The chicken nuggets were just about the best chicken nuggets I think I ever had. Juicy and delicious! I am so glad I kept one off of Nicholas’s plate because he ran and hid with them when I asked him if I could have one. (I guess the answer was no!)

The chocolate chip cookies were equally delicious. We ate them right out of the oven. I could not tell that these were GFCFSF at all. And I like my cookies and desert!

The meatballs were also delicious. I made these when Grandma came over, so the three of us split them. Moist and juicy - loved the taste of these. I didn’t pour sauce all over them so we could taste the actual taste of the meatball and we just loved them.

The french toast was tasty. I must admit, bread - good bread, is one of my favorite foods, so I’ve made french toast with some great bread. I have tried several GF breads and I have never been able to get myself past the thought of ever losing real my beloved bread. But if I was GF, these would be a welcome addition to my freezer.

The cheese pizza was also tasty. My oven did not crisp the crust - and I should have just thrown it back into the oven without a pan to make it crispy. The daiya cheese on it was really good - that was the first time I had it. My only thought is that the pizzas needed more cheese, but they were good. For a child that cannot have a quickie pizza because they’re all loaded with ingredients they cannot eat, this is a fantastic alternative.

I still have to sample the chicken burgers and will post an update to this thread when I do - but the food was great and I highly recommend you try NuLife’s products if you or your child is GFCFSF.

If you place an order, use code NICHOLASBLOG10 for 10% off your first order!

1. He is NOT on a diet. He eats whatever he wants with no adverse effects.
2. He is NOT on any supplements. He is NOT on any medication. None. Zip. Zero. Zilch. We’ve been so busy living life this summer that I have consistently fogotten to give him his Juice+ multi vitamin or his omega 369. (No special ASD multi with high doses either!)
3. We were 3+ months into homeopathy when I first posted about our gains. They did not happen overnight, nor did they happen with the first dose. But they did happen quicker than any other biomedical intervention we ever did and that includes Andy Cutler’s chelation protocol. My husband and myself are also being treated by the same homeopath who is treating our son. Health issues we used to have are either already gone or are fading away. I’ve never chelated myself, nor has my husband. We couldn’t afford to take supplements we knew could help us with our issues because the bill for Nicholas’s was so huge that we didn’t dare add anymore to it.

Classical Homeopathy does not address symptoms - that’s more of a sequential homeopathy approach. If you are interested in learning about homeopathy, I highly suggest Amy Lansky’s book, Impossible Cure. It will give you a better understanding of homeopathy in relation to autism. I also suggest listening to the interview that I did with Pierre Fontaine - you can find the link on this blog.

If you have any questions about my son, I’m happy to answer them. I am working on a more complete update and should have it posted soon. I am happy to report, his healing has continued to amaze us. We no longer see any autism. ASD parents who have met him do not see any autism and they’ve looked really hard to see it - as have we. We will be scheduling an evaluation to have his diagnosis removed when things slow down a bit around here. We are finally living the life we were always meant to… a life without autism. I wish nothing but the same for all of you! Keep the hope!

I have twin boys. J was always the most vocal of the 2. Even when he was less than 2 months old, he would take in everything in his environment, watching everyone. Everyone was amazed. He babbled a lot and laughed. I just knew he would be class clown and in constant trouble. As time went on, he wouldn’t feed himself, wouldn’t imitate me, the babbling was gone, etc. When Early Intervention came to do evaluations, he was totally in his own world and would tiptoe past someone like there was no one there. He was also pretty much mute at this point. Forget about going out as a family. J would try to run off the second he was let go and he was so not into holding hands. He would never sit for more than a couple of seconds.

The EI team worked very hard with J and we saw some improvements. They even started taking him for walks and trying to teach him to sit at places like McDonalds since that was one of the few places within walking distance. We then started seeing a DAN dr and started with MB12 shots, etc. We saw some hyperactivity which calmed down and he started babbling a couple of words. We took J to a pediatric neurologist who said he had verbal apraxia in addition to the autism. Someone once mentioned homeopathy and I knew I wanted to try that but had no direction, knew no one local to go to.

Then one day someone who has since become a good friend started posting on J’s school’s email group and mentioned homeopathy and Pierre Fontaine. She gave me guidance but I was hesitant to take that final step. After an appt with the DAN dr, my husband and I looked at each other and decided to contact Pierre. After a 3-1/2 hour consultation I hoped for the best.

Seconds after the 1st dose, J sang part of a song that was playing on TV. You should’ve seen the look on my face. Little by little, his language and vocabulary blossomed. He can hold a short conversation now. He had never really paid much attention to his twin brother. Now they are the best of friends and inseparable. He never played with toys (except puzzles) or other kids before. Now he enjoys toys and looks for his friend down the block. Halloween used to be so hard because we could never get him to wear the costume. Now he loves dress-up play and making believe he is a character. There are not many kids his age around here but if we go to the playground he loves running around with the other children.

He was evaluated by the school psychologist 15 months after starting his remedy and, while J still has some catching up to do, she found no signs of autism or pdd-nos. For kindergarten he will be attending a regular public school in an integrated 12:1:1 class. He is fully potty trained, enjoys his school, camp, swimming lessons, and horseback rides on those few occasions we can spring for that. The swimming lessons are at the Y in a group of typical children and he has held his own quite well. He’s just like one of the other kids. Just a few minutes ago I asked him to move over on the sofa and he said “stop telling me what to do, Mommy.” Ah the joys of typical childhood. Yes, he knew he had to apologize for that comment. And he is definitely that little class clown I knew he would be.

I am going to keep him on a basic multi vitamin, omega 369 and some Vitamin C - and these are things we all need anyway!
(and when I say basic multi vitamin, I don’t mean the mega dose ASD ones either.)

Without homeopathy, this could not have been possible. We could never possibly thank Pierre Fontaine enough!

(This is the last supplement update I will be posting. I would have never believed it, but recovery IS possible without the supplements - and special diets too for that matter!)

Over the past couple of months, we have taken a break from chelating to give classical homeopathy a try. The progress we have seen in this short time span has been like nothing I would have ever expected. I had hopes, of course, but like all things we’ve done I tend to try to keep my expectations to a minimum as it is so much easier to recover from disappointment that way. Anyway, Nicholas is doing very well and we could not be happier with his progress and the decision to try classical homeopathy.

Nicholas’s remedy was picked specifically for him by our classical homeopath. This is not like biomed, not at all. Homeopathic remedies are tiny little round sugar pellets which dissolve in water leaving the energy of a particular substance behind. With classical homeopathy, our homeopath interviewed me and during the process was able to pinpoint Nicholas’s constitutional remedy. The constitutional remedy (in contrast to the acute remedies you would buy to treat a particular symptom) has the ability to take care of all of the symptoms and bring the person back to their healthiest state. (Classical is very different from sequential homeopathy) Both Nicholas and I are using one constitutional remedy – and both of us have seen tremendous progress.

The very first thing we noticed was his (non-prompted) attempts at trying new foods. Several times during the first week, he ate foods he either did not like prior or would have never touched with a 10 foot pole. If anything had even a touch of chocolate, he would spit it out and tell me it was disgusting. One night while I was eating a little oatmeal chocolate chip cookie, he grabbed one to eat. I was fully expecting him to spit it out – but he ate several. He usually does not like anything chocolate – and I don’t have any recollection of him ever liking oatmeal cookies. On another occasion, instead of picking his usual – vanilla ice cream, he asked for Mommy’s chocolate ice cream and he enjoyed every single spoonful. And on another occasion, some family brought over knockwurst to make for lunch. There was just enough for everyone except Nicholas as this is something he would never eat anyway. Well, he left two of us without a lunch. He ate two of the fat knockwursts much to our shock. And if there had been more, he would have had a third. He has recently done the same with other foods as well, so I’m quite happy about this.

Now, that I’ve mentioned the food, let’s talk about the poop. To keep Nicholas going, it would involve Magnesium, Epsom Salt Baths, Occasional Oxypowder and George’s Always Active Aloe Juice. Well, I have had to eliminate ALL of it – and he is still pooping. It’s like his system is cleaning itself out. We have NEVER seen so much poop come out of this child at one time – it is unbelievable. His stomach has decreased dramatically as a result.
Let’s talk yeast. It’s GONE. Nicholas has been on diflucan for two years. Anytime I would stop it, I would lose him to the yeast. In addition to the diflucan, he was on several capsules of culturelle, 2 – 4 capsules of klaire’s probiotics, 3 gelcaps of coconut oil, 4 capsules of candidase, 4 capsules of interfase, etc. 120 mg of Diflucan – eliminated. Klaire’s detox probiotics – eliminated. This is what I give him now…. 1 gelpcap of coconut oil, 1 culturelle, 2 interfase and 2 candidase. (Next to be eliminated is interfase)

Let’s talk allergies. Seasonal allergies. They were brutal this year. Claritin quit. Quercetin didn’t help. Zyrtec didn’t work, etc etc. Nicholas’s eyes were awful. The white part of his eyeball was so swollen that it protruded past the color parts of his eyes. It looked like the white was a fluffy cloud – very distorted. This has happened in the past and benedryl would save the day. Benedryl worked. Then it stopped working and we were back to the crazy distorted eye. I contacted our homeopath and was told to try an acute remedy, Euphrasia for his eyes. In less than an hour, his eye was back to normal. (I don’t know how long it actually took, because my husband took him to karate and by the time he got back, he was back to normal.) He also suggested alium cepa for his allergies. Both given in combination have helped get him through when his allergies were at it’s worst. In a matter of time, he was his old, happy, chipper self again. Clear headed, amazing speech, amazing clarity.

Let’s talk about his supplements – this, perhaps, may be the most impressive. Nicholas’s supplement list is also greatly reduced. He is on a fraction of the dosages of many supplements that he was on. I have discontinued his Armour Thyroid. Digestive enzymes have also been dropped. Many have been completely discontinued with no change in his level of functioning or speech – which is huge!

His physical abilities continue to amaze us! He now LOVES to jump on his trampoline and does not need to be prompted to do so. He’s jumping higher and farther than he ever has. He loves to run around in circles in it and then fall down. He actually asks for friends to come over specifically to go in the trampoline and they take turns jumping over each other. He has asked to have friends over in the past – but this was specifically to do something with him – and that was different. Also, when the friend came over, Nicholas was annoyed that he was not playing “with” him. He’s having a blast jumping on his trampoline which is just wonderful – last year, it was like pulling teeth to get him on it. Between the karate, the PT at school and the homeopathy, he now can move much better than ever before.
He can now squat and jump like a frog and also do a backwards crab-like walk. He can kick over an object 2 feet high which is above his waist! All moves he could not do not long ago.

His gym teacher has commented about how far he has come since September. He immediately joins the class and watches the teacher and other kids and follows along well. He loves to participate and is not lazy at all.

His PT said that he was someone she dreaded working with and now he is her favorite!

School has reported that his social skills are coming along nicely. He wants to be a part of his class and join in with what they are doing. When he sees classmates sitting alone, he moves his chair to join them. When a classmate gets in trouble, he almost always intervenes to soothe the classmate and to help the situation. His drawing skills are improving nicely. He is now working on beginning subtraction in school and has received positive reports on his subtraction skills. He is anxious to answer questions and can often answer questions his classmates cannot. The number of words he can read has just about doubled. He is now sitting for longer periods of time with no prompting. He’s engaged to what’s going on in his classroom and what’s going on around him.
His speech – it’s like another explosion!! The length of his sentences has jumped tremendously. When we used to hear things like, “I’m Sorry” – now we hear, “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. It was an accident/mistake”

When he asks to “go somewhere” now – it’s more than “I want to go somewhere” – it’s “I want to go to the park with the lake and bridge.” Or “I want to go to that restaurant with the….” And he describes the restaurant. He now asks if friends (by name) can come with us.
The questions…. OMG the detailed questions. I thought this day would never come. “Mommy, what’s that?” – “It’s a grill” – “What does it do?” “It cooks food” “but how?” “You put charcoal in there, light it on fire. Put the food on top and cook it?” “But what are the holes on the bottom for?” The line of questioning that goes on blows my mind. And if you quiz him on something you said later on, he knows and answers correctly.
He and I have had several deep bonding moments where we just laughed and laughed – on a much different level than ever before. He gets when things are funny like never before.

He’s been referencing days of the week and knows what day it is. He got it when I told him we were going somewhere on Thursday and Friday and that he had to wait a few days more since it was Sunday.

He is moving out of his special needs karate class and has blended quite well into the new class.

While getting his last hair cut, he allowed the girl to use the buzzer and did not flinch or anything (he HATED that.) He wore the cape. (also HATED that) and he sat the whole time and never got up once.

He points out any bad words that he hears. (Yeah, this has gotten old – quick!)

He gets mad at playdates if the kids go off and do their own thing. Aren’t they here to play “WITH ME”?

The eye contact from him is phenomenal. When I think it can’t possibly get any better, it does. It’s like now – there is a deeper connection and he is looking into our eyes to actually see us.

When he has gotten mad at his father, I hear him exclaim, “I’m going to get my mommy” and he comes running for me to back him up.

Shortly after starting homeopathy, we were at Nicholas’s grandparents’ house. Nicholas had just earned a new train by completing a sticker chart for getting himself fully dressed. On that box, he saw another train he wanted. Well, we’re at their house and he tells his grandmother that he wants her to come home with us so he can show her something on the computer. She takes him to her computer and has him show her there. He wanted to show her on HIS computer, so she came back home with us. He lured her to our house to show her the picture of the train that was on the box that was on the desk next to his computer. Clever. He came up with a plan and executed it beautifully under the guise of something else.

I know I am forgetting things, I hope they hit me because I would like to record them. But the past couple of months of doing homeopathy have been nothing short of a miracle. At this time, we are holding off with chelation. I am not saying we are completely finished doing so, but for right now, we’ve put it on the shelf and will revisit it at another time if need be. Chelation brought our son so far and I cannot advocate enough for trying it to see if it makes a difference in a child who is heavy metal toxic, like my son. However, we never saw gains like this so quickly with any protocol or supplement we have ever tried.

I have also been using homeopathy and have been seeing amazing results. – I am in a bit of shock over how I have started to feel. I feel like I no longer have a blockage in my mind which has been keeping me from finishing projects and doing things I want to do for me. I suddenly have my motivation to do things back. I am no longer procrastinating like I was – and boy did I ever procrastinate! I have not had a stress-type meltdown over an issue that would have easily pushed me over the edge a month ago. I don’t feel as stressed about anything – I feel like I am getting the go-with-the-flow type of attitude I used to have back – whereas, I’m not as rigid as I had become. I’m laughing a lot more than I was and not getting offended at people making fun of me. I realized this past weekend that my sense of humor was actually coming back. I suddenly feel motivated to exercise and drop this autism weight I’ve gained from all of the stress-eating I’ve done. All characteristics of the person I “used” to be, the good-hearted, fun to be with person that I used to be and thought was truly gone forever.
Also – and this is HUGE - After Nicholas was born, I had my gallbladder removed. After this time, I started experiencing stomach aches with a lot of different foods which would send me to the bathroom with a stomach ache, either during or right after the meal - which was always quickly relieved once I went to the bathroom. This is no longer happening.

Thank you, Pierre Fontaine!
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Pierre Fontaine, RSHom (NA), CCH, has been a professional Homeopath in New York City since 1994 and is the author of “Homeopathy Sweet Homeopathy”. He is a registered member of the North American Society of Homeopaths “RSHom (NA)” and is certified by the Council on Homeopathy Certification “CCH.” Before studying Homeopathy he spend five years investigating the whole range of alternative health care such as: Acupuncture, Herbal and Vitamin therapy as well as Ayurvedic medicine to mention the most popular ones. He found little satisfaction in the principles of the diverse modalities he was researching. After briefly enrolling in the Gary Null School of Nutrition and while contemplating registration at the Tristate School of Acupuncture he discovered Homeopathy. It was “love at first sight”. Pierre graduated after following the four year program from the School of Homeopathy; Devon, England. Half of it was pursued in New York, the other half in England. “I wanted to have the best education I could get. This is why I did not hesitate to travel to England, one week every three weeks for a year and a half. It was an enormous effort but it was the right thing to do because England has a much more sophisticated educational system in the field.” Consequently, his dedication to homeopathy and to his patients is obvious. His leadership qualities were instrumental in the birth of the New York State Homeopathic Association of which he was the founding Vice President. Pierre Fontaine has lectured on Homeopathy at SUNY, St. John’s University, Queens College, Southampton College, Queensborough College, and many various different organizations. He is the author of many published articles and was the host of the TV show “Homeopathic Times”.

Please visit Pierre’s website for more information:
http://www.homeopathicservices.com/

His book, Homeopathy Sweet Homeopathy, is an excellent read for those looking to understand how homeopathy can bring a person back into a healthy state.

The Impossible Cure by Amy Lansky is also a great read if you are interested in homeopathy:

Pierre Fontaine, RSHom (NA), CCH, has been a professional Homeopath in New York City since 1994 and is the author of “Homeopathy Sweet Homeopathy”. He is a registered member of the North American Society of Homeopaths “RSHom (NA)” and is certified by the Council on Homeopathy Certification “CCH.” Before studying Homeopathy he spend five years investigating the whole range of alternative health care such as: Acupuncture, Herbal and Vitamin therapy as well as Ayurvedic medicine to mention the most popular ones. He found little satisfaction in the principles of the diverse modalities he was researching. After briefly enrolling in the Gary Null School of Nutrition and while contemplating registration at the Tristate School of Acupuncture he discovered Homeopathy. It was “love at first sight”. Pierre graduated after following the four year program from the School of Homeopathy; Devon, England. Half of it was pursued in New York, the other half in England. “I wanted to have the best education I could get. This is why I did not hesitate to travel to England, one week every three weeks for a year and a half. It was an enormous effort but it was the right thing to do because England has a much more sophisticated educational system in the field.” Consequently, his dedication to homeopathy and to his patients is obvious. His leadership qualities were instrumental in the birth of the New York State Homeopathic Association of which he was the founding Vice President. Pierre Fontaine has lectured on Homeopathy at SUNY, St. John’s University, Queens College, Southampton College, Queensborough College, and many various different organizations. He is the author of many published articles and was the host of the TV show “Homeopathic Times”.

Please visit Pierre’s website for more information:
http://www.homeopathicservices.com/

His book, Homeopathy Sweet Homeopathy, is an excellent read for those looking to understand how homeopathy can bring a person back into a healthy state.

The Impossible Cure by Amy Lansky is also a great read if you are interested in homeopathy:

(Dow Jones)–A Food and Drug Administration panel said Friday fragments of pig viruses found in vaccines used to protect infants against rotavirus didn’t appear to cause health risks.

While the panel didn’t take a vote on the products, several members of the agency’s vaccine panel said the vaccines — Merck & Co.’s (MRK) Rotateq and GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s (GSK, GSK.LN) Rotarix — should remain on the U.S. market while additional studies are conducted about the impact of pig viruses.

In the meantime, the panel said parents who are considering whether to vaccinate their infants need to be informed about the findings.

FDA panels are made up of non-FDA medical experts and are called upon to make nonbinding recommendations to the agency.

Karen Midthun, acting director of FDA’s Center for Biologics and Research, said the agency would be “very expeditious” in making recommendations about whether either vaccine should be used. n March, the FDA recommended that doctors stop using Glaxo’s vaccine after a team of researchers from the University of California in San Francisco found DNA of a porcine circovirus known as PCV1 in the vaccine. Those tests didn’t find the same pig virus in Merck’s Rotateq.

However, on Thursday the FDA said more sensitive tests subsequently conducted on Rotateq found a “low level” of the same PCV1 virus, as well as a related porcine circovirus known as PCV2. Both viruses are common in pigs — and neither is known to cause illness in humans — but PCV2 may cause illness in pigs.

The FDA said it wouldn’t decide whether it would recommend that use of Merck’s Rotateq be suspended or whether it would lift its suspension recommendation involving Glaxo’s Rotarix in advance of the meeting. The panel meeting had originally scheduled to discuss Rotarix but also included Rotateq in light of similar findings about pig virus fragments discovered in the product.

“PCV is not infectious in humans,” said Harry Greenberg, a panel member and medical professor at Stanford University. “The benefits far outweigh the risks.”

Both the Glaxo and Merck vaccines are designed to protect infants from a gastrointestinal illness caused by rotavirus and have been given to millions of babies. While rotavirus is rarely fatal in the U.S., it contributed to about 70,000 infant hospitalizations annually before Merck’s vaccine was approved in 2006 and Glaxo’s in 2008.

Umesh Parashar, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the most recent agency data looking at the impact of the vaccines in the U.S. show “almost…a complete wipeout of rotavirus activity.” Parashar deemed rotavirus “a major killer” of children in parts of the world that can’t adequately treat dehydration from severe diarrhea.

One theory about how pig virus fragments got into the vaccine offered by both the FDA and the companies is that PCV fragments might be in trypsin, an enzyme derived from pigs that is used in the manufacturing process of the vaccine. The enzyme is used to grow viruses used in the vaccines.

Barbara Howe, a GlaxoSmithKline vice president in the company’s vaccine division said, “all available data support PCV1 in Rotarix is a manufacturing quality issue, not a safety issue.” She said the company is working on ways to remove PCV from the vaccine but that developing a new manufacturing process “is complex and will take time.”

When the producers of PBS’s Frontline approached me to be interviewed for their new documentary “The Vaccine War,” I accepted with a simple condition: doctors and scientists on our side of the vaccine-autism debate needed to have a voice, too.

Prior to agreeing to the interview, Frontline sent us this email:

“Frontline will carry out a detailed and even-handed investigation including voices from all sides of the controversy including parents, activists, physicians, scientists, lawyers, politicians and vaccine manufacturers.”

I’ve learned to be wary of media who try to simplify the vaccine-autism debate into a “Parents vs. the Science” spin, so I went further and agreed to do the interview only if Dr. Jay Gordon, a well-known pediatrician here in Los Angeles, sat beside me. (Dr. Jay also sat for his own two hour interview.)

For those who’ve watched the show, you know that the Frontline producers broke their promise and presented our entire community’s position through my interview and just two other parents — Barbara Loe Fisher and J.B. Handley.

Where are the doctors and scientists who support our community and support the idea that vaccines may be a trigger for autism? In Frontline’s world, they don’t exist.

Imagine how much more credible the countless stories of children regressing into autism after vaccine appointments would be if a doctor were saying the same thing.

Luckily for all of us parents, Dr. Gordon has not stayed silent since the show aired. In a piece for HuffPost earlier this week, he wrote:

“Vaccines are neither all good — as this biased, miserable PBS treacle would have you believe…You had a point to prove and removed material from your show which made the narrative balanced. ‘Distraught, confused moms against important, well-spoken, calm doctors’ was your narrative with a deep sure voice to, literally, narrate the entire artifice.”
Also missing from Frontline were interviews from any of the dozens of scientists who have published studies in medical journals supporting the position of all the parents.

And, where was Autism Speaks, the largest autism organization in the world, and a group that hasn’t been a huge supporter of our community?

Maybe Frontline had seen a recent letter written by Dr. Geraldine Dawson, the chief science officer of Autism Speaks, where she wrote:

“Recent studies point to a key role of the immune system in the biology of ASD [autism], raising questions about the effects of the significant immune challenges associated with vaccinations, particularly when delivered in combination and early in life…We believe that the question of whether immunization is associated with an increased risk for ASD is of extremely high priority.”
Frontline’s trip to Denmark to interview a scientist was meant to convince parents that vaccines have been studied all over the world and so they must be safe.

What Frontline didn’t mention was that the Danish scientist interviewed works for a vaccine maker, that the paper discussed showed Denmark’s rate of autism at 1 in 2,500 (versus the U.S. rate of 1 in 100) or that Denmark’s vaccine schedule for kids is 12 shots versus 36 here in the U.S.

And, parents hear nothing about the Danish scientist’s colleague and co-author Poul Thorsen, who recently stole $2 million from the CDC and is reportedly on the run from authorities.

When Dr. Wakefield is profiled, there’s no recent interview with him to tell his story, just old media clips and one side’s take. What about Dr. Wakefield’s recent work finally comparing vaccinated monkeys with unvaccinated monkeys?

Frontline’s piece also lacked any sense of proportion. Yes, a wave of twelve children with measles in San Diego is a troubling thing. But, there are more than 20,000 children in San Diego with autism! 20,000 vs. 12? When you really look at the numbers, you realize how huge our autism problem really is.

I believe our bloated vaccine schedule has created a scenario where there is now too much of a good thing. All drugs have side-effects, particularly if many are given at one time. Why should vaccines be any different?

The Frontline viewer heard nothing about the more than 1,000 reported deaths from vaccination or the nearly $2 billion paid by the US government to vaccine injury victims.

If the risk of vaccinating is really a 1 in 100 chance of a child getting autism, what will happen to the vaccine program?

Cooler heads need to get involved with this problem, rather than multi-millionaire vaccine inventors. Dr. Bob Sears, another doctor interviewed by Frontline but cut out of the actual show, offered a possible solution:

“In my mind, the only way we’d really put this issue to rest is to do a very large scientific study that looks at hundreds of thousands of children who are vaccinated versus hundreds of thousands of children that are not vaccinated, and we compare the rates of autism in those two groups.”
I was encouraged at the end of the show when the health officials complained about the power and existence of the Internet, as if immediate information were somehow a threat to the vaccine program.

Parents, when people are blaming a problem on the availability of information — like China trying to keep their population in the dark — you know there’s a bigger problem, and another side to the story — a side that Frontline knowingly chose not to share.

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By J.B. Handley

The “hungry lie” on autism is both maddeningly simple and simply maddening and goes something like this: “It’s been asked and answered, vaccines don’t cause autism.”

As I’ve written about repeatedly, this is a huge lie, a critical lie, and a very “hungry” lie, because it constantly needs to be fed. Thanks to Frontline’s recent show, “the Vaccine War,” many more people will be confronted with this lie and have to sort through the rhetoric to figure out what is actually true.

Jon Palferman, who produced Frontline’s “The Vaccine War,” is different from many of the other feeders of the hungry lie in one important way: he spent nearly 2 hours sitting in my office debating and learning more about this very topic. I am certain that he fully and completely understands that only a single vaccine on the US vaccine schedule has actually been studied for its relationship to autism. I’m also certain he realizes many public health officials make bold and untrue statements all the time to reassure the public that “vaccines” have been studied and rendered “safe.”

To me, this makes Mr. Palferman’s recent public comment all the more unconscionable. On Frontline’s website, as a response to Dr. Jay Gordon’s searing critique of Frontline’s decision to not air any of Dr. Gordon’s taped interview, Mr. Palferman issued the following statement:

“Many thanks for your feedback on the program. FRONTLINE went to considerable lengths to include a wide range of viewpoints, even in the face of very strong scientific evidence against the hypothesized autism link to MMR and thimerosal. Despite the consistent negative epidemiology and the definitive verdict of the federal vaccine court, we included views from people who wanted more and different studies. The program also gave a great deal of time to the arguments of vaccine hesitant parents who think the CDC schedule is bloated. The companion FRONTLINE website contains full interviews with different stakeholders, including Dr Robert Sears, who promotes an alternative spread out vaccine schedule. The website also hosts a robust public conversation where a full range of viewpoints are being aired and engaged.”

Let me repeat for you the part of Mr. Palferman’s statement that shows he did spend 2 hours with me, but wanted to defend his position anyway:

“the hypothesized autism link to MMR and thimerosal”

You see, Mr. Palferman fully gets that no one has shown “vaccines don’t cause autism,” because I personally hammered home the point to him until he finally got it. So, he’s smart enough not to fully repeat the simple hungry lie that “vaccines” have been studied and at least tells the truth that ONLY thimerosal and the MMR have been looked at.

But, Mr. Palferman is still feeding the hungry lie through his statement, because he’s implying that somehow the meager amount of science on 2 of 36 shots our kids are given somehow implies that the position of our community is resting on shaky ground. And, he’s well aware that mainstream voices will support his statement, because they are all heavily invested in the same hungry lie. It’s a simple way for him to get out of the middle of the firing line.

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The hungry lie is so obvious to me, I struggle sometimes to see why it’s constantly repeated without anyone getting called out for saying it. Am I not communicating this clearly enough? Is there a better way to explain it?

In Jenny McCarthy’s recent HuffPo editorial criticizing Frontline, there is a trail of comments that approaches the hungry lie in a different way that makes the point with even more detail–perhaps reviewing it will highlight the issue.

SingaporeAutismDad writes:

Here’s first 12 months of vaccines for American children:
Birth: Hep B
2 months: Hep B, Rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV
4 months: Rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV
6 months: Hep B, Rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV, Flu
12 months: MMR, Hib, PCV, Varicella, Hep A, Hep B

For all you scientists out there, how many of these shots have been studied for relationship to autism? One. So, here’s the schedule in first 12 months of shots kids get that HAVE NOT been studied. Are you still a scientist?

Birth: Hep B
2 months: Hep B, Rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV
4 months: Rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV
6 months: Hep B, Rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV, Flu
12 months: Hib, PCV, Varicella, Hep A, Hep B

I thought this was great. As you can see, MMR was pulled from the second list, leaving 24 vaccines by 12 months of age that have NOT been looked at for their relationship to autism. How does an honest scientist argue with this point?

Well, the appropriately named “Mikerattlesnake” gave it his best shot:

“yes, the ONE that anti-vaxers were clammoring for to be tested ad nauseum, by the way. When a link failed to emerge, when none of the data pointed to a link beyond a simple correlation, when the proponents of the link were shown to be frauds, etc, etc, etc, it probably lost a bit of priority. Money should be spent on studies that show some promise. This link shows no promise.”

This “link” shows no promise? We have tens of thousands of case reports of declines after vaccine appointments, absolutely no science that remotely reflects the experience of our kids, but the link shows no promise? So far, that’s about the only argument I’ve heard that tries to defend studying only one of the first 25 vaccines our kids get. Most just try to avoid the question, because it’s so indefensible.

SinaporeAutismDad then asks a more clear-headed commentor named Schwartzz the following:

“Schwartzz: You make a lot of sense. Perhaps comment on why so few shots have been studied? Why do they give 20 shots in the first year of life, only study one, and say “case closed”? Is this American science, or Big Pharma science? I don’t understand it.”

Schwartzz responds:

“It’s quite simple: Because they don’t need to study them. Why would any corporation spend money on something that in the best case maintains the status quo and in the worst case costs them a fortune?

What you have is purely a product of the system that is setup to regulate medicine. It isn’t a conspiracy at all. It is the natural outcome of a flawed system.”

I couldn’t have said it any better myself.

A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility.

The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of thousands of bottles of medicine in homes and on store shelves throughout the United States and its territories and in nine other countries — a vast portion of the children’s medicine market.

The Food and Drug Administration is advising parents and caregivers to stop using the affected products, although Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg called the potential for serious health problems resulting from the medications “remote.”

FDA inspectors had begun a routine inspection April 19 in the company’s Fort Washington, Pa., plant when they noticed “manufacturing deficiencies” that triggered the recall, said Douglas Stearn, a senior FDA official.

Stearn said the plant’s manufacturing process was “not in control,” a term regulators use to describe flawed procedures that affect the composition of medicine. Federal investigators do not know when the problems at McNeil began, but Stearn said that “this does go back in time” and that “we have to try to figure that out.”

While the FDA investigates, McNeil has suspended operations at the facility. In a statement, the company said: “Some of the products included in the recall may contain a higher concentration of active ingredient than is specified; others contain inactive ingredients that may not meet internal testing requirements; and others may contain tiny particles.” It said the problems may affect “purity, potency or quality.”

Marc Boston, a McNeil spokesman, would not discuss the deficiencies cited by the FDA or say when the manufacturing facility was shut down. The company also declined to disclose the amount of products affected by the recall. In addition to the United States, Puerto Rico and Guam, the medicines were sold in Canada; the Dominican Republic; Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates; Fiji; Guatemala; Jamaica; Panama; Trinidad and Tobago; and Kuwait.

A complete list of recalled products is on the company’s Web site.

McNeil received consumer complaints associated with some of the recalled medicines, but the company’s decision to pull them was not made on “the basis of adverse medical events,” said Boston, who declined to elaborate.

If a child who has taken any of the recalled medications exhibits any unexpected symptoms, parents or caregivers should contact a doctor, federal officials said. Consumers or health-care providers who experience problems connected to the recalled medicines are asked to contact the FDA.

As of Saturday, the FDA was not aware of any health problems related to the recalled products, said spokeswoman Elaine Gansz Bobo.

Parents and caregivers can use generic versions of the affected medicines; they are not affected by the recall. The FDA cautioned against giving adult versions to infants and children, noting the potential for serious problems.

This is at least the third major recall of Tylenol products by McNeil since 2008.

In January, McNeil recalled 49 types of Tylenol products made for adults and two Tylenol products made for children after consumers complained of a mold-like odor and of temporary and minor nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea. The company determined that some of the medicines had been contaminated by trace amounts of a chemical that is sometimes present on shipping and storage material.

In 2008, McNeil recalled 21 types of children’s and infants’ Tylenol liquid products, saying that although the products met internal standards, an unused portion of one inactive ingredient did not meet all quality standards.

Agency officials said Tuesday none of the company’s finished products tested positive for the contaminants, though such testing is not definitive.

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Are vaccines harming us? — The truth that doctors and the pharmaceutical industry don’t want you to know. Acclaimed physician challenges news media about vaccinations and toxicity.

April 30, 2010 05:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–What price journalistic integrity? That may well be the question that PBS needs to answer after this week’s airing of its top rated show Frontline. Entitled “Vaccine Wars,” the episode offered a decidedly one-sided viewpoint on the issue of vaccine safety. Dr. Rashid Buttar, a renowned physician who has received worldwide attention for his innovative and groundbreaking work in ridding the human body of toxicities that cause illness and disease, gave the program’s producers access to his clinic, his patients, and himself.

“because it showcased the opinions of a group of”
.As Buttar recollects, “Frontline’s film crew spent over seven hours in my offices, extensively interviewed three of my patients, and then spent almost three hours interviewing me one-on-one.” Not one single second of this was shown on-air. Instead, Frontline recycled dated video footage previously released on the internet. Frontline violated Buttar’s trust and wasted his valuable time; producing a slanted report designed to intimidate and scare the public.

While disappointed at their lack of ethics, Dr. Buttar is not really surprised. He and his colleagues continue to crusade against a medical profession that hides behind antiquated theories and ineffective, costly treatments; and media outlets such as Frontline who further the agenda of the lucrative vaccine industry.

Buttar also questions what role lobbying by the U.S. Department of Heath & Human Services played in Frontline’s decision to air such a skewed report. In a recent Readers’ Digest interview, HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, admitted to meeting with media in an effort to undermine vaccine detractors saying, “We have reached out to media outlets to try to get them to not give the views of these people equal weight in their reporting to what science has shown and continues to show about the safety of vaccines.”

Concerns about vaccines are legitimate and growing. Once proclaimed as one of greatest achievements of modern medicine, vaccines, their frequency and the combinations, have become the subject of increasing unrest within the medical and scientific community since 1989. Parents questioning the need and the prudence of their child receiving so many shots, and the administration of previously singularly administrated vaccines combined into “super shots” (such as the MMR Triple Shot) are often met with scorn, derision, and admonishment from doctors.

The fact is that vaccines do contain dangerous toxic substances. One of the most dangerous of these is mercury, which is present as a preservative in most vaccines, including the flu shot. While many believe mercury was removed from vaccines in 2002, Thimerosal — or ethyl mercury — is still used in the manufacturing process of almost all vaccines, but that fact is no longer disclosed on the vaccine labels.

Dr. Buttar is not alone in his Frontline experience; fellow vaccine critics Dr. Jay Gordon and Dr. Robert Sears were also interviewed extensively but then edited out of the piece. “The show made a mockery of journalism,” says Buttar, “because it showcased the opinions of a group of “experts,” some of whom benefit financially from vaccine developments, while at the same time it minimized the real concerns in question as nothing more than unsubstantiated hysteria.” Why didn’t they show a single physician who agreed with the parents who were against vaccinations?

Frontline purposely pitted pro-vaccine doctors, painted as tireless advocates for children, against anti-vaccine parents who were portrayed as selfish, irrational and paranoid individuals lacking medical knowledge and common sense. The end result was a biased piece of tabloid journalism that only serves to further confuse, frighten and divide those who question vaccines from those who blindly follow medical rhetoric; creating needless controversy rather than an intelligent forum for discussion.

Dr. Buttar remains steadfast in the challenge he made during his unaired interview with Frontline. ”Tell the NIH, CDC, FDA or any vaccine manufacturer that I publicly challenge them to select any 20 cases of autism, send them all to an independent university and have that university’s independent pediatric neurologists evaluate all 20 children. Let those neurologists identify the 10 most severe cases and I will take them on as patients and treat them using my methods. Let the other 10 cases be treated with whatever conventional “standard of care” treatment they see fit. But it all must be filmed and followed so that the world can determine the truth for itself,” says Buttar. ”After having treated over a thousand patients in my own clinic, and having tens of thousands of children treated using our methodologies all over the world, I already know what the results will be. The problem is – so do they!”

The Top 5 to Avoid
to go from SAD toward GLAD

If your child is eating the SAD (Standard American Diet), the negative impact on his or her performance in school and life can have lifelong consequences. For children with learning disabilities, we have to be particularly careful to screen out the neurotoxins that seem to be all too common in prepared food nowadays.

What is a Neurotoxin?

Neurotoxins are poisonous to our nerve cells or neurons. Since neurons conduct the electricity required to transmit signals within the brain and between the brain and other parts of our body, their proper function is critical to our ability to think, learn and have motor control and coordination. Yet every day, kids consume processed foods loaded with chemical additives that can cause or contribute to a wide variety of neurological and behavioral problems from inability to concentrate to hyperactivity, irritability, seizures, fatigue, anxiety, aggression and depression.

In 1979 New York City public schools’ tests ratings leaped from 11% below the national average to 5% above after the Board of Education ordered a change in school diets to cut down sugar, food dyes, and additives. Improvements were not across the board, but impacted the “learning disabled” children the most – reducing their numbers from 12.4% to 4.9% of one million N.Y. City school children. 1

Could your child benefit from a decrease in neurotoxins? Where do you begin?

Cut these 5 toxins out of your child’s diet as a first step on the road from SAD to GLAD (Good Learning Ability Diet).

The Top 5 SAD Neurotoxins

1. High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS): In the last 30 years, HFCS has replaced sugar in processed foods from bread to ketchup because it’s cheap to make and acts as a preservative. Its greatest consumption is in soft drinks. Made from genetically modified corn processed with enzymes, caustic soda and hydrochloric acid, HFCS has been shown to contain mercury — a very potent neurotoxin that, even in minute concentrations, can cause neurological damage in children. According to a 2009 study in Environmental Health, 9 of 20 samples of HFCS contained detectable levels of mercury.2

In another study in 2008, 55 products off the grocery shelves were tested by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.3 Nearly one in three brand-name foods (including Quaker, Hunt’s, Manwich, Hershey’s, Smucker’s, Kraft, Nutri-Grain and Yoplait) were found to contain detectable quantities of mercury. Dairy products, dressings and condiments were most notably affected. HFCS also provokes biochemical reactions that correlate to type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, altered lipid profiles, and obesity and food cravings (by turning off the body’s natural signals that tell us when we’re full).

Alternatives: If your child is a soda addict, substitute seltzer mixed with fruit juice, and gradually cut back on the amount of juice you add. Buy dairy products, condiments, snack foods, bread, and syrups that are organic or made without HFCS and transition to more homemade products made with organic ingredients.

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BY JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN
WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that fragments of two types of pig viruses were found in Merck & Co.’s Rotateq vaccine, but the agency didn’t immediately say whether the vaccine should be avoided.

An FDA vaccine-advisory panel had already scheduled a meeting for Friday to discuss GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s Rotarix vaccine. Both the Glaxo and Merck vaccines are designed to protect infants from a gastrointestinal illness caused by rotavirus and have been given to millions of babies. While rotavirus is rarely fatal in the U.S., it contributed to about 70,000 infant hospitalizations annually before Merck’s vaccine was approved in …

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Data presented this weekend at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting add to the poorly understood relationship between gastrointestinal symptoms and autism spectrum disorders — suggesting that GI symptoms are, in fact, common and may increase as children get older.

The study, conducted by the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network, involved data from 15 treatment and research centers in the United States and Canada and included information from 1,185 children aged 2 to18 years with a diagnosis of autism, Asperger’s syndrome or pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified.

The researchers determined that 45% of these children had GI symptoms at the time of enrollment, with abdominal pain (59%), constipation (51%) and diarrhea (43%) most commonly reported. Older children were more likely than younger children to experience GI symptoms (39% of children younger than 5 years vs. 51% of children aged 7 and older), data indicated, and sleep problems (70% vs. 30%) were more prevalent in this group as well.

Results from parent-completed Child Behavior Checklists indicated that younger children with reported GI symptoms had higher t-scores for total problem; emotionally reactive; anxious/depressed; somatic complaints; sleep problems; internalizing problems; affective problems; and anxiety problems subscales (P< .05). Children with reported GI problems in the 6-to-18 age group had higher t-scores for total problems and for all subscales (P<.01). Overall reported health-related quality of life was lower among children who experienced GI symptoms (P<.01).

"These findings suggest that better evaluation of GI symptoms and subsequent treatment may have benefits for these patients," said Daniel Coury, MD, medical director of the Autism Treatment Network, and professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at Ohio State University in Columbus. "Primary care physicians and specialists should ask families about these symptoms and address these as part of the overall management plan for the child or adolescent with ASD." – by Nicole Blazek

For more information:

•Williams K. #2320.7. Presented at: 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting; May 1-4, 2010; Vancouver, British Columbia.

Today’s USA Today story on the increasing trend of vaccine refusal shared some interesting information, but fell short of actually providing useful or workable answers. The article cites a new CDC study that showed in 2003 only 22 percent of parents refused or delayed a vaccine for their child, whereas in 2008 this number soared to 39 percent.

For many years I believe the CDC has been trying to hide the fact that more and more parents are refusing or delaying vaccines. Why? Because if compliant parents hear that their neighbors or friends are questioning vaccines, they might start to think, “Hmm … maybe I should begin to question vaccines as well. I think I’ll start doing some research and educating myself about vaccines instead of just taking my doctor’s word for it.”

And this story tries to sugar-coat the issue as well, stating that “parents in 2008 had more opportunities to delay shots than they had five years earlier” because three new vaccines have been introduced. I don’t by it. This implies that some children aren’t receiving all their vaccines because some vaccines are new. I would look at it differently: More and more parents are beginning to question the vaccine schedule — not just the new vaccines, but the manner in which so many are being given at a time. This trend has nothing to do with the new shots. Compliant parents wouldn’t even question new shots anyway. And they wouldn’t even be aware that their baby is getting a new shot because they wouldn’t even ask. Again, the CDC doesn’t want those parents who are being good little patients and getting all their shots, no questions asked, to start wondering why more and other parents are refusing.

Then the story turns to the measles epidemic that has “ravaged” the country. While measles can occasionally be severe and cause a fatality, the fact is that measles has remained the same in our country over the last decade — about 100 to 150 cases each year, with NO increase and NO fatalities! If the CDC is going to convince parents to stop questioning vaccines, they’ll need to come up with some better arguments than that.

Hey, I know! How about some new and expanded safety research! The only way non-compliant parents are going to stop worrying about vaccines is if we can give them the type of safety research they want: large-scale, prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled, long-term research. So, 20 years from now we’ll have that research. But what do we do in the meantime?

Here’s what the AAP says to do in their official policy (found on page eight of the Red Book, sitting in every single pediatrician’s office in the country):

• Treat these parents with respect
• Listen to their concerns
• Clearly discuss the importance of vaccines and the risks of the diseases
• If the parents remain non-compliant, the doctor can serve these patient’s needs by (and I quote) “developing a schedule of immunizations that does not require multiple injections at a single visit.”
• “Continued refusal after adequate discussion (I continue to quote) SHOULD BE RESPECTED.”

The number of physicians who actually follow the AAP’s advice is dismally small. I’ve been creating a growing list of Vaccine Friendly Doctor’s on my website who WILL listen and respect these patient’s wishes and who will provide an alternative vaccine schedule for patients who want to vaccinate differently. But it’s slow going. I just don’t understand why the AAP would even bother making such a policy if they won’t try to get their members to follow it.

Dr. Offit and many other physicians like him who believe we should NOT provide alternative schedules are actually MAKING THE PROBLEM WORSE. By kicking these patients out of their office and refusing to vaccinate these patients in a manner they will comply with, these doctors are leaving such babies unvaccinated. On the other hand, sometimes these doctors DO manage to talk (bully) their patients into starting their little two-month-old babies on the regular schedule. Most of these parents end up leaving such a doctor and going somewhere else.

In my humble (but outspoken) opinion, the ONLY way to increase vaccination rates in our country at this time is to provide alternative approaches that worried parents will feel more comfortable with. The PR campaign that the AAP and CDC are launching probably won’t do a thing. That’s because the campaign doesn’t include new safety research. It isn’t saying, “Hey, look America — we’ve proven vaccines, and the schedule by which we give them, are perfectly safe!” Instead, it’s saying “The diseases can be bad (which they can), so everybody get in line!” I just don’t think that’s going to work. That’s using scare tactics, not education. By adopting the AAP policy of providing alternative schedules, more and more doctors can serve their patients and keep the vaccine-preventable diseases at bay.

Dr. Bob Sears
www.TheVaccineBook.com

I have also discontinued his armour thyroid and diflucan.

Morning
2 capsules of Klaire’s Interfase
2 Candidase
mb-12 shot
Claritin (allergies are brutal for him right now)

Afternoon
2 Culturelle

Evening
2 capsules of Klaire’s Interfase
2 Candidase

He is still taking enzymes with his meals, but I am looking to discontinue that as well (if possible) - but that’s a trial for another time.

During weekends when we chelate, I will be giving him his multi and the other supplements necessary to support him while chelating.

In a very short time, he has lost a considerable amount of weight from his belly.

PBS Frontline on Autism Resorts to Pseudo-Documentary, Tabloid Journalism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-gordon/pbs-frontline-show-about_b_554691.html?view=screen
Dr. Jay Gordon
April 28, 2010

Tonight PBS aired a show called “The Vaccine War.” I was interviewed at great length and in great depth about vaccines and my point of view and expressed my ambivalence about the polarization of this issue and the need for more calm reasoned discussion about the number one question that new parents have. I told Kate McMahon, the co-producer of the show, that there was a large group of doctors and others who cannot be dismissed with the facile label “anti-vaccine” because we still give vaccines and see a place for them in the practice of medicine but we do not agree with the current vaccine schedule nor the number of vaccines children receive all at one time.

A few days ago, Ms.McMahon emailed me to tell me that the decision had been made to omit my interview from the show. There would not be one word from me. She didn’t tell me that she had also omitted 100% of Dr. Robert Sears interview. And that any other comments from physicians supporting the parents on the show in their ambivalence about vaccines or their decision to refuse all vaccines would also be omitted.

She left this as a show with many doctors commenting very negatively, very frighteningly and often disdainfully and dismissively about vaccine “hesitation” as they called it.

Below is my email response to Kate McMahon.

Dear Kate,

The “Frontline” show was disgraceful. You didn’t even have the courtesy to put my interview or any part of the two hours we spent taping on your web site.

You created a pseudo-documentary with a preconceived set of conclusions: “Irresponsible moms against science” was an easy takeaway from the show.

Did you happen to notice that Vanessa, the child critically ill with pertussis, was not intubated nor on a respirator in the ER? She had nasal “prongs” delivering oxygen. I’m sorry for her parents anxiety and very happy that she was cured of pertussis. But to use anecdotal reports like this as science is irresponsible and merely served the needs of the doctor you wanted to feature.

No one pursued Dr. Offit’s response about becoming rich from the vaccine he invented. He was allowed to slide right by that question without any follow up. Dr. Paul Offit did not go into vaccine research to get rich. He is a scientist motivated by his desire to help children. But his profiting tens of millions of dollars from the creation of this vaccine and the pursuit of sales of this and other vaccines is definitely not what he says it is. His many millions “don’t matter” he says. And you let it go.

Jenny McCarthy resumed being a “former Playboy” person and was not acknowledged as a successful author, actress and mother exploring every possible avenue to treating her own son and the children of tens of thousands of other families.

I trusted you by giving you two or three hours of my time for an interview and multiple background discussions. I expressed my heartfelt reservations about both vaccines and the polarizing of this issue into “pro-vaccine” and “anti-vaccine” camps. I told you that there was at least a third “camp.” There are many doctors and even more parents who would like a more judicious approach to immunization. Give vaccines later, slower and with an individualized approach as we do in every other area of medicine.

What did you create instead?

“The Vaccine War.”

A war. Not a discussion or a disagreement over facts and opinions, but a war. This show was unintelligent, dangerous and completely lacking in the balance that you promised me–and your viewers–when you produced and advertised this piece of biased unscientific journalism. “Tabloid journalism” I believe is the epithet often used. Even a good tabloid journalist could see through the screed you’ve presented.

You interviewed me, you spent hours with Dr. Robert Sears of the deservedly-illustrious Sears family and you spoke to other doctors who support parents in their desire to find out what went wrong and why it’s going wrong and what we might do to prevent this true epidemic.

Not a measles epidemic, not whooping cough. Autism. An epidemic caused by environmental triggers acting on genetic predisposition. The science is there and the evidence of harm is there. Proof will come over the next decade. The National Children’s Study will, perhaps by accident, become a prospective look at many children with and without vaccines. But we don’t have time to wait for the results of this twenty-one year research study: We know that certain pesticides cause cancer and we know that flame retardants in children’s pajamas are dangerous. We are cleaning up our air and water slowly and parents know which paint to buy and which to leave on the shelves when they paint their babies’ bedrooms.

The information parents and doctors don’t have is contained in the huge question mark about the number of vaccines, the way we vaccinate and the dramatic increase in autism, ADD/ADHD, childhood depression and more. We pretend to have proof of harm or proof of no harm when what we really have is a large series of very important unanswered questions.

In cased you were wondering, as I practice pediatrics every day of my career, I base nothing I do on Dr. Wakefield’s research or on Jenny McCarthy’s opinions. I respect what they both have done and respectfully disagree with them at times. I don’t think that Dr. Wakefield’s study proved anything except that we need to look harder at his hypothesis. I don’t think that Jenny McCarthy has all the answers to treating or preventing autism but there are tens of thousands of parents who have long needed her strong high-profile voice to draw attention to their families’ needs: Most families with autism get inadequate reimbursement for their huge annual expenses and very little respect from the insurance industry, the government or the medical community. Jenny has demanded that a brighter light be shone on their circumstances, their frustration and their needs.

I base everything I do on my reading of CDC and World Health Organization statistics about disease incidence in the United States and elsewhere. I base everything I do on having spent the past thirty years in pediatric practice watching tens of thousands of children get vaccines, not get vaccines and the differences I see.

Vaccines change children.

Most experts would argue that the changes are unequivocally good. My experience and three decades of observation and study tell me otherwise. Vaccines are neither all good–as this biased, miserable PBS treacle would have you believe–nor all bad as the strident anti-vaccine camp argues.

You say the decisions to edit 100% of my interview from your show (and omit my comments from your website) “were purely based on what’s best for the show, not personal or political, and the others who didn’t make it came from both sides of the vaccine debate.” You are not telling the truth. You had a point to prove and removed material from your show which made the narrative balanced. “Distraught, confused moms against important, well-spoken calm doctors” was your narrative with a deep sure voice to, literally, narrate the entire artifice.

You should be ashamed of yourself, Kate. You knew what you put on the air was slanted and you cheated the viewers out of an opportunity for education and information. You cheated me out of hours of time, betrayed my trust and then you wasted an hour of PBS airtime. Shame on you.

The way vaccines are manufactured and administered right now in 2010 makes vaccines and their ingredients part of the group of toxins which have led to a huge increase in childhood diseases including autism. Your show made parents’ decisions harder and did nothing except regurgitate old news.

Parents and children deserve far better from PBS.

–
Jay N. Gordon, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical School
Former Senior Fellow in Pediatric Nutrition, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A new study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency shows a correlation between the use of cells from babies in abortions in vaccines to an increase in autism rates. The study provides another problem from pro-life advocates who are already concerned about the abortion-vaccine tie.

The study, published in February in the publication Environmental Science & Technology, confirms 1988 as a “change point” in the rise of Autism Disorder rate.

“Although the debate about the nature of increasing autism continues, the potential for this increase to be real and involve exogenous environmental stressors exists,” the study says.

The 1988 date is significant because, as pro-life blogger Jill Stanek notes, the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute indicates that’s when the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices added a second dose of the MMR vaccine, containing fetal cells from aborted babies, to its recommendations.

The study found two other change point dates: 1981, two years after MMRII was approved in the United States with fetal cells, and 1995, when SCPI says the chickenpox vaccine using aborted cells was approved.

Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, said today that his group is joining SCPI in calling for a Fair Labeling and Informed Consent Act to let people know of this link and the use of cells from babies victimized by abortion.

“For years the evidence has pointed toward the link between vaccines using DNA from aborted babies and the rise of Autism Disorder rates,” he said. “Parents need and deserve to know the risks associated with vaccinations made from lines derived from the bodies of aborted children.”

“While the pharmaceutical industry ignores the evidence and continues to put our children at risk,” Sound Choice is conducting studies on the impact of residual human fetal DNA in vaccines on the brain development and autism in children, Sedlak continued.

Stanek also commented on the new developments.

“I’ve always read it was mercury in vaccines that was implicated in autism, although many studies state this isn’t true,” she said, noted SCPI debunks the idea.

“The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if the same sort of ideological culprits we see covering up the abortion-breast cancer link are also involved here. This would be a huge, huge blow to embryonic stem cell experimentation, for instance. That, and/or big pharma sees huge class action lawsuits on the horizon if this is proven,” Stanek added.

“That virus-laden DNA of aborted babies could be wreaking havoc on the DNA of healthy children is completely plausible,” she said.

SCPI will present their studies at the International Society for Autism Research in May 2010.

Related web sites:

Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute: http://www.soundchoice.org and http://www.soundchoice.org/Images/SCPINewsletter_April_2010.pdf

Environmental Protection Agency: Timing of Increased Autistic Disorder Cumulative Incidence (10 July 2009) http://www.all.org/pdf/McDonaldPaul2010.pdf

A total of 44 pupils became sick and was taken to the hospital after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine at school on Thursday in Huilai county, in Jieyang of Guangdong province, the Guangzhou Daily reported Friday.

On Thursday morning, 84 pupils got the injection, and some felt ill half an hour later, and 44 had been taken to the hospital as of 5:00 pm, the newspaper said.

The disease control center of Huilai county said they have used more than 90,000 doses of the same batch of hepatitis B vaccine but did not have any abnormal reactions. The rest of the vaccine has been sealed up.

“The vaccine was transported here by the special refrigerated truck of Jieyang’s disease control center,” said Wu Junqiu, head of the disease control center of Huilai county. He said it was impossible that there were any problems in the storage and transportation process of the vaccine, he said.

The newspaper said the vaccine was produced by a Shenzhen-based biological product company and was valid until Sept 1, 2012. And the syringes, which are valid until October 2012, were produced by a Shanghai-based company.

As of 5:00 pm Thursday, 39 of the pupils didn’t have any obvious symptoms and five suffered from throat congestion, Wu said, adding that experts had checked them one by one.

The cause of the reactions is still being investigated.

THE REAL REASON SO MANY YOUNG CHILDREN ARE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIA’S 2010 FLU SHOT COCKTAIL (WHICH INCLUDES THE PANVAX VACCINE)?

CONTENTS: A STAGGERING 50 MICROGRAMS OF MERCURY IN THE SHOT (MOST CURRENT MULTI-DOSE VACCINES AVG 2.5), H1N1 SUBUNITS (LIVE VIRUS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED WITH DETERGENT), NEOMYCIN (HAZARDOUS TO PREGNANT WOMEN) & POLYMYXIN (ANTIBIOTICS ASSOCIATED WITH KIDNEY FAILURE), BETA-PROPLOLACTONE (CARCINOGEN).

Most multi-dose vaccines currently average 2.5 micrograms of Thimerosal Mercury. Based on EPA standards this is considered a safe level of exposure for a 250 pound adult. Australia’s 2010 Flu vaccine Panvax contains 50 micrograms of Thimerosal; technically a safe level of exposure for a 5000 pound adult. Unless you were born a Mack Truck this is tantamount to attempted murder. Time for the Australian community to rise up against this tyranny with a massive Class Action law suit.

‘Included in the ingredients are two antibiotics, Neomycin and Polymyxin B Sulphate. Both are noted for serious side effects, predominantly kidney failure. It is warned both these antibiotics not be used by pregnant women. Neomycin is in the FDA pregnancy category D. This means that it is known to be harmful to an unborn baby. In the “first tier” of candidates to receive this unregistered, unapproved vaccine, pregnant women are on top of the list. Beta-Propiolactone is another listed ingredient. Ranked as one of the most hazardous compounds (worst 10%) to humans and “reasonably expected to be a human carcinogen” (International Agency for Research on Cancer – IARC, 1999). ?eta-Propiolactone is a disinfectant. Panvax is formulated using chick embryos (Ovalbumin). People who suffer allergy to eggs or anaphylactic reactions may experience problems.’
http://contribute.abc.net.au/_Panvax/blog/718273/32422.html

‘The Australian is reporting that clinical tests were never carried out on this particular vaccine, which was a first-time combination of seasonal flu with Panvax, a vaccine against the H1N1 strain. Australia was the first country to use this type of vaccine, the report said. Panvax was tested on 400 children before its release last year, but the combined shot was not subjected to any clinical trials.’
http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/19877

EARLY VACCINE TRAUMA REPORT (HIGH TEMPERATURES & FEBRILE CONVULSIONS) – The Australian Health Minister, Kim Hames, says 45 children have been taken to hospital suffering high temperatures and febrile convulsions after receiving the vaccination. Dr Hames says the program will be suspended until the department finishes its investigation. He says parents who have had their children vaccinated should take precautions.”If it’s longer than 12 hours ago then there is no risk. But if it’s in the last 12 hours they should make sure that they give their child paracetamol and then take every effort to make sure that the temperature of their child is settled.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/22/2880521.htm?site=news

Febrile convulsions occur in young children when there is a rapid increase in their body temperature. It affects up to 1 in 20 children between the ages of one and four but can affect children between six months and about five years old.

•The attack often begins with the child losing consciousness, and shortly afterwards the body, legs and arms go stiff.
•The head is thrown backwards and the legs and arms begins to jerk.
•The skin goes pale and may even turn blue briefly.
•The attack ends after a few minutes and the shaking stops. The child goes limp, and then normal colour and consciousness slowly return.
•Some children regain consciousness faster than others.
AUSTRALIAN FLU VACCINE DEATH TOLL BEGINS –

‘A family is in mourning after their toddler unexpectedly died less than 12 hours after receiving a seasonal flu vaccination. Two-year-old twin Ashley Jade Epapara had been “perfectly fine” before dying at her home, on Brisbane’s southside, on April 9. Parents David & Nicole are shattered by the mysterious death of their baby girl. “It’s dreadful, it’s a very hard time,” Mr Epapara said. Ashley’s twin sister, Jaime, also received the flu jab at the same time and is believed to have been vomiting the night before her sister died.’
http://www.news.com.au/national/flu-shot-fatality-toddler-dies-12-hours-after-having-vaccination/story-e6frfkvr-1225857872979

‘Queensland police are preparing a report for the coroner into the death of a Brisbane child who had earlier received the seasonal flu vaccine. The two-year-old girl from Upper Mount Gravatt on the city’s southside died earlier this month, the day after she was immunized.’
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/local/7106652/police-investigate-girls-death-after-flu-vaccine/

‘Drug regulators are urgently investigating whether the seasonal flu vaccine is safe for children, after the nation’s top doctor said they shouldn’t receive it. Australia’s chief medical officer Jim Bishop today said health professionals should stop immunizing children under five years old with the vaccine immediately. Professor Bishop is concerned about a spike in the number of West Australian youngsters experiencing fever and convulsions after getting the shot.’

“This is a precautionary measure while the matter is being urgently investigated by health experts and the Therapeutic Goods Administration,” Jim Bishop
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/dont-give-children-flu-jab-chief-medical-officer-20100423-tig6.html

Look how the Vaccine Manufacturer & Australian Government have insulated itself from prosecution:

‘The Australian Government has granted an exemption allowing the dispensing of this vaccine, without it being approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). That means that client consent must be obtained and recorded in detail on special Commonwealth consent forms prior to injection.’

PANVAX: PACKAGE INSERT
http://secure.healthlinks.net.au/content/csl/pi.cfm?product=csppanva11209
http://preventdisease.com/news/pdf/CSL_PANVAX_H1N1_SEPT2009.pdf

MERCURY CHART
http://www.prisonplanet.com/mercury-in-australian-approved-h1n1-vaccine.html

CSL LABORATORIES: VACCINE PROPAGANDA
http://www.h1n1vax.com.au/s1/cs/auvx/1255922570499/content/1255922570467/content.htm
http://www.h1n1vax.com.au/s1/cs/auvx/1249870357676/content/1249870357436/content.htm
http://www.csl.com.au/s1/cs/auhq/1217017237558/Web_Product_C/1253567277997/ProductDetail.htm

Veterinarians and pediatricians have a great deal in common. Both are highly qualified medical professionals with similar years of education. Both often struggle to determine what is wrong with their patients since pets, like little people, cannot communicate what hurts. Their jobs are not easy, but the premise of their work is simple: Support the health of those in their care and abide by the oath: “First, do no harm.”

Wellness checkups for babies and pets are often synchronized with routine vaccination schedules. Before a shot is given, the consent of the caretaker is required. For human patients, this is where discussions with the doctor can turn dark. Parents are aware of others who have been discharged from a medical practice for questioning vaccines and are wary of bringing up their concerns. Their fears are not unfounded. According to a 2005 survey of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), when faced with parents who refuse immunization, pediatricians reported that they always (4.8 percent) or at least sometimes (18.1 percent) tell parents that they will no longer serve as the child’s physician. Pet owners, on the other hand, have latitude to discuss their vaccination concerns. In many cases, refusing a vaccination has the full support of their vet.

When it comes to dogs, veterinarian professionals can tailor the vaccination schedule to the pet. The Canine Vaccine Guidelines and Recommendations offer suggestions about shots for puppies and adult dogs. Vaccines are categorized as core (recommended for all dogs); non-core (those that are optional); and not recommended (due to poor efficacy and unacceptable risk of side effects). The guidelines recognize vaccination as a medical procedure that needs to be individualized based on the animal’s geographic and lifestyle exposure. Veterinarian professional organizations allow flexibility and encourage doctors to extend vaccination intervals whenever necessary for the safety of the pet.

Most veterinarians agree house pets should be assessed yearly and vaccines - if given at all - should be tailored to an animal’s age, health, and lifestyle. For example, Dr. Matthew J. Toia, Chief Veterinarian Officer for PetLabsMD.com (”Pet-Labs”), a national direct to consumer animal health wellness testing laboratory staffed by licensed veterinarians and veterinary technicians, concurs. “An indoor cat with limited exposure to some diseases may never need some of the common vaccinations. For instance, Lyme’s disease, a regional illness for outside pets in endemic areas, is not necessary for unexposed animals in low risk regions of the country. Cats can forgo this vaccine without an issue.”

His comments are supported by two veterinary associations, the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) and the Academy of Feline Medicine (AFM). The Advisory Panel on Feline Vaccines (APFV) has guidelines for the selection and administration of vaccinations for cats. Feline shots fall into two basic categories: core vaccines (those recommended for most cats), and ancillary vaccines (those recommended for only a small percentage of cats.) Both of these organizations encourage cat owners to develop a good relationship with their veterinarian so their cat’s vaccination schedule can be openly discussed.

Veterinarians limit the number of vaccines given to puppies on a single visit. A study of more than 1,200 dogs found evidence that the risk of a vaccine-associated adverse event was significantly increased as the number of vaccine doses administered per office visit increased; each additional vaccine significantly increased risk of an adverse event by 27 percent in dogs under10 kg (22 lb) and 12 percent in dogs over 10 kg. Vets are cautious about giving multiple vaccines on one office visit.

Unlike their animal doctor counterparts, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), endorses universal immunization and follows a one-size-fits-all vaccination schedule. The AAP not only assumes that all vaccines are necessary, pediatricians assume that children can all equally tolerate all vaccines given in the standard schedule. As many as six doses - and 18 vaccine antigens - can be given at the same time. The Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that if a dose is not administered “on time” at the routine two, four and six month checkups, the shot should be given at the next visit. Every dose is considered to be so essential that the ACIP has created a ‘catch up’ schedule for children who have missed even one shot.

Parents have become alarmed by the large number of injections given at one time. To by-pass their psychological concerns, manufacturers have created combination vaccines, such as Pediarix and Comvax, to trick parents into believing that their baby is “only” getting one shot at a time. Pediarix is actually three vaccines in one shot (DTaP, hepatitis B and polio) and Comvax combines the hepatitis B and HiB vaccine into one shot. The ACIP states that, “The use of combination vaccines is preferred over separate injections of its equivalent vaccine components”. The AAP backs up this recommendation, urging combination vaccines to “improve timely vaccination coverage.” Both ACIP and AAP overlook a potentially serious problem with combination shots: If a reaction occurs, it is impossible to determine which vaccine caused the side effect. Animal doctors have figured this out. The Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) recommends using single dose vaccines because “increasing the number of antigens in a vaccine also increases the probability associated adverse events.”

Most pediatricians seem to have a “vaccinate no matter what” approach to childhood immunizations rather than ensuring the safety and appropriateness of the individual child. The AAP encourages pediatricians to “work individually and collectively at local and national levels to ensure that all children receive all childhood immunizations on time.” This includes giving vaccines to children, even when they are sick. According to the most recent “General Recommendations for Vaccination”, published in 2006 by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there are few reasons for delaying vaccination. In fact, the guidelines state, “Among the most common conditions often inappropriately considered contraindications are diarrhea, minor upper-respiratory tract illnesses (including otitis media) with or without fever, mild-to-moderate local reactions to a previous dose of vaccine, current antimicrobial therapy, and the convalescent phase of an acute illness.” Pediatricians, at the behest of the CDC and the AAP, follow the CDC’s instructions to use of every encounter as an opportunity to vaccinate.

When animals are sick, most vets choose to err on the side of safety. Vaccines are delayed until the pet is healthy to minimize the risk of a reaction. According to PetEducation.com, the decision to vaccinate a sick animal should be made on an individual basis. The vet determines if a shot is appropriate by performing a physical examination and possibly obtaining laboratory tests to aid in the decision. Not so with children. According to the CDC, a routine physical exam and taking a temperature is no longer a prerequisite before vaccinating. If a child appears in the doctor’s office, vaccination should proceed.

Avoiding over-vaccination: Vaccine Titers
Many vets are concerned about the potential for side effects and complications from unnecessary shots and boosters. They order a blood test, called a titer, to determine the need for additional vaccinations. A vaccine titer is test that measures the level of an antibody in the blood, a component usually induced by vaccination. A titer is reported as a ratio of one to a number. The higher that number, the better. For example, a titer of 1:5 is a low titer, and generally implies a susceptibility to disease. A titer of 1:1,000,000 is a very high titer, and implies immunity. It is generally accept that a high titer indicates further vaccination is unnecessary.

While useful as a guide, titer levels have limitations. They only measure one component of the immune system so the level of full protection is unknown. Antibodies cannot be distinguished between those generated by vaccination from those developed after recovery from a disease. Except where vaccination is required by law, all animals can have serum antibody titers measured to determine the need for booster shots. Testing is especially important for pets that have previously experienced an adverse reaction. While not all vets agree with checking antibody titers, the test is available for pet owners who prefer not to follow the conventional practice of annual boosters.

While veterinary medical associations are advocates of vaccination, they insist that immunization is only one component of an individualized, health-care plan for pets. One organization that wants to assist owners in their quest for healthy pets is PetLabsMD.com, the first and only national company to offer consumer-direct laboratory testing. Pet owners can actively participate in the health and wellness for their pets. Tests can be ordered directly through the internet by owners at substantial savings. PetLabsMD.com offers hundreds of screening tests, from preventive profiles for cancer, to tests for infectious diseases, diabetes, nutritional deficiencies, and vaccination titers.

Most importantly, owners will have the added convenience of having their pets’ blood tests done in the privacy of their own homes, avoiding the added stress of taking a pet to the vet. PetLabsMD.com is expanding their nationwide network of veterinarians and veterinary technicians who will come directly to your home to draw the necessary samples. Pet owners without access to a holistic veterinarian can order important health tests directly from Pet-Labs.

Vets vs Peds: A Interesting Comparison
Unlike the AAP that routinely denies any connection between vaccines, adverse events and side effects, the Council on Biologic and Therapeutic Agents (COBTA) at the American Veterinary Medical Association concludes that vaccines can cause problems and should be individualized. The following is an excerpt of their policy:

“There are insufficient data available to scientifically determine a single best vaccination protocol regimen for application to all animals globally. Despite significant advances in our knowledge of antigens and antigen presentation, gaps still remain in our under-standing of the immune system’s acute and chronic reaction to multiple vaccinations. The body of knowledge surrounding the genetic variability within individual breeds or species and the resulting idiopathic responses to vaccination (including vaccine-associated adverse reactions), is increasing but remains too inconclusive to make specific recommendations appropriate for all patients. Consequently, COBTA believes that a customized approach to recommended vaccination protocols is the safest and most effective method to medically address the increasing diversity in patients presented for immunization.”
It appears that veterinarians are more prudent about vaccination than their pediatrician counterparts. A comparison of Vets to Peds can be summarized as follows:

•Veterinarians consider pets as individuals. Vaccines are customized to their needs and lifestyles. For example, dogs that have allergies are often vaccinated less, given smaller doses or not vaccinated at all. If any adverse reaction was experienced from a vaccine, vets are cautious about future vaccines. Unfortunately, the same level of individual tailoring and caution is not found in the pediatric community.
•To avoid over vaccinating, vets often request vaccine titers. Pediatricians do not offer vaccine titers for children; in fact, all vaccines are mandated for all kids, at the risk of expulsion from the medical practice for refusing.
•Veterinarians acknowledge that vaccines can cause serious adverse reactions, including well-documented cancers in cats: feline leukemia and feline sarcomas. Pediatricians rarely, if ever, acknowledge an association between vaccines and asthma, eczema, seizures, gastric reflux, strokes, cancer and autism. Parents are told a side effect is not caused by a recent vaccine; tens of thousands of dollars of medical tests and procedures are ordered to prove it.
•Most veterinarians seem to understand that a one-size-fits-all vaccine policy is not appropriate. Not so for people doctors.

It’s time for pediatricians, the AAP, the CDC, the ACIP and all others involved with human vaccination programs to acknowledge that vaccines have risks and can cause serious harm, including death. If animal doctors can work with owners to individualize vaccination schedules, to avoid over-vaccinating though vaccine titers, and to encourage participatory care, human doctors need to start doing the same. Parents need to demand care that is as good for their children as it is for their pets.

CLINICAL tests were never carried out on the latest seasonal flu vaccine - a first-time combination of seasonal flu with the feared swine flu H1N1 - that has left a baby girl fighting for her life in a Perth hospital and sparked fits, fevers and vomiting in up to 60 toddlers across the country.
Health officials were last night trying to determine what had caused the reactions in the children, mostly in Western Australia.

The country’s chief medical officer, Jim Bishop, yesterday ordered doctors in all states to stop giving the flu vaccine to children under five.

Professor Bishop said non-swine flu strains in the vaccine may have caused the reactions.

For the first time in the world, the flu shot rolled out in Australia last month combined two strains of seasonal flu, as well as H1N1.

Professor Bishop said the Panvax vaccine - the swine flu jab - was “safe”, but said the combined flu shot had been suspended for young children as a “precautionary measure” pending investigation by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which approved its use last month.

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Panvax was tested on 400 children before its release last year, but the combined shot was not subjected to any clinical trials.

CSL, which manufactures both vaccines, has stopped distributing children’s doses nationally “to reduce the risk of inadvertent administration in this age group”.

One angry West Australian mother, who only wanted to be identified as Sharon, said if officials had acted earlier, the one-year-old girl in critical condition in hospital may never have become sick.

Sharon had three of her four children vaccinated two weeks ago and all three needed hospitalisation after suffering from fevers, vomiting and fits. She said it was a frightening experience after her three-year-old, Alivia, turned purple and began shaking. One of her one-year-old twins, Lateesha, later started convulsing.

Peter Richmond, associate professor at the University of Western Australia’s school of pediatrics and child health, said the vaccine was not subjected to trials.

“As with each year’s seasonal influenza vaccine, this year’s seasonal influenza vaccine isn’t subject to specific trials in children before it’s used,” he said.

He added that three trials of different combinations of seasonal flu vaccines had been conducted in children and no concerns had been raised.

Professor Robert Booy, the director of clinical research at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance - who helped supervise the swine flu trials - said the combination of flu strains could not be the cause of the problems.

Gardner, RM, JF Nyland, IA Silva, AM Ventura, JM deSouza and EK Silbergeld. 2010. Mercury exposure, serum antinuclear/antinucleolar antibodies, and serum cytokine levels in mining populations in Amazonian Brazil: A cross-sectional study. Environmental Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2010.02.001.

Synopsis by Jennifer F. Nyland

Mercury increases the risk of developing autoimmune symptoms - similar to those seen with arthritis - in miners from Amazonian Brazil who work with the metal.

A study in people adds to the growing evidence and concern that mercury can alter the immune system in ways that may promote autoimmune diseases such as arthritis and lupus. The researchers report that mercury increased levels of key signaling and antibody markers measured in the blood of Brazilian gold miners who use the metal to extract the gold from river sediments.

This is the first time mercury has been shown to affect in people the immune signaling proteins that are responsible for inducing inflammation. The results support recent animal studies that find similar changes to rodent immune systems after mercury exposure. The study adds to the few other human studies on the subject, which are less consistent in their conclusions.

Mercury is a well known toxicant. Exposure to even small amounts can damage the brain and nervous system in ways that reduce motor, verbal and attention abilities. This is especially true for developing fetuses and children.

Its effects on the immune system are still being teased apart.

In the United States, most people are exposed to mercury – by eating certain species of fish – most notably large predators such as tuna, swordfish and tilefish. Federal fish advisories warn against eating too much of certain species or too much fish caught from contaminated waterways so as to limit exposure to the metal.

The researchers studied five separate populations: a gold mining camp where mercury is used to extract the gold and two diamond and two emerald mining camps where mercury is not used. Mercury exposure was determined through questionnaires, urine samples and hair samples. Overall, mercury levels and the ranges were higher than what is reported for people who live in the United States.

When blood from gold miners was compared to diamond and emerald miners, changes were found. Levels of certain antibodies and proteins called cytokines were increased only in the gold miners. These increased protein levels are often used to help diagnose some autoimmune diseases like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

Even though the miners were exposed through their work to periodic and relatively high levels of mercury, the findings apply to others since mercury exposure from multiple sources is a global problem. Importantly, these changes were not related to whether the miners had malaria, giving the findings a broader application worldwide. Malaria is a common parasitic infection in many parts of the world, but not in the United States or Europe, and it too can cause changes in the immune system. Since the immune changes observed in this study were unrelated to whether or not the miners were infected, the authors can conclude that the effects are most likely from mercury exposure.

April 6, 2010

Human beings cannot live without vitamin B-6. It is also important for the prevention of cancer and the prevention and treatment of seizures, anemia, mental disorders including schizophrenia, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other conditions. Its effect on carpal tunnel can seem almost miraculous.

A natural form of the vitamin, Pyridoxamine, was recently yanked off the market by the FDA. Why? Because a pharmaceutical company, BioStratum, wanted sole use of pyridoxamine in a drug, a drug which may or may not ever appear. The company filed a so-called citizens petition and the FDA agreed, notwithstanding protests from ANH-USA, other organizations, and thousands of citizens. You might ask: how can Pharma take a supplement off the market and claim exclusive use of it as a prescription drug? The FDA does not presently feel obligated to answer this question.

Unfortunately, this isn’t all the bad news about vitamin B6. All forms of B-6, natural or synthetic, must be converted to P5P, another natural form, for the body to use it. Another drug company, Medicure Pharma, wants sole use of P5P and so has petitioned the FDA to ban its use as a supplement as well.

Medicure has yet to market a drug made from P5P, but wants the ban to take place now. And never mind that any individual unable to convert synthetic B6 to P5P would have to rely solely on Medicure’s product to stay alive.

How does Medicure think it can get away with this? Its petition states rather candidly: “Pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs must be protected from companies that may seek to market the ingredients in those drugs as dietary supplements. The marketing of such products has the potential to undermine the incentive for the development of new drugs because many people may choose to purchase the supplements rather than the drugs.”

This is not of course a case of supplement producers creating a product to compete with an existing prescription drug. It is just the reverse. P5P, the natural and bioactive form of B6, has existed in food for as long as there have been humans and has been available as a supplement for years. Medicure seems to be saying: If it seems profitable, let’s just turn a critical vitamin, one essential for human life, into a drug, make it available only by prescription, and mark up the price. This is truly outrageous.

The FDA has not yet responded to Medicure’s petition. We have asked you in the past to send a message to the FDA and Congress protesting Medicure’s P5P grab, and the time has come to send some more messages. So if you haven’t sent in a message to the FDA and Congress yet, or even if you have, please send one today.

While we are discussing Vitamin B6, here is the latest scientific report. An analysis of 13 U.S., European and Asian studies of vitamin B6 and colon cancer, conducted from 2002-2009, has been published in a special edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Studies of the range of B6 doses found that vitamin B6 taken in higher doses reduced the risk of colon cancer by 21 percent. In one study, Dr. Susanna Larsson and her colleagues at Sweden’s National Institute of Environmental Medicine reported an inverse relationship between the intake of vitamin B6 or pyridoxine and the risk of colon cancer. Dr. Larsson linked the effect to bloodstream levels of pyridoxal-phosphate (PLP), the main active coenzyme form of vitamin B6. Pyridoxal-phosphate is also known as pyridoxal 5-phosphate or (as we referred to it above) P5P.

Don’t let the FDA take away our access to the natural and most bioavailable form of B6, P5P. Please take action now.

Last Wednesday I was invited by Representative Laura Brod to a conference call meeting with Theresa A. Deisher, Ph.D. The purpose of the call was to discuss the vaccine-autism controversy and her recent studies.

Dr. Deisher has an impressive background and credentials. She is an internationally renowned expert in the field of adult stem cell therapies and regenerative medicine, brings 17 years of experience in scientific and corporate leadership positions involving research, discovery, production and commercialization of human therapeutics. Dr. Deisher’s penchant for groundbreaking scientific discovery and her distinguished scientific research has resulted in 23 patents issued. She has published numerous scientific manuscripts and is a frequent invited lecturer and guest speaker in the area of stem cell technology and regenerative medicine.

Throughout her career, Dr. Deisher has been recruited by some of the country’s top biotechnology companies, including Genentech, Repligen, ZymoGenetics, Immunex and Amgen. She has managed and mentored undergraduate honors students, post-doctoral fellows, scientific executives and over 20 research assistants/scientists at all levels of responsibility.

Dr. Deisher graduated with honors and distinction from Stanford University, and obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Physiology from Stanford University.

Subsequent to obtaining her Ph.D from Stanford, Dr. Deisher was recruited by Repligen Corporation (Cambridge, MA) and accepted a position as Research Scientist where she managed a staff of associates and scientists and directed the development of research and clinical assays in support of Phase I and Phase II clinical trials for various Repligen developmental efforts. Additionally, Dr. Deisher was selected by Sr. Management to participate in strategic alliance initiatives, including serving on the Repligen / Eily Lilly joint development committee.
Following Repligen, Dr. Deisher accepted a position at ZymoGenetics, Inc (Seattle, WA) as Sr. Scientist, Cardiovascular Biology. While at ZymoGenetics, Dr. Deisher’s research and discovery in the area of cardiovascular biology led to the filing of dozens of patents. Dr. Deisher was the first person world-wide to identify and patent stem cells from the adult heart, including what are now called ‘very small embryonic-like stem cells’. Her discovery remains one of the most significant discoveries in the area of stem cell research. Within the field of regenerative medicine, Dr. Deisher is also a patented inventor of the most potent mesenchymal growth factor ever identified (licensed to Serono for clinical development), and of the use of cytokines to mobilize adult embryonic-like cells.

Following ZymoGenetics, Dr. Deisher was named Sr. Staff Scientist, Vascular Biology at Immunex (Seattle, WA) where she was the project leader for both the Antithrombotic division and the Inflammation and Myocardial Repair division.

Dr. Deisher was named Principal Scientist at Amgen, Inc. (Seattle, WA) following Amgen’s acquisition of Immunex. She led multi-disciplinary teams working on the biology and commercial development of novel co-stimulatory pathways involved in the initiation and progression of cardiac failure. Her research interests encompassed stem cell therapies for myocardial regeneration. Additionally, Dr Deisher introduced revolutionary non-invasive imaging technologies for pre-clinical research to the company, including ultrasound (echocardiography) and near-infrared imaging. As a result, the company was honored as an official ‘Site of Excellence’ by Philips Medical for her department’s pioneering work.

Most recently, Dr. Deisher served as Vice President of Research and Development for Cellcyte Genetics Corporation, a post she held until October 2007 prior to founding AVM Biotechnology.

Dr. Deisher spoke with us for nearly an hour and the first thing that struck me, was that most people had never heard that aborted fetal DNA was used in the manufacturing of vaccines. This is morally reprehensible to me and appeared to be to the other legislators in the room as well. Because there has been a concern with the increase in autism, recent literature suggests that l out of 100 children are now impacted by autism spectrum disorder. Dr. Deisher has been studying the link and wants to alert the public about the possible dangers, as well as the wrenching moral dilemmas for parents and consumers.

How could the contaminating aborted fetal DNA create problems? According to Dr. Deisher, “It created the potential for autoimmune responses and/or inappropriate insertion into our own genomes through a process called recombination. There are groups researching the potential link between this DNA and autoimmune diseases such as juvenile(type I) diabetes, multiple sclerosis and lupus.” Her organization, Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute is focused on studying the quantity, characteristics and genomic recombination of the aborted fetal DNA found in many of our vaccines.

Dr. Deisher also asks the following questions: “Could genomic insertion of the aborted fetal DNA, found in some of our childhood vaccines since 1979 be an environmental trigger for autism? Could the fact that genes critical for nerve synapse formation and nervous system development found on the X chromosome provide some explanation of why autism is predominantly a disease found in boys? Could the “hot spots” identified in these autism associated genes be sites for insertion of contamination aborted fetal DNA?”

These are important questions and I am glad that this issue has been brought to the attention of the legislature. I will inform you in the future of further developments.

by Heidi Stevenson
19 April 2010

Have you ever heard of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)? In all likelihood, you haven’t, though you’e probably had it. You or your parents most likely called it a cold. Now though, there’s an RSV vaccine on the horizon, so the fear mongering is starting. Of course, to back up the fear, a study was done to give the impression that the disease is terrible. It was funded by vaccine promoters.

The Lancet has just published the study, which was financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO is now being examined for its handling of the swine flu so-called pandemic. They stand accused of being in bed with pharmaceutical corporations to promote the use of vaccines. One of the Gates Foundation’s primary goals is to promote vaccines.

So, it should come as no surprise that the study’s results refer to RSV in terms that imply a severe problem. The article refers to its “global burden”. Because it’s a mild disease in normally healthy people, it focuses on developing nations. The study’s result was, of course, a foregone conclusion:

“The development of novel prevention and treatment strategies should be accelerated as a priority.”

Hint: That means focus on vaccinations, not on poverty, the real issue behind most deaths from minor illness.

The fear mongering has already started. BBC News has reported on HSV, describing it as “the single largest cause of lung infection in children”. That sounds so very terrible, but the reality isn’t necessarily so bad. After all, if you have a chesty cough, you have a lung infection. Do you automatically panic over it? Usually, such infections are referred to as the common cold.

RSV is a common disease at all ages. Unlike most viruses, which provide lifetime immunity after infection, only limited immunity occurs. It’s usually a mild disease, generally called a cold. In those with weakened immune systems, such as premature babies, it can be a serious disease, even leading to death. However, that happens in only a minuscule percentage of cases.

The Lancet focused on a single year, 2005. The authors reported that, worldwide, 66,000-199,000 children under age 5 died from RSV that year. This was misreported by BBC as simply 200,000 deaths in children under 5 worldwide, with the claim that it’s an annual figure, though the study was clear in pointing out that it referred only to a single year. Only 1% of these deaths occur in industrialized modern nations. The rest happen in the developing world, where malnutrition, lack of water, and poor sanitation are rampant. In other words, health is already compromised.

Rather than focusing on the most obvious issue relating to deaths from RSV, poor health from lack of the basic needs, the goal is to trot out a new vaccine. To have it accepted requires that people in the wealthier nations see it as a good thing—and that requires developing a hefty fear of the disease.

Big Pharma is brilliant at manipulating the media and creating false impressions through the use of phony grassroots groups and bribing researchers and doctors. They’ve already started to create an atmosphere of fear around the respiratory syncytial virus and its cold-like symptoms.

Once the vaccine is routinely administered to small children in industrialized nations—at enormous profits, of course—it can be pushed on impoverished people elsewhere. Of course, one must question who will bear the cost—but there can be little doubt. The WHO’s budget ultimately comes from the wealthier countries, and that means you and me.

Through all of this, consideration for safety will be nonexistent among the producers of the vaccine or the mainstream media or government agencies pushing it or mainstream medicine administering it. Those who express safety concerns will be marginalized, as always. Bit by painful bit, the truth will come out. But how long will it take? The experience of the last hundred years suggests that no amount of ill health or lives damaged will curtail Big Pharma from making its profits.

New American research shows that there could be a link between the controversial MMR triple vaccine and autism and bowel disease in children.

The study appears to confirm the findings of British doctor Andrew Wakefield, who caused a storm in 1998 by suggesting a possible link.

Now a team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina are examining 275 children with regressive autism and bowel disease - and of the 82 tested so far, 70 prove positive for the measles virus.

Last night the team’s leader, Dr Stephen Walker, said: ‘Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain and none are wild measles.

‘This research proves that in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, there is evidence of measles virus.

‘What it means is that the study done earlier by Dr Wakefield and published in 1998 is correct. That study didn’t draw any conclusions about specifically what it means to find measles virus in the gut, but the implication is it may be coming from the MMR vaccine. If that’s the case, and this live virus is residing in the gastrointestinal tract of some children, and then they have GI inflammation and other problems, it may be related to the MMR.’

The 1998 study by Dr Wakefield, then a reader in gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital in North London, and 12 other doctors claimed to have found a new bowel disease, autism enterocolitis.

At the time, Dr Wakefield said that although they had not proved a link between MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and autism, there was cause for concern and the Government should offer the option single vaccines - instead of only MMRs - until more research had been done.

The paper - and the confused interpretation of its findings - caused uproar and led to many parents withdrawing their co-operation for the triple jab. Ten of the paper’s authors also signed retractions on the interpretation but stood by the science.

This is the second independent study to back up Dr Wakefield. In 2001 John O’Leary, Professor of Pathology at St James’s Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin, replicated his findings.

Last night Dr Wakefield said: ‘This new study confirms what we found in British children and again with Professor O’Leary. The only exposure these children have had to measles is through the MMR vaccine.

‘They were developing normally until they regressed. They now suffer autism and bowel disease.

‘The Department of Health and some of the media wanted to dismiss our research as insignificant. The excuse was that no one else had the same findings as us. What they didn’t say is that no one else had looked.’

A spokesman for the Department of Health said they had not read the American report, but added: ‘MMR remains the best form of protection against measles, mumps and rubella.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388051/Scientists-fear-MMR-link-autism.html

A homeopath recommended Euphrasia Officinalis 30C and it worked like a charm and in less than one hour. Boiron makes it and I found it at my local Whole Foods and Vitamin Shoppe for less than $7.00.

Just sharing in case it helps someone else.

http://goldenhawkprojects.blogspot.com/

Michael Wagnitz | local columnist | Posted: Sunday, April 18, 2010 4:45 am

Since the March 12 decision by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, which concluded that thimerosal in vaccines is not linked to autism or any other childhood neurological injury, I’ve been asked by many people: What exactly is thimerosal?

Thimerosal is a fungicide/bactericide used as a preservative in medical products. It is prepared by combining the fungicide ethylmercuric chloride with thiosalicylic acid. The reason for this is to increase the solubility of ethylmercuric chloride in water so it can be added at higher concentrations to products such as vaccines. Thimerosal is 10,000 times more soluble in water than ethylmercuric chloride.

Due to multiple accidental poisonings from ingestion of treated seed, ethylmercuric chloride was banned for use as a fungicide and all other purposes in the 1970s.

The symptoms of ethylmercuric chloride poisoning occurred months after the ingestion of treated seed. The first symptom noticed was paresthesia (nerve damage to fingers and toes) followed by ataxia (loss of coordination of the muscles), dysarthia (difficulty in articulating words) and loss of vision. While some functionality did return in some victims, the underlying damage was mostly irreversible. Tens of thousands of parents feel they saw the same symptoms in their children following vaccination with vaccines that contained thimerosal. Most of these children were eventually diagnosed as autistic.

Nobody knows what the safe amount of ethylmercuric chloride is for children. Thimerosal is added to multi-dose vaccine vials at a concentration of 50,000 micrograms per liter (mcg/l) mercury. In Wisconsin, any liquid waste solution which contains more than 200 mcg/l mercury is classified as hazardous waste.

There are four vaccines currently used in Wisconsin that contain this amount of mercury. They are vaccines administered from multi-dose flu, H1N1, meningococcal and tetanus/diphtheria booster vials. The flu and H1N1 vaccine are administered to pregnant women and children 6 months of age. The tetanus is approved for children 7 years and older. The meningococcal is approved for children 12 years and older. This year’s flu and H1N1 vaccines will expire soon and have to be treated as hazardous waste.

The next time your physician or nurse tells you that mercury is no longer used in vaccines (or that the quantity is small), feel free to share this information with them.

Michael Wagnitz of Madison is a chemist specializing in heavy metal poisoning.

(NaturalNews) Curcumin’s anti-inflammatory properties have been known in Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicines for thousands of years. It is the active ingredient of turmeric, which is a component of the curry preparations used daily in Indian and other South Asian cuisines. Since those cuisines have infiltrated the west, modern science has also been investigating the health benefits of turmeric and curcumin.

Curcumin/Turmeric Health Benefits

Don’t confuse curry powder with turmeric. Turmeric is the substance that gives curry its yellowish color, while curcumin is the active ingredient of turmeric that offers the health benefits known in earlier medical traditions and that is being discovered now in western nutritional medicine. Curcumin comprises five percent of turmeric.

Curcumin is both an anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant. Epidemiological studies of people who have a high dietary intake of turmeric show a lower incidence of cancer among them. as curcumin also helps create the master anti-oxidant glutathione.

Dr. Russell Blaylock included curcumin extract supplements in his post vaccination first aid kit to minimize the possibility of inflammation and cytokine storm from a vaccination. Curcumin has proven even better for relieving arthritis pains and stiffness than expensive pharmaceuticals, without side effects. It has also been proven to protect the liver and gallbladder.

Many other tests with curcumin extracts have been documented with in vitro (petri dish/test tube) and in vivo (living organisms) trials that show how amyloid plaque, considered a cause of Alzheimer’s, is suppressed by curcumin. There have also been many trials, mostly in vitro, that indicate curcumin helps impede cancer cells’ growth.

Curcumin extracts have been used as an adjunct with orthodox cancer treatments to reduce dosages of toxic cancer drugs.

Curcumin is considered non-toxic. Up to six grams of curcumin daily for extreme cases, such as cancer, has shown no toxic side effects. Since only five percent of turmeric is curcumin, this allows for consuming a good deal of turmeric.

How to Take Curcumin

Curcumin as part of turmeric powder is very beneficial as a daily regimen if taken properly. The problem with curcumin is similar to that of resveratrol: The stomach won’t let it pass through to the small intestines enough to appear significantly in blood serum, where it has to be for cellular nourishment.

That’s easily resolved with turmeric by combining it with fats. Cold pressed oils, coconut oil, organic butter, ghee, raw milk, and organic cottage cheese are optimum choices. It has also been discovered that heat helps absorption without decomposing the curcumin in turmeric. Some users mix turmeric in warm milk. After all, curry involves cooking with some sort of fat.

The curcumin extract capsules, used for extreme conditions or by those who can afford the convenience, pose the same absorption problems with a different set of solutions. This extract is usually in capsules. Enteric coating needs to be used to keep the capsule intact in the stomach yet to allow it to break down in the small intestines, allowing for immediate absorption into the blood.

Enteric coatings are used commonly by Big Pharma, but not by natural supplement providers. So you need to look for that on the label or you’re wasting your money and time.

Some curcumin extract providers insert piperine, an extract of black pepper, to help absorb the curcumin. But curcumin supplements using piperine can cause problems with pharmaceutical medications. So if you are on pharmaceuticals, avoid curcumin extracts with piperine.

Unless your situation warrants higher supplementation, consuming turmeric at one to three teaspoons full per day with fats to get the curcumin into your bloodstream provides an inexpensive, safe,* and efficacious anti-inflammatory, anti-aging boost to your health.

*Those afflicted with hepatitis or gallbladder stones need to use caution.

Sources for more information include:

Ray Sahelian, M.D. Curcumin’s Role in cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and inflammation
http://www.raysahelian.com/curcumin…

The Benefits of Taking Curcumin Daily
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicin…

The World’s Healthiest Foods - Tumeric
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?…

Byron Richards - Curcumin Protects Against Liver and Gallbladder Damage
http://www.wellnessresources.com/he…

Healthy Source - Consumers Guide to Turmeric - Curcumin
http://curcumin-turmeric.net/#compo…

Margaret’s Personal Blog RE Curcumin for Multiple Myeloma (Bone Marrow Cancer)
http://margaret.healthblogs.org/life-with-myeloma/discovery-of-curcumin/

About the author
Paul Fassa has managed to survive the Standard American Diet (SAD) and his youthful folly by deprogramming gradually from mainstream health ideology and studying holistic health matters informally with his wife while incorporating them into his lifestyle as a vegetarian.
He also practices Chi-Lel Chi Gong, and he is trained as a polarity therapy practitioner. He is dedicated to warning others of the corruption of food and medicine in our time, and guiding others toward a better direction for health. You can visit his blog at http://healthmaven.blogspot.com

(NaturalNews) Earlier this year, research linked bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics and a powerful hormone disrupter, to heart disease (http://www.naturalnews.com/027974_b…). Now, in the March issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, researchers have reported yet another newly discovered danger posed by BPA. Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University, and his research team have found for the first time that BPA exposure during pregnancy can cause abnormalities in the uterus of offspring and permanent alterations in DNA.

But at least you can avoid plastics and therefore avoid exposure to the BPA, right? Unfortunately, another group of scientists has just announced that’s getting harder and harder to do. Bottom line: there is now solid evidence that Earth’s oceans have been contaminated on a global scale with BPA.

Katsuhiko Saido, Ph.D., of Nihon University in Chiba, Japan, and his colleagues announced their startling and worrisome findings at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held in San Francisco recently. He stated that the massive BPA contamination of oceans resulted from hard plastic trash thrown in the seas as well as from another surprising source — the epoxy plastic paints used to seal the hulls of ships.

“This new finding clearly demonstrates the instability of epoxy, and shows that BPA emissions from epoxy do reach the ocean. Recent studies have shown that mollusks, crustaceans and amphibians could be affected by BPA, even in low concentrations,” Dr. Saido said in a statement to the media.

The scientists noted that light, white-foamed plastic decomposed rapidly at temperatures commonly found in the oceans, releasing the endocrine disruptor BPA. It isn’t just soft plastics that leach BPA, either.

“We were quite surprised to find that polycarbonate plastic biodegrades in the environment,” Dr. Saido explained. “Polycarbonates are very hard plastics, so hard they are used to make screwdriver handles, shatter-proof eyeglass lenses, and other very durable products. This finding challenges the wide public belief that hard plastics remain unchanged in the environment for decades or centuries. Biodegradation, of course, releases BPA to the environment.”

Dr. Saido’s research team analyzed sand and seawater from over 200 sites in 20 countries, including areas in Southeast Asia and North America. Every site tested contained what Dr. Saido labeled as “significant” amounts of BPA, ranging from 0.01 parts per million (ppm) to 50 ppm.

Dr. Saido pointed out that littering currently results in about 150,000 tons of plastic debris washing up on the shores of Japan alone each year. In addition, a huge area of plastic waste known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is about two times the size of Texas, now contaminates the area between California and Hawaii. “Marine debris plastic in the ocean will certainly constitute a new global ocean contamination for long into the future,” Dr. Saido predicted in the press statement.

In yet more BPA news, Rolf Halden, associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University and assistant director of Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute, has just published a sobering research article on the hazards of chemical-loaded plastics. His findings, which are included in the latest issue of the Annual Review of Public Health, provide more evidence that plastics in garbage dumps, landfills and the world’s oceans are an ever-increasing toxic problem.

In fact, Dr. Halden concluded in his paper that plastics and their additives such as BPA aren’t only around us; they are inside virtually every human. The chemicals show up in blood and urine tests because they are ingested with the food we eat, the water we drink and from other environmental exposures.

“We’re doomed to live with yesterday’s plastic pollution and we are exacerbating the situation with each day of unchanged behavior,” Dr. Harden said in a press statement. “We are at a critical juncture and cannot continue under the modus that has been established. If we’re smart, we’ll look for replacement materials, so that we don’t have this mismatch — good for a minute and contaminating for 10,000 years.”

by Vincent Racaniello on 29 March 2010

Use of the rotavirus vaccine Rotarix in the US has been temporarily suspended because the vaccine was found to be contaminated with porcine circovirus 1 DNA. The discovery was made in the laboratory of Dr. Eric Delwart, who has provided insight into what was found in Rotarix, and why he was analyzing the vaccine.

Delwart and his colleagues examined the purity of a number of human vaccines:

A little historical perspective about why we decided to analyze these vaccines even though there was absolutely no indications whatsoever that they are at all unsafe. Our intent was to use the latest technologies to show that live attenuated vaccine only contained the expected viral genomes and no other.

The Delwart laboratory obtained samples of eight infectious attenuated viral vaccines from the manufacturers: oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV, Bharat Biotech), rubella (Meruvax-II, Merck), measles (Attenuvax, Merck), yellow fever (YF-Vax, Sanofi Pasteur), human herpes 3 (Varivax, Merck), rotavirus (Rotarix, GlaxoSmithKline; and Rotateq, Merck) and multivalent measles-mumps-rubella (MMR-II, Merck). The vaccines were treated with DNAse and RNAse to remove nucleic acids that are not protected by viral capsids. Nucleic acid was then extracted from the vaccine, amplified by polymerase chain reaction, and subjected to DNA sequencing. A total of 501,753 sequence ‘reads’ were done.

The sequence analysis revealed the expected vaccine strains in each preparation, and in three cases, other unexpected viral sequences. The retrovirus avian leukosis virus was found in the measles vaccine….

Keep reading here: http://www.virology.ws/2010/03/29/deep-sequencing-reveals-viral-vaccine-contaminants/

http://kindergarten.com/

During the UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practice Hearing,
Dr Andrew Wakefield was interviewed at length by Alan Golding who asked Dr Wakefield a series of questions about the background to the hearing. The film has not been available to the public until today.
Released for World Autism Awareness Day 2010 the film will be made available over the internet in a series of short sections.
The release is expected to continue throughout the next few weeks.

The full interview and more can be found here: http://goldenhawkprojects.blogspot.com/

Changes since the last update are:

stopped Cytoflora (did not lose gains, would revisit in the future to see if we got another language boost if necessary)

dropped Swanson’s Magnesium Complex

dropped AMLA

dropped Wild Oregano Oil

dropped UBQH as I ran out of it and forgot to reorder, so I decided to see if I saw any decline in any area, which I have not.

Vitamins & Minerals
Lee Silsby ASD Pure Vitamin/Mineral formula - 6 Capsules per day
MB-12 Injections
BioTech Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) - 5000 IU
Swanson Vitamin E Mixed Tocopherols - 800 IU
Klaire’s Micellized vitamin A - 5 drops per day
Swanson Vitamin C - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson Biotin - 5mg caps 3 caps per day
Kirkman Zinc - 20mg - 2 caps at night

Omega Fish Oil / Cod Liver Oil / Essential Oils & Fatty Acids
Nordic Naturals Complete Omega 3-6-9 - 3 gelcaps
Organic Coconut Oil softgels - 1 soft gel per day

Probiotics & Prebiotics
Culturelle - 2 capsules per day
Klaire Detox Probiotic - 2 capsules per day

Anti-fungals & Anti-bacterials, Anti-Virals, yeast-fighting, etc.
Enhansa from Lee Silsby - 1800mg per day — give No-Fenol with Enhansa if child has phenol issues (red cheeks/ears)

Enzymes
Houston Nutraceuticals No Phenol - given with Enhansa only now
Houston Nutraceuticals Tri-Enza - with meals

For the liver
Liver life (2 dropperfuls per day)

For constipation
Oxypowder - (to keep his bowels moving) - only as needed (this stuff is fantastic!)

Other
4Life Transfer Factor Tri-Factor Formula – 200mg – 2 capsules 3x per day
Georges Always Active 100% Aloe Vera - about 2-4 ounces per day

Since Nicholas is on Spring Break this week, I’ve extended Round 75. In order to keep the number of rounds straight, I’m splitting them into the number of hours his usual rounds last.
He’s been great so far on the longer round. We tried this in the past and had to end the round, but this time, things are different.

Nicholas was awesome this weekend!!

Merck KGaA halts cancer vaccine trial
By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Merck KGaA on Tuesday said it’s halting trials of a cancer vaccine after a patient contracted a brain disease.

Darmsteadt, Germany-based Merck /quotes/comstock/11e!fmrk (DE:MRK 59.21, -0.09, -0.15%) said it’s temporarily suspending its clinical program for Stimuvax after a patient in Phase II trials taking the vaccine in combination with a low-dose chemotherapy drug called cyclophosphamide contracted encephalitis, which is a form of rare brain inflammation.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also put a clinical hold on Stimuvax, which is licensed from Seattle-based Oncothyreon /quotes/comstock/15*!onty/quotes/nls/onty (ONTY 3.42, -0.07, -2.01%) .

“We understand that Merck Serono is working closely with the FDA, other regulatory agencies and the patient’s physicians to evaluate the implications of this adverse reaction and to determine an appropriate course of action,” said Oncothyreon CEO Robert Kirkman.

Merck, unrelated to the American drug maker of the same name, noted that other Stimuvax studies are not used with the same intensity of cyclophosphamide.

It said the move was a “precautionary” one while it studies the “adverse event.”

Though the affected patient was using the vaccine due to multiple myeloma, Merck said late-stage trials for non-small cell lung cancer and breast cancer also are impacted.

Shares of Merck dropped 0.8% in afternoon Frankfurt trade, and the company’s stock has lost about 6% of its value over the last year.

“We have never included a [net present value] for the product in our valuation and would expect the market to have been cautious as well. Nevertheless, expect some pressure on the stock today as a result of this news,” said analysts at WestLB of Merck.

For Oncothyreon, the reaction was more severe — shares plummeted 28% in early trade.

Steve Goldstein is MarketWatch’s London bureau chief.

and

Merck KGaA halts cancer trial after brain inflammation case
23 March 2010
Shares in Merck KGaA have slipped this morning after the German firm suspended a mid-stage trial of its cancer vaccine Stimuvax after a patient suffered an “unexpected serious adverse reaction”, ie encephalitis.

The Darmstadt-based company noted that one of 30 patients participating in a Phase II trial of the vaccine in patients with multiple myeloma developed encephalitis, or acute inflammation of the brain. The patient received the vaccine (licensed from the USA’s Oncothyreon) in combination with “an intensified schedule of low-dose cyclophosphamide, which is not used in the other Stimuvax studies”. Merck noted that it has now stopped recruitment and treatment of patients in all studies of the vaccine, including the Phase III non-small-cell lung cancer trials called START and INSPIRE, as well as the late-stage STRIDE study in patients with breast cancer.

The company says it will work closely with the regulatory authorities, particularly with the US Food and Drug Administration (which has placed a clinical hold on the Investigational New Drug application for Stimuvax) “to evaluate the implications of the adverse reaction on the clinical development programme” for the vaccine “and determine the most suitable course of action”. Merck added that the move is a precautionary measure as it finds out what caused the patient to contract encephalitis – indeed some patients have been taking Stimuvax for eight years without any serious problems.

Some analysts are fearing the worst, however. Andrew Baum at Morgan Stanley issued a research note saying that the suspension of the clinical programme for Stimuvax “constitutes another blow to the company’s pipeline”, coming as it does on the back of regulatory rejections for Erbitux (cetuximab) as a treatment for advanced lung cancer. Merck also received a ‘refuse to file’ letter from the FDA for its oral multiple sclerosis drug cladribine in November last year, though it should be noted that regulators on this side of the Atlantic were satisfied with the submission and are reviewing the pill.

Richard Parkes at Piper Jaffray wrote that “we are surprised at such a swift decision to halt recruitment based on a single case of encephalitis, and it remains possible that other less severe signals of neurological adverse events may have contributed to the decision”.

By Kevin Grogan

http://truthaboutgardasil.org/wp-content/themes/city-thunder/ppt/030610FDApresentation.pdf

If you’re thinking of giving these to your daughter, please reconsider. Your daughter’s life is worth more than the risk here.

(CNN) — Federal health authorities recommended Monday that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the United States against rotavirus, saying the vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus.

“There is no evidence at this time that this material poses a safety risk,” Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg told reporters in a conference call.

Rotarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, was approved by the FDA in 2008. The contaminant material is DNA from porcine circovirus 1, a virus from pigs that is not known to cause disease in humans or animals, Hamburg said.

About 1 million children in the United States and about 30 million worldwide have gotten Rotarix vaccine, she said.

Rotavirus disease kills more than 500,000 infants around the world each year, primarily in low- and middle-income countries, she said. Before rotavirus vaccine became available, the disease was blamed for more than 50,000 hospitalizations and several dozen deaths per year in the United States, she said.

The FDA learned about the contamination after an academic research team using a novel technique to look for viruses in a range of vaccines found the material in GlaxoSmithKline’s product and told the company, Hamburg said. The drug maker confirmed its presence in both the cell bank and the seed from which the vaccine is derived, suggesting its presence from the early stages of vaccine development, she said. The FDA then confirmed the drug maker’s findings.

GlaxoSmithKline emphasized Monday that the pig virus is not known to cause illness in humans, saying “it is found in everyday meat products and is frequently eaten with no resulting disease or illness.”

“No safety issue has been identified by external agencies or GSK,” Thomas Breuer, the drug maker’s chief medical officer, said in a written statement. “GSK is committed to patient safety and to the highest manufacturing standards for all our vaccines and medicines. We are already working closely and discussing this finding with regulatory agencies around the world.”

Another vaccine, RotaTeq, is made by Merck and was approved in 2006. There is no evidence that the Merck product is affected, Hamburg said. Both vaccines are given by mouth to infants to prevent rotavirus disease, which is marked by severe diarrhea and dehydration.

Asked whether Merck would be able to meet the nation’s demand, Merck spokeswoman Pam Eisele said, “Obviously, we will work with the … FDA to evaluate supply needs.”

In the next four to six weeks, the drug agency will convene an advisory committee to make recommendations and seek input on the use of new techniques for identifying viruses in vaccine, Hamburg said.

“We’re not pulling it from the market, we’re just suspending its use during this period while we’re collecting more information,” she said. “It should not be in this vaccine product and we want to understand how it got there. It’s not an easy call and we spent many long hours debating the pros and cons but, because we have an alternative product and because the background rates of this disease are not so severe in this country, we felt that the judicious thing to do was to take a pause, to really ask the critical questions about what this material was doing in the vaccine, how it got there.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said “a substantial amount” of the DNA was found in the vaccine. But, he stressed, “there is no evidence that it causes any disease. … There is no evidence that it ever does anything.”

The research group that discovered the contamination has asked not to be identified pending its paper’s publication in a scientific journal, Hamburg said.

Anyone who has already received a dose of Rotarix should switch to the Merck product for the next two doses, Hamburg said. Preliminary testing of the Merck product has found no evidence of the porcine circovirus 1 DNA, she said. Doctors should be able to tell parents which of the two products their children received, she said.

Hamburg stressed that the suspension applies only to the United States. Public health officials in countries where the incidence of rotavirus is more severe may decide that the benefits of continuing to use the vaccine outweigh any concerns raised by the contamination, she said. “Such a decision would be very understandable,” she added.

A similar virus, porcine circovirus 2, also does not cause disease in humans, but it does cause disease in its pig host, Hamburg said.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/20/david-ayoub-interview-february-2010.aspx

“Diabetics who drink large amounts of aspartame-sweetened drinks are more likely to go blind. Aspartame is composed of the excitotoxin aspartic acid, methanol (also a known eye toxin) and the amino acid phenylalanine. Given this evidence, then, why do the American Diabetes Association and thousands of doctors encourage their diabetic patients to use aspartame? At least where the American Diabetes Association is concerned, it may have something to do with the fact that the organization has received large monetary contributions from Monsanto, the manufacturer of NutraSweet®!”

I was so inspired by a live-streaming speech given by Sally Fallon Morrell, the president of the Weston A. Price foundation, this week at the Wise Traditions Conference on how and what to eat (that is, real, whole, traditionally-prepared foods). This woman is truly a food science and food history genius and her lecture really drives home the point: do not trust industrial/processed food to sustain us or nourish us. If anything, trust processed food to send us into a diseased state. This is because we are expecting for-profit companies to sell us high quality and high-nutrition goods. Quite frankly, it ain’t gonna happen. Instead, giant food manufacturers sell chemical concoctions and processing byproduct waste as foods safe to consume. Or, as Sally Fallon brilliantly put it, “The goal is to make fake foods out of the products of commodity agriculture.” The food is highly manipulated, sterile, and artificially constructed — nothing as naturally occurs in nature. Why wouldn’t it be destructive to our bodies?

In an article on the fake foods and chemicals invading our diets, Fallon touches on one of the staples of any typical American breakfast — orange juice. How terrible could that be? Well, she says, “Have you ever wondered why processed orange juice stays cloudy, why the solids do not settle? This is because soy protein combined with soluble pectin is added, and this keeps the juice permanently cloudy. It might be interesting to know, for those of you who are allergic to soy.”

Keep reading here…
http://dearthyroid.org/how-to-kick-your-thyroids-ass-two-hidden-sources-of-soy-at-your-breakfast-table/

Decades ago, when chemists were churning out new discoveries and industry was making “better living through chemistry,” the belief was widely held that chemicals do not cross the placenta. We now know that mother’s chemical exposure can affect her baby’s chances for a normal, healthy life, especially in early pregnancy when a fetus’ growth is being carefully regulated by a host of natural chemical messengers in the womb.

Should you worry? Well, first of all, women have been giving birth joyfully for decades after the advent of industrialization. It is a thrilling, suspense-ridden process with no certain answers — with a high probability that you will have created the greatest treasure of your life. Don’t let fears overwhelm your enjoyment of nine months of miracles. But do use common sense, and a little dose of facts, to help protect your little bundle of joy as much as you can.

Continue reading here….
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/beauty-products-you-must-ditch-during-pregnancy.php?campaign=daily_nl

Cutler’s protocol is not just simply dosing dmsa & ala every 3-4 hours. If you change any of the variables, you are not necessarily following Andy’s protocol. I’m getting more and more feedback lately from parents that concern me, so I just want to clarify a few things in hopes that it helps…

1. Night dosing IS required. Skipping the night doses or deciding to dose at midnight, then 8am - is NOT this protocol. Eliminating the dose in the middle defeats the purpose of doing the protocol as you are now creating several opportunities for the redistribution of metals versus the one per round stated on Andy’s protocol.

2. Cutler protocol consists of LOW, not high doses. If you start with high doses, versus the 1/8th -1/4 mg per pound, you are not increasing the amount of metals that are going to be pulled as much as you might think. The whole point of the protocol is to dose low so as few side effects are experienced as necessary, not to make yourself or your child miserable. You DO NOT start a 40 pound child on a 25mg dose. We saw results with 8mg! Have a little faith before you go overboard with the dose.

3. The point is not to make yourself or your child miserable thinking you are pulling more. The top dose is 1/2mg per pound. Again, you are not increasing the amount of metals that are going to be pulled as much as you might think. The whole point of the protocol is to dose low so as few side effects are experienced as necessary, not to make yourself or your child miserable.

4. “sprinkles” of dmsa and/or ala is not Cutler’s protocol Capsules should be divided into the doses you intend to give. I hear of parents opening capsules and just giving a sprinkle of each not knowing how much they are or aren’t giving. If you cannot eyeball the contents of the capsule to divide into the appropriate dose, ask your dr for a script and get them compounded to the correct dose.

5. Starting multiple protocols at one time is a bad idea. This should be common sense, I would hope. Starting an aggressive anti-viral protocol at the same time you start chelating is not recommended. Most find that waiting to start addressing viruses until after round 50 makes life so much easier for all involved.
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6. Ignoring yeast Do not assume that your child does not have yeast issues. If you are chelating and not seeing gains, it could be that any gains you would see are hidden by yeast. Have a test run and see before you assume otherwise. Then get on a good anti-fungal, whether it’s natural or rx and see if that clears it up.

7. Adding products like NDF, NDF+, chorella, cilantro, etc.Adding any of these to Cutler’s protocol is not a good idea. You can search Autism-Mercury’s archives for Andy’s explanation if you so choose and I would actually recommend you doing just that. For me, there is not enough research about any of these being a true chelator doing more than just moving metals around. Using dmsa and ala have worked very well here.

If you are a parent of a newly-diagnosed child, this book is one of the first you should read. There is hope. There is recovery. You are not alone.

The New York Times bestseller that is an inspiring “story of hope” (People) for parents of autistic children

One morning Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old son Evan’s room and found him having a seizure. Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed Evan until—after many harrowing, life-threatening episodes—one good doctor discovered that Evan is autistic.

With a foreword from Dr. David Feinberg, medical director of the Resnick Neuro-psychiatric Hospital at UCLA, and an introduction by Jerry J. Kartzinel, a top pediatric autism specialist, Louder Than Words follows Jenny as she discovered an intense combination of behavioral therapy, diet, and supplements that became the key to saving Evan from autism. Her story sheds much-needed light on autism through her own heartbreak, struggle, and ultimately hopeful example of how a parent can shape a child’s life and happiness.

“Mercury Induces Inflammatory Mediator Release from Human Mast Cells,”

Conclusion: HgCl2 stimulates VEGF and IL-6 release from human mast cells. This phenomenon could disrupt the blood-brain-barrier and permit brain inflammation. As a result, the findings of the pres…ent study provide a biological mechanism for how low levels of mercury may contribute to ASD pathogenesis.

Article: http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/7/1/20

Link to Study: http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/pdf/1742-2094-7-20.pdf

Changes since the last update are:

reduced Cytoflora to maintenance dose of 5 dropperfuls per day (so far so good)

added Wild Oil of Oregano (to keep bacteria and yeast in check)

added Organic Coconut Oil

Vitamins & Minerals
Lee Silsby ASD Pure Vitamin/Mineral formula - 6 Capsules per day
MB-12 Injections
BioTech Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) - 5000 IU
Swanson Vitamin E Mixed Tocopherols - 800 IU
Klaire’s Micellized vitamin A - 5 drops per day
Swanson’s Triple Magnesium Complex - 1 cap per day
AMLA - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson Vitamin C - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson Biotin - 5mg caps 3 caps per day
Kirkman Zinc - 20mg - 2 caps at night

Omega Fish Oil / Cod Liver Oil / Essential Oils & Fatty Acids
Nordic Naturals Complete Omega 3-6-9 - 3 gelcaps
Organic Coconut Oil softgels - 1 soft gel per day

Probiotics & Prebiotics
Culturelle - 2 capsules per day
Klaire Detox Probiotic - 2 capsules per day
Bioray Cytoflora - 5 dropperfuls per day

Amino Acids
none given at this time

Anti-fungals & Anti-bacterials, Anti-Virals, yeast-fighting, etc.
Enhansa from Lee Silsby - 1800mg per day — give No-Fenol with Enhansa if child has phenol issues (red cheeks/ears)
Oreganol Wild Oil of Oregano P73 - 2 gelcaps per day

Enzymes
Houston Nutraceuticals No Phenol - given with Enhansa only now
Houston Nutraceuticals Tri-Enza - with meals

For the liver
Liver life (2 dropperfuls per day)

For constipation
Oxypowder - (to keep his bowels moving) - only as needed (this stuff is fantastic!)

Other
4Life Transfer Factor Tri-Factor Formula – 200mg – 2 capsules 3x per day
Georges Always Active 100% Aloe Vera - about 2-4 ounces per day
Integrative Therapeudics Inc UBQH Patented Stabilized Reduced Ubiquinol - 100mg 1 cap per day

His language continues to grow in leaps and bounds. He still has some trouble with certain sounds, but from what I understand, the cluster of sounds he is having trouble with is not un-common and pretty much typical for all kids as their language is developing. As described by his teachers and speech therapist, his vocabulary is “tremendous”. They have found that there is nothing that he cannot correctly label - and they’ve tried to trip him up apparently. The things he says continue to amaze us all.

Nicholas has continued going to karate twice a week and is loving it. He quickly and easily integrated to be a part of the class, gets along with everyone, has friends there - and really looks forward to going. We don’t have any issue getting him to wear the uniform. When he comes out of the classroom, he’s excited and energized and just has the biggest smile on his face. He loves showing us what he’s learned when we get home.

He is doing so well in school!!! He’s reading lots of words, is writing letters and numbers and has actually started drawing pictures. Real pictures - from his imagination! About a month or so ago, he came home with two pictures - similar, but not the same. They are pictures of buildings. Each one has several floors with windows on each floor. In one picture, there is a student and a teacher in each window. In the other, just students. It is raining in both pictures. I recently had a parent teacher conference where I was able to ask if this came from a story they did in class and they had no idea where those pictures came from. They were blown away by them. Last week, he brought home a picture that he had drawn of several people. He actually drew body shapes - not just lines for the body and legs.

His coloring skills have improved greatly. For the most part, he is coloring in the lines and is using appropriate colors. No random scribbling. He also told a fellow student that she needed to color between the lines.

I was able to see part of an assembly they did for Presidents day where each child had a line to recite. I had no idea about this until I saw it on the teacher’s computer during our conference. Nicholas said his line - standing in line with the other kids - it was amazing to see!!

He’s doing really well socializing and chatting with the other kids in class and during snack and lunch. He comes home and tells me what he did in school and if any of his friends got punished and what they did that got them in trouble.

He goes to assemblies in school and doesn’t have to be held onto like he used to be. Now, he goes and watches the presentations and actually enjoys himself.

Nicholas is doing so well on the computer that we had to buy him his own laptop - a real one, not a kiddie one. He’s learned so much from different learning sites like starfall.com and a whole bunch of others, that it seemed like a logical Christmas gift - after all, how many more toys does he need? It ended up being a great idea - his skills have blossomed and many seemed shocked at how much he can do by himself on it.

He loves going to the library at school and getting a new book to read. He loves show and tell too.

We can now take Nicholas pretty much anywhere and he behaves better than the NT kids. A couple of weekends ago, we went out for dinner - the first time in a long time (we’ve been cooking alot since having our kitchen redone). When we first walked in, the restaurant was SO loud that it hurt my ears - Nicholas covered his ears for a second, said it was loud - we agreed. Here’s where I thought we were goners… but nope, he sat at the table and was a perfectly behaved kid the entire meal. We brought along his nintendo ds and he played a couple of games, but was also interacting with us as well. He didn’t just sit there with his head down the whole time. When our meals came out, he ate with us like the perfect little gentleman. (There was a table right next to us with kids on one end, adults on the other. The kids were loud and roudy as can be (with not one word from their parents) - all while Nicholas behaved. On the way home, Daddy, Grandpa and Grandma stopped at Dairy Queen to pick up some ice cream. Usually, Daddy and Grandpa will go get the ice cream and Nicholas hangs out in the car - not this time. He wanted to go with them and order ice cream. He gets up to the window and the girl asks him what he wants and he says, “I want a white one please” then added that he wanted vanilla. She asked him if he wanted sprinkles to which he said yes and then chose rainbow sprinkles. (He does not like eating sprinkles, but loves looking at them) I was so sorry I missed this, but just hearing about it blew me away. (Yes, he can now have casein without any reaction. No enzymes either.)

He understood who Santa Claus is and was so excited about him coming from early November. He made a list for Santa and marked days off the calendar mid-November until Christmas. He understood what valentines day was and was excited to give his classmates valentines. He’s now looking forwad to Easter so he can find and color easter eggs.

He recently realized just how many DVDs are in his collection. They’ve always been in his armoire, but he suddenly noticed all of them. He had to take them all out, check each one out and is watching one at a time. He’ll either tell me, “I really like this, are there any more like this?” or “I don’t like this, can I watch this instead?”

He seems to want to do really physical boy things lately. Last weekend, he tried to flip his grandfather over the back of the couch. He quickly realized that he wasn’t gonna budge grandpa. He leaned up against the back of the couch and went and got a chair. None of us knew what he was doing, but didn’t stop him. He positioned the chair in front of grandpa - then he lifted one of his legs up and put it on the chair (throwing off his center of balance) and then lifted the other leg to help hoist him up and over the couch. NO one showed him how to do this.

He loves to race from one end of the house to the other. He will not leave his competitor behind and always takes turns when it comes to who wins. He wants to hang finish lines up across the doorway between rooms.

He asks to go places and to do things. He thanks us for taking him places and for buying him things.

More of his sense of humor comes through every day. If one of us says one thing, he jumps into the conversation to deliberately disagree with us and then runs away laughing.

He wants friends to come over and play - all the time.

He asks to see people he has not seen in a while - even if they’re never mentioned in front of him. So, he’s remembering people on his own and wants to see them!

He wants to help do everything - especially cooking. I cannot believe how well he can crack an egg!

He asks for specific things he wants.

I can count the number of tantrums he has in the past 12 months on one hand - and those were provoked to see how he would handle himself. Just this difference in him is astounding.

He’s very into arts and crafts, drawing and painting, making stuff out of play-dough (not just squeezing it and rolling it) - and is very into reading books and trying to read by himself.

He is very eager for spring to arrive - he wants to plant flowers and food. And yet, he loves to go outside and help shovel the snow. He made his first snowman recently - and was just thrilled he helped put him together. He ran to the window to check on him several times and thought we should bring him inside for the night.

He went sledding yesterday for the first time - and he had the time of his life - we never heard him laugh like that - ever! We could never take him before, he just never “got it” and he would never sit in the tube. He has been begging to go sledding again all day.

On things that we’ve done for him or are trying to do for him - we now get told, “I want to do it by myself”

One thing I thought we would never be able to do with him that truly broke my heart was to be able to see him enjoy Disney World. After getting off the phone with Disney reservations the other day, I cried. Not many people would understand why. Not many would truly understand the accomplishment that this is - none of us ever thought we’d be here. Nicholas is bubbling over with excitement and wants to get on the plane to see Mickey every day. (and he also wants to bring all of his friends.)

I almost forgot a few of the biggies…. we’re getting WHY questions and HOW questions. And now he’s very interested in science things like how does water become ice? And he wants to know if things are real and how we know if they’re real?

I don’t remember if I ever made reference to this on here, but a couple of months ago - Nicholas showed Grandma a picture of daddy, grandpa and great grandpa. Nicholas was 9 months old when great grandpa died. He said, there’s daddy and grandpa and great-grandpa, he’s in heaven and has to come back to earth. (We never TOLD him great grandpa died, he was too young, we didn’t have to.)

We just got back from Toys R Us. He’s downstairs happily playing a new game. He asked me earlier today if he could go buy a particular game for our Nintendo Wii. This was our conversation verbatim….
Nicholas: “Mommy, I really like the Dora Saves the Snow Princess game, can I go buy the Dora & The Crystal Kingdom Game?”
Mommy: “I think so, we need to get dressed first though”
Nicholas: “Ok, you go take a shower and I’ll get my clothes.”
Mommy: “Ok. Do you want to watch a DVD while I get ready?”
Nicholas: “Yes, can put Little Einsteins on for me?”
Mommy: “Yes”
Nicholas: “Thank you, Mommy”

Woah - I’m so used to conversations like this anymore that it doesn’t blow me away until I write it down.

So, I get dressed and I’m downstairs waiting for him…

Mommy: “Nicholas, Mommy’s ready to go - do you want to go or watch your DVD?”
Nicholas: “I’m coming…” as he runs down the hall
Nicholas: “Is there still snow? Should I wear my boots? Mommy, where are my boots?”
Mommy: “Yes, the snow is still there. Do you want to wear your boots or sneakers?”
Nicholas: “Boots” he grabs them, ‘Mommy, can you help me put these on, I have trouble with them?”
Mommy: “Sure, Nicholas”
Nicholas: “thank you Mommy. Can you get my jacket off the hook? I can’t reach it.”
Mommy: “Here it is.”
Nicholas: “can you help me get it on?”
Mommy: “Sure.” I helped him get his coat on. “Wait for me, I need to put mine on.”
Nicholas: “Do you need me to help you with your coat?”
Mommy: “No, thank you, I’ve got it - ready to go?”
Nicholas: “Hooray!”

So, we’re on our way to Toys R Us. Nicholas comments about the snow, the huge puddles we’re driving through. He says, “Mommy, the snow is melting, that’s why there are so many big puddles, right?”

We walk through the parking lot and go into Toys R Us with Nicholas standing BESIDE me. No shopping cart. No death hand-holding grip. He’s commenting on the people shopping and going into the other stores to buy different stuff, but not toys.

We go into the store and he asks if he can look at the trains. So, I said sure - we headed over to the Thomas stuff and he hands me something and says, “Can I buy this?” I told him we were there for a Wii game (or two) and we’d see. In less than 5 minutes he was done looking at the train stuff and we walked over to the games. We found Dora (locked up behind glass) and I said we have to go find someone to get it for us. So we went looking for an associate - and I asked them to open the case for us. We follow him back there and he asks which game. Nicholas says (and points) to Dora and the Crystal Cave - and says, “wow, look Mommy - can I get Toy Story too?”

We go to the register, he hands the games (yes games, I am a pushover) to the associate and says, “I’d like to pay for these please” and then hands him his TRU gift card he got for Christmas. After mommy paid the rest of the balance, we left with no incident.

This is what shopping is like with Nicholas now. There is no more screaming, tantruming, demanding child that there once was. There is no child that has to have EVERYTHING that he sees. I gave him a choice - the Thomas thing he picked out or the games. He picked the games - and said, “maybe I’ll get that another day” referring to the Thomas thing.

If we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that (the population) by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.

About 4 minutes and 30 seconds into this video:
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html

By Dr Sherri Tenpenny
February 14, 2010

I’ve been asked many times over the last few weeks to share my opinion on the verdict of the U.K’s General Medical Council (GMC) about Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the retraction of his 1998 article, “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children” by the medical journal, Lancet. The many inquiries fall into four basic questions.

Question #1: What do you know about Dr. Wakefield’s 1998 paper? Do you feel the response of the GMC was appropriate?
Question #2: Do you have concerns over Dr. Wakefield’s failure to disclose financial links to a malpractice attorney and to patents he was working on to develop a single vaccine solution?
Question #3: Do you think the Lancet was justified in pulling the paper for pure scientific reasons?
Question #4: Are you simply a blinded, “Dr. Andy Groupie”?

Read Dr. Tenpenny’s answers here: http://drtenpenny.com/Wakefield_Inquisitioners_Have_their_day.aspx

Nicholas has been healing, recovering for quite some time now. We’re almost to the three year mark in his recovery and I am thankful for the tremendous progress he has made. None of this has been a “quick fix”; none of this has come without a price in one way or another. And not one of his accomplishments to date has been overlooked - we are thrilled with each step forward. Actually thrilled is not a strong enough word.

I’d like to share some things that I feel should be part of “Biomed for Autism Recovery 101″ - I hope this list is helpful….. I have picked up from experience along the way and I hope these spare you with having to figure this out for yourself. This post is not aimed at anyone - it’s just my way of trying to be helpful to anyone who is in the beginning of this journey.

In no particular order….

“This is a marathon, not a sprint…”
I know I used to get tired of hearing, “this is a marathon, not a sprint” - because let’s face it, we want our kids back NOW. But, it’s true. This is not a sprint. We are repairing our children’s bodies, their brains and many of us are cleaning up our lives with our new found knowledge. I wish recovery could happen overnight, but it takes time. It is important to pace yourself and not rush into anything. It is also important to research one area and understand it to the best of your ability before moving on to the next and the next and the next and the next.

For many children, recovering from autism is not a one-year deal. We’ve been doing biomedical intervention for three years and while my son, who has come a tremendous distance in that time – we still have a distance left to travel.

Recovery means different things to different people
Understand that different people view “recovered” differently and do not make assumptions based on your definition without taking their definition and circumstances (cause and severity of their child’s injury) into account. What do I mean by this? Recovery means different things to different people. There is wide range of opinions out there on the definition of recovered. Here are a few:

These are just a few definitions of recovery I have heard – but until you are immersed into this world, it’s hard to understand the differences - but when researching treatments and supplements and talking to parents who have gone through this before you - this is one thing that having an understanding of will help you in the long run. Do not make any assumptions just because they use the word, “recovered.”

Pace yourself when adding supplements
Go slow… Adding supplements one after another and another and another is not a wise choice. Starting a new supplement on Monday and then adding a new supplement on Wednesday is not a good idea. Why? Well, for one, supplements are expensive and the cost adds up quickly. So why spend money on something that is not working when there are other things that you could spend it on that might work? Two, why give your child a supplement he/she clearly does not need? It’s just more for their bodies to process and if it’s unnecessary, then why put your child through this?? Three - sometimes bad reactions to a supplement could take more than a day or two to be evident. Four - if you start a new supplement too soon and then start seeing good gains, which supplement did it? The new one you just started today? or the one you started 2 days ago? Knowing which supplements that don’t work for your child is as important as knowing which ones that do/did. (There are going to be supplements that your child may need regardless if you see any improvement or not - and these supplements should also be given an adequate amount of trial time before moving onto the next one.)

Here’s an example…. you start supplement X and after 3 days, the child is doing some new stuff. So you start supplement Y and you see even more great things. Which supplement caused the 2nd boost? X or Y? Problem is, you don’t know until you remove Y and see if you lose gains or keep gaining. So, after a week or two of removing Y and watching - then adding it back and watching it again, you figure out it was Y, but then, X might have done all it can and you don’t need it, but because you added Y so quickly, you keep giving X because you think it’s still needed when if you had just done x for 2 weeks in the first place, you might have seen that it was a fluke that he/she was doing great stuff for those three days because by the end of the 2 weeks, it had fizzled out.

Don’t buy tons of new supplements at one time
When placing supplement orders, do NOT buy more than ONE (or two) NEW supplements at a time. You will save yourself $$ - because more times than not, if you buy a bunch of new ones to try - you will probably end up changing your mind or seeing something else that you want to try FIRST. Buy a new one and try it. Decide whether or not it’s a keeper and move on….

Do not RUN OUT of current supplements when starting new ones
Do not let yourself run out of current supplements when you are starting new supplements. If you run out of x and then start Y and see your child regress, why did he/she regress? Was it because he/she is missing X? or was it because Y isn’t right for him/her?

Supplement Breaks & Restarting After a Break
Take a supplement break every once in a while. If you have the opportunity to stop all or most of your child’s supplements for a little while, do it. Sometimes their bodies just need a break - and sometimes you will find that a supplement that was once needed is no longer needed or that a lower dose would work just fine.

When you decide to restart, you want to add one back at a time just like you originally did - but SLOWLY and at smaller doses than what you were at before. Don’t take 2 weeks off and then put back everything at 100% of the doses the next day. If you start seeing regression, then add them back more quickly than if you do not see regression, but don’t just put everything back in place in an instant.

Don’t write off supplements forever
If your child reacts poorly to a supplement, don’t write it off forever. It might be that at this point in time, he/she cannot tolerate it or it might mean that he/she needs another supplement with it. Or maybe they don’t need it now, but might need it in the future.

Find out why they reacted poorly to a supplement
If you child reacts poorly to a supplement, try to find out why - He/she not doing well on something could provide you with some insight or a hypothesis as to what’s going on with your child’s body.

Never assume supplement formulas don’t change
Do not assume supplement formulas do not change from bottle to bottle. It is always best to compare the ingredients on bottle you just bought with the one you are throwing away.

Changing supplement brands
Changing supplement brands should be treated in the same way as adding a new supplement. And only change one at a time.

Work on swallowing capsules
For the longest time, Nicholas was drinking his disgusting supplement cocktail. Even though every day was a challenge to get him to drink it all, I would eventually prevail. Well, at some point, he flat out refused and who could really blame him? Having him not take his vitamins was not acceptable and me being stressed out constantly trying to get him to drink it was also unacceptable, so I started working on getting him to swallow capsules. And it was one of the best things I did. I started him on the tiny Oil of Oregano capsules - one per day - they are smaller than a raisin, but bigger than a tic tac. After a week or so of him being comfortable with him swallowing one of these, I moved up to the smallest regular capsule size and did this until we hit the large fish oil gelcaps. Right now, he swallows 2 of the big ones at a time with no problem whatsoever. This was one of the biggest life changing, freeing moments we had. And there was a visible difference in him going from drinking supplements to swallowing the capsules. So, all that time - how much money were we wasting on supplements that had either no effect or a lesser effect because they were mixed in liquid? Free yourself from the nasty smoothies, shooting syringes down their throats and teach them how to take their supplements. After all, it is something they are going to need to do along with putting on their clothes and shoes.

MLM Schemes
Watch out for MLM (multi-level marketing) schemes and bias from parents involved with them. I have come across warrior parents who are just looking to sell me something, telling me that it “pushed their child into recovery”, that it is the “magic bullet”, etc. And maybe for their child it was what pushed them into recovery - or maybe they would have gotten there without it and it was merely a coincidence. Or maybe it’s just a flat out lie.

I have friends who are representatives/distributors for various supplement companies and I trust them when they tell me that they became a distributor for a product because of how it helped their children/themselves because I know details about their children, their on-going recoveries, etc.

So don’t interpret this as me saying MLM supplements are bad, because that’s not what I am saying. There are a lot of good companies out there. Do your research is all that I am saying – don’t take someone’s word for something just because they are a fellow warrior parent.

Parents getting kick-backs for treatment referals
Don’t let one child’s progress or recovery lead you into spending mega-bucks on a therapy or treatment for your child. I have heard of parents getting kick-backs for referrals, which I am sure were not disclosed to those paying for their child to receive the treatment/therapy.

Do your own research! Don’t blindly follow one parent’s advice
Do your own research. I cannot stress this one enough. Each group, message board, etc. has a parent or parents who seem to be the ones answering all the questions. This does not mean that they 1) have all the answers and 2) have recovered a child anything like yours. So, make note of what they’re telling you - then use that as a direction to start your own research and make your own decisions.

Do not compare biomed progress
Try not to compare your child’s progress (biomedically) to another child. Some children are easier to recover than others. What caused autism for one child may not be the same reason as to why your child has autism. They all have different issues and may recover in different areas at a different pace. What may bring language in one child might bring increased cognitive awareness in another. Also, the level of injury of each child varies, so this needs to be taken into account as well.

Spinning in Circles
Don’t let other parents, who you think are more knowledgeable than you spin you in circles. Your child is your child and you are the only one that knows everything about them. So if you mention you want to research A and they suggest B – make sure you research both A & B – don’t just drop A to run after B because of what they said.

Massive Healing Regressions are Unnecessary
Pushing your child through massive healing regressions constantly is unnecessary in most cases. It’s one thing for them to regress a little when starting anti-fungals, anti-virals, chelation, etc. but it’s completely another story to push them through something that makes you lose a year’s worth of gains in a matter of days. Starting low and going slow is always a good idea. I had pushed Nicholas through a “healing regression” over a year ago and while we saw good things, it was unnecessary to put him (and us) through that and I would never do it again. At the time, I was blinded by all of the progress and new language that came along with the massive regression, so I pushed through, but it was stupid and almost cost me my marriage. Don’t misunderstand what I am saying - sometimes you have to deal with some negatives to get to the positives and sometimes moving forward and getting to the next step means pushing through some regression - which especially happens when starting anti-fungals for the first time. Sometimes you have to deal with a moody, cranky, tantruming, etc. kid for a few days - this is not what I am talking about. What I am referring to is a major, major regression.

Research Tips
As you are researching, make a list of other research you want to do so you can go back to the new subject later. This is helpful in keeping you on task so that you can thoroughly research the area you are on before moving to another. It’s very easy to jump from one thing to another and another and miss a crucial detail that could mean all the difference to your child.

Journal Everything
I cannot stress this enough…. Keep a journal of all things about your child. Include what food they eat, poop, mood, new things they say/do, behaviors, etc. Also be sure to keep a supplement journal noting what supplements were missed, new supplements, changed dosages, etc. You would be surprised how helpful this will be.

The right doctor for your child isn’t necessarily the most expensive DAN doctor
Just because the DAN charges the highest rate doesn’t mean they have the most knowledge - or even the appropriate knowledge to help your particular child. Talk to parents in your area about who the local doctors are that can help - and ask as many parents in your area as possible because everyone has a different experience. And ask the parents questions such as what their child was like before they started with that dr and what they’re like now. Ask how much the doctor contributed to the brainstorming process or if it was mostly the parents. Ask how much knowledge the dr has on supplements and if he/she often made recommendations for their child. Ask if that doctor keeps on top of the current treatments. Ask if the doctor writes prescriptions in between appointments or requires a pricey office/phone visit just to get a refill. Ask the parent what they think that doctors strongest areas are. Ask if the doctor is accessible in case of emergency.

Co-Pilot your child’s recovery with his/her Doctor/DAN
We learned our lesson the hard way with putting our children’s health in the hands of our pediatricians. DAN’s want to help our kids, but that does not mean that they are all knowing. Let’s not forget that all of our children’s issues are unique, so the best way to get the most out of your DAN is to be co-pilots in your child’s treatment. Work WITH your child’s doctor(s) towards recovery. And yes, that includes doing your own research.

And finally….

Don’t wait for recovery for life to start.

Pediatricians call for a choke-proof hot dog
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-22-1Achoke22_ST_N.htm
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY

Nutritionists have long warned of the perils of hot dogs: fat, sodium and preservatives to name a few.
Now, the American Academy of Pediatrics wants foods like hot dogs to come with a warning label — not because of their nutritional risks but because they pose a choking hazard to babies and children.

Better yet, the academy would like to see foods such as hot dogs “redesigned” so their size, shape and texture make them less likely to lodge in a youngster’s throat. More than 10,000 children under 14 go to the emergency room each year after choking on food, and up to 77 die, says the new policy statement, published online today in Pediatrics. About 17% of food-related asphyxiations are caused by hot dogs.

“If you were to take the best engineers in the world and try to design the perfect plug for a child’s airway, it would be a hot dog,” says statement author Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “I’m a pediatric emergency doctor, and to try to get them out once they’re wedged in, it’s almost impossible.”

The Consumer Product Safety Commission requires labels on toys with small parts alerting people not to give them to kids under 3. Yet there are no required warnings on food, though more than half of non-fatal choking episodes involve food, Smith says.

“No parents can watch all of their kids 100% of the time,” Smith says. “The best way to protect kids is to design these risks out of existence.”

Though Smith says he doesn’t know exactly how someone would redesign a hot dog, he’s certain that some savvy inventor will find a way.

Janet Riley, president of the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, supports the academy’s call to better educate parents and caregivers about choking prevention. “Ensuring the safety of the foods we service to children is critically important for us,” Riley says.

But Riley questions whether warning labels are needed. She notes that more than half of hot dogs sold in stores already have choking-prevention tips on their packages, advising parents to cut them into small pieces. “As a mother who has fed toddlers cylindrical foods like grapes, bananas, hot dogs and carrots, I ‘redesigned’ them in my kitchen by cutting them with a paring knife until my children were old enough to manage on their own,” Riley says.

The Food and Drug Administration, which has authority to recall products it considers “unfit for food,” plans to review the new statement, spokeswoman Rita Chappelle says.

Given the health risks of obesity, pediatrician Alan Greene, author of Feeding Baby Green, says, “The last thing we need is to redesign candy and junk food with cool shapes, so we can give them to kids even younger.”

Dr. Steven Novella Makes The Case for Vaccine Autism Link… By Mistake
By J.B. Handley

“Many children are diagnosed between the age of 2 and 3, during the height of the childhood vaccine schedule… The true onset of autism in most ASD children likely began a year or two prior to the vaccines that are blamed as the cause.” WRONG.

Read the rest here:
Dr. Steven Novella Makes The Case for Vaccine Autism Link… By Mistake

David Mihalovic, ND [naturopathic medical doctor]

October 28, 2009

Since the flu pandemic was declared, there have been several so-called “vaccine experts” coming out of the wood work attempting to justify the effectiveness of vaccines. All of them parrot the same ridiculous historical and pseudoscientific perspectives of vaccinations which are easily squelched with the following 9 questions.

Claim: The study of vaccines, their historical record of achievements, effectiveness, safety and mechanism in humans are well understood and proven in scientific and medical circles.
Fact: The claim is completely false.

1. What to ask: Could you please provide one double-blind, placebo-controlled study that can prove the safety and effectiveness of vaccines?

2. What to ask: Could you please provide scientific evidence on ANY study which can confirm the long-term safety and effectiveness of vaccines?

3. What to ask: Could you please provide scientific evidence which can prove that disease reduction in any part of the world, at any point in history was attributable to inoculation of populations?

4. What to ask: Could you please explain how the safety and mechanism of vaccines in the human body are scientifically proven if their pharmacokinetics (the study of bodily absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of ingredients) are never examined or analyzed in any vaccine study?

One of the most critical elements which defines the toxicity potential of any vaccine are its pharmacokinetic properties. Drug companies and health agencies refuse to consider the study, analysis or evaluation of the pharmacokinetic properties of any vaccine.

There is not one double-blind, placebo-controlled study in the history of vaccine development that has ever proven their safety, effectiveness or achievements (unless those achievements have underlined their damage to human health).

There are also no controlled studies completed in any country which have objectively proven that vaccines have had any direct or consequential effect on the reduction of any type of disease in any part of the world.

Every single study that has ever attempted to validate the safety and effectiveness of vaccines has conclusively established carcinogenic, mutagenic, neurotoxic or fertility impairments, but they won’t address those.

Claim: Preservatives and chemical additives used in the manufacture of vaccines are safe and no studies have been linked or proven them unsafe for use in humans.
Fact: The claim is completely false.

5. What to ask: Could you please provide scientific justification as to how injecting a human being with a confirmed neurotoxin is beneficial to human health and prevents disease?

6. What to ask: Can you provide a risk/benefit profile on how the benefits of injecting a known neurotoxin exceeds its risks to human health for the intended goal of preventing disease?

This issue is no longer even open to debate. It is a scientifically established fact in literally hundreds of studies that the preservatives and chemical additives in vaccines damage cells. Neurotoxicity, immune suppression, immune-mediated chronic inflammation and carcinogenic proliferation are just a few of several effects that have been observed on the human body. See a list of chemicals in vaccines

Fortunately, the drug companies still tell us the damage vaccines have on the human body. People just don’t read them. All you have to do is look at the insert for any vaccine, and it will detail the exact ingredients, alerts and potentially lethal effects.

See my latest analysis of the Arepanrix H1N1 vaccine for an example.

Any medical professional who believes that it is justified to inject any type of neurotoxin into any person to prevent any disease is completely misguided, misinformed, deluded and ignorant of any logic regarding human health.

Claim: Once an individual is injected with the foreign antigen in the vaccine, that individual becomes immune to future infections.
Fact: The claim is completely false.

7. What to ask: Could you please provide scientific justification on how bypassing the respiratory tract (or mucous membrane) is advantageous and how directly injecting viruses into the bloodstream enhances immune functioning and prevents future infections?

8. What to ask: Could you please provide scientific justification on how a vaccine would prevent viruses from mutating?

9. What to ask: Could you please provide scientific justification as to how a vaccination can target a virus in an infected individual who does not have the exact viral configuration or strain the vaccine was developed for?

All promoters of vaccination fail to realize that the respiratory tract of humans (actually all mammals) contains antibodies which initiates natural immune responses within the respiratory tract mucosa. Bypassing this mucosal aspect of the immune system by directly injecting viruses into the bloodstream leads to a corruption in the immune system itself. As a result, the pathogenic viruses or bacteria cannot be eliminated by the immune system and remain in the body, where they will further grow and/or mutate as the individual is exposed to ever more antigens and toxins in the environment which continue to assault the immune system.

Despite the injection of any type of vaccine, viruses continue circulating through the body, mutating and transforming into other organisms. The ability of a vaccine manufacturer to target the exact viral strain without knowing its mutagenic properties is equivalent to shooting a gun at a fixed target that has already been moved from its location. You would be shooting at what was, not what is!

Flu viruses, may mutate, change or adapt several times over a period of one flu season, making the seasonal influenza vaccine 100% redundant and ineffective every single flu season. Ironically, the natural immune defenses of the human body can target these changes but the vaccines cannot.

I have never encountered one pro-vaccine advocate, whether medically or scientifically qualified, who could answer even 1 let alone all 9 of these questions. One or all of the following will happen when debating any of the above questions:

- They will concede defeat and admit they are stumped

- They will attempt to discredit unrelated issues that do not pertain to the question.

- They will formulate their response and rebuttal based on historical arguments and scientific studies which have been disproved over and over again. Not one pro-vaccine advocate will ever directly address these questions in an open mainstream venue.

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Dave Mihalovic is a naturopathic medical doctor who specializes in vaccine research, cancer prevention and a natural approach to treatment.

Why Signing a Waiver to Avoid Vaccines Can Be Considered Abuse
by Anai Rhoads Ford

Recently, the Washington Post printed an article about vaccine waivers that could jeopardize your parental rights: “The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that doctors ask parents who refuse to vaccinate their children to sign a waiver indicating they are aware of the risks of refusal.”

Note: Despite that vaccines have been linked to asthma, autism, diabetes, and sudden infant death syndrome, the author implies that parents are being overly theatrical about the shots.

Know Your Rights

By endorsing this particular waiver, parents would essentially be signing an admittance of neglect and/or “abuse” for refusing vaccines. The language contained in this waiver could put parents and caregivers in jeopardy down the line if they should ever find themselves in court due to their child’s health problems, confronted with child protective services, in a divorce, or in just about any matter pertaining to that child that could be used against the parent(s).

Please read any waiver provided by your child’s doctor carefully before signing. Instead, offer a formally written and signed letter that simply says that you do not wish to vaccinate your child. If you are unsure of the language in the waiver, buy some time by telling your doctor that you need to consult with a lawyer before signing it.

Know your rights - say no to vaccines. Your doctor will try to bully you - you have the right to refuse anything you feel is harmful to your child. If your doctor won’t listen, go to another doctor who will.

Check your state’s laws regarding exemption. Most states will allow you to avoid vaccinations if you have a religious or ethical reason. However - keep in mind that it is your right not to disclose your faith or your full reasons for not wanting to vaccinate your child.

Finish reading the rest of the article here:
Why Signing a Waiver to Avoid Vaccines Can Be Considered Abuse

You probably don’t even need to ask, but they won’t be getting any support from me.

icare4autism.org - Do Vaccines Cause Autism?

Here’s a link to google cache to view it there. (I do not know how long deleted pages last on here.)
http://tinyurl.com/icare4autism
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7eILW2WvvbIJ:www.icare4autism.org/2009/08/25/do-vaccines-cause-autism/

icare4autism.org is the website for The International Center for Autism Research & Education, Inc. Clearly the only research they’re interested in has nothing to do with vaccines. You can’t tell me this sat on their website for almost six months without being noticed - and now suddenly, they don’t agree with what this man says. Yeah, okay, right.

Download and Read this bill:2010 Dietary Supplement Safety Bill

How many of your children does this effect? It certainly effects my son and others in our family dependent on their supplements.

Please do not stick your head in the sand on this one - this is way too important to ignore.

Help Stop this legislation. Click one of these links to sign a petition:
https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=510
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2229

If you are on facebook, join the “Stop the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010″ group: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=296387516879&ref=ts

Please take action immediately and sign the petitions. Tell your senators NOT to co-sponsor the detrimental legislation and to do everything in their power to defeat it. Then forward this to your friends and family and ask them to do the same!

Additional Links:
McCain’s Press Release
New Bill Seeks to Ban Consumer Access to Dietary Supplements
Don’t Let McCain & Dorgan GUT DSHEA
Daily Paul: Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010

Just months following the US Court of Federal Claims rejection of the claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism, here you will see data from formal peer refereed medical papers showing that vaccines caused autism in Japanese children and will be doing the same to children around the world. The number of Japanese children developing autism rose and fell in direct proportion to the number of children vaccinated each year.

Click to see graph and finish reading… http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/japvaxautism/

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Just wanted to update you on the statues of the Conscientious Exemption Bill. It has a new number for this new 2 year legislative cycle. The bill is A243 (coincidently, it is the same number as the NJAICV po. box that we have had for 10 years!). It has been pre-filed for this session. We do not yet have a Senate Companion bill, but hope to in the near future.

You can access the bill here: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/BillView.asp not sure if this link takes you right to it, or you have to type in A243

On another positive note, a constituent and I met with Assemblywoman Nellie Pou (Chair of the Appropriations Committee). She spoke with us for over an hour and has agreed to co-sponsor A243. She was quite concerned with how the Public Health Council mandates new vaccines with no accountability and agrees that parents should have a choice. Asw. Pou was also responsible for NOT posting the horrible fluoride bill in her committee, effectively killing it for the last session. (It will most likely rear its head again this session)

I want to encourage all of you to try and set up a meeting with your legislators. It is imperative that a constituent of the district be involved. We will find someone to attend a meeting with you. It seems that 2 people is a good number to go in with as it allows for some good give and take conversation. Expect to be allotted about a half hour for a meeting. You can find out who your legislators are as well as who was a co-sponsor in the last session by going to the NJCVC website www.njvaccinationchoice.org (Click on Sponsor Tally)

Now is a good time to try to schedule meetings as they are not too busy in Trenton yet.

Keep calling the governor, writing letters to the editor and spreading the word among friends. We must stay diligent. Our time as come and we all need to keep the pressure on.

Please keep me posted and send me any questions that you have.

Sue Collins
Co-Founder
New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in Vaccination, NJAICV

“Parents and Individuals Concerned about Vaccine Safety and the Right to Informed Consent”

Science now shows that the amino acid taurine is a helpful tool in supporting the production of insulin and insulin sensitivity – two major issues for any person seeking solutions for blood sugar issues. Generally taurine is thought of as a relaxing nutrient due to its function within your nervous system. It is also a general tonic to your heart.

In an animal model that allows for detailed analysis of the effects of taurine supplementation it was shown that tuarine helped the pancreas produce insulin, improved the expression of genes needed for the metabolism of ingested glucose, and helped insulin receptors in muscles and the liver work better. This is a profound array of support for improved blood sugar metabolism.

Add taurine to the list of nutrients capable of helping individuals with healthier blood sugar metabolism.

Fungal infections occur when your body’s resistance is weakened. With a compromised immune system, fungal infections may be difficult to get rid of and may recur. The best way to deal with fungus is to boost the body’s natural defense against invaders. Beta glucan can do just that. It is natural cure and arguably the best immune system activator ever discovered.

Beta Glucan: An Overview
Beta glucans are naturally occurring long chains of polysaccharides that consist of glucose molecules linked by beta-type glycosidic bonds. They are commonly found in foods like oats, barley, wheat and yeasts, and certain types of mushrooms, including shiitake, reish, and maitake.

Beta Glucan: Immune Booster
Oriental herbalists have known for thousand of years that yeasts and mushrooms have the ability to boost the immune system. In the 1960’s, Dr. Nicholas DiLuzio discovered this immune-activating compound as the long chains of polysaccharides called beta glucan. He discovered it while conducting a follow-up study on the immune activating capability of zymosan, a drug that consists of yeast cell wall materials.

Research in the 1980’s by Dr. Joyce Czop at Harvard University revealed how beta glucan works to enhance the immune system. According to Dr. Czop, beta glucan works by attaching itself to macrophages and stimulates them to produce free radicals. The stimulation signals the immune cells to overcome and destroy foreign substances, including those that cause viral and bacterial infections. The end result is that of an amplified immune response against the “invaders” until they are defeated.

The immune system-enhancing capability of beta glucan is supported by studies conducted at many prestigious universities, including Harvard, Tulane, and the Baylor College of Medicine. In particular, researchers at the Alpha-Beta Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, tried to examine the effects of beta glucan on the human blood. They discovered that beta glucan enhanced the growth of immune cells and triggered the production of free radicals in white blood cells, which in turn enhances the cells’ immune response to foreign bodies. They’ve also established that the cells’ antibacterial and anti-infection capabilities increased with an increase in the beta glucan dose.

Aside from stimulating the immune system, beta glucan is also found to be effective in treating cancers, radiation exposure, ulcers, trauma and infections.

Cure for Fungus
The immune system is the body’s best defense against foreign bodies. Fungi are essentially foreign bodies that live in and outside the body. Those that are found inside the body usually don’t cause harm as the immune system keeps their growth in check. Hence, the best way to protect ourselves from fungus and fungal infection is by keeping a healthy immune system.

A weakened immune system allows fungi to grow unchecked and cause infection. Beta glucan can help the body fight off these infections simply by stimulating the immune cells’ foreign-body-killing capabilities and helping prevent the infection from coming back.

Research conducted at the State University of São Paulo in Brazil provides evidence of the effectiveness of beta glucan in resisting and treating fungal infections. The study tested the response of nine patients with serious fungal infections to a weekly intravenous dosage of beta glucan for one month; then it was given once a month for a period of 11 months. After a year, the researchers found lower residual traces of the infection in the test subjects’ blood.

Beta Glucan Sources
The foremost sources of beta glucan are yeast, mushrooms, barley and oats. Beta glucan derived from yeasts and mushrooms show greater support for immune system functions, while beta glucan derived from barley and oats are excellent sources of dietary fiber that help in lowering levels of cholesterol.

A Study published in the journal Gut identified that corn gluten caused an inflammatory reaction in patients with celiac disease.

“The observation that corn gluten challenge induced an abnormal NO reaction in some of our patients with CD is intriguing as maize is considered safe and is recommended as the substitute cereal in a gluten free diet.”
Source:

Gut. 2005; 54:769-774.

Gluten Free Society’s Stance
Corn is a grain. Corn has gluten. Many believe that corn gluten does not induce damage the same way that wheat, barley, and rye do. The fact of the matter is, gluten has not been studied adequately. Most of what we know about celiac disease and gluten have to do with gliadin (the gluten found in wheat only). As a physician with 10 years of experience treating gluten sensitivity, I have seen corn be a severe problem for the majority of gluten intolerant patients. Many claim that they don’t react to corn and feel fine after eating it. The same can be said of those with silent celiac disease. Remember that a lack of symptoms does not mean that internal damage is not occurring. All of that being said, we should not make assumptions. Common sense and intelligent thought should be used as a basis for our dietary decisions. Gluten aside, consider the following about corn:

1.It is the second most commonly genetically modified food on the planet (soy is #1)
2.Genetic modification of foods continues to kill animals in scientific studies.
3.It is an incomplete protein.
4.It is difficult for humans to digest (ever see corn in your stool?)
5.It is high in calories and low in nutrient value
6.It is a new food to the human genome.
7.It is being used as a staple food for our cattle, fish, chicken, and cars.
8.Cows and fish are not designed to eat grain. (Have you ever seen a fish jump out of a lake into a corn field for supper?)
9.When animals eat corn as a staple they have shorter life spans.
10.Corn fed beef is linked to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and obesity. Grass fed beef is not.
11.Fructose derived from corn is toxic to the liver and contributes to severe health issues.
12.Corn syrup has mercury in it.
13.The list can go on and on and on…
Many consumers bow to the alter of “Gluten Free” packaged foods as if the label is a safety net. ”Gluten Free” on the package does not mean that the food is healthy. Do not deny yourself the God given right to be healthy.

Remember, corn has gluten. The gluten in corn has not been adequately studied. Many studies to date have shown that corn induces inflammatory damage in those with gluten sensitivity. Almost half of all celiac patients don’t get better on a wheat, rye, and barley free diet. Is their a link between corn and refractory celiac disease? At this point in time we do not know for sure, but 10 years of clinical experience with gluten intolerant patients reacting to corn is enough data for me.

Much more to come on corn…Stay tuned!

Randi Allaire was an Information Management Specialist in the military for almost four years. Three and one-half years were spent with the Air National Guard as Information Management, the previous five and half was with the Army Guard as a Flight Operations Specialist.

As part of the military’s program to protect their troops from chemical and biological weapons, Randi was required to take the anthrax vaccine. On March 14, 1999 she was given her fourth anthrax vaccine. It was after that shot that she has suffered chronic fatigue, memory lapses, migraines, pain in the forearms, and other aches and pains. She received no help with her condition and only denials that the anthrax vaccine could cause any of these problems and that the cause of her problems was likely the “flu” or too much “stress”. She was eventually thrown out of the military because she refused to take the fifth anthrax vaccine shot in fear for her own personal health.

Aluminum is the most commonly licensed adjuvant that is added to a large number of vaccines. An adjuvant is a substance added to a vaccine to amplify the immune response. Aluminum compounds, which were identified over 90 years ago as adjuvants, are considered by the pharmaceutical industry and various government agencies as safe. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has continued to approve the use of aluminum as an additive to vaccines for many years.

Despite these assurances that aluminum and all vaccine ingredients are safe, large numbers of military veterans who suffer from Gulf War Syndrome as well as parents of children who suffer from various neurologic conditions including Autism strongly believe that the vaccines were often at least in part a cause of their health problems.

A recent study in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry examined the possible neurotoxicity of aluminum. This new work builds on a previous study where the researchers had injected mice with a combination of aluminum and squalene, another vaccine adjuvant which is not licensed in North America.
In that study the investigators injected mice with adjuvants that mimicked the anthrax vaccine schedule set by the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program. The investigators concluded in that study”our data suggest that the aluminum hydroxide adjuvant induces both behavioral and motor deficits and the loss of motor neurons and increased presence of astrocytes [astrocytes are cells that express inflammatory markers] in spinal cord and neuronal apoptosis [cell death] in the primary motor cortex.” When Professor Shaw was asked in an article by Pieta Wooley about this research Professor Shaw replied “No one in my lab wants to get vaccinated. This totally creeped us out. We weren’t out there to poke holes in vaccines. But all of a sudden, oh my God-we’ve got neuron death!”

In this new study (also termed experiment 2), mice received 6 aluminum hydroxide injections over a 2 week period. These mice along with control mice were subjected to a more rigorous behavioral testing regime than the original experiment.

The investigators found “the multiple aluminum hydroxide injections of experiment 2 showed profound effects on motor and other behaviours… Multiple aluminum injections produced significant behavioural outcomes including changes in locomotion behavior, and induced memory deficits on water maze tasks.”

I asked Professor Shaw “To your knowledge have there been any autopsies performed on service men and women that had GWS [Gulf War Syndrome] and have died to examine if they have a similar pattern of aluminum contamination that you discovered in your research?” He responded “that it has not been done to my knowledge.” I also asked “Has there been an examination of people with autism to examine the obvious likely link between aluminum and mercury contamination and that condition?” Again he responded “Not to my knowledge.”

It is important to note that while this and their previous study showed “significant behavioural and neuropathological outcomes with aluminum hydroxide” that these results were achieved under minimal conditions and that the effect of multiple other factors in real situation such as “stress, multiple vaccinations, and exposure to other toxins” would more than likely make the outcomes worse. “A recent study examining some of these factors in combination showed that stress, vaccination, and pyridostigmine bromide (Pyridostigmine bromide has been FDA approved for military use during combat situations as an agent to be given prior to exposure to the nerve agent Soman in order to increase survival), may synergistically act on multiple stress-activated kinases in the brain to induce neurologic impairment in GWS.”

I asked Professor Shaw, “In your opinion why do various governmental agencies continue to insist that vaccines are safe when you clearly state in your research paper that ‘it also seems that there have been no rigorous animal studies of potential aluminum adjuvant toxicity. The absence of such studies is peculiar given the well known observation that aluminum in general can be neurotoxic under a number of conditions and adjuvants in particular have previously been implicated in neurological disease’?” Professor Shaw replied “A less charitable person than I would likely look at links between pharma and the regulatory agencies. I don’t know of any safe adjuvants. Aluminum is the one considered ‘safe’.”

The authors conclude, “Overall, the results reported here mirror previous work that has clearly demonstrated that aluminum, in both oral and injected forms, can be neurotoxic.” I followed up with Professor Shaw “knowing what you know about aluminum from your research would you personally use a vaccine that contains aluminum?” He responded “No, and I don’t.”

The following vaccines (vaccine name/trade name, manufacturer, and information from the product insert) contain aluminum adjuvant:

Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed/Biothrax, Emergent BioDefense Operations Lansing, Inc., “The final product is formulated to contain 1.2 mg/mL aluminum, added as aluminum hydroxide in 0.85% sodium chloride.”

Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids Adsorbed, Sanofi Pasteur Inc, “Each 0.5 mL dose is formulated to contain 6.7 Lf of diphtheria toxoid, 5 Lf of tetanus toxoid, and not more than 0.17 mg of aluminum.”

Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids & Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed/Tripedia, Sanofi Pasteur, Inc., “Each 0.5 mL dose also contains, by assay, not more than 0.170 mg of aluminum and not more than 100 ?g (0.02%) of residual formaldehyde.”

Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids & Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed/Infanrix, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, “Each 0.5-mL dose contains 4.5 mg of NaCl and aluminum adjuvant (not more than 0.625 mg aluminum by assay). Each dose also contains ?100 mcg of residual formaldehyde and ?100 mcg of polysorbate 80 (Tween 80).”

Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids & Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed/DAPTACEL, Sanofi Pasteur, Ltd., “Other ingredients per 0.5 mL dose include 1.5 mg aluminum phosphate (0.33 mg of aluminum) as the adjuvant, ?5 ?g residual formaldehyde, <50 ng residual glutaraldehyde and 3.3 mg (0.6% v/v) 2-phenoxyethanol (not as a preservative).”

Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed, Hepatitis B (Recombinant) and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine Combined/Pediarix, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, “Each 0.5-mL dose also contains 4.5 mg of NaCl and aluminum adjuvant (not more than 0.85 mg aluminum by assay). Each dose also contains ?100 mcg of residual formaldehyde and ?100 mcg of polysorbate 80 (Tween 80).”

Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine/Kinrix, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, “Each 0.5-mL dose contains 4.5 mg of NaCl and aluminum adjuvant (not more than 210 0.6 mg aluminum by assay). Each dose also contains ?100 mcg of residual formaldehyde and 211 ?100 mcg of polysorbate 80 (Tween 80).”

Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed, Inactivated Poliovirus and Haemophilus b Conjugate (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate) Vaccine/Pentacel, Sanofi Pasteur, Ltd, “Other ingredients per 0.5 mL dose include 1.5 mg aluminum phosphate (0.33 mg aluminum) as the adjuvant, polysorbate 80 (approximately 10 ppm by calculation), ?5 ?g residual formaldehyde, <50 ng residual glutaraldehyde, ?50 ng residual bovine serum albumin, 3.3 mg (0.6% v/v) 2-phenoxyethanol (not as a preservative) and <4 pg of neomycin and <4 pg polymyxin B sulfate. ”

Haemophilus b Conjugate (Meningococcal Protein Conjugate) and Hepatitis B (Recombinant) Vaccine/Comvax, Merck & Co, Inc, “The individual PRP-OMPC and HBsAg adjuvanted bulks are combined to produce COMVAX. Each 0.5 mL dose of COMVAX is formulated to contain 7.5 mcg PRP conjugated to approximately 125 mcg OMPC, 5 mcg HBsAg, approximately 225 mcg aluminum as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, and 35 mcg sodium borate (decahydrate) as a pH stabilizer, in 0.9% sodium chloride. The vaccine contains not more than 0.0004% (w/v) residual formaldehyde.”

Hepatitis A Vaccine, Inactivated/Havrix, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, “Each 1-mL adult dose of vaccine consists of 1440 EL.U. of viral antigen, adsorbed on 0.5 mg of aluminum as aluminum hydroxide. Each 0.5-mL pediatric dose of vaccine consists of 720 EL.U. of viral antigen, adsorbed onto 0.25 mg of aluminum as aluminum hydroxide.”

Hepatitis A Vaccine, Inactivated/VAQTA, Merck & Co, Inc, “Pediatric/Adolescent Formulation (12 Months Through 18 Years of Age): each 0.5 mL dose contains approximately 25U of hepatitis A virus antigen adsorbed onto approximately 0.225 mg of aluminum provided as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, and 35 mcg of sodium borate as a pH stabilizer, in 0.9% sodium chloride. Adult Formulation (19 Years of Age and Older): each 1 mL dose contains approximately 50U of hepatitis A virus antigen adsorbed onto approximately 0.45 mg of aluminum provided as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, and 70 mcg of sodium borate as a pH stabilizer, in 0.9% sodium chloride.”

Hepatitis A Inactivated & Hepatitis B (Recombinant) Vaccine/Twinrix, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, “A 1.0-mL dose of vaccine contains 720 ELISA Units of inactivated hepatitis A virus and 20 mcg of recombinant HBsAg protein. One dose of vaccine also contains 0.45 mg of aluminum in the form of aluminum phosphate and aluminum hydroxide as adjuvants, amino acids, 5.0 mg 2-phenoxyethanol as a preservative, sodium chloride, phosphate buffer, polysorbate 20, Water for Injection, traces of formalin (not more than 0.1 mg), a trace amount of thimerosal (<1 mcg mercury) from the manufacturing process, and residual MRC-5 cellular proteins (not more than 2.5 mcg).”

Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant)/Engerix-B, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, “Pediatric/Adolescent: Each 0.5-mL dose contains 10 mcg of hepatitis B surface antigen adsorbed on 0.25 mg aluminum as aluminum hydroxide. The pediatric formulation contains sodium chloride (9 mg/mL) and phosphate buffers (disodium phosphate dihydrate, 0.98 mg/mL; sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate, 0.71 mg/mL). Adult: Each 1-mL adult dose contains 20 mcg of hepatitis B surface antigen adsorbed on 0.5 mg aluminum as aluminum hydroxide. The adult formulation contains sodium chloride (9 mg/mL) and phosphate buffers (disodium phosphate dihydrate, 0.98 mg/mL; sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate, 0.71 mg/mL).”

Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant)/Recombivax HB, Merck & Co, Inc, “All formulations contain approximately 0.5 mg of aluminum (provided as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, previously referred to as aluminum hydroxide) per mL of vaccine. In each formulation, hepatitis B surface antigen is adsorbed onto approximately 0.5 mg of aluminum (provided as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate) per mL of vaccine.”

Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) Vaccine, Recombinant/Gardasil, Merck & Co, Inc, “Each 0.5-mL dose of the vaccine contains approximately 225 mcg of aluminum (as Amorphous Aluminum Hydroxyphosphate Sulfate adjuvant), 9.56 mg of sodium chloride, 0.78 mg of L-histidine, 50 mcg of polysorbate 80, 35 mcg of sodium borate, < 7 mcg yeast protein/dose, and water for injection. The product does not contain a preservative or antibiotics."

Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine, Inactivated, Adsorbed (Military & Commercial)/Ixiaro, Merck & Co, Inc, "Each dose of vaccine contains approximately 6 mcg of purified, inactivated JEV proteins and 250 mcg of aluminum hydroxide."

Pneumococcal 7-valent Conjugate Vaccine (Diphtheria CRM197 Protein)/Prevnar, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc, "Each 0.5 mL dose is formulated to contain: 2 ?g of each saccharide for serotypes 4, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F, and 23F, and 4 ?g of serotype 6B per dose (16 ?g total saccharide); approximately 20 ?g of CRM197 carrier protein; and 0.125 mg of aluminum per 0.5 mL dose as aluminum phosphate adjuvant."

Tetanus & Diphtheria Toxoids, Adsorbed for Adult Use, Massachusetts Public Health Biologic Lab, "Each 0.5 ml dose contains by calculation not more than 0.45 mg aluminum and less than 100 ?g (0.02%) of residual formaldehyde. The aluminum phosphate functions as an adjuvant to increase the immunogenicity of the toxoids in primary immunization."

Tetanus & Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed for Adult Use/DECAVAC, Sanofi Pasteur, Inc, "Each 0.5 mL dose also contains a trace amount of thimerosal [mercury derivative, (?0.3 ?g mercury/dose) not as a preservative] from the manufacturing process, aluminum adjuvant (not more than 0.28 mg aluminum by assay), and not more than 100 ?g (0.02%) of residual formaldehyde."

Tetanus Toxoid Adsorbed, Sanofi Pasteur, Inc, "Each 0.5 mL dose is formulated to contain 5 Lf (flocculation units) of tetanus toxoid and not more than 0.25 mg of aluminum. The residual formaldehyde content, by assay, is less than 0.02%."

Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine, Adsorbed/Adacel, Sanofi Pasteur, Ltd, "Other ingredients per dose include 1.5 mg aluminum phosphate (0.33 mg aluminum) as the 15 adjuvant, ?5 ?g residual formaldehyde, <50 ng residual glutaraldehyde and 3.3 mg (0.6% v/v) 16 2-phenoxyethanol (not as a preservative)."

Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine, Adsorbed/ Boostrix, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, "Each 0.5-mL dose also contains 4.5 mg of NaCl, aluminum adjuvant (not more than 0.39 mg aluminum by assay), ?100 mcg of residual formaldehyde, and ?100 mcg of polysorbate 80 (Tween 80)."

Read the rest here:
Study clearly demonstrates that aluminum found in vaccines can cause neurologic damage

http://www.hbo.com/#/movies/temple-grandin

When you’re done watching Temple Grandin on HBO, make sure you watch this as well..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wt1IY3ffoU

http://www.refresheverything.com/usofautism

http://www.tommyland.org/newsletter/pepsi.html

Much has happened in the last few weeks surrounding Andrew Wakefield, and I have not been available to write about it. It has been truly frustrating to see this story reported as if the GMC hearing was legit and The Lancet as if it was a respectable and unbiased publication, rather than the dog fight between corporate interests and safety advocates that it actually is. Was the fact that 21 autism organizations in the US and UK filed perjury charges against the head of the Lancet for lying about Wakefield’s disclosures of his conflicts in the GMC hearing not relevant to the fact that the Lancet retracted Wakefield’s article the following week? Apparently the press didn’t think so.

Also fascinating that they have tried to portray Wakefield as the guy that invented the autism/vaccine connection, despite the fact that Leo Kanner reported that one of his first 11 cases in the 1940’s was a regression following a smallpox vaccine, the VCIP has been paying autism cases for 25 years, and I first heard about the connection in my undergrad psych program in 1988 at George Mason University, so that they can use this GMC hearing to declare the vaccine controversy over. (I have forty or so studies on my “no evidence of any link” page supporting the vaccine/autism connection and I have never even had Wakefield’s MMR paper up there.

Keep reading here…. this is a must read…
Anatomy of a Witch Hunt
February 12, 2010

The UK’s General Medical Council issued formal written advice to UK medical doctors to commit fraud on the UK’s National Health Service for personal financial gain.

If UK doctors met target levels for vaccinations they qualified for bonus payments. One way of claiming was to make a false return. The GMC’s advice was for doctors to file false returns of the numbers of patients who had received the MMR vaccine. Doctors were advised to take unvaccinated child patients off the patient list temporarily to claim the bonuses but also to ensure the parent agreed, [thereby implicating parents in the fraud].

The GMC is the UK statutory body established to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine by medical doctors. Dishonesty, financial impropriety and fraud fall within its purview [in more ways than one it would seem].

This is the same organisation which recently found Professors Walker-Smith, Simon Murch and Dr Andrew Wakefield guilty of numerous charges filed by Sunday Times’ journalist Brian Deer. No parent complained and the doctors enjoy wide support amongst parents of many autistic children they did their best to help. Other doctors who have refused to toe the UK’s Department of Health line on medical practice have found themselves facing or threatened with proceedings by the GMC including amongst many others these four cases: UK’s GMC, Dr Jayne Donegan’s Story, Vaccines & MMR – - Dr Sarah Myhill – - Dr Peter Mansfield – - Dr. Barry Durrant-Peatfield.

So if it concerns getting MMR vaccine uptake up to help the drug industry, fraud is fine. But make sure you implicate the parents and what better way to do that than to pressure them into agreeing their children become temporary patients possibly for emergency treatment only or else be dumped from the patient roster completely. But if you raise valid concerns about the safety of vaccinations watch out.

The GMC is independent (allegedly) of the NHS and of Government but in practice is run and controlled by the UK medical heirarchy. Where the GMC finds that a doctor is not fit to practise, it has legal power to erase that doctor’s name from the medical register, to suspend the doctor from the register or to place conditions on the doctor’s practice. These restrictions apply to practice in any sector of employment in any part of the UK.

The GMC has a great notoriety in the UK with frequent calls for it to be abolished.

The GMC Formal Advice to Doctors to Commit Fraud
The GMC posed the question “Can GPs remove some children from their lists, temporarily, for the purpose of calculating the MMR target payment?” in an article entitled “Target Payments for Preventive Health Measures” first published in GMC News in June 2003.

And the GMC’s answer was effectively “it’s OK provided you have patient consent“. It seems it also happens to be OK if it helps to increase the MMR uptake figures. The advice was not offered for other vaccinations.

The GMC also failed to make mention of the financial and moral impropriety of doing so in their answer to the question they themselves posed:-

This must not be done without the parents’ agreement. Parents must be given a full explanation of what was proposed and why, their child’s rights as an NHS patient, and the implications for their child’s future care. Doctors working within the NHS must treat all patients entitled to NHS services on an equal footing. So temporarily removing a child from a GPs list must not adversely affect their care, for example in accessing secondary care and out-of-hours services, or in providing relevant information to ensure continuity of care and allow effective working with other agencies. Doctors must act honestly in their financial dealings. So GPs must ensure that any arrangement to remove a child from their list and re-register them for ‘immediately necessary treatment’, or on some other basis, would be in line with their contractual obligations to the NHS.“

So provided the doctor does what the GMC advises and ensures “that any arrangement … would be in line with their contractual obligations to the NHS” it is fine as “Doctors must act honestly in their financial dealings“.

All this is of course barking mad.

The GMC also advised that if the evidence is available this is not contrary to GMC guidance on good medical practice:-

“Are temporary removals from a GPs list acceptable to the GMC? In the absence of evidence that ‘temporary removals’ satisfy the concerns outlined at Q5, we cannot give any reassurance that such arrangements would be seen as consistent with our guidance on good practice.“

The conflict with the GMC’s other advice is clear. The GMC advised UK doctors “must not ask for or accept any inducement, gift or hospitality which may affect or be seen to affect the way you prescribe for, treat or refer patients.“: Conflicts of interest – guidance for doctors

But it seems the GMC do not mind when it comes to MMR, even where the inducement is so strong it encourages fraud on the NHS. But then, the GMC did not seem to mind about that either.

Ironically “GMC Today” newsletter carried a story titled “Is the NHS immune to fraud?” [Oct 2005] about reducing and reporting fraud in the National Health Service, stating:-

Most people who work in and use the NHS are honest, but there is a minority that tries to defraud it of its valuable resources. By working to reduce fraud and corruption to an absolute minimum and hold it there permanently, the NHS CFSMS can release these resources for better patient care. In the largest organisation in Europe, even a small proportion of fraudulent staff and patients has a huge impact. Fraud is committed by a range of NHS professionals, who might claim for work not undertaken, alter prescriptions, create ghost patients or make fraudulent claims for out of hours visits, advice not given or treatment not provided. In some areas, claims by NHS professionals fell by between 43% and 54% after processes were fraud-proofed.

It is now accepted that even the NHS is not immune to fraud.

The GMC has an agreement on cooperating and coordinating with the NHS Counter Fraud service. The story gave a number to call the confidential NHS Fraud and Corruption Reporting Line and an email address too. It reports:-

“If you have a concern about a fraud taking place within the NHS, please call the confidential NHS Fraud and Corruption Reporting Line on 0800 028 40 60. All calls will be dealt with by trained staff and professionally investigated. Lines are open Monday to Friday 8 am–6 pm. You can also email us at nhsfraud@cfsms.nhs.uk at any time.” Memorandum of Understanding between the General Medical Council (GMC) and the National Health Service Counter Fraud Service (NHS CFS)

We had not got the heart to tell ‘em. Would you?

When Was This?
When this news was published by The OneClickGroup in October 2007 the GMC’s response was to claim the advice was withdrawn in 2006. But the fact the advice was published at all is damning. Not only that, the advice continued to be published on the GMC website as late as 7th October 2007 with no indication to doctors it had been withdrawn.

After The OneClickGroup’s exposée the GMC removed the page containing the advice from its website and republished the advice but with a banner across it claiming “Withdrawn November 2006?: Target Payments for Preventive Health Measures.

Additionally, the advice was published for over 4 years from June 2003 until October 2007 [just about the time the GMC was ready to attack Wakefield, Walker-Smith and Murch].

Who Ran The GMC Then?
The President when the advice was first published until 2009 was Sir Graeme Catto – also incumbent when the GMC started the proceedings against Walker-Smith, Murch and Wakefield.

So it just goes to show, you cannot trust anyone in “authority” these days.

Anyone wanting to make a complaint to the GMC? Here is where you do it:-

Making a complaint
But don’t hold your breath waiting.

Sir Graeme’s email address and contact details at The University of Aberdeen are found here:-

http://vcs.abdn.ac.uk/medicine_therapeutics/staff/SirGraemeCatto.shtml

[But probably not for much longer!]

New York (CNN) — More than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York, many of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, have been sickened with mumps since August, health authorities said Monday.

Orange County, New York, has confirmed 494 cases since early November, county spokesman Richard Mayfield told CNN. Almost all of those infected with the virus are of the Orthodox or Hasidic Jewish population, and their average age is 14, he said.

Neighboring Rockland County has confirmed 317 cases since August, with all of the sick from the Orthodox Jewish community, said Kathleen Henry, county Deputy Commissioner of Health. Their average is 14 to 18, she said.

Just south of the two counties, in New York City, Brooklyn had 79 confirmed cases of mumps as of October 30, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in November. Any confirmation of other infections in the city are expected to be announced Tuesday.

The mumps outbreak began at a summer camp for Orthodox Jewish boys in Sullivan County, New York, according to the CDC. Health officials have linked the outbreak to an 11-year-old boy at the camp. He had recently returned from the United Kingdom, where a mumps outbreak had spread to 4,000 people.

The mumps outbreak also spread to Ocean County, New Jersey, where 159 confirmed cases have been diagnosed since September, county spokeswoman Leslie Terjesen told CNN. An additional 70 others are suspected of having mumps, she said.

Only seven of the infected are not Orthodox Jewish, but they all had exposure to the community, Terjesen said. The average age of the sick is 21, she said.

Lakewood, New Jersey, Rabbi Yehunda Pirutinsky was surprised when his 14-year-old son was diagnosed with mumps a week ago. Lakewood is in Ocean County.

“He was completely vaccinated,” Pirutinsky said. “So it was a surprise to us he came down with mumps.”

Anyone fully vaccinated from mumps receives two doses of the vaccine, according to the CDC. Of the New Jersey cases, 77 percent were vaccinated, Terjesen said.

But the vaccine is not 100 percent effective, according to the CDC. At two doses, the vaccine is 76 to 95 percent effective, the CDC says on its Web site.

In November, the CDC called the spike in mumps cases, “the largest U.S. mumps outbreak since 2006, when the United States experienced a resurgence of mumps with 6,584 reported cases.” Then, only 179 people were sickened in New York and New Jersey.

Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus, according to the CDC. Initial symptoms appear 12 to 25 days after infection and include fever, headache, muscle aches and loss of appetite. Mumps can cause the jaw and cheeks to swell, with further complications including the inflammation of the brain, testicles or ovaries, and deafness, according to the CDC.

Pirutinsky’s son has fully recovered from his bout with mumps, which Pirutinsky assumes he contracted while at his Jewish high school. A doctor advised the teenager to not attend school for a week and limit time with his siblings, Pirutinsky said.

The outbreak has disproportionately affected Orthodox Jewish communities, but Pirutinsky said he wasn’t overly worried.

“I wouldn’t say the community is alarmed, but it’s something we’re aware of,” he said.

Ajinomoto brands aspartame AminoSweet

Ajinomoto has unveiled a new brand name for its aspartame sweetener which draws on its origin from amino acids.

Aspartame has been approved as a sweetener in Europe for some 25 years, and is used across food and beverage categories in products marketed as low calorie or sugar-free. Its reputation has been clouded somewhat by some negative perceptions amongst consumers and some studies that have investigated reports of ill-effects – despite regulatory and scientific authorities finding no just cause to reassess its status.

On announcing at FiE last week that its aspartame will now be called AminoSweet, Ajinomoto said it “believes that the time is right to remind people that aspartame is made from two amino acids and brings absolutely nothing new to the diet, just sweetness without the calories”.

Los Angeles, February 5, 2010

Dr. Andrew Wakefield is being discredited to prevent an historic study from being published that for the first time looks at vaccinated versus unvaccinated primates and compares health outcomes, with potentially devastating consequences for vaccine makers and public health officials.

It is our most sincere belief that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign engineered by vaccine manufacturers reporting on the retraction of a paper published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues.

The retraction from The Lancet was a response to a ruling from England’s General Medical Council, a kangaroo court where public health officials in the pocket of vaccine makers served as judge and jury. Dr. Wakefield strenuously denies all the findings of the GMC and plans a vigorous appeal.

Despite rampant misreporting, Dr. Wakefield’s original paper regarding 12 children with severe bowel disease and autism never rendered any judgment whatsoever on whether or not vaccines cause autism, and The Lancet’s retraction gets us no closer to understanding this complex issue.

Dr. Wakefield is one of the world’s most respected and well-published gastroenterologists. He has published dozens of papers since 1998 in well-regarded peer-reviewed journals all over the world. His work documenting the bowel disease of children with autism and his exploration of novel ways to treat bowel disease has helped relieve the pain and suffering of thousands of children with autism.

For the past decade, parents in our community have been clamoring for a relatively simple scientific study that could settle the debate over the possible role of vaccines in the autism epidemic once and for all: compare children who have been vaccinated with children who have never received any vaccines and see if the rate of autism is different or the same.

Few people are aware that this extremely important work has not only begun, but that a study using an animal model has already been completed exploring this topic in great detail.

Dr. Wakefield is the co-author, along with eight other distinguished scientists from institutions like the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Washington, of a set of studies that explore the topic of vaccinated versus unvaccinated neurological outcomes using monkeys.

The first phase of this monkey study was published three months ago in the prestigious medical journal Neurotoxicology, and focused on the first two weeks of life when the vaccinated monkeys received a single vaccine for Hepatitis B, mimicking the U.S. vaccine schedule. The results, which you can read for yourself HERE, were disturbing. Vaccinated monkeys, unlike their unvaccinated peers, suffered the loss of many reflexes that are critical for survival.

Dr. Wakefield and his scientific colleagues are on the brink of publishing their entire study, which followed the monkeys through the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule over a multi-year period. It is our understanding that the difference in outcome for the vaccinated monkeys versus the unvaccinated controls is both stark and devastating.

There is no question that the publication of the monkey study will lend substantial credibility to the theory that over-vaccination of young children is leading to neurological damage, including autism. The fallout from the study for vaccine makers and public health officials could be severe. Having denied the possibility of the vaccine-autism connection for so long while profiting immensely from a recent boom in vaccine sales around the world, it’s no surprise that they would seek to repress this important work.

Behind the scenes, the pressure to keep the work of Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues from being published is immense, and growing every day. Medical journals take extreme risk of backlash in publishing any studies that question the safety of the vaccination program, no matter how well-designed and thorough the research might be. Neurotoxicology, a highly-respected medical journal, deserves great credit for courageously publishing the first phase of this vaccinated monkey study.

The press has been deeply misled in the way The Lancet retraction, and Dr. Wakefield’s mock trial, have been characterized. Led by the pharmaceutical companies and their well-compensated spokespeople, Dr. Wakefield is being vilified through a well-orchestrated smear campaign designed to prevent this important new work from seeing the light of day.

What medical journal would want to step in front of this freight train? Moreover, why now, after 12 years of inaction, did The Lancet and GMC suddenly act? Is it coincidence that the monkey study is currently being submitted to medical journals for review and publication?

We urge the media to take a close look at the first phase of the monkey study discussed above and to start asking a very simple question: What was the final outcome of the 14 primates that were vaccinated using the U.S. vaccine schedule and how did that compare to the unvaccinated controls?

The U.S. vaccine schedule has grown from 10 vaccines given to our children in the 1980s to 36 today, perfectly matching the dramatic rise in autism. The work of Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues deserves to be shared with the world to further, rather than censor, scientific progress.

Changes since the last update are:

It looks as though the aminos he was taking may have been responsible for his weight gain - so I have removed these: Metabolic Maintenance Amino Blend, Acetyl-L-Carntine and L-Carnosine

Started BioRay’s Cytoflora

Vitamins & Minerals
Lee Silsby ASD Pure Vitamin/Mineral formula - 6 Capsules per day
MB-12 Injections
BioTech Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) - 5000 IU
Swanson Vitamin E Mixed Tocopherols - 800 IU
Klaire’s Micellized vitamin A - 5 drops per day
Swanson’s Triple Magnesium Complex - 1 cap per day
AMLA - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson Vitamin C - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson Biotin - 5mg caps

Omega Fish Oil / Cod Liver Oil / Essential Oils & Fatty Acids
Nordic Naturals Complete Omega 3-6-9 - 3 gelcaps

Probiotics & Prebiotics
Culturelle - 2 capsules per day
Klaire Detox Probiotic - 2 capsules per day
Bioray Cytoflora - 5 dropperfuls twice per day

Amino Acids
none given at this time

Anti-fungals & Anti-bacterials, Anti-Virals, yeast-fighting, etc.
Enhansa from Lee Silsby - 1800mg per day — give No-Fenol with Enhansa if child has phenol issues (red cheeks/ears)

Enzymes
Houston Nutraceuticals No Phenol - given with Enhansa only now
Houston Nutraceuticals Tri-Enza - with meals

For the liver
Liver life (2 dropperfuls per day)

For constipation
Oxypowder - (to keep his bowels moving) - only as needed (this stuff is fantastic!)

Other
4Life Transfer Factor Tri-Factor Formula – 200mg – 2 capsules 3x per day
Georges Always Active 100% Aloe Vera - about 2-4 ounces per day
Integrative Therapeudics Inc UBQH Patented Stabilized Reduced Ubiquinol - 100mg 1 cap per day

On Thursday, January 28th 2010, The GMC,General Medical Council, will release their finding in the professional misconduct charges filed against Dr. Andrew Wakefield and Professors John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch. While the verdict is days away, I don’t think anyone personally affected by the autism / vaccine connection is incredibly optimistic regarding this outcome. If you are, then you need to remove your rose-colored glasses and take a reality pill.

While many of us here in the U.S. that are closely involved in the autism community know of Dr. Wakefield’s work and are subsequently thankful for his truthfulness at the risk of his own professional reputation, we are also very cognizant of the corruption in all of our governments. The British government has proven themselves time and time again to be more corrupt than that of the U.S. (as hard as that may be for many of us to believe here in America) so we must be prepared for the worst case scenario as we hope for the best.

The British government, medical establishment and the Press have spent countless years and British pounds in what we know to be the “witch hunt” of the twenty-first century. To think that they will all of the sudden allow this case to come to fruition without serious consequences brought on these brave researchers, is an issue that must be addressed. I am hopeful that justice will prevail. I am hopeful that Brian Deer, the British free-lance journalist that has been the catalyst of the damaging charges against the doctors, will hang his head in shame at the verdict. But we must be prepared for the worst.

Read the rest here: http://www.autismtodayonline.com/2010/autism/will-there-be-justice/

Americans eat 156 pounds of sugar per person per year. How did this happen and how concerned should we be?

Want to gross yourself out? Imagine eating eight teaspoons of sugar straight out of the bag. Yeek, right? That’s how much sugar is in a can of Coke. A Grande Vanilla Starbucks Frappuccino has 11. A McDonald’s Strawberry Triple Thick Shake has 27.

Keep reading here: http://www.alternet.org/story/145367/is_eating_sugar_really_that_bad_for_us

Your Body Within One Hour of Drinking Soda
http://www.drmomma.org/2008/01/your-body-within-1-hour-of-drinking.html
I have to admit, as a former teacher, I used to cringe when I saw the amounts of soda my students could put away in a day. We may as well have installed a soda pop fountain instead of the water fountain. Later, as I worked with parents of infants, I almost choked on a bite of lunch one day to see a baby’s bottle filled with Coke. Since that memorable day, I have met others who regularly purchase Pepsi for their tots and think nothing of it when they stock the fridge with Mt. Dew.

One thing I know for sure: soda in no way benefits your baby, your child (or you!)

According to the Nutrition Research Center, this is what happens to your body within 1 hour of drinking a can of soda:

-10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system, which is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake. You’d normally vomit from such an intake, but the phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

-20 minutes: Your blood sugar skyrockets. Your liver attempts to maximize insulin production in order to turn high levels of sugar into fat.

-40 minutes: As your body finishes absorbing the caffeine, your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your liver pumps more sugar into the bloodstream. Adenosine receptors in your brain are blocked preventing you from feeling how tired you may actually be.

-45 minutes: Your body increases dopamine production, tricking you into feeling pleasure and adding to the addictiveness of the beverage. This physical neuro response works the same way as it would if we were consuming heroin.

>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, which boosts your metabolism a bit further. High doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners compound this effect, increasing the urinary excretion of calcium. The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (You have to GO!) Your body will eliminate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was otherwise heading to your bones. And you will also flush out the sodium, electrolytes and water. Your body has eliminated the water that was in the soda. And in the process it was infused with nutrients and minerals your body would have otherwise used to hydrate your system or build body cells, bones, teeth.

-60 minutes: The sugar crash begins. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You start feeling like crap. Time to grab another?

Aspartame Poison: The Silent Killer
By Ron Harder
There is an epidemic across North America today of Multiple Sclerosis and Lupus. Most people do not understand why this epidemic is happening, and they do not know why these diseases are so rampant. I would like to share with you the main reason we are having this very serious problem.

Many people today use artificial sweeteners in their tea or coffee. They do this because the ads they see on TV tell them that sugar is bad for their health. This is absolutely true. Sugar is toxic to us, but, what most people use as a replacement for sugar is much more deadly.

Are you looking for an alternative to aspartame? Try xylitol sweetener or stevia sweetener. And if you think you aspartame has effected your health you may want to consider an aspartame detox!

I am talking about Aspartame. It is the cause of the epidemic that was mentioned above. Aspartame is an extremely toxic chemical that is produced by a chemical company called Monsanto.

Aspartame is being marketed around the world as a sugar substitute and is found in all diet soft drinks, such as Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi. It is also found in artificial sweeteners such as NutraSweet, Equal, and Spoonful; and it is used in many other products as a sugar replacement.

Aspartame is marketed as a diet product, but it is not a diet product at all. In fact, it will cause you to GAIN weight because it makes you crave carbohydrates.

Causing you to gain weight is only a very small part of what Aspartame does. Aspartame is a toxic chemical that changes the brain’s chemistry. It can and does cause severe seizures. This chemical changes the dopamine level in the brain, and it is particularly deadly for anyone suffering from Parkinson’s diseases.

Aspartame is extremely poisonous, and here is why. One of the toxic ingredients of Aspartame is wood alcohol. When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in the Aspartame is converted to formaldehyde, and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis.

Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of poisons as Cyanide and Arsenic - which are very deadly toxins. The only difference is… Formaldehyde kills quietly, and it takes a little longer. And, in the process of killing people, it causes all kinds of neurological problems.

There are 92 documented symptoms of Aspartame Poisoning leading to coma and death. The majority of these symptoms are neurological, because the Aspartame attacks and destroys the nervous system. Some of the symptoms of Aspartame Poisoning are covered below.

Read the rest of this article here: http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/aspartame-poison.html

(NaturalNews) Monsanto, the multinational agriculture giant most known for its propagation of genetically-modified (GM) crops, has decided to resurrect its pursuit of GM wheat. Abandoned in 2004 due to opposition from American growers, merchants, and consumers, Monsanto’s GM wheat program is making a comeback.

Apparently many American wheat growers have since changed their mind about the issue. A survey conducted back in February revealed that more than 75 percent of wheat farmers are now interested in growing GM wheat. Citing concerns about pestilence and disease, farmers are reevaluating GM wheat based on claims by Monsanto that GM wheat will fare better than conventional in resisting bugs, disease, drought and frost.

Many nations around the world, including industrialized nations in Asia and Europe, have wholly rejected GM crops and foods that are made with them. Since 45 percent of the U.S. wheat crop is exported to Europe and Japan alone, the decision to allow GM wheat to be grown in the States will have a huge negative impact on the wheat business.

Hinged upon the recent food crisis in 2008 that caused the price of wheat to more than triple, Monsanto’s endeavors to capitalize on wheat by altering it genetically could not have been timed more precisely. Both China and Australia have been researching and running trials on Monsanto’s GM wheat for years and North America looks to be next if the AgriGiant has its way.

Earlier this year, Monsanto purchased Montana-based WestBred, a company that specializes in germplasm wheat breeding. This move indicates that the corporation intends to move forward with its plan to bring GM wheat to North America.

Concerns about the negative effects of GM crops, which include a variety of illnesses and digestive tract problems when consumed, continue to warrant opposition to their use. Conventional crop fields have also been shown to become contaminated with GM seed through pollination and cross-contamination.

If the public hopes to prevent wheat from taking the same GM course that corn and soy have, it is going to have to express loud and clear opposition to its introduction.

Daniels, JL, IJ Pan, R Jones, S Anderson, DG Patterson, LL Needham and A Sjödin. 2009. Individual characteristics associated with PBDE levels in U.S. human milk samples. Environmental Health Perspectives doi:10.1289/ehp.0900759.

Synopsis by Kim Harley, Ph.D.

Breast milk from young women – rather than from women older than 35 – has the highest measured levels of commonly used flame retardants known as PBDEs.

A study of breast milk samples from more than 300 women in North Carolina finds flame retardants contaminate the milk from almost three-quarters of the woman in the study. Women older than 35 had the lowest levels of PBDEs in their milk. The highest levels were measured in breast milk from women aged 25 to 29, followed by women younger than 25 years old.

The results suggest that younger mothers may have higher exposure to these flame retardant chemicals through their environment or lifestyles.

PBDEs are chemicals used in electronics, furniture, carpeting and textiles to reduce the risk of fire. In rats, early life exposures to PBDE has been associated with altered thyroid hormone function, hyperactivity and poorer learning and memory. Human health effects are not so well understood.

Most Americans have detectable levels of PBDEs in their blood. Dust and food may be the biggest sources for people. Breast fed babies are exposed through breast milk, however, experts agree that breastfeeding also provides important nutritional and immune benefits for the infant.

The study also found higher levels of these fat-soluble chemicals among obese women.

Interestingly, longer breastfeeding did not appear to lower PBDE levels in breast milk. Measured levels in breast feeding mothers a year after they gave birth were not significantly different from their levels when their infants were 3 months old. Having more previous pregnancies was also not associated with lower PBDE levels.

These findings are in contrast to other persistent pollutants, such as PCBs or DDT, which have been shown to decrease in the mother’s body and her breastmilk with longer breastfeeding. The author’s speculate that levels may not decrease either because mothers’ exposure to PBDEs is on-going or because maternal weight loss after pregnancy continues to mobilize PBDEs from fat stores.

The researchers measured and compared levels of individual and total PBDEs. Measured levels of total PBDEs in the samples were higher than those reported in other studies and ranged widely, from 1 to 2,010 nanograms per gram of fat.

PBDE compounds have been banned in Europe and several U.S. states, and legislation to further limit use in pending in many regions.

Update - 1/27/2010: After speaking with a friend, I decided to be a little bit quicker at increasing the dose here. Today was his first day of 2 dropperfuls 2x a day. Nothing to report yet - but no negatives either. Also wanted to note that we have not seen any OCD yet either. Other probiotics with strep strains make him OCD within a matter of a day or two.

Update: January 29, 2010, 9:45 am
This is totally totally totally pre-mature - but yesterday, he was talking like no tomorrow. The stuff coming out of his mouth had us looking at each other in utter shock. (This was at 3 dropperfuls which I gave him twice.) Today, we’re doing four twice. We shall see.

Update: February 5, 2010, 4:14 pm
Nicholas is doing great on this! We’re up to 5 dropperfuls 2x a day and we’re seeing more language, he’s more in tune with us and he really just wants to help us with everything. ….and we’re getting WHY questions!!!

Update - 2/12/2010 - We have not seen any OCD from this supplement like we have with other strep-strain probiotics. With other probiotics containing the streptococcus strain, we would see OCD symptoms in about 2 days which would progressively get worse as time went on. We’ve seen nothing like this with Cytoflora.

Update: February 13, 2010
We’ve finished the first bottle of cytoflora and the results speak for themselves. I was able to remove the additional magnesium he was getting and he’s pooping just fine without it. The language boost was definately a good one - definately worth the money in my opinion.

Update: March 8, 2010
About a week ago, I lowered the dose down to 5 dropperfuls once a day and have not lost the gains we made.

Healthy Gut Function - BiorayNaturalDetox.com

CytoFlora™ Study with Children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Frequently Asked Questions regarding CytoFlora™ and Gut Function

We started seeing a version of Nicholas we had not seen in over a year. Flat out defiance, massive temper tantrums, crying at the drop of a hat - and as if that wasn’t bad enough, his obession with water came back.

Not being a very happy camper with this new improved version of a defiant, temper-tantruming, obessed with water child - I went through my supplement list. What did I change? Did I add anything new? Did I forget about something? At first, I thought it was the methyl-folate I had started giving him (I had since stopped thinking this could be it - it was not) - then it hit me - could this be bacterial? After all, I had run our of his Culturelle. Could it be that easy though? And why would bacteria cause him to be obsessed with playing with water? Previously, when he had the water addiction, inositol stopped that - and I had removed it quite some time ago.

So, I reordered the Culturelle and got him back on it immediately. I also added Physician’s Strength Wild Oil of Oregano, 2 capsules twice a day - not given near probiotics. And after a few days, Nicholas is back. The obessive water play is gone. The massive tantruming is gone. The defiance is gone.

The people in our lives that witnessed this are absolutely astonished that a bacterial overgrowth/infection could make a child act this way. If they can see this happen to a child and also see it rectified with the appropriate supplements/medication/whatever, why is it so hard for the medical establishment, which is failing our children, to simply do their jobs?

“Why should I be forced to pay money to a system that I know to be largely based on fraud…? If I had a choice, I would buy insurance that covers alternative and naturopathic care, where doctors respect the healing ability of the human body and try to work with the patient instead of assaulting him with chemicals and surgeries. Obama’s health care reform bill gives me no such choice. I cannot choose to direct my money into a system of medicine that I WANT. . Instead, I am being forced to pay money into a system that is morally corrupt and scientifically fraudulent.”

I could not agree more, Mike.

Read the whole article here: http://www.naturalnews.com/027870_health_reform_insurance.html

Changes since the last update are:

I had stopped and re-introduced Acetyl-L-Carnitine and L-Carnosine to see if we would get another good speech boost (we did!)

Slightly increased zinc as he started biting on my shirt at times, the zinc stopped that immediately

Re-introduced Adrenal Cortex - his prior dose was way too high - I give him one cap per day along with his Armour Thyroid

Changed his version of Magnesium to a triple mag complex from Swanson

Re-introduced biotin at a smaller dose

Increased Enhansa from 1200mg to 1800mg

Ran out of Klaire’s Biotagen and have not reordered — not seeing any negatives

Ran out of Living Streams Probiotic and have not reordered - no negatives seen yet

Ran out of Mannatech Ambrotose - have not seen any negatives - will probably not reorder

Vitamins & Minerals
Lee Silsby ASD Pure Vitamin/Mineral formula - 6 Capsules per day
MB-12 Injections
BioTech Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) - 5000 IU
Swanson Vitamin E Mixed Tocopherols - 800 IU
Klaire’s Micellized vitamin A - 5 drops per day
Swanson’s Triple Magnesium Complex - 1 cap per day
AMLA - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson vitamin C - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson Biotin - 5mg caps

Omega Fish Oil / Cod Liver Oil / Essential Oils & Fatty Acids
Nordic Naturals Complete Omega 3-6-9 - 3 gelcaps

Probiotics & Prebiotics
Culturelle - 2 capsules per day
Klaire Detox Probiotic - 2 capsules per day

Amino Acids
Custom Blend from Metabolic Maintenance - 3-9 size 00 capsules per day
ProThera Acetyl-L-Carnitine - 1 capsule 3x per day (1500mg total)
Now L-Carnosine - 1 capsule 2x per day (1000mg total)

Anti-fungals & Anti-bacterials, Anti-Virals, yeast-fighting, etc.
Enhansa from Lee Silsby - 1800mg per day — give No-Fenol with Enhansa if child has phenol issues (red cheeks/ears)

Enzymes
Houston Nutraceuticals No Phenol - given with Enhansa only now
Houston Nutraceuticals Tri-Enza - with meals

For the liver
Liver life (2 dropperfuls per day)

For constipation
Oxypowder - (to keep his bowels moving) - only as needed (this stuff is fantastic!)

Other
4Life Transfer Factor Tri-Factor Formula – 200mg – 2 capsules 3x per day
Georges Always Active 100% Aloe Vera - about 2-4 ounces per day
Integrative Therapeudics Inc UBQH Patented Stabilized Reduced Ubiquinol - 100mg 1 cap per day

Harvard Takes it Back and Says Swine Flu was Oversold
Dr Mercola - January 2, 2010

A new analysis from Harvard University, using H1N1 deaths in the U.S. in the spring and projecting likely outcomes for this fall, suggests that the swine flu “pandemic” has been oversold.
The new paper suggests swine flu was unlikely to create a severe epidemic. In light of this, officials have taken many steps that may have been unnecessary, including mass vaccinations.

It is not clear how H1N1 will act in the coming months, but swine flu cases seem to have already hit their peak.

If you really need to read more, click here: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/02/Harvard-Takes-it-Back-and-Says-Swine-Flu-was-Oversold.aspx

Scientists have proved for the first time that fructose, a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks, can damage human metabolism and is fueling the obesity crisis.

Fructose, a sweetener usually derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease.

Over 10 weeks, 16 volunteers on a controlled diet including high levels of fructose produced new fat cells around their heart, liver and other digestive organs. They also showed signs of food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. Another group of volunteers on the same diet, but with glucose sugar replacing fructose, did not have these problems.

Click over to Dr Mercola’s site to watch the videos and keep reading: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/02/HighFructose-Corn-Syrup-Alters-Human-Metabolism.aspx

by Amy L. Lansky, PhD

www.impossiblecure.com

Perhaps the most derided of alternative medicines is my own favorite — homeopathy. Over the past few years, detractors have focused their efforts in the United Kingdom and have succeeded in crippling homeopathic hospitals and clinics funded by the National Health Service, as well as the practices of many homeopaths. A few well-placed editorials in prominent newspapers have done the trick, despite the fact that Prince Charles and the rest of the royal family are ardent supporters of homeopathy.

It now seems that some of these folks are taking their show on the road. Two key UK players, Michael Baum and Edzard Ernst have published a commentary in the November 2009 issue of the American Journal of Medicine [2] in which they state, “a belief in homeopathy exceeds the tolerance of an open mind. We should start from the premise that homeopathy cannot work and that positive evidence reflects publication bias or design flaws until proved otherwise.”

Not surprisingly, their commentary also reflects a complete ignorance of homeopathy and the range of studies that support its effectiveness. For example, their article incorrectly uses the term “potentation” instead of “potentization” for the method used to create homeopathic remedies (more on this later). The authors also insist on citing a single negative meta-analysis study that has already been shown to be methodologically flawed [3], while ignoring many positive studies in respected publications, including two other meta-analyses that showed positive results [4-9].

So why do the skeptics love to hate homeopathy? Perhaps because it is one of the most threatening alternative modalities — financially, philosophically, and therapeutically. Actually, homeopathy has been a threat to allopathy ever since the 1800s, when German physician Samuel Hahnemann developed the homeopathic system.

Founder of Homeopathy

Hahnemann, a respected doctor and chemist who helped to pioneer the importance of hygiene as well as homeopathy, was forced to move frequently during his life because the local German apothecaries objected to the fact that he created his own medicines rather than use theirs. A fierce battle was also waged against homeopathy in the United States during the 1800s, where homeopathy had achieved a strong presence by 1840. In fact, in 1847, the American Medical Association (AMA) was formed specifically to fight the battle against homeopathy.

Most homeopaths of the 1800s were former allopaths who had abandoned their brethren because they found Hahnemann’s system to be more successful in battling cholera, typhus, yellow fever, diptheria, influenza, and other epidemics of the 1800s. In retaliation, the preamble to the AMA’s charter forbade its members to associate with homeopaths or to use their medicines, and many doctors were expelled for failing to comply.

But does homeopathy really pose such a threat to conventional medicine today? To see how the little David of homeopathy could take down the Goliath of big pharma, we need to take a closer look at what homeopathy is all about.

Read more here: http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/12/09/Why-Skeptics-Love-to-Hate-Homeopathy.aspx

Excerpted From the Writings of Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, Ph.D., edited by Eve Greenberg, LPC, CN, Explore Staff Reporter and Director of the Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology

In the last decade the majority of outcome-oriented physicians observed a major shift: we realized that it was neither the lack of vitamins or growth hormone that made our patients ill. We discovered that toxicity and chronic infections were most often at the core of the client’s suffering.

We watched the discussion, which infection may be the primary one: mycoplasma, stealth viruses, HHV-6, trichomonas, Chlamydia pneumoniae, leptospirosis, mutated strep, or what else?

The new kid on the block is Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) and some of us have looked at it for a long time as possibly being the bug that opens the door for all the other infections to enter the system. Another one is Lyme disease, which has become a buzzword in the alternative medical field.

Since none of the recommended treatments are specific to either one of the microbes, we can never assume that we really know what we treated once a patient has recovered.

Microbiologist Gitte Jensen, PhD, had shown that the older you get, the more foreign DNA is attached to your own DNA. Somewhere along the line, pathogenic microbes invade the host’s DNA and become a permanent part of it. Since you use only 2 percent of your DNA, it may not be a problem. In fact, it may make you who you finally become. It may also cause a number of symptoms and chronic illness.

Genius Guenther Enderlein’s discoveries take us off the hook: if one microbe can change into another given the right environment, why bother to find out who we are infected with? The book “Lab 257” suggests that Bb is an escaped man-made US military bio-warfare organism (just like myoplasma incognitus and HHV 6).

Other authors suggest that different subtypes of Borrelia, which cause illness in humans, such as B. afzelii and B.garinii have probably existed longer than B.burgdorferi and occur naturally and have been with us for a long time, maybe centuries or much longer than that.

Continue Reading here:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Dr-Klinghardts-Treatment-of-Lyme-Disease.aspx

Summary
This is a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of glutathione alone or glutathione, vitamin C and NAC treatment in children with autism who also have severe behavior problems.

Our hypothesis is that children with autism will show improvement in both learning capabilities and behavior with either glutathione, or glutathione, vitamin C and NAC therapy.
Condition / Disease
Autism
Severe Behavior Disorder

Therapy
placebo
glutathione
glutathione, vitamin C and N-acetylcysteine

Study Outcomes
Improvement in both developmental skills and behavior with either glutathione or glutathione, Vitamin C and N-acetylcysteine therapy as compared to placebo therapy. Subjects will also be monitored using clinical and laboratory safety parameters.
Response to glutathione (changes in behavior) will correlate with the glutathione level (GSH) and GSH:GSSG ratio

Description
This is a prospective, single center, double-blind, randomized pilot study in children and adolescents with autism and severe behavior disorders. All subjects will undergo initial screening procedures to determine eligibility. They will then be randomized to either 8 weeks of placebo or 8 weeks of glutathione or glutathione, vitamin C and N-acetylcysteine. They will receive intravenous treatment weekly and will have ongoing behavioral studies during this period. Following 8 weeks of therapy, they will have a week without treatment then will cross-over to the alternate therapy for weekly intravenous infusions and behavioral testing. In addition to baseline hematology and chemistries, baseline oxidized and reduced glutathione will be measured. These parameters will be repeated at the end of each 8 week course of therapy.

(NaturalNews) A head-on car collision, a stumble that slams your head to the ground, a wound from a military battle in Afghanistan, a violent criminal assault — these and other causes of sudden blows to the head can result in traumatic brain injury (TBI). According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. And symptoms can range from dizziness, headaches and memory problems to difficulty thinking, coma or even a vegetative state.

Unfortunately, there is no effective medical treatment for TBI. Although doctors can relieve the dangerous swelling that occurs after a traumatic brain injury, there is currently no way to reverse the underlying brain damage that can lead to cognitive losses in memory, learning and other functions. But neuroscientists think that could change, thanks to a natural treatment. A new study recently published in the online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests natural amino acids hold the key to healing brain injuries.

For the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research, neuroscientists fed amino acids to brain-injured mice. The results? The animals’ cognitive abilities were restored. That, the researchers stated in a media release, may set the stage for the first effective treatment for cognitive impairments suffered by people with TBI. If these results from animal studies can be translated to human medicine, the impact will be huge, they added — because every 23 seconds, a man, woman or child in the United States suffers a TBI.

“We have shown in an animal model that dietary intervention can restore a proper balance of neurochemicals in the injured part of the brain, and simultaneously improves cognitive performance,” said study leader Akiva S. Cohen, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, in a statement to the press.

For their study, the researchers used a mix of three branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), specifically leucine, isoleucine and valine. BCAAs are crucial to brain health because they are precursors of two neurotransmitters — glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA. These neurotransmitters work together to balance brain activity. Specifically, glutamate excites neurons, stimulating them to fire, while GABA dampens down the firing of brain cells. A TBI can upset this balance and keep the brain from functioning normally.

Frequently, a TBI damages the structure deep in the brain involved in higher learning and memory known as the hippocampus. In their new study, the scientists discovered that an injury to the hippocampus reduces levels of BCAAs. That throws the critical balance of neurotransmitters in the hippocampus into disarray, causing some localized regions of the brain to be more excitable and others less excitable.

To test the idea that dietary BCAAs would restore the normal balance of neural responses to brain-injured animals, the scientists worked with mice that had been conditioned to fear a mild electric shock in their cage. The animals had developed a “freezing” response when placed in the cage because they anticipated a shock. Then the research team created brain injuries in one group of mice with this conditioned fear response and, a week later, compared this group to animals conditioned to the fear response that had no TBI. The injured mice had partially lost their memory of past shocks and so had fewer “freezing” responses.

However, when the brain-injured mice were given water to drink that contained BCAAs, the amino acid cocktail restored their learning ability and they regained the same normal responses as the uninjured animals. Moreover, additional experiments showed that BCAAs had restored the animals’ normal balance of neural activity.

Previous studies have revealed that people with brain injuries show mild functional improvements after receiving BCAAs through an intravenous line (IV). Dr. Cohen stated the new study suggests that BCAAs used as a dietary supplement could offer more sustained benefits than amino acids given through IVs. Early-phase clinical trials of dietary BCAAs in patients with mild to moderate traumatic brain injuries are expected to begin over the next year.

Editor’s note: NaturalNews is opposed to the use of animals in medical experiments that expose them to harm. We present these findings in protest of the way in which they were acquired.

For more information:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/s…
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/…
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/TBI.htm

In June of 2008, I participated in the Green Our Vaccines march on Washington D.C. The march had over 8,000 people attending and I still think fondly of the sight of tying up traffic in our nation’s capitol. We started the march at the Washington Monument and marched through the streets to the lawn of the Capitol building and as the head of the march was reaching the Capitol, 1.3 miles away, the rear of the line still had yet to begin marching through the streets, definitely a sight to behold. The tee shirts that most of us wore on the march stated “Green Our Vaccines” on the front of the shirt and on the back of the shirt was the mantra “Too Many Too Soon”.

While many doctors and researchers in the mainstream medical community continue to state that while there are indeed more vaccines on the mandated schedule in America, they claim that there are far fewer antigens (the actual viruses)in the vaccines, thereby making them far more safe than those of the past decades. This is disingenuous to say the least. While fewer antigens are in the vaccines now, we have never before vaccinated children with so many different antigens at one time. A mere cursory glance at the mandated CDC recommended vaccine schedule is enough to frighten most parents and concerned medical practitioners.

A recent study out of Japan once again brings these concerns that many of us in the natural health community have, to light. The study/research article entitled: Self-Organized Criticality Theory of Autoimmunity, was authored by Ken Tsumiyama, Yumi Miyazaki and Shunichi Shiozawa from the Department of Biophysics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and was published on December 31st 2009. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008382?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20plosone/PLoSONE%20(PLoS%20ONE%20Alerts:%20New%20Articles)%20

When we consider the onslaught of autoimmune diseases now permeating our society and destroying our children, we must consider the evidence that clearly shows that these diseases seem to rise in direct correlation with the added number of vaccines on the CDC’s recommended schedule. Another study that also seems to corroborate the findings from the Kobe University study is the Manitoba Canada study showing that by simply delaying the DtP vaccine by mere months reduced the diagnosis of asthma by more than 50%. Keep in mind, asthma is an auto immune disease and kills more than 6000 Americans a year. http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(07)02379-2/abstract

There is no doubt in my mind that this is happening. The question of the century would then have to be: with all of the evidence pointing to vaccines as the culprit in the onslaught of autoimmune diseases in this country and abroad, why in the world is this still going on?

At the expense of sounding like a complete conspiracy nut, there really is only one explanation: PROFIT.

There is no doubt that governments throughout the world are at best, ‘influenced’ by the pharmaceutical lobbies that bring cash and power into the equation, and at worst, are in fact enslaved by the pharmaceutical cash cow. We have witnessed the Dr. Andrew Wakefield debacle going on in England through the General medical Council fitness to practice hearing. This hearing has been influenced by the pharmaceutical companies and is indicative of how all of our mainstream medical organizations are enslaved by the pharmaceutical industry.

The driving force behind this particular hearing has been The Sunday Times of London and a “free-lance” reporter named Brian Deer. While one would hope that journalists and newspapers would act responsibly, especially with such an important topic as vaccines, this is unfortunately not the case here. I find it hard to believe that the fact that James Murdoch, The Sunday Time’s editor, also happens to sit on the board of Glaxxo Smith Kline, the maker of the MMR vaccine in Europe, is not a point of interest to the media.

This unfortunately happens all too frequently and it must stop. There is little doubt that the growing number of auto immune diseases across the planet has become a veritable gold mine for the drug manufacturers, selling their poisonous and expensive drugs to those already affected previously by their poisons. The fact that all of our media is dependent upon advertising revenue from these very same companies can no longer go ignored. We are not only fighting a ravenous drug cartel that would make a Columbian cocaine kingpin look like a typical street pusher, we are also fighting a medical establishment and media that are bound by their masters to ensure that this information never becomes mainstreamed.

When brave researchers like those in Japan, Canada and England step up to the plate and attempt to tell the truth about the onslaught of diseases caused by these government mandated vaccines, it is our job to ensure that the information gets to the parents that so desperately need it. To do otherwise would be a crime and criminals seem to be prolific on the other side of the controversy.

The true criminals are not those impoverished young men and women sitting in our prisons for selling a dime bag on the street. The true criminals sit in our capitol buildings, Congress, the Senate and parliaments across the world. The true criminals are the editors, producers and journalists that sell their souls for advertising dollars and Euros at the expense of our children. The true criminals are the pharmaceutical companies that poison our citizenry for profit. It’s time we put a stop to this.

Children reaching age 3 without being able to say a word, survey finds
Joanna Sugden
January 4, 2010

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6974590.ece

Children are reaching the age of 3 without being able to say a word, according to a survey that also found boys are almost twice as likely to struggle to learn to speak as girls.

The average age for a baby to speak their first word is 10 to 11 months. However, a significant minority (4 per cent) of parents reported that their child said nothing until they were 3.

Toddlers between the ages of 2 and 3 should be able to use up to 300 words, including adjectives, and be able to link words together, according to I CAN, the children’s communication charity. Late speech development can lead to problems, such as low achievement at school or mental health problems.

The survey of more than 1,000 parents found that a child’s background was not a factor in how quickly they learnt to talk. Working parents who put their babies in day care are just as likely to have a child whose speech develops late as those who leave their baby in front of the television.

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Virginia Beardshaw, the chief executive of I CAN, said that learning to talk required help and encouragement. “We know there is a golden period for developing children’s communication between 0 and 5 and that early intervention is vital if children are struggling,” she said. “Chatting to your child, playing word games, pointing things out and having fun together every day all give your child the right start to communication.”

Parents should interact as much as possible, reading stories and talking to their children to encourage them to start talking, speech therapists advise. They say that dummies should only be resorted to at bedtime so children are free to make sounds and form words during the day.

More girls than boys (34 per cent against 27 per cent) said their first word before they reached nine months, the YouGov poll of 1,015 parents of children aged 1 to 7 found.

Almost one in six parents reported that their child had problems learning to talk. Among parents of boys the figure rose to one in four.

The vast majority (95 per cent) of parents remembered their child’s first word. The most common was “Dadda” (15 per cent), with 10 per cent saying “Mama” first. Besides parental names the top word was “cat”, followed by “car” and “no”. Some more unusual choices were “beer”, “gadget”, “hoover” and even “tits-up”.

Girls were quicker to join words together, with more than 20 per cent having done so by the age of 1, compared to 16 per cent of boys. Almost one quarter of those who had problems learning to talk did not receive any help from a speech and language therapist, nursery or playgroup staff.

Jean Gross, the Government’s new adviser on childhood language development, said that it was a real problem that children as old as 3 were unable to talk. “It has lifelong effects for children in terms of their ability to learn to read and write,” she said.

Ms Gross said childhood health targets were too focused on obesity levels and immunisation rates at the expense of more subtle difficulties.

All of those surveyed last month reported looking at picture books with their child, telling stories, playing word games and singing nursery rhymes, with boys and girls enjoying these activities equally and at a similar age.

However, children from more affluent families were said to enjoy doing so at a younger age than children from less affluent families.

Eighty per cent of parents knew that the correct response if their child mispronounced a word was to repeat it back to them in the correct way.

Case study: ‘He’s now chatty and sociable’

Lee Rose reached the age of 3 able to say only five words. His parents were not worried. “I had no other children to compare him with and his father was a late talker,” said Emma Rose, from Plymouth.

Doctors and health visitors did not pick up the problem. It was not until Lee’s nursery teachers noticed that he lashed out at another child in frustration that concerns were raised. After an assessment he was referred to an I CAN centre — a mainstream nursery school with a specialist speech and language department and a support group for parents.

Lee spent 12 months at the centre. “It was the one-to-one help that he needed and early intervention,” said Mrs Rose. Now 8, he is in the top group for all his lessons at primary school. “They have turned my little boy’s life around. He is chatty, sociable and has lots of friends.” Mrs Rose, 39, a former hospital technician, is retraining as a speech and language assistant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/gluten-what-you-dont-know_b_379089.html

Something you’re eating may be killing you, and you probably don’t even know it!

If you eat cheeseburgers or French fries all the time or drink six sodas a day, you likely know you are shortening your life. But eating a nice dark, crunchy slice of whole wheat bread–how could that be bad for you?

Well, bread contains gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, rye, spelt, kamut, and oats. It is hidden in pizza, pasta, bread, wraps, rolls, and most processed foods. Clearly, gluten is a staple of the American diet.

What most people don’t know is that gluten can cause serious health complications for many. You may be at risk even if you don’t have full blown celiac disease.

In today’s blog I want to reveal the truth about gluten, explain the dangers, and provide you with a simple system that will help you determine whether or not gluten is a problem for you.

The Dangers of Gluten

A recent large study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that people with diagnosed, undiagnosed, and “latent” celiac disease or gluten sensitivity had a higher risk of death, mostly from heart disease and cancer. (i)

Keep reading here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/gluten-what-you-dont-know_b_379089.html

Julie Gerberding Named Head of Merck Vaccines
http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2009/12/julie-gerberding-named-head-of-merck.html

Wow… Congratulations Julie! Who would have guessed that you would be the one person in the whole world that Merck would want to head their vaccine division?

Oh… that is right… we did.

Julie’s years of “looking and looking” for a vaccine/autism connection with the firm resolve of OJ Simpson looking for the real killers, asinine statements on autism in the press and denialism of an epidemic happening in front of everyone’s eyes has finally paid off big for her.

Here is what we do know now… that the head of vaccines for Merck is a liar. And one who tells absurd lies and thinks that people will swallow them. In the age of vaccine skepticism, Merck was so concerned with winning the public trust that they hired the woman who was the at the helm of the autism epidemic for the last eight years.

Brilliant.

But I am guessing that deal with the devil was made long ago.

There is no one whose actions I have had more contempt for in this health disaster than Julie Gerberding. My son regressed into autism following his vaccines on her watch. I became increasingly incensed by her actions, non-actions and thinly veiled vaccine salesmanship as the years rolled on; but I don’t think down deep that even I actually believed that out of all the positions in the world she would take THE job with THE company that would truly prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was working for PHARMA at the expense of our kids since Bush appointed her as CDC head. If for no other reason out of embarrassment for what it would betray about her.

The woman has no shame.

The position is announced Christmas week, I guess hoping that mom’s like me will be too busy trying to keep their kids with autism from eating the glass balls off the yule tree to notice. And it may be that she was legally prevented from taking the job any sooner. Email from someone who travels in these circles:

“…but based on a conversation I recently had with a friend who is a former Bush Administration official, this is pretty close to the minimum interval for how former feds can go to work with a company they regulated after leaving government. January 25th: a year and three business days after Obama’s inauguration (January 20th, 2009). January 25th 2010 is the first Monday she could start”.

So as Julie ascends to this esteemed position, lets take a walk down memory lane of her disastrous reign as the chief of our nations public health services at all the bull shit she has had to offer us.

First, a critical review of the only thimerosal/autism study done under Julie’s tenure:

Keep reading here:
http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2009/12/julie-gerberding-named-head-of-merck.html
You’re going to want to know all about her if you don’t already.

New Study about using EDTA to remove mercury! “This is the first study reporting the beneficial effects of EDTA chelating therapy to remove an old mercury intoxication. The intravenously injected inorganic mercury reaches the brain via blood circulation. The mercury deposition in the brain provokes many irreversible ne…urological features, whose improvement relies on the removal of mercury.”

http://www.casesjournal.com/content/pdf/1757-1626-2-199.pdf

PS - I have not used EDTA and do not plan to since Nicholas is doing so well on ALA and DMSA. I am just posting here for others who might find this useful.

If the link above does not work, click here:
The usefulness of chelation therapy for the remission of symptoms caused by previous treatment with mercury-containing pharmaceuticals: a case report

“The studies published today reinforce the shortcomings of our efforts to control influenza,” wrote Dr. Guan Yi, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, in an editorial that accompanied the papers. The two studies were published early online by the British medical journal, the Lancet, because of their implications for the upcoming flu season.

In one paper, international researchers analyzed all the data from patient studies on the flu vaccine performed worldwide in the past 37 years and discovered that vaccines showed at best a “modest” ability to prevent influenza or its complications in elderly people.

“The runaway 100 percent effectiveness that’s touted by proponents was nowhere to be seen,” said Tom Jefferson, a Rome-based researcher with the Cochrane Vaccine Fields project, an international consortium of scientists who perform systematic reviews of research data.

“There is a wild overestimation of the impact of these vaccines in the community,” Dr. Jefferson said. “In the case of a pandemic, we are unsure from the data whether these vaccines would work on the elderly.”

In the second paper, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control found that influenza viruses, particularly those from the dreaded bird flu strain, had developed high rates of resistance to older and cheaper antiviral drugs - rates that have escalated rapidly since 2003, particularly in Asia.

“We were alarmed to find such a dramatic increase in drug resistance in circulating human influenza viruses in recent years,” said Dr. Rick Bright of the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta. “Our report has broad implications for agencies and governments planning to stockpile these drugs for epidemic and pandemic strains of influenza.”

Before 2000, almost no virus was resistant to the drug Amantadine. By 2004, 15 percent of influenza A viruses collected in South Korea, 70 percent in Hong Kong and 74 percent in China were impervious. During the first six months of 2005, 15 percent of the influenza A viruses in the United States were resistant, up from 2 percent the year before. All human cases of the bird flu (H5N1) strain - which is still extremely rare in humans - have been resistant, the researchers said.

The immediate implications of these finding are most ominous for the developing world, because wealthier nations have been stockpiling newer and vastly more expensive antiviral medicines, like Tamiflu, which are effective against the disease but still on patent.

Even so, the research is alarming because it demonstrates how quickly and unexpectedly flu viruses can become impervious to medicines once they are put into common use, as they would be in the case of a pandemic. Also, at their best, antiviral medicines do not cure influenza. They cut down on transmission of the disease and reduce somewhat the symptoms and complications in those already infected, including the high rate of associated pneumonias.

Called for comment, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, Dick Thompson, said that the group could neither support nor deny the findings of the analysis of vaccine studies at this point, noting only that some experts criticized the researchers for “not including some important past studies” in their sample.

But the problem of resistance “is a finding that is being discussed widely within the flu world and will bear careful monitoring,” Mr. Thompson said, noting that he was not aware of any country in the developing world that had been able to stockpile the newer drugs.

Anticipating a possible flu pandemic caused by a variant of the bird flu virus - which belongs to the influenza A group - countries have been aggressively buying up antiviral medicines and contracting to purchase a flu vaccine against that strain, even though it is still under development.

The United States has ordered $100 million worth of vaccine and Italy $43 million worth, for example.

The current bird flu virus does not spread easily - if at all - from human to human, and so has little potential to become a worldwide human scourge. But the World Health Organization has warned that it could acquire that potential through a couple of common biological processes, and that countries should prepare for a possible wave of serious influenza.

The fact that the current study showed that flu vaccines have had only a modest effect in the elderly is particularly worrisome, since this a group that tends to suffer high rates of complications and deaths from the disease and vaccination is currently standard practice. In people over 65, the vaccines “are apparently ineffective” in the prevention of influenza, pneumonia and hospital admissions, although they did reduce deaths from pneumonia by “up to 30 per cent.”

“What you see is that marketing rules the response to influenza, and scientific evidence comes fourth or fifth,” Dr. Jefferson said. “Vaccines may have a role, but they appear to have a modest effect. The best strategy to prevent the illness is to wash your hands.”

The research showed, however, that vaccines offered better protection in nursing home patients, who suffered significantly lower rates of complications like pneumonia if inoculated.

In terms of antiviral drugs, 30 countries have placed huge orders for Tamiflu, the most popular, newer, more expensive antiviral medicine, a spokesman for Roche Martina Rupp, said. The company is offering it at a “substantial discount” for public health purchases. The Dutch Health Ministry has ordered 5 million doses, enough to treat one-third of the population. The British Department of Health has ordered supplies to treat 15 million.

Ms. Rupp would not give either the retail or the discounted price, although pharmacists said a full course of the drug costs more than $100.

Researchers speculate that one reason why resistance rates to the older, cheaper antiviral drugs in Asia jumped so much starting in 2000 - and skyrocketed after 2002 - is that doctors there started prescribing the drugs far more widely after the advent of bird flu in 1997 and of sudden acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2002.

Although actual human cases of these two diseases have always been rare, they are also quite deadly, so patients are sometimes started on antiviral drugs when they develop a respiratory illness, even though in most cases they will prove to have nothing more than a common cold.

This is because all antiviral medicines work only if they are started within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms and, in that period, it is generally impossible to tell if patients have a deadly strain of flu or merely a mild virus.

Science dictates that only a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study can generate unbiased results in any clinical trial. In the history of vaccine development, no such study has ever been performed. It is only unscientific opinions and pharmaceutical propaganda which have propelled the mythological validity, safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Dozens of controlled studies have scientifically verified the immunotoxicty, neurotoxicity and sterility of common vaccine ingredients which destroy human health, yet they are all ignored by conventional medicine.

Keep reading here…
http://preventdisease.com/news/09/103009_vaccine_sterility_immunotoxicity_neurotoxicity.shtml

The Center examined the neuroscientific dynamics of logic and emotion in decision making while researching neuroscience in business. They found unique corollary relationships between various brain chemicals (neurohormones, neurotransmitters, etc.). This apparent pattern led to a new path of research for the team outside of business. By looking at extensive scientific literature they discovered a cascade of hormones that emanate from the brain (hypothalamus). This same pattern of correlations was again apparent throughout the cascade. The group added a research biologist and started to test the pattern on genes (proteins). It remained consistent. The Center then called upon advisors from chemistry and physics to see if the pattern would apply in physical sciences.

To the amazement of the group, it became apparent that this pattern of corollary relationships could be applied to scientific processes for maintaining equilibrium (homeostatic relationships) throughout all of science; from subatomic particles to chemistry as well as between biological substances.

While the entire scientific community knows that homeostasis exists, this tacit knowledge has not been converted into a step-by-step, replicable model. The Center identified precisely such an explicit process.

Challenged by several of The Center’s advisors, members of the team decided to test the efficacy of the model to determine if the disruptions that cause autism could be identified.

After careful review of countless scientific studies, meeting with several renowned scientists to discuss their findings, and then applying the modeling process to numerous hypotheses, The Ce