Autism and our precious children

April 11, 2008 · Filed under our children, Uncategorized · Tagged Autism, enzyme, fish, gluten, leaky gut syndrome, mercury, pst, sulfates, sushi, vaccinations, vaccines

Autism, as we all know now, is a rising epidemic.  There has been research and more research, cover ups and more coverups.  The truth has gotten lost in the shuffle with the pharmaceutical companies, the FDA, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.  SO, many parents have taken it upon themselves to do the research for the doctors, hoping to prompt the medical world into following in their footsteps.  Alas, that has not happened.  Thus, I am taking it upon myself to present to the world the findings many have come up with.  I hope that many, many people will read this and the information will be useful.

First, many people and researchers do not believe the findings I am going to report.  Do not be discouraged, it is not harmful to read the information and it is not harmful to do the following things to keep your children safe. 

Autism is believed to be caused by a poisoning of some kind.  Many children past the point of Autism, 5 years and up, have developed signs of Autism after they have been in an accident where they were poisoned by mercury, cadmium, or other heavy metals.  Mercury attaches to our red blood cells and travels eventually to our brain.  Mercury can last two years in our blood.  At any time, the mercury can travel to our brain.  However, before it gets there, it stops by the liver.  In the liver, our blood is cleaned of heavy metals and detoxified.  The liver does this by producing an enzyme (PST) that attaches to mercury and rids the body of it. The PST enzyme requires sulfate in the body in order for it to be produced.  In some people, this gene for PST is turned off and they can not produce PST.  A second gene controls cysteine, which is the amino acid that is used to make sulfate, and if turned off, then sulfate is not being produced.  A deficiency of
cysteine, or a failure to metabolize it, would greatly affect the liver’s ability to detoxify.  This would in turn allow a buildup of heavy metals, like mercury and cadmium.

If a person’s body does not produce enough sulfate, if the dose of poisoning is too high, or if there has been prolonged poisoning, the sulfate in our body is depleted and the liver can not take the heavy metals out of our blood.  Thus the heavy metals will travel to our brains.  Also, when the sulfates are depleted in our body the lining of our intestines is affected.  The lining is a barrier between what is being digested and our blood stream and then our brain.  When this lining is broken down through the depletion of sulfates in our body, a new process results.  Now, peptides from milk and wheat (gluten) can cross the intestinal barrier and entire the blood stream.  Once in the blood stream, these peptides work like opiates (morphine) and drug the body and brain.  Hallucinogenic actions are then seen in the individual – staring at lights and spinning objects, not responding to voices, flapping arms and walking on tip toes, and various other learning disabilities.  These are the symptoms of Autism.  This phenomenon of the intestinal lining breaking down is known as the Leaky Gut Syndrome, and children with autism usually also have the nutrient depletion that goes along with the Leaky Gut Syndrome.  This is why the diet that Jenny McCarthy is promoting works in some children with Autism.  In these children, the damage is reversible.  The rate and the degree of poisoning versus how much sulfate is in the body and how fast the liver can rid our bodies of it correlates to the degree of autism and the various spectrums of autism.  Some children are more susceptible to mercury staying in the body longer because they have less available sulfates. 

In some children, the mercury has gotten to the brain and the damage is not reversible.  Also, many children were poisoned in utero and may not be able to be helped.  Some are born with the genes for making PST and Cysteine turned off.  Along with the diet, the children need to have their stores of sulfate replenished. Since the drug companies refuse to help, there are no easy ways to just give the kids shots of sulfate.  Tablets do not work.  The only thing that has shown progress is to have the children soak in Epsom Salt baths.  The salt is a magnesium sulfate, which is just what the liver needs.  Your breathe it in, your skin soaks it up, and you are helping to detoxify your body.  There is also a magnesium sulfate cream.

Now, there are other ways that sulfates can be depleted in your or your child’s body – soaking or inhaling chlorine from pools, hot tubs or bleaches and digesting dyes, flavinoids, and aspartame in foods.  Besides rinsing off after swimming and using Epsom Salts, you can also look at the ingredients in your food and avoid all these dyes and additives.  There are so many, many other alternatives for foods in the grocery store.  The FDA continues to deny dyes are harmful, so you have to find the foods yourself that do not have the dyes, but they are out there. 

Lastly, ways to avoid mercury, cadmium, and heavy metal poisoning: 

1. Stop getting shots with thimerosal in them, including flu shots.

2. Do not live near a coal fired power plant or a chlorine making factory.

3.  Do not partake in the sushi fad!  A recent study of a Manhattan sushi restaurant’s fish showed they had levels so high the FDA should take them off the market.  Do not let your children eat fish! Eating fish with these metals once a month, well you could clean your blood of that.  But twice a week?  Mercury stays in your blood for two years, if you have enough sulfate for your liver to detoxify it.  If you don’t have enough sulfate, the mercury will stay for years.  Mercury crosses the placenta in pregnancy and in lower doses, breast milk.  Mothers who eat fish two years before getting pregnant can still poison their fetuses.  The sushi fad started in the US in the 1980′s , right around the time of the rise in children with Autism.  The fad slowed in the 1990s and is once again a big fad since 2001.  Japan has one of the highest rates of children with Autism.  Think, Think, Think before you eat fish – are you wanting to be pregnant or make a woman pregnant within the next two years?

4. Mercury is found in some cosmetics, tooth fillings, lightbulbs, batteries, computer and television parts, and cadmium in rechargeable batteries.  Do not let children handle these. If one breaks open in your house, clean the spill up immediately and go to the doctors to get detoxed.  Go to a dentist that does not use mercury fillings.

5. Chlorine is found in pools, hot tubs, drinking water, and cleaning products.  Wash after swimming and take Epsom Salt Baths.  Put a low cost filter on you sink which you drink from.  Do not use chlorine bleach in your house in any way.  Check your cleaning products for it.  Check your dishwasher detergent for it!

6.  The FDA still allows thimerosal in drugs.  Ask your doctor before taking anything if the drug contains the preservative Thermisol. 

7.  Follow a detox regimen if you have high levels of mercury.  Chelation with chlorella, cilantro, alpha lipoic acid, DMSA, DMPs or cilantro are known detoxes (see sources below for chelation).   For children, time is of the essence, because the mercury is bound into the body’s tissues after a few years and the damage is not reversible.

 

Here are some things I would like to see happen:

1.  Some children are born with the gene that produces PST enzyme “shut off”.   They have found the gene and should test babies for it, like they test for PKU.  If they have this gene, they are very susceptible to mercury poisoning and autism.  Researchers should find a way to reproduce the pst enzyme.

2. Pharmaceutical companies should make a more readily available and easier for our bodies to use magnesium sulfate shot.

3. The AMerican Academy of Pediatrics and FDA and CDC should fund research to prove or disprove the above research and then not cover up any findings.

4.  The Diet of NO MILk-No Wheat should be made available to all children who have autism through their doctors. 

5. Children should get routinely checked for mercury and cadmium levels in their blood, any level is an unsafe level.

 6.  There should be more stringent regulations on what products chlorine, mercury, and cadmium should be allowed in.  California bans mercury in almost any product and Minnesota just banned mercury in cosmetics.

Sources:

http://www.autismcanada.org/sulfate.htm - this link is about how you can get more sulfate

http://www.empowerautismtoday.org.uk/metabolic.html - this empower autism which is a research and clinic site for the treatment of autism

http://www.asaccc.org/newsalteredimmun.html - this is about the leaky gut syndrome

http://parentingsquad.com/the-fish-dilemma-the-facts-about-mercury-pcbs-and-whats-safe-to-eat

http://www.nrdc.org/breastmilk/lead.asp

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0616-31.htm

http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/dietinfo.html

http://www.newtreatments.org/Sulfur/ga/252/Autism%20and%20phenol-sulphotransferase

 http://www.healthsentinel.com/org_news.php?event=org_news_print_list_item&id=129 - link of fish and autism

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/03/toxic-levels-of-mercury-in-chinese.html -fish and autism

http://www.royalrife.com/autism_hair.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/dining/23sushi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin - manahattan sushi restaurant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelation_therapy - chelation therapy for mercury