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Maternal Nutrition & Other Issues Tied to Autism

Linda’s comment:  For years Dr Gordon has said that if you are going to plan a pregnancy, then it is a MUST to go on a good detox protocol.  The unborn fetus is considered the toxic dump for the mom.  When a mom eats the wrong foods, or eats foods with pesticides/herbicides, etc., etc. etc., it all goes to the unborn fetus.

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

Maternal nutrition ties to autism?  My plan for healthy babies takes on a new sense of urgency with this latest research!! Please read if you have anyone that might go through a pregnancy this year; they need to know this.

This new study about children born less than 1 year after the last child having three times the incidence of autism suggests to me that maternal nutrition is compromised after one child. The second pregnancy following too closely does not give the needed time to
replete nutrients lost during the last pregnancy.

I point out that all planned pregnancies ideally need to be preceded by ideally a year of detoxification. But, now we can see that also we need to build expectant mothers up nutritionally with far higher levels of nutrients found in today’s totally outmoded prenatal supplement formulas.

Just more vitamin D alone would reduce this tragic incidence of autism. My preferred prenatal is Beyond Chelation Improved, as that way we also get the essential fatty acids and the total spectrum of useful minerals while gently chelating out toxins with things like garlic and dl methione and oral EDTA, which alone has 507 references about its efficacy in lowering lead levels even in occupationally exposed workers on mywww.gordonresearch.com website.

Ideally I always also recommend my “power drink” using organic greens and Beyond Fiber and Maca and BioEn’R-G’y C, one slightly heaping tsp of each in 10+ ounces of good mineralized water like Pellegrino. And, for those willing, add Quinton Marine Plasma to that program. Then you can expect to have the healthiest possible baby known as Quinton babies, as putting in ultra trace minerals found only in this sea water based nutrient mineral drink has been shown to save lives of very sick babies so let them get it from their mother while in-utero too.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703667904576072832311108462.html?mod=djemHL_t

Excerpt:

HEALTH INDUSTRY 
•JANUARY 10, 2011, 12:02 A.M. ET 
Closely Spaced Pregnancies Linked to Autism Risk 

By JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN 
WASHINGTON — Closely spaced pregnancies were associated with an increase in the odds of a second child being diagnosed with autism, according to a study involving California children.

The study, which the journal Pediatrics published online Monday, showed the sooner conceptions followed the prior birth of a sibling, the greater the likelihood of the second child having an autism diagnosis. 

The study looked at more than 660,000 second-born children in California between 1992 to 2002. The study measured the time the second child was conceived relative to the first child, and then looked at autism diagnosis of the second sibling. 

The study found that second children who were conceived less than 12 months after the first child’s birth were three times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than children spaced further apart. Second children conceived less than two years after the first had almost twice the odds of receiving an autism diagnosis.

Autism link to power lines and mercury

Linda’s comment:  This is one of the easiest protocols to follow….I have been on the program for 1 1/2 years now and all I can say is don’t waste one more minute….go to www.gordenresearch.com and click on Webinars…then look for FIGHT….yes it takes some time, but the education and awareness you will gleam is well worth the time you will spend…
FROM DR. GORDON:
There is no escaping Mercury from coal burning power plants so what do we tell patients since we are all being adversely affected. We sound unscientific if we suggest that everyone needs to get the lead and mercury out yet that is the truth. But, we need new ways to monitor the severity and the response, such as markers of oxidative stress.

If we try to tease out the increased risk from a local power plant while distant plants in China are polluting everyone, this research will be as difficult as studies on cigarette smoking have been. We now know that second hand smoke is possibly even more toxic.

So with that in mind, if we pollute everyone on the planet with lead and mercury, it will be very difficult to tease out just how much worse the pollution effect if from your local coal burning power plant since environmental factors working through Epigenetics play such a major part of which illnesses you express from YOUR mercury exposure.  From the dramatic responses in Parkinson’s patients treated with mercury removal therapy including OSR from Boyd Haley’s research, we can begin to recognize that Mercury exposures express differently in different people at different ages.

The good news is that stopping the excess exposures by restricting mercury containing fish and removing amalgams all seem to show real benefits. Enhanced removal of heavy metals is possible with long-term use of Zeolite, Fiber, High Dose Ascorbic Acid, OSR, etc. Amazingly enough some children recover full speech and many see their tremors stop.

The issue is we cannot stop breathing and since the air always contains toxic metal particulates, everyone on earth today needs lifetime protection.

The problem is to move away from relying primarily on enhanced post provocative chelation studies on urine and into a more unifying concept that recognizes we must lower our exposures to all OXIDATIVE STRESSORS. Moving in that direction will eliminate the tendency to under treat children who may have a block in their ability to excrete heavy metals or have excessive inflammation that is holding the metals in involved tissues despite the use of otherwise normally useful detoxing methods.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Excerpt:
SAN ANTONIO (April 24, 2008)—How do mercury emissions affect pregnant mothers, the unborn and toddlers? Do the level of emissions impact autism rates? Does it matter whether a mercury-emitting source is 10 miles away from families versus 20 miles? Is the risk of autism greater for children who live closer to the pollution source?

A newly published study of Texas school district data and industrial mercury-release data, conducted by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, indeed shows a statistically significant link between pounds of industrial release of mercury and increased autism rates. It also shows—for the first time in scientific literature—a statistically significant association between autism risk and distance from the mercury source.

“This is not a definitive study, but just one more that furthers the association between environmental mercury and autism,” said lead author Raymond F. Palmer, Ph.D., associate professor of family and community medicine at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio. The article is in the journal Health & Place.

Dr. Palmer, Stephen Blanchard, Ph.D., of Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio and Robert Wood of the UT Health Science Center found that community autism prevalence is reduced by 1 percent to 2 percent with each 10 miles of distance from the pollution source.