rabbit hole, that you may not want to read. 

It is not for the faint of heart, rather the one who is willing to question, why our national health is at crisis levels.
It is my wish that with this article, you can see, that a perfect storm is in fact BREWING in many children, EVEN YOURS. Like canaries in the coal mine,
in which miners took into the belly of a cave, children are saying, we are dying for lack of something, more than oxygen (though that would be helpful),
more than what is told you in your last visit to your doctor, and rarely, if ever revealed to a mother to be.  Of course the general argument THEY tell us
is that autism is genetic.  I beg to differ.  Gene Mutation, a lovely term they like to toss – This cause is what researchers are looking for.
It seems there are a number of genes that are associated with brain function that may “mutate” to cause autism. It is unclear how these genes mutate, SO THEY SAY.  But what better way
to mutate genes than have a combination of factors, a perfect storm, in which you as a parent would never know WHAT did the trick on your child?  The fact
is, Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) may result from a combination of  genetic/biochemical susceptibilities in the form of a reduced  ability to excrete
mercury and/or increased environmental exposure  at key developmental times.  This doesn’t just mean your child is going to avoid, it means YOUR going
to avoid the same things.  Your also going to have to be proactive.  Smart.  Above the crowd.  Are you not the incubator?
A dramatic increase in autism and other autoimmune neurological disorders has been climbing since the early eighties.  The incidence of autoimmune
disease has tripled in the last few decades. 24 million Americans are now affected. In fact, it affects more women than heart disease and breast
cancer combined.  But autoimmune disease isn’t just one condition …You’re probably familiar with the most common autoimmune diseases, like
rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, type-1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, and psoriasis. But there are many
more autoimmune diseases that affect the nervous system, joints and muscles, skin, endocrine gland, and heart.
(Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autoimmune-disease-how-to_b_283707.html)
Mass vaccination started after World War II, in the mid-1940s. Discussion of why “Johnny can’t read” started in the mid-1950s, when this vaccinated
generation started going to school, as did the rise in autoimmune diseases. But when this generation came to the age of 18 (1963) and entered the
adult statistics, IQs started to decline, the crime rate started to rise, etc. etc.   Probably twenty percent of American children–one youngster in
five–suffers from a “developmental disability.” This is a stupefying figure. If some foreign enemy had inflicted such damage on our country, we would
declare war.  To be specific, a large proportion of the millions of U.S. children and adults suffering from autism, seizures, mental retardation,
hyperactivity, dyslexia, and other shoots and branches of the hydraheaded entity called “developmental disabilities,” owe their disorders to one or
another of the vaccines against childhood diseases, to the increasing toxic load in these children AND THEIR PARENTS, as well as procedural “guidelines”
deemed as safe, effective, or minimal exposure does not equate to damage scenario sound bites.  I beg to differ.
More often than not you hear stories of yet another mom having a child diagnosed with autism, adhd, diabetes, childhood depression/manic/behavior disorders,
thyroid disorders, childhood obesity, asthma, food allergies and multitude other autoimmune neurological/gastrointestinal/metabolic systemic disorders.  REcently,
CDC exlaimed, but to no surprise to us, that autism is more common than thought, and we know that one in six children require special help at school.  I am
not going to throw out the latest figures of autism, you already know them, they are shocking, and frankly, my kids were not counted because they are
older than 21…so their numbers are mute points to me, other than the shock they are putting out there to the uninformed.
These disorders are somewhat new, and some, are old”ish” ….but the one contingent is, they are rising, therefore, if it is genetic, you must assume that it
would not increase in the population in larger numbers to epidemic levels due only to genetics, rather to epigenetics or, gene environmental interactions.  Epigenetics in lay man terms means,
that our gene expressions are not catching up to the fast fire nature of mutagens that can can destroy and or mutate our phenotype expression.  How a gene performs
is not a hardware problem, rather a software problem, which can be programmed by varying stimuli and exposures.
I have always felt it appropriate to assume that no child is cookie cutter, no autism is alike, or other diseases of autoimmune nature, and that certainly, we come
into the world with differing immune capitals.  We also are exposed to varying stimuli, infections, and toxins that differ from one person to the next under
the background of metabolic and immune genetics…but again, is that genetic, or are you inheriting THEIR exposures, and infections and or weaknesses?
This is when I began to poll my yahoogroups, what do you think caused your child’s autism…and more sysincly, may I ask you what infections you have,
what diagnosis you have, what is your age, and age of your partner, what occupation does your husband/partner have, what do you think you were exposed
to, etc.  The emails came pouring in.  I was astounded.  This autism of what we describe as autism, was seemingly, more of an attack on the person.  It
felt deliberate.  It felt maligned.  It felt wrong that these mothers, who in all intents and purposes would be able to tell researchers exactly
what caused their child’s autism.  Universally, all seemed to say, that vaccines did something…but…then I asked, why their child?  Why do you think
this happened? I asked about their prenatal histories, their birth experiences, there flus, there colds, there sniffles.  I got it all.  And then
I correlated the answers, and found the giant AHA moment.  That autism was indeed A PERFECT STORM. Not one thing was causing autism. Lightbulb moment.
Unfortunately all these “hits” as I like to call them, is not taken into account when we are about to be jabbed by multiple pathogens and multiple
neurotoxic elements as a cattle herd. (if you read
vet manuals, they take into account the condition of the soils they are raised such as selenium levels, prevaling infections, and amount of
nutritious makeup that are fed their stock).  More on that later and why I make this point….
The strongest evidence, I think, pertains to schizophrenia and autism, bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder have also been linked to bacterial,
viral or parasitic infections in utero, in childhood or in maturity. Some of these infections can directly affect the brain, whereas others might
trigger immune reactions that interfere with brain development or perhaps even attack our own brain cells in an autoimmune mistake (or is it
trying to kill a pathogen)?  More understandably, that same infection creates oxidative stress, reduced metallothionein, a key protein needed to bind
heavy metals, and lastly binds up all the available stores of glutathione.  These are all needed for normal brain development/sustaining neurological
balance.
The key words I want you to think about are, worsen, trigger, initiate, dampen, accelerate, involve, masquerade as, etiology, idiopathic, cause,
deepen affect,  direct effects, promote other infections, weakened, sensitized and immunologically vulnerable states.  These key words are involved in autism.  If vaccines are the cause, what are the things that worsen it’s affects?  If infections
initiate autism in utero, what would trigger that infection?  If mother was exposed to a toxin, would it involve a triggering mechanism to’make it worsen?
In other words, to suggest THE CAUSE of autism, is to only isolate one “hit” that may be number three on the list of “hits” that made the
brain not function, the body not develop.  The fact is, is autism a chain of events, a chain of perfect recipes for a perfect storm?  Is
the perfect storm, and it’s elements to blame for the epidemic of autism?  Perhaps you will find yourself here, and or, you will find yourself
questioning, why your here? What made one child lose developmental milestones, while another child is unaffected, seemingly.. 
The most infuriating part of this message is clear.  That researchers have no time to study these combinations of events.  They have not thought
that a mother with amalgam fillings is transferring more mercury to her fetus than what comes from a vaccine.  They had not thought, that a
family history of autoimmunity, was perhaps an infection passed down to baby.  They had not thought, nor will they ever, of the combined effects
of having multiple pathogenic loads, toxins, choices of bad foods, and bad thyroid glands, would synergistically attack fetal proteins.  According
to the biological code of ethics, no biological agent should be administered UNTIL you know if the receipient is able to handle it.  How would
one know, of the complex nature of this biological load?  One may have to ask FURTHER questions, and have further contraindications to certain
products or procedures.  One must be beyond the one size fits all theory. 
This is a disaster happening to our children.    This is not
a piece to have mothers rip their hair out/beat your chest and say, it’s all my fault…rather it is an eye opening equation of what may make autism bloom
in our world.  No one wants the bad news.  No one wants to know they did not see this coming.  No one wants to know that basically, there are people
asleep at the switch. 
Here are the things that form the perfect storm…may it bring forth a confluence of changes, a paridigm shift..and may it be
something you can share with others, as you might find…your perfect storm.  Much of this information was gathered from a large volume of archived
emails to my yahoogroups.  I give back to you my running and evoloving theory, on THE PERFECT STORM OF AUTISM.  Send it on to others…may
it help you find the answers you seek.  I do not budge on the idea or paridigm, that if one vaccinated child can go unscathed (seemingly), but
the other has devastating effect, what is the difference in those two children?  But remember, every vaccine presents a hazerdous situation
to ALL who partake of them.  They are either immediate, latent, or persitently going to damage the body, in one form or the other.  Perhaps
the ones which hold off the most damage, have the best healing capitals?  May we have better healing capitals, and may we begin the new paridigm shift
that vaccines may in fact, be UNNECESSARY if we are kept clean and healthy.  I think so….
 
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FORMULA/BABY FOOD – loaded with too much iron which causes free radical destruction in brain of baby to be, and baby, possible foreign proteins
(melamine), as well as MSG.  Absence of breastfeeding when compared to breastfeeding for more than six months was significantly associated with an
increase in the odds of having autistic disorder when all cases were considered and after limiting cases to children
with regression in development (OR 1.95, 95% CI 1.01, 3.78). Use of infant formula without docosahexaenoic acid and arachidonic acid supplementation
versus exclusive breastfeeding was associated with a significant increase in the odds of autistic disorder when all cases were considered
 and after limiting cases to children with regression in development .  Conclusion
The results of this preliminary study indicate that children who were not breastfed or were fed infant formula without docosahexaenoic acid/arachidonic
acid supplementation were significantly more likely to have autistic disorder.  Young children are most effected by bisphenol A, which leaches out of
baby bottles.  This substance was found in the urine of 93% of children tested in 2003-2004.  Infants fed with liquid formula from polycarbonate
bottles can consume up to 13 micrograms of bisphenol A per kg of body weight per day.  Naturally as children within the autism spectrum are more
vulnerable to environmental pollutants, parents of our kids may wish to be especially carefu.  Many of our kids don’t tolerate phenols well, which
means that even children on a low-phenol diet are being exposed to man-made phenols through plastics.
An interesting side bar, is the controversial issue of A1 and A2 cows.  There is a link between the type of milk we
and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism and schizophrenia. Epidemiological
evidence from ten countries has demonstrated a strong association between high intake of milk from A1 positive cows
and high incidence of these diseases, and has correlated very closely with World Health Organization data on the level
of deaths from mental disorders.  The devil resides in the milk solids, composed of many different proteins along with
lactose and other sugars. One of these proteins is beta casein.
All proteins are long chains of amino acids that have many branches coming off of the main chain. Beta casein is a chain
with 229 amino acids and proline at number 67, at least in old fashioned cows, the ones that are A2.
Cows that have this mutated beta casein are the A1 cows. These are more recent breeds in the span of history, like
Holsteins and Friesians.  The side chain coming off this histidine is a protein fragment known as beta-casomorphin-7 (BCM 7). The negative health
effects of this fragment can be devastating because it is a powerful opiate or narcotic as well as an oxidant.
There is an important difference between the human beta casein protein and the beta-casein produced by A1 cows. All
human beta-casein is more like the A2 type, meaning that human milk releases much less BCM 7 than is released in A1
milk. When New Zealand researchers tested human milk, they found less than 1% of the BCM 7 than was released from the
same amount of A1 milk. This means that the narcotic effect from human milk fed to babies is less than one thousandth
of that found in A1 milk.
BCM7 has been shown to cause neurological impairment in animals and people, particularly autistic and schizophrenic
changes. It also interferes with the immune response. Animals injected with BCM 7 can be provoked into Type 1 diabetes.
BCM 7 is pro-inflammatory to blood vessels, and selectively binds to epithelial cells in mucus membranes such as the
nose and throat, where it can stimulate excessive mucus secretion.
When BCM 7 is released into the gut, it should be difficult for it to get through the gut wall and into the bloodstream
because it is a fairly large molecule. But in people with leaky gut syndrome, it is able to pass easily through the gut
wall and enter the bloodstream. Dr. Woodford states that BCM 7 can be detected in urine. According to him there is
strong evidence that people with stomach ulcers or untreated celiac disease also absorb BCM 7 in this manner.
Babies are likely to absorb it this way too, because their gut walls are able to pass large molecules easily into
the blood stream. That is how they are able to absorb their mother’s colostrum.
This susceptibility of babies to the effects BCM 7 makes infant milk formula products from A1 cows a very poor choice.
Opioids like BCM 7 slow the rate of passage through the digestive tract which explains to Dr. Woodford why babies
fed on cows milk formula products rather than human milk are susceptible to constipation and can suffer anal fissures.
He suggests it is possible that this slower passage of A1 milk through the digestive system may increase lactose
intolerance.
He views early and prolonged exposure to BCM 7 in infant formulas as a significant factor in the rising rates of autism
and Asperger’s syndrome along with the rest of the range of disease states that can result, and he is pushing for
research on the topic. Until this is done, he suggests that mothers breastfeed their babies for as long as possible and
insist on breast milk substitutes made with A2 milk.
In my estimation, either get raw milk from A2 cows, or take milk/products completely out of the diet.
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PLASTICS = BPA, especially when subjected to heat and microwaves/hormonal disruption.  Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) in utero and in infants and
children is of particular concern because the chemical is thought to affect developmental processes. Research on lab animals has linked BPA to changes
to the genital tract, prostate enlargement, declined testosterone, pre-cancerous breast cells, prostate cancer, early puberty in females and hyperactivity.
From phthalates to BPA, EDCs have been blamed for obesity and genital defects.  Extreme Male Theory “speculates that autism is caused by something changing
a fetus’ hormonal balance that then leads to over-masculinization of the developing brain.”  Dr. Harvey Karp writes for The Huffington Post:
This theory, proposed by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen and colleagues, speculates that autism is caused by something changing a fetus’ hormonal balance that then
leads to over-masculinization of the developing brain.  Could that “something” be the slurry of hormone-altering chemicals we’re exposed to every day?
Are EDCs the reason autism-type disorders are 4-9 times more common in boys? (Vaccine side effects never show such lopsided impact on boys versus girls…
a glaring fact that is totally ignored by the vaccine theory of autism.)
The “extreme male theory” has been supported by two interesting bits of evidence: 1) fetuses with slightly elevated levels of testosterone grow up acting
extra-male (more interested in things than people, slow language development, etc.); 2) children with autism — boys and girls — show extra-male
characteristics (e.g. poor social ability, language delay).
Here is where the very interesting link to EDCs comes into play: EDCs often act as weak estrogens and estrogen feminizines the body, but in a fetus’
developing brain estrogen actually has the opposite effect…it causes masculinization.
The fact EDCs has the opposite effect in fetal brain development gives credit to this theory.   Dr. Karp believes that in three to four years we will
have answers directly linking EDCs to autism.  He also does not entirely refute that vaccines may play a role and supports additional studies.
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ELECTROMAGNETIC pollution, aka, wireless devices, cell phones, computers, sleeping by electric socketts, and electric blankets.  Dr Klinghardt
says it well “These come not only from cell phones and cordless phones, but also from electrical outlets and WI-FI. Dr. Klinghardt considers EMF
“synergistically causal,” partly because it potentiates the production of toxic microbes and endotoxins.  We already know that children are now
born toxic due to the increasing toxic load of their mothers. We know that the childhood vaccination schedule has gone from requiring 10 vaccinations
in 1976, to now including 36 injections before your child reaches 12 months of age.   We also know that the use of cell phones and other WiFi equipment
has exploded, and according to some experts, like Dr. Klinghardt, EMF exposure increases the toxicity of many already hazardous substances.  For example,
in a small study performed by Dr. Klinghardt, he showed that autism can actually be predicted based on the EMF levels of your sleeping quarters while
you are pregnant!   It is important to strengthen the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) against cytokine invasion. Cytokines will only cross the BBB in an area
that it is weakened. Low levels of vitamin B, a deficiency of certain essential fatty acids, and a viral infection, like a cold or flu can weaken the
blood brain barrier. A study published in June 2002, in the scientific journal Differentiation, reported new evidence that mobile phone radiation
can also weaken the BBB against harmful substances. (Cordless phones pose the same risk, but to a lesser degree.)  I tell people to buy
himalyan salt lamps and put them right by their bed at night.  This removes negative ions.
Salt crystal lamps are extremely beneficial for us, because they are natural negative ionisers. When the gentle heat from the lamp
(or candle burner) warms the crystal, they emit a negative electrical charge, thus ionising our atmosphere and interacting with our own
bioenergetic field, and helping to neutralize harmful EMF radiation.
Recent studies have linked EMFs to increased leukemia, lymphoma, brain cancer, melanoma, breast cancer, miscarriage, birth defects, suicide, and most
our wake/sleep cycle, moods and task performance. Depressed melatonin levels are associated with mood changes, depression and psychiatric disorders.
Melatonin also plays a critical cancer role, by increasing the phytotoxicity of the body’s natural killer lymphocytes. Suppression of pineal gland
function has been implicated in the etiology of breast, ovarian, prostate and melanoma cancers. Other studies have linked EMFs to decreased production
of enzymes called “protein kinases” in human lymphocyte cells. This also indicates that EMFs can suppress the immune system.
It is therefore important for the cancer patient to limit exposure to EMF radiation, and from regular sources of EMF radiation, including the household
computer, microwave oven, electric blanket, mobile phone and cordless telephone, in order to maintain a strong immune system.
 

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VACCINES – all, every ingredient is toxic, forms molecular mimicry to tissue, especially the brain, thymus and gut, destroys immune system/oncogenic viruses – there is also a
thing called familial vaccinosis..which means, your parents vaccines are going to damage you, and then your vaccines, are going to harm your baby.  We
tested positive, I mean the ENTIRE family of polio vaccine virus SCMV-40.  So did my mother, my father, my brothers/sister, and their families. 
Additional complex associations between stealth-adapted viruses and conventional microorganisms may exist. For example, the lipid-laden cells infected
with a stealth virus appear especially favorable to the growth of intracellular bacteria, including Borrelia, the causative agent of Lyme disease. LIA
Foundation (I was one of the founders), feels this infection rate is quite high in our children, www.liafoundation.org
It has been previously noted the high incidence of fatiguing illnesses, such as the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), among mothers of autistic children.
This observation is consistent with the premise that while stealth adapted viruses can cause CFS in adults; these same viruses being passed from mother
to child can damage the developing brain so as to render a child susceptible to autism.  (gee thanks polio vaccine@!).  My thought pattern is
that same child who is vaccinated would receive what I call the double whammy…and that the child’s vaccine, allows and permits the stealth
virus to awaken in the child.  To those mothers who say, but my kids are autsitic, and never had a vaccine, I beg you to re examine your exposures.
Of course, we know, that aluminum, mercury and formaldehyde are neurotoxicants ably capable of destroying neuron, axons and filament proteins and myelin.
It is capable of just about every body process to be affected..to destroy/damage mitochondria, immune function, and metabolic function.  Some say
it is the HALLMARK trigger in autism, and I can’t agree more…
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Modern  day Bakery, breads, replaced iodine with BROMINE, which damages thyroid function, can’t be good for baby to be and mother(loss of T3 in brain).
http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/110/1/107.  Bromide is a chemical frequently used as a pesticide or fungicide on food crops,
most notably strawberries. It’s also used in bread. Commercial bread factories use a bromide derivative claiming it helps bread rise more quickly
and enhances the quality of bread. Bromide is also used to make plastics pliable and as a fire retardant, and consequently cars, mattresses, carpets
and building supplies frequently exude bromide compounds into the environment, increasing bromide exposure.
While bromide use in the United States is legal and fairly common this chemical additive has been outlawed in many places including Europe. High
concentrations of bromide have been linked to thyroid disease, breast cancer and other diseases.
Read more: http://thyroid-disorders.suite101.com/article.cfm/bromide_exposure_linked_to_thyroid_disease#ixzz0UJSEzyUA
I think this is a connection worth looking at. Calfornia autism rates are really high and California is apparently the highest user of bromide 🙁
The hidden culprit could be “bromine,” a common ingredient in thousands of fresh and packaged foods, medicines, and consumer products. . .
Bromine disrupts your thyroid gland but doesn’t show up as a problem in thyroid tests…
In recent years bromine toxicity has become a near epidemic because it’s so widely used in food and popular home products. And here’s what it does in
your body . . .Bromide is rapidly absorbed in the intestinal tract, and because its size and weight is very close to iodine, the two compete for
binding in the body, especially in the thyroid gland.This is an extremely important concept to understand . . .If you build up too much bromine
in your system, it’ll crowd out the iodine, binding to your iodine receptors and causing your body to release iodine. The result is an iodine
deficiency and a condition called “brominated thyroid.”Fatigue, headache, weight gain, depression, feeling cold, and a host of other problems can
follow. And your doctor won’t know a bromine-induced dysfunctional thyroid is the cause, because . . .Standard thyroid tests will not distinguish
between the good iodinated thyroid and the bad brominated thyroid.In other words, your thyroid will look normal . . . when it isn’t!
The psychiatry literature abounds with cases of elevated bromide levels
being implicated in mental conditions from depression to schizophrenia.
As Guy Abraham, MD, asks, “How many people with
misdiagnosed bromism are currently treated with psychiatric drugs?”
Bromide was used to suppress women’s sex drive in the 1950s.
Source http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/bromidedominancetheory.html
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An interesting side note on gluten in foods.
The interesting thing to see is that researchers are now exploring the possibility that those who don’t react immunologically to gluten, casein,
et all (are negative on our current tests) are actually the worst off medically. Now …THAT makes sense. Those who form antibodies, which are
designed to neutralize invaders of all kinds (including viruses, bacteria and food proteins), are going to be the least affected. If we don’t
make the “antidote”, we get the sickest. Pretty elementary, eh? When did we start equating high titers with illness, as if the antibodies were the
problem rather than the solution? Did we ever think that the lack of immune response might actually be the real problem?
I now believe that celiac is actually an adaptation…a good thing…to warn us off of wheat and cause symptoms that should be recognized as such- warning
signs to help us see the danger in consuming this man-made, man-cultivated grain. “Coeliac disease” hit them HARD in the 400’s AD and I believe
contributed to our plunging into the Dark Ages. Many died of dysentery and their damaged immune systems left them open to the waves of plague that
would follow. But over time, we have continued to adapt to gluten and the symptoms have become more and more occult. This is not a good thing, is it.
Gluten intolerance has become a stealth plague, hasn’t it, just as dairy (casein), soy and corn have become in those who have consumed it the longest.
BUT, look at the newest arrivals to this diet- the Black Americans, Asians, American Indians, and Hispanics. You will find them leading the pack in
many, many diseases that can be traced back to the devastating effects of food intolerance. They haven’t had time to adapt yet so they are the most overt.
 Overusage of GLUTEN and MILK and SUGAR products (aka, the american SAD diet), creates high sensitivity to antibodies to neural tissue/creates
starving brain in predisposed.  Vodjani A et al, Antibodies to neuron-specific antigens in children … proteins from milk, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and Streptococcus group A. …
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LOSS of iodine in salts.  Iodine deficiency can cause creatinisms in utero (IQ loss).  Dr Jim Adams at Arizon University found the following:
http://www.eas.asu.edu/~autism/Research/Completed.html.  Hair analysis of iodine and lithium were low.  Also in the mothers.
The reason so many people suffer is that the food they eat or the ground from which that food comes contains little or no iodine. All soil on earth used
to contain iodine. However, over hundreds of thousands of years, the iodine has been leached out of the soil in two major areas of the earth: the high
mountains and the plains, far from oceans, that were covered by water in the past.  The high mountains were once covered with glaciers. As the glaciers
melted, they carried iodine out of the soil, back to the ocean. In the same way, the flooded plains leached iodine from the soil and carried it back to
the ocean as the water flowed away. As a result, high mountains and plains far from oceans are the areas where iodine deficiency disease is most often
found.
Crops that grow in such soil are iodine deficient. Animals that feed on these crops become iodine deficient. If the animal happens to be a cow that
provides milk, children who drink that milk may be iodine deficient. The meat from that cow is also iodine deficient. The result is a huge public
health problem. Even pets such as dogs become iodine deficient.
Even before pregnancy, a lack of T4 hormone has a harmful effect. Women who are hypothyroid have greater difficulties becoming pregnant, and they have more
miscarriages and stillbirths than women with normal thyroid function.
A fetus doesn’t begin to make thyroid hormone until the 24th week of pregnancy. Until then, it’s dependent upon the mother’s T4. During this time, the fetal
brain is developing, and the entire chain of events that produces a normal brain requires T4 at every stage. If this hormone is lacking, the consequences
are severe.
If a fetus is deficient in T4 hormone, its brain triggers an increase in the amount of the enzyme that converts T4 to T3 within the brain. This form of the
enzyme is not found in other tissues, so the brain may be protected from hypothyroidism while the rest of the body is not.
The entire body’s formation is dependent upon adequate T4. If sufficient hormone is not available, congenital anomalies may occur. The infant may not
survive much past birth. If it does, it may not live more than a few years. In this nuclear age, it’s important to realize that a thyroid gland that is
not making enough thyroid hormone will take up large amounts of iodine from whatever source it can. In the case of a nuclear accident where radioactive
iodine is released, a hypothyroid mother will concentrate the iodine and pass it on to her growing fetus. If radioactive iodine does not destroy the fetal
thyroid, that thyroid will at least be very prone to develop thyroid cancer.
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Birth Drugs (pitocins, demirol and use of MMR vaccines) = vassopressin problems in brain, human emotions blunted, damage to brain.  Since autistic
disorders produce an inability to make or maintain affectionate bonds or have normal social relationships, one cannot help but wonder if perhaps there
is an causal relationship between these disorders and exogenous sources of an artificial form of oxytocin. Perhaps flooding the immature body of the
fetus (especially boy babies) with this gender-specific synthetic hormone from animals somehow interferes with the eventual function of these psychological
systems. It is an intriguing question.   What is even more intriguing, is, pitocin drugs rush the delievery in such a manner, that a rush to
cord clamping may ensue.  However, Pitocin is not the only drug received by women whose labors are being induced or augmented. The use of Pitocin requires
that the mother also be given IV fluids, have continuous electric fetal monitoring in place and remain sedentary in her hospital bed while connected to
this equipment. Pitocin-induced uterine contrations and enforced maternal immobility makes labor more painful, so much so that under these circumstances
most laboring women also receive narcotic pain relievers and/or epidural anesthesia. The use of these drugs and anesthetics is also associated with an
increase in operative deliveries (vacuum extraction or forceps). It is possible that the causative agent or trigger event for autism is a particular
combination of drugs or certain physical problems or propensity for either the mother or baby, in combination with certain drugs, rather than a simple
direct effect of Pitocin per se. (I recommend hynobirthing which would cause the fear of delievery to not come into the equation, therefore, pitocin
would not be used).  Others have suggested to me, that progressing delivery requires methylation….and if the mother is deficient, it would be harder
for her to progress normally through the delievery stages.  This is why I also think glutathione duringn pregnancy and metallothionein precururosrs
are better than any prenatal vitamin program.  The use of Pitocin to induce or augment labors and concomitant use of epidural anesthesia has been steadily
climbing for the last 20 years – about the same period that the increase in autism has been reported. Estimates of the use of Pitocin in laboring women \
over the last 2 decades range from 12% to 60%. However, a 1992 survey by a medical anthropologist at the University of Texas found that 81% of women in
US hospital receive Pitocin to either induce or augment labor. Epidural use is as high as 95% in many urban hospitals. When one factors in a Cesarean
rate of 23% (acknowledging some overlap), the proportions of these facts is staggering as virtually 100% of medically-managed births are subjected to a
high level of pharmaceutical interventions that have never been approved for use in fetuses. It certainly seems prudent to research the possible
association with pharmaceutically-augmented labors in an attempt to discover the cause of the rising tide of autistic disorders. It may be necessary to
amend our current obstetrical practices.
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Genetically Modified Foods…said to be in eighty percent of our food supply.  Unknown consequences.  We have more genetically modified foods being
introduced into our food supply without our consent through the successful lobbying efforts of big-agribusiness.  The latest major genetically modified
food crop to be foisted upon us is sugar beets, which comprise 40% of our sugar supply and are used extensively by major brand such as McDonalds, Pepsi,
and Coke.  The genetically modified beets are Round-Up ready – which means they will not be as easily killed by  Round-Up (glyphosphate) which is used
extensively in agriculture as a chemical weeder.  Glyphosphate has been implicated as part of the reason for the die-off of amphibians around the world
in combination with other man-made chemicals that have made their way into the ground water.  See statement by the LIA foundation at www.liafoundation.org
Another major genetically modified crop, Bt corn, was introduced several years ago and resulted in so many health problems that it was banned from being
used in human food.  Many people who raise livestock saw major health problems in their animals when they were fed Bt corn as well.  No one wanted the
Bt corn in the food supply so the agri-business then wrangled a government  kick back for every gallon of ethanol produced from Bt corn.  Even the
ethanol fumes from Bt corn are proving to be an airborne hazard.   BT toxins basically destroy the gut of insects…gee, I wonder why our kids guts are
also simlarly destroyed?  http://www.reversingautism.org/
The glufosinate herbicide, used in large quantities on Bayer’s GM herbicide-resistant crops, has been found to have adverse effects on the brain.
Yoichiro Kuroda, the principal investigator in a project titled the Effects of Endocrine Disrupters on the Developing Brain, under the government’s
CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) program, glufosinate can hamper the development and activity of the brain .
Glufosinate is widely used in the US as a super herbicide for herbicide-resistant genetically modified crops. Kuroda found that it works like a ”
mock neurotransmitter” that has an aggressive effect on brains. If an embryo or a baby is exposed to the chemical, it can affect behavior, as it
disturbs gene functions that regulate the developing brain, he said. Earlier research on the main ingredient of this GMO compatible herbicide found
that it significantly increased aggressiveness in female rates born to mothers which had been exposed to high doses of glufosinate.
“The chemical industry has not been considering this kind of risk on the developing human brain, which is a fragile, fine chemical machine,” Kuroda
commented.
Farm families that applied pesticides to their crops in Minnesota were studied to see if their elevated exposure to pesticides caused birth defects
in their children. The study found that two kinds of pesticides — fungicides and the herbicide Roundup — were linked to statistically significant
increases in birth defects. Roundup was linked to a 3-fold increase in neurodevelopmental (attention deficit) disorders. [EHP Supplement 3, Vol. 110
(June 2002), pgs. 441-449.]
A recent test tube study reveals that Roundup can severely reduce the ability of mouse cells to produce hormones. Roundup interferes with a fundamental
protein called StAR (steroidogenic acute regulatory protein). The StAR protein is key to the production of testosterone in men (thus controlling male
characteristics, including sperm production) but also the production of adrenal hormone (essential for brain development), carbohydrate metabolism
(leading to loss or gain of weight), and immune system function. The authors point out that “a disruption of the StAR protein may underlie many of
the toxic effects of environmental pollutants.” [EHP Vol. 108, No. 8 (August 2000), pgs. 769-776.]
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FLUORIDATED WATER – basis of waste product for the ALUMINUM industry, causes bone loss, dental problems, seizures, gut problems, osteosarcomas, IQ loss
and thyroid disturbances.  Use of fluoride in toothpaste are equally as damaging.  Fluoride is also found in teas, bottled waters, and other hidden food
sources.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoDqxjfCdVs
My search for answers took me to Medline, where I learned that many effects of fluoride bore a striking resemblance to the myriad of characteristics
of ASD children. These included effects of hypomagnesemia, hypocalcemia, hypokalemia, hypothyroidism, elevated lead intake, sleep-pattern disturbances
from reduced production of melatonin, muscle weakness, reduced protein digestion, and IQ deficit. By contrast, information on symptom remission and
treatment was extremely sparse.  Numerous references to fluoride as a neurotoxin, a metabolic inhibitor, and a potent G-protein activator raised even
more questions about its potential role in ASD. Specifically, could fluoride result in excess G-protein activation sufficient to produce clinical
hyperactivity or inability to modulate sensory input? How might fluoride activation of G-proteins interfere with G-protein-coupled processes such as
the release of secretin? When fluoride is a factor in ASD, as suggested by the experiences described here, does it initiate a litany of autistic symptoms,
or is it an opportunist in an already compromised body?  A friend of ours has a child dying of Ewings/Osteosarcoma.  The fluoride introduction into
our municipal water was introduced four years ago.  He is 13 years old, just in the window of osteosarcoma.  This is tragic to watch.
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PRoduct distribution of frutis and vegees, picked at GREEN state, with no phytonutrients.  Loss of phytonutrients  makes you susceptible to
cellular damage.  Phytos boost immunity. Phytos, such as carotenoids and flavonoids, mobilize the body’s immune cells, called natural killer cells
and helper-T cells. These act like a protective armor to keep invading pollutants and germs from entering the cell.  It is known that
kids with autism have low natural killer cells and T and B cells.
Phytonutrients are naturally occurring chemical compounds in plants that are increasing being found to have profound medicinal and therapeutic
effects on the human body. It is in the area of degenerative and age-related diseases that phytonutrients are becoming an accepted form of
preventative and complementary medicine. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s
disease may all be linked to our ignorance of the treatment potential that phytonutrients possess.
The current method of farming and not using local farmer markets, forces transportation of green picked foods not picked at their most virulent’
phytochemical state. It is interesting to note, that even NASA felt that giving astronauts a diet of phytonutrients would stave off the effects
of cosmic radiation.  In like manner, with ozone depletion in play, which directly affects the health of children, giving a diet full of
phytochemicals would protect the brain from further inflammation.  Any time, you can protect the brain from inflammation, is a good
strategy against autism worsening, becoming worse, or happening in the first place.  It appears, it regulates cell  in the nervous
systems, the ones that are responsible for laying down the architecture of the brain.  Without phytonutrients, the brain can actually go
rancid…by damaging neural fatty acids.
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AIR TIGHT HOMES – might be good for your bills, but not good for babies…floors and cabinets ( In a study published
on March 30, Swedish, Danish and U.S. scientists have discovered a link between vinyl flooring and autism in children).,
formaldehyde outgassing, VOC’s etc.  Great environment for molds.  COPPER PIPING IN HOMES – causes copper overload.  Copper overload is one of the most
common elements that are off in autoimmune populations. 
The frequency of zinc deficiency, copper toxicity and low  zinc/copper in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) may  indicate decrement in
metallothionein system functioning. A  retrospective review of plasma zinc, serum copper and zinc/copper showed this was the case in almost all ASD samples.
The US-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rates the average home as one of the most toxic places in North America, ranking it on par with the
air quality of a highly industrialized city.  The average home is swamped with toxins released from such products as cleaning fluids, perfumes,
disinfectant sprays, make-up, carpets, paint and even pressed wood used in furniture. In one of its studies, EPA found over 300 contaminates in
indoor air and considers indoor air pollution as one of the top five threats to public health.
Another common underlooked problem is mold in the home.  Even new homes can have a problem with it.  We found stachy behind our
siding and underneath our tiles in our kitchen.  I believe this exasterbated many symptoms of autism in our children.
The EPA reports 30% of USA structures have mold. Ten percent of USA homes leak each year, and most are not repaired in two days. Even new
construction is not mold-free. Some new construction is built with moist wood and dry wall, which creates mold behind the paint.
Indoor mold is routinely invisible in a homes, schools, stores and other buildings. This hidden mold hurts both adults and children in over
200 possible ways. Yet, because indoor mold illness is virtually absent from medical training, sincere physicians are not able to diagnosis it.
This is when we started testing for MSH levels.  When low, the immune system is obviously under attack.  Our were indeed. 
MSH is an anti-inflammatory, regulatory hormone made in the hypothalamus. It controls production of hormones, modulates the immune system and
controls nerve function, too. It is made when leptin is able to activate its receptor in the proopio- melanocortin (POMC) pathway. If the
receptor is damaged by peripheral immune effects, such as the release of too many pro- inflammatory cytokines, then the receptor doesn’t
work right and MSH isn’t made. Leptin controls storage of fatty acids as fat, so MSH and leptin are a major source of interest.
It is interesting to note that moms and their children OFTEN, and also almost ALWAYS, have a low MSH level.  Something is
irritating this cytokine response.
Any illness that begins with excessive production of pro- inflammatory cytokines will usually cause MSH deficiency. This is the basic mechanism
that underlies damage caused by exposure to biologically produced toxins neurotoxins (biotoxins) made by invertebrate organisms, including fungi
(molds), dino- flagellates (ciguatera and Pfiesteria), spirochetes (Lyme disease), blue-green algae (Cylindrospermopsis in Florida and Microcystis
all over the world) and bacteria, like anthrax. Nearly 100% of the patients who have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) will have MSH deficiency.
To get a lab test like that, do it through LABCORP and ask for an anti MSH antibody level.  In my opinion,  a mom
with a low MSH test, is someone who can have an autistic child easily.
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Replacement “sugars” such as stevia (can cause problems in our kids), and all it’s close cousins.  All are neurotoxic, even sugar.  Honey is best.
Both parents can play a role in preparing for their baby’s birth, since the health of both parents contribute to fetal health. Ideally, this would
include both mother and father going on a nutrient-dense anti-fungal diet, like the Body Ecology Diet.  Progesterone levels normally climb during
pregnancy and as they climb, blood sugar levels or glucose climbs as well.  While this is a natural part of pregnancy, there can be risks if the mother
has an undetected, systemic fungal infection or candidaisis. A fungal infection in the body of an expecting mother can become more acute as blood sugar
levels naturally go up. All infections in the mother’s blood are passed to her baby.  Guess what feeds candida and fungi?  SUGAR/CARBO DIETS…aka
the “american SAD diet”.  These are the children who are born at risk for autism because they lack a healthy inner ecosystem at birth.
A healthy inner ecosystem is made up of the friendly microflora (good bacteria) that reside in our intestines and keep us healthy and strong.
Babies who lack this inner ecosystem have almost no immunity (since 85% of our immunity is located in the lymph tissue in the gut).  Have you
ever seen soo much bad food in our supermarkets?  Where are the foods you should buy in a “normal supermarket”?  Never anything in the middle, stay
by the fruits/seeds and vegees…that’s it…your done… This is why babies are being born today with systemic fungal infection. When this happens,
yeast is in the baby’s gut. Studies show that yeast in the amniotic fluid can paralyze the gut wall, so babies are in turn constipated at birth.
This can be serious because the baby won’t have the ability to eliminate inherited toxins – including metals, like mercury.
High Fructose Corn Syrup, processed with caustic soda which contains mercury, this was a new revelation, but being obese it problematic too.  It causes
insulin levels to creep up, and metabolic X syndrome.  Many kids with autism have insulin regulation problems.  For example the analysis of the
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical (HPA) system responses observed more variable circadian rhythm as well as significant elevations in cortisol
following exposure to a novel stimulus in children with autism compared to controls. This exaggerated cortisol response is indicative of dysfunction
of the HPA system in autism. . Over-reaction of the endocrine system to insulin stress in autism has been recorded in another study, whereas the
experimental stress of insulin-induced hypoglycemia showed slower recovery of blood glucose, much faster cortisol response and elevation of growth
hormone levels compared to controls. Low levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) in cerebrospinal fluid have also been observed.  PCOS is
one of two diseases. One is Syndrome X, or insulin resistance. It’s when the body stops responding to insulin, so your pancreas is forced to pump out
excess insulin. With such high insulin levels, the body starts producing excess testosterone.  This can’t be good if you put mercury into the equation,
because in studies, testosterone increases the damage mercury can bring.   In a woman, the extra testosterone causes some pretty bad
side effects like weight gain and bad skin, and cysts on the ovaries hence the name. Apparently autism is linked with insulin resistance, and these two
conditions tend to run in families.  What better way to achieve that, than to drink soda pop/foods with HFCS?
As to corn syrup.  The first thing that is relevant is that high fructose corn syrup contains substantial amounts of mercury. Apparently mercury is
used in the chemical processing of high fructose corn syrup and not all of it is removed in processing. Scientists report that they can detect as much as
25 micrograms in 50 grams of some samples of high fructose corn … Read Moresyrup. In other words, your child might get as much mercury in a 24 ounce
bottle of Pepsi as we used to give in the Hepatitis B vaccine. We have no way of knowing whether a given product is contaminated or not. In addition,
the kind of sugar in high fructose corn syrup has a propensity to go right to the belly causing the paunch we see on so many children and is also
believed to predispose to diabetes. So, now you have three good reasons to avoid this stuff.
Refined sugars, including high fructose corn syrup, in industrially processed foods cause chronic inflammation.  The food industry maintains that the
effect of HFCS is not clinically distinguished from cane sugar, 1. However, fructose has a different metabolic pathway than sucrose and does not lead
to the release of leptin. Without the release of leptin, the consumer does not get the feeling of fullness that motivates him or her to reduce consumption.
As a result, HFCS is over-consumed, dramatically increasing the caloric intake, while the consumer’s health conscience, so to speak, is napping.
This effect strengthens the statistical relationship between the use of HFCS in food processing and the rise of obesity since 1970.  Interestingly
that is just around the time autism really starting popping through.

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BIRTH CONTROL PILLS, causes coagulation and thrombaphilia disorders, sticky blood, causes organisms and viruses to hide in the body.  Raises Copper levels, and lowers zinc,
and instant metallothionein disorder which causes the inability to excrete heavy metals.  We worry about immunizations and additives in food.
But no one is concerned about giving our daughters as young as 12 artificial hormones? It’s time to revaluate.  Why do we buy hormone free milk
organic meats and produce only to purposely ingest birth control hormones?  If  mothers of autistic children are already toxic, birth controls
would cause a spike in copper, and lowering of zinc (they are like a teeder todder).  As with antibiotics, there is a proven link between oral
contraceptives and damaged gut flora.  Damaged gut flora in mom, equals damaged gut flora in baby.  These toxins then get absorbed into your blood
stream, weakening your immune system, taxing your organs, and throwing multiple body systems out of balance. Furthermore, these toxins can also
cross over the blood brain barrier in the right conditions (conditions usually created by the current vaccine schedule in the U.S.).
I’ve recently began to study the effect of modern birth control methods and the changing and elimination of the menstrual cycle.  Once again, in the
40’s, 50’s and 60’s pregnancy was prevented by either abstaining or use of a condom.  Then, the birth control pills came into popularity…starting
to mess with the hormones.  Now women take the ‘shot’ to prevent normal menstrual cycles for a year…or the new ‘4 times a year’ birth control…Could
there possibly be a connection with tampering with mother nature and the normal 28 day ovulation cycle…and the damaged children we are now producing?
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Alcohol/Drugs = minor to major exposure causes DNA mutations, as well as drugs.  Especially known in autism community, high amount of alcoholism in families.
This may have something to do with self administration of serotonin uptake problems, presently a problem in our families with autism.  Liver function may
also be key here, as the more buildup of toxins in the liver, the more likely you will become addicted to offending foods and alcohol.
Recreational drug use may affect sperm quality or provide limited direct exposure to the developing fetus. Which includ oxide-induced heritable translocations and
dominant lethal mutations..the kind of mutations they are finding in autism!
There are some paternal exposures to drugs or environmental influences that may increase the risk of adverse fetal outcome (Robaire and Hales, 1993).
Several mechanisms have been postulated. One is the induction of a gene mutation or chromosomal abnormality in sperm. Because the process by which
germ cells mature into functional spermatogonia takes 64 days, drug exposure at any time during the 2 months prior to conception could result in a mutation. A second possibility is that during intercourse a drug in seminal fluid could directly contact the fetus. Third, paternal germ cell exposure to drugs or environmental agents may alter gene expression (Trasler and Doerksen, 1999).
Some studies support these hypotheses. For example, ethyl alcohol, cyclophosphamide, lead, and certain opiates have been associated with an increased
risk of behavioral defects in the offspring of exposed male rodents (Nelson and colleagues, 1996). In humans, paternal environmental exposure to
mercury, lead, solvents, pesticides, anesthetic gases, or hydrocarbons has been associated with early pregnancy loss, although the data are of varying
quality (Savitz and associates, 1994)….
 
Alcohol is a teratogen (substance that is toxic to the baby’s developing brain). Damage can occur in various regions of the brain. The areas that might be
affected by alcohol exposure depend on which areas are developing at the time the alcohol is consumed. Since the brain and the central nervous system are
developing throughout the entire pregnancy, the baby’s brain is always vulnerable to damage from alcohol exposure.  This means if you even abstain during
pregnancy, your husband who drinks would also have higher mutations rates.   Marijuana can decrease sperm density and motility and increase the number of
abnormal sperm.
Recently researchers found positive correlations between human general intelligence and three key indices of semen quality, and hypothesized that these correlations
arise through a phenotype-wide ‘general fitness factor’ reflecting overall mutation load. Some of the biochemical pathways
that may act as targets for pleiotropic mutations that disrupt both neuron function and sperm function in parallel.
Can the father’s workplace exposures affect my pregnancy?  According to the National Institute of
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a
number of workplace substances including lead,
organic solvents, pesticides and radiation have
been identified as reproductive hazards to men.
Some studies in humans suggest that such
exposures may be associated with decreased
sperm production, increased sperm abnormalities,
decreased fertility, and an increased risk of
miscarriage in the wives of these workers.
In addition, men exposed to heavy metals,
pesticides, and other chemicals in the workplace
may carry very small amounts of these agents on
their clothes and shoes into the home. This may
cause direct exposure of their partner prior to
conception or during pregnancy. However, no
data are available at this time regarding any
increases in birth defects due to such exposures.
Further studies are needed in these areas.
For many years, the belief was- if there is something wrong with the health of an unborn child, blame the mother. However, new studies have emerged which
have traced some of these problems to the lifestyle and health of the father. If the lifestyle of the father involves alcohol, drugs, smoking or exposure
to industrial hazards or pollutants, it may affect the quality of sperm and eventually the health of the fetus.
According to recent researches, a man with a history of substance abuse, alcoholism or smoking will have elevated levels of these harmful products in his
bloodstream and hence will have adverse effect on the sperm quality. As sperm cells are continuously produced in a man’s life, the risk of genetic mutation
is more and this affects the health of the fetus. Moreover, there are no guarantees that the egg will be fertilized by a good quality sperm upon conception.
It is advisable that when a couple decides to conceive, the female as well as the male should make positive lifestyle changes such as abstinence from alcohol, drugs, nicotine and so on. Second hand smoking has adverse effect not just on the pregnant woman but also on the health of her unborn child. Additionally, those men who are on high dose of prescription medication may also have some effect on the health of the fetus. However, consult with your doctor to learn more about the effect of the medication on the quality of sperm and hence on the health of the fetus.

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TV = the wavelengths are said to be causative of many with seizure problems to have seizures, and numbs the brain=especially harmful for autistics.  As well, leaves children too much inside without
being engulfed in sun’s VIT D rays.  http://www.causeof.org/brainwaves.htm  This website looks on the ACTUAL problems with brain waves and TV’s, a fascinating
read…Many believe an autistic child parked in front of a TV, is a child who is NOT going to recover.   Physical inactivity even in parents can’t be
good for their immune function, let alone not getting out in the sunshine.  Although, I would almost laugh at this, I was intrigued.  Cornell University
researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the
age of 3. The researchers studied autism incidence in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. They found that as cable television became
common in California and Pennsylvania beginning around 1980, childhood autism rose more in the counties that had cable than in the counties that did not.
They further found that in all the Western states, the more time toddlers spent in front of the television, the more likely they were to exhibit symptoms
of autism disorders.   Did not tv watching go up in the last few decades?  Do you see children playing on the streets anymore?  I rest my case.
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CARS – industry which heavily pollutes the brain, leading to inflammation markers and activation.  A recent study by the California Department of
Health Services indicates that industrial air pollutants may increase the risk of autism by 50 percent in young children and unborn babies. The report
was published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.  Researchers compared 959 children from six San Francisco Bay area counties
who were born in 1994. Out of these, 284 were diagnosed with autism-spectrum disorders. The study showed that children with autism were more likely
to be born in areas with high levels of mercury, cadmium, nickel, trichloroethylene and vinyl chloride (used a lot in cars).
Elemental mercury — which is released into the air from coal-burning power plants, chlorine factories and gold mines — appears to be particularly
hazardous.  In the survey, we found a high correlation of gold mine areas to autism.  Children with autism disorders in the San Francisco Bay Area were
50% more likely to be born in neighborhoods with high amounts of several toxic air contaminants, particularly mercury, according to a first-of-its-kind
study by the California Department of Health Services.  The new findings, which surprised the researchers, suggest that a mother’s exposure to industrial air pollutants while pregnant might increase her
child’s risk of autism, a neurological condition increasingly diagnosed in the last 10 years.  An interesting personal note, my kids were all born
in SAN JOSE, and we were downwind of the largest silver mine in California…the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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TYLENOL.  When used during fevers and pregnancy, especially harmful.  May inhibit glutathione synthesis, liver damage, and cause fever disorders
(spikes of fevers for no reason).  When used with vaccine reactions, may be especially harmful after exposure to mercury and aluminnum.  May inhibit viral cleansing
in body, and make a virus hide and mutate in the body.  Please See Dr Torres theory on this at www.rollingdigital.com/autism
Chemotherapy drugs – the most mutagenic drug on the planet.  It is now found in our waterways, as well as other drugs, like hormone replacements,
seizure medications, etc.  All of them are mutagenic.  If you live close to someone on chemo, the rate of autism goes up in the family.
First, we need to realize that the words medicine, pharmaceuticals, drugs and chemicals are synonymous. Some drugs, such as chemotherapy drugs, are the
most toxic man made chemicals in existence, thousands more times toxic than PCB’s or Mercury.  Second, it is important to understand that the EPA has not
regulated a pharmaceutical in over 25 years and the regulations on hazardous waste are over 32 years old. In those 32 years, millions of chemicals that
have been created.  Third, a fact often overlooked is, the human body absorbs only a small percentage (often less than 10%) of the administered drugs
(chemicals). The remaining un-metabolized drug (up to 90%) is excreted via the urine, feces, sweat, and breath.  These chemicals are so toxic that the
drug companies subcontract the manufacture to reduce liability for exposure to employees. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients or API’s are typically
manufactured in small labs to control exposure to workers. The medicine is then packaged in sealed glass vials and shipped to hospital pharmacies.
OSHA has written extensive regulations on how to handle Hazardous Drugs (HD) and they have determined that there is no safe exposure level for these
chemicals. Most of the drugs are known to cause Cancer and are also known Teratogens. Teratogens **(a drug or other substance capable of interfering
with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects)**
At the hospital, the pharmacist is required to prepare these drugs in a level 3 biological safety cabinet the same level of protection used to handle ANTHRAX. The pharmacist then takes the prepared drugs to the nurses to administer to the patient and tosses the empty vial, syringe and needle in the sharps container, or a residual Chemo container.
OSHA states in order to administer a dose of these drugs a nurse must wear special gloves, a protective gown and a splash shield to reduce risk of potential exposure (remember there is no safe exposure level). After the nurse administers the drug to the patient, the used tubing, IV bag and gloves are disposed of as a residual Chemo. If the patient urinates or vomits OSHA guidelines suggest the attending nurse first darn protective clothing prior to cleaning up the body fluids to protect him or herself from exposure to the drug that passed through the body. The sheets must also be disposed of as contaminated material. A larger problem arises when the patient goes home and uses the bathroom in their home, the chemicals pass thru the body unchanged and in some cases wipe out the bacteria in the septic system. For patients on septic systems chances are good that you are on a well, so your family will be drinking your chemo drugs. If you are on public sewer the medicine will pass thru the treatment plant unaltered or be concentrated in the sludge. The sludge will be dried and used to make fertilizer (yummy).  One of the problems is that the dose of some of these drugs is in the part per trillion range and are in water solutions. That means that even the
best incinerator can only guarantee destruction in the part per thousand range. Have you ever looked at a smoke stack on an incinerator the white
smoke is steam mixed with particles of chemicals.
The way these chemicals work is by breaking into the blood cell and breaking off the chromosomes in the DNA (high school biology). When the cell
splits it is a different cell that has been mutated, the majority of chemotherapy drugs are mutanagenic. That means the drugs work on a molecular
level and are not be dose dependent, that is why OSHA says there is no safe exposure to these drugs, and OSHA should know, as they have been researching
this for 20 years.
Some of the more disturbing studies involve nurses who work on the oncology floor at hospitals. [Spontaneous abortions and malformations in the offspring
of nurses exposed to anesthetic gases, cyctostatic drugs, and other potential hazards in hospitals, based on registered information of outcome.
J.Epidem Comm. Health 39:141-7] These nurses had a miscarriage rates or “spontaneous abortion rates” of 4.7, almost 5 times the national average.
That study was done in 1985, 23 years ago where is the outrage?  Exposure to Chemo can be shown by testing the urine of the nurses for damage to the DNA of the cell. The first studies of Chromosomal aberrations, or damage to the chromosomes were done in 1979 and showed an increased as the work week went on.
A study was commissioned in 2002 to find out if nurses on oncology floors had a higher rate of cancer; this study was canceled and canceled again in 2005. 
Cancer will be the leading cause of death in 2010 and will affect 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2 men in there lifetime, that is staggering.  This may seem
a little extreme, but we need to recognize what we are handling and putting into the environment. Going Green may mean more
than driving a hybrid car.
Jim Mullowney
B.S. Chemistry U-Mass 87
617-755-0883
Envisione@aol.com
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Use of radar for pregnancies – can damage DNA in utero.  Sonograms.  Why should neurodevelopmental defects in rats or other mammals be of concern
to expecting women? Because, as Cornell University researchers proved in 2001, brain development proceeds in the same manner “across many mammalian species,
 including human infants.” The team found “95 neural developmental milestones” that helped them pinpoint the sequence of brain growth events in different
species. Therefore, if repeated experiments show that elevated heat caused by ultrasound damages fetal brains in rats and other mammals, one can logically
assume that it can harm human brains, too.
Because temperature is critical to proper enzyme reactions, the body has built-in methods to regulate its core temperature. For instance, when it is too
low, shivering warms it up; when it is too high, sweating wicks off the heat. For obvious reasons, fetuses cannot cool off by sweating. However, they have
another defense against temperature increases: Each cell contains something called heat shock (HS) proteins that temporarily stop the formation of enzymes
when temperatures reach dangerously high levels.  Heat Shock Proteins do not work well with children with autism, in fact, their heat shock protein makeup
is totally screwed up.. http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v7/n2s/abs/4001171a.html
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IRON SUPPLEMENTS – especially damaging to mothers to be, and also infants.  Hemachromatosis is the most inheritable disease, conversely, the most inherited in autism families
Boys are mostly affected.  Big clue.. Mothers should conduct a genetic test for hemachromatosis before thoughts of pregnancy.  This disease is very prevelant in
IRISH, SCOTTICH, NORTHERN EUROPEANS.  It is interesting to note that Germany does not put iron in foods, and autism rates
are very low there.  Hans Raible wrote to me the following:
We do not have iron fortification, so the iron content in German mothers (and their children) is lower on average, and
autism is much less frequent as a consequence, so the women have healthier children.
The US has been practicing “iron fortification” since 1940 (interesting coincidence of the first autism cases). In the US,
every slice of bread is made with flour containing  iron filings. The packages of corn flakes made by Kellogg’s can be
lifted with a magnet because of this. It sounds pretty
crazy, and it is. 
The result of this is that the average serum ferritin values (a measure of iron overload) in US
women of child-bearing age are going up by 3 ng/mL each year, and by 4 ng/mL per year in US males of the same age group. 
This means that US women are entering the dangerous iron zone above 50 ng/mL, and US males commonly are within this danger
zone. There, plaque forms in the blood vessels such as in the carotid arteries where it has to be removed by surgery.
The males are made impotent by the iron, and both sexes are losing their libido. The thyroids will work no longer forcing
people to take thyroid pills, and at age 60, they will need artificial hip and knee joints courtesy of Kellogg’s.
Depression caused by iron overload is rampant. (No, it is not good for the brain.)
The excess iron also makes people much more susceptible to infection by the viruses contained in the MMR vaccine,
and to the various bacteria contained in vaccines. Hence autism.
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Amalgam fillings.  Highest known source of mercury, a body pollutant, especially damaging to baby to be.  Amalgams became EVEN MORE damaging due to formula
changes in the seventies, more mercury, more malliable, which means, it outgassed more.  Babies often chelate their mother getting the full brunt of the exposure, possibly
why some autoimmune mothers feel better during pregnancy.
A child’s first exposure to mercury from amalgam fillings* can occur at the moment of conception. Think of that and the implications it holds! At first
glance it may sound like a crazy idea and easy to dismiss but it is absolutely true and cannot be discarded. If the mother has mercury amalgam silver
fillings in her teeth the fetus will not only be exposed to mercury released from her fillings at the moment of its conception, but throughout the entire
gestation period. It is being exposed to elemental mercury from dental fillings before it even has a tooth!
However, the bad news doesn’t end there. If a mother has amalgam fillings while she nurses her baby it will also be exposed to mercury released from her
fillings—for as long as the child is being nursed. In addition, most babies in modernized countries will receive 10 vaccinations by age 5. These 10
vaccinations will consist of 33 doses of the vaccines, beginning shortly after birth and continuing through early childhood. Each dose will consist of
approximately 237 micrograms of mercury. But for tens of millions of babies, its first vaccination doesn’t appear until it has been exposed to mercury
for 9 months!
It also isn’t a stretch to see how devastating it would be to a nursing baby that was exposed to high amounts of mercury as a fetus, to then get such
large doses of mercury in vaccinations. It could be possible that without the added effect of the vaccinations a child would not have developed autism.
Such is the interconnectedness of this relationship involving early exposure to mercury, in all forms.
If you think about this for a moment, it isn’t difficult to imagine the effect mercury can have on the neurological development of the child before
it even gets its first dose of mercury from a vaccination! The most important aspects of neurological development take place during fetal development
and it is during this period that the fetus is the most susceptible to mercury. There are those that believe that it will only take a small amount of
mercury atoms to cause or contribute to a birth defect.
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ANY CHEMICAL made, for use in cleaning supplies, (and not regulated by the way), is toxic to baby.  Lysol contains toxins that were used in Agent Orange.
Please read this website in full to see what the listed chemicals in your cleaners are capable of doing!
http://www.costofautism.com/2009/03/cleaning-products-exposed.html
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MICROWAVE OVEN, denatures foods. No enzymes, no functioning immune system.  Microwaves have been shown in studies to induce Oxidative Damage leading
to a decrease in Super Oxide Dimutase (SOD), catalase, glutathione, CoQ10 along with evidence of increased byproducts of oxidative stress to cell membranes,
MDA.  All of these paramaters in autism ARE OFF…
Radio frequency energy leaked from microwaves is far less powerful than having a cellphone near your head. The federal standard for “safe leakage”
from a microwave is about 2.5 milliwatts per square centimeter (at a distance of about two inches from the microwave). On a calibrated leakage detector,
even an egregious microwave with a misaligned door will usually not come close to that. The leakage meter will usually barely budge on even a leaky
microwave door.
However, place that same meter near the antenna of any cellphone and it will peg the meter. With that in mind, I have never liked talking for long
periods of time on my cellphone, and when I do, I usually will put it on speaker phone, so the antenna is not near my head.
There seems a strange irony in chronic cellphone users frying their brains with the radio frequency energy that is being modulated by their own voices.
No matter what anyone says, it’s not a good idea to have your DNA helixes vibrating wildly while your cells are dividing, in my opinion. It most likely
will greatly increase chances of mutations and therefore possible bad side effects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMwIHJ37Rcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMHQ5cNjVng&feature=related
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Dental Infections, such as root canals, are deep rooted infections that can reach every part of your body.  Our lousy food supply is causing peridonitis disease
which reaches baby causing inflammation in the brain.  Elevates white blood cells in utero.  These act as cytokine activators, and can damage brain tissue.
children whose mothers had certain infections during pregnancy (bladder infection, diarrhea, cough or vaginal yeast infection) were more likely to develop
epilepsy.  The exact reasons for the association are unclear, but there is some evidence to suggest that infections occurring during pregnancy may
interfere with fetal brain development.
Pregnant women who receive treatment for their periodontal disease can reduce their risk of giving birth to a low birth-weight or pre- term baby. In a study
of 400 pregnant women aged 18 to 35 with advanced periodontal disease, half of the subjects were given periodontal treatment before the end of the second trimester while the other half were treated after giving birth.    Treatment included scaling and root planing, instruction in good oral hygiene habits and antimicrobial mouth rinse for daily use.  Of the women who received treatment during pregnancy, 2 percent gave birth to either a low birth-weight or pre-term infant. By comparison, 10 percent of the women who received treatment after birth had either a low birth-weight or pre-term baby.
The study results are consistent in establishing a link between advanced gum disease and pre-term deliveries when bacteria from the mother’s mouth
travel through the bloodstream to the placenta and fetus, possibly stimulating pre-term labor.   Pre term babies often occur in autism.  You don’t
want to disturb ANY metal fillings at this time. 
Approximately 9% to 15% of stillbirths are caused by infections. Infection may be especially important as a cause of stillbirth occurring early in
pregnancy. Recognized causes include syphilis, toxoplasmosis, parvovirus B-19, chorioamnionitis, and Listeria monocytogenes. Other organisms that are
“purported to cause” stillbirth include the genital mycoplasmas, Chlamydia trachomatis, HIV, group B streptococci, and others.  Infection is an important
cause of stillbirth.
“Don’t forget to floss” — it’s the dentist’s often-ignored advice, but new research indicates that for pregnant women, the development of their child
may be at stake. In a study presented at the International Association for Dental Research by researchers with the University of North Carolina found
that pregnant women with moderate-to-severe gum disease were at greater risk of delivering low birth weight babies.
   In looking at the periodontal exams of 850 pregnant women before their 26th week of pregnancy and then again within 48 hours of delivery, the
researchers found that women with gum disease that was moderate to severe had rates of low birth weight and fetal growth restriction that were as
much as six to 10 times higher than those with no gum disease.And even those with mild gum disease had some risk of fetal growth deficiencies,
Gibbs RS. The origins of stillbirth: infectious diseases; .Semin Perinatol 2002 Feb;26(1):75-8
The oral cavity is the site of many infectious and inflammatory disease. Systemic diseases have been recently been associated with of the oral diseases
and chronic periodontitis is probably the most prevalent and strongest epidemiological and plausible mechanistic associations with these systemic diseases.
 However, poor oral hygiene, the bacterial colonization of the teeth, possibly introduce more bacteria into tissue and the blood stream, leading on to
increased prevalence and magnitude of bactermia.
Oral infections seem to increase the risk for or contribute to low birth weight in newborns. A gram negative infection, periodontal disease may have the
potential to affect pregnancy outcome. During pregnancy, the ratio of anaerobic gram negative to aerobic bacteria increases in dental plaque in the second
trimester. The gram negative bacteria associated with progressive disease can produce a variety of bioactive molecules that can directly affect the host.
One microbial component, LPS (lipopolysaccharide), can activate macrophages and other cells to synthesis and secrete a wide array of molecules, including
the cytokines, TNF- , IL1 , and PGE2. If they escape into the general circulation and cross the placental barrier, they could augment the physiologic levels
 of PGE2 and TNF- in the amniotic fluid and induce premature labor. The periodontitis may be marker for preterm delivery susceptibility as well as
potential risk factor.
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ocket Fuel is found in almost every womens breast.  The developing fetus can have severe inhibition of brain development as a result of perchlorate
intake by the mother through drinking water or through breast milk.  It is also an immune and metabolic and hormonal damager.  “Studies have established that the chemical is
a potent thyroid toxin that may interfere with fetal and infant brain development (Kirk 2006).  The risk to infants being fed cow’s milk-based formula
may be even greater than the CDC assessment suggests. A CDC study in 2006 found that trace perchlorate exposure considerably below the EPA’s “safe” level
 (0.7 micrograms of perchlorate per kilogram of body weight per day, called the reference dose, or RfD) altered women’s thyroid hormone levels (Blount et al
 2006a).
Young children are particularly vulnerable to perchlorate-related health effects because their brain and organ development is mediated by hormones
produced by the thyroid, the gland targeted by perchlorate (Zoeller et al 2002, Ginsberg et al 2007). Recent research shows that infants can suffer
permanent neurological deficits from short-term thyroid hormone insufficiency (Zoeller 2006). EWG’s analyses focus on one-year-olds, who face new
perchlorate exposures when they shift from formula and breast milk to solid foods, milk, and juice.
Newborns are also at risk when they ingest perchlorate-contaminated breast milk or formula reconstituted with contaminated tap water (EWG 2007).
In addition, pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to perchlorate. An October 2006 EWG analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) found that for more than 2 million women with lower iodine levels, exposure to perchlorate from contaminated food and tap water
at levels equal to or lower than proposed national and state standards could result in significant decreases in thyroid hormone levels (EWG 2006).
If these women become pregnant, they would require medical treatment to prevent abnormal brain development in their babies. Insufficient iodine in
the diet heightens perchlorate toxicity.  (iodine deficiency is rampant in mothers of autistic children).

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Use of condoms, spreading the notion, you won’t get a sexually transmitted disease.  Ask the people who got them anyways.  Studies show syphilis in utero can cause
autism.  In like fashion, so can any infection passed back and forth from partner to partner, including lyme disease.  Lyme can cross placental barrier
like syphlis, and is an STD.  Autism is known to occur if you are syphilis positive.  Many don’t know they have it.  The association with deep kissing and
the higher frequency of HHV-8 detection (for instance) in salivary secretions all suggest contact with infectious saliva as a more important factor in
transmission then contact with genital tract secretions.
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Denatured soils.  Farmers are tilling and farming on dead soils.  Even the birds don’t come around anymore, after tilling the soil.  Interestingly, the highest
selenium states, have the lowest autism, and the lowest selenium states, have the highest rates of autism.  It is also true, that MSG is spread on some
plants, as well as mercury ridden pesticides and sludge.
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Living next to nuclear plants, facilities and storage, high levels of uranium.  Ever seen an exposed uranium baby, you don’t want to…
U.S. veterans who were exposed to depleted uranium during the 1991 Gulf War have continued to excrete the potentially harmful chemical in their urine
for years after their exposure.  It is interesting to note, that many of the mothers on my list were either army wives, and or, their fathers took part
in viewing nuclear tests in other wars.  My father witnessed the ANAWEETAK explosions, and lived in Southern Utah.  We are well aware that the radiation
fall-out map  Under the Cloud: Decades of Nuclear Testing  has demonstrated the effects  of 1200 nuclear weapon tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site;
and the US Government admitted in Nov. 2002, that every living person in the US between 1958-63 was exposed to this fall out  resulting in cancer, gene
mutation, heart disease, autism, diabetes, Parkinsons, ALS, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome , hypothyroidism in new-borns, obesity and learning
disabilities.  One out of  twelve children in the US is disabled. The fall out did not stop at the US borders.  It travelled around the world, as
atmospheric dust and remains even in the biosphere/ sub-orbital space today.  High breast cancer rates have been co-located in the proximity of nuclear
power plants in the west and more so in the east coast areas of the US (The Breast cancer map from The Enemy Within: the high cost of living near
nuclear reactors, quotes US Govt. Disease Control Centers.  
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OVERUSE of antibiotics, the bad things and the good things…  In some instances, a life saver, but should not be used to excess.  ANTI LIFE.  Precipitates
mercury into the brain and often a child is vaccinated when he was sick or recently sick, causing immune degradation, and poor body ecology.  Biofilm gathers, ear infections, and whala…autism.
HOWEVER, giant however, antibiotics do save lives.  They also save a child from autism, if the MOTHER IS INFECTED WITH LYME.  This may not be her only
avenue of attempting to downplay the infection, however, it may be the ONLY method to save her child from a bad bacterial infection.   But, due diligence
noted, a child having constant infections, ear infections, is a child who should not be vaccinated, and should be checked for common variable
immune deficiency.   Still, I refer to the thought pattern, that a child like this is probably coming from an autoimmune family who has leveled toxins
in him from the moment of conception.  CHICKEN EGG QUESTION IS…is CVID a genetic disorder, or an acquired one?
Common antibiotics might do more than just kill bacteria HOWEVER. New research suggests that some antibiotics can protect against the nerve damage associated
with diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), dementia, stroke and epilepsy. The beneficial effects of a family of ß-lactam antibiotics,
which includes antibiotics such as penicillin, was recently discovered by Jeffrey Rothstein and colleagues, who found that these antibiotics could
protect against the dysfunctional effects of the neurotransmitter glutamate in mice by activating the expression of a glutamate transporter. This
finding suggests a new role for some of the most commonly used pharmaceuticals in the world.  AGAIN, CHICKEN EGG QUESTION, why is the glutamate
transporter  having problems, you guessed it, too much MSG in the diet.  However, if you already have these diseases, a two course application
is probably in order.  That is, you must be off all forms of MSG and take anatibiotics to CURE/ALLEVIATE the condition.  How many times have you
heard that in course of a person who has ALS, Autism, MS, PArkinsons or the like???   Of recent, minocycline has been implicated in reducing inflammation
in the brain of autistics.
About ninety percent of the Lyme kids Dr. Jones (NEW HAVEN CONN) treats have learning disabilities. Children who have Lyme disease, but not ADD, will
quickly improve their ability to focus and sit still, while receiving antibiotics. If the antibiotics are stopped too soon, the symptoms will return. Since left
untreated, Lyme disease can spread into the brain, heart, eyes, lungs, urinary tract, peripheral nervous system and joints, if you have any
suspicions that the symptoms could be related to Lyme, have your child checked immediately.  This may explain that a two week course of abx’s actually
worsen autism, because it would allow bacteria to “regroup”, and come back more virulent.  (again see www.liafoundation.org )on how to test your child.
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Heavily polluted HOMES, via… gas heaters, can cause brain inflammation, slowly and insidiously.  Furthermore, children with
autism spectrum disorder were reported to live in homes with more condensation on the inside of the windows, which…
may be seen as an indicator for deficient ventilation.  Mothers of autistic children were twice as likely to use pet flea shampoos,
which contain organophosphates or pyrethroids, according to one study that has not yet been published. Another new study has found a
link between autism and phthalates, which are compounds used in vinyl and cosmetics.  All new to market since autism increased.  Other household
products such as antibacterial soaps also could have ingredients that harm the brain by changing immune systems. 
Consider TOYS, windows, vinyl siding (which, coincidentally, seals in moisture), mini blinds, garden hose, shower curtains, baby BIBS!, artificial
Christmas trees, decorative lights, some food packaging, backpacks and lunch boxes, appliances and waste pipe. Some building codes now allow the
household water pipe to be PVC too. Don’t forget to consider the 1000 feet of thin water pipe inside your fridge water dispenser, computer and other
cables, medical plastics…the list goes on and on.
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Living next to air ports or naval bases causes high levels of barium.  Barium is a heavy metal, as damaging to autism as mercury.  Acting like the
electrolyte in a car battery, barium chemtrails developed at Ohio’s Wright Patterson Air Force Base are routinely sprayed into the atmosphere to “duct”
or bend military radio and radar waves over-the-horizon, instead of continuing straight beyond the Earth’s curvature into space.  “Wright Pat” is also
closely connected to HAARP Experiments employing tightly focused, extremely high-energy radio frequency beams to alter the weather, disrupt
communications and “X-ray” bunkers deep underground thousands of miles away the transmitter array in Gakon, Alaska.  If you live close to an airport
or naval air force facilities, please get checked for barium levels.
BARIUM LEVELS UP SHARPLY
California state officials cannot explain how barium levels have nearly doubled since 1991.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okB-489l6MI
High levels of Silver (Ag), Barium (Ba) and Strontium (Sr) and low levels of copper (Cu) have been measured in the antlers, soils and pastures of the deer
that are thriving in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) cluster zones in North America in relation to the areas where CWD and other transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (TSEs) have not been reported. The elevations of Ag, Ba and Sr were thought to originate from both natural geochemical and artificial
pollutant sources–stemming from the common practise of aerial spraying with ‘cloud seeding’ Ag or Ba crystal nuclei for rain making in these drought
prone areas of North America, the atmospheric spraying with Ba based aerosols for enhancing/refracting radar and radio signal communications as well as
the spreading of waste Ba drilling mud from the local oil/gas well industry across pastureland. These metals have subsequently bioconcentrated up the
foodchain and into the mammals who are dependent upon the local Cu deficient ecosystems…
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
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Children put in cribs with high antimony, and bedding and sleepers contain antimony.  Play structures as well.  Again, another heavy metal..
Antimony’s primary use is in the form of antimony trioxide, a flame retardant synergist used in combination with bromine-based and zinc borate-based
retardants. U.S. consumption of antimony trioxide flame retardant products is approx. 70 million pounds annually, constituting approx. 8% (by volume)
of all flame retardants in use. Antimony trioxide is used as a flame retardant additive in many applications, including plastics for computer housing
and components, and textile applications such as furniture, draperies, wall coverings, and carpets.   We actually tested our carpets and found
high antimony and barium.  We ripped them out pronto soon after.
In light of the suggested link between antimony and childhood autism, it is interesting that the U.S. Geological Survey, in its description of
commercial uses of antimony trioxide, puts at the top of its list “flame-retardant applications . . . [in] such markets as children’s clothing,
toys, aircraft and automobile seat covers.”
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Giving children pasteurized milk, denatures it, and also makes the casienate proteins more virulent. Whole milk from a cow Or should be avoid milk altogher, my
vote is on the later…even the pastuerization process cannot kill paratuberculosis.  This pathogen causes chrohn’s in animals…and if you take the gut out of
such animals, and put it side by side a patients with chron’s the lesions are the same.   No heat pasteurization can kill this pathogen.
It feels seemingly insignificant that dietary changes can affect newborn primates.  In October 1975, three Japanese scientists raised a group of infant primates. By artificial nursing, these primates were fed a casein powdered milk formula.
 When they modified the infant formula to reduce the content of protein and increased the lactose to supplement the appropriate number of calories, the
primate infants developed abnormal behaviors such as stereotype rocking, fear, aggression, head banging and other autistic-like behaviors. Completely
unaware of what they had discovered, the scientists had induced autism in a clinical setting.
Now, they were aware that by reducing the protein content they caused the infants to become malnourished. They also observed that without human contact
some infants were much more impaired. They learned that the infants that received the standard solution were reared successfully. At that time they
concluded that a protein deficiency had caused a decline in physical and mental growth. Subsequent studies have supported this, whereby protein
deficiency does cause developmental delay.
The infant primates had developed symptoms of autism because there was protein restriction, milk proteins needed for ammonia detoxification, and not
necessarily just casein. They were fed lactose and lactose ferments ammonia, producing bacteria. They were unable to detoxify on a protein-deficient diet.
It is a simple formula:
Protein + Lactose = Normal Development
Low protein + High Lactose = Autism
But protein malnutrition does not equal autism nor does lactose feeding equal autism. However,
Protein malnutrition + high-lactose feeding + (the unknown factor) = Autism
So, the unknown factor is ammonia. In autism, there are signs of ammonia detoxification, for example when GABA and nitric oxide are increased. So instead of
developing overt ammonia toxicity, they are able to detoxify this excess ammonia. As encouraging as this sounds it still depletes cellular energy.
Many parents can recall ‘staring spells’ as the first behavioral change in a child prior to autistic regression. This can be the first sign of
increased blood ammonia.
Every time we receive a vaccination with heat-killed bacteria or a heat-killed virus, it produces a similar immune response. Live bacteria such as that
of lactic acid bacteria can temper these immune responses. The infant primates were fed heat-treated formulas, Clostridia is an opportunist infection,
looking for a chance to colonize. However, Clostridia is also a natural inhabitant of the colon. The problem here with heat-treated foods is that you
might as well say they are sterile. If you are feeding sterile foods, they don’t contain bacteria that can form a colony. So in order to colonize bacteria
you have to consume foods with live bacteria or an opportunist will take that invitation.
Breast-fed babies are colonized naturally by Bifidobacteria. Babies fed formula develop much more harmful fecal environments. Preterm infants are especially
at risk for Clostridrial infections because there is usually a delay in breast feeding. In older children generally pathogenic Clostridial infections
develop after antibiotic treatment, which can destroy the beneficial bacteria derived from the mother.
In a word, is milk doing a body good?
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Specific pesticide, ATRAZINE.  The pesticide atrazine, found in surface and ground water in many U.S. states, alters the genes of male rats that control hormone production, according to new research published in Toxicological Sciences. Environmental Health News summarized the science: “Rats were fed two higher doses of atrazine, 50 and 200 micrograms per kilogram body weight. Atrazine reduced the expression of several key genes involved in the production of steroid hormones, which affects levels of the androgens important for male development and reproduction. The exposure lowered testosterone levels at the higher dose and prostate
size at both doses in the male rats.” The research adds to growing scientific evidence pointing to human and ecological health harms associated with
atrazine, including hormonal disruption, neural damage, reproductive disorders, spontaneous abortion and cancers.
One recent study showed that birth defects such as spina bifida, cleft lip, clubfoot, and Down’s syndrome are most common in children conceived during
the spring and summer, when agricultural pesticide use is at its peak. And pesticides may contribute to male infertility, according to a new study
published in Environmental Health Perspectives.  It is also interesting to note, that the spring and summer babies are also conceived druing fulminant
tick season, and it is possible this may be the infection that started their difficulties.
Use of SSRI’s in mothers or TERBATULINE (for premature births), Prozac was marketed in 1987– the year the epidemic really launched. It’s mito toxic,
destroys glutathione, induces immune dysfuction, liver damage, can trigger OCD, robotic behavior, brain swelling and no one’s studied the long term
effects of the fluorine component that makes the “fluo” in fluoxetine: it gets absorbed into bone indefinitely, could potentially be passed to a
fetus years after maternal exposure. So why not that? Because, again, it didn’t exist at the time that autism first started showing up and not all
modern autism mothers took it. But like Tylenol, Prozac and similar drugs are no big help. Prozac increases permeability of the blood brain barrier,
potentially allowing in more…mercury; destroys glutathione and lowers immune resistance= facilitator.  Many drugs have similar effects, including
depakote, which recently studied how it could transfer to baby in utero.  One must wonder what is IN OUR WATER????  Activated microglial cells can cause
oligodendrocyte damage and white matter injury by release of inflammatory cytokines and production of excitotoxic metabolites.
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If any of your family members went to the Gulf War theatre, assume that your husband or wife or partner, is infected with Mycoplasma.  This alone
can cause autism in utero. http://www.gulfwarvets.com/chronic_infections.htm.  Similarly, According to a recent article in Science News, there appears
to be a high correlation between families with autistic children having a higher incidence of Celiac and Parkinsons – and scarily AIDs as well! 
I interpret the unfortunate AIDs connection as indicating that people with autism don’t fight off viruses as well as the general population –
another aspect of immune system dysfunction.
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And another infection XMRV. 
Autism in children may be caused by the presence of a viral disease agent that became endemic in the United States in
the last part of the 20th century, This disease agent may be responsible for numerous seemingly unrelated diseases in
adults, such as Prostate Cancer and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The increase in the prevalence of this disease agent may
account for the increase in prevalence of Autism in children during this period. Not all Autism cases are caused by the
presence of this disease agent, but the number of Autism cases not caused by this disease agent probably remained
relatively constant as an overall percentage of the population. The disease agent may or may not be the retrovirus
known as XMRV.
This is a retrovirus.  Is is specifically a  mouse leukemia virus.  It has been found in
autism and CFS. It is interesting to note, that many mothers of autistic children have CFS.  XMRV can be found in human
blood cells and is infectious. Researchers have confirmed this retrovirus is transmitted through body fluids and is
NOT airborne.  While there is the possibility of transmission, Stuart Le Grice, director of the National Cancer Institute’s Center of
Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Cancer Virology, emphasized that traces of the virus had been found in blood samples preserved
for as long as 25 years.  Another interesting aspect is this…could this be something found in childhood vaccines…a
reminant if you will of the DNA of animal origins?  Or, is this a vector disease, which mice are typically vectors
for lyme, and the bacteria AND the virus are present when bitten?
While XMRV has some similarity to HIV, in that they are both retroviruses, we don’t know whether HIV treatments will be
useful, nor do we know if our CFS/Lyme/FMS patients would be able to tolerate them..  Since we know that the origins
of HIV may be a contaminated vaccine, indeed, this may offer some clues as to why autism is increasing at present.
According to David Kirby of Huffington Post, “Researchers tested blood samples from a “small group of children” with
autism and found that 40% of them were positive for XMRV, according to a statement from the Nevada Commission on Autism
Spectrum Disorders. More testing is underway which, the Commission said, “could dramatically increase that 40% positive
finding.” (Given the small sample size, such a statement is purely speculative).  As Dr. Mikovits explained to a
television news program in Nevada, “It is not in the paper and not reported, but we have actually done some of these
studies (in ASD children) and found the virus in a significant number of samples that we have tested for. It could be
linked to a number of neuro-immune diseases, including autism. It certainly won’t be all, because there are genetic
defects that result in autism. But there are also the environmental effects; there is always the hypothesis that, ‘
My child was fine and then they got sick, and then they got autism.'”  According to Dr. Mikovits, XMRV (which admittedly
sounds like a satellite radio system for your Winnebago) can lie dormant in people, until it is “turned on or off” by
other factors, such as stress hormones like cortisol, or in response to the presence of inflammatory “cytokines,”
protein molecules secreted by immune cells to help regulate the immune system.”  Significant inflammatory
cytokines are things like infections introduced intot hte body or toxins…this sounds like a vaccine triggering
type of virus.  However, could it also be that this retrovirus is one of the unknown pahtogens in lyme tick borne
disease…and could this explain familial borreliosis, or a pattern of neurological illnesses in the family?
He goes on to say that” And then Dr. Mikovits dropped a bombshell that is sure to spark controversy.  “On that note,
if I might speculate a little bit,” she said, “This might even explain why vaccines would lead to autism in some
children, because these viruses live and divide and grow in lymphocytes — the immune response cells, the B and the T
cells. So when you give a vaccine, you send your B and T cells in your immune system into overdrive. That’s its job.
Well, if you are harboring one virus, and you replicate it a whole bunch, you’ve now broken the balance between the
immune response and the virus. So you have had the underlying virus, and then amplified it with that vaccine, and
then set off the disease, such that your immune system could no longer control other infections, and created an
immune deficiency.  What, exactly, is it about immunization that might switch on XMRV viral expression? Could the
effect of heavy metals upon cytokine balances be at play? Where did this retrovirus come from, and how did it apparently
become so prevalent in children with autism? Did these children inherit the virus from a parent, or was there some other
unexplained route of transmission?
Dr. Bell speculates that XMRV could be a kind of ‘puppet master’ that allows other infections such as EBV or HHV6 or
Lyme or enterovirus to  become exacerbated.  Dr. Coffin echoed this idea in his article “A New Virus For Old Diseases”.
Dr. Huber, a researcher studying endogenous viral elements in ME/CFS has suggested that XMRV could unlock endogenous
retroviral elements in our DNA.  Dr. Cheney stated that based on the limited results from his clinic it could XMRV
could be a factor in autism and ADHD and wonders about arthrits, asthma and cancer.  Dr. Mikovits has reported that
XMRV can be found in autism and ‘atypical MS’ patients.   Thus far, transmission via blood, semen, and breast milk may
be modes of infection.
It is interesting to note, that chelating agents have effects on viruses.  Disintegration of retroviruses by chelating
agents are known to work on viruses.  The chelating agents I speak of are IRON chelations.  Iron grows bacteria
and viruses.  Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication in human mononuclear blood cells by the
iron chelators deferoxamine, deferiprone, and bleomycin are known to inhibit the replication path of viruses.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/is-autism-associated-with_b_316986.html
So there you have it – a possible explanation of regressive autism in a significant number of cases associated with
immune system deregulation triggered by vaccination.
AIDS drugs such as reverse transcriptase inhibitors and integrase inhibitors as well as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs and cancer-fighting proteasome inhibitors could be tested as potential treatments.  Meanwhile, a new commercial lab
test is being developed, and may show that an HIV like protocol may counter the effects
of the virus.  http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/cooperative-diagnostics-launches-new-diagnostic,1014403.shtml
VIP lab in Reno, NV has several test kits for, or related to, this
virus. One is a PCR test for the XMRV virus itself. Another test kit
recommend by Dr. Paul Cheney is the NKCP & LYEA test. Your local doctor
can call the lab for information and can order the test kit(s) sent to
directly to you. You can also call for pricing, which has been embargoed
until the release of the paper. VIP Lab: 775-351-1890 answered 11am-7pm
XMRV is a gammaretrovirus, as opposed to HIV, which is a lentiretrovirus, from the Latin for “slow.” Lentiretroviruses may take years to cause
symptoms after infection. Not so gammaretrovirues. They’ve long been known to cause neurological disease, cancer and immune deficiency in animals.
Until 2006, scientific dogma held that gammaretroviruses infected only amimals.  XMRV has been in the human population—and we can assume,
in the nation’s blood supply–at least since 1984. Mikovits found XMRV in a sample of frozen blood that had been saved by Dan Peterson as
long ago as 1984. The blood happened to have had been drawn from a patient who went on to die of mantle cell lymphoma, another disease XMRV is
suspected of causing.
Today, there are an estimated one million people sick with XMRV-associated neuro-immune disease in the United States and ten million infected,
or 3.7 percent of the U.S. population, with a virus of “unknown pathogenic potential.”  It is interesting to note the date of this virus, at
nineteen eighty four, which is around the time autism exploded.
This discovery may lead in many important directions, explaining, for instance, why immune system cancers—lymphoma and leukemia—have been on the
rise for the last twenty years. It may explain why inflammatory cancers of the breast, prostate and pancreas are becoming more common, too. And
it may explain autism, atypical MS, and fibromyalgia—even amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Certainly, it has very probably explained the
pathophysiology of our disease. Why we are riddled with co-infections—herpes viruses, enteroviruses, mycoplasmas. Why we have NK deficiencies.
Why we have encephalitis. Why we get lymphoma, thymoma, and acute lymphocytic leukemia. Why we are sick for decades, not days.
The other interesting thought is that XMRV is a murine retrovirus. How does a mouse retrovirus get into a human? One possibility
is, tick bites. Only a small percentage of people bitten by tick realize they have been bitten.
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Just as DOWNS is often caused by older parents, who in fact, have more oxidative stress and toxins, assume that the magical cut off age
for having normal sperm is around thirty five.  But don’t assume that your sperm is normal, if you are exposed to the above.  http://www.gulfwarvets.com/chronic_infections.htm
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-11-22.htm  and
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/1387412/Male-fertility-goes-down-after-men-reach-35-due-to-sperm-damage-caused-by-smoking-and-drinking-says-Dr-Stephanie-Bello.html
The trend for men to have children at older age raises concerns that advancing age may increase the production of genetically defective sperm,
increasing the risks of transmitting germ-line mutations.  It is interesting to note that, men with substantial daily caffeine consumption
have increased sperm DNA damage associated with double-strand DNA breaks.  Gee, I wonder what else we are exposed to is doing heh?  Well, here is one..
Add anti-depressants to the list of substances that can damage men’s sperm and potentially impair their fertility.
In a new study, New York researchers report that as many as half of men taking the anti-depressant paroxetine (brand names, Seroxat and Paxil) have
higher levels of sperm fragmentation.  The study was published online today by the journal Fertility & Sterility.  “It’s fairly well known that SSRI
anti-depressants negatively impact erectile function and ejaculation. This study goes on step further, demonstrating that they can cause a major
increase in genetic damage to sperm,” said Dr. Peter Schlegel, the study’s senior author and professor of reproductive medicine at Weill Cornell
Medical College in New York.
(my problem with this is obvious…if the man has to take an SSRI, what INFECTION is he harboring, that has caused the depression in the first place?)
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It is interesting to note, if mother has much of these exposures, she is most typically already and fulminant, autoimmune.  This would contribute to fetal
brain antibodies, which damages the brain in utero.  In a recent study at MIND instutute they weighed the antibodies (yes they have a molecular weight), and
the interesting things were this…that infections are most likely the most common denominator, and that some toxins carry these same molecular weights.  In
teresingly, they found lyme specific borrelia antigens or the outer surface proteins in 37 KDA.  Are all these women lyme positive?  Could be?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17980971
Autism: Maternally-Derived Antibodies Specific for Fetal Brain Proteins,”‘determined that “the presence of maternal
autoantibodiesto fetal brain proteins of approximately 37kDa and 73kDamolecular weight confers an elevated risk for
autism.”The authors state that “these data provide evidence foran association between the presence of maternal
immunesystem biomarkers and a diagnosis of autism in a subsetof children. The presence of specific anti-fetal antibodies
in the circulation of mothers during pregnancy maybe a potential trigger that, when paired with geneticsusceptibility,
is sufficient to induce a downstream effecton neurodevelopment leading to autism.”So what are these antibodies that are
attacking the fetus’brain? Robert Bransfield, MD, of Red Bank, New jersey,provided information for the LIA Foundation’s” East CoastConference in
April on just what this may mean, it may beone more link connecting Lyme disease to autism and is oneof several possible processes that may explain
how Borreliaburgdorferi infections can result in autism. Bransfield statedthat from his research he found that 37kDa is associatedwith Neuroborreliosis,
^”^E.coli,’* Bartonella,'” andMycoplasma.”‘^ 73kDa is found in chlamydia,”’ strep,”Mycoplasma,’^ Bartonella,’^ and Borrelia burgdorferi.^’^He also put
the numbers together to show that in the 37children tested, 37kDa was found in 28% of regressiveonset autism cases and 21% of early onset autism cases,’**
which is similar to what the current research is showingfor incidence of Lyme in autistic children, reported at a20-30% incidence.” Therefore,
showing that bands 37 and73 are both found in Borrelia burgdorferi and as maternallyderived antibodies now known to cause autism
showsevidence of congenital transmission.
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Getting the picture yet?  What person in this world has NOT been exposed to those products or infections?  Depending on
the amount, the timing, and the combination, one would never know what is making them sick…as was desgined…and or
was never thought of before.

Let’s march on to PROCEDURES, medical, and otherwise, which were thought to be safe, and or, we won’t tell you this one because…?????
1.  Going to a hospital to have your baby – polls amongs midwives, no autism, why?  They do not Immediately Cord Clamp, allow full resusitation and blood flow to
go to baby.  The policy of ICC has now gotten down to thirty second cord clamps, even when blood is exchanging.  This has changed from minutes, to seconds IN THE LAST FEW DECADES.
This causes immediate body shock.  It can cause brain damage especially in speech areas of the brain, serious enough for recusitiation, but as minimal as minimal brain damage, not noticed until schooling starts.  It would cause brain damage in speech centers
and brain stem nuclei.  There is no reason NOT to save the cord blood for the baby.  The only reason worth mentioning, is that stem cells give someone
some lovely stem cells, which fetch at least fifty K per child.  I wrote an article with many other women on this on Medical Veritas/  It is possible that health
minded mothers who use midwives also do not vaccinate, especially with HEP B.
An informal survey among the dozen or so community midwives practicing in a geographical area and spanning the last 20 years, failed to identify any
babies born at home who have since been diagnosed with autistic disorders. Every year I attend a national midwifery conferences sponsored by MANA which
includes an exchange between midwives of practice problems and unusual trends. Among the 400 or so community midwives (CNMs and direct-entry midwives),
no cases of autism have been reported. Admittedly this is not a rigorous scientific study but it does raise questions as to whether strict adherence to
physiological management of intrapartum events, either alone or in combination with the self-selection of healthy women choosing home-based midwifery care,
may confer some protective effect relative to autistic disorders.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/57071?verify=0
http://www.5min.com/Video/Pitocin-Injection-and-Autism-157500949
An interesting note on Jaundice…Jaundice is almost certain when a baby gets his or her full quota of blood, and is
caused …by the breakdown of the normal excess of blood to produce bilirubin, the pigment that causes the yellow
appearance of a jaundiced baby. There is, however, no evidence of adverse effects from this.. One author has proposed
that jaundice, which is present in almost all human infants to some extent, and which is often prolonged by breastfeeding,
may actually be beneficial because of the anti-oxidant properties of bilirubin.  Could we be messing with natures way
of restoring the immune system?  I think so….
So potent an antioxidant is bilirubin that it displaces glutathione, the molecule believed for 80 years to be the most
important cellular antioxidant,” says Solomon Snyder, director of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
There are some very elegant studies in the literature that tie slightly elevated bilirubin levels to better alertness
in newborns, a lower risk of coronary artery disease and cancer in adults, and less damage from stroke in animal models.
But these findings went against what people thought they knew about bilirubin, and the results were largely shrugged off,
So, what are we doing when we get scared of billirubin, BREAST FEED, and what does it do?  BUILDS GLUTATHIONE, the major
OFF that is in all autistic kids, they can’t handle oxidative stress.  When I surveyed these moms, almost all the kids
had billiruin treatment which reduced their glutathione! Not good…oxidative stress is behind almost all cellular damage
and death, from inflammation to heart attack and stroke. As a very elegant and potent way to protect cells from this
stress, bilirubin is likely an important evolutionary development.  The key is that bilirubin is part of a cycle, so a
single molecule can be used over and over again to scavenge highly reactive oxygen (free radicals) that otherwise would
damage cells’ membranes and their DNA beyond repair.  A child with “handled” billirubin by lights, may in fact be a child
who would have a very hard time handling vaccines, due to their oxidative stress natures.  VIT D3 during pregnancy will keep
the billirubin levels at healthy levels.
Also, I found this reference, that says, that augmenting labor with Pitocin, may also induce a TERRIBLE drop in glutathione.
Think about this implication when they jab babies with HEP B within six hours of birth that contains mercury!
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ogi/2009/807659.html  
  Pitocin is not the only drug received by women whose labors are being induced or augmented. The use of Pitocin requires
that the mother also be given IV fluids, have continuous electric fetal monitoring in place and remain sedentary in her
hospital bed while connected to this equipment. Pitocin-induced uterine contractions and enforced maternal immobility
makes labor more painful, so much so that under these circumstances most laboring women also receive narcotic pain
relievers and/or epidural anesthesia.  Certain learning and memory functions are impaired by centrally administered
oxytocin. Also, systemic oxytocin administration can impair memory retrieval in certain aversive memory tasks.  Crossing
the placenta, maternal oxytocin reaches the fetal brain and induces a switch in the action of neurotransmitter GABA
from excitatory to inhibitory on fetal cortical neurons.   This would or could possibly explain the low oxytocin problem
in children with autism.
Drugs used on pregnant women have never been tested to determine
 if they are safe for fetuses and neonates. Not a single one.
 No one has a clue about the long-term consequences.
                                                  California College of Midwives
If the central nervous system becomes infected at a critical time, either before or after birth, Autism may result.
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2.  Vaccinating recently sick children, and or not asking the following questions…does mother have an autoimmune illness…have any other family members
including mothers siblings or herself have a bad reaction to vaccines…did the last vaccine cause more than a fever, screaming, fussiness
(by the way, THAT IS an EXTREME vaccine reaction)?  Does the child have hyper IgE on cord blood (see www.voicesofsafety.org ) and click on health links for the Hyper IgE study.  The developing immune system, according to
the immune deficiencies people is not developed until two years of age, even if you did a test, you would not know the quality of the immune response
until then.  So, let’s guess who’s child is able to handle it or not, yeah, good thinking?  Did the nurse shake the vial, can you ask for single vaccines..probably not anymore.
What are multiple pathogens doing with one another? Does nature give us the measles, mumps and rubella at the SAME TIME?  And, can you guarantee in the process
of making the vaccine, that it is not contaminated, and verify that?  NEVER.  children with this infection have”
Low Cd3+ (63%)
Low Cd4+ 60.5%
Low Cd8 63%
Low Cd57 (marker for lyme in utero)
Low B cells 16.3%
Low NK Cells 16.3%
If any of these parameters are low/subclinical or abnormal, NO VACCINES/ANYMORE. MEDICAL EXEMPTION, PHILOSOPHICAL, RELIGIOUS.
My motto with every doctor visit.  Run it past the spirit inside of you, a trickle of the word no, means NO.
Certainly, a mother testing positive for lyme or the XMRV virus/other neutropic infections should not be vaccinating her children.
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3.  Giving IRON to an anemic child.  Are they anemic, or is the iron FREED and toxic?  Before we go there, a full body iron panel, as well as paramaters of iron
storage must be studied.  I know some moms who gave their child iron pills, and within weeks, they became autsitic.  Should perform HEMACHROMATOSIS genetic screens
FOR ALL CHILDREN and family members.  William Walsh, PhD of the Pfeiffer Treatment Center (Illinois) reported the following interesting data relating
high iron and autism:  “At the request of an autism parent group (by the way, that was my group) about 6 months ago, I checked out iron levels in our population of 3,000 autism patients.
We found that autistic children exhibited higher serum iron levels than controls (non-autistic, healthy chidren). However, all of the differences occurred
in about 1/3 of the autism population with the other 2/3 resembling the controls. The high iron kids were extremely high, the rest of the autistics were quite normal, and there was little or no “middle ground”. It appears that a segment of the autism population has very abnormal iron metabolism (and abnormal ceruloplasmin).”
“My data essentially confirms the findings of the M.H. [Med Hypotheses. 2003 Aug;61(2):220-2.] article. Iron free radicals (ions) represent the primary
oxidative stress in the brain of most humans. Autism involves oxidative stress during early brain development. In theory, elevated iron in the brain
could result in autism. A genetic inability to regulate iron might be causative in 1/3 of autism cases.” (September 16, 2003).  Interstingly, iron is
elevated in Fragile X, Restless LEg Syndrome, Alzheiemrs, PArkinsons, and other autoimmune nuerological disorders.   With 36 million Americans carrying at
least the single allele for hereditary Hemochromatosis, and everyone on a multiple getting IRON whether they need it or not, checking everyone that we are
treating for serum iron and TIBC and FERRITIN makes total sense.  Iron ALREADY in the brain, is a gate keeper to MERCURY staying in the brain.
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4.  Do our children have a downwind PKU disorder?  A grandmother I had a great conversation with, has found more often than not, that children with autism
probably just have PKU.  Much of that is subjective, by state by state…one state, says your PKU, the other not/no standardization.  What is the standard here?  And why have
many of our children’s records BEEN LOST?  I dare you to go find your child’s PKU score!  It’s possibly why some of our kids have PURINE and
PYRAMADINE problems.  In order for a PKU test to be valid (ie…test for the disease we’re looking for), the baby must have had some breastmilk or
formula feeding (Glucose or plain water isn’t enough) get into it’s gut (stomach, intestines) in order to activate the enzyme that is missing in PKU.
The test usually should be at LEAST 12-24 hours AFTER birth, and is actually much more accurate after 72 hours.  Of late the trend is to send mothers
home BEFORE THAT TIME.   Timing, of course should be based on FIRST FEEDING, so if baby is
being kept from feedings (ie in the NICU) then the test should be delayed.  Much of the time, this is not done correctly!! 
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-193876634.html  I advise a PKU test followup at the Two week exam.
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5.  FOLIC ACID.  Is it good or not.  If you are an undermethylator, go soak in it.  If you are not, folic acid can damage the brain.  Be sure you know what
you are before you start this program.   Please check if your child has neural folic acid deficiency.
Increased diagnosed cases of autism began appearing a few years after folic acid was required to be added to certain foods and autism has been on the
rise ever since. Research has established a link between folic acid and genetic influence. Folic acid is critical to the making of chemicals called
methyl groups. These methyl groups influence whether certain genes are turned on or shut off, and can affect a person’s resistance or susceptibleness
to disease. Since the scientific community agrees that there is a genetic susceptibility to autism, the argument arises over whether the condition is
genetically predetermined, or if environmental influences act as a trigger. The introduction of folic acid to the mainstream food supply and the
coincidental increased rise in autism cases provide a strong argument for environmental influences as a possible trigger.
A particular polymorphic form to a key enzyme required to activate folate for methylation in neurodevelopment, 5- methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase
(MTHFR), demonstrates reduced activity under low or normal folate levels but normal activity under conditions of higher folate nutritional status.
A consequence of the presence of the polymorphic form of this enzyme during normal or reduced folate status are higher plasma homocysteine levels
than noncarriers and the combination of these factors have been shown in several studies to result in an increase rate of miscarriage via thrombotic events.
However, the incidence of hyperhomocysteinemia in the presence of the polymorphism is reduced under the common condition of enhanced folate status and
thereby masks the latent adverse effects of the presence of this enzyme form during pregnancy. Of great importance is that this polymorphism, although
common in the normal population, is found in significantly higher frequency in Autisic individuals. It is hypothesized here that the enhancement of
maternal folate status before and during pregnancy in the last 15 years has altered natural selection by increasing survival rates during pregnancy of
infants possessing the MTHFR C677T polymorphism, via reduction in hyperhomocysteinemia associated with this genotype and thereby miscarriage rates.
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6.  Calcium supplements.  Ok, for girls with autism, that’s a giant no.  Calcium was found resplenditly in a study by Dr Walsh from Pfieffer Institute by
PCR DNA, and deregulated at that (not in normal places).  So much so, I asked him, would that cause like mercury symptoms?  YES, he said.  He then found BOYS had high IRON.  Would that cause
mercury toxicity symptoms?  YES.  Was there residual mercury in the brain with kids with autism, answer AT ONE TIME, but not anymore.  HIT AND RUN event.  BUT, the body
may still THINK it’s there…why do these kids have antibodies to metallothionein?
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7.  If the child has lyme and autism (most probable), mild soft chambers do not address borrelia.  AP needs to be hard chambers at 2.4.  That is the only pressure
that kills borrelia, and oft times, a child with lyme and autism, will get WORSE in soft chambers.  Accordingly, does a DAN doctor know lyme literate lyme tests, the
answer to that is usually no.  Lyme CDC tests are completley invalid in children with autism.  Most children with lyme autism, have problems seroconverting
antibodies.  Most lyme tests are a roll of the dice.  Must go by SYMPTOMS, confirmatory tests to follow after inducing the pathogen into blood by challenge
of Abxs or tinctures against borrelia.  See www.liafoundation.org for protocol.
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8.  Detecting autism, at best a guessing game with observationals which THEY question as better diagnosing.  Why are we not going to biomarkers?  CD4 and 8 are good markers for autism…Typically all screwed up.  CD57 is
a marker for lyme.  Low MSH or melonocyte stimulating hormone, if low, you have lyme AND infections, AND, you have immune neural issues AND gut issues as well as reasonably
high toxic load .  Testing for C4B, would be grand before injecting measles in a child, because you need that to bind it.  Most kids with autism, have low or ZERO complement C4B,  Most kids with autism
also have STREP, HIGH HHV5 6 7 and 8, CMV, Mycoplasma Fermantens (Garth Nicholsen), and have lyme positive sera.  Most mothers are not tested for STREP GAMMA, in stools
this is the ecology of a mom who can and will have an autistic child.  Most kids with autism have a varied picture of immunodeficiency, such as LOW IgG, and Low IgG
Subclass four.  Some have hypogammaglobulenmia, and some are borderline commone variable immune deficient.   Most doctors do not check for head size in relation to
body size, a big indicator, or put their fingers on top of fontanels, and see if it is bulging.  A big sign of vaccine injury.  Dr Mouldin feels, that the other sign
is signs of a major to mild stroke, where eyes are crossed to center, or lips are dangling or face is dangling on one side.  Look at mothers too@!  They have the
same PROBLEMS!  Measure MOTHERS HEADs…they are typically in the 99 percentile, again, MOTHER is also suffering from vaccine injury.   Low Uric Acid, is also typical
in our children, and one must wonder, is that child not preocessing PROTEINS correctly, like I said, a downwind PKU disorder?  Purines, and pyrolles should
also be tested, but are not.  Thyroids are not being checked, and typically not addressed.  These are the formulations to having an autistic child/autoimmunity
diseases.  One of the immune deficiencies observed in autism is abnormal T-cell mediated immunity. Another is altered levels of certain classes of antibodies
(immunoglobulins), including decreased levels of immunoglobulin A and deficient complement activity, based on the inheritance of a null allele of the C4B
gene. In addition to the C4B gene, other genes on chromosome 6 also appear to be associated with autism. In the developing child, genetically determined
immune deficiencies might increase the risk for autism in two ways: 1) A pathogen or its toxins might damage the brain, 2) the pathogen might trigger an
autoimmune mechanism that would interfere with brain functioning. In the mother, immune deficiency might allow a pathogen to persist in utero, damaging
the fetal brain directly or triggering a maternal immune response that creates pathogenesis in the fetal brain.  Why aren’t we checking mothers
for immune deficiencies?  A predisposed brain is what these children have in that they have subtle brain injuries that have occurred in utero,
at birth or secondary to some other subsequent trauma. A good bibliography for this is found on the web at http://nodulus.extern.ucsd.edu/.
which is the web site for the Laboratory for Research on the Neuroscience of Autism. Unfortunately, up to recently, these subtle brain injuries
were not recognizable by the diagnostic tests that were available. Since the tests doctors used on these children didn’t show up the problems,
it was thought that they didn’t have any injuries. (Another tribute in the hall of shame to the ego of doctors.) Finally, diagnostic tests such as 3-D,
3 headed SPECT scans, PET scans, MRI spectroscopy and functional MRI are beginning to show that many if not all of these children do have subtle
brain injuries.
*(an interesting note, my kids haev had SPECT SCANS, the damage is innumerable…but, what of mothers? I had the same brain scan, and had damage IN
THE SAME AREAS of my brain.  Why aren’t mothers getting SPECT scans, before pregnancy?  What would it show?  What are they afaid of?  IMHO, the
spect shows that mothers are just as toxic, just as immune dysregulated, just as viral and bacterially loaded as their children).
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9.  Lack of VIT D…lack of, drives every cell.  No single mechanism, but very important for brain and development.  We were told to cover up, and slap
sundcreen on, when in fact, we need the sun, if we especially live in hemispheres with less sun exposures. The Vit D counvil and Autism has guidelines, that are unlike
what is told you at the doctor, in fact, most people are VIT D deficient, and should up the recommended dose, especially pregnant women. Most autoimmune diseases
people are very low in VIT D AND potassium…   By the way, many children with autism have RICKETTS!  This is often UNCHECKED in a well baby exam.
Children with vitamin D deficient rickets have several autistic markers that apparently disappear with high-dose vitamin D treatment. Estrogen and
testosterone have very different effects on calcitriol’s metabolism, differences that may explain the striking male/female sex ratios in autism.
Calcitriol down-regulates production of inflammatory cytokines in the brain, cytokines that have been associated with autism. Consumption of vitamin
D containing fish during pregnancy reduces autistic symptoms in offspring. Autism is more common in areas of impaired UVB penetration such as poleward
latitudes, urban areas, areas with high air pollution, and areas of high precipitation. Autism is more common in dark-skinned persons and severe maternal
vitamin D deficiency is exceptionally common the dark-skinned. Conclusion: simple Gaussian distributions of the enzyme that activates neural calcitriol
combined with widespread gestational and/or early childhood vitamin D deficiency may explain both the genetics and epidemiology of autism. If so,
much of the disease is iatrogenic, brought on by medical advice to avoid the sun. Several types of studies could easily test the theory.
People still don’t get it: Vitamin D is the “miracle nutrient” that activates your immune system to defend you against invading microorganisms —
including seasonal flu and swine flu. Two months ago, an important study was published by researchers at Oregon State University. This study
reveals something startling: Vitamin D is so crucial to the functioning of your immune system that the ability of vitamin D to boost immune
function and destroy invading microorganisms has been conserved in the genome for over 60 million years of evolution.
In primates, this action of “turning on” an optimal response to microbial attack only works properly in the presence of adequate vitamin D, which is
actually a type of hormone that circulates in the blood and signals to cells through a receptor. Vitamin D is produced in large amounts as a result
of sun exposure, and is available in much smaller amounts from dietary sources.
Vitamin D prevents the “adaptive” immune response from over-reacting and reduces inflammation, and appears to suppress the immune response. However,
the function of the new genetic element this research explored allows vitamin D to boost the innate immune response by turning on an antimicrobial
protein. The overall effect may help to prevent the immune system from overreacting.
Certain doctors I know say almost every autsitic child they tested is vit d deficient.  Certainly, this would make them more proinflammic.
You don’t want to be proinflammic and vaccinating to heck and back.
It’s because if people knew the truth about vitamin D, the vaccine industry would collapse. Who needs a vaccine if you’re got a powered-up immune system
to do the job automatically? Plus, your immune system is natural, while vaccines are completely unnatural injections of toxic chemicals that are
ncreasingly being linked to not just autism, but seizures, brain damage and death.
Why risk a vaccine when vitamin D is so remarkably safe?
Perhaps that’s why our health authorities don’t dare recommend vitamin D — the financial impact on the cancer industry would just be too great.
The vaccine makers would lose billions, and the cancer industry could lose tens of billions. Diabetes rates would fall, depression would fade away
in many people, kidney function would improve and a long list of other diseases would be prevented or reversed following adequate vitamin D intake.
To any doctor or health authority who scoffs at the notion of vitamin D being far more useful than vaccines, ask them this question: If vitamin D
has no purpose in human health, then why have the immune system genes that are specifically activated by vitamin D persisted in the genome
(which is now the human genome) for more than sixty million years? Why is the human immune system programmed to use vitamin D to activate itself?
Why does human skin generate vitamin D in response to sun exposure?  To hear mind-numbed doctors answer it, this is all just coincidence!
There is no specific reason that vitamin D genes exist at all!  But it gets even more bizarre: According to the FDA, vitamin D has no beneficial
biological effects in the human body! It’s true: The FDA says that any substance that has a beneficial (therapeutic) effect in the human body must
be a DRUG, not a nutrient. And vitamin D has never been approved as a drug. Therefore, it is inert.
Vitamin D has a significant biochemistry in the brain. Nuclear receptors for vitamin D exist in the brain and vitamin D is involved in the
biosynthesis of neurotrophic factors, synthesis of nitric oxide synthase, and increased glutathione levels — all suggesting an important role
for vitamin D in brain function. Rats born to severely vitamin D deficient dams have profound brain abnormalities.
An old baby book I came across said you should set the new baby in a basket by the window sill or outside in the sun every day for 10 minutes,
but didn’t explain why. It also assumed that every baby would be exclusively breastfed until at least 6 months. So here’s how the pieces fit together.
If the mom has insufficient vitamin D levels when the baby is born, there probably won’t be enough D in her milk, since it’s fat-soluble and doesn’t go
straight into her milk like the water-soluble vitamins (like C) in her diet will. Of course, nobody tells you this now, because they always assume the
baby will get vitamin D (and iron) from formula (which is a very bad idea anyways).
And everyone is horrified at the very idea of allowing a baby’s skin to be exposed to the sun, even
for a few minutes. But it obviously worked back then, even though they didn’t know why, and they didn’t have to use the awful vitamin supplements that
upset their tummies that they give nursing babies now. So I wonder what would happen if pregnant women were told to go tanning for 15 minutes several
times a week to build up their D levels during the pregnancy? Would that be enough to make your milk have sufficient levels of D? I also wonder why we
can’t do anything in moderation in our culture. Since lots of sun exposure can cause skin cancer, we now have to have no. sun. exposure. at. all.
And everyone’s deficient in vitamin D and feels like crap, aka depressed, mentally unstable.
To remedy this you can also buy a happy UV light, which helps you make more VIT D and helsp with melatonin synthesis.  I advocate this while pregnant
as well as healthy food choices and VIT D3 supplments WITHh sun exposure everday.
 

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10.  Be aware that MSG (in the form of glutamic acid/hydrolyzed gelatin) is in vaccines as well as foodstuffs – and thus
in an inflammatory setting to start with. It is in all live-virus vaccines (acts as a stabiliizer). As if that weren’t bad
enough, glutamate lowers glutathione levels as well; so giving the MMR, say, at the same time as the DPT, say, would tend
 to make it more difficult for the child to eliminate the heavy metals (Al and Hg) in the DPT.  As for glutathione levels:
 At least the search for genetic predispositions to ASD has uncovered the genetic polymorphism causing a subset of
children to be low in those levels. Not that that info has made much of a ripple in the white matter of our authorities
brains, since it brings up the issue of the likes of Hg and Al in this matter. And also, speaking of glutamate & its
effects: Carol Hornlein (of msgtruth.org) has pointed out that at least some of the early genes found to be associated
 with autism code for glutamate synapses; which factor makes this substance doubly dangerous for such children
 (since it already causes inflammation in the brain to start with). Glutamate is also high in gluten and casein
 – a main factor in why a GF/CF diet is so valuable for kids on the spectrum.
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11.  “The US government is currently throwing more money towards genetic studies – this time it is the wholy grail of gene
studies, the Whole Genome Association study.  Basically what they are saying is that so far we have not been able to
find anything in (coding) DNA sequences that would explain autism in substantial any way. So lets look very closely at
 another 98% or so of the genome – the non coding parts.  The trouble is that once again they are going to look into
mutations (ie passive codes) of the whole genome, completely forgetting how massively influenced and interactive these
systems are with the environment. Especially in the brain!!   So instead of looking at FUNCTIONALITY of those systems,
they are again looking at the passive, sleeping codes. Instead of spending more money looking at exogenous/non inherited
non coding RNAs (for example viral ncRNAs) in the brain and other body systems in autism, instead of for example
looking closers into how microbial RNAs and environmental toxins influence host DNA editing (for example through ADARs)
 … science will throw more money into Mendelian waste-bin, and will find itself scratching its head once again when the
Whole Genome Association returns next to zero answers to autism *mistery*.  (NATASA from autiscalciumchannelopathy homepage)
My question is this? Why a genome study, are they trying to find out what their experiements with vaccinations and toxins
have done?  Answer to that, a secret and giant, YES.
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 12.  Stopping Breast feeding too early.  Even in the animal kingdom The mother cow passes on immunity to her calf when
it is born for the first few weeks, and the immunity of the mother is further extended even longer through the breast milk. 
 Thus the baby has the same immunity as the mother for a while.  This is also true for humans and all mammels! This is
basic biology.  The recommendation is only six months…this is not enough to cover your baby through the “dangerous”
childhood disease windows.  I recommend two years, yep, you heard me, two years.   You might be surprised to learn that
the worldwide average length of breastfeeding each child is about 4 years. This is because many societies encourage
children to continue breastfeeding until they wean themselves.  In the last century, a trend existed that equated
wealth with baby formula – or more aptly – poverty with breastfeeding. Because of this trend, parents used to aspire
 to formula-feed their babies for higher social stature. In the last few decades, however, scientists have learned
 that breast milk is far superior to anything man can make to imitate it and that, besides its nutritional benefits,
the act of breastfeeding itself provides benefits to the child and health benefits to the mother.   Many mothers
of autistic children report IMMEDIATELY after stopping breastfeeding, autism came on soon after…could it be that
it was offering protection to her baby in interem, EVEN IF they were vaccinated.  THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS to this rule
however.  If the mother is lyme positive, she can transfer the pathogen to her baby.  If the mother is being treated,
it is still a cautionary stance.  If the mother has amalgam fillings, she is also giving her baby quite a lot of mercury.
Before pregnancy, at least a year, and with chelation after, a mother should remove all mercury amalgams.  After the
chelation, be sure potassium/zinc, VIT D, and calcium are in normal reference ranges. 
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13.  Corporate chemical contamination of air, food, and water supplies, including pesticides, herbicides, industrial byproducts, and
many other potentially toxic substances, are obvious sources of trespass. However, chemical bodily trespass is also occurring as a
result of neighbors who smoke cigarettes, use lawn chemicals, building materials, pesticides, and fragranced laundry products.
All of these potentially toxic chemicals drift through the neighborhood airspace and involuntarily enter the human body. Within
the last year, media reports confirmed pesticide drift from a nearby strawberry field entered a school yard, causing students to
collapse and become ill. Pesticide drift has been shown to volatilize into a gaseous state and travel quite long distances
through wind and rain.  Current laws for many of these products take a sell now and test later approach under post-market laws
Cranor, a University of California researcher, states that products come under scrutiny only when they are suspected of contributing
to harm. Over 80% of products on the market have not been pre-market tested and are only tested after adverse effects occur.
Though many Americans believe everything that is sold is tested and safe, this is unfortunately not the case.  In one lecture I attended
they showed a colored map indicating the most polluted areas of the United States, and then superimposed clusters of autism over that
map—and they correlated very well. Too well.  This is the same for lyme endemic areas…are they testing schools for
this drift, or, by neighborhoods?  Where is the EPA truly when we need them?
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14.  Preliminary Recommendations (more research needed):  (AKA, have you heard this one from your OB GYN lately? oh, you haven’t???)
Iodine supplementation (100 mcg/day) and lithium supplementation (500 mcg/day) during pregnancy may help prevent autism. Smaller doses for their children
may help treat some of the symptoms of autism, including iodine for thyroid function and lithium for behavior problems.
Chromium supplementation might possibly help reduce pica.  Children with low muscle tone may benefit from increased potassium, preferably from
fruits and vegetables, or from prescription supplements if necessary.  Iodine is a GREAT bacteriostat.  Great for the gut bugs.
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15.  Gluten allergies, familial.  The test for gluten is often sera negative.  Why aren’t doctors checking by symptom?  Let me explain….
Teratogen seems to describe the process by which an environmental stimulus (teratogen) affects a mother, and that effects the future health of her
child. The teratogen can be anything, an infection, a chemical…… And the process can take any of many routes. DNA changes, blood flow…..
The theory of teratogens causing autism flies in the face of the predominant theories which blame direct environmental effects ……..
an infant ingests something, or gets an inoculation, and becomes autistic.
There have been several small scale studies recently attempting to identify teratogenic processes which could cause autism. One teratogenic hypothesis
is passing experimental challenges. It blames autism on a deformation of the GSTP1 mitochondrial DNA marker.
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/f…61/4/356?ck=nck
I had no idea what the GSTP1 mitochondrial DNA marker does or did until I looked it up.  The enzymes GSTM1, GSTT1, GSTP1, CYP1A1 and CYP2E1 are involved in the
bioactivation and detoxification of a variety of xenobiotics present in food, organic solvents, tobacco smoke, drugs, pesticides, environmental pollutants
and alcoholic drinks.  However, a gluten-free diet improving autism fits the teratogenic
mitochondrial deformation hypothesis. And that has pretty amazing implications.  Human mitochondrial DNA is not the DNA which replicates in the nuclei
of our cells, and forms new cells. Mitochondrial DNA is DNA which we inherit from our mothers. It gets passed on to us in the fluid contained in the
egg which she contributes. We have our mothers’ mitochondrial DNA in most of the fluids of our bodies, and as far as I know, in every cell of our bodies.
This goes along with my theory of gas appliances in the home.  Teresa Binstock researched this a bit and posted on Generation REscue that ” A newly
published study reports that “Early-life exposure to air pollution from indoor gas appliances may be negatively associated with neuropsychological
development through the first 4 years of life, particularly among genetically susceptible children.” (1) Indeed and related to autism, adverse effects
were more likely if the child has a particular allele related to glutathione (GSTP1). As of May 2009, the study is not yet free online but a synopsis has
been posted by EnvironmentalHealthNews.org     The new findings about GSTP1 are consistent with previous studies wherein glutathione and related alleles
have been implicated in autism. Williams and colleagues reported that “Overtransmission of the GSTP1*A haplotype to case mothers suggests that action in
the mother during pregnancy likely increases the likelihood of AD [autistic disorder] in her fetus.”

A child who cannot detox environmental stimuli, is a canary bird waiting to happen.  This genomic SNP, is one of the essentials I feel, for any child
born into our world,  A giant indicator, they won’t handle vaccines, well, or at all.  The question  (both GSTM1 and GSTP1)
is now…why isn’t this SNP being tested on every newborn?  And the answer to that would be, a VERY LARGE population of children unable to handle metals,
environmental pollution, or infections is in fact, MORE than we would even know.  Interesting note, gluten and casein don’t do well in CELTIC backgrounds,
nor does the ability to handle iron.  If you have this background, just know, that you are probably gluten and casein intolerant and have an iron disorder,
even without a test.
Epigenetics describes the proteins on the surface of our DNA. Epigenitic proteins mostly (if not totally) come from the mitochondrial DNA of our mothers.
In the 20th century, mapping the human genome was touted as the holy grail of identity. Cracking each person’s DNA code would supposedly tell everything
about a person’s makeup. Now we know that epigenetic proteins add volumes to our makeup.  Epigenetic proteins turn genes on and off …….tell our
cells which genetic traits to express, and which ones not to express. We inherit this capacity directly from our mothers. And that’s key to the
teratogenic effect. Our mothers inherit mitochondrial DNA at birth, and place it in their eggs early in life. It’s easy to see how an environmental
stimulus applied to a girl could change the mitochondrial DNA she passes to her eggs, and to her children. And that change affects the operation of her
child’s epigenetic proteins.
Humans have only consumed agrarian grains in the last 10,000 years of our evolution. Survival of the fittest dictates that major evolutionary changes
can only occur when environmental hardships reduce a species down to a breeding pair. A genetic mutation allows that pair to propagate the species with
changed attributes. Agrarian grains expand human populations, meaning that humans have no ability to genetically adapt to agrarian grains.  We have
developed epigenitic abilities to adapt. But epigenetic adaptations are fleeting. We are predators with only temporary ability to survive on grains.
So humans inherit an epigenetic method of digesting grain proteins and starches. Celiac disease and autoimmune disease occur when those substances,
in combination with environmental stimuli defeat our inherited epigenetic method of digesting agrarian grains.  Gluten is a harmful opioid which mimics
human endorphin. It can plug into the endorphin receptors of our central nervous system. Some immune systems recognize gluten as an invading antigen.
Those immune systems attack gluten and attack all the human tissue it may have come in contact with. Where the tissue is nerve tissue, the attacks can
change mood, cause emotional instability, and degrade socialization in children…….
……autism.
http://www.childrensdisabilities.info/alle…rsprotein7.html
It is imperative that humans digest gluten before it goes into the bloodstream. People who fail to digest gluten include people with celiac disease,
people with other autoimmune diseases, and people with……
…….autism.
Autism shows itself in subjects upon initial attempts at socialization, between one and two years old. Many studies have found that a gluten-free diet
remarkably improves the symptoms of people with autism.
http://www.paleodiet.com/autism/cadelet.txt
Autism’s link to maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, combined with its link to failure to digest gluten, tends to confirm that autism represents a
breakdown in the epigenetic codes which allow us to digest glutenous grain.
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It may seem that I am steering away from the vaccine autism link as to confuse and obsticate, but this is not my intention…in fact, it is typifying the
exposures/loss of information we are under from the moment a child is conceived.  The increasing autism incidence estimates are
generating strong interest in identifying its salient risk factors.  What must add up in a parents mind, is the giant question I have flailed around
for years now..why my child?  What makes my child more suscpetible to vaccine injury?  But what we do as to how to protect our children, is not
coming from our “authorities”, nor our medical “experts”.   All of this info is valuable, including the genetic hunt. Unfortunately, the latter only goes so
far. Harris Coulter told – with facts – the world years ago that yes indeed there was a genetic factor in kids with ADD/ADHD & ASD & such, since those
conditions were found often to run in families; but the point was that it was a genetic predisposition to be damaged by vaccines/had an environmental
trigger.  The missing link, in the brains of these cretins who are running the medical show in our day and age has produced nothing but “your a bad
gene” aka, your a bad parent and that’s all there is to it.  I suppose they think it will only happen to “those families”…not “theirs”…unfortunately,
not prominant doctors and researchers are experiencing first hand this life of autism, and suddnely develop a conscience, that maybe their science,
thought patterns, were completely off base.
Is it time to fire your pediatrician, your congressman, your president?  Is it time to avoid the things that can add up as a major storm in your child?
Until something is going to be done about this perfect storm then autism will continue, and it will be NORMAL to have autism in your children, and
your children’s children.  Is this acceptible to you?  Are acceptible losses acceptible?  Our children are on the front lines, our bodies are being exposed
to toxins and viruses and bacteria at an alarming increasing rate.   The “powers that be”, don’t care, and or feign care.
I think the perfect storm can be summed up in these few words….Reduced levels of antioxidants, such as glutathione, would
increase the level of oxidative stress. Oxidative stress occurs when antioxidants are not able to clear the body of free radicals,
which can damage cells in the brain, gastrointestinal tract, and immune system.  Our ability to cope with what is shoved
in our faces and bodies everyday.   Inherited differences in our ability to detoxify certain exposures place some people at increased risk.
In searching for that ‘perfect storm’ or exact combination of genetic and environmental factors that might have contributed to a child’s ASD.
If we can find this, we may be able to forecast who could be at high risk so we can take appropriate and effective preventive measures and
identify new therapeutic approaches.  But don’t look to your pediatrician to provide those answers for you, or CDC, or NIH, or FDA.
This is something that is going to rest upon your shoulders.  Take aim at it as if it were the enemy from without, and within.  Ask
yourselves why certain countries start to ban products, and the US does not?  Is it about the money?  Is it about the perceptions?
Is it about the stock holders?  Is it about jailtime?  Is it about a very evil agenda?  This will be up for you to decide.
 
In “Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children,” they argue that toxic chemicals and heavy metals in the environment are responsible
for much of the increase in chronic disease and disability in children and explain why governments and industry have done little to stem the
tide of misery.  They go on to say that “DNA is analogous to the keys on a player piano. The set of toxic chemicals is like the sheet of punched paper
that is put on the piano’s roller to turn the keys on and off. If a key or gene is not turned on and off at the right times, a child may end up with
autism, or a learning disability, or some other problem. For epigenetic changes, the dose of the toxicant is far less important than the timing of
exposure.  A related recognition, the book explains, is that fetuses and children are far more sensitive to harmful effects of toxicants than adults.
Chemicals, even at part-per-trillion levels, can affect the fetus. For example, a single small dose of an organophosphate pesticide such as
chlorpyrifos (Dursban) on a critical day of development can reduce the number of brain cells, alter the architecture of the brain, and prevent
normal connections among brain cells, the book notes.  Chemicals that disrupt endocrine hormones—known as endocrine disrupters—behave in this way.
Even at low doses, “they can alter the way immune and endocrine systems operate,” the Shabecoffs write.
CONCLUSION.
I believed that my governement/medical authorities, aka, the white coats, were my watchman.  I believed that they would never intentionally produce products
that harmed, and I believed that when someone birthed my babies, they had no intention on banking stem cells and robbing
them of presciocus cord blood, and I believed in those who set forth
regulatory standards did so in mind of my health and well being for myself and my babies.   I believed a lot of things then.  Now, I don’t so much anymore.  I believe that it
is a parents right, to know what can harm their children, and that those choices are a God given right to avoid, prevent, and
take no part in and or intervene with.  We moms know instinctively that we must protect our babies, whatever the cost, whatever is necessary…
But doctors have the passion and curiosity beat out of them before they ever see their first patient.  Medical training,
instead of being an acquisition of knowledge, is in reality a quest of memorization.  For most, their training and
memorization just doesn’t add up to questioning the medical “standard of care”…which comes straight from the
pharmaceutical and medical industry that thrives on our illness, not our wellness.  The good news is, thanks to the level
of audacity they’ve stooped to with this swine flu business, the masses are beginning to wise up.  But will it be in time? 
For many, it won’t…because of that TRUST problem.  Most people would be so much better off if they trusted only 50% of
what their doctor says and redirect that other 50% to trusting their own instincts and their own research!
Trivial as one or two exposures may seem, we simply don’t know what the combining effects of synergistic toxins, upon an immune system
quality, or what I call cellular competence, sets up people for disease.  Long time exposures are most insidious.   It is simple math, when, when
individual events combine to aggravate a situation and increase its danger and impact by multiples.
In October 1991, a number of separate weather systems converged off the coast of New England, creating a storm stronger than any in recorded history,
with winds of 120 miles per hour and waves the height of 10-story buildings. Meteorologists dubbed the results “the perfect storm” –
no one caught in the middle could survive.   In like manner, all the disciplines of diseases should be at least CONVEYED
to parents and not caught off guard, that if you avoid this, if you do that, then your chances are lessened?  Where is that information?  What
large study would tell you all these points?  I AM.  I am you…a mother who was desperate to find out why.  Why did this happen?
However, some diseases MANMADE.  It is interesting to me, if not comical, that a BEE COLONY collapse gains more attention to etiology’than
an autistic child does!  Something is wrong with this picture?  Even they conclude, that some kind of environmental FACTORS are in play,
suggesting a fungus, a virus, a toxin or several in synergy, global warming, etc.  Interestingly, the BEE colonies remind me of
our children..who in like manner forgot where their bee colony was, and often fly in circles because that’s all they know that to do..
like a natural instinct gone wrong.  Yes they used the M word, MYSTERIOUS.  But all sorts of resources found perfect storms and theories of that disease.
But wait?  Am I on to something here?  You bet!  The Bee collapse was described as disorientation and loss of memory, stomach and small-intestine fungi,
and most frightening…destruction of the immune system.Interesting that the rate of autism has skyrocketed during this time.  What are some of the
symptoms of autism spectrum disorder? Let’s see..lowered immune system which may be the reason that some children are susceptible to the onslaught of
vaccinations in their infant stage; yeast problems in the stomach and intestinal tract; disorientation and bizarre behavior (flapping); and loss of
memory (perhaps…rates of Alzheimer’s have also increased).
Certainly the experience of being sick isn’t pleasant, and of course illness causes a lot of harm, but we — and all other living things —
evolved with disease, and if you take it away, there are unforeseen
consequences.  Being afraid of childhood diseases has caused new ones.  Trying to stop them unnaturally, has synergistically combined with
the ills of our world.  Gravity makes us break our bones when we fall and our body parts droop with age, but in a weightless environment we don’t
function very well either. Like it or not, we evolved with gravity, and we evolved with disease.   Now we have a conundrum.  What
is causing the multi systemic nature of that child with autism…and why does it parallel other disease states, granted in
a later stage in life?  Certainly, the most vulnerable times we have when we are born, is infancy and old age…when both
the immune and metabolic system are worn out, and more primed to be damaged by toxins.  Hidden new and emerging infections,
hidden ingredients in our foods, are causing our bodies to go on overload and express if you will any weak link. 
Though we can’t avoid everything, this list of what these mothers told me, were universal and they were
forming interesting patterns.  They were like a giant DOPPLER affect, in which you could track exact movements of a storm.  If people
knew the VERASITY of Katrina, and how many people who would be killed, or maimed, or destruction that ensued, do you think
people would have waited out STILL that storm?  If given the resources to escape even?  Are we not in like fashion, unable
to flee this storm if people don’t wake up, or, do we have to pull the resources of this knowledge together, to save our children?    When is
enough of this destruction going to be enough for people to wake up?  Does the storm have to knock at your storm windows?
Does the flood and tides have to come to your doorstep for you to finally see what is going on here?  Probably, sadly, probably.

. “An observant parent’s evidence may be disproved but should never be ignored” —Lancet 1:688, 1951, Anonymous

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