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Every day I’m thankful that his autism is gone. Every. Single. Day.

A conversation with a friend the other day had me thinking… what if he had recovered overnight? Would we still appreciate the progress in the same way that we do? Sadly, probably not. The biomedical path was brutal. Progress came and for that I am grateful. But it was slow. And never ending. The supplement bill only increased as time went on. He would do great for a while, only to regress leading me to hours, no, days researching to figure out what happened and what I needed to do to get him back. We all do what we have to do for our kids, but I won’t lie – I was SICK OF IT. Sick of giving my son supplements several times a day. Sick of getting up every 3-4 hours all weekend long to chelate him. Sick of never having a dime to my name because our supplement bill was more than most people’s mortgages are. Sick of the never ending cycle. Something had to give.

For us, classical homeopathy was the answer. We’ve seen healing with homeopathy that just wasn’t happening with biomed. It has taken time, but when I look back on the past year and a half or so, it’s mind blowing. Years of biomed did not give us this progress. I can stop giving my son his remedy and I DON’T lose him, he doesn’t disappear before our eyes. Homeopathy surprised us in so many ways – we have seen gains we never knew we wanted, but once we saw them come, we were in awe. It’s hard to wait for a particular issue to resolve and it’s easy to get frustrated when you see that issue not changing over time as you would like – but what’s important is to look for things that have changed and know that the issue you’re focusing on is going to change… it’s just a matter of time. Patience is the key with homeopathy – and I’m glad I remained patient. In the beginning, I was frustrated – what I was seeing wasn’t what I wanted to see. But I kept the faith and the progress kept on coming. And even now, it’s still coming.

And as much as Nicholas needed homeopathy, we needed it too. It put our family back together. It gave us back our lives. I now realized that I was in fact in an ill state myself – autism had consumed me – every waking moment, it was about finding the next thing to help my son. And I don’t regret it – not at all. But I lost me somewhere along the way. And my husband lost me too. We were living in the same house, but we weren’t a family – there was no cohesiveness. We were just plugging away towards the goal of recovery – all while life was passing us by – time that you just cannot get back. The more we started to change, the more he started to change. The better my husband and I felt, mentally, physically, the more Nicholas progressed. There is a very big component in homeopathy to the energies that surround us, I truly believe that – and if anyone out there reading this is struggling, I highly suggest you see a homeopath for your own case as well as your child’s. If you’re not at your best, your child is picking up on this. If there is turmoil in your life, your home, your child knows this – they are in there – they are absorbing everything around them! You just can’t be a Debbie-downer and expect your child to thrive, you just can’t. If you live your life with constant negativity, your child is living that life with you. Do what you have to do to help yourself – then focus on your child – you’ll get farther faster – and I bet you’ll enjoy some precious moments of your life along the way. Energy doesn’t just come in the form of a little white pellet. Your energy can very much effect your child. Just think about how you feel after being around someone whose down and depressing – you feel drained, right? Just imagine how your child feels being around someone who is pulling them down every second of every day. Not so good, right?

I look back at the last 4-5 months and it seems like we’ve been living in a dream. We had a very active summer filled with all kinds of activities, many of which Nicholas had never done before. We visited places he had never been. He made friends everywhere we went. We reunited with family who never knew he was ever diagnosed with autism – and will never have to now.

A couple of days ago, I was backing up some files on my computer and I came across a video from around the time when I first started homeopathy. (I’m so bad with videos, I take them, but never watch them again.) I watched that video and wondered who that child was. I’ve watched it 10 times since. It’s astounding to me how different he is. If you had told me back then how different he would be today, I would have thought you were crazy.

I’m so thankful for every second that I get to spend with this little boy. He’s such an amazing human being and I am just so impressed by his strength to have gone through everything he has. And he’s happy – always. He’s always smiling and cheerful and positive. Just hanging with him on the couch watching a movie is an absolute privilege. And it’s gonna kill me the day he doesn’t want to hang with mom anymore. So I’m soaking up every minute I can while I can.

Keep the faith… recovery is possible. But don’t forget to enjoy your child along the way.

And to those of you who helped me along the way, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’ve made a few really great true friends along the way and I truly cherish you, your children and our relationships. Thank you. Love you.

I will love you always. I am so very proud of you.
Mommy

Open ears ASAP whether water, wax or acute congestion need clearing.

Three great single remedies, Hepar sulph, Pulsatilla and Silica, combine to make this the perfect remedy for relieving simple ear noises and pain caused by congestion, swimming or bathing. Whether the blocking agent is excess mucus, water, wax or other matter does not matter with this remedy. These single remedies are all available individually as well in potencies 6x, 12x, 30x, 30c or 200c.

Here’s how the individual remedies work:

Hepar sulph has a knack for loosening and opening up congestions – ear problems, sinus troubles, coughs and skin sores included. For ears, it specializes in painful, sensitive ears that may throb, roar or have whizzing sounds, especially if sensitive to wind and better for warm applications. In most of its applications the sufferer prefers to be wrapped from head to toe and may have a weakness toward infections, sores and congestions.

Pulsatilla offers ears that feel stuffed up, especially at night, a welcome release. These ears my be worse on the right side, and suffer with drawing pain and fluttering noises. It may be better known for turning off night coughs that force you to sit up, but Pulsatilla’s action on ears, colds, headaches, car sickness and a range of other ailments make it the very important remedy. When ailments bring out the weepier, moodier side of you, especially if fresh air is a must even if you are chilly and the wind is cold, you might want a closer look at this remedy.

Silica, the ‘grit’ cell salt, contributes the most fundamental support for expelling anything, be it water after a swim, splinters, acne, sores, sinus congestion… For blocked ears, it works best on those with roaring noises and sometimes popping sounds that feel better for yawning or swallowing. Silica can do the most for those who lack vital heat, can be easily wearied and are susceptible to skin problems, infections, and congestions especially if malnutrition or too much work was ever a factor.

Hyland’s Earache Drops

Gentle drops ease pain, itch, and congestion associated with swimmer’s ear.

Unlike conventional swimmer’s ear treatments that simply dry the ears, Hyland’s Earache Drops work directly to relieve the pain, itch, and congestion associated with swimmer’s ear or earaches due to colds and allergies. No alcohol, no sting, 100% natural, homeopathic and safe for all ages.

Homeopathic Ingredients:

Pulsatilla – for ear pain worse at night.

Chamomilla – for restlessness or irritability.

Sulphur – for ear pain with burning sensation.

Calcarea Carbonica – for throbbing, pulsing pain in ears.

Belladonna – for fever and inflammation.

Lycopodium – for pain and congestion in ears

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Willa Keizer, CCH, Certified Classical Homeopath
When the weather warms and plants start blooming in the spring, it’s usually good news– unless you have a problem with seasonal allergies or hay fever!

Luckily homeopaths have been treating hay fever successfully for decades using safe and time tested homeopathic remedies. Homeopathy is a holistic system of healing that involves bringing your body’s energy, or vital force, back into a natural state of balance.

The most effective way to deal with allergies homeopathically is to consult with an experienced practitioner who will choose a constitutional remedy for you to address the allergies and any other physical or emotional imbalances you may have.
The remedies listed below are some of the remedies that can be used on a symptomatic basis to relieve allergy symptoms. Homeopathic remedies are highly individualized, as you can see from the descriptions below. They can be tried at home for temporary relief, but for permanent relief, please visit a homeopath!

Allium cepa is the number one remedy for allergies and is useful if you have lots of sneezing and a clear watery nasal discharge. The discharge may burn the nostrils and upper lip, and the eyes may water a lot too. The symptoms get worse in a warm room, indoors, and in the evening, and are better in open air. The throat may tickle with a dry painful cough. It’s also helpful for colds that come on during wet weather with these symptoms.

Arsenicum may be indicated if you are suffering from violent sneezing along with a throbbing frontal headache. You may feel weak and chilly, with burning discharges, and feel better from heat. It can be useful for colds that come on from getting chilled when overheated if the symptoms fit.

Euphrasia can be brilliant for allergy symptoms that are centered around the eyes. This includes watery irritated eyes, with spasmodic bouts of sneezing. Symptoms are worse in the open air, in the morning, and when lying down.

Nux vomica is good for dry, tickling, scraping sensations in the nose or sinus, especially if the nose is stuffed at night and runs during the day. You may feel may feel chilly, sensitive to drafts, and irritable. This remedy is especially helpful if you have been touchy and reactive after working too hard before developing the allergy symptoms.

Natrum muriaticum helps when there is a heavy nasal discharge that looks like raw egg white. The discharge may be accompanied by a heavy bursting headache over the eyes. You may be thirsty, and suffer from loss of smell and taste from the allergies, and feel worse from heat and the sun.

Dulcamara symptoms include a nose that stuffs up with cold rain, as well as an earache from change of weather. You may be worse in cold wet weather or when there’s a sudden change from warm to cold or dry to moist. You may feel better from warmth. The associated mucus may be thick and yellow.

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Spring is in the air and the ants are marching right into your house. You may want to hold off on buying those ugly little ant traps, the little yellow packets just may do the trick.

I’ll never forget when I first read about Splenda. I jumped on the bandwagon as everyone else did. Then about four years ago, I read that you could use Splenda to kill household ants. So I dumped my bag of splenda in the dirt. Fascinated by my recent discovery, I began my research and here is what I found:

Splenda was “discovered” accidentally in a lab back in 1975 while trying to create a new insecticide (Ewww…who decided it was safe for human consumption? Oh yeah the FDA did back in 1998).
Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s will not sell Splenda or any product that contains “sucralose” because it does not fit within their code of ethics of selling “real food”. (Thank you Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s)
Sucralose, the made-up name by the manufacturer of Splenda, contains chlorinated compounds. (Ohhh…Splenda made up the name sucralose…because anything that ends on “ose” makes it sound like yummy sugar)
Chlorine is toxic and is not found in any food or table salt even though the manufacturer of Splenda will tell you it is fine. However there is chloride present in food and table salt, which is non-toxic. (Very sneaky Splenda makers)
Chlorine, (which we now know is in Splenda), has caused so much damage to human health that Greenpeace has launched a Chlorine-Free Campaign, calling for a worldwide ban on chlorine. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also maintains a strong anti-chlorine stance. (Did you know that cancer patients have high levels of chlorine in their bodies?)
If you really want some motivation for staying away from Splenda and anything that contains it (example: Weight Watchers, Atkins and South Beach, flavored waters, Crystal Light, diet drinks anything “diet” or labeled as “sugar-free”, “low in sugar” or no sugar” typically contains it. Yes, this includes your kids’ favorite “no-sugar” Hawaiian Punch) and if you are a future mother, read all about baby boys being born with shortened male anatomy due to chlorine passed to them in the womb. (and we want to do this to our unborn children, why?)
Studies show that people that consumed diet drinks were 41% more likely to be overweight than those who did not. (so diet drinks and foods are sabatoging our weight loss efforts? Seems like an oxymoron to me)
But honestly, any artificial sweetener will work. How do I know this? I have had both friends and family members try it with great success, even my sister-in-law who lives in a very rural part of Ohio. The nice thing about using up your little yellow (or blue or pink) packets is there are no harsh chemicals used. Your family does not breathe in all the chemicals, your baby doesn’t find an ant trap and put it in their mouths and if your pets lick it, you can save the call to poison control. Now is the time to try some other safer alternative sweeteners like stevia and agave nectar syrup. And don’t forget the old tried and trued, honey and real maple syrup (not Aunt Jemima).

Don’t get mad at me if your favorite drink contains sucralose. There are ways to give our families safer options if using a sweetener is a must. Here are some fun family cocktails that you can try (and it is cheaper than buying bottled juice):

Homemade Lemonade: 1 1/2c of real lemon juice (about 6 lemons squeezed), 6 cups of cold water, 1/3 cup of raw honey (more or less to your liking). Mix and enjoy!

Chocolate milk: 1 TB of cocoa powder, 1TB of agave nectar syrup and 1 cup of your favorite milk

Homemade Flavored Water: 1 cup of carbonated water, 1TB of agave nectar syrup and half of your favorite fruit squeezed such as an orange. Or puree your favorite berry such as frozen strawberries and a kiwi.

Homemade Orange Pop: 2 liter bottle of carbonated water, 1/2 can of orange juice concentrate, 3 lemons squeezed.

Get creative in the kitchen with the kids and leave the Splenda to the ants.

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The best sunscreen is a hat and a shirt. No chemicals to absorb through the skin, no questions about whether they work. But when you can’t get away from exposing your skin to the sun, use EWG’s top-rated sunscreens to provide broad-spectrum (UVA and UVB-sunburn) protection with fewer hazardous chemicals that penetrate the skin. Sunscreen and sunblock makers are awaiting FDA approval for a wider selection of UVA-blocking chemicals. In the meantime, all top-rated products contain either zinc or titanium minerals to help cut UVA exposures for sunscreen users.

Choose from among our top-rated sunscreens for broad spectrum protection with fewer hazardous ingredients. And follow our sun safety tips to protect your skin for a lifetime.

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I wish more people would get it. Hello sheeple – wake up please… before it is too late!!

The new Cars game looks really cool – Nicholas is really excited to check this out!! and see the new movie too!!
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Are you ready to take a crash course in saving the world? In Cars 2: The Video Game, train to become an agent of C.H.R.O.M.E. (Command Headquarters for Recon Operations & Motorized Espionage) and take on dangerous missions, compete to become the fastest racecar in the world, or just use your spy skills in exciting, action-packed combat racing! With so many new and exciting features what will friends be most excited to hear about?

Over 20 characters to choose from including past favorites such as Lightening McQueen and Mater the tow truck, as well as new spy personalities like Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell
Action packed missions that unfold in 6 exotic locales across the world
Adrenaline filled combat racing that keeps you on the edge of your seat
A robust multi-player functionality – perfect for high velocity fun for the whole family
Available on Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo DS, PC/Mac
ESRB Rating – Everyone to Everyone 10+
In stores June 21, 2011

PS – I’m a bzzagent – check it out!!

Thank you very much for helping him!!

By Julie Steenhuysen and Dan-bee Moon Julie Steenhuysen And Dan-bee Moon Mon May 9, 12:16 am ET

CHICAGO/SEOUL (Reuters) – One out of every 38 children in South Korea may have autism, a surprisingly high number based on a new research approach that suggests autism is a global problem that is significantly underdiagnosed, researchers said on Monday.

The estimate, which translates into 2.64 percent of children, is far higher than the estimated 1 percent rate seen in studies in the United States and Europe.

The study is the first to estimate autism in South Korea, and while the study needs to be confirmed, it suggests autism may be more common than previously thought.

“Are we surprised? Yes,” said Dr. Young-Shin Kim of Yale University, whose study was funded by the advocacy group Autism Speaks and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Kim’s team used a painstaking research method that involved screening 55,000 children aged 7 to 12 in the South Korean city of Goyang. The team surveyed parents about their children’s behavior, then followed up with evaluations of at risk children to confirm their diagnosis.

This population-based approach was designed to capture cases that might not be detected with methods that use school or medical records to identify autistic children.

“The high prevalence comes from this new population we included in our study — the kids without any previous developmental delays or mental health issues,” Kim said.

The autism rate among children from special schools was 0.75 percent, compared with 1.89 percent in regular school classrooms.

Rates of autism have been climbing in the past decade, in part because of changes in how it is diagnosed.
Instead of a single diagnosis, autism is a spectrum of diseases ranging from a profound inability to communicate and mental retardation to relatively mild symptoms such as with Asperger’s syndrome.

GLOBAL CONCERN
In Asia, parents are largely ignorant about the disorder, which has no cure, and are reluctant to face it.
“A lot of parents in Korea do not recognize autism symptoms. We are not sure if the figure is correct, but if it is, then numbers of autistic children may be underdiagnosed,” said a spokeswoman working at a specialist clinic.
“One problem that seems to pop up frequently is that parents do not want to acknowledge that their child/children may be autistic,” said the woman, who asked not to be named.

“Many do not recognize the need for clinical care, which is essential,” said a doctor at another such clinic. “Korean culture may make it more difficult to (accept) autism.”

The highly structured nature of South Korean schools — in which the school day can exceed 12 hours — may also contribute to the high numbers of children with undetected autism.

“For quiet, high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders, this environment may reduce the likelihood of referrals to special education programs,” the team wrote.

Geraldine Dawson of Autism Speaks said the study “confirms that autism is a significant global public health concern.”
But it also suggests current research methods are underestimating autism in the United States and elsewhere.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates autism affects nearly one in 110 children.
Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, an epidemiologist at CDC, said it is likely the agency’s method of estimating prevalence — focusing on probable cases — misses some children.

“We know that we are not capturing all of the cases,” she told Reuters in a telephone interview.
As for the South Korean study, she said, “We are concerned that this prevalence is so high, but we have to bear in mind they are using different methodology. Using different methodology gives you different estimates,” she said.
But Craig Newschaffer, an autism researcher at Drexel University in Philadelphia who has seen the study, said there may be other reasons the South Korean estimates are higher.

“Most of the cases came from the general population sample,” he said, in which only about 60 percent of parents participated. He said parents in regular schools who had concerns about their child’s development might have been more likely to participate than those who had no concerns.

But to Newschaffer, the numbers are less important than the finding that autism is so widespread. “Autism is a major public health problem in the United States, Europe and most likely worldwide. I don’t think this is a game changer, but I think we need to be paying more attention to figuring out why.”

Probe to Reveal Link Between Vaccine Settlements and Autism
May 9, 2011- 4:53 – Exclusive: Government paid multi-million dollar settlements to dozens of families whose kids suffered brain damage

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I am asking for your help for a child close to my heart that needs your help to win his iPad Challenge. We need only 60 pieces to be sold in order for him to get a free iPad.

Alex is 8 years old, is non-verbal – or I should say pre-verbal . This family has had many struggles including almost losing their home. They have tried so many things and not much has helped this little boy begin to speak. They are losing hope in ever hearing their son speak. It is my hope that with an iPad, they can begin to communicate with their son on a level they have yet been able to. And maybe, just maybe, it’ll help break down that barrier that’s preventing him from being able to talk.

The iPad is a great way for pre-verbal children with Autism to learn to communicate and has many benefits. When children can communicate, tantrums and frustration are reduced, which for any child who is suffering from autism, this is a huge plus.
Please go to this link (http://thepuzzlingpiece.com/products.html) and scroll down, purchase either the $20 necklace or keychain and write “recovering nicholas” in the box which reads “Challenger’s Name”.

If you can share this post with your friends, post it on your facebook pages and even twitter the link, I would really appreciate it!!

Thank you very much for helping him!!

Michelle

Edited 4/7/11 to add: Just wanted to provide some background information about Alex for those who have asked me… They have done SCD, GFCF, etc, IV chelation, supplements and have worked with two of the biggest DAN doctors. Alex has made progress, but has not progressed to the point of being able to speak. We’re hoping that having an iPad will open some new windows for him.

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So, I had our 1st 6 week follow up with Pierre on March 30th. My son is 8.5, high functioning. He has very choppy expressive language and is in general ed class in school with an aide. School “diagnosed” him with expressive language disorder and they don’t suspect ASD at all. My son holds it together very good in school but at home, the autism signs come out.

Since starting the remedy, these are incredible and new things we see in him:
1. sleeps through the night without any melatonin or benadryl, very peaceful
2. Stopped having awfull meltdowns where he would loose it and lock himself in the room for hours
3. He wants to get married some day and have babies
4. Huge emotional break throughs (ex: wants to move all the homeless people from Japan and their animals to our house and give them all his clothes and toys. cried about earthquake victims for days).
?5 . Incredible phisical gains, does sommersaults forward and backward 1st time in his life. Used to be very week in his abdominal area.
6. Vision improving, takes his glasses off all the time.
7. Abstract thinking developing, builds odd things like human bicep out of many tinker toys
8. Started dancing and listening to music.
9. Was in his class school play and had 21 word part in it.
10. understands some jokes. Overall cognition improved a lot.

So I think Pierre performed a total miracle here. He was very happy with the results and told me to continue with the remedy.

On the down side, Alex developed 3 strep throats in the last 2 months and Pandas symptoms along with it. Pierre said to use his remedy to treat strep and didn’t give us an acute remedy. Since I know nothing of homeopathy so far, I just obey the master:) Have to say, he is an extraordinary man, we are so fortunate to be his patients ?

Are you aware that vaccines cause autism?
Are you aware that the research studies that show there is no link are flawed and if you read them you would see how?
Are you aware that thimerosal is STILL in vaccines even though it may not be listed as an ingredient?
Are you aware that thimerosal isn’t the only ingredient you SHOULD be worried about?
Are you aware that the odds of your child being compensated for a vaccine-injury is probably one in a million?
Are you aware that one of the biggest pediatric practices in the United States does not vaccinate and has no autism?
Are you aware that the rate of autism has grown exponentially and will continue to rise?
Are you aware that if you are not touched personally by autism now that you will be before you die? (Do you care?)
Are you aware that diseases were already on their way out before the vaccines were introduced?
Are you aware that in a high percentage of cases of measles, etc that we hear about on the news to scare us that those children WERE vaccinated?
Are you aware of all of the vaccines in line to be added to your child’s vaccination schedule? (did you think there were alot now – you ain’t seen nothing yet!)
Are you aware that many states offer vaccine exemptions?
Are you aware that you’ve been lied to, that your child DOES NOT need to be fully vaccinated in order to attend public school?

I could go on and on and on. But the main thing to be aware of today is this – you need to be AWARE of the things going on around you. We no longer live in the time where we can go to our doctor and implicitly trust everything he/she tells us. We cannot read research studies and assume that the scientists doing the research have their fellow man’s best interest at heart and not their own financial gain. We can no longer trust what we see on the news or tv.

Be you and your child/family’s own advocate. Educate yourself. Spread your awareness to others!

Lots of talk these days about the bullying of young boys and girls in school by more aggressive students. This brings to my mind the biggest bully of all: the biotech company, Monsanto Corporation.

Taken in context, Monsanto’s list of corporate crimes should have been enough to pull their corporate charter years ago. And yet we allow them to continue to destroy our food supply, our health and the planet. Monsanto or Monsatan?

Take a look at the company’s track record and decide for yourself.

Agent Orange: Monsanto was the major financial beneficiary of this herbicide used to defoliate the jungles of Vietnam and destroy the health of American troops and their offspring. It also allowed Monsanto and other chemical companies to appeal for and receive protection from veterans seeking damages for their exposure to Agent Orange and any future biotech creations.

Aspartame: As far back as 1994, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a report listing 94 health issues caused by aspartame. It has been shown to cause slow but serious damage to the human body and yet it is used extensively in many commercial products.

Saccharin: Studies have shown that saccharin caused cancer in test rats and mice; and in six human studies, including one done by the National Cancer Institute, that consuming artificial sweeteners, such as saccharin and cyclamate, resulted in bladder cancer.

Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH): A genetically modified hormone injected into dairy cows to produce more milk, despite the fact that more milk was needed. The cows suffer excruciating pain due to swollen udders and mastitis. The pus from the infection enters the milk supply requiring more antibiotics to be given to the cows. BST milk may also cause breast cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer in humans.

RoundUp: The world’s most commonly used herbicide and weed killer has been linked to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, in a study by eminent oncologists Dr. Lennart Hardell and Dr. Mikael Eriksson of Sweden. Used on genetically modified crops resistant to RoundUp’s active ingredient glyphosate, environmentalists and health professionals are concerned that far from reducing herbicide use, glyphosate-resistant crops may result in increased residues in food to which consumers will be exposed.

Genetically Modified Crops (GMO): Monsanto created Frankenfoods by gene-splicing corn, cotton, soy, and canola with DNA from a foreign source. Consequently these crops are resistant to massive doses of the herbicide, RoundUp, but in turn herbicide-resistant superweeds are taking over. After running into resistance in the west, Monsanto is pushing GMO crops in third-world countries.

According to physicist, ecologist, and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, “Syugenta and Monsanto are rushing ahead with the mapping and patenting of the rice genome. If they could, they would own rice and its genes, even though the 200,000 rice varieties that give us diverse traits have been bred and evolved by rice farmers of Asia collectively over millennia. Their claim to inventing rice is a violence against the integrity of biodiversity and life forms; it is a violence against the knowledge of third-world farmers.”

Terminator Seeds: A technology that produces sterile grains unable to germinate, forcing farmers to buy seeds from Monsanto rather than save and reuse the seeds from their harvest. Terminators can cross-pollinate and contaminate local non-sterile crops putting in danger the future seed supply and eventually giving control of the world’s food supply to Monsanto and the GM industry.

Standard American Diet: According to the Organic Consumers Association, “There is a direct correlation between our genetically engineered food supply and the $2 trillion the U.S. spends annually on medical care, namely an epidemic of diet-related chronic diseases.

Instead of healthy fruits, vegetables, grains, and grass-fed animal products, U.S. factory farms and food processors produce a glut of genetically engineered junk foods that generate heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. Low fruit and vegetable consumption is directly costing the United States $56 billion a year in diet-related chronic diseases.”

Over all good news!, we started our constitutional remedy on October 8th last year! wow more than 4 months!, and I can certainly say that my son never had so many gains in such a short time. Homeopathy ‘fixed’ and is still fixing a lot of things! no environmental allergies, no more asthma, no more rashes from food intolerance were the beginning for us, now we have a lot of new things!, his levels of concentration are increasing more and more, focusing!, understanding a lot more language, I see emotion on his face! we get all kind of faces , he gets thing he never did before! he kiss and hugs his classmates, not afraid of giving ‘hi5′ to his NT classmates, Eli started to use sign language and saying words at the same time like never did before!! [even I'm learning ASL because he speaks more if he uses sign language], his cognitive levels has increase too!, he plays different games on my iphone! and he never cared for this before, he can play table games with 8 typical kids waiting turns and really playing!, following directions wow!!!! and this is not something I only see it, everybody is telling me all these things too and the teachers, therapists all of them confirm this daily. We still have some obsessions over fixing his toys, some days less sensory that others but I only got 3 little ’2 min’ tantrums in almost 3 months!!!, I am crying while typing all these beautiful things my child does now, is just now that my feeling are coming out, it seems like I am dreaming, we started so far away! with a little 2 yrs old child who would cover his ears and cry all day long and now I see a different Eli, a son who kiss me like used to do it before he got his autism, hugs me and enjoys a little better family activities. We still have a long way to go but I see day by day he is doing new things, carrying on his new skills everywhere he goes. he seems stronger now, his immune system is ‘working’ he got the influenza virus and didn’t get asthma, I was in shock! anything triggers asthma and I’m sure you know this! but if he didn’t get it this time, I can truly say that it is gone forever. I found that doing 3 drops with a sip dose ‘formula’ with 6 succusion helps him, Pierre said to continue doing this way. Autism is not gone I know that but wow! what a different child!!!! wishing you all the best!!!! XOXO!!!!

We Are Anti-Vaccine Wackos. It’s Just What We Do.

There is a lot of arguing between autism groups. Those who align with the ND side (neuro-diversity) often accuse those on the biomedical side of “hating” our children and refusing to accept them for who they are. Those of us whose children got very sick (physically) after receiving vaccines can be off-putting and may be guilty of the kind of over-zealous fanaticism frequently associated with ex-smokers and “Bible-thumpers.” This post is my attempt to highlight some of the reasons why we do what we do.

There is a multitude of issues regarding vaccines. Probably the biggest issue, as it relates to autism and other neurodevelopmental, immunological, gastrointestinal disorders is the overwhelming number and concentration in the ever-growing childhood schedule.

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Today’s supermarket is a fun house of hues. Its aisles feature riotously colored processed foods perfectly engineered to appeal to the part of your brain that says “yum”: Technicolor Starburst candy. Polychromatic Froot Loops. A rainbow of flavored juices.

Those hyper-saturated colors have come to seem normal, even natural, like the come-ons of tropical fruits. But they are increasingly produced through the magic of artificial food dyes, applied not just to candies and snack foods but to such seemingly all-natural products as pickles, salad dressing and some oranges.

Artificial dyes aren’t just making your Yoplait Light Red Raspberry yogurt blush and your Kraft Macaroni and Cheese glow in the dark. They are causing behavioral problems and disrupting children’s attention, according to a growing number of scientific studies. On Wednesday, following the lead of European regulators, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will begin a review of research on the behavioral effects of artificial dyes. In a significant turn from the agency’s previous denials that dyes have any influence on children’s behavior, an FDA staff report released last week concluded that synthetic food colorings do affect some children.

The agency should take action. Allowing the use of artificial dyes violates the FDA’s mandate to protect consumers from unsafe products. It also runs afoul of the agency’s mandate to crack down on food that has been made “to appear better or of greater value than it is.”

Concern about food dye is long-standing. In the 1800s, American food manufacturers began doctoring their wares with toxic pigments made from lead and copper. In the second half of that century, a revolution in organic chemistry brought artificial dyes made from coal tar — a relative advance over lead.

At the turn of the 20th century, margarine producers were making the most of the technology: They added new yellow dyes to their colorless product to better compete with butter. But the dairy industry lobbied for bans and taxes on colored margarine, and state legislatures and Congress obliged. Consumers who wanted their margarine yellow could open a separate packet of dye and mix it in themselves.

In 1906, Congress took up the question of whether artificial dyes were bad for consumers, with the first of several major acts. The most recent and stringent of them, passed in 1960, banned color additives that caused cancer in humans or animals. But the fate of one such additive, Red 3, illustrates how even strong legislation can be thwarted. Lab rats that were fed large amounts of the dye developed thyroid cancer, so in 1984 the acting FDA commissioner recommended banning it. However, fruit-cocktail producers, who relied on the dye to brighten maraschino cherries, pleaded with the Department of Agriculture to block the move. As a result, the FDA banned Red 3 only in cosmetics and topical drugs.

In the early 1990s, FDA and Canadian scientists found that Red 40, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6, the three most widely used dyes, were contaminated with likely human carcinogens. And while many foods, such as M&M’s and Kellogg’s Hot Fudge Sundae Pop Tarts, include as many as five different dyes, even today the carcinogenic potential of such combinations has not been tested.

Despite those concerns, parents continued to serve up meals and stuff their children’s lunchboxes with more and more processed foods colored with dyes, stoking a five-fold increase in the per-capita production of food dyes over the past 50 years.

Over the same period, psychiatrists and teachers were seeing more attention and behavioral problems, while allergists were raising concerns about Yellow 5. Physician Benjamin Feingold’s 1975 book, “Why Your Child Is Hyperactive,” along with the additive-free diet it promoted, spawned numerous studies on the effect of additives on attention-deficit disorders.

In 2004, one of us co-authored an analysis of the best studies of food dyes’ effects on behavior. That analysis found striking evidence that hyperactive children who consumed dyes became significantly more hyperactive than children who got a placebo.

At the same time, the British government funded two studies, each involving almost 300 children. Their results were even more startling: Artificial food dyes (in combination with a common preservative) could make even children with no known behavioral problems hyperactive and inattentive.

Health officials in the United Kingdom urged manufacturers to stop using the six dyes — including Red 40, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 — involved in those studies. Next, the European Parliament required that foods containing those chemicals bear a label warning that the dyes “may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.” That is seen by some as the death knell for artificial dyes throughout Europe.

Beyond the behavioral problems and cancer risks, the greatest hazard that dyes pose for children may also be the most obvious: They draw kids away from nutritious foods and toward brightly colored processed products that are high in calories but low in nutrients, such as fruit-flavored drinks and snack foods. Those types of foods are a major force in America’s obesity epidemic, which, according to the Society of Actuaries, costs the nation $270 billion a year.

Artificial colorings are explicitly meant to manipulate consumers’ perceptions. Manufacturers tout research showing that redness enhances the impression of sweetness, and that in tests with beverages and sherbets, the color of the product did more to influence consumers’ perception of the flavor than the flavor itself. One dye marketer states that its colorings offer “a limitless palette, unmatched technology and the emotional connection between people and color.”

A world without harmful dyes does not mean a future of blandly beige snacks. A range of vivid natural colorings, made largely from plant extracts, is already in use in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States. In Britain, for example, McDonald’s Strawberry Sundaes are made without artificial coloring; here, Red 40 adds to the strawberry color. Both the British and American formulations of Nutri-Grain Strawberry cereal bars contain strawberries, but in Britain plant-based colorings add extra color, while in the United States Red 40 does the job.

Fortunately, some U.S. companies are switching to colorings found in nature. The bountiful shelves of Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are devoid of dyes, Necco has dropped artificial dyes from its iconic wafers, and Starbucks has banned dyes from its baked goods and drinks. Most companies will resist, because artificial dyes are brighter, cheaper and more stable than natural colorings. It’s also a nuisance for them to reformulate their dyed products — and the government has given them no incentive to change.

Today, Britons enjoy all the colorful foods they have come to expect without many of the health risks they learned to avoid. Here, we get the same foods — but until the FDA bans synthetic dyes, we get them with a side order of dangerous and unnecessary chemicals.

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David W. Schab is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. Michael F. Jacobson is the executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Classical homeopathy has been used with some success to both alleviate mental and physical symptoms, and sometimes to cure individuals with autism. Many parents have reported significant improvement in their autistic children after the children received homeopathic care.
In classical homeopathy, remedy selection involves addressing the person in totality by looking at the following:
- Behaviors
- Physical Symptoms
- Emotional Symptoms
- Genetic weaknesses (also identified as miasms or constitutions)
- Environmental factors such as vaccinations, drugs or other environmental toxins

If the remedy is correctly selected on the totality of symptoms, then improvement may be seen in all areas. Homeopaths try to determine the individual’s susceptibility, ie. Individual weaknesses in the vital force, to both cure and prevent a re-occurrence of symptoms. The first effort should be to take a full case and give the remedy that most closely matches the individual’s expression of their disease. It is a widely held belief in many circles that the MMR vaccine has catapulted ASD to its current level of epidemic proportion. To the extent that vaccines have been involved in a particular case, the potentized vaccine may also help.

Though many ADD/HD individuals have been helped by homeopathy, it is still believed that a full recovery through homeopathy is not usual. However, many homeopaths see big improvements in the symptoms and behaviors of ASD individuals, even when there is not complete recovery. Starting treatment as early as possible improves the chance of a successful recovery from autism. Ideally treatment should begin before age 5. It has been observed that as children with ASD age, they seem to become more distant and it is harder to bring them back. Cases are also often complicated by other interventions such as allopathic drugs, vaccinations, behavioral therapies, etc.

Curing autism can be a long term project, taking months or even years, as the homeopath deals with various layers and tries to understand the individual well enough to select the true simillimum. When a remedy is found that resonates, the effect is usually quite evident and significant improvements can be seen. Homeopaths ask parents to not introduce other treatments or interventions in the earlier stages of homeopathy, so they can observe the direct effects of the homeopathic treatment.

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2. Artficial Symptoms are Introduced Not only can interventions remove symptoms from the case; they can also introduce new ones by way of their own side-effects. This can pose problems for the practitioner, who must then decide whether the new symptoms are: · an aggravation produced by the remedy, in which case the remedy should [read more here]

Analysis and Prescription: Repertorisation of Connor’s symptoms suggested that any one of seven remedies might have suited him. As always, reference to the material medica guided the final prescription. While many symptoms were common to all seven remedies, significant and individualising symptoms such as pebble-like stools, love of animals, and desire for apples predominated in [read more here]

Prior to making the appointment with Pierre, I was torn between heading down the Yasko route next or trying homeopathy. I plowed through Yasko’s latest book at the time, taking my facebook friends with me on that journey, posting every tidbit that I hadn’t already known sparking lots of discussions and revelations along the way.

At the time, we were getting close to the “100 round” mark of Andy Cutler chelation and all I could feel was despair. Sure, Nicholas made gains from the AC chelation protocol, but he still had so very far to go. Up until that point, I had been so hopeful, so positive, so damn sure that AC protocol was going to recover my son. But with 90 rounds done and no end in sight, I no longer shared the enthusiasm for the protocol that I used to. When I first heard about the protocol from the various yahoo groups I belonged to, 100 was the magic number to recovery. Some even claimed recovery after the 50 round mark. These days, I hear the magic number has been moved somewhere between 200 and 300 rounds. For more severe kids, it could be 400. In case you’re wondering, a round consists of a weekend that you chelate, so 400 rounds would take you approximately 8 years.

As I contemplated which direction I was going to, Yasko’s protocol wasn’t sitting well with me for some reason. Aside from the cost (which is huge), it just didn’t feel right to me. I had 2 friends who had seen Pierre and both of their children were recovered. (Recovered recovered – no diet, supplements, etc. Not “managed” recovery.) One of those friends, I used to speak to pretty regularly and she mentioned she was seeing good things with homeopathy, but I was too immersed into the AC protocol, that I just blew it off. Because after all, at the time, I felt that if you didn’t fully chelate your child, they would not fully recover. One afternoon when I was in the midst of debating which path we were going to go down, her facebook status popped up in my newsfeed and it blew me away. I emailed her because I just knew it was about her NT (neurotypical) son. When she replied that it was not about her NT, but her ASD child (well, formerly ASD), I picked up the phone and made an appointment with Pierre. I never asked anyone about him. I never even googled his name. Turns out, the least researched treatment was the best move I ever made. Go figure.

The appointment was odd, therapeutic and draining. I left his office wondering if I had made the right decision. But then started to think about when I had used homeopathic remedies in the past – and then remembered that THEY WORKED. A sudden flood of memories, like Nicholas teething and those little pellets that I used to say were worth far more than their weight in gold, hit me. The flu remedy, oscillococcinum always worked. Chestal, a homeopathic cough syrup, also worked. And then the feeling of hope returned to me leaving me somewhat confident that good things were around the corner.

I hoped that maybe he’d climb another rung towards recovery, that we’d hear some more language, that he’d gain another level of clarity, that maybe I wouldn’t have to give him diflucan anymore. A year ago, I could have never imagined my life, our lives, as they are today. It is beyond my wildest dreams. It’s like all of his issues just melted away. I have my son back. I have MY life back. I cherish every moment I spend with my son – remembering all too well that it wasn’t long ago when he used to tantrum out of control so bad that we couldn’t take him anywhere. I remember that it wasn’t long ago when I would cry for hours at a time wondering if he would ever look me in the eye or call me Mommy.

I am happy to report that Nicholas continues to do well. He has been doing great in his mainstream classroom (no aide!), has been making friends, continues with karate and is just such an absolute joy to be around, take places and just have fun with. I never thought we would be in this place – you know – the one where you just get to live life and not be reminded about autism every single second of your day – but here we are and I hope that all of you say the same thing very soon. I am so very, very thankful for every second I get to spend with this little boy who despite what he has been through, has not seemed to miss a beat or let it get him down in any way.

It has been almost a year that we are free from supplements, mb12 shots and I no longer worry about foods, food colorings, etc. I truly thought I would never see a day where I could make such a statement.

Autism was such a road block for our family – it seemed to drag everything down – and it did. With the massive expense of all of the supplements and the huge monthly payment we still have on our hbot (which we no longer use, haven’t for quite some time), we had to focus on what foods Nicholas was eating first before we could think of ourselves. We gained a ton of weight along this journey. (Who hasn’t, right?) We always put ourselves and our needs last. We put every ounce of hope, determination, every dollar we had, every spare (and not so spare) minute we had into our son. And I don’t regret giving so much of myself to my child, nor does my husband – but we have been able to turn our lives around, lose all of that weight (thanks to homeopathy!) and get back on the path we were meant to be on before autism.

The road that we are on has bumps, just like anyone else’s, but one thing that’s not on our route anymore is autism. And for that alone, I am grateful each and every day. It’s time to start saving for college!

Thank you, Pierre Fontaine, we cannot imagine where we would be had we not met you a year ago today.

First, a little background:
Eric has autism, ataxic cerebral palsy, apraxia of speech, scoliosis, severe central hypotonia, GI issues….you name it. When I first heard about Pierre, I had been doing biomedical treatment, with my son Eric, for 2 years, 9 months. I was getting frustrated with the supplement regime and we had hit a plateau. At that point, Eric had about 20 words he used with any regularity. He could only say one-syllable words and only one, maybe two, at a time. We had controlled his severe anxiety and outbursts/meltdowns with 5-HTP and l-theanine. He was on 23 different supplements, most of those given 2-3 times a day. We had removed gluten, dairy, soy, artificial additives/preservatives, eggs and peanuts from his diet. Still we battled chronic diarrhea, which his GI specialist said was “normal”. When we noticed the spinal curvature, we took him to a pediatric orthopedic specialist. He diagnosed a 23 degree curvature. He told us that he would normally prescribe a brace, but since Eric has autism, he wasn’t going to because there was no use. (There is nothing quite like listening to a doctor tell you, in so many words, your child isn’t worth helping.)
This kind of treatment was becoming the norm for us. Doctors weren’t sure what to do, so they just didn’t bother.
We stopped his physical and occupational therapies at the end of August, 2010. He hated it, and frankly, after 4 years it just wasn’t helping. We stopped speech therapy 2 months later because something at the school was making him very ill. The school wasn’t interested in finding and treating the cause, and I wasn’t willing to fight them when the therapy really wasn’t helping. I could get so much more out of him when I worked with him at home than they could and we had been having problems with him refusing to do anything they had him do in therapy at home. He seemed to feel that anything done in therapy was “work” and didn’t go home.,
Our son was turning 5 in one month. He could barely speak, couldn’t feed himself with utensils, was still in diapers, angry, frustrated and generally miserable. So, when I heard about Pierre, I thought it sounded too good to be true, but something told me to take a leap of faith and try it. Thank God I did.
We started his remedy on September 11, 2010. Within 15 minutes of the first dose, we saw a change. It was like his whole body breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed. He slept for 12 hours that night and awoke a new child. He was calm, attentive, relaxed and engaged. It lasted for about 4 days, then started slipping. With Pierre’s guidance, we have seen remarkable progess over the last 5 months. Eric can now speak in sentences. Some of it is parrot speech, some is appropriate, spontaneous speech. Bottom line, it IS speech. Last week, he recited “Itsy, Bitsy Spider”. He now plays (and fights and competes) with his brother. Before there was little interest beyond screaming if his younger brother cried or fussed. But the biggest improvements have to do with his GI issues, scoliosis and ACP. Since starting homeopathy, he has only had a few bouts with diarrhea instead of daily, as before. He can now tolerate dairy, without spaciness or diarrhea, and eggs, without breaking out in hives. Gluten is still a bit of an issue in that it will cause diarrhea, but no behavioral symptoms. We have not challenged him with soy (it caused seizures) or peanuts (I just don’t want to take that chance).
While bathing him, I noticed his curvature didn’t seem as pronounced. I took him to my chiropractor (I wasn’t about to give that useless ortho doc another penny!). She x-rayed him and discovered that the curvature had improved to about 13 degrees! I say “about” because she only has a stand-up machine and he had to hold onto something to stand. She had also noticed over the prior two monthly visits that his muscle had improved considerably and was surprised to learn we were no longer going to a physical therapist. We have seen his fine and gross motor skills improve so that he is now able to consistently use a fork to feed himself, get on and off furniture without falling, manipulate small toys and sit cross-legged on the floor without help.
Behavior-wise, he is now better behaved than out NT 2 year old. No meltdowns in about 4 months, but he does get frustrated when we can’t understand what he is trying to tell us. The apraxia makes him very difficult to understand sometimes.
But the best, so far, took place on February 17, 2011. He managed to bring himself to a standing position from the floor, without pulling up. I looked up and he was just standing completely erect, albeit a bit shakily, in the middle of our living room! He stood there for a few seconds – a huge smile on his face, practically glowing with pride – then gently lowered himself back to the floor. It was the first time he had ever stood, unassisted, in his life! Although he has attempted this many times in the past, he has never risen above a crouch and always fell – never the controlled lowering back to the floor. I was thrilled beyond belief, but afraid it was a fluke, kinda of a one-time thing. But no, he did it again a couple of hours later.
In the days since then, he has been pulling up on furniture and letting go, practicing balancing. I have also caught him practicing standing in his bed, and he does it pretty well!
We are beyond thrilled with his progress, so far and look forward to even more improvements in the coming months.

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NJ Stands to Lose Freedom of Religious Exemption Is Your State Next?

NJ, your right to a religious vaccine exemption is about to be denied. Which state is next?

It’s time to make our voices heard at our elected legislative offices with a MASSIVE call-in/ write-in campaign. Contact info and details are below.This must be done today (2/16) and tomorrow, Thursday (2/17)

#1 – Call your local ASSEMBLYPERSONS: Tell them you are a constituent and to vote NO on ACR 157 an “Assembly Concurrent Resolution,” which allows the state and our health department to define the criteria acceptable for a parent’s religious exemption. This bill was fast tracked in the last month without any public debate or hearing. It must be stopped. The legislators need to represent their constituents, not the special interest lobbyists.

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#2 – Call/Email SPEAKER SHEILA OLIVER: She has the power to pull this resolution. This is the message for the Assembly Speaker, Sheila Oliver, who technically decides whether the bill should be posted or not. Tell her this is an inappropriate resolution that threatens our constitutional rights. She needs calls and emails.

ASSEMBLY SPEAKER, SHEILA OLIVER
Suite 202/ 15-33 Halsted Street/ East Orange, NJ 07018
973-395-1166 (phone)
973.395.1724 (fax)
email: aswoliver@njleg.org

#3 – Call/Email GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Ask him to put a stop to ACR157!

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR:
P.O. Box 001
Trenton NJ, 08625
609-292-6000 (phone)
609-292-5181 (fax)
Or you can submit an email.

The Hearing is Scheduled for 1pm in the Assembly Chambers, so if you are able to get to Trenton, please go. (Bring a small sign to hold). Not sure what we will be permitted to do, but they need to see us.

Assemblyman Dr. Herb Conaway (Assembly Health Committee Chair who stonewalled our bill for 6+ years) is forcing through an Assembly Concurrent Resolution (ACR 157) for tighter guidelines on what would constitute a “valid” religious exemption.

IN OTHER WORDS… the state will attempt to define criteria under which someone could claim a religious exemption. Sound unconstitutional? INDEED! Do you believe our legislators and health department are qualified to establish religious exemption criteria, and school administrators are appropriate to judge parents’ religious tenets as they relate to their children’s vaccinations?

It seems our elected officials have forgotten the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America! “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment o f religion, or prohibiting the free exercise, thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

CALL, WRITE, E-MAIL, FAX – as many times a day as you can for as many days as you can. We deserve to the right to informed consent and demand to have our bill heard and no further resolutions passed to restrict our rights Visit www.NJVaccinationChoice.org Sign the Online Petition Supporting A2450!

Congratulations Benjamin! This is amazing – I am so happy for you – for all of you!!

Update on Benjamin!!
He has been doing amazingly well! We are totally not doing our diet anymore now…I introduced yogurt again these past two weeks after being dairy free for two years with no reactions, rashes, or tummy problems!!! I had fun this past weekend picking organic yogurt tubes and greek kids cups for him! Cant wait to give it to him for lunch tomorrow! We are always going to try to keep his diet clean as in no food coloring or preservatives which I think is good for anyone. But, it is nice to know that every now and then if we are out at a game or event that he can have that cookie the other soccer mom made and is trying to give to him!! he loves it! We had to homeschool this year due to behavior problems last year at our school. He finished kindergarten last year not being able to read, write, or do math. He was reading the first month of homeschooling. Sounding out the words and doing worksheets for me. Reading stories outloud to me from our readers.Doing math…alone by the way because “Mommy, I have to focus.” I was told by the school that he would never read or write or be successful without being in a public school with a special ed teacher. I am going to be honest and say that I was terrified to homeschool him. But, homeopathy brought out huge huge changes in my son. He has soared. We have cried with the happiness only a parent of a child who has been told they CANT can feel when they DO. I know without a doubt that this is why my son can focus and do the work…he is clear headed, sweet, funny, smart, and we are getting to know him more and more every day. I took a leap of faith when I called Pierre….I was not sure..worried it would be yet another thing we tried that may have helped a little but not getting us where we wanted which was RECOVERY!!! that is what we all want. I feel very very fortunate to know Pierre and all of the wonderful moms and dads I have met during this process. I would not change a single thing. Who know where we will be next year. Last year at this time…I was a broken person. Desparing over what was going to happen to my son…being told this was who he was and was always going to be…I almost believed them. I almost let go of that small voice telling me they were wrong…he could do it. There was a way. Listen to that voice. I did and I got my son back. So we keep moving forward. I spent many sleepless nights looking for hope during my deepest darkest times and that is all i am trying to do…Give hope to anyone out there wondering….

You can register here:
http://autismone.com/content/2011-autismone-conference

For those of you who have asked me, Pierre Fontaine will be speaking at this year’s conference!

Over all good news!, we started our constitutional remedy on October 8th last year! wow more than 4 months!, and I can certainly say that my son never had so many gains in such a short time. Homeopathy ‘fixed’ and is still fixing a lot of things! no environmental allergies, no more asthma, no more rashes from food intolerance were the beginning for us, now we have a lot of new things!, his levels of concentration are increasing more and more, focusing!, understanding a lot more language, I see emotion on his face! we get all kind of faces , he gets thing he never did before! he kiss and hugs his classmates, not afraid of giving ‘hi5′ to his NT classmates, Eli started to use sign language and saying words at the same time like never did before!! [even I'm learning ASL because he speaks more if he uses sign language], his cognitive levels has increase too!, he plays different games on my iphone! and he never cared for this before, he can play table games with 8 typical kids waiting turns and really playing!, following directions wow!!!! and this is not something I only see it, everybody is telling me all these things too and the teachers, therapists all of them confirm this daily. We still have some obsessions over fixing his toys, some days less sensory that others but I only got 3 little ’2 min’ tantrums in almost 3 months!!!, I am crying while typing all these beautiful things my child does now, is just now that my feeling are coming out, it seems like I am dreaming, we started so far away! with a little 2 yrs old child who would cover his ears and cry all day long and now I see a different Eli, a son who kiss me like used to do it before he got his autism, hugs me and enjoys a little better family activities. We still have a long way to go but I see day by day he is doing new things, carrying on his new skills everywhere he goes. he seems stronger now, his immune system is ‘working’ he got the influence virus and didn’t get asthma, I was in shock! anything triggers asthma and I’m sure you know this! but if he didn’t get it this time, I can truly say that it is gone forever. Autism is not gone I know that but wow! what a different child!!!! wishing you all the best!!!! XOXO!!!!

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My almost 7 year old is DX’d with autism although he is more Asperger’s like. My 5 year old is almost NT. I have bad bad chronic fatigue.

Let’s talk AC chelation first. We started in May. We, all three, were very toxic. My two boys weigh 65 & 60 pounds respectively. I started them on 6mg ALA and DMSA. Even with this small dosage it was very very rough. Horrible regressions. Both were asked to leave summer day camp and my almost NT was also asked to leave his summer preschool enrichment program. Their behavior was wild, feral. Uncontrollable. It was also hard on me too. The fatigue and brain fog were debilitating. Thank God I have a couch in my kitchen. I get up. Make breakfast. Lay down. Refill their coconut milk. Lay down. You get the idea. We had a tough summer.

I stuck with the chelation, though, because I knew that their horrible behavior and my fatigue and brain fog meant that we were in great need of detoxification. It also validated what I already knew via our hair tests….that we were mercury and lead toxic.

At some point during this difficult time I read RecoveringNicholas’ story about her experience with Pierre. Just for grins I made an appointment and bought the Lansky book and Pierre’s book too. I thought it was all kind of nutty but harmless…and I was willing to try it. I was (and still am to some degree) of the typical logical biomed mindset. Biomed (and AC Chelation) makes sense to me. It is easy to understand. It is logical. So homeopathy in itself was a big stretch for me to grasp hold of and get on board with…. logically. I made the mistake of reading Pierre’s book first. Although now I think I get most of what he tries to communicate about homeopathy in his book……now after using homeopathy for 3 months….however, when I was reading it I was thinking….man this guy is really cuckoo. Then I read Lansky’s book. It helped a little. By that I mean it helps tie a logical thought pattern to the underlying ‘science’ behind homeopathy. But since I am not the kind of person that believes everything she reads….I was still skeptical. Nevertheless I had the appt with Pierre scheduled and so I was committed mentally to give it a try.

My first consult with Pierre was in mid July. I did the consult for my 7 year old autistic son. Pierre thankfully discovered that my son’s remedy would also be my remedy. It didn’t take more than a week before I was a homeopathy believer. The first thing I noticed was that the regression he was going through since starting AC chelation was gone. Overnight. And he no longer has side effects. We have been able to ramp him up quickly from the 6mg that was previously debilitating to him….to 25mg….all without any side effects whatsoever.

With homeopathy my son was instantly more aware of everything around him. Noticing things that had always been around…but he had never ‘seen’. Asking questions about things that weren’t his preferred topic. Attending to tasks much much better…he can actually sit down and do his homework. (Did I mention he is ADD too?) Less anger, arguing, irritability. Irrational fears gone. He is actually pretend playing with his brother. He took his backpack to the car without me asking him to (I had never ever asked him to do it before…so he was anticipating the need of it being done all by himself). Improved eye contact. He deals better with frustration….specifically his pesky little brother. He will now occasionally ask, “mom, what did you do today while I was at school.” Wow. We haven’t completely given up on ‘the diet’ yet…but when he eats gluten or casein….really nothing happens anymore. We still have a ways to go….but the progress is nothing short of amazing.

Don’t’ get me wrong. Homeopathy is not all smooth sailing. I have the privilege of talking to a few dozen other moms who are using homeopathy with Pierre to recover their children. There is a definite healing pattern…OK it’s more like a roller coaster ride that lasts for about 4 to 6 weeks in the beginning. The body is detoxing. It is going to happen. I have very informally concluded that those children who have gone through some sort of detoxification before going to homeopathy (IE Chelation or other)….that these children have a somewhat easier time during the rollercoaster ride. But it is still not smooth sailing. And there are exceptions to this rule, of course. For us the roller coaster ride was increased hyperactivity, irrationality, tantrums (our boy never tantrumed much before this), loud, excessive talking. Other moms have reported fevers, night wakings, diarehea, vomiting, etc. It is all part of the healing process. (See link…specifically the article “Understanding The Healing Crisis” by ?Ginger Chalford, Ph.D http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/p … lingcrisis)

But even during the rollercoaster ride…there was definitely more awareness and other subtle improvements. I’ve seen people ask “what are your big wow’s with homeopathy”. Well I don’t have any big wows. I just have a TON of small subtle changes that all add up to a big wow. We are not done, recovered yet. But there are days now where he is so “on” that I can see that someday he will get there.

I want to share my own experience with AC chelation and homeopathy. As I said earlier chelation was hard on my brain and body. Intense, intense brain fog and fatigue…while on very little doses of DMSA. (I followed the 3 month rule b/c I had an amalgam filling removed) The first few days after I took the remedy were tough for me. I was having my own healing crisis…and for me it was really bad irritability for 4 days. Then for 8 days after that I had the most intense brain fog ever. On the eighth day…the brain fog was impossibly intense…I remember sitting in church and I looked up at my husband and said something like “I don’t understand a word he’s saying (the preacher) and I couldn’t pay attention right now if you paid me a million dollars”. It was like I could ‘feel’ the brain matter (in 3D) within my skull. I was something I have never experienced before and have not since. I went to sleep that night and in the morning it was gone. No more brain fog. Haven’t had brain fog since. None. Zilch. Nada. I think I was taking 15mg DMSA at the time. I’ve since added ALA and have increased the dosages on both to 100 mg. (yes, every 3 hours). I have NO SIDE EFFECTS. You AC chelation people (those who are well-read on AC chelation) know what that means. YES I believe the mercury is GONE from my brain. I think it is also almost all gone from my other organs too. I have halved my thyroid meds since beginning homeopathy. (Actually in the first two weeks) I have reduced my cortisol supplementation by two-thirds since beginning homeopathy. (this took a bit longer to do.) I am by no means ‘healed’…but I am getting there. I have much more energy. There are actually days where I don’t lay down at all until bedtime. Anyone with bad CFS knows that is significant.

I’m glad I didn’t wait until I understood homeopathy before I tried it. I’m glad I didn’t wait for it to make sense to me. I’ve read the Lansky book…and I still don’t completely understand how it heals and YES removes metals. I really just DON’T CARE how it works. I just know that it is SAFE and I KNOW IT IS WORKING. Thank God I didn’t wait…or I’d still be laying down on my couch in the kitchen between servings of mashed potatoes.

And it’s not just working for my family. Like I said I have the privilege of talking to many other moms whose kids are less functional than my own. Other moms are saying that their kids only had one or two words…then within weeks have a dozen or more. It is not just the high functioning kids that benefit from it. It is not just those kids who have been doing chelation for years that see improvements. Kids of all backgrounds, ages, all levels of functioning are getting better. Homeopathy is not a magic pill. It doesn’t cure overnight. There are difficult times….but the improvements are totally worth it. And the improvements last….unlike so many biomed WOWs we experienced that faded away.

We are still doing AC chelation…but I am becoming more and more convinced that it is not necessary. I am planning on doing hair tests in March or April of next year. I believe that will tell me an interesting story.

For anyone who is still reading and is interested in my almost NT son. He is NT in almost every way. However, I’ve done enough research to know that he has gut issues. He is excessively strong willed, intensely uncooperative and has ADD. At the same time he is also incredibly charming and sweet. He has been on his own remedy for a month so he is still in the ‘roller coaster’ phase. In general he tolerates the chelation much better now. No more side effects. And I mean none. During his ‘up’ days on the roller coaster ride the remedy is helping him be more cooperative and less likely to antagonize his brother. His teacher has told me that he is finally sitting and doing the ‘work’ in his Montessori preschool class…and actually wanting to learn. Up until this point he had been resistant to doing really anything that was not ‘his idea’. On his good days he is peaceful and compliant. It is nothing short of amazing.

Original Post here: http://www.autismweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=160538#p160538
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Nicholas continues to do well and has continued to make incredible gains despite us dropping all of his supplements. It has been so nice to be supplement-free and I’m sure Nicholas has appreciated not having to swallow them!

Every week that goes by, we see progress in many different areas. He still has some catching up to do, but we’re seeing him advance further and further. In many areas, he is age appropriate and beyond. Every day, he says things I have never heard him say. Every day, he’ll reference knowledge on a particular subject that we never thought he studied or knew about. He wants to participate in team sports and takes an interest if there are kids playing a sport while we’re at the park or driving past a ball field. He is inquisitive and is retaining the answers we are giving him and continues to build on this knowledge. If we are going somewhere, he asks if there will be kids there for him to play with.

We were recently able to take him on vacation to Disney and he did remarkably well. We ran him ragged from early in the morning to late at night just about every day and he did very well. On the last day of our trip, when we were getting ready to leave for the airport, he said, “I’m not going back to New Jersey, I am already home.” For a child who we could NEVER take to a restaurant not very long ago, we ate out in 3 different restaurants every day and never had a problem. He sat and watched stage shows. He went on rides without hesitation. We went from one ride to another and another and he was happy to do it. He loved watching the fireworks and didn’t complain about the music being too loud. While we were there, we were able to take him to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween party and he had a blast! He loved being able to trick or treat in Disney World and even got some green vanilla ice cream colored especially for the event! (Food colorings are no longer an issue for him.)

In the past, when I used to think about wanting to go and just pushing through, all I could envision was a child who would have non-stop temper tantrums for one reason or another – because we had to wait to get on a ride, because he wanted to go one way when we needed to go another, because he had to focus on something mundane instead of what was happening around him, etc. In my mind, I could see him getting stuck and riding the same ride over and over and over and over. I could see me having to quickly eat 3 meals because he would be done in 5 minutes and ready to go to the next thing. I would just think about traveling all that way to ride the train and the train only (which we never even rode actually). I would also envision myself enjoying the rides and then looking at my son and seeing him staring at the floor which would only leave me to wonder what we spent all that money for.

But in reality, our trip was a dream come true for us. This is somewhere we never thought we would be able to take him.
We had a wonderful time and were able to live much of it through Nicholas’s eyes. There truly is nothing like seeing your child’s reaction the first time he steps foot into the Magic Kingdom and sees the castle for the first time.

And yes, he has already asked, “When are we going back to Disney?”

I told the story of my son’s dramatic “awakening” with a special diet at this year’s World Autism Awareness Day in NY City Hall.
(see: http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/04/on-autism-and-hope-nine-days-into-the-special-diet-i-heard-a-voice-behind-me-say-.html )
In the 5 minutes allotted to me I was not able to elaborate on how classical homeopathy brought rapid and incredible healing to my son far beyond what we saw from the diet. At age 9 he was in an autism program, and although he was verbal, his behaviors were growing worse and worse. We were seeing such tremendous aggression and wild running, hitting escapades that we could no longer take my son anywhere in public. We lived in fear that he would be taken away or institutionalized. A fear that was based in daily reality. I was constantly putting out fires. Everyone was telling me that at this age, as the hormones kick in, they have to be medicated or it will only get worse. I had tried so much with biomed that I felt I didn’t have too many other options.

I had tried classical homeopathy after reading Amy Lansky’s book, “The Impossible Cure” when Luis was 4. The homeopath I went to was not familiar with working with autism. She berated me for doing biomed and for putting my child on a special diet. She gave me remedies that did nothing. I left feeling that I had been “had.”

I put homeopathy on the back burner and pursued various forms of detoxification, supplements, etc. We saw positive results from many, but we also saw terrible regressions. And the expense was incredible.

I saw a post on a yahoo group in which Erica McPhee
(see: http://www.recoveredfromautism.com/ )
talked about how she recovered her son from autism through classical homeopathy, and it once again caught my interest. If I could only find the right homeopath who understands how to deal with autism, I thought. I, once again, looked for classical homeopaths in the NY area. This time, I found a recommendation on Amy Lansky’s site: www.impossiblecure.com
for Pierre Fontaine. He interviewed me for 2 and 1/2 hours and seemed to only want to focus on my pregnancy. He did not seem interested in all the work I had done with biomed. I didn’t expect much. He prescribed a remedy. With the first dose I saw nothing. I thought I had been “had” once more.

With the second dose, my son, who had begun wetting the bed EVERY night 3 mos. before and waking up EVERY morning screaming and kicking the wall over his bed and requiring 1/2 hour to calm him down… my son who came home from school in the afternoon and threw himself on the floor and kicked and screamed for 1/2 hour to 45 mins. every day… woke up with a dry bed, smiling, telling me “Good morning!” Every day for the next 6 mos. and beyond was one amazing shock after another. His speech teacher said he went from a minimum of 30 prompts per 1/2 hour to none needed between January and April. I was moving and looked for other schools for autism like the one he was in. By July, I knew he no longer fit in an autism program. I agreed to have him placed in a learning disabled class. By September he was so improved he did not fit there. I had him placed in a CTT class for the 4th grade (grade level, co-taught by special ed and gen ed teachers, with mixed gen ed and sp ed students). It seemed like a good way to transition into general ed.

He was like the boy who dropped from another planet. Imagine a child who has not been participating in competitive sports, regular gym classes, cafeteria lunch room, regular academic demands suddenly being thrust into that environment. It was all so new. Every day was a huge learning curve. The first time in gym, “Mom, those boys were all so mean in gym class. Every time I got the ball, they all would try to take it away from me.”

It brought me to tears the day I went in to see the Science Fair, and a little boy whose project I was looking at (who ended up winning the prize) asked me if I was Luis’s mom. He then told me that Luis was his best friend and why–because Luis is such a buddy who was always there for him. (All his previous “friends” were Mommy-arranged scenarios that did not involve much child interaction or engagement.)

In two years Luis went from needing PT and requiring a teen aide to guide him to first base at non-competitive Challenger Little League, to being on his school’s competitive basketball team and on the all-too competitive real Little League. He amazes me every day.

We have seen NO autistic regression since starting his constitutional remedy. We did have some bouts with PANDAS (which he had since he was 5), but those resolved with an acute remedy prescribed by Pierre. Again, amazing.

I am still so amazed at my son’s progress, that I want to share through this group and learn homeopathy myself.

G’s progress from August 26th….

My son started his remedy on June 13
Gains I saw after first dose: AWARENESS!! Then that one fade… but gave me HOPE!!!!!
After that he went to a movie for first time in his life and saw Toy Story 3 and Despicable me!!
I was trying to potty train him for a long time with not luck.. suddendly in a matter of one week.. DONE…

His BM became much better in consistency.
He learned to swim
He learned to drink from a straw
He weaned for a bottle for the milk
His eye contact is worse than before but now it’s coming back less quantity but more quality (more time conected)
He did this at his therapy… show his therapist that he knows the numbers and letters… Put in order several times the letters and the number CORRECTLY.

We are seeing alot of things that are new that we like. I have noticed that when you joke with him now he “gets it” before if we tried to joke around with him he would get mad at us thinking we were making fun of him so we stopped…until now. I also see that if he does something wrong and we are talking with him about it he will look at us, hear us, and then apologize without us having to tell him to. When someone talks to him in public now he responds to them istead of running away or me telling him say hi or tell them how old you are….makes conversation with them. The good behavior good color calm kid you get when you do the MB12 shots is pretty much there the whole time now. Not every 3 or 4 days then gone but there the whole time..the gains we got when we started have not gone away.

I know we have more work to do. We have alot more issues to work through but we just started. I fully expect to have him completely better by the time we are finished with this but dont expect it to be an overnight thing. It doesnt seem like the tug of war you get with biomed where you gain you lose you gain you lose..it seems slow and steady I guess for us.things were so hard for so long for all of us that even the smallest thing to us is big..He wants to be a part of life now…my older kids can be around him now and play with him without it ending badly, other moms dont understand how huge it is to see your kid play appropriately with another after so long…another thing is we arent as strict with his diet as we have been before..we are adding new foods all the time that he has not had in awhile with no effects at all. we are still careful but not carrying a foodlist with me everwhere I go now…

Last January my 3y/o daughter was pretty much nonverbal. we had PE tubes placed in her ears for HBOT and the day of her surgery she labeled an ‘apple’ and a ‘banana.’ She had a few words but they were very inconsistent. By the time we started with Pierre Fontaine at the very end of June she could spontaneously comment “all done” and she could say “b’bye” sometimes unprompted but usually prompted. There were some other very inconsistent words here and there and I think she really was trying to say things here and there but her articulation was so bad that you really couldn’t decipher what she was saying or trying to say. Three days after starting her remedy, I was playing frisbee with our dog. The dog came running back without the frisbee. So, I started asking “where is it? Where is it?” My daughter, who was playing in her kiddie pool at the time yelled “THERE IT IS!!” clear as a bell. It was so shocking our para lost her balance and fell in the inground pool and my mouth was haning open. An hour later our para was leaving and asked her for a hug. She gave the para a hug, looked at her said “thank you, bye bye” then looked at me and said “I’m all done!”

Two days later I picked her up from school and she gave me a hug and said ” Hi! I painted!” Sure enough she was covered in paint.

I wish I could tell you that this has been consistent. It hasn’t at all. But in the 8 weeks that we’ve been doing homeopathy, she is much more verbal, she has more words. Primarily, right now most of her language is prompted, echolalic or scripted. She is also singing whole entire songs and not just filling in a word here or there when we sing and stop to let her fill it in like we used to. She sings twinkle twinkle, row row row your boat, wheels on the bus, elmo’s song, Sing, pretty much start to finish and you can understand it. Going from “b’bye” and “all done” to what we have now seems amazing to me. Sure, she has a long way to go, but this was the fastest progress we’ve seen. Additionally, she has been happier, initiating play with the other kids at school daily, she started kicking a ball, alternating feet walking on the stairs (she now does that backwards, too), her eye contact is better and we have pretend play. Yesterday she caught a ball twice and now likes to hold your hands and dance with you. We had to take her to the ENT to get her tubes checked two days ago. This usually entails holding her down while she shrieks like a wild animal being tortured and killed. Well, this time she just sat on my lap and let him look in each ear and then clapped and said “yay” after he was done looking in each ear. On the way out she said, “Thank you, b’bye”–the doctor was pretty floored. Prior to the exam she had been playing very appropriately with a toy stethescope and a doll. I think I’m leaving some stuff out, but you get the idea. We have had a couple of blips, it’s not totally smooth sailing, but even during the blips, she has not lost any of her gains.

Prior to homeopathy we did 127 hours of mHBOT. We also do MB12, oxytocin, antifungals, probiotics, diet, vitamins, bethanechol and carnitine. We’ve been doing all of those for a long time. We never chelated. We clearly still have a long ways to go. She needs to learn to initiate using language, learn to converse etc… but we’ve come a long way, too, and I’m very optimistic.

My Asperger son is normally an inflexible, anxious, and generally unhappy child. Before starting his remedy, he had most recently talked about dying when he turned 7 years old. He has been on a gfcf diet for 3 years and has done about 40 rounds of Cutler chelation. But, since starting his remedy about 2 months ago, he has been a happier, less anxious, more connected, and more flexible child — more and more like a typical 6 year old. He actually said to my husband a few weeks ago, “Daddy, I feel happy.” He has never commented on his state of being like that before. We are starting to see him do playful, spontaneous things that a normal 6-year-old does, and we’re caught off guard by it when it happens. When I asked him recently to change into his pajamas, he came out of the bathroom with his underwear on his head while laughing to surprise me. Previously, he would have been in his own world and needed 4 prompts just to change into his pajamas. In the past, we felt like he was on a sure path to depression; we don’t feel like that anymore. Just like so many of us parents *knew* there was something amiss with our children — despite our doctors saying otherwise — I just know that homeopathy is doing something to heal my son right now.

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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Phone: 212.334.7360

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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.

Keep reading here…
http://hopemagazineonline.com/foodforliving.htm

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.’

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CSL LABORATORIES: VACCINE PROPAGANDA

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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.

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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®!”

http://dearthyroid.org/

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 Center’s Life Sciences group was able to formulate a scientifically verifiable model for the highly probable causal path of autism. Through the application of their model, it became apparent that autism is an outcome of several variables that, when the homeostatic relationship of each one is disrupted, a “perfect storm” scenario results in autism. The application of the model identified several of the variables that account for why boys have a 4 to 1 ratio of instances over girls as well as why not every boy is affected.

While the scientific community will have to validate The Center’s findings, the model for assessing homeostatic relationships indicates the “trigger” behind autism is an imbalance between a pair of amino acid neurotransmitters; glutamate and glycine.

According to The Center’s founder, William McFaul, a retired business person and not a member of the scientific community, “Because of its universal applicability, our Life Sciences group has already used the model as a tool to identify highly probable causal paths for several illnesses and disease entities. Autism was one of most difficult illnesses The Center had attempted to analyze. If it hadn’t been for so many parents insisting that vaccines were responsible for the condition, we might never have found the fact that the stabilizer in MMR and a few other vaccines is hydrolyzed gelatin; a substance that is approximately 21% glycine. It appears that, based on readily verifiable science, the use of that form of glycine triggers an imbalance between the amino acid neurotransmitters responsible for the absorption rate of certain classes of cells throughout the body. It is that wide-spread disruption that apparently results in the systemic problems that encompass the mind and the body characterized in today’s ‘classic’ autism.” He also added, “The use of our model indicates each of the disorders within Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is attributable to different disruptions in homeostasis. We look forward to sharing our findings relative to each disorder with the scientific community.”

According to Linda Oliver-Perrier, The Center’s spokesperson for their Life Sciences group, “The details of the disruptive process are somewhat complex and not conducive for explanation in a press release. We have posted a more detailed explanation on our web site, www.TheCenterNJ.com/lifesciences.html.” She added, “Undoubtedly, this finding based on the application of the model for homeostasis will cause immense controversy. Our Life Sciences group is prepared to meet with members of the scientific community to explain the model as well as the variables that create the ‘perfect storm’ that results in autism.”

McFaul added, “The Center is seeking to affiliate with academic centers to provide its model for homeostasis to the scientific community for use as a tool to enable researchers to identify root causes of illnesses and disease entities. The Center is a think tank that creates models. We are not an operating company with the resources to educate individuals or organizations on the application of the models we create.

For more information about The Center go to its web site; www.TheCenterNJ.com or for information regarding its model for homeostasis, contact Linda Oliver-Perrier at loliverperrier@TheCenterNJ.com

Full Version of the Press Release is here: http://www.thecenternj.com/images/Autism_Press_Release_Full_Version.pdf

Be sure to print it out for handy reference!

Is the swine flu vaccine safe? Only a small portion of the population has been vaccinated in most areas so far, and yet already there is an avalanche of reports of adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Reports are pouring in from all over the world even though the mainstream media seems extremely hesitant to report on these cases. You see, most of the time the mainstream media doesn’t want to report on a “rare” reaction to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine because they do not want to “alarm” the public. The feeling in the mainstream media is that the benefits of being vaccinated far outweigh the risks. Of course that is a complete load of nonsense. When you read the reports of adverse reactions to the vaccine in this article, keep in mind that the majority of vaccine side effects such as autism, neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, paralysis, infertility and cancer can take weeks or months to show up. To have so many reports of adverse reactions show up so early is a very troubling sign – and yet world health authorities continue to insist that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine is perfectly safe.

Finish reading the article here:

An Avalanche Of Reports Of Adverse Reactions To The H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine – And Yet World Health Authorities Continue To Insist That It Is Safe

“… and it became clearer to me as I read the research, listened to more and more parents, and found other practitioners who also shared the same concern that vaccines had not been completely proven safe or even completely effective, based on the literature that we have today.
… It didn’t appear that the scientific studies that we were given were actually appropriately designed to prove and test the safety and efficacy.

It also came to my attention that there were ingredients in there that were not properly tested, that the comparison groups were not appropriately set up, and that conclusions made about vaccine safety and efficacy just did not fit the scientific standards that I was trained to uphold in my medical school training.”

Some Pregnant Women Fearful of H1N1 Vaccine

Friday, November 13, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) When you publish a hard-hitting story containing links to lots of little-known documents, you never know what kind of bizarre blow-back you’ll receive. The latest episode of reactive strangeness occurred following our publication of the story about SIGA Technologies and the conflicts of interest found in Dr. Mehmet Oz’s holding of 150,000 option shares in that company (http://www.naturalnews.com/027451_D…) even while pushing vaccines on TV. Shortly after publishing this article, NaturalNews was contacted by a public relations firm called KCSA Strategic Communications, which represents SIGA as an “investor relations counsel.” (http://www.reuters.com/article/pres…)

The Vice-President of this P.R. company rather forcefully informed us that SIGA Technologies had no involvement with vaccines, and that our reporting of such a false statement was potentially “libelous.” They demanded we retract parts of our original story to eliminate any idea that SIGA was involved in vaccines in any way.

That’s funny, I thought to myself, because in researching the story, I remember very clearly reading the title of this company’s own home page, which reads, exactly:

Smallpox Antiviral, Drug Development and Vaccine Development – SIGA Human BioArmor

This is found in the title tag of their home page, www.Siga.com – or at least it was as of this writing. (They will likely change the title as soon as this story hits the ‘net, but I saved a copy for safekeeping.)

I don’t know about you, but when I read the title of some company’s web page, and it says, “Vaccine Development” in plain English, I sort of figure the company must be involved in — guess what? — vaccine development!

But no, I was told. That’s completely wrong. SIGA Technologies had nothing to do with vaccine development. They only make anti-virals, we were told. Nothing to do with vaccines. Nothing. Nada.

So I took a moment to search a little deeper into their home page, and within less than five seconds, I found these keywords in their meta keywords tag:

Smallpox Antiviral, Smallpox Drug Development, Smallpox Vaccine Development, Infectious Disease Development, Biological Warfare Terrorism… [and so on]

Now, maybe I’m just seeing things because I haven’t yet been vaccinated against H1N1, so perhaps I’m suffering from double vision or something, but when I see “Smallpox Vaccine Development” in a company’s home page title tags, I sort of figure that company is somehow involved in — wait for it — smallpox vaccine development!

But no. The P.R. consultant for this company said I was totally off base, and that they had nothing whatsoever to do with vaccine development. The exact quote we were given on the phone was, “SIGA Technologies has nothing to do with vaccines…”

Well, maybe not, except for the fact that they claim to develop them right on their home page.

Crowdsourcing more research
In any case, I wasn’t waiting around for these people to get their story straight, so I went to my Facebook page (http://facebook.naturalnews.com) where really cool NaturalNews fans hang out and discuss important subjects, and I posed this question to them: “Hey, this company SIGA is claiming they have nothing to do with vaccines. Can you find any additional documents demonstrating they do?”

This “homework assignment” was deemed altogether too easy for the NaturalNews Facebook crowd. It took them mere minutes to come up with all sorts of additional documents proving beyond all doubt SIGA Technologies’ involvement in vaccine development.

For example, they found this description of SIGA Technologies on Hoovers.com (http://www.hoovers.com/siga-technol…), a Dunn & Bradstreet company, which says: (emphasis added)

“SIGA Technologies is trying to put itself on the front lines of US biodefense efforts. The drug company has a number of development programs for vaccines, antivirals, and antibiotics for drug resistant infections; however, its main focus is on vaccines for bio-defense. The company’s smallpox vaccine ST-246, which is intended both to prevent and treat the disease, has received Fast Track and Orphan Drug designations from the FDA. SIGA is also developing vaccines for use against hemorrhagic fevers and other infectious diseases and biothreats.”

NaturalNews Facebook team members also discovered this Yahoo Finance link (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=SIGA) which describes SIGA Technologies as “…a biotechnology company [that] engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of anti-infectives, antibiotics, and vaccines for the prevention and treatment of serious infectious diseases.”

Continuing with the financial research, this company profile at Morningstar.com (one of the leading financial ratings companies) describes SIGA Technologies as “…developing vaccines that may prevent strep throat and periodontal disease.”

Our Facebook group also found this quote from Bloomberg.com, which describes SIGA as follows: (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote…)

“SIGA Technologies, Inc. discovers and develops vaccines and antibiotics for the prevention and treatment of a wide variety of infectious diseases.

Once again, I don’t know about you, but when I read that a company “develops vaccines and antibiotics,” I sort of figure that those words mean… well, the company develops vaccines and antibiotics. The point of using words, after all, is that they carry some sort of consistent meaning so that when person A says “vaccines” then person B can magically hear “vaccines” and understand what’s trying to be communicated.

But maybe SIGA operates in an alternate universe where the word “vaccines” doesn’t mean “vaccines” and instead means the opposite of vaccines. Sort of like vaccine antimatter.

Maybe they’re developing vaccines in conjunction with the physicists at the Large Hadron Collider, accelerating and smashing vaccine materials in order to find Dark Matter Vaccines that don’t exist, and that’s what they were really talking about. So when their P.R. person said they were NOT developing vaccines, maybe she really meant they were developing “NOT vaccines.” (Get it? Like antimatter vaccines…)

It’s tricky to deconstruct their claims, actually. As a bit of a linguist myself, I like to think that words convey fairly consistent meaning, but this SIGA public relations rep was essentially telling me that “vaccine development” doesn’t really mean vaccine development. It’s difficult to talk to people when they keep changing the definitions of the words they use.

Vaccines, vaccines and more vaccines
About this time, the research results from the Facebook group really started to pour in (yes, what we’ve printed above is just a fraction of the links we received from Facebook members).

We received these links about SIGA Pharmaceuticals being involved in vaccine patents with the U.S. Army (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1…), and how they developed a cancer vaccine (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1…), and how they have an amazing new vaccine delivery system (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1…). The headline of that story is, “SIGA Technologies Reports Successful Trials for Vaccine Delivery System.”

SIGA even received a $3 million research grant from the NIH just two months ago (http://www.globenewswire.com/newsro…). This award is described with the news headline, “Company to Research ST-246 as a Treatment for Adverse Reaction to Smallpox Vaccine.” That announcement goes on to describe how ST-246 is used “as an adjunct to the current smallpox vaccine for prevention of smallpox vaccine-related adverse events.”

Another press release from 2003 declares, “SIGA Technologies, Inc. Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Assets of Plexus Vaccine Inc.” (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms…). This indicates, of course, that SIGA acquired assets of a vaccine company, and those assets — I’m just taking a wild guess here — probably have something to do with vaccines.

A search on SIGA Technologies’ corporate officers (http://www.reuters.com/finance/stoc…) reveals that the company’s Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Dennis E. Hruby, “…specializes in virology and cell biology research, and the use of viral and bacterial vectors to produce recombinant vaccines.”

Here’s an announcement from 2004, bragging about how high SIGA’s stock price has surged due to its smallpox vaccine. From the press release: “The stock of SIGA Technologies Inc. soared Monday after the biotechnology company reported favorable results for a trial of its smallpox vaccine on mice.” (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms…)

That same year, a Marketwatch.com article (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/si…) announces that “Shares of SIGA Technologies rose more than 7 percent… The company said it was named as the prime contractor by the U.S. Air Force to create systems to develop vaccines and therapeutics…”

And then there’s SIGA’s patent. As this BusinessWire story announces [emphasis added], “SIGA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that a United States patent covering its strep throat vaccine technology has been granted to The Rockefeller University. SIGA is the exclusive licensee to the patent.” (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/arti…).

The actual patent text from 2001 (click here to read) cites SIGA Vice President Dennis E. Hruby as one of the inventors. It includes 18 mentions of the word “vaccine” and is all about vaccine-related technologies and processes.

As you can see for yourself — and there’s much more to come, below — for SIGA to claim they don’t have anything to do with vaccines is sort of like PepsiCo claiming they don’t have anything to do with soft drinks.

SIGA admits to vaccine development in SEC filing

It gets even better. We’ve barely scratched the surface of all the fascinating documents to be found on SIGA Technologies and their vaccine research project.

Here’s SIGA’s own 2003 filing with the SEC: http://investor.siga.com/secfiling….

In this document, they admit in plain English:

“SIGA is a development stage biotechnology company incorporated in Delaware on December 9, 1996. We aim to discover, develop and commercialize vaccines, antibiotics and novel anti-infectives for serious infectious diseases. Our lead vaccine candidate is for the prevention of group A streptococcal pharyngitis or “strep throat.” We are developing a technology for the mucosal delivery of our vaccines which may allow those vaccines to activate the immune system at the mucus lined surfaces of the body…”

And then, in another section entitled, “Vaccine Technologies: Mucosal Immunity and Vaccine Delivery,” SIGA Technologies goes on to explain:

“Our vaccine candidates use genetically engineered commensals to deliver antigens for a variety of pathogens to the mucosal immune system… Our commensal vaccine candidates use Gram-positive bacteria… We believe that mucosal vaccines developed using our proprietary commensal delivery technology could provide a number of advantages…”

I won’t bore you with all the sentences in which SIGA Technologies discusses vaccines in their 2003 SEC filing document. Suffice it to say that I counted the number of times the word “vaccine” appears in the document, and it comes to a grand total of 105.

And just in case you think this particular document is some sort of fluke (or was planted there by the SEC in a conspiracy to fool the world into mistakenly thinking SIGA is involved in vaccine development), here’s another SEC filing that includes this interesting sentence: (http://files.shareholder.com/downlo…)

“SIGA Technologies, Inc. is a development stage company with interests in biotechnology and the Internet. Siga Research Labs, (SRL), our biotechnology division, is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of vaccines, antibiotics and novel anti-infectives for serious infectious diseases. SRL’s lead vaccine candidate is for the prevention of group A streptococcal pharyngitis or ‘strep throat.’”

If you want more examples (believe me, there are hundreds), here’s a page from EvaluatePharma.com (a research site for the biotech sector) (http://www.evaluatepharma.com/Unive…) which details SIGA’s financials for 2006, 2007 and 2008, then goes on to describe SIGA Technologies as having a “Chlamydia Trachomatis Vaccine Program”, a “Periodontal Vaccine”, a “Smallpox Vaccine Program” and a “Strep Throat Vaccine.”

Again and again… vaccines!

The funny thing is that these published news stories, press releases, research documents and SEC filings all have two words in common: SIGA and Vaccines. There’s that pesky word again… vaccines. It just won’t go away when you’re researching SIGA. In fact, it strangely shows up with a very high frequency for a company that so adamantly claims to have nothing at all to do with vaccines.

Their denials just boggle the mind. It sort of reminds me of President Clinton’s slicing and dicing of the English language in the midst of the Lewinsky saga when he actually questioned what the meaning of the word “is” was. (Classic, huh? Gotta hand it to him…)

So we asked the P.R. rep about this, and she actually tells us — get this — that “There is no SIGA Pharmaceuticals… only SIGA Technologies!”

Sort of like “there is no spoon” from The Matrix. That’s when I pointed out this link that explains SIGA Pharmaceuticals changed their name to SIGA Technologies: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/…

The headline reads, “SIGA Pharmaceuticals Changes Name to SIGA Technologies.”

It’s fairly straightforward. Not much wiggle room in that statement.

The P.R. rep kept talking. She said that SIGA underwent a management change way back in 2001 and since then they haven’t been involved in vaccines.

Plain English translation
Got that? No vaccines since 2001. So why, then, do we find all these articles from 2003 and 2004 talking about vaccines? Case in point: An article in 2003 declares, “SIGA Technologies, Inc. Announces Positive Results in Safe Smallpox Vaccine Development.” (http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-100…)

The SEC document cited above (http://investor.siga.com/secfiling….), which says, ” We aim to discover, develop and commercialize vaccines, antibiotics and novel anti-infectives for serious infectious diseases. Our lead vaccine candidate is for the prevention of group A streptococcal pharyngitis…” was filed in 2003!

Importantly, note that these documents are all written in plain English. The words “Smallpox Vaccine Development” actually mean in English, believe it or not, “Smallpox Vaccine Development.”

I know this for a fact because I went to the Google translation tool (http://translate.google.com/transla…), and chose an English-to-English translation, then pasted in the words “Smallpox Vaccine Development.”

Astoundingly, the translation results came back as “Smallpox Vaccine Development.” (http://translate.google.com/transla…)

This same Google tool also verifies that the word “vaccines” translates to, exactly, “vaccines.”

At one point, we were so amazed by the insistent denials from SIGA’s public relations firm that we just had to come out and ask the obvious question: “Do you categorically deny that SIGA Technologies has no involvement with vaccines?”

Their answer? They hung up on us.

Strange matter and not-so-clever denials
I’m not sure if the hanging up part was a yes or a no. In fact, I’m not even sure the P.R. rep we were talking to has any idea what their client actually does. It’s one thing to say, “Well, we disagree with your article and we’d like to submit a rebuttal” or something along those lines (which we have published from time to time, depending on the request), but it seems completely outlandish out to call us up and claim the company in question has nothing whatsoever to do with vaccines when “vaccine development” is right there on the home page, in perhaps the most important piece of text on any home page — the title!

The whole thing really left me wondering: What’s the real story here? Why would they lie about this?

Seriously. What’s so important about distancing themselves from the vaccine projects they have obviously been involved with that they would be so insistent in their denials?

It reminds me of a child who just stole cookies out of the cookie jar, and you spot them in the kitchen with their hands behind their back and cookie crumbs on their lips, and you ask, “Have you been eating cookies?” And they say, “No. Not me.” So you ask, “Do you know why the cookies are missing from the cookie jar?” and they answer, with an expression of sudden revelation, “Maybe someone took them!”

Let’s imagine for a moment that SIGA Technologies doesn’t research vaccines. But then why would they lie on their home page and say they do? Why would they file a report with the SEC claiming they’re developing vaccines? Why would press releases, announcements and articles across the ‘net explain that SIGA was involved in vaccine patents, vaccine testing, vaccine company acquisitions, vaccine research and vaccine technologies?

Here’s an even better question: Why make a story out of a non-story by issuing a thinly-veiled denial that can be proven wrong in 8 minutes searching around on Google? I really had nothing more to write about SIGA Technologies until this denial came our way. It was the denial that made the story. Without the bizarre denial… no story!

In my years as NaturalNews editor, I’ve received some whacky phone calls. I’ve been threatened with lawsuits and attacked by hackers. I was even impersonated once by some goon trying to break into the NaturalNews offices. But I’ve never had a company’s P.R. firm call me up and point blank lie to my face with such a flimsy, hilarious lie.

SIGA Technologies needs to get their story straight. If they really have absolutely nothing to do with vaccines, why wouldn’t they just email us a statement containing these 8 simple words: “We categorically deny any involvement with vaccines or vaccine technologies.” (The mathematically inclined among you will notice there are actually ten words in that sentence. But out of respect to SIGA Technologies, we’re not counting “vaccine” or “vaccines.”)

I sent them an email, by the way, asking these three simple questions:

1) Will you categorically deny any involvement with vaccines?

2) If so, when did SIGA’s involvement with vaccines end?

3) Does SIGA have any plans to be involved with vaccines in the future?

The answer to these three questions? Nothing. Zip. Nada.

This is how the vaccine industry works, by the way: When anyone starts to ask questions, just shut them up and cut off all communication. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years as a natural health journalist, it’s that asking questions about vaccines is a dangerous business. There are simply too many secrets in the vaccine industry that certain companies don’t want made public.

But that’s my job: To ask questions. To think critically. To demand some answers on behalf of NaturalNews readers. And to ask for help from the NaturalNews Facebook crowdsourcing team, too, because they’re great at coming up with amazing information.

Special thanks go to Brad, Carmine, Cassandra, Elaina, Lynnea, Patricia, Stephen, Josephine, Vanessa and especially Jennifer Lewis (http://fortheloveofmybugs.blogspot.com), who did such an amazing job that she should probably be working as an online private investigator.

Last call
By the way, as a matter of due diligence, NaturalNews made one more phone call to SIGA Technologies in an attempt to get clarification on these questions. A NaturalNews reporter called SIGA, identified herself as a NaturalNews reporter, and asked the phone receptionist if we could speak to someone about SIGA’s vaccine development.

We were told — get this — that we could talk to their “investor relations” people. Yep… the very same people who had already hung up on us once before.

The real story
This crowdsourcing project shows the power of individual action to make a difference. Without the help of our Facebook fans, this article wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you all for your amazing help! And keep up the awesome work to expose the blatant lies of pharmaceutical and vaccine companies.

The real story here, by the way, is how a big public vaccine company with Dr. Mehmet Oz on the Board of Directors tried to threaten and intimidate a tiny independent news organization (NaturalNews) into altering our story but got slapped into the corporate liars Hall of Fame by a crowd of volunteer Facebook fans.

Join our Facebook fan page, if you’d like, and participate in future crowdsourcing projects: http://facebook.naturalnews.com

I recently viewed the vaccines segment on your show, 4 Vaccines All Women Need, and I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I am in you as a doctor and as a human being. To me, you seemed different. You seemed like you knew better. I have enjoyed watching you on Oprah and most recently on your own show. I have enjoyed your website and your books – but this has come to an end today. I. Am. Officially. Done. You now have ONE LESS fan and ONE LESS viewer.

I thought that it was quite assinine that you got the regular FLU shot on your show previously. Although, hearing that your wife and children would not be getting these vaccines was a relief. In this case, your wife who is not a doctor is much, much smarter than you. And then you did something even dumber – you got a H1N1 vaccine on your show “because your employment in NY depends on it” – but you failed to mention that this was dropped in NY, didn’t you? It seems that one-sided information is running rampant on your show these days, isn’t it?

But with the recent news of you holding 150,000 shares in a company that is related to the vaccine field, I am no longer surprised at your actions and the propaganda you have put forward on your show. Shame on you, Dr Oz, you charm the world with your enthusiasm for good health and then you sucker those who trust you into getting vaccines which could potentially do more harm than good.

And then, that company tries to deny it has any tie to the vaccine field. Of course it did. But that was a lie.
Facebook crowdsourced investigation exposes vaccine denials of SIGA Technologies

Congratulations on selling out the American Public. I hope you are proud of yourself.

One final note for you to ponder…. your children will want to have children one day – while I would never wish what I have gone through with Nicholas on anyone and I sincerely hope it never happens to your grandchildren. -BUT I cannot help but think that maybe, just maybe, you might just witness first hand what vaccines do to children. Then, and only then will you completely understand what you have done.

Conflicts of interest? Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 option shares in vaccine technology company

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He’s been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn’t tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises. It is in Dr. Oz’s own financial interest, in other words, to hype up vaccines and get more people taking them so that his own financial investments rise in value.

Evidence describing these facts was delivered to NaturalNews by a private investigator named Joseph Culligan (http://www.josephculligan.com). That evidence includes an SEC document detailing how Dr. Oz. bought options on stocks for SIGA Technologies in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. SIGA Technologies (stock symbol SIGA) is a vaccine technology company with many advanced developments whose success depends on the widespread adoption of vaccines. According to SEC documents, Dr. Mehmet Oz. currently holds 150,000 option shares on SIGA Technologies, purchased for as little as $1.35 back in 2005.

At the time of this writing, SIGA Technologies is trading at $7.10, making those options bought in 2005 worth $5.75 in profits today. If all the 150,000 options purchased by Dr. Oz. were exercised today, they would be worth roughly $180,000 in profits (they were bought at different prices, not all at $1.35). This is all revealed in what the SEC website calls an “insider transaction” document (link below).

These options won’t expire until the years 2015 – 2019, and the higher the stock price of SIGA gets before then, the more profit can be realized when these options are cashed out. You can see the 2019 expiration date in this “insider transaction” form: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…

If the stock price of SIGA Technologies could be pumped up even more — say, from someone hyping up vaccines in front of a national audience — these options could mathematically be worth millions of dollars.

Dr. Oz. isn’t merely a holder of SIGA stock options, by the way: He’s on the Board of Directors! As SIGA’s own website explains, Dr. Oz has served on the board since 2001 and continues his role there today. This brings up the obvious question:

Is it right for someone talking about whether vaccines are safe on television to also be carrying stock options and serving on the board of directors of a vaccine company at the same time?

Keep reading here….
http://www.naturalnews.com/027451_Dr_Mehmet_Oz_vaccines.html

Dawn Crim
VACTRUTH
11/09/2009

(vactruth.com) Researchers have known for quite some time now that retroviruses are present in certain vaccines. A particular retrovirus, known as XMRV, has even made the news very recently. It has been found in certain individuals suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and in other patients suffering from other forms of debilitating disease. I’ll be frank here. Vaccines are a multibillion dollar industry. Is it possible that this new discovery will help generate even more revenue?

Finish reading here: What Could the H1N1 Vaccine, Autism, and Chronic Disease Have in Common? Retroviruses.

Gary Null’s Vaccine Nation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6531447125053615129#

http://askrsb.podbean.com/2009/11/04/exclusive-flu-shot-victim-desiree-jennings-cured-of-untreatable-neurological-disorder/

PS – This is not an endorsement for Dr Buttar in any way. We have never even met.

By J.B. Handley

Wired Magazine’s recent cover story on autism, written by Amy Wallace, is titled “An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All.” (HERE) For any reader hoping for an unbiased, objective discourse on the current state of autism research, the title alone tells you that won’t be happening.

Ms. Wallace’s piece is, in fact, a glowing portrayal of one man, Paul Offit, and his relentless pursuit of the idea that vaccines simply cannot have anything to do with the autism epidemic, since the autism epidemic doesn’t even exist, and vaccines have been proven not to cause autism, and vaccines are much more good than bad, so let’s get on with it already.

As someone who has studied Mr. Offit’s talking points closely for the past 5 years, I was struck by how closely Amy Wallace seemed to echo the points that Offit frequently makes in both the press and medical journals, not only on the specific scientific questions that have and haven’t been answered surrounding many aspects of autism, but even on the more psychoanalytical questions surrounding WHY parents do the things they do (like avoid vaccines). In fact, I can’t find a single original thought or idea in the article from Ms. Wallace that I haven’t previously heard Paul Offit say, nor a single case where her ideas appear to deviate or disagree with any of the positions he takes or has taken in the past: Amy Wallace and Mr. Offit appear to be in perfect harmony.

Ms. Wallace also violates, quite clearly, her own ruminations (which I have heard Offit discuss before) about the reticence required in discourse and debate by true “scientists” that us non-scientists don’t have to abide by: “But researchers, alas, can’t respond with the same forceful certainty that the doubters are able to deploy — not if they’re going to follow the rules of science.” As you will see in a moment, Ms. Wallace’s writing is in fact filled with this “forceful certainty”, starting with the cover of Wired Magazine that states, quite forcefully and most certainly, “Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism.”

You see, Ms. Wallace gives the reader the strong impression that she is one of them, the scientists, someone who knows what the science does and doesn’t say and who knows that this silly debate — that vaccines may cause autism — is a debate who’s time has past, because, you know, the science shows us that.

One of the oddest things about Ms. Wallace’s article is the characters she allows into the debate to highlight the two sides of this conflict and tell her story. In one corner, and the corner where she spends most of her time, is Paul Offit, a doctor. He is joined by “science”, an omnipotent force, and a force that in Ms. Wallace’s world always agrees with Offit’s points (and hers, since they’re the same points). In the other corner, the corner that us lowly anti-vaccinationists have been relegated to, she shows only civilian parents: Jenny McCarthy, Barbara Loe Fisher, and Curt Linderman. Three parents. No doctors. No scientists. Like the NY Times, it’s parents vs. research. Where’s our science? In the world Amy Wallace creates, it doesn’t exist.

When it comes to facts, particularly the facts that matter most in the debate over autism, I believe Ms. Wallace fails miserably, and in many cases she simply states things that are unsupportable or quite simple to prove as untrue. I hope that this discourse, by focusing on the very specific things that Ms. Wallace wrote and the ACTUAL state of science in the autism world, will cause Ms. Wallace to correct her one-sided article, so that parents who read Wired Magazine will have a more accurate portrayal of the current reality of our understanding of autism.

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Ms. Wallace’s first, and most glaring failure of fact has to do with the initial fork in the road in the autism debate, the question as to whether or not autism is genetic. Co-mingled with the question of the genetic origin of autism is the question of whether or not the prevalence of autism is truly on the rise. These two questions, which tend to move in tandem, affect everything else about the understanding of autism. If autism is genetic, then it’s always been with us. If it’s always been with us, then there’s no reason for alarm, these kids have always been here, just as they are right now. For parents, just accept it, do your ABA, and give your kids the best possible life they can live, they’ll always have autism.

On the other hand, if autism is NOT genetic, but rather a product of the environment, than the prevalence numbers that are REPORTEDLY up are also TRULY up, and we have a massive problem on our hands, because then something somewhere is CAUSING autism in children who may otherwise not have it. And, if something is causing autism, we damn well better figure out what it is. And, if we figure out what it is then maybe, just maybe, we can try to reverse whatever damage it caused in our children.

So, the facts around these two relatively straightforward points – genetics and true prevalence – mean positively everything in the autism debate.

Where does Ms. Wallace fall on these two points? It’s not hard to guess.

Finish reading here: Age of Autism: How Wired Magazine’s Amy Wallace Endangers Our Kids.

Now, please go to her website: http://desireejennings.com and check out how well she is talking now! She is most likely going through IV chelation to remove the heavy metals from her body.

Do you still think that the ingredients in vaccines are harmless? Do you still think it’s okay to inject any amount of mercury into a baby’s body much less an adults? And please, before you tell me that mercury has been removed from vaccines – go to fda.gov to the vaccines section and pull up the inserts from the vaccines – and please read them.

We’ve watched Nicholas make constant progress during this past year+ that we have been detoxing his body of these heavy metals. He is progressing more and more with every passing day. With every round of chelation that we complete, he is better and better. This is not a coincidence.

I am so very happy that Desiree Jennings is getting the help that she needs to recover. I could not stop crying tonight while watching her talk on this video. I am so thankful that she is willing to stand up for all of our kids who have also been harmed by vaccines. She is giving us a voice as she has a unique perspective of someone who has been through it and can communicate as it is happening. Thank you Desiree – I look forward to watching your recovery.

A Decade Of Questioning Harm And The Autism-Vaccine Connection

“”President Obama, can you please explain why HHS, along with the local and federal law enforcement agencies would not allow a person to pour Thimerosal (an ingredient in some vaccines which contains ethyl-mercury) onto the stone plaza outside the HHS building in protest because it is classified as hazardous waste?”

“Did you know if the amount of ethyl-mercury in one dose of a Thimerosal containing H1N1 vaccine were spilled on the ground HazMat would be required to clean it up?”

“Do you find it logically inconsistent that something is toxic and hazardous to humans when on pavement but not when injected into babies?”

“Why is your administration recommending children and pregnant women receive flu vaccines containing 25 micrograms of ethylmercury each, dismissing any harm to humans when 25 micrograms of ethylmercury is well in excess of what the EPA considers hazardous and the manufacturer of Thimerosal says it should not be injected into humans period, rather than mandating Thimerosal free vaccines for this population?”

“Ok, regardless of whatever study might be cited, do you think injecting a baby with something that bears a skull and crossbone symbol on the label is prudent?”

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shelley-hendrix-reynolds/a-decade-of-questioning-h_b_311673.html

This past Friday night, I took Nicholas grocery shopping. He did not want to sit in the cart – he doesn’t anymore actually. He says the bars hurt his butt. Anyway, we walked around shopping – he talked to me, picked out stuff, put it in the cart and was a perfect little boy. I did not have to carry a tantruming child out of the store. I did not get home with a pounding stress headache. He helped put the groceries on the belt and waited while I paid. I did not have to hold his hand at all – the entire time.

This past Sunday, I took him to go buy a new pair of sneakers. We parked about three blocks away from the store (we parked off of the middle of town where all of the shops are in a pretty big town center.) So, we had to walk to the shoe store and cross 2 pretty busy streets. At times, Nicholas was either next to me or behind me. I did not have to hold his hand with the death grip. You know, the grip you use when you fear your child is going to run into the street and get hit by a car. He walked with me, we talked about things he saw and pointed out and he listened to directions well. We got into the shoe store and had to wait about 20 minutes as they were very busy. He sat and waited patiently the entire time. When the sales person came to measure his feet, he followed directions without having to be asked repeatedly. When I asked him to walk around and tell me how his shoes felt, he did and he came right back on his own. We paid and left and on the way back to the car, we passed a bakery. He said we should go buy a cake so he opened the door and held it open for me. He helped pick out a cake and asked if he could buy an elmo cupcake. We bought the cake and cupcake and headed back to the car. If that’s not a typical child, I don’t know what is!

He ate the Elmo cupcake after dinner – which was surprising because he usually won’t eat stuff like this. But he did and he loved it.

It’s so refreshing to be able to take him places and do things no matter how trivial they are.

Concern has been raised over the link between exposure to heavy metal toxins and neurological brain damage associated with learning and behavioral disorders in children. Research shows that exposure to heavy metals such as lead and mercury can impair brain development at very early ages—even at low doses previously deemed harmless.

Children are particularly susceptible to the deleterious effects of heavy metal exposure for several reasons. Their developing nervous systems are more sensitive, their bodies absorb toxins more rapidly, and clear them from the system more slowly, than adults. Also, a child’s blood-brain barrier, the natural protective mechanism which blocks harmful substances from entering and damaging the brain, is not yet fully formed.

Professionals working in the field of autism have expressed concern that some autistic children may have been exposed to potentially damaging levels of ethyl mercury, contained in a preservative used in certain vaccinations. Clinical neurobehavioral symptoms of mercury poisoning seem to closely parallel many common symptoms of autism.

In addition, several studies have associated high lead levels in children with autism. Elevated levels of lead in hair, signifying long-term toxic exposure to this heavy metal, have been correlated with increased behavior abnormalities and learning disorders in children. Based on clinicians’ observations, antimony, a potential toxin found in some fire retardant materials, is also a possible cause for concern.

It is important to remember that heavy metals are pervasive toxic threats in a child’s environment, with air, soil, water and food all potential vectors of exposure. Ultimately, the biochemical individuality of each child may play an important role in influencing whether or not such exposure produces neurological damage. Evidence suggests that autistic children may be less able to detoxify toxic agents they are exposed to from the environment and this inability may predispose the children to suffer neural damage consistent with autistic behavioral traits.

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I have made major changes since my last update. Nicholas is no longer drinking supplement juice – he is swallowing capsules, so some supplements have changed to capsules and gelcaps from liquids. Also, we stopped all supplements for a few weeks and added back only the essentials when we continued to do well without everything. And finally, since he is swallowing capsules, I bought a capsule machine so I could combine smaller capsules and make larger ones so he has less to swallow. (And buying supplements in powder is much cheaper too!)
Changes since the last update are:

What I eliminated and why:

Inositol (research a friend sent me could point to this supplement being the reason for Nicholas’s weight gain so I am going to just be on the safe side) He has been off of this for weeks and weeks now – with no change in his behavior whatsoever, no perseverating, etc.

Eliminated additional zinc – he no longer needs that much, when adding it back, it made him crazy

Eliminated extra folinic acid – he no longer needs this much, when adding back just a small amount, it also made him a bit crazy

Eliminated Milk Thistle Extract – he doesn’t need this on top of liver life

Eliminated DMG – does not seem to need it anymore

Eliminated Wild Oil of Oregano, Biotin, Gaba, L-Theanine, Vinpocetine

Eliminated daily doses of Adrenal Cortex Glandular – he’s been fine without it. The smallest dose started making him crazy.

Additions

Magnesium Glycinate – 100mg, 1-2 caps per day

Now! L-Carnosine – 500mg, 1 cap 2x a day

Amla – I bought powder and make 00 caps, he gets 3-4 caps per day

Changes

Changed multi-vitamin/mineral formula to Lee Silsby Pure ASD Multi

Changed Kirkman buffered Vitamin C to Swanson’s Vitamin C – I liked their powder version that I can put into capsules myself and it was extremely cost efficient in comparison to the others

switched Vitamin D from Carlson to BioTech

switched Nordic Naturals Complete Omega 369 and Green Pasture CLO from liquid to gelcaps

switched Vitamin World Vitamin E to Swanson’s Vitamin E

Also, he does not get his mb-12 injections daily anymore. He gets them whenever I can give them. If we miss a day, we miss a day.

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
Kirkman’s Magnesium Glycinate – 1-2 caps per day
AMLA – 3-4 caps per day
Swanson vitamin C – 3-4 caps per day

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

Probiotics & Prebiotics
Culturelle – 2 capsules per day
Living Streams Probiotic – 3 dropperfuls 1x per day
Klaire Detox Probiotic – 2 capsules per day
Klaire Biotagen – 1-2 scoops 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 – 900mg 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
Klaire’s Interfase – 1 capsule per day

For the liver
Liver life (2 dropperfuls per day)

For constipation
Oxypowder – (to keep his bowels moving) – only as needed (this stuff is fantastic!) – just a sprinkle here and there (haven’t needed this since we started biotagen)

Other
4Life Transfer Factor Tri-Factor Formula – 200mg – 2 capsules 3x per day
Mannatech Ambrotose 1 scoop 2x a 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

If you have any Baby Einstein videos which you purchased between 2004 and Sept 2009, you can get an exchange or refund for up to 4 DVDs. Click on the link above for more info and return information.

Friday, he had his school Halloween parade and party. We went to watch the parade and this year, we could tell Nicholas was looking for us in the crowd. The past 2 years, he never looked for us and if he saw us, he’d not want to continue walking. This year, his face lit up as soon as he saw us and he finished the parade rather excitedly. We followed his class inside for the party and Nicholas was very excited to show us things in his classroom like his tree that he’s taking care of. When it was time for the class to sing their song, Five Little Pumpkins, Nicholas joined in, sang along with everyone else (he knew the words!) and did all the hand movements! In the past, for holiday parties, Nicholas was never really interested in participating in things like this. Nicholas seems to be friends with all of the kids in his class – and there are two girls in his class which it’s not hard to see really adore him. Nicholas stood really well to have his picture taken with his class, teacher and classmates.

Today, as soon as the first child rang the doorbell, Nicholas wanted to go Trick or Treating. So we threw on part of his costume (it was very warm out today) and we were off. We met up with some other neighborhood kids and all went around together. Nicholas was one of the pack and was having the time of his life running from house to house with the other kids. He was thoughtful about the 2 year old who was lagging behind and wanted to make sure he was included with the rest. Nicholas always said “trick or treat” and made sure to say “thank you” when they gave him candy. When we got home, he was excited to show everyone his loot – and spent the rest of the afternoon handing out candy everytime the doorbell rang. He wished everyone a Happy Halloween and was very cute handing out the candy.

This was much, much different from last year. We didn’t trick or treat by ourselves. We walked for quite some time before he got bored and wanted to go home – and if his feet didn’t start hurting (that’s how far we walked), then I am sure we would have gone farther. He didn’t have to be coached on what to do – he just followed all the other kids. He actually wanted to go, no asking him, no coercing him, the kids were doing it and he wanted to go with the kids too. It started to rain and he didn’t care. He didn’t even care about the candy (he’s not a big candy kid) – he just wanted to go out and have fun with the other kids.

Read about it here from LifeHealthChoices.com:
http://www.lifehealthchoices.com/103009-get-out-the-vote-chris-christie-supports-parental-choice

I really thought this was sooo interesting. New Zealand has not had a single case of SIDS since their research found out what causes it. I’ve highlighted important points in blue for those who don’t have time to read all of it right now. Update: I also want to share this article that opposes it.

Click to read more… Cause of SIDS discovered?

PS – I posted instructions on how to wrap your mattress here:
http://recoveringnicholas.com/2009/02/03/wrapping-your-childs-mattress/

http://gfcf-diet.talkaboutcuringautism.org/gfcfsf-diet-on-food-stamps.htm

By J.B. Handley

Paul Offit wrote a book, Autism’s False Prophets, with the overt goal of repudiating the biomedical treatment movement for autism. Of course, the real goal of the book, and how it’s being used today, is to convince parents to keep on vaccinating.

As an inventor of the Rotateq (HERE) vaccine, a man who voted his own vaccine (HERE) onto the childhood schedule, and a multi-millionaire after his vaccine was sold to Merck, Offit has plenty of time on his hands to protect his legacy and the legacy of his peers.

The AAP has done a great job of getting Offit’s book out to their pediatric base, many of whom give the book to parents when they express concerns about vaccination. I have personal friends who have come home from their doctor with a copy of his book in hand.

The book is filled with factual errors and/or completely made-up information about a wide variety of our community’s most important players, including Dr. Andrew Wakefield, David Kirby, RFK JR., and Jenny McCarthy, to name just a few.

Keep reading…. click here.

#1) Where are the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies proving flu vaccines are both safe and effective?

Answer: There aren’t any. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027239_v…)… Read More

#2) Where, then, is the so-called “science” backing the idea that flu vaccines work at all?

Answer: Other than “cohort studies,” there isn’t any. And the cohort studies have been thoroughly debunked. Scientifically speaking, there isn’t a scrap of honest evidence showing flu vaccines work at all.

#3) How can methyl mercury (Thimerosal, a preservative used in flu vaccines) be safe for injecting into the human body when mercury is an extremely toxic heavy metal?

Answer: It isn’t safe at all. Methyl mercury is a poison. Along with vaccine adjuvants, it explains why so many people suffer autism or other debilitating neurological side effects after being vaccinated.

#4) Why do reports keep surfacing of children and teens suffering debilitating neurological disorders, brain swelling, seizures and even death following flu vaccines or HPV vaccines?

Answer: Because vaccines are dangerous. The vaccine industry routinely dismisses all such accounts — no matter how many are reported — as “coincidence.”

#5) Why don’t doctors recommend vitamin D for flu protection, especially when vitamin D activates the immune response far better than a vaccine? (http://www.naturalnews.com/027231_V…)

Answer: Because vitamin D can’t be patented and sold as “medicine.” You can make it yourself. If you want more vitamin D, you don’t even need a doctor, and doctors tend not to recommend things that put them out of business.

#6) If human beings need flu vaccines to survive, then how did humans survive through all of Earth’s history?

Answer: Human genetic code is already wired to automatically defend you against invading microorganisms (as long as you have vitamin D). (http://www.naturalnews.com/027231_V…)

#7) If the flu vaccine offers protection against the flu, then why are the people who often catch the flu the very same people who were vaccinated against it?

Answer: Because those most vulnerable to influenza infections are the very same people who have a poor adaptive response to the vaccines and don’t build antibodies. In other words flu vaccines only “work” on people who don’t need them. (And even building antibodies doesn’t equate to real-world protection from the flu, by the way.)

#8) If the flu vaccine really works, then why was there no huge increase in flu death rates in 2004, the year when flu vaccines were in short supply and vaccination rates dropped by 40%? (http://www.naturalnews.com/027239_v…)

Answer: There was no change in the death rate. You could drop vaccination rates to zero percent and you’d still see no change in the number of people dying from the flu. That’s because flu vaccines simply don’t work.

#9) How can flu vaccines reduce mortality by 50% (as is claimed) when only about 10% of winter deaths are related to the flu in the first place?

They can’t. The 50% statistic is an example of quack medical marketing. If I have a room full of 100 people, then I take the 50 healthiest people and hand them a candy bar, I can’t then scientifically claim that “candy bars make people healthy.” That’s essentially the same logic behind the “50% reduction in mortality” claim of flu vaccines. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027239_v…).

#10) If flu vaccines work so well, then why are drug makers and health authorities so reluctant to subject them to scientific scrutiny with randomized, placebo-controlled studies?

Answer: Although they claim such studies would be “unethical,” what’s far more unethical is to keep injecting hundreds of millions of people every year with useless, harmful vaccines that aren’t backed by a shred of honest evidence.

I know what the MMR has done to Nicholas. So many parents tell the same story. There is no such thing a genetic epidemic.

Merck knows exactly what they’re doing here. I do not believe they ever intended to bring back the single vaccines. Doesn’t it make you wonder what would happen if enough parents used the single vaxes and the autism rate actually declined? I certainly don’t think the MMR is the only cause of autism, but I certainly think it’s part of it for many, many children.

Here’s another thought for you… in the past few years, the rate of autism jumped significantly. Do you think your kids got through okay, so it must be genetics and nothing else? How about thinking about your future grandchildren? By the time your children are having children, the autism rate will most likely be 1 in 2 given the rate in which it is climbing. Do you feel comfortable about flipping a coin with something like this?

Separate measles, mumps, rubella vaccine formulations discontinued

A representative from Merck announced that the company plans to discontinue production of monovalent measles, mumps, rubella vaccine formulations during the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice’s meeting yesterday.

“We greatly value the role the CDC and the ACIP have taken in putting forth recommendations and policies about the optimal use of vaccines for infectious diseases. Similarly, we take our role very seriously in terms of developing and supplying vaccines that are optimally suited to meet these needs,” said Mark Feinberg, MD, PhD, vice president of medical affairs in Merck’s division of vaccines and infectious diseases. “Based on discussions that took place at the last ACIP meeting among scientific leaders we have decided that Merck will not resume production of our monovalent measles, mumps and rubella vaccines.”

Feinberg added that the company will focus attention to meet current prevention needs on production of the combination M-M-R II vaccine. “When we receive questions from parents or other interested parties we will refer them to the useful information provided by the CDC, the ACIP, the AAP and other professional organizations.”

The announcement occurred during discussions to streamline recommendations made during the past year in the committee’s 2010 immunization schedules for children and adults. Merck’s decision is based on the ACIP’s stated general preference for combination vaccines and follows controversial debates concerning the increased risk for febrile seizures among measles, mumps, rubella and varicella virus live vaccine (ProQuad, Merck) recipients at the past several meetings.

Health care providers continue to experience push back from vaccine-hesitant parents, despite no evidence to support long term adverse events among patients who experienced the seizures and amid additional unfounded concerns that vaccines cause autism. These parents either decline vaccination or request to space out recommended vaccines, contrary to evidence that indicates delaying vaccines poses a greater risk to children than the theoretical threat from vaccines.

Merck’s announcement was welcomed by applause from committee members and meeting attendees, who recognized the moves potential positive effect on public health. Combination vaccine formulations typically cost more for manufacturers to produce, undergo more rigorous testing to receive approval and yield lower reimbursement rates for physicians, but result in less pain for children and have the potential to improve vaccine coverage rates.

In addition to the announcement, the committee passed motions to incorporate clarified language concerning decisions made earlier this year, including:

Changes to footnotes for hepatitis A and B, Haemophilus influenzae type B, inactivated polio, meningcococcal and rotavirus vaccines in the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule.
Clarifications in intervals between pneumococcal vaccine administration in the childhood schedules.
Language to distinguish between seasonal and H1N1 influenza in both the child, adolescent and adult schedules.
Language to distinguish between seasonal and H1N1 influenza in both the child, adolescent and adult schedules.
General recommendations for handling and storing herpes zoster vaccine.
Final language and wording changes will be reflected in the 2010 immunization schedules available to health care providers in the Jan. 8 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. – by Nicole Blazek

Labor Augmentation with Oxytocin Decreases Glutathione Level

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ogi/2009/807659.html

BMC Clinical Pharmacology 2009, 9:16doi:10.1186/1472-6904-9-16

Published: 23 October 2009

Abstract (provisional)

Background
This study investigated the effect of oral dimercapto succinic acid (DMSA) therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders ages 3-8 years.

Methods
Phase 1 involved 65 children who received one round of DMSA (3 days). Participants who had high urinary excretion of toxic metals were selected to continue on to phase 2. In phase 2, 49 participants were randomly assigned in a double-blind design to receive an additional 6 rounds of either DMSA or placebo.

Results
DMSA greatly increased the excretion of lead, substantially increased excretion of tin and bismuth, and somewhat increased the excretion of thallium, mercury, antimony, and tungsten. There was some increase in urinary excretion of essential minerals, especially potassium and chromium. The Phase 1 single round of DMSA led to a dramatic normalization of RBC glutathione in almost all cases, and greatly improved abnormal platelet counts, suggesting a significant decrease in inflammation.

Conclusions
Overall, DMSA therapy seems to be reasonably safe, effective in removing several toxic metals (especially lead), dramatically effective in normalizing RBC glutathione, and effective in normalizing platelet counts. Only 1 round (3 days) was sufficient to improve glutathione and platelets. Additional rounds increased excretion of toxic metals.

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Safety and Efficacy of Oral DMSA Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Part B – Behavioral Results
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6904/9/17

BMC Clinical Pharmacology 2009, 9:17doi:10.1186/1472-6904-9-17

Published: 23 October 2009

Abstract (provisional)

Background
This study investigated the effects of oral dimercapto succinic acid (DMSA) therapy on the behavioural symptoms of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) ages 3-8 years.

Methods
Phase 1 involved 65 children with ASD who received one round of DMSA (3 days). Participants who had high urinary excretion of toxic metals were selected to continue on to phase 2. In phase 2, 49 participants were randomly assigned in a double-blind design to receive an additional 6 rounds of either DMSA or placebo.

Results
The groups receiving one round and seven rounds of DMSA had significant improvements on all the assessment measures. The degree of improvement on the assessment measures could be partially explained by a regression analysis based on excretion of toxic metals and changes in glutathione (adjusted R2 of 0.28-0.75, p<0.02 in all cases). One round of DMSA had nearly the same benefit as seven rounds. The assessment measures correlated reasonably with one another at the beginning of the study (r=0.60-0.87) and even better at the end of the study (r=0.63-0.94).

Conclusions
Overall, both one and seven rounds of DMSA therapy seems to be reasonably safe in children with ASD who have high urinary excretion of toxic metals, and possibly helpful in reducing some of the symptoms of autism in those children.

Read more on the links above….

Neither our federal health authorities nor the private vaccine industrial complex know how to solve the hidden health dangers lurking in vaccines.

Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null

Progressive Radio Network, September 28, 2009

The vast majority of scientists, physicians, nurses and public health educators’ trust that the ingredients in a vaccine have been individually and synergistically proven safe and effective. The public believes these vaccines, aside from their specified virus(es), are sterile solutions, free from undesirable contaminants not listed on the manufacturer’s package inserts. When the pediatrician injects a vaccine into the muscle of a child, the parents unquestioning faith that this is the case. In other words, we want to believe that vaccines have been generated under perfect conditions for the safety of children and ourselves.

Our investigation shows that most people do not know what is actually in a vaccine: the active ingredients listed on product labels, inert ingredients, and, most important, the hidden ingredients. Even more remote is taking the time to actually study the subject matter, review the scientific literature and discover the truth for oneself. To our amazement, that truth was easy to find. But it is a truth that will scare the hell out of you.

Similar to eating veal parmesan, what would happen if a video were placed on your table and used as a living reality recipe instead of the actual meal. This video unfolds before your eyes every step in that little creature’s life, from the veal’s birth to the parmesan on your plate. You witness how this veal was starved of its natural nutrients, kept in a tiny stall, grossly malnourished and deformed, filled with drugs—antibiotics—diseased and suffering complete privations until finally slaughtered, sliced, cooked and served on your plate. Would your appetite be the same? Would you still desire the parmesan? Conveniently we rarely ask the questions, where does our food come from? How and where was it grown? What was sprayed on it prior to our consumption? Therefore, we are going to re-record something that even most top health educators and opinion leaders on vaccines are unaware of. That is, what goes into the making of vaccines and what is hidden from you that should give you a moment’s of pause? Then ask yourself, do you want vaccines in your body?

To give us the most in depth, honest, scholarly and objective examination about the methods by which vaccines and their hidden ingredients are prepared we turn to the award-winning British investigative medical journalist, Janine Roberts, who paints an entirely different picture about the darker inferno in vaccines that do not appear on product labels. This is the same Janine Roberts who brought to the world’s attention blood diamonds, genocide in the Congo and the destruction of aboriginal cultures by the Australian government.

Roberts’ account of conversations between high level members from the World Health Organization (WHO), federal health agencies, and expert vaccine scientists, who determine whether or not a certain vaccine will be approved or not, is horrid. Her investigations are based on official meeting documents and her attendance at emergency vaccine meetings, and confirm that our world’s vaccine and health experts agree there is no solution in sight to resolve the potential and uncertain threats posed by these hidden ingredients.(1)

The story begins with the vaccine industrial complex’s attempt to reduce vaccine manufacturing costs by seeking government approval to use cancerous cell lines in the development of vaccines. Vaccine industry’s rationale is that cancerous cells are “immortal.” Current vaccine methodology relies on animal cells, such as fertilized hen embryos and monkey kidneys, that die quickly in culture. Using cancerous cell lines are also much cheaper than relying on the purchase of animals, especially monkeys, that need to be sacrificed for vaccine substrates.

Roberts records two separate meetings—a meeting of the Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on November 9, 1998, and a subsequent gathering of the Evolving Scientific and Regulatory Perspective Workshop less than a year later. The conversations were conducted at a scientific level between top officials and expert scientists from the FDA, Centers for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the WHO and others, each providing evidence and/or confirmation that all vaccines are dangerously contaminated.

Conversations focused primarily on the influenza, MMR and yellow fever vaccines, which rely on fertilized chicken eggs for their culturing viruses. Fertilized chicken eggs, while ideally suited for culturing certain viruses for vaccines, such as the influenza and MMR vaccines, are also living incubators for large numbers of known and unknown viruses in the animal kingdom. While these do not transmit from their animal host to humans naturally, they nevertheless are sequential genetic codes, which when injected into the human body, have the potential for any number of unpredictable adverse effects by interfering or merging with the codes of human cells. Vaccine research is at best a primitive science because it is injecting into the blood stream foreign substances, chemical and genetic, that would otherwise not enter the body naturally. When we include into the equation the enormous amount of known and unknown genetic material and foreign proteins that vaccines introduce into the body, and then consider the rapid increase in epidemics raging across the American population—adult diabetes in children, large numbers of various inflammatory and immune deficiency diseases, asthma and new allergies, severe gastro-intestinal disorders (eg., leaky gut syndrome and Crohn’s Disease), chronic fatigue syndrome, and many different neurological disorders (eg., autism, ADD and ADHD, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, etc.)—we must step back and reconsider their causes. We should avoid the kind of faith the vaccine industrial complex has in its determinist, reductionist perspective of genetic materialism to find these answers without taking into account the bombardment of toxic chemicals such as vaccine adjuvants and preservatives, extraneous genetic material, and pathogenic organisms and foreign genetic fragments that we assault our bodies from shortly after birth into old age.

For some time, it was known that the enzyme reverse transcriptase (RT) was present in final vaccine solutions. RT has been used to this day as an indicator that there is a presence of a retrovirus. During the meeting’s proceedings, the WHO decided to withhold public announcement of such genetic contamination, in this case concerning the MMR vaccine, and made the decision to not remove it from the market and, in the meantime, continue safety studies at various laboratories.

Roberts reports that Dr. Arifa Khan from the FDA confirmed:

The RT activity in the vaccine was associated with retrovirus particles from two separate viral strains: Avian Leuokosis Virus (ALV) and Equine Arteritis Virus (EAV). The former was especially disturbing because ALV is a leukemia cancer, and Dr. Khan stated: “There was a theoretical possibility that the virus [ALV] could” infect the [human] cell.” In summary, this means the ALV genetic code could integrate with human DNA, hence causing some kind of cancer.

The FDA’s reassurance that the ALV RT activity was safe is based on laboratory observations that there was no viral-human DNA merger activity for “a full 48 hours’. This kind of assurance is almost nonsensical and flies in the face of scientific reasoning since cancers can take years to develop!

As a side note, reverse transcriptase activity is one of the stalwarts of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. An article, “Serious Questions Regarding the Safety and Efficacy of the Influenza Vaccine” published by Canada’s Vaccine Risk Awareness Network reports that some studies, and even some vaccine package inserts, “indicate that vaccinations increase HIV viral replication.”(2) This means all vaccines stimulate a strong suppressive effect on the immune system. Under stress conditions, viruses turn hyperactive and increase their ability to replicate.

The other risk stated by the FDA official was the possibility of the ALV sequence merging with the measles virus, hence creating a completely new, mutant and dangerous virus. (This could also apply equally to the H1N1 swine flu and any other flu vaccines). As an aside, the world renown British geneticist Dr. Mae-Wan Ho from the Institute of Science in Society wrote that, “Vaccines themselves can be dangerous, especially live, attenuated viral vaccines or the new recombinant nucleic acid vaccines, they have the potential to generate virulent viruses by recombination and the recombinant nucleic acids could cause autoimmune disease.”(3)

During the meeting, Dr. Andrew Lewis, then head of the DNA Virus Laboratory in the Division of Viral Products confirmed that “All the egg-based vaccines are contaminated”. These fertilized chicken eggs are susceptible to a wide variety of viruses.” The participants also realized that only a very small fraction of these small contaminants have been identified and there are likely hundreds more to be discovered.

Roberts found a 2001 CDC report showing that RT investigative studies for both the ALV and EAV retroviruses were conducted in 100 patients receiving the MMR vaccine. They found undesirable “RT activity in all measles vaccine lots from different manufacturers tested.” Their conclusion is that “this occurrence is not sporadic and that vaccine recipients may be universally exposed to these [chicken] retroviral particles.” In a separate National Institutes of Health transcript of a meeting, Dr. Conroy of the World Health Organization stated that EAV viruses are found in all fertilized chicken eggs. There appears to be little change in the scientific protocol for making the influenza, MMR and yellow fever vaccines. The current release of intramuscular H1N1 vaccines for the global market relies on the use of fertilized chicken embryos. These include each of the approved vaccines by CSL, Medimmune, Novartis and Sanofi-Pasteur, as well as GlaxoSmithKlines if and when it is approved in the US.

A later meeting of the FDA’s Scientific and Regulatory Perspective Workshop, without the press, was convened on September 7, 1999 in Washington DC, and attended by “representatives from all the largest public health institutions in the West.” The following are summaries of key points and statements raised during this meeting as recorded in Janine Roberts invaluable book Fear of the Invisible.

—- It was reconfirmed that vaccines are “widely contaminated by viral and DNA genetic code fragments, many viruses and proteins. There was expressed concern that these may also contain prions (tiny proteins responsible for incurable diseases and neurological disorders in both humans and animals) and oncogenes (a gene that turns normal cells into cancerous ones). One attendee, Dr. Goldberg, stated, “There are countless thousands of undiscovered viruses, proteins and similar particles. We have only identified a very small part of the microbial world—and we can only test for those we have identified. Thus the vaccine cultures could contain many unknown particles.”

—- Dr. Andrew Lewis of the FDA said that a brand-new monkey-human mutant virus was created during the course of creating an adenovirus vaccine with adenvovirus-SV40 hybrid viruses. Dr. Lewis also worried that “foreign cellular DNA” common in childhood vaccines could include “viral oncogenes” capable of causing cancer.

—- The scientists presented a question to themselves as to whether or not an attenuated vaccine strain could revert into a variant virus capable of replicating so fast that it would cause AIDS. They agreed that they were unable to answer this question.

—- On the question whether or not mutation events could occur in children after vaccination, the answer was that “Recombination among a variety of viruses [contaminant viruses] and cells co-infected in tissue culture is not uncommon.” What this basically means is that because it is “not uncommon” for genetic codes of both contaminant viruses and living cells to recombine and create mutations in laboratory cultures, it can certainly occur in a child’s body after vaccination.

—- Dr. Hana Golding, Chief of CBER’s Laboratory of Retrovirus Research, raised the fear that although DNA fragment contaminants in vaccines may be thought to be dead, they could remain active and dangerous. This meant that the codes of these contaminants could combine in vaccines and create new mutant strains of pathogens.

—- Dr. Leonard Hayflick, a virologist at both Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco raised a concern that the common primary culture used for making vaccines with animals and bird embryos has created a situation where it is “apparent that these cells contained many unwanted viruses, some of which were lethal to humans.” This was especially worrisome of those vaccines, such as polio, which still rely on monkey kidney cells that have contributed to widespread death and illness.

—- One of the UK’s leading vaccine expert, Dr. Phil Minor from the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control, noted that some cases of polio vaccine are polluted with more monkey virus, SV40, than actual poliovirus. Although the uninitiated who are not informed about-closed door vaccine science have been led to assume that SV40 was no longer in polio vaccines at the time of this meeting, the conversations confirmed that it was still in use. This is another example of deception at high levels within the vaccine industrial complex and high government health officials to withhold information that directly impacts the health and well being of citizens.

—- Dr. Rebecca Sheets from the CBER’s laboratory responsible for monitoring vaccine safety stated the national health organizations had no control over how vaccines were made. In short, they could make recommendations but the vaccine industrial complex was free to act as it chooses.

—- It is impossible to remove DNA contaminants from vaccines. Although weight limits for contaminating DNA were set by the FDA as far back as 1986, vaccine makers have never been able to reach that goal. The CDC decided to limit their weight recommendation to cancerous cell lines and then increase the other DNA contamination allowance one hundred-fold. However, these limits are only “recommendations” and, therefore, the FDA is unable to enforce them. Vaccine manufacturers continue to have the freedom to take scientific measures to reduce contaminants only if they wish.

Remember, this level of contamination (10 nanograms) only applies to a single vaccine. Children today are inoculated with many vaccines before entering school, each with unique DNA and viral contaminants due to the specific cell substrates used for a given vaccine. This toxic genetic soup is what then flows through a vaccinated person’s body.

—- One government health official stated, “I chaired the committee that licensed the chickenpox vaccine, and it [residual DNA] was actually an issue that we considered at that time. We looked among recipients of the vaccine for evidence of an autoimmune response associated with the DNA included in that vaccine”" Actually, we didn’t look, we asked the company to look and they did not find one.” Well, of course, only such assurances can be convincing if in fact the company conducted the study, for which there was no compulsory reason to. Clearly, what the official is saying is that health authorities may not possess any study documents that such a study actually exists.

—- Can vaccine DNA contamination cause cancer or autoimmune disease? A meeting participant responded, “when you consider that almost every one of these vaccines is injected right into the tissue” I think you couldn’t do much more to get the DNA expressed [to get contaminating DNA taken up by human cells] than to inject it into a muscle in the way it’s being done.”

—- Again CBER’s Dr. Rebecca Sheets: “I think that the vast majority of licensed vaccines, US licensed vaccines, have not been tested for residual DNA.”

—- A more frightening question was raised as to whether it was known if there has been any presence of foamy virus. Foamy virus (HFV in human form and its more widespread parent SFV from monkeys), although not infectious, is a deadly carcinogen. To the participants’ knowledge, they did not know whether any laboratory has ever searched for it in vaccine preparations.

—- The meeting confirmed that a particular cell, “which under many conditions is neoplastic [tumor causing]” has been licensed for the production of both injectible and oral polio vaccines in the US, Thailand, Belgium and France. Therefore, these vaccines carry the high risk of containing cancer-causing oncogenes.

In order to appreciate the magnitude of the contamination problem in vaccine products, it is important to understand that vaccine filtration needs to allow the targeted virus’s passage to remain for vaccine use. Other particles and pathogens—DNA and RNA fragments from other organisms (and pathogens) in the manufacturing process, cellular substrates, and viral proteins–smaller than the vaccine’s virus will remain in the vaccine.

What the content of these meetings tells us is best expressed by one of the leading attendants at the meeting, Dr. Minor stated, “So even today then you have to bear in mind that a large amount of vaccine that’s made is made on really quite crude materials, from an adventitious agent point of view. It’s not a trivial usage. In fact, when considering what vaccines are actually made on these days, they are quite primitive in some respects.” Janine Roberts summarizes her investigations succinctly,

“In other words, the vaccines we give our children are liquids filled with a host of unknown particles, most of which came from the cells of non-humans: from chickens, monkeys and even from cancer cells. Truly we do not know what we are doing or what are the long-term consequences. All that is known for sure is that vaccines are a very cheap form of public medicine often provided by governments to assure the public that they really do care for the safety of our children.”

The conclusion that can be drawn from these meetings convened by our national and international health officials in vaccine science and safety is that vaccines are virtually genetic experiments, capable of causing mass cellular destruction, being injected into the world’s population, especially children. There remain so many unanswered questions about vaccine science. This includes the forthcoming swine flu vaccines that will include the contaminants mentioned above, if we take any of these meeting attendees’ words to heart.

If we are to express any awe and wonder it should be towards our body’s natural immune system and its ability to defend itself from the onslaught of vaccine brews. It is not vaccination that is a miracle of science, as the vaccine industrial complex, government health authorities and their congregations of believers are too eager to proclaim. In fact, the real miracle is the body’s ability to protect itself, in most cases, from the invasion of vaccines. Yet, even this statement is now turning suspect given the dramatic rise in multiple illnesses and inflammatory conditions across the age spectrum.

As with all living systems, whether it be a natural habitat in the wild, the planet’s climate system to support life, or the body’s immune system, a tipping point is eventually reached. Today, with the majority of the public still buying into the false promises of vaccination’s efficacy and safety, the vaccine industrial complex remains an extraordinarily lucrative business. More and more vaccines are now being developed for a wide variety of diseases and infections— Chlamydia, herpes simplex type 2, West Nile virus, Epstein-Barr virus, and others—that will only add to the overload of vaccines already recommended, especially to children who are officially recommended to receive 36 separate vaccinations by the time they reach 18 months of age. As these new genetic poisons are added to the national health agencies’ recommended vaccination schedule, a tipping point may be reached that will result in a more serious pandemic, a pandemic of Vaccine Disease, manifesting in myriad illnesses dependent upon each vaccinated person’s genetic predisposition and the robustness of the immune system, than any epidemic threat posed by wild infectious pathogens, including the H1N1 swine flu, that could unfold in our so-called developed, hygienic society.

Richard Gale is the Executive Producer of the Progressive Radio Network and a former Senior Research Analyst in the genomic industry. Dr. Gary Null is the host of the nation’s longest running public radio program on nutrition and natural health and a multi-award-winning director of progressive documentary films, including Vaccine Nation and Autism: Made in the USA..

(1) The following quotes and events were taken from Roberts, Janine. Fear of the Invisible: How Scared Should We Be of Viruses and Vaccines, HIV and AIDS Impact Investigative Media Productions: Bristol UK, 2009; and from an interview with Janine Roberts. The Gary Null Show. The Progressive Radio Network and WNYE-New York on August 19, 2009.

(2) “Serious Questions Regarding the Safety and Efficacy of the Influenza Vaccine” Vaccine Risk Awareness Network. http://vran.org/about-vaccines/specific-vaccines/influenza-vaccine-flu-shot/influenza-nursing-home-deaths/

(3) Ho, Mae-Wan, Cummins, Joe. “The vaccines are far more deadly than the swine flu”. Global Research. August 21, 2009. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=mae+wan+ho+global+research&aq=o&oq=&aqi=g10

This year it is more important that you protect your children and loved ones from the flu vaccines than influenza itself.

In his article published on LewRockwell.com, Bill Sardi details 18 reasons why you should not vaccinate your children against the flu this season. Here are nine of them:

The swine flu is simply another flu. It is not unusually deadly.

This is the first time both seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines will be administered. Both seasonal flu and swine flu vaccines will require two inoculations. This is because single inoculations have failed to produce sufficient antibodies. This is an admission that prior flu vaccines were virtually useless. Can you trust them this time?

Adjuvants are added to vaccines to boost production of antibodies but may trigger autoimmune reactions. Some adjuvants are mercury (thimerosal), aluminum and squalene. Why would you sign a consent form for your children to be injected with mercury, which is even more brain-toxic than lead?

This is the first year mock vaccines have been used to gain FDA approval. The vaccines that have been tested are not the same vaccines your children will be given.

Over-vaccination is a common practice now in America. American children are subjected to 29 vaccines by the age of two. Meanwhile, veterinarians have backed off of repeat vaccination in dogs because of observed side effects.

Modern medicine has no explanation for autism, despite its continued rise in prevalence. Yet autism is not reported among Amish children who go unvaccinated.

Researchers are warning that over-use of the flu vaccine and anti-flu drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza can apply genetic pressure on flu viruses and then they are more likely to mutate into a more deadly strain.

Most seasonal influenza A (H1N1) virus strains tested from the United States and other countries are now resistant to Tamiflu (oseltamivir). Tamiflu has become a nearly worthless drug against seasonal flu.

Public health officials are irresponsible in their omission of any ways to strengthen immunity against the flu. No options outside of problematic vaccines and anti-flu drugs are offered, despite the fact there is strong evidence that vitamins C and D activate the immune system and the trace mineral selenium prevents the worst form of the disease.
For even more reasons — 18 in all — please review the full article on LewRockwell.com.

October 8, 2009

President Obama’s school age daughters have not been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the vaccine is not available to them based on their risk.

The Centers for Disease Control recommend that children ages 6 months through 18 years of age receive a vaccination against the H1N1 flu virus. At this time only children with chronic medical conditions are receiving the vaccination because their immune system is not strong enough to fight off the strain. The CDC also says a regular seasonal flu shot does not protect against the virus.

Part II

updated 8:22 a.m. EDT, Tue October 20, 2009
By Arthur Brice
CNN

(CNN) — Mexico saw the first public protests this weekend over the government’s decision to allow cultivation of the first genetically modified corn, which environmentalists and others say could ruin the nation’s native crop.

About 45 Greenpeace activists hung a black banner and protest signs Sunday at the Angel of Independence, a victory column in a busy traffic circle on one of Mexico City’s major thoroughfares. It is one of Mexico City’s most recognized monuments.

“Today, the Angel of Independence is in mourning to demand that the Mexican government protect our principal nourishment — corn,” said Aleira Lara, a Greenpeace leader at the protest.

The nation’s agriculture and environment departments approved two permits last week from among 35 applications to grow the controversial crop.

Unlike traditional crops, which are modified through selective breeding, genetically modified crops are engineered by having changes introduced into their DNA.

Genetic engineering can improve desired traits such as nutritional content or resistance to herbicides, pests and disease. The modifications also can increase tolerance for cold and drought.

Other genetically modified crops include soybeans, cotton and papayas.

Critics of the technique say they worry about the effect on consumers, other crops and the environment.

Germany earlier this year banned a genetically modified strain of corn, saying the government wanted to protect the safety of consumers and the environment.

Mexico said the genetically modified crops are in an experimental phase and will be planted on plots controlled by the government and isolated from other crops. The new crops also will be planted in states that do not grow native corn, which is a major staple of the Mexican diet. Corn is grown on about one-third of the country’s cultivated land, mostly in central Mexico.

But the Mexican protesters said they fear the genetically modified corn could harm the nation’s 55 varieties of native corn.

“Without corn, there is no country,” some protesters said. The slogan rhymes in Spanish: “Sin maiz, no hay pais.”

Two scientific studies have determined that transgenic corn has already contaminated some native Mexican corn fields.

In 2001, a study in the journal Nature reported that transgenic DNA had been found in traditional corn crops in the state of Oaxaca. Earlier this year, research published in the journal Molecular Ecology also found genetically modified corn contamination of native Mexican corn.

Signs hung on statues at the protest said: “Our corn first, traitors” and “Transgenic corn: End to independence.”

Greenpeace and other critics say that modified corn would kill off independent growers, because they would have to buy their seed from one of four businesses that own the patents.

“Farmers will be beholden to those companies when their fields are contaminated and no producer will be able to plant his seed, like they do now, because they will have to pay royalties to those corporations to plant again,” protest leader Lara said.

In its February article, Molecular Ecology said that most of the current crop in the nation comes from private supplies of seed.

“Maize is a staple food in Mexico, with a pivotal place in the country’s past and present economic, cultural and agricultural spheres,” the article says in its introduction. “In contrast to the United States and Europe, commercial seed sources account for only one-fourth of the maize seed planted in Mexico. Furthermore, Mexican maize is mostly grown by smallholder farmers who obtain seed from their own harvest or from other farmers.”

Molecular Ecology also points out, though, that the “introduction of transgenic maize has resulted in an increase in maize production.”

And it is that increase in production that lies at the heart of Mexico’s decision to allow the two test permits, analysts say.

“Mexico is a net importer of corn from the United States,” said Bruce Bagley, chairman of the University of Miami Graduate School of International Studies.

Mexico grows two types of corn: yellow, which is similar to that grown in the United States, and white, which is native to Mexico.

The native white corn amounts to roughly 90 percent of the nation’s production. Yellow corn makes up the remaining 10 percent.

White corn is used for human consumption while yellow corn is used primarily for animal feed. An increase in meat and chicken consumption in Mexico in the past decade has led to greater demand for yellow corn for animal feed. Unable to meet this demand, Mexico has had to import about 89 percent of the corn it needs for feed, says the U.S. Agriculture Department. And 99.8 percent of that corn comes from the United States, the department says.

“Mexico wants to produce enough crops so they don’t have to import foods,” said Susan Kaufman Purcell, director of the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami. “Greater yields will lead to not having to import as much food from the United States.”

There are other factors, such as increasingly common food shortages throughout the world that have driven up prices. The price of corn, for example, has more than doubled since 2007. That prompted about 70,000 people to take to the streets of Mexico last year to protest the price of tortillas, which jumped through the roof in January 2008.

“Mexico is feeling the pangs of food insecurity,” Bagley said.

Greater corn production and less importation also would ease the nation’s balance of payments.

Bagley also sees another reason why Mexico may have allowed introduction of the genetically modified corn.

The United States has pressured Mexico strongly to accept the modified crop, Bagley said. Mexico has acquiesced due to provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement.

But if the experimental plots lead to greater contamination of native crops, Bagley said, Mexico could have the legal grounds to refuse widespread importation of the new corn.

Greenpeace doesn’t want to wait that long. The global environmental organization asked Mexico for an immediate moratorium on the use of the transgenic corn.

There has been no indication they’re likely to get it any time soon.

Read more here: http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/October-2009-(1)/NVIC-Launches-Research-Fund-To-Study-Health-Vacc.aspx

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Teresa Binstock
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October 21, 2009

Irva Hertz-Picciotto & colleagues have published results of a study comparing mercury (Hg) levels in children with and without autism (1). The study does not report findings about total body burden of Hg in children, nor does the study evaluate levels of Hg in the brain or other specific organs in autistic and non-autistic children.

Indeed, the researchers who did the blood-Hg study state: “As only 5% of body burdens of Hg are estimated to be in circulation, (Burbacher et al. 2005; Stinson et al. 1989) reliable conclusions about distribution are not possible from one-time observational measurements in blood.” (1) Since various forms of mercury can enter the brain and remain there (17), and since different tissues of humans and other species retain mercury at various rates (16), the larger context of Hertz-Picciotto et al’s findings need be considered.

Relevant questions include: What do Hg levels in blood signify? Alternatively, what don’t they signify? And what does intra-body and intra-brain mercury mean for children with weak alleles in glutathione-related pathways or born to mothers with weak alleles in glutathione-related pathways?

Although the new study purports to offer a review of autism genetics, Hertz-Picciotto et al (1) omit an important category of citations related to mercury, glutathione, methylation, and autism (eg, 2-14).

Furthermore, the researchers cite two studies of in vivo thimerosal levels (Pichichero et al 2002, 2008) while omitting consideration of Waly et al 2004, who investigated thimerosal levels lower than those described by Pichichero et al 2002 in human infants, found that methionine synthase was inhibited, and concluded that “The potent inhibition of this pathway by ethanol, lead, mercury, aluminum and thimerosal suggests that it may be an important target of neurodevelopmental toxins.” (15)

Why were these important findings omitted? Weren’t the reviewers aware of cites 1-15 hereinbelow?

In seeking to understand intra-body and intra-brain Hg, Lorscheider et al provide important insights.

In a study available free online, data reviewed by Lorscheider et al (16) indicate that Hg exposure does not lead to equivalent concentration in all tissues. For instance, from chronic exposure via amalgam vapors, some tissues accumulate more Hg than do other tissues (16).

Caveat: ingesting one’s own amalgam vapors probably includes olfactory exposure as well as oral/gastrointestinal exposure and therefore is not perfectly akin to ingesting Hg by eating fish. Nonetheless, Hg distribution findings due to amalgams may be instructive.

“The degree to which body tissues can sequester amalgam Hg after exposure has been demonstrated in a variety of human and animal experiments… The brain/CSF Hg ratio had increased threefold by 4 wk after amalgam fillings had been installed…” (16)

“Repeated observations in adult sheep… demonstrate that after placement of amalgam fillings the blood Hg levels remain relatively low even though the surrounding body tissue concentrations of Hg become many fold higher than blood. This suggests that tissues rapidly sequester amalgam Hg at a rate equivalent to its initial appearance in the circulation. Such a phenomenon may explain why monitoring blood levels of Hg in humans is a poor indicator of the actual tissue body burden directly attributable to continuous low-dose Hg exposure from amalgam.” (16)

Lorscheider et al (16) summarize another important point:

“Both intracellular Hg2 and Hg are ultimately bound covalently to glutathione (GSH) and protein cysteine groups. Hg2 is the toxic product responsible for the adverse effects of inhaled Hg0. Body tissues have various retention half-lives for Hg and Hg2 ranging from days to years… ”

Implications ensue from the Hg/GSH genetics findings in autism and from the Hg-distribution studies reviewed in Lorscheider et al:
a) Tissue levels of Hg are are likely differ from and to be greater than Hg levels found in blood.
b) Subgroups of children who have developed autism are known to have one or more problems in pathways related to glutathione and methylation (eg, 2-14) may detoxify Hg and related compounds poorly and thus may sequester Hg and related compounds disadvantegeously.
c) Blood levels of Hg in autistic children (1) tell us little about Hg in their brain and other tissues.

As Hertz-Picciotto et al mention, several studies have found associations between autism rates and environmental mercury (18-20), and these findings conjoin with the often ignored fact that thimerosal in early life vaccines increases risk for autism and for developmental disabilities requiring special education (21-22).

Be aware: some brands of H1N1 (“swine”) flu vaccine and non-H1N1 influenza vaccines contain substantial amounts of thimerosal (eg, 23).

1. Blood Mercury Concentrations in CHARGE Study Children with and without Autism
Irva Hertz-Picciotto et al.

http://www.ehponline.org/members/2009/0900736/0900736.pdf

2: James SJ et al. Cellular and mitochondrial glutathione redox imbalance in lymphoblastoid cells derived from children with autism. FASEB J. 2009 Aug;23(8):2374-83.

3: James SJ et al. Efficacy of methylcobalamin and folinic acid treatment on glutathione redox status in children with autism. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Jan;89(1):425-30.

4: James SJ et al. Abnormal transmethylation/transsulfuration metabolism and DNA hypomethylation among parents of children with autism. J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Nov;38(10):1966-75.

5: James SJ et al. Metabolic endophenotype and related genotypes are associated with oxidative stress in children with autism. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2006 Dec 5;141B(8):947-56.

6: James SJ et al. Metabolic biomarkers of increased oxidative stress and impaired methylation capacity in children with autism. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 Dec;80(6):1611-7.

7: Deth R et al. How environmental and genetic factors combine to cause autism: A redox/methylation hypothesis. Neurotoxicology. 2008 Jan;29(1):190-201.

8: Westphal GA et al. Homozygous gene deletions of the glutathione S-transferases M1 and T1 are associated with thimerosal sensitization. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2000 Aug;73(6):384-8.

9: M?ller M et al. Inhibition of the human erythrocytic glutathione-S-transferase T1 (GST T1) by thimerosal. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2001 Jul;203(5-6):479-81.

10. Williams TA et al. Risk of autistic disorder in affected offspring of mothers with a glutathione S-transferase P1 haplotype. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007 Apr;161(4):356-61

11. Geier DA et al. Biomarkers of environmental toxicity and susceptibility in autism. J Neurol Sci. 2009 May 15;280(1-2):101-8.

12. Ming X et al. Genetic variant of glutathione peroxidase 1 in autism. Brain Dev. 2009 Feb 3. [Epub ahead of print]

13. Al-Gadani Y et al. Metabolic biomarkers related to oxidative stress and antioxidant status in Saudi autistic children. Clin Biochem. 2009 Jul;42(10-11):1032-40.

14. Pasca SP et al. One Carbon Metabolism Disturbances and the C667T MTHFR Gene Polymorphism in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. J Cell Mol Med. 2008 Aug 9.

15. Waly M et al. Activation of methionine synthase by insulin-like growth factor-1 and dopamine: a target for neurodevelopmental toxins and thimerosal. Mol Psychiatry. 2004 Apr;9(4):358-70.

16. Lorscheider FL et al. Mercury exposure from “silver” tooth fillings: emerging evidence questions a traditional dental paradigm. FASEB J. 1995 Apr;9(7):504-8.
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/reprint/9/7/504

17. Burbacher TM et al. Comparison of blood and brain mercury levels in infant monkeys exposed to methylmercury or vaccines containing thimerosal. Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Aug;113(8):1015-21.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1280342/pdf/ehp0113-001015.pdf

18. Palmer RF et al. Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas. Health Place. 2006 Jun;12(2):203-9.

19.Windham GC et al. Autism spectrum disorders in relation to distribution of hazardous air pollutants in the san francisco bay area. Environ Health Perspect. 2006 Sep;114(9):1438-44.

20. Palmer RF et al. Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence. Health Place. 2009 Mar;15(1):18-24.

21. Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism
[conference abstract as published]
CM Gallagher, MS Goodman, Graduate Program in Public
Health, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY
Annals of Epidemiology, p659
Vol. 19, No. 9 Abstracts (ACE) September 2009: 651?680
[triple the rate of autism among boys vaccinated with thimerosal versus boys not so vaccinated]

22. Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in US children aged 1-9 years
Gallagher C, Goodman M. Toxicol Environ Chem 2008 90(5):997-1008.
{free online}
http://fourteenstudies.org/pdf/hep_b.pdf

“The odds of receiving EIS were approximately nine times as great for vaccinated boys… as for unvaccinated boys…, after adjustment for confounders.

23. H1N1 Vaccines Approved: What’s In It For You?
By Jackie Lombardo
http://nontoxicchildhood.blogspot.com/2009/10/h1n1-vaccines-approved-whats-in-it-for.html

Contact Teresa Binstock by email

Return to index of essays by Teresa Binstock

http://www.autismspeaks.org/annual_report.php

Click on the 990 pdf from 2008. Here’s a direct link:
http://www.autismspeaks.org/docs/Autism_Speaks_Form_990_2008.pdf

Reported Salaries:
Mark Roithmayr: $400,413.00
Peter Bell: $265,981.00
Geri Dawson: $669,751.00 (plus her HUGE relocation package)
Alison Singer: $201.942.00
Glen Tringali: $255,256.00
The list goes on and on…..

Credit card fees and bank charges: $989,344.00 (Yes folks, almost ONE MILLION DOLLARS in CREDIT CARD FEES and BANK CHARGES)

Office Expenses: $3,902,682.00 – yes, they spent almost FOUR MILLION DOLLARS on office expenses. And over a million dollars on rent on their swanky office digs at 2 Park Avenue in New York, NY.

Geri Dawson’s Relocation cost: $269,721.00 (page 55) – Almost THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS for her to relocate?

These are merely a few of the expenditures that truly made me sick to my stomach.

If you want to walk or donate, do it for a cause which will actually help children with autism – here are a few suggestions:
NVIC’s Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated Study: https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=22354
TACA: http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/index.htm
Generation Rescue: http://generationrescue.org/
Lend4Health: http://lend4health.blogspot.com/

Autism: The New Gold Rush from Schmuck Roaster on Vimeo.

Did you know that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is formulated differently in Europe than that in the U.S.? This fact recently surfaced while I was doing an investigative search, I was livid!

I’ve been teaching, lecturing, and reporting about the dangers of food additives for over 15 years, and to think that other countries have been successful in forcing manufacturers to remove harmful ingredients, and in the U.S. we haven’t been, is mind-boggling.

In 2008, Kraft removed artificial colorings, like yellow#5 and chemical sweeteners like aspartame, from the products they distribute in Europe, Australia, and other developed countries. This occurred due to consumer concern over the scientific link of these synthetic ingredients to hyperactivity and asthma in children, and a myriad of other health disorders too numerous to mention in this context – why hasn’t the U.S. done the same?

Thanks to organizations like MomsRising, a petition has been started to write Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods and a mother of two, requesting Kraft Foods remove these same ingredients from their U.S. products.

The letter campaign simply requests that Kraft value the health of our children as highly as they value children in other countries.

Together, we CAN make a difference, get involved.

Here’s the link to sign the letter. Complacency leads to Complicated Invisible Disorders – are you willing to take the responsibility of illnesses in your children and others that you could have prevented by adding your voice? Be proactive before a disorder emerges and you’re forced to become reactive?

I salute MomsRising for practicing what they teach….involvement and education to make a healthy difference – naturally.

Your Partner in Health,

Dr. Gloria Gilbere (aka Dr. G), N.D., D.A.Hom., Ph.D., EcoErgonomist, Wholistic Rejuvenist

Creator of certificated courses for health professionals to become Wholistic Rejuvenists. Visit my website at www.gloriagilbere.com. Sign-up for my free weekly Blog on www.yourhealthdetective.com.

http://4allofyou.blogspot.com/2009/10/treating-flu-naturally-priceless.html

“Treating the flu without worrying about Mercury or Squalene from vaccinations: Priceless.”

Another great post by Marcella, Sambucol Good for Prevention BUT NOT treatment of the H1N1 Flu:
http://4allofyou.blogspot.com/2009/10/sambucol-good-for-prevention-but-not.html

Health care workers in New York will no longer be forced to get the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, CBS 2 has learned.

A state Supreme Court judge issued a restraining order Friday against the state from enforcing the controversial mandatory vaccination.

The order came as the Public Employees Federation sued to reverse a policy requiring vaccination against the seasonal and swine flu viruses, arguing that state Health Commissioner Richard Daines overstepped his authority.

Three parties – the Public Employees Federaion, New York State United Teachers, and an attorney representing four Albany nurses – challenged the order and for now the vaccination for nurses, doctors, aides, and non-medical staff members who might be in a patient’s room will remain voluntary.

The health department had said the workers must be vaccinated by November 30 or face possible disciplinary action, including dismissal. PEF said it encourages members to get flu vaccinations, but opposes the emergency regulation requiring the vaccine as a condition of employment.

A judge granted a temporary restraining order Friday morning, PEF spokeswoman Debbie Miles said. A court hearing is scheduled for October 30.

New York was the first state in the country to initially mandate flu vaccinations for its health care workers, but many health care workers quickly protested against the ruling. In Hauppauge, workers outside a local clinic screamed “No forced shots!” when the mandate came down at the end of September.

“I don’t even tend to the sick. I am in the nutrition field. They are telling me I must get the shot because I work in a health clinic setting,” said Paula Small, a Women, Infants and Children health care worker.

Small said she would refuse to be vaccinate, worried the vaccine is untested and unproven, leaving her vulnerable. In 1976, there were some deaths associated with a swine flu vaccination.

Registered nurse Frank Mannino, 50, was also angry. He said the state regulation violates his personal freedom and civil rights.

“And now I will lose my job if I don’t take the regular flu shot or the swine flu shot.”

When asked if he’s willing to lose his job, Mannino said, “Absolutely. I will not take it, will not be forced. This is still America.”

The protest also shook Albany. Hundreds of demonstrators demanded freedom of choice. After all, as health care professionals, they argue they’re already constantly washing their hands and aren’t likely to transmit or contract the flu.

Around 500,000 health care workers would have been slated to receive the vaccine

“It’s certainly their prerogative to voice their opinion,” said Dr. Susan Donelan of Stony Brook University Hospital.

Donelan said most in the medical community see the benefits and safety of the shots and welcome them, and that hospitals must obey the law.

“Our hospital is committed to following the mandate to have our personnel vaccinated,” she said.

The state said change was needed this year to save lives. Typically only about 45 percent of health care workers take advantage of voluntary flu vaccines.

More than 150 institutional outbreaks of seasonal and H1N1 flu are expected this year in hospitals, nursing homes and hospice centers.

There is also a strong resistance to the vaccine from the general public. A new Harvard University poll shows that only four in 10 adults intend to take the vaccine themselves, and only six in 10 plan to give it to their children.

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

http://e-patients.net/archives/2009/10/a-quote-i-wont-soon-forget.html

Thanks Dr. Mercola!

(NaturalNews) In the world of virology, few people have the track record of achievements attributed to Dr. Albert Osterhaus. He’s the Head of Department of Virology at the Erasmus MC, University of Rotterdam. Among his many achievements, he was the first to prove the infection mechanism of SARS in 2003. He’s also credited with being the first to detect the cross-species infection mechanism of H5N1.

In his 20 years of dedication to the study of infectious disease, Dr. Osterhaus has authored more than 650 scientific papers and is credited with the identification of a dozen viral pathogens. To anyone who works in any scientific field, these are astonishing achievements.

Dr. Osterhaus’s credentials and expertise in his field aren’t in question. What’s being scrutinized now, according to a short report published by the journal Science, are his links to corporate interests that stand to potentially profit from the swine flu pandemic.

According to a European Commission “Research” website, Dr. Osterhaus is the co-founder of two biotech companies, and is involved in promoting vaccines as a solution against a future pandemic. As published on the Science website:

Read more here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027279_pandemic_swine_flu.html

Additional information can be found on this Generation Rescue website:
http://generationrescue.org/desiree_jennings.html

Age of Autism: Vaccine Injury Isn’t Just for Babies: The Desiree Jennings Flu Shot Story

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, October 22, 2009

The federal government has accelerated its $16 million dollar PR campaign to brainwash and coerce increasingly suspicious Americans into taking the swine flu vaccine by weaving their propaganda into a popular pre-school show for children currently airing on PBS Kids.

Sid the Science Kid is a half-hour series produced by Jim Henson Productions and KCET in Los Angeles, California. The program is bankrolled in part by The Boeing Company, a titan of the military-industrial complex.

During an episode of the show set to air on Monday, the computer-generated characters are shown dancing around and singing about how their are taking their flu vaccine.

Indeed, the entire episode is devoted to pro-vaccine propaganda and was created in association with Health and Human Services. The episode is entitled, “Getting a Shot: You can do it!”

According to a press release, “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Lisa Henson, CEO of the Jim Henson Company, will join Washington-area school children for a screening of the new “Sid the Science Kid” special episode on the flu at the U.S. Department of Education Auditorium.”

Children will also be directed to the Sid the Science Kid website to play games focused around the issue of vaccines.

Sick to your stomach yet? Make sure you read the rest of the article here:
Government Hijacks Kids TV To Propagandize For Swine Flu Shots

Don’t believe it? Watch for yourself:

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) According to a U.S. government survey just published, rates of autism in children have doubled since 2003. Today, an estimated 1 in 91 children are being diagnosed with autism, making this the highest rate in any population in the history of human civilization. Meanwhile, the vaccination push in America continues, specifically targeting children with not just seasonal flu vaccines (which may contain thimerosal), but also the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.

It all begs the question: Is there a link between vaccines and autism?

In defending vaccines, many doctors have blamed autism on a genetic cause. But if it’s genetic, why are rates skyrocketing so quickly? The gene pool obviously isn’t changing that dramatically. There’s no such thing as a “genetic epidemic.” If genes caused autism, the rate of autism diagnosis should be holding steady year after year. Clearly, something else is at work, causing the sharp increase in autism.

Autism is a neurological disorder. If you’re looking for the cause of autism, it only makes sense to look at causes involving environmental factors that expose children to chemicals linked to neurological disorders. Vaccines immediately come to mind, not only because they contain thimerosal — a preservative made with methyl mercury that’s extremely toxic to the nervous system — but also because they contain chemical adjuvants like squalene, which directly cause inflammation of the nervous system.

So what happens when a nutrient-deficient child is exposed to more than one hundred vaccines injected with thimerosal, squalene and other chemicals? It’s not unreasonable to suspect that vaccines — which inject these chemicals directly into the body — might be one of the more obvious causes.

The pharmaceutical industry (which thrives on vaccines) claims there is absolutely no link between vaccines and autism. Well of course they do! The entire future of pharmaceutical profit-making depends on the continued propagandizing of the myth that chemical intervention improves human health. They’re no more likely to find fault with their own vaccines than a cigarette company is to admit cigarettes cause cancer.

“Asking the pharmaceutical industry to investigate the safety of vaccines is like asking Big Tobacco to investigate the safety of cigarettes.

What’s clear is that rates have autism have paralleled the rise in children’s vaccines. Each year we get more vaccines pushed onto children, and each year we see increases in autism. Given that many vaccines contain a neurotoxic heavy metal (mercury) and neurotoxic adjuvants, it only seems reasonable to start looking at vaccines as one of the important contributing factors (if not the main cause) of autism.

Other factors for autism
There are likely other factors involved, and their danger potentially gets multiplied in the presence of methyl mercury from vaccines. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), for example, is a neurotoxin, too, and kids today are eating more and more foods laced with MSG as flavor enhancers. (It’s found in canned soups, gravy mixes, salad dressings, snack dips, and virtually all “instant” microwaveable meals.) Look for “yeast extract” on food labels: It’s a covert source of MSG that manufacturers use to avoid having to place “MSG” on the ingredients label.

There’s also aspartame and diet sodas. Aspartame is a potent neurotoxin that could be making the nervous system especially vulnerable to damage from vaccines. Beyond chemical food ingredients, the human nervous system can also be compromised by pain drugs administered during childbirth, antidepressant drugs or diabetes drugs given to expectant mothers, or even the highly toxic chemicals commonly found in “baby care” products used in hospitals around the world.

Even before they’re born, most first-world babies are exposed to a toxic stew of synthetic chemicals. The chemical invasion of a vaccine injection might be the one final blow that sends the nervous system in a downward spiral of destruction.

The facts cannot be denied: Our children are being neurologically poisoned by chemicals, and vaccines are one of the most worrisome sources of chemical suspects. In my opinion, any parent subjecting their child to vaccines today is directly putting their child in harm’s way. They are risking their child’s life in order to comply with a highly unethical, profit-focused vaccine push that has but one objective: To sell more dangerous pharmaceutical chemicals to children who don’t need them.

There will be a day in the future, I’m sure, when injecting a child with a neurotic chemical will be considered a felony crime, punishable by years in prison. Until that day comes, this same criminal act is innocuously called “administering a vaccine.”

Sources for this story include:

ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMo…

Click HERE to read the study Delayed Acquisition of Neonatal Reflexes in Newborn Primates Receiving a Thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B Vaccine: Influence of Gestational Age and Birth Weight in .PDF form in the journal, NeuroToxicology.

Read an analysis of the study by Mark Blaxill in his Age of Autism post, Blockbuster primate study shows significant harm from one birth dose of a mercury-containing vaccine.

Abstract

This study examined whether acquisition of neonatal reflexes and sensorimotor skills in newborn rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) is influenced by receipt of the single neonatal dose of Hepatitis B (HB) vaccine containing the preservative thimerosal (Th). HB vaccine containing a standardized weight-adjusted Th dose was administered to male macaques within 24 hours of birth (n = 13). Unexposed animals received saline placebo (n = 4) or no injection (n = 3). Infants were raised identically and tested daily for acquisition of 9 survival, motor, and sensorimotor reflexes by a blinded observer. In exposed animals there was a significant delay in the acquisition of three survival reflexes: root, snout and suck, compared with unexposed animals. No neonatal responses were significantly delayed in unexposed animals compared with exposed.

Gestational age (GA) and birth weight were not significantly correlated. Cox regression models were used to evaluate the main effects and interactions of exposure with birth weight and GA as independent predictors and time-invariant covariates. Significant main effects remained for exposure on root and suck when controlling for GA and birth weight such that exposed animals were relatively delayed in time-to-criterion. There was a significant effect of GA on visual follow far when controlling for exposure such that increasing GA was associated with shorter time-to-criterion. Interaction models indicated that while there were no main effects of GA or birth weight on root, suck or snout reflexes there were various interactions between exposure, GA, and birth weight such that inclusion of the relevant interaction terms significantly improved model fit. This, in turn, indicated important influences of birth weight and/or GA on the effect of exposure which, in general, operated in a way that lower birth weight and/or lower GA exacerbated the detrimental effect of vaccine exposure. This primate model provides a possible means of assessing adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes from neonatal Th-containing HB vaccine exposure, particularly in infants of lower GA or low birth weight. The mechanism of these effects and the requirements for Th is not known and requires further study.

Tonight, as we were eating dinner, Nicholas was drawing. His drawing tonight was unlike anything we have ever witnessed with him before. On the first drawing, he drew a smiley face. It wasn’t scribbles, he didn’t draw the circle for the head several times. Just one solid line around, eyes, nose and mouth. He’s done this before – every once in a while…. but this time he added hair and ears. He didn’t launch into the scribble, scribble, scribble he usually does when he gets frustrated. He drew the picture and then started writing his name on his paper.

Then he pulls out another sheet. And he draws another face with different hair, wrote his name underneath it – and then drew a rainbow over the head. This one was his “masterpiece” and he wanted tape to hang it up. We watched him in awe drawing this. He actually opened one marker at a time, used that color, put the cap back on it and picked another color. There was no dumping of the box of markers all over the table. There was no using 6 different colors at the same time. There was no fast and furious scribbling. This was all though out drawing – and he was telling us about this picture as he was drawing.

He went for another big bike ride with daddy tonight. He brought home a rock collection for me to see – he would stop along the way and pick out a rock to bring home for mommy. When I got home, he was very proud to show me his “rock collection” – he showed me the big one and the small one – the round one, the flat one, etc. Very proud. Very, very proud of his collection.

He had karate last night – and he did great again. He joins right in during circle time, follows along well and listens to instructions. And he LOVES it. When he’s done, he runs over and says, “I did it!” He loves showing us what he’s learned that day. We saw a slight struggle with him getting dressed in the uniform initially, but he doesn’t seem to care anymore. He’s counting in Korean now too – has been since the 2nd lesson. So, he can count in English, Spanish, Chinese and now Korean. (I wish he’d focus on English, but we’ll take it! When we arrived last night, we got there a bit early. There was another little girl there waiting for her brother to finish, so she started talking and playing with Nicholas. They played tag – she ran him all over the place and he had such a good time playing with her. I thought it might throw him off getting into class, but it didn’t at all.

Every day he blows us away. Every day, he exceeds our expectations which are constantly being reset lately. We are so incredibly thrilled with his progress. He is just amazing!

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/07/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5369956.shtml

By SUE CORRIGAN, Mail on Sunday
Last updated at 16:08 22 March

A former Government medical officer responsible for deciding whether medicines are safe has accused the Government of “utterly inexplicable complacency” over the MMR triple vaccine for children.
Dr Peter Fletcher, who was Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, said if it is proven that the jab causes autism, “the refusal by governments to evaluate the risks properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in medical history”.
He added that after agreeing to be an expert witness on drug-safety trials for parents’ lawyers, he had received and studied thousands of documents relating to the case which he believed the public had a right to see.
He said he has seen a “steady accumulation of evidence” from scientists worldwide that the measles, mumps and rubella jab is causing brain damage in certain children.
But he added: “There are very powerful people in positions of great authority in Britain and elsewhere who have staked their reputations and careers on the safety of MMR and they are willing to do almost anything to protect themselves.”
His warning follows reports that the Government is this week planning to announce the addition of a jab against pneumococcal meningitis for babies, probably from next April. It is also considering flu jabs for under-twos – not to protect the children, but adults they may infect.
In the late Seventies, Dr Fletcher served as Chief Scientific Officer at the DoH and Medical Assessor to the Committee on Safety of Medicines, meaning he was responsible for deciding if new vaccines were safe.
He first expressed concerns about MMR in 2001, saying safety trials before the vaccine’s introduction in Britain were inadequate.
Now he says the theoretical fears he raised appear to be becoming reality.
He said the rising tide of autism cases and growing scientific understanding of autism-related bowel disease have convinced him the MMR vaccine may be to blame.
“Clinical and scientific data is steadily accumulating that the live measles virus in MMR can cause brain, gut and immune system damage in a subset of vulnerable children,” he said. “There’s no one conclusive piece of scientific evidence, no ‘smoking gun’, because there very rarely is when adverse drug reactions are first suspected. When vaccine damage in very young children is involved, it is harder to prove the links.
“But it is the steady accumulation of evidence, from a number of respected universities, teaching hospitals and laboratories around the world, that matters here. There’s far too much to ignore. Yet government health authorities are, it seems, more than happy to do so.”
‘Why isn’t the Government taking this massive public health problem more seriously?’
Dr Fletcher said he found “this official complacency utterly inexplicable” in the light of an explosive worldwide increase in regressive autism and inflammatory bowel disease in children, which was first linked to the live measles virus in the MMR jab by clinical researcher Dr Andrew Wakefield in 1998.
“When scientists first raised fears of a possible link between mad cow disease and an apparently new, variant form of CJD they had detected in just 20 or 30 patients, everybody panicked and millions of cows were slaughtered,” said Dr Fletcher.
“Yet there has been a tenfold increase in autism and related forms of brain damage over the past 15 years, roughly coinciding with MMR’s introduction, and an extremely worrying increase in childhood inflammatory bowel diseases and immune disorders such as diabetes, and no one in authority will even admit it’s happening, let alone try to investigate the causes.”
He said there was “no way” the tenfold leap in autistic children could be the result of better recognition and definitional changes, as claimed by health authorities.
“It is highly likely that at least part of this increase is a vaccinerelated problem.” he said. “But whatever it is, why isn’t the Government taking this massive public health problem more seriously?”
His outspokenness will infuriate health authorities, who have spent millions of pounds shoring up confidence in MMR since Dr Wakefield’s 1998 statement.
But Dr Fletcher said the Government is undermining public confidence in vaccine safety by refusing to do in-depth clinical research to rule out fears of MMR damage to children.
He added that the risks of brain and gut damage from MMR injections seem to be much higher in children where a brother or sister has diabetes, an immune disorder.
“That is a very strong clinical signal that some children are immunologically at risk from MMR,” he said. “Why is the Government not investigating it further – diverting some of the millions of pounds spent on advertising and PR campaigns to promote MMR uptake into detailed clinical research instead?”
Now retired after a distinguished 40-year career in science and medicine in Britain, Europe and the US, Dr Fletcher said that without such research, health authorities could not possibly rule out fears about MMR.
He said: “It is entirely possible that the immune systems of a small minority simply cannot cope with the challenge of the three live viruses in the MMR jab, and the ever-increasing vaccine load in general.”
He said he had decided to speak out because of his deep concern at the lack of treatment for autistic children with bowel disease, as revealed in The Mail on Sunday two weeks ago.
He called the sudden termination of legal aid to parents of allegedly vaccine-damaged children in late 2003 “a monstrous injustice”. After agreeing to be a witness for the parents, he received thousands of documents relating to the case.
“Now, it seems, unless the parents force the Government to restore legal aid, much of this revealing evidence may never come out,” he said.
The Department of Health said: “MMR remains the best protection against measles, mumps and rubella. It is recognised by the World Health Organisation as having an outstanding safety record and there is a wealth of evidence showing children who receive the MMR vaccine are no more at risk of autism than those who don’t.”

2 ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls

20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).

200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste. http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste

25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in the Hepatitis B vaccine, administered at birth in the U.S., from 1990-2001.

50,000 ppb Mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTaP and Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 4 times each in the 1990′s to children at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Current “preservative” level mercury in multi-dose flu (94% of supply), meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines. This can be confirmed by simply analyzing the multi- dose vials.

Today was a beautiful day – gorgeous fall day – it was warm enough to be outside without a jacket, the sun was bright and the sky was blue. The bus pulls up and Nicholas is giggling and laughing with another boy he’s sitting in the seat with. I never saw that before, so it automatically put a smile on my face. After letting him rest for a bit, I asked him if he wanted to go for a bike ride – and he enthusiastically said YES! So, outside we went. Usually, Nicholas will go back and forth on the sidewalk for a while and be done and want to move onto something else, but not today. Nicholas starts pedalling up the street and I’m following close behind. The sidewalk is uneven in places, so I of course help him as needed, but he quickly figured out how to do it himself so I didn’t have to help him much at that point. We went around a bend to where you could no longer see our house – and Nicholas said, “we lost our house, we have to go find it” – So I though he wanted to turn around and go back home – nope – he kept going. As he’s riding, he’s pointing out street signs, address numbers, mailboxes, flowers, cars, anything and everything. He stopped at someone’s rose bush wanting to get me a flower. “I love you mommy! You need a flower” He and I talked the whole time. He told me about the stuff he was seeing and before I could realize it, we were down the other end of our street. (Our street is pretty long and wraps around in kind of a U). We past landscapers and Nicholas wanted to stop riding so he could help them. “Mommy, I want to help” – When we got out to the main street, Nicholas wanted to walk for a little while. He held my hand for a bit (the cars fly by) and then sometimes he didn’t, he just walked with me. I had no fear of him running into traffic. He was walking with me chit-chatting the whole time. Then he wanted to get back on his bike and ride more. He’d ride until he got to a cross walk and then would move his bike between the lines and ride across and pull his bike back up on the sidewalk. I no longer had that fear I used to have while walking down that street with him – I had stopped because of it – I just didn’t want to have to drag him back home kicking and screaming from wanting to run in every direction. When we got to our street (we went in a huge circle), he knew he was close to home “my home is this way mommy” – he saw Daddy outside from a distance and started yelling, “daddy, I’m coming… here I come…. daddy, can you hear me? Here I am” When we got home, he wasn’t done riding (and we were gone a while) – so Daddy jumped on his bike and we went down another street which has a culdesac on the end. Nicholas and daddy rode around the culdesac together (like something I’d imagine NT kids doing with their dad’s) – it was so much fun to watch. Then rode up the street and back to our house – and he was so thrilled he got to go for a bike ride.
I’m still in shock by the whole thing – it was such an amazing time. Nicholas fell asleep 2 hours before his bedtime – so he must have been pooped!

A foundation in Jett’s name has been created to assist and provide relief to children with vision, hearing, mobility, communication, behavior learning impairments or other special medical, environmental, health or educational needs. It may also use its resources, and make grants to educate the public about the need for a clean environment, provide relief and assistance to children who are victims of natural or man-made disasters, and to fund children’s educational programs.

The Jett Travolta Foundation

I applaud you and respect you for standing up for your rights against mandatory vaccination and would like to thank you for doing so. I appreciate the visibility you are bringing to this issue, because let’s face it – if the doctors and nurses don’t want to be vaccinated by force or otherwise, then you must certainly know something that most people don’t know. If there was no risk associated with the vaccines, you wouldn’t have any issue with getting them – and certainly would not risk losing your jobs in a bad economy. I believe that you understand the risks associated with the vaccines to be willing to stand up and fight to hopefully keep your jobs and not have to subject your body to those risks in order to keep those jobs.

After your battle is over, and I certainly hope you prevail, I ask you not to go back to doing business as usual as if the harm being done to a generation of children is not happening right before your very eyes. I beg you to stand with us and make us stronger – our children and their futures will effect your lives at some point – so please, please stand with us and help make our voices louder.

I do have a few other requests that could make all the difference in a child’s life….

– Please stop lying to parents (even if you don’t know you’re lying) about them not being able to get into school without having all of their vaccinations.
– Please do not belittle parents who are concerned about vaccinating their very young, very small babies who do not yet have developed immune systems as if they are uneducated
– Please do not vaccinate sick babies
– Please stop telling parents to use tylenol before/after vaccination. Tylenol depletes glutathione – please look it up. Please tell the doctors that you work for this as well.
– Please do not mix one vaccine with another and think that this is acceptable. and please do not inject one vaccine into one leg and one vaccine into another leg and think that this is acceptable either. Parents will come back for another visit. Hey, more visits = job security for you.
– Please do not back us into a corner and force us to do something that is the exact opposite of what you would do for yourself or your family
– Please stop using scare tactics and fear mongering when you know you wouldn’t give your own baby that vaccine.
– Please do not act as if you are more educated about vaccines than parents are. In most cases, this simply is not true anymore.
– Please do some research for yourself – the holes in the research will amaze you.

Our voices were heard in Albany!

An estimated 700 health care workers, activists, and concerned citizens gathered on the steps of the state house at East Capitol Park on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, starting at 10:00 am for a peaceful but passionate three-hour rally to protest the recent Executive Order from the New York State Department of Health requiring seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccination of all health care and related workers in New York State. (Click title to read more)

There is much debate about this video in the autism community, which is a shame because it’s not for those in our community, it’s to grab the attention of those not (yet) in our community. I thought this truly knocked it out of the park.

With the new rate of autism announced today, 1 in 91 which is a 65% increase in a two year period of time from 1 in 150 – people who are not yet effected by autism really need to wake up and realize that something very real is happening to a generation of children. Something that cannot be explained by genetics alone – it is impossible to have a genetic epidemic – it is just impossible.

By David Kirby
Washington loves to dump its bad news on a Friday afternoon, and today it confirmed that one percent of American children (and by extension, perhaps 1-in-58 boys) – has an autism spectrum disorder.

On a hastily arranged telephone “visit” with US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the autism community, the health chief announced that “the prevalence of autism might be even higher than previously thought.” But, she added, “We don’t know if it has gone up, and we are hoping to unlock these mysteries.”

The Secretary then declared autism “An urgent public health challenge,” declared that President Obama was “right to make it one of our top health priorities,” including research into “treatments and a cure” for the disorder, and promptly ended her visit.

Helping to fill in some of the details was Dr. Thomas R. Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and Chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, who confirmed that CDC data to be published later this year will estimate the current childhood ASD rate at 100-per-10,000 children.

The data, collected from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, shows a significant uptick in ASD prevalence estimates in just two years.

According to ADDM, the average rate of autism among eight-year-olds across all study sites was 67-per-10,000 in 2000 (the 1992 birth cohort), and 66-per-10,000 in 2002 (the 1994 birth cohort). Only six sites were included in both studies, and their average prevalence rate increased by 10%, from 67-per-10,000 to 74-per-10,000.

Now, CDC has announced that among the 1996 birth cohort, the estimated rate of ASD is 100-per-10,000; a staggering 50% increase over the 1994 birth cohort.

It is easy to understand why the Feds would call autism an “urgent” issue, but any sense of urgency by the officials on the phone was clearly absent, at least from my perspective. In fact, most of the discussion was centered around providing services and education to the growing ranks of Americans with ASD, an entirely laudable goal, to be sure.

But no one expressed any alarm that up to 1 in 58 boys in this country is now on the autism spectrum. The officials on the call seemed to think that wider diagnostic criteria – such as adding Asperger Syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified – to the concept of an “autism spectrum disorder” vastly inflated the rate of ASD in the United States.

There was no alarm, and little time for questions from the community that was invited to “visit.” After about 15 minutes, questioning was cut off, and the call abruptly ended. I tried three times to ask a question (via a telephone switching system) and so did many other people on the call, which lasted a total of 39 minutes.

And so, here is my (expanded) question, directed to Dr. Insel:

Dr. Insel, thank you for arranging this call. I understand that the estimated average ASD rate increased from 66-per-10,000 to 100-per-10,000 between the 1994 and 1996 birth cohorts. Officials on this call believe this increase could be attributed purely to expanding diagnostic criteria and greater awareness, though they don’t know for sure.

But how could you attribute a 50% increase in just two years to wider diagnostics, especially when the 1994 cohort would have been diagnosed, on average, in 1998 and the latter cohort in 2000? The expansion of the ASD definition to include Asperger and PDD-NOS occurred in the early 1990s, so how can you explain this sudden and delayed explosion in the numbers?

Also, you have declared that the vaccine-autism link had been disproven, yet all the studies you cite have only looked at MMR and thimerosal. But why is the IACC, which you chair, not investigating the possible role of Hep-B vaccine, given the following:

1) An abstract just published in the Annals of Epidemiology said that giving Hepatitis B vaccine to newborn baby boys more than triples the risk of ASD. (HERE)

2) A study just published in Neurotoxicology reported that infant male primates who received one dose of Hepatitis-B vaccine were far more likely to display developmental delays than unvaccinated controls. (HERE)

3) A study last year in Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry showed that boys getting the 3-shot HepB vaccine series were eight times more likely to require early intervention services than boys who did not have the series. (HERE)

4) A study in the journal Neurology found that children who received the Merck brand Hepatitis B vaccine series were 74% more likely to develop “central nervous system inflammatory demyelination” than children who did not receive the vaccine. (HERE)

Finally, why does your committee ignore evidence associating heavy metals and other toxins with ASD, why did you jettison the vaccinated-vs.-unvaccinated study that your own committee had previously voted to recommend, and why are you spending only 39 minutes speaking with the community that represents, according to your boss, one of the nation’s “top health priorities?”

I am also sending this question to HHS, to see if I can get a proper response. But I am not holding my breath.

David Kirby is author of Evidence of Harm, a founding contributor to Huffington Post and a contributor to Age of Autism. His next book, Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment will be released within the year and is available now for pre-order at Amazon.

Nicholas’s progress continues – his language is improving every single day. His eye contact is phenominal.

Recently, we took Nicholas away for a weekend to go to “Day Out with Thomas” – this was a truly wonderful day for us all – and Nicholas did amazingly well – it was almost like we were living in a dream. Despite the amount of people there and the overwhelmingness of it all, nothing bothered him. First, let me say “Day out with Thomas” is a fantastic event for the Thomas fan or young train enthusiast – I will not hesitate taking Nicholas back again the next time Thomas returns. For the price of each ticket, there was lots to do there – one shorter train ride with Thomas and one longer train ride on another train. We arrived much earlier than our ticketed time to ride Thomas, so we opted to ride the other train first. Nicholas LOVED it. This was not the first time we were on a train with him – but the scenery was beautiful, farms, cows, horses, etc. Back at the station, they had lots of activities for kids – one, which Nicholas rode 20+ times, were these little train cars which you power with your hands in the same motion as riding a bike. Nicholas flew around that track so fast – smiling from ear to ear. All the kids there loved this – you could tell how they jumped off and ran right back into line just how much fun they were having. The had a small-scale train ride, areas to meet and take pictures with both Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt, a trolley ride and one of those rail cars where you have to pump it like a see-saw (but with your hands) to get it moving. There was so much to do and see, we were not able to do it all – which is good – new things to see/do on our next visit. The look on his face when he saw Thomas for the first time was priceless – I think he was in awe. We certainly were – they did a great job with that engine! Sir Topham Hatt was a bit overwhelming – I thought he’d be a real person, not someone dressed up in a big costume like Elmo or Mickey. The day was a complete success and when Nicholas had enough, he said it was time to go home.

Nicholas is now going to Karate and is doing quite well. He’s counting in Chinese (is it chinese?) to 5, following commands, doing well with the structured routine of the lesson and really seems to be enjoying himself. He picked up everything fairly quickly much to the amazement of myself and his instructor. He started off taking private 1 on 1 instructions, but yesterday, when Daddy took him – another instructor came and grabbed him and added him to the circle of the big class that was going on. When his instructor came out and saw Nicholas in the class with the others, both he and Daddy seemed amazed (or maybe a bit shocked?) to see how well he did just being thrown into the class like that. He followed everything they were doing quite well and was engaged with it for quite some time. Then, he took his 1 on 1 lesson and flew through that. So, this coming week, he’ll be in the class with other kids as it looks like he’s ready to be a part of the group! Go Nicholas!!

This year, Nicholas started full day Kindergarten. I had wondered how the full day of school would work for him, but it’s been uneventful to say the least. He comes home and tells me that he missed me. Talking about his day is becoming easier since they’re sending home more work he’s working on. He’s always excited to tell me about what he did. One day he came home and told me his grilled cheese sandwich was delicious. Another day he told me they were doing the letter A – and “A is for apple” “A is for acorn” – (always unprompted) he is very excited to be learning and seems to really be enjoying it. I don’t have to argue with him or coerce him into getting up/dressed for school – even though he’s like me – he is not a morning person. He loves his new lunchbox and having his lunch in his lunchbox. He’s bringing home books from the library and actually wanting to sit and read them. He sits at his table and says he wants to do work. (WHAT?) So I get him some workbook activities to do and he’s loving it.

At the beginning of the summer, we had a hard time getting him off the steps that go into the pool – same drill as last year – he just loved to hang by the stairs and play in the water. But this year, we had him all over the pool around the edges, floating on floats, playing games in the water with mommy and even playing hide and seek. He was swimming pretty well (with mommy holding him from underneath) and once he was in the pool, he never wanted to get out. The chlorine seemed to have no effect on his behavior (he does get taurine) – but for next year, we are hoping to replace this with an alternative system, so if anyone has any experience with an alternate, please let me know.

Daddy has been away on and off for work and when he’s away, Nicholas would say, “Mommy, I miss daddy – go to airport and pick daddy up”

His receptive language has really improved.

He is starting to work on writing the alphabet at school and is writing his name. When he colors, he is picking appropriate colors – purple for grapes, green for the leaves, etc. He told me he likes doing work like at school. (This is an area where we have seen massive improvement in a very short period of time.)

Nicholas loves the little felt shapes that have the sticker backs to them. I bought him a new set of them in all kinds of different Space shapes. He sat at his table pretending with them for the longest time – doing the countdown to blastoff – putting planets there, marching the astronauts on the planets, etc. He was very excited and thanked me for the surprise present – and said he liked it alot – and liked doing work like that. He is very proud of the space pictures he created.

He is really quite thoughtful. Just last night, he finished drinking the water from grandma’s water bottle and went to the kitchen to get the big water bottle to refill her bottle. He will go into the kitchen and come back with 3 snapple bottles, one for him and one for mommy and daddy. “For you, Mommy” “For you, Daddy” When Daddy came home late Friday night, Nicholas brought him a bowl of grapes because he said he was hungry. (unprompted and completely his own thinking)

When his grandparents walked in the other night, he told them he was happy they were here and to please clean up his toys that were on the floor. (this was absolutely hysterical – it was like a mommy’s not gonna do it, so you do it kind of thing)

We can see more and more of his silliness coming through and his pure in enjoyment in having good clean fun. He’s doing deliberately funny things, tickling us to break a bad mood, etc. He just LOVES to laugh – and his laugh is one of the most infectious ones I have ever heard. (no, I am not biased. LOL)

He’s pretending to do magic all of a sudden (we have no idea where this came from) – balancing acts, disappearing acts, stuff like this.

“I can’t do it” is turning into “mommy look at me, I can do it” totally unprompted.

If we sound cross or raise our voices, we are told to ‘calm down’, ‘use inside voices’, ‘be happy’ – he totally tries to push his way in to break tension, stop arguements/disagreements.

He will get on the phone now and ask people to come over.

He doesn’t seem to get stuck on TV shows like he once did. He still has his favorites, but they tend to change quickly. He loves the new one, Dinosaur Train (which is totally adorable) and is still loving Dora and Diego – but is also enjoying Olivia in addition to Wow wow Wubbzy and Nihao Kailan.

Nicholas’s favorite book is one which has a lego train in it. (thanks grandma, you still owe me $$ for this set! LOL) Once he saw this train in the book, he fell in love with it – and has worked really hard collecting stickers to earn it. It was an early birthday present – but the gift in this is watching HOW he’s playing with this. It’s not so much about running the trains around the track – the trains are doing things, bringing cargo from one location to another, etc. Nicholas was never into Legos, ever. And we’re now watching him build all kinds of things – arches that go over the tracks for his trains to go under, Packages for his trains to carry, etc. He’s actually walking the people around and having them do things. Worth every penny.

His use of the computer is improving as well. He’s playing more advanced games and learning lots from them.

We took Nicholas pumpkin picking yesterday. He was so excited about going pumpkin picking, he wanted to do this before karate. The farm we went to has a pumpkin patch which is only reachable via hayride. So, we took a hayride through the farm around their acreage to the pumpkin patch. Earlier that morning, Nicholas said he wanted six pumpkins (yes, six) – even though we had told him to pick a few small ones to paint – Mommy and Daddy got a big one and Grandma and Grandpa got a big one, so we ended up with 6 anyway! Nicholas was extremely well behaved and truly enjoyed himself. (Did I just say that? ) After we got our pumpkins and got back on the truck, Nicholas said, “Let’s go back to the barn now” – which was where we were parked. When we got back to the barn, we roamed around the farm a bit coming across a cat. Nicholas loved seeing the cat – I dont think he’s ever seen a cat up so close before. (this cat was not afraid to be around people) We checked out the bone collection from the bisons that the farm had on display and Nicholas was very inquisitive about everything and was visibly surprised at how big the bison’s jaw bone was with “all of those teeth!”

Last night, he wanted to paint his new pumpkins – so we pulled out his paints (he LOVES art and projects) and he made the most perfect smiley face on the first pumpkin. I hope he didn’t paint over it, I want to take a picture of it – that’s how perfect it was!!

Nicholas, who has the art of ignoring hearing something he doesn’t want to do, is responding to requests he doesn’t want to do – with an ‘okay OKAY’ where he says the first okay normally and the 2nd with a grumbly “I dont want to do this, but you’re being a pain-in-the-ass-nag-so-I’m-gonna-do-it-just-to-shut-you-up-kind-of-way” It’s really quite hysterical to hear. Kind of has a bit of sarcasm thrown in there as well.

Nicholas called me a “poopyhead” the other day. We have no idea where he got this term from. “poopyhead” is not something which usually comes out of our mouths. He thought he was being so funny. And it was funny. Despite the fact that he was calling me a name – I was thrilled for him to be doing it.

Something else we noticed yesterday…. Nicholas is playing the drums using alternate hands. He’s never done this before. He would use one or the other, but not, left, right, left, right, etc. He’s behind Daddy’s drums and says, “mommy, I’m playing an instrument” I looked at him and was amazed – I had never heard him use the word instrument before. “what instrument are you playing, Nicholas?” “you know I am playing the drums!” (you know??? whoa – got to love it!)

Nicholas is starting to incorporate some of the spanish words he’s learned from Dora and Diego into real life. His latest one is using “empuje” meaning “push”

He’s coming home and telling me things about school like “bobby took my train” ‘did you ask for it back?’ “yeah, he didn’t want to share”

He’s asking kids to share toys with him and offering to share with them.

As always, if something else comes to mind before I hit publish, I will add it below.

When four infants, each less than four months old, who live within a mile radius of each other pass away in their cribs during an eight day time span – someone has got to be putting more clues together as to why this has happened other than the “only links” being that they were found in their cribs in the morning and that a relative had called the police.

Please tell me that the medical records for these children have been pulled from the hospitals in which they were born or treated since birth, pediatrician’s office(s) and health clinics. PLEASE TELL ME that they have cross referenced each child’s vaccination record against the others to compare LOT NUMBERS for each and every vaccine they received including the Hep B shot that they most likely received before leaving the hospital after their birth.

PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME that such an event is a coincidence and that these babies died of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). Babies just don’t die for no apparent reason.

DO NOT IGNORE the fact that the one baby USED TO THROW UP MILK.

Four infants in Elizabeth die within 8-day period

By Julie O’Connor/The Star-Ledger
September 22, 2009, 9:15PM
ELIZABETH — Four infants in Elizabeth, all less than 4 months old, have died within an eight-day period this month, and authorities are at a loss to explain why.

The only links between the four — two boys and two girls: they were discovered in their cribs, in the morning, and lived within a mile of each other. And in each case, a relative called police to report that a baby had stopped breathing, authorities said.

Police have found no signs of foul play in any of the cases and the Union County Prosecutor’s Office said the deaths appear to be unrelated. One of the babies was born at Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth. It was not immediately know where the others were born.

Police Sgt. John Maloney called the deaths “totally unusual.”

“If we have four in a year, it’s a lot,” he said.

Barbara Ostfeld, program director for the SIDS Center of New Jersey, said it’s too early to determine if the deaths are significant or a “statistical blip.”

“It’s important to wait for the final diagnosis,” said Ostfeld, a professor of pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. “If there are any questions or clusters of concern, the county medical officer would get involved.”

Autopsies have been conducted on three of the babies but the medical examiner is awaiting results of toxicology reports before making a “formal determination” on the cause of death, according to the prosecutor’s office.

The first death — a 3-month-old African American girl — was reported Sept. 12 around 8 a.m. by the baby’s mother who lived on Broadway in downtown Elizabeth. The next day, two more deaths were reported, each roughly a mile from the first: Ray’son Clayton, a 2-month-old African American boy on Port Avenue, and a 4-month-old Hispanic boy on Loomis Street. Last Sunday morning, authorities received a call from a home on Hand Place that a 2-month-old Hispanic girl was not breathing.

In an interview today at her Port Avenue apartment, Tiffany McCray, Ray’son’s mother, said that on Sunday morning she went to change her son’s diaper and give him a bottle, but “when I turned him over, he was dead.”

“Some people look at me as a bad mother. I’m not a bad mother,” said McCray, 23, who has three other children. “Knowing my baby was not the only baby (who died) did kind of make me feel a little better because I thought I did something wrong.”

McCray said her son was born at Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth and had no obvious health problems.

“I don’t know what happened,” she said. “He used to throw up milk but that was the only problem he had.”

She said Ray’son’s last doctor’s appointment was in August and the baby, who she said weighed 8 pounds, was in perfect health.

In cases involving children under one year old where no cause of death is determined after an autopsy, a medical examiner may classify the death as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, health experts said. The diagnosis essentially means all known medical explanations have been ruled out.

In 2006, the last year for which data is available, 34 of 632 infant deaths in New Jersey were classified as SIDS, state health officials said. In Union County, there were 13 SIDS deaths between 2000 and 2006, including three in Elizabeth, health officials said.

Ostfeld, the SIDS program director, said some factors can elevate the risk of sudden infant death, such as a baby sleeping on its stomach, exposure to secondhand smoke, or bedding that is too soft or overheating.

In addition, babies of mothers who are young and/or poor who may not receive sufficient health care, causing their child to be at a higher risk. African American babies face the greatest risk for SIDs, followed by Latino babies, she said.

http://www.sigg.com/about-sigg/about-our-liners-and-reusable-bottles/exchange-program

The Autism News: “I am Autism”

http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/howmuchlonger.php

Think your SIGG water bottle is BPA-free? Think again.
by Savannah Mayfield

If you spent almost $20 on a SIGG water bottle for your child, thinking it is free of toxins, you are going to want to read this article.

Our friends at ZRecs alerted us to an alarming finding. SIGG water bottles (you know those really cute, pricey ones that parents buy when they want to be sure their child is not absorbing toxins in their drink) made before last summer have an epoxy lining that contains the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A.

If you are wondering which bottle you have, the old one containing BPA or the secretly replaced new one, just visit the ZRecs story for informative photos that will help you identify which bottle your child (or other family member) has been using.

The good news? Take your SIGG water bottle with the old liner to your local New Seasons Store. I just got off the phone with them and they will exchange it for one with the new, safe, BPA-free liner. How much do we love our New Seasons?

PS: Be sure to shop while you are there!

Savannah Mayfield

I am using a capsule filler and have been mixing his day’s worth of doses, since I have some caps and some powders, and re-capsuling them in the big “00″ capsules. Giving him fewer big capsules instead of a bunch of tiny ones has been one of the best moves I have made yet. Making my own capsules is a bit time consuming, but it’s not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be.

As of today, there are only 3 supplements I have to mix with juice (and he doesn’t even flinch at these being in his juice – thank goodness!) – and that’s until they run out for the most part. His Nordic Naturals complete omega 369, Vitamin C and one of his gelcaps is a little on the HUGE side.
Oh wait, forgot about liver life and his micellized vitamin a – I just put those in a cup with a tsp of juice and he swallows it with no problem.

Just in case you are wondering where I got the capsule filler from, here are the links:
Capsule Fillers
Empty Capsules
(Code TUM744 at iherb.com for $5 off)

Thoughtful House on NBC News
Story Scheduled to be Broadcast this Weekend

August 25, 2009

Dear Friends,

As some of you may have already heard, the NBC television network is producing a special on Thoughtful House and Dr. Andrew Wakefield. We are sending along this note to make you aware of the extent of coverage on various programs and the scheduled broadcast date. First, though, we thought it was important to help everyone understand our decision to cooperate with the reporter, Matt Lauer, and his producer, Ami Schmitz. In our estimation, there has not yet been any fair coverage in the mainstream media of Dr. Wakefield or the work of Thoughtful House. While we have a large community of supporters that know Dr. Wakefield’s credibility and the accomplishments of Thoughtful House and our excellent physicians and clinicians, including Dr. Bryan Jepson, Dr.Arthur Krigsman, and Kelly Barnhill, CN, CCN, many of us in the Autism Advocacy Community
spend most of our time communicating with people in similar situations.

Our challenge has always been to reach out to a greater population that might not know or understand what is happening with regard to the autism epidemic and the lack of government research into potential causes, which includes looking at vaccine safety. We thought that if we ever were able to communicate with a fair-minded journalist working at a media outlet with both credibility and reach then it was likely to be worth the risk trying to tell our story.

We have taken that chance with NBC. While we initially declined their invitation for a story, we were persuaded to move forward when Matt Lauer was proposed as the correspondent. His reputation for being objective and thorough prompted us to reconsider and ultimately to open our doors. In March, TV crews from The Today Show, Dateline, and NBC Nightly News began gathering material at Thoughtful House in Austin. This involved taping long interviews with Drs. Wakefield, Jepson, and Krigsman, some of our therapists, administrators, and, more importantly, a few of our families. The crews traveled to London to report on the Lancet controversy and interviewed many of the central figures relevant to that part of our story. They also taped interviews, presentations, and families in attendance at the Atlanta DAN conference. Dr. Wakefield was flown to New York by the network and received what he described as a “tough but fair” interview in a one-on-one with Today Show host Matt Lauer. The person we have dealt with throughout the course of this project is Mr. Lauer’s producer, Ami Schmitz. Ami has a long resume as a medical journalist and was formerly Dr. Timothy Johnson’s producer at ABC News. In our assessment, she has been thorough and diligent in gathering information, documents, and asking the kind of detailed questions that have been glossed over or conflated in previous reporting. We believe, based upon hours and hours of working with Ami, she is writing an even-handed report, which will be narrated and hosted by Mr. Lauer.

Nothing is certain, of course, so we are taking a risk. However, we believe the potential reward is worth that risk; it’s entirely possible this will be the first time this subject matter (autism, Wakefield, Thoughtful House, vaccine safety research) has been considered objectively in mainstream media. If that is the case, we have the possibility of communicating with millions of people and that will be nothing but positive for those of us dealing with autism in our own families. We will find out this Friday, August 28. A portion of Mr. Lauer’s interview with Dr. Wakefield will be broadcast in an 8-10 minute segment on The Today Show. Either Saturday or Sunday, the NBC Nightly News Weekend will also broadcast a lengthy piece on Thoughtful House and vaccine safety. Coverage will culminate on Sunday night, August 30, at 7 pm EST, with an hour-long broadcast hosted by Mr. Lauer on Dateline NBC. This is scheduled to be adjacent to the Sunday night NFL football game on NBC, which means there is the potential for a large audience. In fact, the cumulative audience for all of these programs means there are likely to be no less than 5 million people who learn about autism and Thoughtful House and, quite possibly, as many as 20 million viewers will see the various broadcasts.

Consequently, you see the reason we decided to cooperate with NBC. The program might just be a game changer in the conversation we are all having in our communities with our governments, health care providers, insurance companies, and overall policies within our culture that marginalize families dealing with autism. We all started off several years ago on what many of us believe is the correct course for treatment and research and it has led us to this moment, and we believe we’ve made the right decision.

We would like to ask all of you that are active in the autism community to hold all judgment and wait to see the final broadcast. NBC has dedicated substantial time and resources to this story and the producer has made every effort to interview people from all points of view. Our hope is that a fair story will be told and you may submit feedback to the network after the shows have aired. Please do not attempt to contact them prior to the broadcast.

Please share this information with your friends, and if there are any last minutes changes, which we are told is always possible in the news business, you can rely on us to bring them to your attention.

Sincerely,
Anissa Ryland
Director of Operations
Thoughtful House Center for Children

This is the one I bought:
Now Brand L-Carnosine 500mg Vcaps
(Love iherb.com – if you’ve never ordered from them before, TUM744 gives you $5 off your first order.)

Added October 23, 2009 – saw a nice boost in language with L-Carnosine. We’re going to keep it on board and see if the gains continue.

Update January 27, 2010 – this really did provide us with a nice boost in language. One that did not fade after we stopped giving it. I eliminated it from his daily regiment and waited a while, added it back and got an additional boost. I removed it a couple of weeks ago, once again with no loss in language. Perhaps we’ll revisit it again in the future.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/08/responding-to-chris-mooney-in-the-lat.html

My letter in response to the LA Times article: Bringing science back into America’s sphere on Chris Mooney’s book “Unscientific America”

Lori, Chris and Sheril,

I am an autism parent with an MS is Clinical Counseling from Johns Hopkins University and a contributor to Age of Autism. I maintain my own blog at Adventures in Autism.

I saw Lori’s piece today and would like to point out a few things that seem incredibly obvious from where I am sitting, but you genuinely don’t seem to have on your radar (from what I could tell from the article), in regards to why America is not embracing “science” as you think they should. I hope you will be open to hearing from me for a moment, because there is a problem, but the problem may not be the public.

I feel like you may have confused actual hard “Science” with “things that most scientists think”, as there seems to be a denial of the fact that scientific consensus has quite often been (and most assuredly still is in many places) wrong.

Chris and Sheril wrote: “…today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles.”

I would put it to you that it may not the “scientific principles” that are being rejected, but the principles of the scientists.

When my son regressed into autism following his 18 month shots and I spent a year trying to reconcile all of the contradictory positions of my own pediatrician, the AAP, the CDC, HHS, the “science” you say exonerates vaccines from autism causation, the whole of the research out there and the facts of my own son’s case, what I found was a ridiculous mess.

What you keep referring to as “science” is making contradictory statements all over the place. It resembles nothing like the thing that “Science” is actually supposed to be, the methodical study of phenomena to figure out what is ACTUALLY, TRULY happening.
Yet the statements that scientists make claiming that all the vaccine/autism questions have been answered, that all the possibilities have been explored and that people should just kill what intellectual curiosity and concern for child safety that they have left and move on? How is that “Science”? How is that not laughable?

Case in point from Lori’s article: “science has come in and we can’t detect the correlation between a rise in autism diagnoses and use of childhood vaccines. And study after study has been done.”

Yet “science” has never done a simple study that took a large group of vaccinated children and a large group of children whose parents chose not to vaccinate them, and compared them for autism incidence! Yet you suggest that it is time to let the vaccine/autism question go? The FIRST study that “science” should have done, still has never been done! And it may take an act of congress to actually make “science” do something it apparently really does not want to do. And that is only the beginning of the studies that have not been done.

Not to mention the fact that “study after study” is picked apart by other researchers, and even by lay parents, but those critiques are ignored by people like you who don’t want to follow the actual scientific method. This same bizarre conversation is carried out over and over:

Mainstream science: “Here is a study… look no vaccine/autism connection”.

Autism community: “Hey… look here… you guys forgot to carry the 3. Wait… half of our kids’ medical histories are in the exclusion criteria!”.

Mainstream science (now with their back to the autism community and facing the microphones): “Awww…. poor desperate, scientifically illiterate parents looking for someone to blame. At some point they really have to let go.”

There are about a thousand questions on the vaccine/autism connection that neither scientists nor research has ever addressed, and the medical establishment won’t even allow to be asked in their “pulpits” because “science” is the new religion and their dogma cannot be questioned. Scientists are the priests, and those who diverge from the cannon are branded heretics. Vaccines are inherently “good” and cannot be “bad”. The research that points to vaccines causing autism is treated like the evidence that priests were molesting young boys… ignored, buried and those who dared call attention to it are bullied into silence. And yet you have a problem with the suppression of discussion of evolution in churches? Again…. from where I sit, the hypocrisy of your statements are stunning.

The scientific community overstates the benefits of vaccination and understates the risks. And of course they do, vaccination is their baby. Yet they don’t seem to have the insight to understand that there is a conflict of interest there. Last year the AAP sent a representative to a Defeat Autism Now! conference to evaluate the state of their science into autism/vaccine causation. They sent Louis Cooper of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, one of the inventors of the Rubella vaccine. Seriously? Lou Cooper is the objective guy that is going to return to the AAP and declare, “You know what guys… I think the vaccine I invented and that is my greatest accomplishment in life may be playing a role in an epidemic of lifelong and deadly neurological disorders that are striking around 1 in 100 kids! I think we may have caused an epidemic!”????

I don’t think that you have fully grasped what has happened in the vaccine/autism wars. A very large group of parents, physicians and researchers have made the accusation that mainstream medicine, the scientific community and public health authorities have created one of the largest iatrogenic epidemics of all time via an overzealous and under researched vaccine program. A very serious charge. Your community has responded to that charge by doing a minimal amount of shoddy research, in most cases paid for and carried out by the pharmaceutical companies that made the products in question and the agencies that made the policies that put these products into almost every tiny body in this country regardless of their risk factors, while simultaneously mocking those making the charge.

You have declared that YOU HAVE INVESTIGATED YOURSELVES AND FOUND THAT YOU ARE NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES! And the policy makers among you have made sure that no appeal can be filed in an actual court where your accusers can bring evidence against you, compel you to testify under oath, or compel you to turn over internal documents, as you have passed legislation exempting yourselves from any liability or litigation. You claim innocence and just tell us that we have to take your word for it, as if “smart” also mean “honest”, “incorruptible”, “omniscient” and “looking out for the best interests of the public and all individuals”.

Why in the world do you think that your reputation should be on the rise?!

What is happening is denial on a scale far grander than what transpired during the initial Semmelweiss Reflex. You want the public to embrace science, even the science that they don’t want to face? You go first!

I started to write more on all of the corruption that is going on in the medical and scientific industries, but who has that much time.

Yes… to solve the problem that you want solved, reportedly that you want mainstream American to embrace “science”, “Scientists are going to have to have a culture change.”

But the change you suggest is the wrong one. You don’t need more scientists (or more nerds rapping about super colliders), you need the scientists you already have to have a come to Jesus moment. The scientific community needs to understand that their hubris, arrogance, devaluing of the individual, ethical problems, legal problems, widespread conflicts of interest and constant denials of any evidence that is inconvenient to the advancements of their “scientific” agenda is the problem, and has to come to an end.

The scientific community need a big dose of humility, and needs to consider the fact that their critics and those ignoring them, might have a few good points.

They need to listen to, and be able to cogently address their critics, instead of marginalizing and maligning them. And if they don’t have an answer, they have to offer informed consent to the public and admit that they don’t have an answer.

People see right through condescending BS. People have a tenancy to treat you with the same dismissal with which you have treated them. What you are seeing may not be a “deep-seated streak of anti-intellectualism” but a deep-seated distrust of self-proclaimed “intellectuals” who openly disdain the unwashed masses, then wonder why their scientific pronouncements have no sway with them.

Take minute and go read any autism/vaccine post on Orac’s blog, as he is the rock star of the “woo” bashing ‘skeptics’ in your universe. Now pretend that you are a parent who has learned that thimerosal at nanomolar amounts causes mitochondrial dysfunction so severe that it can cause the cell to self destruct, and that HHS has conceded that in the Poling case mito dysfunction + vaccination = autism symptoms. And pretend that one of your questions are that if vaccines are known to cause Guillian-Barre, an autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks the central nervous system, then why can’t they cause autism, an autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks the central nervous system? And pretend that you want to understand that if one vaccine contains enough adjuvant to stimulate the immune system sufficiently to put it on a search and destroy mission for viruses, then why do docs give five shots at once and claim it couldn’t possibly overstimulate the immune system in some into a search and destroy mission for its own tissues; and cause the autoimmune state and neuroinflammation found in autism. And then pretend that you are confused by the stance of “science” that a fetus contracting Rubella is a known cause of autism, but that that a one year old being given a live virus rubella vaccine couldn’t possibly cause autism; while remembering that VICP has ruled that Baily Banks would not have had ASD if not for his MMR.

And pretend you saw Julie Gerberding go on CNN and say that vaccines can cause autism and cannot cause autism.

And then pretend that you spend untold hours on pubmed and in chat rooms and on HHS/CDC/AAP web sites and you can’t find any cogent answers for the questions you have. And pretend that your own pediatrician just got annoyed with you for asking questions he couldn’t answer and then just stopped returning your calls.

And then go read Orac again (or any ‘skeptic’ blog or even your own article in the LAT) and ask yourself… ‘why would any thinking person want to listen to us when we can’t answer their questions and instead treat them with contempt to cover the fact that we can’t answer their questions’?

Your ‘skeptic’ community’s message to the public and parents like me? “You are an idiot and we have nothing but contempt for you. Now think what I tell you to think and do what I want you to do, even if it doesn’t make sense”.

Treat your audience like crap, and they will leave. Claim to be a scientist and spout completely unscientific and illogical statements (mean ones at that), and no one will care what you say.

Chris, when your own suggestion on how to fix the problem that you have defined is to lean more about the people who are resisting your message, not so that you might learn from them as to where you might have gone off the tracks, not even so that you might enter into a mutually respectful relationship with them where you are on the same level (what with you being “super smart”, “highly educated” and “doing great stuff” while they are way behind you on some imaginary starting point), but so that you might condescend to where they are in order to manipulate them into believing what you want them to believe… can you see that you can’t even see what the real problem is?

It is clear from this article that those you target, you do not consider your equals.

“Smart” is not the only virtue, and it may not even one of the most important virtues. Look back at the people who have done the most damage to humanity through out history. You will be hard pressed to find a dummy among them.

Ginger Taylor

The National Autism Association has created this campaign, which I just love. You cannot get any more simple and direct than this – HOW MUCH LONGER?????

HOW MUCH LONGER, NIH?

HOW MUCH LONGER, FDA?

HOW MUCH LONGER, OBAMA?

HOW MUCH LONGER, CDC?

On 09-09-09, the National Autism Association is launching a mass faxing, mailing, calling campaign that will cover community-wide autism issues — click here for more information.

Added on 8/25/2009: How much longer DOE?

By Clare Swinney

This report provides practical information on how to protect yourself if you are unlucky enough to be forced to take an A/H1N1 vaccine.

Dr Blaylock
Dr Russell L. Blaylock, a highly-respected neurosurgeon, who has authored three books on nutrition and wellness, including Health And Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life, recently spoke with Dr Bill Deagle, MD of The Nutrimedical Report about some proven natural, readily accessible solutions that may help deal with the toxic effects of A/H1N1 vaccines. The excellent hour-long interview is available at YouTube at the link HERE or can be downloaded from HERE from the GCN archives dated July 31, 2009 (hour 1). In addition, there is a transcript of the interview posted at Dr Deagle’s site at this link.

Dr Blaylock’s List of suggestions on How to Reduce the Toxic Effects of the A/H1N1 Vaccine, is as follows:

1. Number one on the list says Dr Blaylock, is to bring a cold pack with you and place it on the site of the injection as soon as you can, as this will block the immune reaction. Once you get home, continue using a cold pack throughout the day. If you continue to have immune reactions the following day, have cold showers and continue with the cold press.

2. Take fish oil. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), one of the omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oil supplements, is a potent immune suppressant. If you take high dose EPA you will be more susceptible to infections, because it is a powerful immune suppressant. However, in the case of an immune adjuvant reaction, you want to reduce it. Studies show that if you take EPA oil one hour before injecting a very powerful adjuvant called lipopolysaccharide (LPS), it would completely block the ability of the LPS to cause brain inflammation. Take a moderate dose everyday and more if needed to tame a cytokine storm.

3. Flavonoids are third on the list, namely curcumin, quercetin, ferulic acid and ellagic acid, particularly in a mixture. The curcumin and quercetin in particular have been found to block the ability of the adjuvants to trigger a long-term immune reaction. If you take it an hour before the vaccination, it should help dampen the immune reactions says Dr Blaylock.

4. Vitamin E, the natural form that is high in gamma-E will help dampen the immune reactions and reduces several of the inflammatory cytokines.

5. An important ingredient on the list is Vitamin C at a dose of 1000 mg, taken four times a day between meals. It is a very potent anti-inflammatory and should be taken in a buffered form, not as absorbic acid, says Dr Blaylock.

6. Also use astaxanthin as it’s an anti-inflammatory. According to Dr Blaylock, fatal reactions to vaccines in aboriginal and African children occurred in those who were deficient in carotinoids, like astaxanthin. It is a good protection against the toxic effects of the vaccine.

7. Likewise, it was found that children who were deficient in zinc had a high mortality rate. Zinc is very protective against vaccine toxicity. (Do not use zinc mixed with copper however, as copper is a major trigger of free-radical generation according to Dr Blaylock).

8. Ensure you avoid all immune-stimulating supplements, such as mushroom extracts, whey protein and beta-glucan.

9. Take a multivitamin-mineral daily – one that does not contain iron. This multivitamin-mineral is to make sure your body has plenty of B vitamins and selenium. Selenium, said Dr Blaylock, is very important for fighting viral infections and it reduces the inflammatory response to vaccines.

10. Magnesium citrate/malate 500 mg of elemental magnesium two capsules, three times a day. (This was not mentioned during the show, but was posted at Dr Deagle’s website, ClayandIron.com).

11. What is very important is vitamin D3, which is the only ‘vitamin’ the body can manufacture from sunlight (UVB). It is a neural hormone, not really a vitamin says Dr Blaylock and helps if you are over-reacting immunologically by cooling down the reaction. Similarly, if you are under-reacting, it helps to boost your immune response. In addition it also protects against microorganism invasion.

Black people and those in colder climates are particularly deficient, so they will almost certainly require supplementation.

Dr Blaylock recommends that following vaccination it will help to keep the immune reaction under control if:

i) All children get 5,000 units a day for two weeks after the vaccine and then 2,000 a units a day thereafter;

ii) Adults get 20,000 units a day after the vaccine for two weeks, then 10,000 units a day thereafter;

iii) And with that adults should take 500-1000 mg of calcium a day and children under the age of 12 years should take 250 mg a day, as vitamin D works more efficiently in the presence of calcium.

12. Ensure you avoid all mercury-containing seafood or any other sources of mercury, as the heavy metal is a very powerful inducer of autoimmunity, is known to make people more susceptible to viral infections and will be in H1N1 vaccines.

13. Avoid the oils that significantly suppress immunity and increase inflammation – such as corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean, canola and peanut oils.

14. Drink very concentrated white tea at least four times a day. It helps to prevent abnormal immune reactions.

15. Pop parsley and celery in a blender and drink 8 ounces of this mixture twice a day. Dr Blaylock says the parsley is very high in a flavonoid called apigenin and that celery is high in luteolin. Both are very potent in inhibiting autoimmune diseases, particularly the apigenin, so go and plant some parsley in your garden now.

We are always told that our children need to be vaccinated in order to go to school or daycare. In many cases and in almost all states, this simply is not true. However, we are never told that there are exemptions available to us. To find out your state’s available exemptions, click here: http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx
(If anyone needs help with a religious exemption for New Jersey, please feel free to contact me. In NJ, schools cannot question religious exemptions, so if you have been led to believe otherwise, this also is not true. Provide a copy of this letter to your school should they question you: http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/documents/religious_exemption.pdf )

The H1N1 swine flu is believed by many to have come out of a laboratory. It is not killing people right and left as many people would like for you to believe. Those who have died, died because they had other health issues which resulted in their deaths and in many cases, this fact has gone unreported by mainstream news media. This FLU has been milder than the regular seasonal flu. Yet, the WHO (World Health Organization) has it registered as “pandemic status” – which would lead many to falsely believe it has the possibility of being as deadly as the plague. The WHO’s current definition of pandemic is: “An influenza pandemic can be defined as a global epidemic of influenza and it occurs when a new influenza virus (i.e. an influenza virus subtype that is not circulating widely in human beings) emerges and starts spreading in a similar way to normal influenza – through coughing and sneezing. Because the virus is new, the human immune system will have little or no pre-existing immunity. People who contract pandemic influenza are thus likely to experience more serious disease than that caused by normal influenza.” This is the definition which I looked up today, August 4th, 2009. Interestingly enough, the WHO recently changed their definition of pandemic so that this swine flu would fall under the definition of pandemic. (well, the current definition.) However, it would not have fit under the former definition.
“In order to make this disease fit the definition of a global pandemic, WHO changed the definition from ‘a life-threatening disease which spreads between humans, and to which they have little or no immunity” to ‘a minor disease which spreads between humans, and to which they have little or no immunity’. Since the consequences of a declared Level 6 pandemic are primarily economic and political, we see this as a decision mediated by those considerations, not public health ones.” http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2851

As of August 4th, 2009 there are 162,380 people who have been estimated to have had this flu and 1154 people who have died. By doing the math here, you can certainly see that this is not something we need to be overly worried about nor is it something that should have anyone running to be vaccinated for. In addition, as of August 4th, the world’s population is 6,775,487,059 according to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html – so how could 162,380 cases and 1154 deaths be cause for such grave concern — especially given the mildness of this flu.
(Pandemic H1N1 2009 – August 4th Update from WHO: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_08_04/en/index.html )

Since the WHO has declared this a pandemic, the FDA has been granted special powers to fast track vaccines through the usual approval process so that they can be mass manufactured and given without going through the usual process. This means that there will be very little testing done before this vaccine is administered on a massive scale. Five days of testing, which is not even remotely enough. What I have also been reading is that the vaccines that will be used for testing will not contain the adjuvants that the regular vaccines will have. This alone is a massive problem as it is the adjuvants that can cause major health problems for anyone being injected with them and I will explain the adjuvants and the issues with them below. So doing testing using vaccines without the adjuvants will conceal any issues that those adjuvants would cause.

The US federal agency responsible for conducting clinical trials has revealed that there will be no official tests of the “swine flu” vaccine of five manufactures who already produce US-licensed seasonal vaccine, including Baxter, Novartis and GSK. Baxter, Novartis and GSK will conduct their own trials on the vaccine under secret contract with the HHS Department. The National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, has revealed that the five official government clinical trials to evaluate the safety of the “swine flu” vaccine will involve two candidate vaccines from Sanofi Pasteur and CSL from Australia – and not the candidate vaccines from the major suppliers Baxter, GSK or Novartis in spite of the growing controversy over the safety record of these vaccine manufacturers.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.swinefluupdate.us/baxter-novartis-gsk-%E2%80%9Cswine-flu%E2%80%9D-vaccines-will-not-be-part-of-official-clinical-trials-in-the-us-%E2%80%93-only-two-vaccines-without-adjuvants-from-csl-and-sanofi-pasteur-will-be-te.php

Swine flu vaccine to be cleared after five-day trial: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6690010.ece
Swine flu Vaccine Fast-tracked to September? http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090717/swine-flu-vaccine-fast-track

Our government has released the pharmaceutical companies who are making Swine Flu Vaccines from any liability – so for them it’s all profit and no liability. So if you suffer an adverse reaction, you will have no recourse. No right for medical care. No death benefits. Nothing.
Legal Immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu
Glaxo may reap $2.53 billion in swine-flu linked revenue in the next six months: http://www.rep-am.com/News/429183.txt
Who is making a profit from swine flu? http://www.prisonplanet.com/who-is-making-a-profit-from-swine-flu.html

In case you were not aware, the Vaccine Compensation Fund had paid out over $2 Billion Dollars to date and is nearly bankrupt. Over ½ of the cases are thrown out due to poor documentation by doctors and nurses, so just imagine if those cases were not thrown out. 75 cents from the sale of each vaccine is put into this fund. http://www.hrsa.gov/Vaccinecompensation/table.htm

It has been reported that the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine will be a series of 3 vaccines (in addition to 2 recommended FLU shots). Patrick Jordan (meta-analyst and vaccine researcher) reported belief that the first injection will be for the purpose of turning off the victim’s immune system. The second injection will be for the purpose of loading people with deadly organisms. And the third injection will be to turn the immune system back on for the purpose of creating a cytokine storm that will most likely deal a lethal blow to the body.
It is Official: WHO Recommends Mandatory Injections to Almost Two Hundred Countries: http://www.naturalnews.com/026723_health_vaccines_immune_system.html

They are recommending this vaccine to pregnant women. An untested vaccine for pregnant women with no regards to the effects this vaccine or any of its ingredients would have on the fetus – and in case you did not know – the regular FLU vaccine has NEVER been tested on pregnant women. As a matter of fact, this is what the insert for the flu vaccine says in relation to pregnancy “Safety and effectiveness of Fluzone have not been established in pregnant women or nursing mothers or children <6 months of age.” Link: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM123704.pdf
Please feel free to check the vaccine package inserts for all FLU vaccines: http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093830.htm
If you know someone who is pregnant or trying to get pregnant, please warn them – there are precautions that they can take so that they either don’t get the virus or get over it quickly in the event that they do.

For one FLU season alone, the average person would be getting 5 flu shots this coming year. Hugh Fudenberg, MD, an immunogeneticist and biologist with nearly 850 papers published in peer review journals, has reported that if an individual had five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied), his/her chances of getting Alzheimer’s Disease is ten times higher than if they had zero, one, or two shots. Dr. Boyd Haley, Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky, Lexington has done extensive research in the area of mercury toxicity and the brain. Haley’s research has established a likely connection between mercury toxicity and Alzheimer’s disease. In a paper published in collaboration with researchers at University of Calgary, Haley stated that “seven of the characteristic markers that we look for to distinguish Alzheimer’s disease can be produced in normal brain tissues, or cultures of neurons, by the addition of extremely low levels of mercury.” Does this prove that the mercury contained in the influenza shot can be directly linked to Alzheimer’s? No, absolutely not. But further research in this area is critically needed because the absence of proof is not the “proof of absence.” http://drtenpenny.com/should_flu.aspx

Each Fluzone multi-dose vial contains 25mcg mercury in each 0.5mL dose. (http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM123704.pdf)
The EPA says that the daily allowable limit of mercury is 0.1mcg per kilogram (or 2.2 pounds) of body weight. For 25mcg to be an appropriate dose, the person would have to weigh 550 pounds. Now, imagine getting 5 of these during one flu season.

For a vaccine to be effective, it needs an adjuvant so that the immune system has a reaction intense enough to the injected antigen so that it creates enough antibodies to that antigen. Adjuvants are used to elicit an early, high and long-lasting immune response. They are also used so that less antigen can be used to still achieve the desired immune response and reduce vaccine production costs. However, adjuvants are foreign to the body and can cause adverse reactions.

If you have enough antibodies, the theory is that you should have immunity to that virus/bacteria. However, the immunity from vaccines is not long lasting – and does not last as long as real immunity. This is why children are given booster shots. (By the way – DO NOT EVER allow your child’s pediatrician to give your child a booster shot without running simple blood work FIRST to check for antibodies. In many cases, you will see that one shot was sufficient and they did not need to be revaccinated. Your child’s pediatrician can run boosters by writing Measles IgG, Mumps, IgG, etc on a script for you to take to a lab. Please also have him/her write ‘quantitative’ on the rx so that YOU can see the actual numbers for yourself and not be given a blind yes/no answer. Make sure you actually see the results for yourself – this is very important. Pediatricians try to use any excuse not to run these. Insurance covers them – and also let’s not forget if they write an Rx for blood work they are not able to bill your insurance company for the vaccine that they just needlessly injected into your child.)

An adjuvant which is going to be used in the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine is MF59, a potentially debilitating adjuvant. MF-59 is oil-based and composed of squalene, Tween 80 and Span85. All oil adjuvants injected into rats were found to be toxic. All rats injected developed a disease similar to multiple sclerosis which left them crippled and dragging their paralyzed hindquarters across their cages. (Kenney, RT. Edleman, R. “Survey of human-use adjuvants,” Expert Review of Vaccines, 2003 p171). Squalene causes severe arthritis (3 on a scale of 4). Squalene in humans at 10-20 parts per billion leads to severe immune responses, such as autoimmune arthritis and lupus. (Matsumoto, Gary. Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That’s Killing Our Soldiers and Why GI’s Are Only the First Victims of this Vaccine, New York: Basic Books. P54) Squalene has been tied to Gulf War Syndrome and a whole host of other health problems. It was same one used in the Anthrax vaccine that has been convincingly associated with Gulf War Syndrome, even in those who received the vaccine and were never deployed. This is a big issue for anyone who already has an autoimmune disease (such as diabetes, arthritis, fibromyalgia, lupus, etc) and are therefore more vulnerable to the effects of squalene. These are the very people who are being targeted by the government push as those who need the vaccine the most. Additionally, the media has always focused on mercury (thimerosal) being the only questionable ingredient in vaccines, but this is FAR from the truth. Don’t close your eyes to the rest of the ingredients.

Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Squalene-The-Swine-Flu-Vaccines-Dirty-Little-Secret-Exposed.aspx
Mercury isn’t the Only Toxic item in vaccines: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/04/11/there-are-more-toxins-in-vaccines-than-mercury.aspx
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is talking to school superintendents around the country, urging them to spend the summer planning what to do if the government decides it needs their buildings for mass vaccinations and the vaccinations of children first. (CBS News, June 12) http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hbs-FO8lE3ZraaOV7CtTQuSuaVigD98RUDC00

Two questions I have not been able to find an answer to is “Will we be notified of in-school vaccination before it happens so we can plan accordingly or will our children just be lined up to be vaccinated whether or not we want them to be? Will religious, philosophical or medical exemptions apply or will they be ignored because of this being considered a pandemic?

CNN is reporting that the U.S. military is gearing up to get involved in the H1N1 swine flu outbreak widely expected to strike the U.S. this fall. As CNN reports, “The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.” When it comes to the U.S. military, the word “assist,” of course, could mean almost anything. Typically, the U.S. military offers assistance at the end of a rifle. This “assistance” could mean assisting with quarantines, assisting with rounding up infected people or assisting with arresting and imprisoning people who resist vaccine shots.
Military to Deploy on U.S. Soil to “Assist” with Pandemic Outbreak: http://www.naturalnews.com/026732_military_pandemic_outbreak.html

This is not the first time that a Swine Flu vaccine was created. In 1976, people suffered adverse reactions and died from the vaccine.
Learning From the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak: http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2009/05/06/learning-from-the-1976-swine-flu-outbreak.html60 Minutes segment from 1976: http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/cbs+60+minutes,+swine+flu+vaccine/video/x9mh9f_swine-flu-1976-propaganda_webcam
The last great swine flu epidemic: http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/04/28/1976_swine_flu/

Baxter Intl shipped FLU vaccines contaminated with the Avian FLU virus to several countries prior to the Swine Flu outbreak. One country tested the flu shots in ferrets, who should not have reacted to the human flu. When all of the ferrets died, it was discovered that there was Swine Flu virus mixed in with those vaccines. With the security these companies need to follow, there is no way this happened accidentally. http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html
Swine Flu vaccine a boon for Baxter: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-baxter-earns-bax-july16,0,4264807.story

Also, Baxter filed a patent for many swine flu strains a year before this all happened.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14430

Our government has given each state money to be used to send people door to door to vaccinate everyone: Health Care Bill Will Fund State Vaccine Teams to Conduct ‘Interventions’ in Private Homes: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51115
If this information concerns you, as it should, we need the ability to self-quarantine as with this new vaccine, there is no doubt we will see a surge of people getting ill and dying. The likeliness of hearing whether or not those who have gotten sick or died were vaccinated is slim.

Nowhere in any of the hype and fear mongering has been any mention of taking Vitamin D. Most Americans are Vitamin D deficient. If you have an upcoming doctor’s appointment, request that your doctor run this test: 25-hydroxyvitamin D
And then supplement Vitamin D3 accordingly. This is especially important if you are pregnant, when your immune system is under higher stress. The recommended daily allowance set by the government is merely enough to prevent rickets, but not for your body to work properly. Researchers are finding that the correct dosage is likely 1000 iu per 25 lbs. At least 5000 iu per day for adults (around 2000 for kids) . This is especially for those who do not get out into the sun, and for those in northern climates. With the flu (any flu), Vitamin D protects your lungs and makes your immune system work smart. If you do get H1N1 flu (or WHEN you get it, because if you are not getting the shot, we will be exposed to the H1N1 flu eventually) a medicinal dose of Vitamin D is recommended at 2000 iu per kilo of body weight for day per day for the course of the illness. But if you are have good vitamin D levels to begin with, illness can be mild or not at all.
Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/51913.php

Also, the homeopathic flu remedy Oscillococcinum from Boiron… has shown promise in alleviating the swine flu if you do catch it. Olive Leaf Extract (found at any vitamin or health food store) is an excellent anti-viral. (One we are never without in this house.)
Homeopathy Successfully Treated Flu Epidemic of 1918: http://www.naturalnews.com/026148.html

Tamiflu, the medication which is being recommended for swine flu, has many, many problems on it’s own. Should you be rx’d it, please research this before you make a decision to take this medication. If we’ve ever had this discussion, you already know that I am not fond of cipro and Tylenol. Well, you can add tamiflu to that list. And by the way parents, NEVER and I mean NEVER give your child Tylenol before or after receiving any vaccination. Should your child spike a fever, use motrin – and not Tylenol. Tylenol reduces glutathione which helps the body detoxify the toxins found in the vaccine for approximately 3 weeks. With the recent news about Tylenol, you really should throw it away.

Also, if you are planning on traveling out of the country, you should be aware of each country’s stance on this vaccine. Greece has mandated this vaccine to be administered to everyone. Ireland has said no vaccine.
Greece to Enforce mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination: http://www.prisonplanet.com/greece-to-enforce-mandatory-swine-flu-vaccinations.htmlIreland: “The chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said they would not be recommending the vaccine to any group unless the balance of risk is in favour of them being vaccinated.” http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0801/1224251858317.html

For more information on the Swine Flu, here is some recommended reading:

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s Swine Flu Hype Center: http://drtenpenny.com/swine_flu_hype.aspx

Ten Things You’re Not Supposed to Know about the Swine Flu Vaccine: http://www.naturalnews.com/026717_swine_flu_flu_vaccine_swine_flu_vaccine.html

Are the new FLU shots TOXIC enough? http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/are-the-new-flu-shots-toxic-enough/

Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html

Safety Questions over swine flu jab: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/safety-questions-over-swine-flu-jab-1751547.html

US to hold emergency meeting on Swine Flu Vaccine: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i-9dOta4eNmaJb3FmA8tgYlUmcWA

WHO to stop tracking Swine FLU cases: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/world/17flu.html?_r=3

CDC: School kids may have to get up to 4 flu shots in the fall: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2009/07/15/0715swineflu.html

Should H1N1 be feared, or those that claim to have the answers? http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/110467

Solutions for forced vaccinations and flu pandemics: http://www.naturalnews.com/026538_vaccination_vaccinations_homeopathy.html

Swine FLU vaccine: Will we have a choice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlDjDAFW1Ck

Children and Pregnant Women targeted in US Swine FLU Mass Vaccination Program: http://www.naturalnews.com/026590_swine_flu_vaccines_viruses.html

The FIVE best anti-viral products to beat influenza, Swine FLU, Bird FLU and SARS: http://www.naturalnews.com/report_Anti-Viral_Remedies_Influenza_0.html

Swine Flu shot may rely on emergency use of additives (a more accurate word would be EXPERIMENTAL); http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=alZncUEvwtIM

Nurses oppose mandatory vaccination: http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2009/07/20/daily49.html

Is this a ‘Swine Flu’ pandemic or a ‘vaccination’ pandemic?: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/111480

US Reported in “Panic” After Chemtrail Planes Forced down in India, Nigeria http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/environment/humans/chemtrails/news.php?q=1246309936

SwineFluUpdate.us: http://www.swinefluupdate.us/

Natural Solutions Foundation: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

ACTION ITEMS

Tell Legislators you want the right to self-quarantine in the event of a pandemic, not forced vaccination: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

And while you’re at it — Click here to tell US House of Representatives to protect your health freedom: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11344

IF YOU ARE FORCED INTO BEING VACCINATED - here is what you need to know. (Note: please do not take the risk of getting vaccinated thinking it’ll be okay with this information – this is information that is helpful should you be FORCED to.)

Dr Blaylock’s Solutions To Help Those Forced To Take An A/H1N1 Vaccine Stay Healthy
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/dr-russell-blaylock-talks-about-natural-solutions-to-help-if-you-are-forced-to-take-ah1n1-vaccine/

Friday morning, Nicholas seemed to wake up with a fever, but I thought it was because he was sleeping under a big, heavy, warm blanket – upon him getting out from underneath the blanket, he cooled down quickly. Later that evening, his fever came back and a croupy sounding cough started. He woke up in the middle of the night (when I had to give him something for his cough) – and the eye contact was like nothing we have ever seen before with him. His eye contact has gotten so much better, but this was just unbelievable. He was so “on” – and despite the fever and cough, you would have never known he wasn’t feeling well. Even with his congestion and labored breathing – he was still not showing any signs of being sick at all – no crankiness, etc.

Friday night, I kept him in bed with me, just to make sure he didn’t cough himself into throwing up in his sleep — and at one point, he turned to me and said, “Mommy, you’re my best friend. I love you” – I have never heard him use the term best friend and we’re not even sure where he may have gotten it from. He kept handing me the blanket and even gave me his special blanket so I would be warm – it was so sweet.

But, whatever it was is gone now, fever is gone – and he’s doing really well. So glad I did a 2nd round of this. My plan is to keep going with the daily maintenance dose of 25,000IU and repeat in another 6 months. It’s definately doing something!

Updated January 27, 2010: For my son, the results are better from the injections. BUT, if you do not have access to a doctor or can not adminster them, this is a good alternative. The only thing I wish is that they would come out with other flavors. The same flavor every day gets kind of boring.

See the Governor Sign Historic Legislation

Governor Jon S. Corzine will be signing legislation that will help children on the autism spectrum receive the medically necessary services they need in the state of New Jersey.

We would like you to join us at this historic event.

The bill signing will be at: Children’s Specialized Hospital, Hamilton New Jersey Thursday, August 13 11:00 am
http://www.childrens-specialized.org/AboutChildrens.asp?id=25

The New Jersey bill requires insurers to cover up to $36,000 annually for a child with autism that is 21 years of age or younger. Coverage includes Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy, which is recognized as an effective, evidence-based treatment for children with autism.

Please e-mail if you would like to attend at:
llong@autismnj.org

Remember, this is one step in healthcare reform that affects New Jersey residents that have state-regulated plans. Next steps are coming for federally regulated plans and we will keep you informed.

Thanks,
Leslie Long
Director of Public Policy
Autism New Jersey