These past few weeks I have been writing at warp speed and have just finished the last chapter of Survival Medicine, which because it has passed the 1400 page mark, will be published in approximately two to three weeks as a medical course as opposed to a book. I have a lot of editing to do and have been moving so fast with so much material it’s been hard to stop and publish much to the IMVA.
Double-blind studies are often just that – everyone involved is blind and stays that way until, many years and thousands of patients later, it is discovered that the particular drug doesn't work or is too toxic to warrant its use. Dr Morton Walker
If I published everything I wrote I would drown you all and then the FDA would define my words as toxic and probably send their troops to close me down. The FDA is clamping down increasingly on vitamin and mineral supplements defining them through their potential toxicity as CODEX is mandating. Since western medicine believes with its soul that the dose makes the poison they can and will eventually define everything as a medicine to be controlled by them.
Survival Medicine does not endorse the ancient medical
philosophy of the dose makes the poison because it
does not endorse substances that are poisonous.
In the final analysis it is absurd to label pure water
as poisonous simply because one can drown in it.
I am in touch with two clinics that are using the new IMVA protocols for cancer treatment. Our core protocol for cancer is sodium bicarbonate, iodine and magnesium chloride and one clinic is using the bicarbonate IVs with DMSO added. These substances offer a power unequalled in the world of medicine that we can harness to cure cancer. As cancer rates surge upward human survival is directly related to a safe and effective protocol for cancer, diabetes as well as heart and a host of neurological diseases. We also employ natural chelation with Alpha Lipoic Acid leading the process, for without getting the mercury and other heavy metals out of a patient there is no reason to expect the cancer not to come back.
If I were to contract cancer, I would never turn to a certain standard for the therapy of this disease. Cancer patients who stay away from these centers have some chance to make it.
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I have not published on magnesium chloride these past months but there will be new chapters in Survival Medicine on magnesium. Also integrated into this work is New Paradigms in Diabetic Care. Claudia French RN, my co-author and I have been out front in identifying the chemical poisoning and radiation exposure aspect of diabetes. We have tied heavy metal exposure (especially mercury, arsenic and uranium) with nutritional deficiencies, especially that of magnesium and have come up with a unique approach to diabetic neuropathy.
Humanity is being caught between the hammer of chemical
toxicity, and the anvil of not having enough micro
nutrients to stave off chronic and degenerative diseases.
Interestingly today some of the newest research bears us out. The pioneer work of Dr. Lawrence M. Resnick demonstrates:[i]
(a)The critical importance of magnesium metabolism in regulating insulin sensitivity as well as vascular tone, and blood-pressure homeostasis.
(b)Magnesium deficiency is a common feature of both diabetic and hypertensive states as well as various other cardiovascular and metabolic processes and age.
Today cancer is everyone’s concern and diabetics and all who are deficient in magnesium, selenium and iodine have to worry about it. Half of us will get it and sadly there is hardly a family today who has not lost someone to it. It is a cruel time in the world of medicine and newly diagnosed cancer patients are faced with traditional oncologists and their treatments, which only reduce one’s chance of survival by highly aggravating the condition of cancer with more chemical poisons, deadly radiation therapy and surgery, which often spreads and complicates the disorder.
Natural cancer treatments are seen with suspicion by most medical doctors, and they often say that they are unproven and therefore cannot be used but the truth is chemotherapy and radiation treatments are a most cruel waste of time. The Journal Clinical Oncology addresses exactly this question of efficacy. Professor Graeme Morgan, Professor Robyn and Dr. Michael Barton, all oncologists, published survival data from the Australian cancer registries and the US National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology. They concluded that:
Chemotherapy contributes just over 2 percent to improved survival in cancer patients![ii]
The authors found that the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was just:
• 2.3 percent in Australia
• 2.1 percent in the USA.
A German epidemiologist from the Heidelberg/Mannheim Tumour Clinic, Dr. Ulrich Abel has done a comprehensive review and analysis of every major study and clinical trial of chemotherapy ever done.Abel found that the overall worldwide success rate of chemotherapy was "appalling," only 3%, because there was simply no scientific evidence available anywhere that chemotherapy can "extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers." He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that at least 80 percent of chemotherapy administered throughout the world is worthless.[iii]
I think the world is ready for an answer to cancer as it is for many of the diseases running out of control. It is both amazing and disgusting what the pharmacutical and chemical companies have pulled on humanity, how much they have lied and deceived us. It is time to break their headlock over our lives and for cancer patients the need to do this is now.
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Dr. Simoncini deserves the highest award in medical science for his genius and medical courage in discovering and developing what might come to be seen as the single greatest medical breakthrough of the century. Literally billions of people are going to owe him a debt of eternal gratitude. Simoncini makes the connection that fungal colonies and cancer colonies are the same colonies called by two different names. He is not alone in this and he is not alone in the world of medical science with the knowledge that sodium bicarbonate is effective at wiping out fungal colonies. What he is alone with is connecting the dots between cancer, fungal and yeast infections and bicarbonate.
Physicians normally donot believe that yeast and fungi cause serious health threats but they are dead wrong.
Dr. H. Takeuchi et al in Japan analyzed 20 cases of urinary fungal infection. Candida albicans was the most prevalent of the fungi affecting the urinary tract. Torulopsis glabrata and Candida tropicalis were also prevalent. Antibiotics, indwelling catheter and obstructive uropathy were the most prevalent predisposing factors of the fungal infection. Of 20 cases of fungal infection, 5 cases were cured only by elimination of the predisposing factors, and 15 cases were treated and resolved by administration of sodium bicarbonate, 5-fluorocytosine and or irrigation with amphotericin B. But one case of bilateral renal torulopsiosis developed into renal failure, and 4 cases died of the primary disease.[i]
Sodium Bicarbonate has been successfully proven its antifungal value in agriculture to resolve fungal issues in vegetation, including many destructive diseases such as anthracnose, powdery mildew, black spot in crops and horticultural industries.It has been successfully used to protect crops from fungus during storage.
Dr. Simincini uses the lab procedures and protocols for using intravenous sodium bicarbonate as approved by the FDA for cardiac infarctions to treat most cancers. Being that the present day survival rate of 5 years in the US is less than 2 ¾% due to protocols the medical profession uses, Dr. Simoncini’s outstanding success in the 90% remission rate and some as long as 20 years should shatter modern medicine’s fixed ideas about cancer. “If the fungi are sensitive to the sodium bicarbonate solutions and the tumour is smallerthan 3 cm, the percentage will be around90%, for terminal cases in which the patient is in reasonably good conditions is 50% and for terminal patients just a small percentage,” reports Simoncini, whose treatments take approximately 30-45 days.
The IMVA is working with Dr. Simoncini to increase these numbers; waging war on fungal and yeast colonies, catching the bastards in a cross fire of concentrated nutritional substances. It's a battle the fungus and yeast can't win, therefore it's actually not a fight. They can be so trapped that there is no chance they can survive if caught in time and if the bicarbonate can be delivered deeply into the infected tissues.
The orthodox medical establisment could help out greatly in this by providing an open mind and the cooperation of interventional radiologists for placement of the arterial catheters necessary to reach the deepest tissues in the most direct manner. Though nothing the orthodox oncology community ever did made sense we we should demand that they will embrace this revolution in cancer treatment for it is their responsibility to do so. It is what they get paid to do.
Until they do we are creating a protocol that will compensate for the fact that these medical procedures are not currently available, except perhaps in Rome, which is the home territory of Dr. Simoncini. By amplifying the bicarbonate treatments with magneisum chloride, iodine, vitamin C, selenium, ALA and other substances and treatments we can add to the power, depth and magesty of cancer treatments always with the thought of removing the causes, the heavy metals, the mental, emotional and spiritual traumas, the poisons in our foods and environmental polutions that plague us from all sides.
These videos reveal an astonishing truth about cancer and its safe successful treatment. For other videos see Dr. Simoncini’s site at http://www.cancerfungus.com/ Doctors and medical scientists have made the dire mistake of assuming that fungal conditions develop after cancer treatment have begun. Researchers contend that cancer therapies, aimed at destroying cancer, also destroy the immune system of the patient leaving them vulnerable to yeasts and fungi, which multiply out of control. They consider these invading colonies to be "secondary" to the actual cancer.
But they are wrong. Candida, and its many variants are not only the cause of cancer, they are the cancer. The question is not if cancer is cancer the answer is cancer is an invasion of Candida colonies. The 100 year old hypothesis that has led medical science in circles, that cancer are human cells multiplying without limit, turns out to be just another invention, an unproven fantasy that no one has ever demonstrated. Dr. Simoncini insists that there is no evidence at all for the genetic hypothesis and this gets proven out with the fact that orthodox cancer treatments do not work. Modern oncology is a complete failure and every doctor knows this in his heart and soul.
Fungi are heterotrophs, meaning that they secrete digestive enzymes and absorb the resulting soluble nutrients from whatever they are growing on.
The following from Survival Medicine yields a clear view of the enemy we are up against.
A new area of research being driven by Dundee University in Scotlandis revealing remarkable abilities of fungi to interact with minerals and metals. Led by Professor Geoffrey Gadd in the College of Life Sciences, the research explores the unique taste that fungi seems to have for rock and heavy metal. Yeasts, moulds and mushrooms are all fungi and there are an estimated 1.5 million different species in the biosphere. By breaking down dead organic material, they continue the cycle of nutrients through ecosystems, and most plants could not grow without the symbiotic fungi that inhabit their roots and supply essential nutrients.
Fungi will also live almost anywhere. They have been found growing in the harshest of environments, in the desert and polar regions, in the sea and on rocks. "The fact that fungi interact with heavy metals has potentially important consequences for human activity. Fungi also play a significant, if often overlooked, role in the degradation of rocks and stone - including building materials," Professor Gadd said. "Despite this, their role as agents of environmental change has not been fully appreciated." Rocks are composed of minerals, the vast majority of which contain metals. They might be considered to be an inhospitable habitat for life to flourish yet fungi can thrive even in the harshest of environments. Mycoplasma, which are fungus like organisms, in order to survive, need heavy metals, of which there are great amounts today in people’s bodies, especially around our glandular organs, such as pancreas, thyroid, pineal, thymus, adrenal glands etc. where heavy metals tend to stay. This is where the fungus will set up colonies to hide and will thrive on the heavy metals. A great majority of people who have Candida also have very high heavy metals.
The ability of fungi to grow on a range of rocks and mineral-based surfaces, including concrete and other building materials is significant, with positive and negative implications. Fungi produce acidic by-products which help them use nutrients in the minerals but this begins to decompose the rock in a form of biological weathering (bioweathering). This can result in the return of essential nutrients and metals like calcium, phosphate and potassium back into the soil where they can nourish plants and microbes. In other cases, the released elements can form other minerals.
"This ability of fungi to attack and degrade concrete and other materials has implications not only for the weathering and corrosion of buildings but is also relevant to nuclear decommissioning, for example," Professor Gadd said. Imagine what fungi can do to the brain if they can eat out the concrete esophagus put around nuclear sites like Chenobal.
White rot fungi, the only organisms able to biodegrade wood, is so good at digesting just abut everything that they will be used to biodegrade toxic chemicals.
When fungi are fed the food they love they become more virulent. Their ability to penetrate and root into the intestinal walls, for example and invade the cells is increased. They not only attach themselves to human tissues but can actually invade the cells where they become quite at home. Thus they are not secondary but primary infections that have been helped along with runaway antibiotic usage, dental amalgam, flu vaccines laden with mercury, mineral deficiencies and by terrible modern diets infected with molds and yeasts as well as many potent poisons.
Will you hear about Dr. Simoncini’s theories and treatments in the media? No. Will the major medical organizations happily investigate and support this new effort for the sake of patients everywhere? No. Will the major cancer organizations be enthusiastic? No. The truth is no longer popular in todays civilization as 9/11 empathically demonstrated and as the FDA and CDC illustrate everyday in their decisions and pronouncments.
But you will hear about it tommorrow on the radio where I have been invited by Dr. Winn Parker, the medical scientist who exposed the serious problem with chloramines in public water supplies, to speak for two hours. Show time is 10:00 A.M. to Noon CST U.S.A on Sunday August 12, 2007 To connect go to:http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/index.php?cmd=listenlive
[i] Takeuchi H, Arai Y, Konami T, Ikeda T, Tomoyoshi T, Tatewaki K. Hinyokika Kiyo. 1983 Oct;29(10):1273-7.
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Have you gotten good at organizing your tasks in a to-do list, but have trouble actually executing them? You’re not alone.
Getting things on your to-do list actually done is difficult because it’s really a collection of habits that most people don’t think about. Today, we’ll look at addressing those issues that stop you
from doing things, and the habits needed to overcome those issues.
This post was prompted when reader BJ Thunderstone recently asked a great question:
A lot of productivity systems such as Getting Things Done by David Allen or Do It Tomorrow by Mark Forster concern themselves with writing lists of things to do. This skill is easy to learn.But what if the problem isn’t making lists, but executing your plan? What if you write “Get X, Y and Z done” and then you can’t make yourself do any of these things?
I think that many people have a problem not with making to-do lists - but with executing what is written on these lists.
B.J. went on to list some of the reasons he and others have a problem getting things done. Let’s address them one by one.
“I feel resistance when starting work on something.” First of all, it’s good to analyze your resistance, which is something we don’t do
often. Why don’t you want to start on something? Identifying the problem can help lead to the solution.
Having said that, there are a couple of suggestions that could help:
Tiny chunk. Tell yourself you only have to do 5 minutes of work on it. That small amount of work is less intimidating.
Just start. Once you get going, it’s much easier to keep going. So tell yourself that all you have to do is start. I like to compare this to my philosophy of running: instead of worrying about having to do the whole run, I tell myself that I just have to lace up my shoes and get out the door. After that, it’s really easy. Do the same thing with any task — just fire up your program, and do the first few actions (i.e. start typing). It gets easier after that point.
Reward yourself. Don’t let yourself check email (or whatever reward works for you — something that you need to do every day) until you
do at least 10 minutes (or 15 or 20, it doesn’t matter) on the task. Set a timer. Once your 10 minutes is up, set another timer for 5 minutes and do email. Then repeat.
Get excited about it. This is actually a tip that helps with any of these points. If you are excited about doing something, you will not hesitate to do it. For example, I loved this topic suggestion, and I was excited about writing it. As soon as I had the chance, I sat down to write it and only took one break. But how do you get excited about a task? Try to find something exciting about it. Will it bring you revenue? What can you do with that revenue? Will it bring you new clients, new opportunities, new recognition? If you can’t find anything exciting about a task, consider whether it’s really important or not — and if not, find a way to not do it. Sometimes eliminating (or delegating or delaying) the task is the best option.
“I am terrified of certain
tasks, or of working on certain projects.” There are usually a few reasons those tasks or projects terrify you:
They are too intimidating in size or scope. To combat this, break it down into tinier chunks — actually, just the first tiny chunk (as David Allen tells us to do in GTD). It’s intimidating to do a task like “Create report on X” or “Make a yearly plan for Z”. But if you just need to do the first physical action, which might be, “Call Frank for figures on X” or “Make a list of 10 things we should accomplish this year”, it’s much easier to tackle and less intimidating.
You don’t really know how to do it. If you haven’t done something a million times before, it is unfamiliar and unknown to you. And we are all terrified of that. The solution? First, get more information — learn as much as you can about it. That might require some research on the Internet, or talking to someone who’s done it before,
or reading a book, or taking a class. Whatever you need to do, make the unknown become the known. Second, practice it as much as possible. Once you’ve learned how to do something, you need to practice it to become good at it. Don’t practice the whole thing — practice individual skills required to do a task or project, one at a time, until you’re good at those skills. Once you’ve mastered them, it will no longer be terrifying.
You are focusing on negative aspects. You might be focusing on how hard something is, or on all the obstacles. Try looking at the positive aspects instead. Focus on what a great opportunity this project represents … an opportunity to learn, to get better at something, to make more money, to work on a relationship, to gain some long-term recognition, to improve your advancement opportunities. This is similar to the “get excited about it” item in the previous section. If you look at the opportunities, not the problems, you will
be less terrified and more likely to want to do it.
“I start, but I get distracted and never finish.” If you start, you’ve already made a big step towards finishing. Now you just need to work on the distractions. My suggestions won’t be popular, but they work:
Small tasks. I mentioned this above, but it’s really important to repeat here. If you are getting distracted, it may be because you are working too long on a single task or project. To remain focused, do only a small task — you are more likely to stay on task. If the task takes a long time, focus on only doing 15-20 minutes of it.
Single-task. Don’t allow yourself to do multiple tasks at the same time. Just do the one task before you. If you tend to do email, IM, surf the web, read your RSS feeds, talk on the phone and all of that while doing a task, you will inevitably be distracted from a task. Do one task at a time. If you
feel yourself being pulled from the task, stop yourself. And bring yourself back.
Unplug. The biggest distractions come from connectivity. Email, feeds, IM, Twitter, phones. Unplug from these connections while you’re working on your single task. This is always an unpopular suggestion, but before you reject it, give it a try. Turn everything off, and try to focus on one task. You’ll get a lot more done, I guarantee you. Right now, I’m writing this post while disconnected from the Internet. It’s much easier to concentrate.
Clear your desk. Distractions can come from visual clutter. It can be worth it to clear everything off your desk (see 3 Steps to a Permanently Clear Desk). Also clear your walls and your computer desktop, and only work on one program at a time if possible.
Focus. Once your desk is clear and you unplug, and you’re working on that single task, really put all of your concentration on
it. Pour your energies into that task, and see if you can get it done quickly. You might even get lost in it, and achieve that highly touted (deservedly so) state of mind known as “flow”.
Take breaks. It can help you to focus for a short amount of time on a single task, and use a time to help you focus, and then to take a break. This allows you to reboot your brain. Then, get back to work and focus on the next task.
“I often don’t feel like doing any work at all. The idea of work seems horrible and I never start doing anything.” I know this feeling well. It plagues us all, and there’s no one good answer. However, here are some suggestions:
Groom yourself. If you work from home, take a shower. Often the act of grooming ourselves can make us feel much better.
Take a walk. I find that a little walk can get my blood pumping, refresh my mind, and allow me to
think about what I really want to do today. It might not be what you need, but it’s worth a shot.
Exercise. Similarly, exercise can make you feel great. A jog in the park, a short strength workout, some pilates, or meditation … these things get your mood up and get you feeling productive and happy. Try it out — you might feel more like doing stuff when you’re done.
Again, think of opportunities. Think about tomorrow — not tomorrow as in the distant future, but tomorrow as in the day after today. Imagine yourself looking back on today from tomorrow. Will you be glad you laid around? Or would you be happier if you did something, and took advantage of the opportunities in front of you today? It’s useful to think in terms of your future self — because what we do today will open up opportunities and new roads for tomorrow’s us.
Baby steps. Don’t think in terms of having to tackle an entire work day, or
an entire list of stuff to do. That’s overwhelming. Just think of doing one thing. That’s all you have to do — just that one thing. Make it something small and easy, and ideally something fun and rewarding. Focus on that easy task. Once you get started, you might be more willing to do another thing. Then another.
Find fun stuff to do. If you just have boring or unpleasant things to do, you won’t feel like doing them. Instead, change your path for today — see if you can find something that’s fun or exciting, but still moves you forward on a project or goal. That might be what you need to get you jump-started to do other stuff — or you might instead only spend the day doing only fun stuff (as long as it moves you forward — don’t just play solitaire or WoW).
Commit thyself. If motivation is your problem, commit yourself to making some progress with a goal or project today, or every day this week — tell all your family and
friends, write it in your blog, or join the Zen Habits forum — it’s a great motivator. Then hold yourself accountable by reporting to others what you did today.
Rewards. Tell yourself that if you just do that first task, you’ll get a nice ice cream sundae. Or that you can buy a book, or DVD. Whatever your reward, use it to motivate yourself to just get started. Then let the rest flow from there.
“I make a list of things to do the next day.. and on that day, I wake up looking forward to a bad day, full of unpleasant tasks, I don’t feel like doing anything from the list.” Two things to say here:
Overload. The most probable reason is that you’re overloading yourself. People tend to pile too much on themselves for a single day, overestimating how much they can actually do. Get into the habit of choosing only three Most Important Tasks to do for the day, and do them early in the day (at
least two of them before email). If you only have three things to do, it’s not overwhelming. You’ll probably have some smaller things to do later, but write those down under a “batch process” heading, and do those small things all at once near the end of the day.
Fun. The second thing is that you’re loading yourself up with unpleasant tasks. Who wants to face a day of that? Instead, put down tasks that you’ll look forward to doing. Create an exciting to-do list for tomorrow. If you really have nothing important to do that’s enjoyable, it’s possible you’re in the wrong job. Look instead for a job that you’ll actually enjoy. Yes, every job has unpleasant and difficult tasks, but they lead to something rewarding. They support something you get excited about. If you don’t have anything like that in your job, you need to take a closer look at your job — revamp it somehow, or look for another.
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MUSHROOMS - Mushrooms have the potential to be a cheaper source of protein for developing countries while encouraging sustainable farming practices.
Mushrooms are part of the fungi family and can be an important source of protein and a good source of minerals and vitamins, especially Vitamin D and B1, B2, B3 and B5. Oyster mushrooms, for example, are high in calcium, phosphorous and iron. It is estimated that approximately 200grams of oyster mushrooms a day will provide the necessary protein and white button mushrooms have more protein than kidney beans.
This is not the only advantage to growing mushrooms; they can also be seen as a good way of reducing waste. Mushrooms have been successfully grown using the by-product waste of other industries or even grown on compost that is derived from the eradication of biological pests.
Some of the countries that have successfully incorporated these ideas include Vietnam where mushrooms are grown in the compost made from the water hyacinth, which is a pest. Namibia, Fiji and Tanzania are three countries where mushrooms have been successfully grown in the waste by-product from brewing beer. Mushrooms can break down the grain that is left after the fermentation process is complete and extract the required nutrition.
Deciding on the type of mushroom to grow depends on the waste matter that is available to grow the mushrooms in. The Mushroom Council separate mushroom farming into the following 6 steps:
Composting – making the compost
Composting – finishing the compost
Spawning
Casing
Pinning
Cropping.
The complete cycle generally takes 15 weeks.
Growing mushrooms is seen by communities in developing countries as means of not only alleviating malnutrition but also poverty. Communities with high unemployment can potentially create jobs locally by starting mushroom farming, especially where the community is involved in the project.
And best of all, because mushroom farming doesn’t need to take up lots of space, it’s perfect for schools looking to earn a little extra income to support their activities!
Extra: Some resources that are aimed at cultivating mushrooms in developing countries include:
The Migal Galilee Technology Center has a mushroom research and development department and provides technical aid to developing countries and has recently completed projects in Brazil, India, and Zimbabwe.
Peter Oei’s book, Manual on Mushroom Cultivation describes alternative mushroom production systems and how they have been successfully used in developing countries.
What if a “dirty bomb” exploded over a large segment of U.S.population that simultaneously exposed citizens to Hepatitis B,Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, three strains of polio viruses, three strains of influenza, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, two types of meningitis, four strains of herpes viruses, the chickenpox virus, 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, and four strainsof rotavirus.
• We would declare a national emergency. • It would be an “extreme act of BIOTERRORISM • The public outcry would be immense and our government would react accordingly.
And yet, those are the very organisms we inject into our babies and our small children in multiple doses, with immature, underdeveloped immunesystems, many at the same time with vaccines. But instead of bioterrorism, we call it “protection.” Reflect on that irony.
I can vouch for what Dr Bryan says, as he describes the "new autism". The gut, the entire nervous and neuro-muscular system, the brain are severely affected. It is very difficult to accurately describe what goes on. Imagine all sorts of boring insects gnawing at your innards and wasps, flies and mosquitoes bothering you from the outside and you may come near.
An autistic feels his entire nervous system all the time, mostly because of the pain. The pain in the guts and inflammatory brain pains are simultaneous. The brain feels jammed with accessing the memory a tantalising inch away. You feel your entire memory may be wiped out at any moment and the brain may just flicker out and die leaving you a total blank.
The soles become extremely sensitive and painful, hence the tendency to walk on the toes. This sort of stretching also relieves the neuro-muscular pain for some time. The head banging, moving around in circles, is due to the awesome intestinal colic that is madding. Sometimes this colic appears in the solar plexus region forcing you to bend double.
You are past caring leading to the fearless state that autistic's exhibit. What could be worse than this, is the underlying thought. People, even God, say there is a limit to pain. Try telling that to an autistic. Never ending pain is the only thing that is constant in his life.
The guts loose the ability to retain stools. All emotions are reflected in the guts leading to a further deterrioration of the situation. Even a slight anxiety necessitates a rush to the toilet.
You feel tired and exhausted all the time. Even sleep exhausts. You desparately try to escape the hell hole that is life but you do not know how.
It is very difficult to tackle even ordinary situations. You get used to a certain pattern with great difficulty and when things change, ever more subtly, you panic at the thought of having to re-adjust once again. Change is anathema to the autistic. Even the thought of being cured may be daunting for a cure may mean a different world, a world about which you have no idea.
Your moods, your symptoms, your fears change all the time.Each day is new and brings a fresh set of problems. If change is what you hate, change is what you get. This is an irrefutable law of life and autistics cannot escape it.
You do not want to face the world outside. It is full of unexpected tricks and turns. Coupled with an affected gut, the situation makes even the thought of travel break into a cold sweat. At times of stress such as these the memory may suffer a total blackout. On two occasions I have alighted at a station with no idea of who I am and what I was doing there. A very frightening situation, I can assure you. Meeting strangers is difficult because you don't have them mapped out in your brain.
The depression never lifts. You often feel like retiring to a corner of a dark room and curling up. The external world being so frightening, the autistic creates a world within and is happy there.
The worst thing is, you know. You know your difficulties, you know your shortcomings, and in my case, I know what caused it. You also know that you are not supposed to be like this. That you ought to be normal. That you ARE normal but this malfunctioning body and brain comes in between. When this feeling becomes overwhelming you snap. You go crazy. You scream, you cry, you hurt others, you run away. You are termed a schizophrenic.
You are not free of pain even in your sleep. You dream of even greater pain. You dream of not being able to do what others do sans a thought. You dream of facing exams without a shred of memory in your brain. You dream of doing the wrong thing even as you know what is right. Your dreams are full of anxiety. Such dreams rob you of the much required rest and you get up feeling frightened and totally exhausted.
Oh, how wonderful it would be to simply vanish and not exist. There would be less trouble for yourself, your care givers, and the world in general. The autistic is only too acutely aware that he is a burden unto others. The problem is accentuated by a tremendous sense of duty, a great desire to care for others, a love for work, a struggle to be perfect. The intense battle that rages relentlessly within is often lost in the expressionless face of the autistic.
This is a peep into the world of autism. This is the autism that only the sufferer knows. This is the "new autism" that Dr Bryan speaks of, the latest gift of medical science to the world's children, and some adults.
God bless them, even though they know what they are doing.
Here's what Dr. Bryan Jepson thought he knew about autism six years ago: that it was a rare, genetic, developmental, untreatable brain disorder. But that's the "old autism," he says.
Bryan Jepson
Jepson, who graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1995, says what he knew about autism then he mostly learned from the movie "Rain Man." Later, in 2001, his lovable, happy 18-month-old baby began to change — to "fade away," as Jepson puts it. The toddler no longer wanted to be read to, wouldn't look his parents in the eye and liked to spin in circles in the middle of the floor.
A child psychiatrist told Jepson and his wife, Laurie, "Prepare yourself for the time when Aaron will need to be institutionalized. Forget experimental therapies."
Instead, Laurie Jepson took to the Internet. And before long, her husband — who categorizes himself as a "mainstream" physician — was deep in medical literature about the biochemistry of autism. Soon he was convinced that autism is a complex metabolic disease that has as much to do with the gut as it does with the brain.
Bryan Jepson, who is now director of medical services at Thoughtful House Center for Children in Austin, Texas, is back in Utah this week to talk about his new book, "Changing the Course of Autism: A Scientific Approach for Parents and Physicians." On Saturday, he will speak at a free workshop sponsored by Porter's Hope, a Utah-based company that assists the families of children diagnosed with autism.
"All of a sudden, there's an explosion of autistic kids," Jepson says. As recently as 1980, autism was rare, with a rate of about 1 in 5,000. Now, he says, it's 1 in 160.
It's an epidemic, he says, "and there's no such thing as a genetic epidemic."
At the same time, the "new autism" is less likely to show up within the first six months or year of a baby's life, and is much more likely to be "regressive," showing up at 18 months to 3 years to rob the child of previous skills — sometimes almost overnight, sometimes as a gradual decline.
There's a genetic susceptibility for autism. But something else has to explain the sudden rise in numbers — and it's not simply a matter of better diagnosis or a broader definition of what autism means, he says.
The answer appears to have something to do with the increased toxicity of the environment, he says, from food additives to vaccines and antibiotics. Children who are born with a genetic susceptibility for autism have trouble detoxifying, he says.
The increase in other chronic diseases such as asthma is evidence that autistic children may also be proof of what's to come, he says. "It's kind of like the canary in the coal mine."
Already, he says, the treatments he uses have helped children with attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, or ADHD, as well as autism. He believes that eventually the knowledge of how autism works will affect our understanding of conditions such as chronic fatigue, dementia and Parkinson's.
Jepson's book is a review of scientific studies conducted by the Autism Research Institute, whose founder, Bernard Rimland, was "the first to put the puzzle pieces together," Jepson says. The book also examines studies done by independent scientists.
Many primary-care physicians and pediatricians are not up-to-date on the latest research, he says, "and it's hard to do autism in the 15 minutes" allocated for many doctor visits. Jepson, who founded the Children's Biomedical Center of Utah before moving in 2006 to Texas, says he knows of only two Utah doctors who are currently treating autism as a medical disease rather than a behavioral disorder.
Calling autism a behavioral disorder, says Jepson, is like calling a tumor a headache. Instead, he says, autism is just one symptom of a disease process that affects the digestive, immune and neurological systems.
The majority of children with autism have gastrointestinal problems, sometimes causing severe pain. Their tantrums and head banging may be a manifestation of pain they can't articulate, Jepson says. If the gut disease is treated — with diet, nutritional supplements and medication — that behavior goes away.
"Your gut is an immune organ, and it can trigger inflammation elsewhere in the body, including the brain," he explains. "And it's a big source of your metabolism. If it's not working right, you're not getting the appropriate amount of nutrients from your food, and you're not preventing toxic exposures as you otherwise would."
The sooner children are put on aggressive gastrointestinal-immune-detoxification treatment, the more likely they are to recover, he says. There's still no cure, he says, but the vast majority improve. The Jepsons' son has gone from "pretty severe to pretty moderate."
What if a “dirty bomb” exploded over a large segment of U.S.population that simultaneously exposed citizens to Hepatitis B,Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, three strains of polio viruses, three strains of influenza, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, two types of meningitis, four strains of herpes viruses, the chickenpox virus, 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, and four strains of rotavirus.
• We would declare a national emergency. • It would be an “extreme act of BIOTERRORISM • The public outcry would be immense and our government would react accordingly.
And yet, those are the very organisms we inject into our babies and our small children in multiple doses, with immature, underdeveloped immunesystems, many at the same time with vaccines. But instead of bioterrorism, we call it “protection.” Reflect on that irony.
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Down with Harry Potter!
I was happy to read that Harry Potter books are not
good for children (TOI July 25). They, no doubt,
glorify magic and sorcery. Children have very fertile
brain. Their impressions gained in childhood shape
their entire future. Science has proved that the child
starts learning even when it is in the womb of its
mother. The former Vice Chancellor of Pune University
Narendra Dabholkar is carrying on a campaign against
blind beliefs (andhashraddha). Hence, the money earned
by the book’s author and publishers in millions of
dollars might do subtle damage to humanity many times
more than that money. In other words, millions earned
by the rich few to get richer will cost billions lost
in terms of damage done to the society at large in
denying real understandings and beliefs and promoting
fantasies and sorcery.
Needless to say, freedom of expression should not mean
and result in damage to the society at large, to say
the least.
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Cryptomonadales normalize blood sugar levels for diabetes patients, says institute
2002-11-06 / Taiwan News, Staff Reporter / By Yvonne Tsai The National Health Research Institute yesterday confirmed research results, which showed the effect of cryptomonadales in lowering blood sugar and blood fat in diabetes patients.
The NHRI reported that after continuously taking doses of cryptomonadales for 30 days, 90 percent of research patients showed a 25 percent decline in blood fat, and the blood sugar levels of diabetes sufferers improved to within healthy limits.
NHRI research team director Su Yi-ren stated that cryptomonadales are a species of green algae, which, after long-established evidence of their ability to reduce blood fat and blood sugar, have now been proven to have those benefits. However, the Department of Health has not yet officially recognized green algae as a health food.
According to International Chlorella Co. Ltd., cryptomonadales are a unicellular plant containing chlorophyll, vitamins and high levels of protein. When applied in medication, cryptomonadales have been used to cure or alleviate many kinds of chronic diseases, including cancer, anemia, lupus, sterility and so on. In order to gain scientific proof, International Chlorella Co. Ltd entrusted National Cheng Kung University Hospital to conduct several experiments and to provide pilot research on human subjects.
NHRI Bio-technology and medical research deputy director Chien Chih-sian said that five years ago, more than ten patients suffering from heart disease and diabetes were found to have seen an improvement in their health after taking green algae products. Further research found that the curative effects were due to cryptomonadales.
Through clinical observation, it has been discovered that diabetes is strongly linked to high blood fat diseases,
and current medication has serious side effects. It is reported that if the activating factor can be refined in cryptomonadales, it could be used to benefit diabetes patients.
During the tests, 30 test patients took 30 cryptomonadales doses each day over the period of one month. The NHRI said that positive effects were noticeable after two weeks. After one month, 90 percent of the subjects had reduced blood fat levels by 25 percent.
The Bureau of Health Promotion under the Health Department stated that an estimated 360,000 people in Taiwan suffer from diabetes without knowing it. People with diabetes are 17 times more likely to suffer retina deterioration. Therefore, the bureau urged people over 40 to be tested to find out if they have diabetes in order to reduce their chances of blindness.
Center for Disease Control consultant Huang Kao-bin discovered that diabetes patients infected with dengue fever have a higher death rate. Huang indicated
that diabetes will cause pathological changes to blood vessels, and dengue hemorrhage fever can cause bleeding and thromboplastin malfunctions, both affecting blood vessels. The reason diabetes patients have a higher susceptibility to theses diseases' symptoms is still unknown.
According to the NHRI, diabetes is the fifth most common cause of death in Taiwan, with around 10,000 people dying of diabetes last year. Statistics from the Business Communications Co. show that the global market for diabetes medication exceeds US$11.7 billion.
At present, treatment for diabetes largely consists of medication and diet control, in combination with exercise. Diet control is considered the most important of these measures.
The NHRI and International Chlorella Co. Ltd. will conduct a three-year research project to make use of scintillation proximity assay to sift cryptomonadales components and look for the activating factor to enhance body insulin
reception, increase insulin activation and reduce blood fat.
G. Sarravanan ND, D.Nutr, D.MLD, Ad.HRM, Reiki Master, MATMS Naturopathic Physician & Nutritionist Centre Of Integrated Medicine www.cimed.com.sg, 5A Mayo Street, Singapore 208305
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The Cruel Winds of Change World going Dry, Hot and Hungry International Medical Veritas Association
A lot of people think climate change and the ecological repercussions are 50 years away," said Thomas Swetnam, head of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "But it's happening now in the West. The data is telling us that we are in the middle of one of the first big indicators of climate change impacts in the continental United States.”We don't need Al Gore to tell us something is up with the weather. Not if you have been driven from your home in recent days by cyclones in Pakistan, by raging floods in Texas or Yorkshire, by forest fires in California or have sweltered in intense heat in southern Europe.
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Summer temperatures across Utah are running 10 to 15 degrees F. above normal.
Brandon Smith Meteorologist
Temperatures in parts of the West have been climbing so high recently that authorities warned residents of southern Nevada, southeastern California and northwestern Arizona that outdoor activities could be dangerous except during the cooler early morning hours. The intense heat wave that has baked much of Europe for weeks, fueling deadly forest fires, causing drought and damaging crops is threatening lives and livelihoods in many parts of Europe. The hot weather is taking its toll on agriculture, with forecasts for cereal production in Germany and the EU being cut. Provinces in western and northern China are facing food shortages due to a prolonged drought that has left hundreds of reservoirs dry and tens of thousands of wells either dry or nearly empty.
Each new scientific paper seems to carry a message grimmer than the last.
Barring a surprise arrival of the kind of gully washers Texas is getting these days, Los Angeles' driest year in 130 years of record-keeping will go into the books in July of 2007. The nation's second-largest city is missing nearly a foot of rain for the year counted from July 1 to June 30. Just 3.21 inches have fallen downtown in those 12 months, closer to Death Valley's numbers than the normal average of 15.14 inches. And it's much the same all over the West, from the measly snow pack and fire-scarred Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada to Arizona's shrinking LakePowell and the withering Colorado River watershed.
Global grain harvest has not met demand for most of the past eight years.
Erik S. Lesser for The New York Times
Our future looks as bleak as farmers’ fields.
On Monday July 2, 2007 the entire state of Alabama was declared a drought disaster area by the federal Department of Agriculture. “Nobody alive has ever seen it like this,” said Perry Mobley, and the National Weather Service says conditions are unlikely to change until fall. The true reckoning will come later this year as food stocks fall and prices rise. The drought is wilting much of the Southeast, causing watering restrictions and curtailed crops in Georgia, premature cattle sales in Mississippi and Tennessee, and rivers so low that power companies in the region are scrambling and barges are unable to navigate.[i]
A team led by Dr. James Hansen at NASA suggests that the grim reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could be absurdly optimistic.[ii] The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by as much as 59cm this century. Hansen’s paper argues that the slow melting of ice sheets the panel expects doesn’t fit the data. The geological record suggests that ice at the poles does not melt in a gradual and linear fashion, but flips suddenly from one state to another. When temperatures increased to 2-3 degrees above today’s level 3.5 million years ago, sea levels rose not by 59 centimeters but by 25 meters. The ice responded immediately to changes in temperature.
As well as drowning most of the world’s centers of population, a sudden disintegration could lead to much higher rises in global temperature, because less ice means less heat reflected back into space.
Throughout the early 1960s, world grain reserves were equal to at least 1 year's global demand for these commodities. By this year, that excess had fallen to just 20 percent of what's now consumed annually. Most people have not realized it yet but cheap food is about to become a thing of the past. Agflation is an increase in the price of food that occurs as a result of increased demand from human consumption, falling production and the diversion of crops into usage as an alternative energy resource. Yes this diversion works quite well for a country like Brazil but the recent American lust for it will affect the entire world and kill many through starvation.
Agriculture is central to human survival, and is the human enterprise most vulnerable to changes in climate. Understanding the current and future effects of changes in climate on world food supplies is crucial for our lives depend on it. A warming world means much more than hotter temperatures and rising seas, it means disease, hunger, starvation and death and even more work for overworked doctors. Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes, such as droughts, floods and severe storms. The forces that shape our climate are also critical to farm productivity.
The enduring changes in climate, water supply and soil moisture could make it less feasible to continue crop production in certain regions. US EPA
The World Health Organization estimates climate change has already directly or indirectly killed more than 1 million people globally since 2000. More than half of those deaths have occurred in the Asia-Pacific area, the world's most populous region. Those figures do not include deaths linked to urban air pollution, which kills about 800,000 worldwide each year, according to WHO.
An ever-rising tide of sand has claimed grasslands, ponds, lakes and forests, swallowed whole villages and forced tens of thousands of people to flee as it surges south and threatens to leave this ancient Silk Road greenbelt uninhabitable. Farmers dig wells down hundreds of feet. If they find water, it is often brackish, poisonous. Roughly the size of Rhode Island, is buried each year. Nearly all of north central China, including Beijing, is at risk.
Severe events are going to be more frequent.
Last week, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said: "In Britain, there is bad flooding and destruction on a scale rarely seen before, and more bad weather is on the way. For some people in Europe it will be a case of adapt or die." If you get the idea that very soon we will have a massive refugee problem in the world and that people with money will be desperate to escape to safer more environmentally friendly environments you could not be more correct.
Special Note: Though I am now building Sanctuary in the interior of Brazil into a cancer clinic and retreat center for radical cure I have not given up my vision of creating an underground railroad (via jet plane) for people to escape from the north to one of the most beautiful pristine environments left. With one of the lowest population densities in the world and plenty of water it’s an ideal place to ride out The Cruel Winds of Change. During my last trip to the interior I created a construction company with my builder and made contacts with several old friends who have quite a bit of land for sale. Though the region is vast in terms of space I would guess that the maximum amount of new families the local area could support in terms of immigration is only about 200 and even that would be pushing it. I can imagine that many people buying land but it would take a few years for the local people to be able to build for so many people.
Authorities in the world are already predicting massive refugee problems but in reality there are few places to go and if one waits till everyone wakes up to the obvious it will be too late and most options will be cut off. Part three of The Cruel Winds of Change has to do with the deadly risks of air pollution and the gas like chamber effect of living in large urban centers. In my book HeartHealth is the following prose:
To listen is to suffer because we do not want to listen to anything that might require a change. To listen is to change. We cannot change without listening. Listening implies a change. We need to change just to listen.
Actually I am an uncomfortable person to be around too much because I am always suggesting change. It is just the natural position of my being and it emanates from me with ease. Everything is always changing, everything is in a state of flux but our ego centered minds resist change and this is where we are all going to be tested in the years ahead.
After I publish part three tomorrow I will change directions, as far as my publications to the IMVA are concerned, and publish materials that have to do with solutions, medical solutions that will help us survive despite all the pressures that are accumulating around us and perhaps in about ten days I will finish the first edition of Survival Medicine for the 21st Century. These past few days as I have written extensively about late stage fungus infections, cancer and sodium bicarbonate I have been stimulated with medical creativity.
In discovering that Dr. Tullio Simoncini's bicarbonate protocol demands simultaneous high carbohydrate consumption I have envisioned combining the bicarbonate protocol with an intensive regime of high level anti-oxidant fruits that have known anti tumor effects. So threatened was the FDA by cherry farmers speaking out about the medical effects of purple colored fruits that they had to give gag orders to make sure they would not threaten orthodox oncologists and their work. Purple (Concord) grapes (with their skin and seeds), and to a slightly lesser degree red and black grapes, contain several nutrients that are known to kill cancer cells. These kinds of grapes also contain nutrients to stop the spread of cancer. They also help detoxify the body. Down here in Brazil it's fruit heaven and in the local area of the clinic are two fruits, Graviola and Jabuticaba and from more distant regions Açaí and acerola. My building crew brought a two liter bottle of Graviola juice freshly made and I never tasted anything so delicious in my life. Açaì is sold everywhere as an ice-cream type of treat and who would have ever thought it would be excellent in a cancer protocol.
The key is to be eating these berries in their raw, whole fruit form rather than trying to eat processed berries. In order to get the healing phytonutrients, you must get the berries in the freshest form possible -- that means no processed berries, just raw berries, right off the bush or straight from the grocery store. It is very disturbing to examine how much of the nutritional value is lost in commercially available fruits and in food in general, whose nutritional values have been dropping steadily for the last fifty years.
On the internet one will find references to using such fruits as a primary cancer treatment thus they will be excellent supportive therapies to the bicarbonate. Because the central substances in our cancer protocol are concentrated nutritional items (stolen from emergency rooms and intensive care wards) we are free to shape treatments in a more complex and dynamic way. What is life threatening with pharmaceutical drugs (dangerous to mix them) is life saving with nutritional substances like sodium bicarbonate, magesium chloride, iodine and ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid).
Also of special note: Dr. Tullio Sumoncini has traveled to the United States and has spoken to about 40 doctors some of which might be coming online to give sodium bicarbonate treatments but in the US this will be touchy with the FDA hound dogs ready to bite just about anyone who does not do things THEIR WAY. Since their way is the wrong way we have to do everything opposite to what they indicate to be sure that we are going the right way. I imagine people in the States who cannot afford to go to Mexico or here to Brazil or to Italy and Switerland, where this treatment is also going to be available. It will be possible that individuals will be able to do at home many of the sodium bicarbonate treatments with some simple medical supervision and proper equipment. We will assist people where we can and make either the appropriate referals when possible or take people into our own online clinic to give suppport from a distance.
For many reasons, including the difficulty of receiving bicarbonate via a necessary catheter for certain forms of cancer, the IMVA protocol does not depend too much on any one medicinal agent to effect a cure for cancer. We will have our cocktails but they will not be chemical or toxic. We will be supporting physicians and clinics that choose to take multi-dimensional approaches that catch cancer/late stage fungus infections in a lethal cross fire of concentrated nutritional agents.
Claudia French RN, LPHA, the assistant director to the IMVA, traveled to meet Dr. Simoncini and it was thrilling to hear her reports and the fact that when the organizer of the lecture started the days events he shouted out to the audience, "Is there anyone in the house from the IMVA?" We brought Transdermal Magnesium Therapy books, magnesium oil and a wonderful iodine to give out to everyone.
[ii] We now have a pretty good idea of why ice sheets collapse. The buttresses that prevent them from sliding into the sea break up; meltwater trickles down to their base, causing them suddenly to slip; and pools of water form on the surface, making the ice darker so that it absorbs more heat. These processes are already taking place in Greenland and West Antarctica. Rather than taking thousands of years to melt, as the IPCC predicts, Hansen and his team find it “implausible” that the expected warming before 2100 “would permit a West Antarctic ice sheet of present size to survive even for a century.”The new paper suggests that the temperature could therefore be twice as sensitive to rising greenhouse gases than the IPCC assumes. “Civilization developed,” Hansen writes, “during a period of unusual climate stability, the Holocene, now almost 12,000 years in duration. That period is about to end.”
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A Dirty World - Air Pollution International Medical Veritas Association
Phoenix Smog
As much as 40 per cent of children from certain heavily polluted areas suffer from asthma.[i]
If you are sick and are living in a city where you can literally see the air when looking from a distance you need not wonder so much about the cause of your illness. It is right there in the air you breathe. It might not be the only source of your disease but it is a cause, part of the etiology. Every human being on the planet is being poisoned but in some places it is like a low intensity gas chamber, slowly forcing poisons into our bodies until we get sick and then die.
As adults we make certain decisions as to where we work and live and that is just a fact of life. It is sad though, tragically so, that our young ones have neither choice nor option in this regard. They are much more vulnerable to environmental threats and the statistics are showing that. Researchers from all over the globe are posting information about the chemical hazard that sits like a background radiation cloud across our once pristine planet. Chemical radioactivity is an appropriate phrase to describe what the situation is with mercury and other chemicals that are causing disease rates and cancer to sore through the stratosphere.
For every 10ug/m3 increase in pollution, the thickness of the lining of the neck artery increased by between 3.9% and 4.3%.
Researchers at The University of Southern Californiahave found that for every 10ug/m3 increase in pollution, the thickness of the lining of the neck artery increased by between 3.9% and 4.3%. Professor Nino Kuenzli, author of this study said the public health implications of the findings "could be immense.” Scores of new studies each year demonstrate that air pollution can be harmful to human health and that children are the most susceptible. Fine particle pollution cuts the average life expectancy by about the same amount as road accidents reported the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe in 2004 saying, “It is relatively recently that scientific studies have begun to show the extent of the health effects and how these can be linked to the concentrations of fine particles in the air."[ii]
Business has virtually free rein in its use of deadly toxins. US industries manufacture and import about 75,000 chemicals, using 3,000 of them at the rate of more than a million pounds a year.
According to the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) about 100 million Americans, more than one-third of the population, suffer from some form of chronic disease like asthma, diabetes, cancer, heart and kidney disease or arthritis.
EPA experts acknowledge that there are tools available today that can measure the toxic dangers in any locality, which can dramatically improve decisions on where people can safely live, work, and go to school or play. What no one has communicated bluntly is that those safe places have become virtually extinct leaving us and our children with no safe place, no haven from a chemical onslaught that will only get worse with each passing year.
The first principle of detoxification and chelation (the removal of heavy metals) is the directive to avoid exposure in the first place. Absolute avoidance of exposure is virtually impossible today but that does not mean we should not try. Eating organic food is the obvious first step but for many moving out of ones city and even country would be required. Utterly reject mercury fillings in the mouth and a pledge to never take mercury preserved vaccines, or any vaccines for that matter, would be logical second steps.
As our knowledge about the etiology of disease progresses, the evidence for environmental contributions to disease grows. Physicians for Social Responsibility
Most of the world’s urban dwellers are exposed to intense pollution and entire countries like China and certain parts of the United States are like vast poison fields. Most cities are toxic traps for all who lives within. It’s much worse than you can imagine for you are not imagining the mercury problem the entire globe, but especially certain parts, are having. (Survival Medicine will have a two hundred page section called The Rising Tide of Mercury. Everyone needs to understand the mercury issue deeply if they want to survive what is happening just with this issue alone.)
It’s not only in the huge cities that citizens are at risk.
Dr. Palmer from the University of Texas informed us a while ago that there is asignificant increase in the rates of special education students and autismrates associated with increases in environmentally released mercury. Onaverage, for each 1,000 lb of environmentally released mercury, there wasa 43% increase in the rate of special education services and a 61%increase in the rate of autism.[iii]
And a new study estimated that 1 in 58 children in the UK has autism with similar numbers feared in Ireland.
The Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, CaliforniaDepartment of Health Services,explored associations between autism spectrumdisorders (ASD) and environmental exposures, by linking the Californiaautism surveillance system to estimated hazardous air pollutant (HAP)concentrations compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.The adjusted odds ratios (AORs) were elevated by 50% in the top quartile of chlorinated solvents and heavy metals [95% confidenceintervals confirming Dr. Palmer and his alarming assertions.
States that are reporting the highest levels of mercury emissions also have the highest rates of developmental disorders including autism. Dr. John Palmer
A two-year study of mercury accumulation in the town of Steubenville, Ohio, by federal EPA researcher Matt Landis and the University of Michigan disputes the basic EPA policy on mercury; showing emissions to be much more concentrated in local areas around power plants than thought before. The EPA contends only about 8% of the mercury from coal-burning plants, incinerators and boilers settles to the ground locally. The Steubenville study contends nearly 70% of the mercury found in the Steubenville area came from local sources[iv]
The astounding array of pollutants in the newborn and unborn should be a wake up call that the existing material frameworks of the world should be changed.
What this means is that it is dangerous to live anywhere near coal-burning plants, incinerators and boilers. If mercury spreads widely, as presumed by the model commonly used by the EPA, communities near coal-fired plants face no greater risk than those elsewhere. If large amounts of mercury from those plants settle within 60 to 120 miles of a plant, then local communities face a muchlarger risk. You have to decide who or what to trust in this regard. Actually we lose in either direction for what it means is that if the mercury falls far from the source it means that the high winds are taking it all over the world, to every square inch of the planet, though like with radiation patterns, certain places would be much hotter than others.
It is now accurate, scientific and medically sound to state that we are poisoning every man, woman and child on earth.
To get a birds eye view of the hurricanes of toxicity we face on the parts per billion and million level it is helpful to know that air pollution in major cities is now being seen as dangerous to health as radiation exposure suffered by survivors of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. A recent study suggests high levels of urban air pollution cut short life expectancy more than the radiation exposure of emergency workers who were sent into the 19-mile exclusion zone around Chernobyl straight after the accident.[v]
Women living in areas of high air pollution were at greater risk of heart disease and death, while children living within 500m of motorways suffered more permanent lung damage and lower life expectancy.
Jim Smith, a scientist at the government's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Dorchester, assessed the health risks faced by emergency workers at Chernobyl directly after the explosion and those who unofficially set up home in the exclusion zone afterwards. He compared them with the more familiar risks of air pollution, obesity, and passive and active smoking. "The immediate effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs led to approximately 210,000 deaths in the two cities. However, radiation exposures experienced by the most exposed group of survivors led to an average loss of life expectancy significantly lower than that caused by severe obesity or active smoking," the report states.
This is not to diminish the threat of radiation from medical tests, nuclear reactors and the totally insane use of depleted uranium weapons and the intentional injecting of mercury into children’s bodies and teeth. What this is telling us specifically is that we are in huge danger from the air we breathe, and that is only one part of our exposure. The water we drink is compromised as are the foods we eat. We are talking about nightmares of the worst kind, chemical and radioactive ones that are accumulating, building up in intensity everywhere including in our very own bodies.
Mercury is not an ordinary air pollutant nor is it classified as such. Because it is a neurotoxin that causes neurological problems, it is considered a hazardous air pollutant, which gives it a different legal status. This is a very polite way of saying that mercury is a nerve poison, which even at the lowest concentrations imaginable causes problems for the young. We are only in the beginning phases of becoming aware of the tremendous problem with thousands of tons of mercury being poured into the air each year. If one gram of mercury can pollute a 20-acre lake, or anything near that size, or kill a child, imagine what 8 to ten billion grams of it would do.[vi]
Lead and mercury are highly toxic to the brain, nervous system, kidneys, reproductive system, and immune system.
Power plants in the US put 48 tons of mercury a year into the atmosphere through burning coal.[vii]China spews 600 tons of mercury into the air each year, accounting for a great part of the world's non-natural emissions. And the volume is rising quickly with more coal fired energy plants now under construction in China than exists in the entire country of England.China all by itself is bringing on a mercury crisis. By 2020, China will have nearly 1,000 gigawatts of total electricity-generating capacity, more than twice the current amount, according to the StatePowerEconomicResearchCenter.
We have reached a milestone in human history. Awaiting each and every child born on the planet is a life doomed to being poisoned.
China will this year burn about 1.9 billion tons of coal, a 12% increase from last year, and consumption is expected to keep rising. In fifteen years we can expect China to be pumping 1,400 tons of mercury into the air or approximately 60 additional tons a year as new capacity comes online.[viii] This is a huge number and will join the already enormous amount of mercury bellowing up from China's more than 2,000 coal-fired power plants.
This mercury soars high into the atmosphere and then around the globe on what has become a transcontinental conveyor belt of mercury polluted air. On MountBachelor, in Oregon, considered one of the cleanest sites in the Northwest, scientists from the University of Washington have been sampling the air on the 9,065 foot mountain top since 2004.They are monitoring for pollutants such as mercury as well as gases, including carbon monoxide, ozone and nitrogen oxides. This site is also used by Staci Simonich's lab at OSU to look at long-distance travels of pesticides and other pollutants. “It's sort of ironic that we have to go to one of the cleanest locations to look for pollutants," said Daniel Jaffe, a professor of atmospheric and environmental chemistry at the University of Washington, Bothell. Some of what they are finding comes from China.[ix]The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that on certain days nearly 25 percent of the particulate matter in the skies above Los Angeles can be traced to China. Some experts predict China could one day account for a third of all California's air pollution.
According to the observations made by the internationally recognized medical researcher, Dr. Yoshiaki Omura, all cancer cells have mercury in them. Since mercury is the second most toxic substance on this planet, its presence provides a strong initiating factor for disrupting cell function. Support for this idea comes from Dr. Hans Nolte who states that, "The wave spectrum of mercury contains more than thirteen wavelengths, whereas only one or two frequencies or wavelengths are usually observed for the other heavy or noble metals." It is Dr. Nolte's belief that the many harmful effects of mercury could be explained to some degree on the basis of this great variety of wavelengths. Dr. Omura's clinical observation concludes that one of the primary reasons cancer returns is because residual mercury reignites a pathological environment even after surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and alternative therapies report a positive effect.[x]
Meanwhile Beijingrecently persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report finding that pollution causes about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year. The Financial Times reported saying that, "The World Bank was told that it could not publish this information. It was too sensitive and could cause social unrest," one unnamed adviser told the Financial Times.[xi] Capitalists on the other hand would use a different rational excuse but clearly governments and corporations on both sides of the great political divide are not concerned that they are the ones who are driving up cancer rates through the stratosphere.
The brains of our children are our most precious economic resource, and we haven’t recognized how vulnerable they are. We must make protection of the young brain a paramount goal of public health protection. You have only one chance to develop a brain.
Philippe Grandjean
HarvardSchool of Public Health
Children's brain development is being impaired by some of the more than 70,000 human-made chemicals on the market, according to the WWF.[i][xii] The report, which surveyed current research in the field, charges chemicals with such neurological effects as poor memory, reduced visual recognition and motor skills, and lower IQ, and cites other U.S. research that already ties 10 percent of all neurobehavioral disorders to chemical exposure. While it singles out some chemicals by name -- particularly brominated flame-retardants, PCBs, and dioxins -- the report laments that there is little to no safety information available on most chemicals floating about in the environment and in households.
"In effect, we are all living in a global chemical experiment of which we don't know the outcome," said WWF's Helen McDade. Environmental contaminants are suspected to cause cancer, birth defects, immune system defects, reduced IQ, behavioral abnormalities, decreased fertility, altered sex hormone balance, altered metabolism and specific organ dysfunctions. Every day children are exposed to chemicals that have not been tested for safety.
Exposure (particularly prenatal exposure) to certain endocrine disrupting chemicals (e.g. PCBs) can have adverse effects on neurological development ... and behavior... delays in...cognitive development has been found to be associated with neonatal PCB exposure. World Health Organization
Also according to the WWF in 1929 the world was producing 1 million tons of chemicals and pharmaceuticals a year. Today that number has climbed to 400 million tons. That means that we pollute the earth at a rate that until only recently took decades to accomplish. Easily in one year we now do the damage it took from 1930 to 1960 to effect. In the next ten years we will collectively produce 4 billion tons of chemicals, which in one way or another eventually end up as toxic pollutants in the environment.
Last night an old friend and one of the very first subscribers to my online communications (nine years ago) sent me this picture he had found on the Internet, which is a land – river – waterfall for sale in the interior of Brazil. I happened to recognize the place right away for it is right next to the place that brought me to Brazil 17 years ago. And it happens to be for sale but it is a huge land (meaning quite expensive) quite a distance from town. There are several large places for sale in the region some with structures built already to support a community.
Though my wife is much more comfortable here on the coast in a modern city (with clear air because the wind blows strongly from the relatively clean ocean air) I am anxious to bring my family to the kind of environment you see above. Fortunately I am building a cancer clinic there so I have something very practical and necessary driving me back to the interior.
I was just reading about the most recent CODEX meeting and this organization wants to make sure we cannot get the nutrition to defend ourselves from the poisons on earth. Meaning they are going to make it harder and harder to live healthy lives inside of society. There are many forces at work that are moving in ways that will hinder us, hurt our chances for living good lives.
Survival through the next ten years is not a sure thing for many of us but survival as health happy human beings is the subject of Survival Medicine, which advises us to get serious in a hurry about some important concerns. I am basically shouting out to people in this chapter; but it is as if most of the people I am addressing were in the middle of a street about to be hit by a passing truck but they cannot hear me because the noise is so loud. It seems like humanity is in God’s hands now, is meeting a self created destiny that mirrors the worst tragic flaws in us.
Certainly the government and media are not going to help with anything since they are at the heart of the problem. Governments are much more prepared than the public and have been training police all over the world for years to take control using the most modern methods of crowd control. As many governments probably see it, the move toward fascism is a necessity, otherwise in their eyes it will be total anarchy.
In the end survival entails action and the consequences of inaction become intolerable.
Survival Medicine puts serious survival tools in ones medicine cabinet and even advises us finally to purchase survival foods like spirulina that can do double duty; used as a nutritional medicine it is without equal and used as a survival nutritional resource it is the same. There are certain basic medicines we have to have on hand, and we need enough of them to last us a while. In fact the core of Survival Medicine is built upon medicinal substances that the FDA and CODEX will have a harder time controlling.
Hardly a soul alive at this exact moment in time does not need to remove lead and mercury from their systems. Hardly anyone alive is not going to need some emergency medicines, secure clean water supplies and food. Survival Medicine’s protocol for survival is almost the same as its protocol for illness and disease so there is no paranoia in stocking up on what we and our loved ones need anyway. Believe me it is more than comforting to have essential items like iodine, magnesium chloride, calcium bentonite clay, sodium bicarbonate, natural chelators and spirulina, among other things, safely stocked in the house.
Conclusion
In this three part series The Cruel Winds of Change we have talked about the poisons that threaten us, the climate/food and the mental-spiritual insanities we are facing. I did not pick the title of this chapter or the title of this book lightly. We the generations who have had it easiest in the history of humankind are going to have to face difficulties we are not prepared for. It’s a harsh reality, a cruel one for the multitudes. Actually we know it has already been that way for billions who live on less than ten dollars a day. They say a billion or more live on less than a dollar a day.
In this book I do not talk much about the deeper issues behind survival and all that I propose to do about it. My deepest design in withstanding the cruel winds of change is the formation of a new form of human consciousness called group consciousness. United we stand divided we fall is a truth we need to pay attention to if we are interested in surviving with grace during the troubled times ahead. Modern man has been beaten like a dog into living with the feeling of separation. Even husbands and wives experience the feelings of separation (lack of pure or perfect love) all the time even without getting separated or divorced.
The trip back to Oneness is a long one and a difficult one. For most it’s too difficult and the journey is never started and that is sad. I am of course talking about love and I do have some unusual definitions for love. Love is listening and love is communication to me. Intimacy is love and is something I love as my friends know. So are devotion and dedication and commitment. Truth is another principle ray of love as is responsibility and trust. Honesty I think we are going to need all of these qualities in our attempt to survive and certainly if we ever stand a chance of building something new upon the ashes of what we have done wrong.
If the above qualities are envisioned as great pillars we can see that they have crumbled in modern man to a great extent. Like the ancient pillars in the Acropolis turning to dust there is no support for the continued expansion of civilization based on industrialization. But that is exactly what is happening in China, India and Brazil, billions simultaneously reaching for things that have are having a great impact on everyone. Whatever we have done to harm ourselves and our earth is in higher gear at this exact moment of time than at any moment before, especially the poisoning and destruction of the earth and everyone on it. Could I have not picked a more appropriate concept and name than Sanctuary?
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[i]As much as 40 per cent of children from certain heavily polluted areas suffer from asthma by the time they reach six years of age. Asthma rates among children have increased almost five-fold since the 1970s and more than doubled in the past decade, according to research published in England at the end of 2004. The proportion of under-16s diagnosed with asthma has jumped from 5.5 per cent in 1973 to 12 per cent in 1988, and to 27.3 per cent last year.ABC News. Half Perth six-year-olds suffer asthma Sunday, November 14, 2004.
[iii]Palmer RF, Blanchard S, Stein Z, Mandell D, Miller C. University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Department of Family and Community Medicine, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900, USA. palmer@...
[v] Smith JT. Are passive smoking, air pollution and obesity a greater mortality risk than major radiation incidents?BMC Public Health. 2007 Apr 3;7:49.PMID: 17407581
[vi] The world is 510 million square kilometers and 71 percent of that is ocean. One gram of mercury poured into eighty million liters of water would be cause for concern under federal human health standards for drinking water, enough to contaminate a typical mid-western lake. Thus one gram pollutes a typical 20 acre lake and 20 acres equals .081 square kilometers. One ton of mercury contains 1 million grams which would thus pollute 81,000 square kilometers of lakes. One thousand tons would pollute 81 million square kilometers, so 7,000 tons of mercury would pollute a lake the size of the world. The world is not a lake, so the one gram rule does not quite work, but it offers us a good reference point. The oceans are quite deep and the atmosphere also holds a vast capacity to hold mercury, as does the soil. But over the last five hundred years we have dug up and used approximately 1 million tons of mercury. That is 1,000,000,000,000 grams (a trillion) or enough to blanket each 20 acres on earth with over 149 grams. It is these 149 grams that is responsible for mercury levels increasing by a factor of 20 times over the last 3 centuries.
[vii]DEP Commissioner Bradley Campbell statement about national emission levels. Associated Press. Fri, Nov. 05, 2004
[viii]Wall Street Journal. Invisible Export A Hidden Cost Of China's Growth: Mercury Migration
December 17, 2004
[ix]Scientists can use a computer model to find the wind origins for the last 10 days.If there is a big fire or dust storm across the globe, you can see the pollution crossing the ocean on satellite data. In lesser cases computers trace the path of Northwest winds to find origins. Nine years ago Jaffe’s group first detected Chinese pollution on the Washington coast. Other scientists have since confirmed it, by identifyingpatterns of trace metals that are unique to Chinese pollution, much like a fingerprint, Jaffe said. Pollutants from China hitting Oregon Cascades; Associated Press;8/27//06;oregonlive.com
[x]The Pathogenic Multi-potency of Mercury, Biological Therapy, Journal of Natural Medicine, Vol. VI, No. 3, June 1988
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It’s enough to give you a headache.
America, and much of the rest of the world, has undergone a creeping acceptance of madness as the norm, which means the majority of us are walking around tripping out on our illusions. We think we are fine but are not. We think we are safe. We think there is nothing we can do about what is happening in the world around us, nothing to do about the intense poisoning raining down on us and nothing to do about the absolute madness of the American power elite constantly testing above ground weapons of mass destruction (depleted uranium weapons). Who needs terrorists, we have plenty of them sitting in their mega-mansions with an undo percentage of them living and working in WashingtonDC.
Recently, we have seen a burst of absolutely horrific films resting on the idea of torture for pleasure. In Eli Roth's Hostel films, in the recent Vacancy, Captivity and Saw, victims are entrapped and slowly abused to death in the most disgusting and visceral ways.
There are people in the United States government that believe that torture should be the West's response to the threat of terrorism, and the American TV series 24 is absolutely consistent in that there are few episodes without some scene of torture.[i] It seems like the same types of people who brought us the concentration camps have dreamed up more creative ways of torturing and killing people, i.e., the deliberate exposure to radiation and low levels of chemicals, which are not low anymore.
SN&R GRAPHIC BY DON BUTTON
Ii it perfectly normal today to conduct above ground tests with depleted uranium right between San Francisco and Sacramento? Is anyone thinking of moving out of northern California?[ii]
We are being informed of approaching disasters of stupendous proportions but our lives continue on much the same. It is as if we are waiting on the lines to the gas chambers (for our lives are in fact threatened in mass) talking on our cell phones, playing video games and answering our emails. Noah is again calling out that the floods are coming but to no avail.
Regrettably, there are all too many candidates that qualify as imminent and very serious crises. Several should be high on everyone’s agenda of concern, because they pose literal threats to human survival. Noam Chomsky
What is clearly insane is now accepted as normal and what is normal and healthy is under attack by the most seriously demented people. We have no idea how far down the rabbit hole goes nor which pill to take, the green or the blue one. Even those who claimed to understand abnormal psychology have little understanding of true insanity and what it is doing to the human race. They have no idea what the rest of us are dealing with when we have the government making the most dangerous substances known to man legal and the safest ones that have not hurt anyone in any serious way illegal.
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein
This is important to healthcare workers because we are dealing with insanities effect on the mind, body and soul of our patients. Much of this can be explained when we address the FACT that just about everyone is suffering from a host of neurological poisons, walking around in the mid-day sun under the heavy influence of substances over which they have no control. Some of the biggest neurological poisons that come to mind are mercury, fluoride, aluminum and lead but there are many others. A person suffering from mercury poisoning or fluoride, for instance, usually has no idea that they have been chemically separated from their feeling center in the heart and that their minds have been hollowed out.
41% of Americans answered 'Yes' to the question "Do you think Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq was directly involved in planning, financing, or carrying out the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001?
We do not know it but the lies that fill our minds do have an effect on our lives and on our future. And when the pollutions and deliberate poisoning has entered and effected our minds, and we have no way of knowing that, we end up in a lethal minefield, a field of quicksand, and a deadly crossfire all at the same time not knowing what to do about any of it. This all makes it difficult to understand and act on information.
One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases.[iii] World Health Organization
Most of us who have smoked cigarettes at one time or another understands much of the psychology of poison; we simply loved to smoke that highly addictive poison. With a puff we literally exposed ourselves to thousands of chemicals (around 4,700 to be exact) but our bodies provide the miracle that cleans the stuff up, at least for a while. That’s the problem with most poisons today and is the characteristic that explains the slow dummying down of society. Only the snakes and spiders kick hard enough to put us in the emergency room. The rest are SLOW ACTING POISONS meaning we are victims and are not knowing it until the body breaks down and even then most of our doctors are telling us no that’s not it so please take a little more poison it will do the trick for what ails us.
Tobacco is a defective product. It kills half of its customers. It kills 5.4 million people per year and half of those deaths are in developing countries. That's like one jumbo jet going down every hour. Douglas Bettcher
Head of the WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative.
The insanity here is that it’s perfectly legal to sell cigarettes, perfectly legal to smoke them, meaning perfectly all right to poison others and oneself. The tobacco companies are prototypes for a wide range of industries turned into legal killing machines. Murder is legal in corporate capitalism. It’s an ethic that perhaps is unconscious but that is no excuse legal or otherwise. But when the government gets in on the action we begin to understand that government is not of the people anymore but of the company. And when modern medicine becomes the biggest poisoning machine on this side of mars it perhaps becomes time to pull the plug on it all and beat a hasty retreat from all that will eventually kill us. Most of us think such escapes are virtually impossible and that there is no way to escape from the Cruel Winds of Change. But that is an illusion, there are almost always options that open up especially if we pray for them to appear.
Special Note: I have been intensely busy finishing Survival Medicine for the 21st Century, producing so much in terms of materials that it has been difficult to even conceive of what to publish online. I now have a ninety page section on sodium bicarbonate and its use in cancer and other degenerative diseases. I have even discovered it is an instant pain reliever. This section covers fungus and yeast infections, establishes their direct link to cancer, and contains protocols with bicarbonate for each form of cancer.
In terms of the health and medical field there is nothing more important, at this exact moment in time, then to return to medical basics and to common substances like magneisum chloride, iodine and sodium bicarbonate, all substances that are safe, effective and inexpensive. Sodium bicarbonate, in the age of cancer has to be one of the most striking medicinal agents, certainly doctors and nurses in emergency rooms and intensive care wards know and understand this. Why no one besides Dr. Tullio Simoncini has thought to use it to treat advanced chronic diseases like cancer is a mystery allopathich authorities are going to have to address.
Next week I will communicate about how I am going to publish what can only be considered a serious medical text/course in what I am calling Natural Allopathic Medicine. In my decades long search for a point of unification in the medical arts I have found common grounds that everyone can gain from. Survival Medicine is calling for changes not only in the allopathic universe but in complementary medicine as well. Chiropracters, Naturopaths, acupuncturists and a long list of others including body workers of numerous types all are being called to embrace an important change in medicine and health care. It is up to us to buffer our clients and patients and our own families from The Cruel Winds of Change. There are things we can do in a positive sense to counter balance the helplessness we feel in the face of so many mounting problems. We do not need to be sitting ducks waiting for disaster to strike and certainly we should not be waiting for or expecting pharmaceutical medicine to save us when we fall.
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I am a Canadian Barrister (lawyer in U.S. terms) and also the mother of two children with autism, aged 12 and 10. I will testify before any court that these children have been dramatically helped with the biomedical approach advocated by Dr. Wakefield. The videos shown by Dr. Wakefield and his associates mirror my two children. It was his talk in Chicago in May 2006 which led me to change their diet after so many medical professionals and therapists had told me that was not necessary. The change of diet has changed our lives. My daughter stopped her dangerous head banging/bashing in only a few weeks on the diet - after having done that for nine years! She also potty trained herself - after we had unsuccessfully tried everything every professional had ever recommended. Quite simply, she could not be potty trained for medical reasons - not behavioural or sensory causes. It was Dr. Wakefield - and the DAN Doctors who advocate his approach - who helped us save our
children. Also, both my children have been repeatedly hospitalized for immune disorders - with their immune systems attacking them for no clear reason such as Lupus. With the change in their diet, their immune systems have calmed right down and we have not had an episode since we started the healthier diet. It should be noted that their diet was not unhealthy before we followed Dr. Wakefield's recommendations. Their diet did, however, contain gluten and casein as most children's do. We had put the children through all of the traditional allergy tests and were told that the children were fine with gluten and casein. However, after listening to Dr. Wakefield and the other DAN doctors at the Chicago One Conference last year, we had their blood tested and found they had a real problem with antibodies to gluten and casein in their system. We can not stress enough how much all of our lives have been improved by Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues who recognize that autistic
children are medically ill - not just behavioural. I would also like to stress that I have never understood Dr. Wakefield to say that vaccines per se are wrong or should not be given. Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues have simply advocated for a more responsible approach to vaccinations - single dose without any added garbage such as dangerous preservatives. Having witnessed the immune problems experienced by my two children, I can assure you that autism and challenged immune systems go hand in hand for many of these children. Clearly, single dose vaccines are much safer for immune compromised children. This is not rocket science and it is not radical medicine - it is common sense and it is helping many children with autism.
Susan J. McDermott, LL.B., LL.M. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I too am the parent of a child diagnosed with Autism. I was a non-responder to the MMR, meaning I never showed titres so was given it over and over and over again. When my child received hers it was devastating and immediate. She went from a typical beautiful child to a spinning, head-banaging, self-biting, pulling out her own hair and non-verbal child. But, through the help of the DAN protocol and Dr. Bernard Rimland I have brought my daughter back from the darkness of Autism. She is now 100% mainstreamed with her peers and making straight A's. No one believes me anymore when I say she was onced diagnosed severely autistic. Parent's observations are ignored, called anectdotal when they notice post-vaccination regression, then when their child recovers with aggressive bio-medical intervention, parents are once again marginalized and once again told their story is anectdotal. It will all stay anectdotal as our oversight agencies refuse to investigate a single story
to prove or disprove it. Best to just continue to pretend to be concerned while doing nothing about. it. Andy Wakefield did something about it, and that is to be commended. If treating each individual child as a unique individual is a crime, then Wakefield is guitly. If listening to parents is a crime, again guilty. If scientific inquiry into a devastating epidemic with no sacred cows and nothing left out of the potential dialogue is a crime, then Wakefield is guilty. I often wonder what kind of a world I live in now that greed, thoughtlessness, and neglect of a generation of damaged children is rewarded and those seriously investigating, asking the hard questions, showing empathy and compassion to those same children are the victims of a self-protecting self-depracating witch hunt. You should be giving Andy Wakefield and those like him a reward, a tribute, and holding them up to others in their profession as an example. That when it comes to our children, nothing is off
limits to investiage, nothing is sacred except the children themselves.
Kendra Pettengill Roseburg, Oregon
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I am a 66 year old academic research professor who specializes in biochemistry/toxicology. I have followed Dr. Wakefield's research for many years. I think his detractors are more interested in preventing the recognition of a major iatrophic event than they are in resolving the real problem, which is that the aggressive vaccine programs in the USA and England are the cause of many medical problems that occur in infants today. The CDC and NHS refusal to look into the lack of certain neurological diseases, such as autism, in our non-vaccinated populations is symptomatic of a cover-up at the highest level. The treatment of Dr. Wakefield is quite similar. Many disagreements surface in medical science, but seldom are the proposers of a new hypothesis attacked as viciously as was Dr. Wakefield. In my opinion, this was done to hide the damage done by, and to protect, the vaccine industry which includes many physicians who profit from the vaccine programs.
Dr. Boyd E. Haley
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Dr. Wakefield's recognition of intestinal disease in autistic children and his investigations to delineate it deserve a knighthood, not a disciplinary hearing. He has numerous peer-reviewed publications, and many other investigators have confirmed what he first reported. The intestinal disease and suffering of these children is obvious; biomedical interventions are effective. I and many other physicians have seen this in our own practices. Reporting the facts as one sees them, and offering an interpretation, is what we are supposed to do. It is totally inappropriate to threaten a physician with loss of provileges because he spoke his mind, based on published data. If there are doubts about the safety of immunizations, this is a topic for debate, not for disciplinary hearings.
Stephen G. Kahler, MD
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I am a licensed registered dietitian with graduate and undergraduate degrees in nutrition. My practice, active since 1999, is comprised almost entirely of vaccine injured children who have autism and bowel disease. No one is helping these children. Their MD providers leave them on Prevacid and steroids to mask their symptoms, surgically insert gastrectomy tubes when they can't grow, and refer them to behavior classes for potty training. These are useless measures that worsen the lives of these children.
They respond well to nutrition care and special diets - they begin to grow, eat, and sleep normally. They have normal eliminations for the first time in their lives. They begin to speak again, to look in their parents' eyes directly. Nearly all are gluten intolerant with elevated antigliadin antibodies. I can not find pediatric gastroenterologists willing to help these children, who need impactions cleared, prescription enzymes, gut biopsy, endoscopy, or other measures I can't provide.
I have also encountered adults with autism who have been denied appropriate care with gastroenterology. It is medical neglect beyond belief. GMC: Do not shoot the messenger. We need him to train and enlighten peers in GI. I continue to be astonished at the limited ability and thinking of the pedi GI MDs treating the children I encounter. They are doing a terrible job, because they are not working with the facts. They are working with pharma industry sales literature disguised as scientific journals.
Our children are getting sicker and sicker with all kinds of bizarre unacceptable neurological and autoimmune problems. The toxins in our environment and in the form of chemical drugs, vaccines, and food additives are unquestionably having an effect on our children's health - we just don't necessarily know how or why. When brave doctors such as Andy Wakefield start to ask questions and investigate these mechanisms, the medical community needs to support these efforts and let trhe results stand or fall based on the merits of the research and the results, not attack those who are asking the questions and doing the research. Our children desperately need help, and those doing the attacking are doing NOTHING to get us answers on what is happening to our kids and are standing in the way of progress. They can get their rear ends into the labs and come up with their own answers for us parents if they don't like the answers others are coming up with, but they are not doing
that. We fully support the continuing research of Dr. Andy Wakefield and others like him - no person would willingly put themselves in this position unless their conscience left them no alternative. Thank GOD for those who question and dig - where would we be today without them and our future of our children rests in their hands.
What if a “dirty bomb” exploded over a large segment of U.S.population that simultaneously exposed citizens to Hepatitis B,Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, three strains of polio viruses, three strains of influenza, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, two types of meningitis, four strains of herpes viruses, the chickenpox virus, 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, and four strains of rotavirus.
• We would declare a national emergency. • It would be an “extreme act of BIOTERRORISM • The public outcry would be immense and our government would react accordingly.
And yet, those are the very organisms we inject into our babies and our small children in multiple doses, with immature, underdeveloped immune systems, many at the same time with vaccines.
But instead of bioterrorism, we call it “protection.” Reflect on that irony.
- Dr Sheri Tenpenny, MD
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ACCUMULATION OF extremely toxic methylmercury in the environment—particularly in fish—has triggered an effort by scientists to unravel the process by which a set of bacterial enzymes capture and then detoxify the compound. In a new development, Jonathan G. Melnick and Gerard Parkin of Columbia University report a synthetic mercury complex that provides insight into how one of these enzymes catalyzes cleavage of the Hg-C bond (Science2007, 317, 225). The finding is expected to boost efforts to genetically modify plants to sequester HgCH3+ for environmental cleanup.
Mer Mimic Mercury complex emulates the MerB enzyme in binding Hg in a sulfur-rich environment and cleaving off a methyl group (R = tert-butyl, Ph = phenyl).
In nature, microbes synthesize HgCH3+ from naturally occurring Hg2+, as well as from mercury released in the emissions of coal-fired power plants. Organomercury compounds are toxic because the metal has a high affinity for sulfur, in particular the sulfur of thiol (-SH) groups in cysteine units of proteins. Once the mercury binds, the normal function of the proteins is disrupted.
Bacteria resistant to HgCH3+ toxicity produce an enzyme named MerB, which has three cysteine residues in its active site that are known to be crucial for cleaving the Hg-C bond. But the exact way in which MerB coordinates to HgCH3+ and the "intimate details of the reaction mechanism" have been a mystery, Parkin says. (A second enzyme, MerA, reduces the resulting Hg2+ to less toxic elemental mercury.)
Melnick and Parkin thus set out to decipher the mechanism of action of MerB. They synthesized bulky alkylmercury complexes by coupling a methylmercury or ethylmercury group to a sulfur-rich imidazolylborate ligand. Like MerB, the ligand contains three key sulfur atoms for binding mercury.
From crystal structure data and nuclear magnetic resonance spectral studies of these complexes, the researchers determined that HgCH3+ or HgCH2CH3+ is bound to one sulfur donor in the solid state via linear S-Hg-C bonding. But in solution, the complexes exist in rapid equilibrium with analogs in which the mercury atom binds to two or three ligand sulfur atoms.
As a further test, they reacted their complexes with phenylthiol to simulate a cysteine thiol group in MerB. Introducing phenylthiol into the system results in cleavage of the alkyl group.
The researchers conclude that the ability of the mercury atom to coordinate to multiple sulfur atoms sets up cleavage of the Hg-C bond. They envision that, for MerB, one cysteine is required to coordinate HgCH3+ in a linear fashion, a second cysteine is required to activate the Hg-C bond toward cleavage, and a third cysteine is required to sever the bond.
Melnick and Parkin "provide an elegant atomic-level description for the facile cleavage of a carbon-mercury bond," notes James G. Omichinski of the University of Montreal in a Science commentary. Their observations provide valuable insight into the basic mechanism of MerB's activity, he adds. Considerable work remains to be done, but understanding this mechanism "is essential to efforts to reengineer MerB to improve its catalytic efficiency for the bioremediation of methylmercury," Omichinski writes
thanks its really interesting topic
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> The 4th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and
> its Complications, organised by the World Health
> Organisation, the Diabetes Research Centre and the M
> V Hospital for Diabetes in Chennai, the
> International Diabetes Federation, Belgium and the
> Centre for Disease control, Atlanta, concluded in
> Chennai.
> The decision to have the World Congress in India was
> taken by WHO mainly because every fourth diabetic in
> the world is an Indian. According to WHO
> projections, the 30 million to 33 million diabetics
> in India will go up to 40 million by 2010 and 74
> million by 2025.
> WHO has issued a warning that India will be the
> Diabetes capital of the world.
> Professor A Ramachandran, Head of the Diabetes
> Research Centre, was chairman of the organising
> committee of the World Diabetic Congress.
> In an interview to rediff.com Special Contributing
> Correspondent Shobha Warrier, he says Indians,
> irrespective of where they live, fall under the high
> risk group, hence they have to try to prevent
> getting diabetes.
> People were made to understand that diabetes was
> genetically transmitted, and there was no cure for
> it. Doctors were talking only about management of
> the disease. Suddenly, you have shifted the mode to
> prevention. The theme of the World Diabetic Congress
> was prevention.
> Once diabetes occurs, a person's metabolism changes
> so much that you cannot cure diabetes. Even before
> you are diagnosed as having diabetes, you have
> started having the risk of the complications of
> diabetes. Treating diabetes is a lifelong affair. We
> have limitations of controlling diabetes to the
> levels we want because bringing down the blood sugar
> value to normal is a challenge.
> When did the shift from cure to prevention take
> place? What was the reason behind the change in
> outlook?
> There is an increase in the prevalence of diabetes
> all over the world. At the same time, we find there
> is an increase in the risk factors associated with
> diabetes like obesity, sedentary life habits and
> stress. We realised the factors can be
> prevented/controlled.
> The question was asked, if you make people work
> more, walk more and reduce eating and avoid obesity,
> can you prevent diabetes?
> We know there is a way of identifying people with
> pre-diabetes although the word is not completely
> agreed upon. The pre-diabetic stage is where the
> blood sugar is not normal but below the diabetic
> criteria of diabetes. There are two categories; one
> is impaired glucose tolerance where the value is
> between 140 and 199, and the diagnostic value is
> 200. The other stage is impaired fasting glucose
> where the fasting value is above 100 and below 126.
> People who belong to this category have a very high
> risk of developing diabetes over the years
> especially if the family has a history of diabetes.
> Trials conducted in the US have found that by
> lifestyle modification and by reducing the weight by
> seven percent through physical activity, we can
> reduce the incidence of diabetes by 58 percent. We
> know that by controlling the risk factors on high
> risk individuals, you can reduce the prevalence of
> diabetes.
> So, the question is, why not prevent diabetes? That
> is why there is a big push on primary prevention of
> diabetes.
> You said obesity is considered one of the major risk
> factors. Why is it that Indians who are thin and
> lean are more prone to diabetes than the more obese
> Westerners?
> Our genetic susceptibility is more powerful. The
> propensity to become a diabetic is higher in
> Indians. We have a low threshold for the risk
> factors. Americans develop diabetes when the body
> mass index is 30 and 35. We develop it when the BMI
> is only 25.
> Why do we have a lower threshold?
> It is the racial difference. Reports say people in
> Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Mauritius
> and Mali share the common prevalence rates and seem
> to share the susceptibility genes, and the same
> environmental risk factors. We also share the
> lowered threshold of conventional risk factors,
> unfortunately.
> Are the risk factors applicable to Indians living
> anywhere in the world, or only to those who live in
> India?
> It is applicable to all Indians irrespective of the
> place they live. Some of the worst reports come from
> South Africa, the United Kingdom and the US. Indians
> living in South Africa have a higher prevalence of
> diabetes compared to South Africans and the white
> population.
> A report from London says Indians or South Asians
> living in London have a higher prevalence of
> diabetes compared to the white population or the
> Afro-Caribbean population although they are not more
> obese than the British.
> I wrote and published the first paper from India in
> the British Medical Journal where I compared the
> prevalence of diabetes in the urban population in
> India. It is as high as the prevalence of diabetes
> for Indians living in Southall in London.
> Some good studies have been done among Indians in
> the US, and it is found that 18 percent Indians
> living in Atlanta have a prevalence of diabetes,
> which is higher than the prevalence of diabetes in
> Indian cities. The prevalence of diabetes in the
> immigrant population is high, a little higher than
> what you see in Chennai and Mumbai. The reasons
> could be, they are under more mental stress. They
> must be taking high calorie food and there may be
> less physical activity.
> We have indications that Indian immigrants to the US
> and UK have a high prevalence of not only diabetes
> but coronary heart disease too.
> What precautions should Indians living all over the
> world take to prevent diabetes?
> If you have a family history of diabetes, and if you
> are a girl, you better start thinking about diabetes
> prevention at 20 to 25 as during pregnancy, you may
> test positive for diabetes. If you are a man and
> obese, you should start thinking about diabetes once
> you cross 25. If you are not obese, the disease may
> strike you only after 40. Family history of diabetes
> is a very important risk factor in all of us.
> We have a big problem in hand. The information
> technology professionals. They are under tremendous
> stress at work. We used to see many cases of
> diabetes among doctors and surgeons. Now we have
> this new class of very young people. They don't
> follow any timing, they have the pressure of
> deadlines, they have irregular meals, they work at
> night and they have only time to sit in front of the
> computer for hours and hours without any physical
> exercise.
> Similarly, if you take the case of immigrants, who
> are uncertain of their jobs, especially in the
> Persian Gulf region, develop diabetes more often.
> What we should do to guard is, first, don't gain
> weight. Be active. More importantly, childhood
> obesity should be prevented. Obesity in childhood
> leads to obesity in adulthood.
> Health education should start from the school level.
> Children should not be allowed to take junk food,
> and should be encouraged to indulge in physical
> activity.
> WHO has announced an awareness program on diabetes
> like they did for AIDS, tubercolosis, polio. How
> effective will this awareness campaign be?
> It will be very effective. A good example is
> smoking.
> Photograph: Sreeram Selvaraj
> Image: Uttam Ghosh
>
>
>
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> Master, MATMS
> Naturopathic Physician & Nutritionist
> Centre Of Integrated Medicine
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The 4th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications, organised by the World Health Organisation, the Diabetes Research Centre and the M V Hospital for Diabetes in Chennai, the International Diabetes Federation, Belgium and the Centre for Disease control, Atlanta, concluded in Chennai.
The decision to have the World Congress in India was taken by WHO mainly because every fourth diabetic in the world is an Indian. According to WHO projections, the 30 million to 33 million diabetics in India will go up to 40 million by 2010 and 74 million by 2025.
WHO has
issued a warning that India will be the Diabetes capital of the world.
Professor A Ramachandran, Head of the Diabetes Research Centre, was chairman of the organising committee of the World Diabetic Congress.
In an interview to rediff.com Special Contributing Correspondent Shobha Warrier, he says Indians, irrespective of where they live, fall under the high risk group, hence they have to try to prevent getting diabetes.
People were made to understand that diabetes was genetically transmitted, and there was no cure for it. Doctors were talking only about management of the disease. Suddenly, you have shifted the mode to prevention. The theme of the World Diabetic Congress was prevention.
Once diabetes occurs, a person's metabolism changes so much that you cannot cure diabetes. Even before you are diagnosed as having diabetes, you have started having the risk of the complications of diabetes. Treating diabetes is a lifelong affair. We have limitations of controlling diabetes to the levels we want because bringing down the blood sugar value to normal is a challenge.
When did the shift from cure to prevention take place? What was the reason behind the change in outlook?
There is an increase in the prevalence of diabetes all over the world. At the same time, we find there is an increase in the risk factors associated with diabetes like obesity, sedentary life habits and stress. We realised the factors can be prevented/controlled.
The question was asked, if you make people work more, walk more and reduce eating and avoid obesity, can you prevent diabetes?
We know there is a way of identifying people with pre-diabetes although the word is not completely agreed upon. The pre-diabetic stage is where the blood sugar is not normal but below the diabetic criteria of diabetes. There are two categories; one is impaired glucose tolerance where the value is between 140 and 199, and the diagnostic value is 200. The other stage is impaired fasting glucose where the fasting value is above 100 and below 126. People who belong to this category have a very high risk of developing diabetes over the years especially if the family has a history of diabetes.
Trials conducted in the US have found that by lifestyle modification and by
reducing the weight by seven percent through physical activity, we can reduce the incidence of diabetes by 58 percent. We know that by controlling the risk factors on high risk individuals, you can reduce the prevalence of diabetes.
So, the question is, why not prevent diabetes? That is why there is a big push on primary prevention of diabetes.
You said obesity is considered one of the major risk factors. Why is it that Indians who are thin and lean are more prone to diabetes than the more obese Westerners?
Our genetic susceptibility is more powerful. The propensity to become a diabetic is higher in Indians. We have a low threshold for the risk factors. Americans develop diabetes when the body mass index is 30 and 35. We develop it when the BMI is
only 25.
Why do we have a lower threshold?
It is the racial difference. Reports say people in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Mauritius and Mali share the common prevalence rates and seem to share the susceptibility genes, and the same environmental risk factors. We also share the lowered threshold of conventional risk factors, unfortunately.
Are the risk factors applicable to Indians living anywhere in the world, or only to those who live in India?
It is applicable to all Indians irrespective of the place they live. Some of the worst reports come from South Africa, the United Kingdom and the US. Indians living in South Africa have a higher prevalence
of diabetes compared to South Africans and the white population.
A report from London says Indians or South Asians living in London have a higher prevalence of diabetes compared to the white population or the Afro-Caribbean population although they are not more obese than the British.
I wrote and published the first paper from India in the British Medical Journal where I compared the prevalence of diabetes in the urban population in India. It is as high as the prevalence of diabetes for Indians living in Southall in London.
Some good studies have been done among Indians in the US, and it is found that 18 percent Indians living in Atlanta have a prevalence of diabetes, which is higher than the prevalence of diabetes in Indian cities. The prevalence of
diabetes in the immigrant population is high, a little higher than what you see in Chennai and Mumbai. The reasons could be, they are under more mental stress. They must be taking high calorie food and there may be less physical activity.
We have indications that Indian immigrants to the US and UK have a high prevalence of not only diabetes but coronary heart disease too.
What precautions should Indians living all over the world take to prevent diabetes?
If you have a family history of diabetes, and if you are a girl, you better start thinking about diabetes prevention at 20 to 25 as during pregnancy, you may test positive for diabetes. If you are a man and obese, you should start thinking about diabetes once you cross 25. If you are not obese,
the disease may strike you only after 40. Family history of diabetes is a very important risk factor in all of us.
We have a big problem in hand. The information technology professionals. They are under tremendous stress at work. We used to see many cases of diabetes among doctors and surgeons. Now we have this new class of very young people. They don't follow any timing, they have the pressure of deadlines, they have irregular meals, they work at night and they have only time to sit in front of the computer for hours and hours without any physical exercise.
Similarly, if you take the case of immigrants, who are uncertain of their jobs, especially in the Persian Gulf region, develop diabetes more often.
What we should do to guard is, first, don't gain weight. Be
active. More importantly, childhood obesity should be prevented. Obesity in childhood leads to obesity in adulthood.
Health education should start from the school level. Children should not be allowed to take junk food, and should be encouraged to indulge in physical activity.
WHO has announced an awareness program on diabetes like they did for AIDS, tubercolosis, polio. How effective will this awareness campaign be?
It will be very effective. A good example is smoking.
Photograph: Sreeram Selvaraj
Image: Uttam Ghosh
G. Sarravanan ND, D.Nutr, D.MLD, Ad.HRM, Reiki Master, MATMS Naturopathic Physician & Nutritionist Centre Of Integrated Medicine www.cimed.com.sg, 5A Mayo Street, Singapore 208305
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Health Asia faces diabetes explosion Diabetes can be controlled with drugs There will be a massive increase in the number of people with diabetes - and particularly in China and India - over the next 15 years, the head of a biotechnology company has predicted.
Mads Ovlisen, chief executive of the world's leading diabetes care company Novo Nordisk, said changing diets and more sedentary lifestyles meant there would be up to 220 million diabetes sufferers by the
year 2015.
Mr Ovlisen said this would put a strain on the financial and medical resources of many Asian governments.
He said: "If we don't get something done with this, these countries will have a huge problem - a social problem in terms of cost, but also a personal problem in terms of people who will live with a disease that they cannot properly control.
"It really has a very, very major societal impact."
Sugar disorder
Diabetes is a disorder which effects the body's abililty to absorb sugar in the blood.
Starved of the sugar product glucose, cells can burn up fat or protein instead, causing weight loss and weakened
muscles. If the illness is not treated, the diabetic can sink into a coma and eventually die.
There are two types of diabetes, type one and type two.
Those with type one, most often seen in children and young people, cannot produce the hormone insulin needed to absorb sugar and must inject themselves with insulin every day.
Those with type two produce insulin but their cells are unable to absorb sugar from the blood. Some cases of type two diabetes can be managed with exercise and diet.
About two per cent of the world's population suffers from one of the two forms of diabetes, with about 3.5 million having type one and 110 million to 115 million with type two.
Lifestyle link
Bombay: India faces a huge rise in diabetes
Zaiton Dato Jamaluddin, head of Novo Nordisk's pharmaceutical operations in Malaysia, said the incidence of type two diabetes was rising in Asia as life styles and diets changed.
"You will see an explosion, or at least this is the belief of the authorities," she said.
Awareness of diabetes was on the rise in Asia, and the screening process had improved, she said.
"For every case that is diagnosed, probably one or two are undiagnosed," she said.
Mr Ovlisen said Novo Nordisk was working with governments and diabetes associations to increase the awareness of diabetes.
He said: "Many times it's not a matter of going out and selling insulin. It's simply to make certain that people change their lifestyle, improve their diet, improve their physical behaviour."
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I told the truth all along, says doctor at heart of autism row
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2121522,00.html In his only interview before he appears in front of the General Medical Council to face serious charges of malpractice, the campaigner against the MMR vaccine tells Denis Campbell that he has no regrets
Flicking through some paperwork in an Italian restaurant in central London, Andrew Wakefield cuts an anonymous figure. Tall, wearing a deep green polo shirt, chinos and outdoor jacket against the rain, he could be an accountant checking figures. It is unlikely that the other mid-afternoon diners recognise a man who sparked one of the great public health controversies.
Wakefield is a hugely divisive figure. Nine years ago he claimed that the measles mumps rubella vaccine, or MMR, given to every baby in the country at 12-15 months, may cause autism. To many in the medical and political establishment he is a misguided, dangerous propagandist whose claims have caused unnecessary alarm among millions of parents and risked outbreaks of three diseases that remain potential killers. Some critics describe him as a crank, a publicity-lover, a peddler of spin, hype and pseudo-science. He has been attacked by the Chief Medical Officer, the then Health Secretary and Tony Blair.
Forced to leave Britain to practise in America because of the furore, Wakefield is now back. And unrepentant. Time, and the condemnation he faced, have deepened his suspicions about MMR. For the last few weeks he has spent long hours every day with his lawyers finalising evidence he will give when he appears next week before the General Medical Council, the body which investigates alleged malpractice by doctors. He is facing a long list of serious charges relating to research he co-authored in 1998 that triggered the huge public uncertainty about MMR that endures today.
To supporters, Wakefield is a hero, a lone crusader for truth and a principled, caring doctor challenging a policy that is harming significant numbers of children. Some scientists, a handful of doctors and parents of sons and daughters they claim have been damaged by the triple vaccine see him as the victim of a Department of Health-led plot to discredit him, and the GMC hearing as a show trial designed to suppress an uncomfortable truth.
Wakefield, talking to The Observer in his only interview before the hearing, says he plans to defend himself vigorously against allegations he sees as ill-conceived and malicious. 'I've done what I've done because my motivation is the suffering of children I've seen and the determination of devoted, articulate, rational parents to find out why part of them has been destroyed, why their child has been ruined. Why would I go through this process of professional isolation if it was simply to do with egomania? My alleged egomania doesn't explain things very well. There's been no upside for me in having pursued this issue. It's been very difficult.
'As Vaclav Havel once said: "Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it." I can't tell you that we know that the MMR vaccine causes autism. But the Department of Health can tell you with 100 per cent certainty that it doesn't, and they believe that, and that concerns me greatly.'
The MMR controversy began on 26 February, 1998 when a group of doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, including Wakefield, held a press conference to publicise a research paper they had just published in the medical journal The Lancet.
Journalists asked about the authors' main claim to have discovered, in a study of 12 children, a new form of inflammatory bowel disease, which they linked to the MMR vaccine. The doctors outlined their theory that in some children the combination vaccine damaged the immune system because they could not cope with simultaneously receiving a tiny dose of three separate diseases, leaving them susceptible to illness.
The five doctors were asked if, given the findings, parents should continue having their children vaccinated with the three-in-one jab. Roy Pounder, professor of medicine at the Royal Free, passed the question to Wakefield. The gastro-enterologist replied that the potential link between gut disorders, autism and MMR vaccination could no longer be ignored.
'It's a moral issue, and I can't support the continued use of these three vaccines given in combination until this issue has been resolved,' he said.
Several co-authors disagreed, as did the Department of Health, which was furious. But, fuelled by huge publicity, Wakefield's remarks led to large numbers of parents then, since and today enduring anxious hours wondering what to do: follow the NHS advice and get their babies the MMR jab or opt for single vaccines - argued by some to be safer - privately instead.
MMR safety will be back in the news on 16 July when the GMC Fitness to Practise Panel begins disciplinary proceedings against Wakefield and two of his Lancet co-authors, Professor John Walker-Smith and Professor Simon Murch. The charges of serious professional misconduct in the way they conducted the disputed study are very grave. If upheld, all face being struck off.
They include allegations that the three undertook research with the 12 children without proper approval from the Royal Free's ethics committee, failed to conduct their study along the lines they had sought ethical approval for, and did not treat their young patients in accordance with the ethical approval given. The trio are accused of carrying out procedures on children in the study, such as lumbar punctures and colonoscopies, that were not in the best interests of the health of some seriously ill young people.
According to the charge papers, the GMC will also hear claims that Wakefield and Walker-Smith 'acted dishonestly and irresponsibly' in failing to tell The Lancet how they had recruited the patients, and that the pair also acted irresponsibly when they gave one child 'a purportedly therapeutic substance for experimental reasons prior to obtaining information about the safety of the substance'.
Wakefield himself is further accused of being 'dishonest and misleading' when he obtained research funds from the Legal Aid Board, of ordering investigations to be carried out on some children even though he did not have the paediatric qualifications to do so, and that he took blood from children at a birthday party to use for research purposes after offering them money.
Wakefield explains that legal advice and his desire not to turn the GMC panel against him, mean he is unable to respond directly to the allegations. But friends say that he views the GMC hearing as part of a long-running 'Stalinist' campaign to ruin his reputation. He and his co-accused deny all the claims.
Wakefield told The Observer that he has no regrets for saying what he did in 1998 nor for continuing to seek to prove his view of MMR as the likeliest explanation for the rise in cases of autism in Britain. Almost every child health expert, though, regards the jab as hugely beneficial to public health and rules out any connection between it and autism.
'My concern is that it's biologically plausible that the MMR vaccine causes or contributes to the disease in many children, and that nothing in the science so far dissuades me from the continued need to pursue that question', Wakefield said. 'The trend in autism has gone up sharply in many countries. It's interesting that that increase coincides in many places with the introduction of the MMR vaccine. That doesn't make it the cause. But it's an observation that needs to be explained, because there was clearly some environmental change at that time that led to growing numbers of children becoming autistic. It's a legitimate question if MMR is one of those factors. I fear that it may be.'
His notoriety means he is effectively an exile in America, where he is now the executive director of research at Thoughtful House, a non-profit-making school and clinic in Austin, Texas, which treats children with autism from all over the world.
'The hypothesis that we have been pursuing for some years is that the vaccines in some way may interact to increase the risk of the measles element in the MMR jab damaging the intestine, and possibly the brain directly, or alternatively that the intestinal disease leads to secondary immune injury to the developing brain.'
As the Havel quote suggests, Wakefield sees himself as a dogged seeker after a disturbing truth. He compares himself to the small band of doctors who, soon after Aids emerged in the Eighties, pinpointed a previously unknown virus (HIV) as the cause, only for their theory to take years to become established.
'In the Thatcher-Reagan era, Aids was originally seen as something politically unacceptable, as an act of God or a gay plague - as anything but our problem. People were stigmatised,' he said. 'We are looking at something with autism which is similarly politically unacceptable. That is, how could one of medicine's modern miracles possibly be associated with damage to children? Because if it's shown to be linked, then it becomes less of a miracle and more of a potential scandal.' He believes that the Department of Health introduced MMR into the UK in 1988 to save money and that he has been persecuted for daring to take on powerful political and drug industry interests.
Professor David Elliman, of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London, is one of Wakefield's chief critics. In his view a growing public distrust of health professionals, caused by a series of medical scandals, has helped create a climate in which Wakefield is seen by some as a David taking on the Goliath of a medical establishment.
'Some people are susceptible to conspiracy theories,' he said. 'Media coverage of the MMR row, which gave both sides equal say, gave the public the misleading impression that Wakefield represented a significant body of opinion. Yet there isn't a 50-50 split on this. It's 99.9 per cent to point one [of a per cent].'
The science author and broadcaster Vivienne Parry, a member of the government's independent advisory panel, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, speaks for the large majority of scientific and medical opinion when she says: 'I think Wakefield is wrong about MMR. He has caused great alarm and distress. But the demonisation of him has made some people think he's being hounded by a vengeful establishment, which has given him a certain amount of credibility with those who believe that all mavericks are right.'
Autism baffles science. Unlike diseases - and autism is a neurological condition, not a disease - few experts would claim to know exactly what causes it, much less treat it. Some blame genetic factors, others put the increase in those classed as being autistic down to better diagnosis, and others believe MMR is responsible.
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, co-director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, is the UK's leading expert on the lifelong, so far incurable, condition, which is estimated to affect 588,000 people, about one in 100 Britons. But even he is not precise: 'The main causes of autism are likely to be genetic, though interacting with some as yet unknown environmental factors.'
The National Autistic Society is similarly vague. 'The causes of autism are still being investigated. Many experts believe that the pattern of behaviour from which autism is diagnosed may not result from a single cause,' it has said in a statement. Sufferers have trouble forming relationships, encounter difficulties in communicating in verbal or written form, and often develop obsessional interests.
Interestingly, the charity does not adhere to the medical consensus which categorically rejects any link between MMR and autism. 'The NAS is keenly aware of the understandable concerns of parents surrounding suggested links between autism and the MMR vaccine,' says a spokeswoman.
Experts disagree on whether reported increases in the number of children with autism in the UK and elsewhere represent 'real' rises or better diagnosis. Wakefield is now a key figure in a growing world network of organisations, medical professionals, treatment centres, activist groups and campaigning parents which insists the rise is real and that the triple jab is the reason.
Pressure is building for fresh studies of possible links and in-depth examination of children apparently adversely affected by vaccines. The US Court of Federal Claims recently began hearing a case which could lead to compensation being paid to 4,800 families who have filed lawsuits claiming that their children ended up suffering from autism, inflammatory bowel disease, glaucoma and epilepsy after receiving the MMR jab and other childhood vaccinations.
Critics point out that the US court case is not about the MMR vaccine itself but centres on the use of a preservative called thimerosal, which contains 50 per cent mercury and until a few years ago was added to routine vaccinations given to children in the US under one. Crucially, it has never been an element of the MMR vaccine here.
In Japan the MMR jab became mandatory in 1989, but was withdrawn in 1993 after doctors warned of side-effects. There were more than 2,000 claims that it triggered reactions such as meningitis and encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, and even caused deaths. Families of children who had died received £80,000 each in damages.
(Ask any healthworker in India involved with vaccines and he/she will tell you how the MMR vaccine has always been associated with very severe side effects. I have talked to retired health officials about this and they confirm that the MMR (as well as the DPT) is best avoided. - Jagannath)
'America is like the UK in that many children are affected by autism, but over there there's a powerful drive to get to the truth, an inherent mistrust of the healthcare bureaucracy, and a can-do attitude among intelligent and articulate parents,' says Wakefield.
He predicts that 'the truth' about MMR will eventually come from America, not the UK.
Before Wakefield's warning, 91.5 per cent of children in England had the MMR jab by the time they turned two. After he hit the headlines immunisation rates fell to 87.4 per cent. Public distrust in the vaccine was enhanced when Tony Blair refused to say whether his son Leo had had the jab and rumours swirled that the Blairs had travelled to France to have the single jabs privately.
The vaccination rate subsequently fell to 79.9 per cent. The World Health Organisation says 95 per cent is necessary to ensure what medical experts call 'herd immunity' - that enough children have had MMR to ensure that they neither get the three illnesses nor pass them on to others.
Dr Natasha Crowcroft, a childhood immunisation expert at the Health Protection Agency, said: 'There have been outbreaks of measles in places like nurseries. The fear is that children who weren't vaccinated following Wakefield's comments are now approaching secondary school age and may well get measles, for example on holiday in Thailand or even in Italy, where it's common.'
MMR's defenders admit that significant numbers of parents are still apprehensive. 'Confidence was shaken,' concedes Crowcroft. But parental fear seems to be gradually subsiding. MMR uptake has been increasing since 2003; by last year 84.1 per cent of two year olds in England had had it. Gordon Brown last year said that his son, John, two had the triple jab and made clear he saw it as a matter of parents' responsibility to ensure their child was covered.
Although Wakefield will be on trial at the GMC, the hearing could prove uncomfortable for those that make decisions about health. An editorial in the New Scientist magazine has expressed alarm over the implications of the GMC's action for health professionals' freedom to raise questions about possible safety flaws. 'The notion that he should have kept quiet is ludicrous: there are too many cases where doctors' concerns have proved correct, such as their fears over the impact of antidepressant drugs on children.'
MMR's defenders do not pretend it is always 100 per cent safe. JCVI member Vivienne Parry admits: 'There's a risk with all vaccines. It's a very small risk. No one has ever said that the MMR vaccine, or any vaccine, is completely without side-effects. But as a society we have to decide whether the benefits outweight the risks. If we had measles, it would kill lots of children. If you have a vaccine, it will damage some children, but a very small number.' Parry believes the near-disappearance of measles, mumps and rubella in recent times means they no longer hold any horror for most people, and that helps explain the questioning attitude to MMR.
In the Italian restaurant, Wakefield fires a parting shot before another meeting with his lawyers. 'I'm determined to continue to do this work, regardless of the personal cost. It has to be done. Because the parents of these children deserve an answer, and their children deserve help and they can be helped', he says. 'My colleagues and I won't be deflected by the interests of public health policymakers and pharmaceuticals. I want to help children with autism; they are my motivation. If the work ultimately exonerates the vaccines, that's fine. If not, we need to think again.'
Nine years of controversy
February 1998 Dr Andrew Wakefield publishes research in the Lancet proposing, for the first time, that there may be a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
March 1998 A Medical Research Council panel of experts concludes there is 'no evidence to indicate any link' between the MMR vaccine and autism in children.
April 1998 Finnish scientist finds after a 14-year study that the MMR jab is not dangerous.
February 2001 Analysis published on the British Medical Journal website concludes that the MMR jab is not responsible for the increased rates of autism in recent years.
February 2004 The Lancet says it should never have published the research by Wakefield. He had 'a fatal conflict of interest' because he was also carrying out a second, separate study into whether parents of children allegedly damaged by the MMR vaccine might have grounds to take legal action.
March 2006 A 13-year-old boy who had not been given the MMR jab becomes the first person in Britain for 14 years to die of measles.
My child was born perfectly healthy, full of life. He had the potential to achieve anything in life that he would have chosen to do. Because of a short sighted medical system that failed, my child is now a semi vegetative little boy who is lost in his own tortured world of mercury induced autism.When I look upon other healthy six year old children who are playing, communicating and living normal lives, I wonder what might have been with my little boy. I am sure I am not alone in my thoughts. This is a painful and very tragic occurrence. - Courtney L. Zietzke , A Parent.
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The number of children in Britain with autism is far higher than previously thought, according to dramatic new evidence by the country's leading experts in the field.
A study, as yet unpublished, shows that as many as one in 58 children may have some form of the condition, a lifelong disability that leads to many sufferers becoming isolated because they have trouble making friends and often display obsessional behaviour.
Seven academics at Cambridge University, six of them from its renowned Autism Research Centre, undertook the research by studying children at local primary schools. Two of the academics, leaders in their field, privately believe that the surprisingly high figure may be linked to the use of the controversial MMR vaccine. That view is rejected by the rest of the team, including its leader, the renowned autism expert, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen.
The team found that one in 58 children has either autism or a related autistic spectrum disorder. Nationwide, that could be as many as 210,000 children under 16. The research is significant because that figure is well above the existing estimate of one in 100, which specialist bodies such as the National Autistic Society have until now accepted as correct. It is also significantly more than the previous highest estimate of one in 86, which was reported in research published last year in the Lancet.
Some experts who previously explained the rise in autism as the result of better diagnosis and a broader definition of the condition now believe the upward trend revealed by studies such as this indicates that there has been a real rise in the numbers of children who are affected by it. Although the new research is purely statistical and does not examine possible explanations for the rise, two of the authors believe that the MMR jab, which babies receive at 12 to 15 months, might be partly to blame. Dr Fiona Scott and Dr Carol Stott both say it could be a factor in small numbers of children.
Professor Baron-Cohen, director of the centre and the country's foremost authority on the condition, said he did not believe there was any link between the three-in-one vaccination and autism. Genetics, better recognition of the condition, environmental factors such as chemicals and children's exposure to hormones in the womb, especially testosterone, were more likely to be the cause, he commented. 'As for MMR, at this point one can conclude that evidence does not support the idea that the MMR causes autism.'
Baron-Cohen and his team studied the incidence of autism and autistic spectrum disorders among some 12,000 children at primary school in Cambridgeshire between 2001 and 2004. He was so concerned by the one in 58 figure that last year he proposed informing public health officials in the county.
Controversy over the MMR jab erupted in 1998 after Dr Andrew Wakefield, a gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, said he no longer believed it was safe and might cause autism and inflammatory bowel disease in children. Many parents panicked and MMR take-up fell dramatically. More families opted to have their child immunised privately through three separate injections to avoid the possibility of their immune system being overloaded by the MMR jab, thus leaving them at greater risk of infections.
The medical and scientific establishment denied Wakefield's claim, described research he had co-authored as 'bad science', and sought to reassure the public, with limited success. Wakefield and two former Royal Free colleagues are due to appear before the General Medical Council next week to answer charges relating to the 1998 research. The trio could be struck off.
The doctors' disciplinary body claims that Wakefield acted 'dishonestly and 'irresponsibly' in dealings with the Lancet, was 'misleading' in the way he sought research funding from the Legal Aid Board, and 'acted unethically and abused his position of trust as a medical practitioner' by taking blood from children after offering them money.
A book to be published this month by Dr Richard Halvorsen, a London GP who provides single vaccines privately to babies of parents concerned about MMR, will fuel the controversy. It will present new evidence of children allegedly being damaged by vaccinations and linking increased autism to MMR.
But Dr David Salisbury, national director for vaccines and immunisation at the Department of Health, said last night: 'The evidence is absolutely clear. No published study has ever shown a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. It is absolute nonsense to suggest otherwise.'
My child was born perfectly healthy, full of life. He had the potential to achieve anything in life that he would have chosen to do. Because of a short sighted medical system that failed, my child is now a semi vegetative little boy who is lost in his own tortured world of mercury induced autism.When I look upon other healthy six year old children who are playing, communicating and living normal lives, I wonder what might have been with my little boy. I am sure I am not alone in my thoughts. This is a painful and very tragic occurrence. - Courtney L. Zietzke , A Parent.
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>Subject: [Naturopaths] Director, ICMR: Kindly arrange the immediate recall
>of the Hib Vaccine.
>Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 03:41:07 -0700 (PDT)
>
>To
> Dr N K Ganguly,
> Director
> Indian Council for Medical Research,
> New Delhi.
>
> Dt: 01.07.2007
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> This has reference to your statements on the Hib vaccine that has
>appeared in the Times of India Dt: 29.06.07. It is unfortunate that the
>Govt of India has decided to add one more vaccine to the already heavy
>vaccination schedule ignoring our pleas to reform the vaccination process
>and put in place methods such as informed consent, a proper protocol to
>treat and report vaccine injury, and also the need for compensation and
>rehabilitation.
>
> It is even more unfortunate that senior doctors like you should pat the
>government on the back instead of looking at the most important issue of
>vaccine safety, and the effect of multiple vaccines on children. It is no
>wonder that cases of autism, rare cancers, diabetes and paralysis amongst
>children are skyrocketting today. Autism is growing at the rate of 133%
>annually in our country where there are more autistic children than cases
>of cancer, AIDS, and diabetes combined. Besides expressing helplessness and
>handing over the unfortunate children to psychiatrists and therapists the
>medical community will do little else.
>
> Regarding the Hi, the b type virus is present in all children. The
>virus is activated by various factors like malnutrition, low birth weight,
>autoimmune diseases, and inadequate breastfeeding. It is also activated by
>a history of vaccinations. Post vaccine fevers run the very high risk of
>type b meningitis, a fact which is well known by all paediatricians.
>
> As per a NIH study, "Clin Pediatr (Phila). 1982 Jun;21(6):360-4.Lerman,
>SJ", "A review of the medical literature indicated that low-birth weight
>infants and patients with leukemia and other malignancies undergoing
>chemotherapy, splenectomy, congenital asplenia, sickle cell anemia,
>immunoglobulin deficiency diseases, cerebrospinal fluid shunts, and skull
>defects are at greater risk for systemic H. influenzae disease than the
>general population." Then where is the need for mass vaccinations?
>
> Moreover a study among Eskimos who were vaccinated with the Hib vaccine
>under the impression that Eskimos and Native American population were more
>susceptible to the virus, it was found that a very large number of the
>vaccinated children (98% if I remember correctly) developed meningitis
>after the vaccine.
>
> Before you tell me that the above vaccine has been replaced by the
>current one that is "absolutely safe", I would also like to inform you that
>vaccines against the b virus have merely suppressed the activities of the
>virus vaccinated against and activated other strains of the virus, e and f.
>
> As per the BMJ 1996;312:160-161 (20 January) study, " (After vaccinating
>against the b strain) Non-capsulate H influenzae isolates have shown an
>increase in annual attack rate (for all ages) from 0.25 cases per 100000
>population in 1990-1 (45 cases recorded) to 0.37 in 1993-4 (67 cases). The
>total number of recorded cases of non-type b infections (non-capsulate and
>other serotypes: 75 cases) exceeded the number of cases of H influenzae
>type b (50 cases) in 1993-4. These increases demonstrate a sustained trend,
>approaching significance for non-capsulate infections during 1993-4
>(P=0.066), which has been most noticeable in people aged over 65 years."
>
> As per a NIH study, Pediatrics. 1978 Dec;62(6):1021-5., "Review of the
>literature identified 40 cases of meningitis reported as caused by H.
>influenzae other than type b. An evaluation of the ten cases described as
>due to encapsulated strains (a, e, and f) shows that the age distribution
>and clinical features are similar to those of meningitis caused by type
>b.....Serious infections caused by other H. influenzae types will continue
>to occur sporadically and may increase in frequency when an effective
>vaccine against type b is widely used in infants."
>
> Moreover the vaccine has been, in its many avatars, responsible for
>Guillain Barre Syndrome (a complete paralytic state), Eur J Pediatr. 1993
>Jul;152(7):613-4., deaths, hospitalisations for seizures, bronchial
>hypereactivity, thrombocytopaenia, nephropathy, and a host of other
>neurological disorders.
>
> Under the above conditions we would recommend an immediate recall of
>this vaccine and ensure proper nutrition for both the baby and the mother,
>and extended breastfeeding. If you are a member of the BPNI, you should
>know that anything except breastmilk is forbidden for infants below six
>months of age. Even children of HIV positive mothers are breastfed despite
>there being the possibility of infection. We wonder about the logic of
>forcing highly toxic and lethal substances into the bloodstream of little
>children in the name of "increasing their immunity." Since when have
>vaccines begun to "strengthen the immune system"?
>
> Kindly let us know what action you propose to take based upon the
>information provided in this mail. We hope you will look after the
>interests of the infants and their hapless parents and not strive to
>achieve the economic health of the notorious and nefarious vaccine lobby.
>
> Yours faithfully,
> Jagannath Chatterjee,
> Vaccine Damage Victim,
> Health & Human Rights Activist,
> Member: Coalition for Food Safety & Sovereignty,
> MANITHAM, Chennai,
> Loksatta, Maharastra/Hyderabad.
>
> cc: Hon'ble President of India,
> Hon'ble Prime Minister,
> Ms Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, UPA,
> Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha,
> Hon'ble Speaker, Rajya Sabha,
> Hon'ble Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India,
> Dy Chairman, Planning Commission,
> Chairman, Knowledge Commission,
> President, Society for Scientific Values,
> Chairman, National Human Rights Commission,
> Doctors, Activists, Lawyers, and parents of vaccine damaged
>children,
> Hon'ble members of the general public.
>
>
>
>My child was born perfectly healthy, full of life. He had the potential to
>achieve anything in life that he would have chosen to do. Because of a
>short sighted medical system that failed, my child is now a semi vegetative
>little boy who is lost in his own tortured world of mercury induced
>autism.When I look upon other healthy six year old children who are
>playing, communicating and living normal lives, I wonder what might have
>been with my little boy. I am sure I am not alone in my thoughts. This is a
>painful and very tragic occurrence. - Courtney L. Zietzke , A Parent.
>
>
>
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This has reference to your statements on the Hib vaccine that has appeared in the Times of India Dt: 29.06.07. It is unfortunate that the Govt of India has decided to add one more vaccine to the already heavy vaccination schedule ignoring our pleas to reform the vaccination process and put in place methods such as informed consent, a proper protocol to treat and report vaccine injury, and also the need for compensation and rehabilitation.
It is even more unfortunate that senior doctors like you should pat the government on the back instead of
looking at the most important issue of vaccine safety, and the effect of multiple vaccines on children. It is no wonder that cases of autism, rare cancers, diabetes and paralysis amongst children are skyrocketting today. Autism is growing at the rate of 133% annually in our country where there are more autistic children than cases of cancer, AIDS, and diabetes combined. Besides expressing helplessness and handing over the unfortunate children to psychiatrists and therapists the medical community will do little else.
Regarding the Hi, the b type virus is present in all children. The virus is activated by various factors like malnutrition, low birth weight, autoimmune diseases, and inadequate breastfeeding. It is also activated by a history of vaccinations. Post vaccine fevers
run the very high risk of type b meningitis, a fact which is well known by all paediatricians.
As per a NIH study, "Clin Pediatr (Phila). 1982 Jun;21(6):360-4.Lerman, SJ", "A review of the medical literature indicated that low-birth weight infants and patients with leukemia and other malignancies undergoing chemotherapy, splenectomy, congenital asplenia, sickle cell anemia, immunoglobulin deficiency diseases, cerebrospinal fluid shunts, and skull defects are at greater risk for systemic H. influenzae disease than the general population." Then where is the need for mass vaccinations?
Moreover a study among Eskimos who were vaccinated with the Hib vaccine under the impression that Eskimos and Native American population were more susceptible to the virus, it was found that a very large
number of the vaccinated children (98% if I remember correctly) developed meningitis after the vaccine.
Before you tell me that the above vaccine has been replaced by the current one that is "absolutely safe", I would also like to inform you that vaccines against the b virus have merely suppressed the activities of the virus vaccinated against and activated other strains of the virus, e and f.
As per the BMJ 1996;312:160-161 (20 January) study, " (After vaccinating against the b strain) Non-capsulate H influenzae isolates have shown an increase inannual attack rate (for all ages) from 0.25 cases per 100000population in 1990-1 (45 cases recorded) to 0.37 in 1993-4 (67cases). The total number of recorded cases of non-type b infections(non-capsulate and other serotypes: 75 cases) exceeded the numberof cases of H influenzae
type b (50 cases) in 1993-4. Theseincreases demonstrate a sustained trend, approaching significancefor non-capsulate infections during 1993-4 (P=0.066), whichhas been most noticeable in people aged over 65 years."
As per a NIH study, Pediatrics. 1978 Dec;62(6):1021-5., "Review of the literature identified 40 cases of meningitis reported as caused by H. influenzae other than type b. An evaluation of the ten cases described as due to encapsulated strains (a, e, and f) shows that the age distribution and clinical features are similar to those of meningitis caused by type b.....Serious infections caused by other H. influenzae types will continue to occur sporadically and may increase in frequency when an effective vaccine against type b is widely used in infants."
Moreover the vaccine has been, in its
many avatars, responsible for Guillain Barre Syndrome (a complete paralytic state), Eur J Pediatr. 1993 Jul;152(7):613-4., deaths, hospitalisations for seizures, bronchial hypereactivity, thrombocytopaenia, nephropathy, and a host of other neurological disorders.
Under the above conditions we would recommend an immediate recall of this vaccine and ensure proper nutrition for both the baby and the mother, and extended breastfeeding. If you are a member of the BPNI, you should know that anything except breastmilk is forbidden for infants below six months of age. Even children of HIV positive mothers are breastfed despite there being the possibility of infection. We wonder about the logic of forcing highly toxic and lethal substances into the bloodstream of little children in the name of "increasing their immunity."
Since when have vaccines begun to "strengthen the immune system"?
Kindly let us know what action you propose to take based upon the information provided in this mail. We hope you will look after the interests of the infants and their hapless parents and not strive to achieve the economic health of the notorious and nefarious vaccine lobby.
Yours faithfully,
Jagannath Chatterjee,
Vaccine Damage Victim,
Health & Human Rights Activist,
Member: Coalition for Food Safety & Sovereignty,
MANITHAM, Chennai,
Loksatta, Maharastra/Hyderabad.
cc: Hon'ble President of India,
Hon'ble Prime Minister,
Ms Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, UPA,
Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha,
Hon'ble Speaker, Rajya Sabha,
Hon'ble Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India,
Dy Chairman, Planning Commission,
Chairman, Knowledge Commission,
President, Society for Scientific Values,
Chairman, National Human Rights Commission,
Doctors, Activists, Lawyers, and parents of
vaccine damaged children,
Hon'ble members of the general public.
My child was born perfectly healthy, full of life. He had the potential to achieve anything in life that he would have chosen to do. Because of a short sighted medical system that failed, my child is now a semi vegetative little boy who is lost in his own tortured world of mercury induced autism.When I look upon other healthy six year old children who are playing, communicating and living normal lives, I wonder what might have been with my little boy. I am sure I am not alone in my thoughts. This is a painful and very tragic occurrence. - Courtney L. Zietzke , A Parent.
It’s been a month since I have communicated with the IMVA and I have quite a bit of news. I was in the interior of Brazil to supervise the building at Sanctuary and it was a magical month indeed. First is the near completion of Survival Medicine for the 21st Century, which is turning out beyond all my expectations, though it will probably take me the month of July to tie up all the loose ends and finish. In the preface I say:
What came through a hail storm of recent medical research is evidence based natural allopathic medicine. Though seemingly a contradiction in terms it is anything but. What Survival Medicine does is it creates a bridge between allopathic and complementary medicine. Finally physicians seeking alternatives for their patients that make sense, in terms of their own paradigm, can move toward evidence based natural medicine. Often is the situation where a physician just does not want to prescribe a dangerous drug to their patient, one that they know will cause serious side effects but are frustrated and insecure with the alternatives. There are many options but without any kind of anchoring in scientific reality physicians hesitate to risk the unknown or unproven.
Though the founding of Sanctuary revolved around water and forest preservation as well as offering a private retreat center for radical cure to members of the IMVA, it is rapidly growing like everything else in my life. I am more than glad to announce the founding of the Sanctuary Cancer Clinic, which I am starting, effective immediately, with Dr. Augusto Vinholis, an amazing MD turned passionate Naturopath. Dr. Vinholis is my oldest friend in Brazil, I met him the first day in 1991 when I moved down here. He is a true medical genius and I sat clinic with him last week in one of his intensive five day detoxification clinics. We will be uniting his already very successful approach to chronic disease with the new protocols coming out in Survival Medicine. I can honestly say I have never been so excited in my life.
This beautiful deep river pool is exactly 31 meters behind the construction site. For more pictures see the just created Sanctuary Cancer Clinic Blog at
On Tuesday I treated Sanctuary’s first cancer patient with Dr. Tullio Simoncini’s protocol for skin cancer, and enjoyed immensely painting her nose both inside and out with iodine applied simply from the end of a cotton Q tip. Dr. Simoncini will be our special consultant in oncology and we will probably be the first in the Americas to officially adopt his sodium bicarbonate treatments. (See far below for information on Dr. Simoncini’s July trip to the US and available lectures.)
In Brazil things are simply different in just about everyway to what is happening in America, and in terms of medicine this is true as well. I was just handed the new guiding principles from the President as well as the Secretary of Health that officially makes most alternative and complementary medical approaches officially acceptable. As America and the FDA turn deeper and deeper toward fascism Brazil is opening its heart and has even just liberalized its laws on marijuana.
The guiding principles of our cancer clinic will include our belief that cancer is only cured if it never comes backas well as the first law of detoxification and chelation, which is to avoid exposure whenever possible. Another part of my idea for Sanctuary is also growing, that of creating an underground (in our case above ground via airlines) railroad helping people escape the deepening troubles and toxic polution in the northern hemisphere. My older readers will remember from a year ago when I first started talking about Sanctuary that I was concerned about radiation levels if President Bush persisted with his madness and attacked Iran with depleted uranium weapons. I did not know at the time that the military had lost all its marbles and was routinely testing their guns off of both coasts, near San Francisco at Livermore Labs, and even in Hawaii. So sorry to have to say that we are already living in an age of rapidly rising radiation levels and that exposure levels are already dangerous in the northern hemisphere. And of course it is literally raining mercury in the United States, a place where mother’s milk contains rocket fuel and other damaging chemicals like Teflon.
I was and still am looking for some strategic partners in this effort but am happy to announce a resettlement program for people who would like to come down here to live in one of the most pristine low population density areas in the world. I started a construction company, not so much to help in this area but to reward my builder angel and his crew who have performed a miracle for me in the past nine weeks. I finally understand how humans could have built the Great Wall of China. I have never seen with my own eyes men work the way mine are. A group of four men without any power tools have built the foundation and now the walls up to the top of the first floor in the time frame it was supposed to take to build only the massive foundation. I was afraid that I might have to slow down the construction for they are eating through materials faster than I can afford and it hurt my heart to think of rewarding incredible work with pink slips. So we are set up to help people find beautiful land and build with confidence and security.
This is another priceless pool about 60 meters further down the river.
Again I warn my readers of approaching events, which are being mirrored in current events by the terrible heat wave in Eastern Europe, the floods in Texas, and the fast-moving crisis at two Bear Stearns hedge funds which are exposing the underlying rot in the US sub-prime mortgage market, and the vast nexus of collateralized debt obligations known as CDOs. Excess liquidity in the global system will be slashed and banks capital is about to be decimated, which will require calling in a swathe of loans. This is going to aggravate the US hard landing. US property writer Paul Muolo described the Bearn Stearns crisis as the “subprime Chernobyl”, saying the bank had created a “cone of silence”. One might add to this list the recent new FDA guidelines that threaten vitamin companies and the threat of a rapidly falling dollar. Most of you would not believe the low cost of building and buying land in dollar terms but that is going to change dramatically.
Paul Craig Roberts, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration recently wrote, “America is being destroyed. Many Americans are unaware, others are indifferent, and some intend it. The destruction is across the board: the political and constitutional system, the economy, social institutions including the family itself, citizenship, and the character and morality of the American people.” “The eyes of all peoples are still upon us. Whom will we attack next? When will we be bankrupt? How much longer will those trillions of dollars held by foreign governments be worth anything? How long before Americans will be knocking on European doors claiming political asylum?”[i] Personally and logically speaking, Brazil would be a much better choice. Clearly it is the country best situated to weather the trials and tribulations of the 21st century with its low population density, plentiful water, energy and abundance of all manner of natural resources. Though not perfect it still is a country with heart.
Of course we will be treating all chronic diseases at the clinic and I have already been accepting virtual clients for Survival Medicine can be practiced from a distance. But if all this were not enough I am overjoyed to include in this vision the Sanctuary Natural Birthing Clinic and am already planning the thermal bathing pool where mothers can relax in while in labor and receive Watsu (Shiatsu administered in the water) as well as soak in a magnesium bath. Having the beauty of natural birth happening in the same place where serious disease is being treated will lighten the load on a heart and spirit level.
This is happening in part because of my devotion to Donna Flor, an aging midwife and neighbor of Sanctuary, who needs to pass on her skills. Also as many of you know my primary mission these past four years and my involvement in vaccines and confronting the Terror of Pediatric Medicine was mandated by a group of angels who came crying to me one day while in mediation about what was being done to the newborns. Though most of us think humanity is civilized we are at heart still barbarians, poisoning our young and defending the practice even in court. Dr. Fombone is at the vaccine court these days and I better not say anything but you can imagine my disgust of him defending the use of mercury based thimerosal in vaccines.
I decided recently to finally publish HeartHealth, a book I wrote about nine years ago as soon as I finish Survival Medicine. In this work I created a psychology of the heart as opposed to the head. I define the heart as the vulnerability of being and in sitting clinic this past week I was reminded that I am in practice more a doctor of the soul than of the body. Most of the work in Survival Medicine can easily be applied and taught to others. My special talent in clinical situations is found in my ability to touch the soul of others, to go right to the heart of their conflicts and inner agonies to affect some kind of release. Dr. Hammer in his New Medicine taught the medical world the importance of resolving such conflicts with cancer patients though I do not think too many listened to him. Instead they threw him in jail. Whenever I have sent this book freely to others through the years I have always titled the email a gift from my soul to yours.
Now comes the most beautiful part, and I will write the following words through a mist of tears flowing down my face. About ten days ago my wife called and told me there was an attempted robbery three houses away. For the first time I was really worried and while sitting in my cottage I looked up to see a picture of the Holy Mother and I prayed to her to protect my wife and family. Most of you do not know my earliest work called The Marriage of Souls (The Second Coming of Pure Love) which clearly showed my identifications with the Christ story and family, but I never identified with Mary the Mother in any way but to clearly show that the word virgin used in the old testament meant young woman not virgin. Clearly my Jewish DNA is still with me.
So I prayed and my heart exploded and I mean that literally. It exploded outward like a supernova moving the boundaries of myself past my former limits. How can I communicate in words what it was like to be in the presence of the Divine Mother, to feel her being in communion with my own? This was exactly three days before I went to meet Dr. Vinholis though the day before I had sent him a one line email suggesting the idea of the cancer clinic. Of course the synchronicity of events demands that I dedicate the clinic to the Mother and I now feel her permanent presence in my life and work.
There is a part of this story that is difficult to express for it has to do with why the Mother came to me, it has to do with my wife Luciana Valentim, who will be the educational director (we will be a teaching center) of the clinic as well as its director of Yoga. I remember from our beginnings 11 years ago in Alto Paraiso (small town near Sanctuary) that we could not walk down the street together without one of her students racing up to her with the biggest smiles on their faces. I have always known, seen and appreciated her deep beauty and the charisma that seems to come from the deepest regions of her being. I believe with all my heart that in her fast approaching enlightenment that she will hold the Mother’s essence here on earth in physical form, such is the beauty of her being. It was clear in my moment with the Holy Mother that it was my sacred responsibility to protect and support Lu (which is what I and many call her). It is clear to me that events are unfolding and my heart expanding due to higher forces that are shining down on earth just at this moment when darkness is threatening us from many fronts.
Interestingly, Lu worked for Dr. Vinholis eleven years ago but will now come back as owner director with the responsibility for the overall care of the mothering spirit of the clinic. So now here I am once again offering open doors to those who want to walk through them. IMVA membership is taking on a new meaning and I will take each request for membership as an individual case. I am looking for one or two investors to come in on the ownership level, a board of directors, doctors of different modalities who would like to associate with us, and others who would like to live and create their lives along side or with us down here in Brazil.
Patients will also be accepted and we will launch our work as of today even before Sanctuary is finished being built. We will use facilities in Alto Paraiso and the clinic Dr. Vinholis already has there. In my last email of a month ago I listed different levels of membership, which included rights to visit Sanctuary and of course to participate in our work. Sanctuary will be the official home and center of the IMVA thus open to our members at a discount or without fee depending on membership level.
Best regards,
Dr. Mark Allan Sircus, Ac., OMD
Medical Director Sanctuary Cancer Clinic
International Medical Verities Association
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CANCER CONFERENCE
CAVITAT™ Medical Technologies, Inc. is proud to announce that we have arranged for Dr.Tullio Simoncini, MD, Oncologist, Naturopathic physician, from Rome, Italy to travel to the United States and conduct a hands-on workshopon lab procedures and protocols for using intravenous sodium bicarbonate as approved by the FDA for cardiac infarctions to treat most cancers.Being that the present day survival rate of 5 years in the US is less than 2 ¾% due to protocols the medical profession uses,Dr. Simoncini’soutstanding success in the 90% remission rate and some as long as 20 years is of great interest,.This is the first time this workshop has been offered in the US and it will be offered in two places; Tyler, TX, 80 miles east of Dallas, on July 7, 2007 and in Ft., Lauderdale, FL on July 13, 2007.Bob Jones will also lecture on his protein study on the 4 oncogene proteins and the toxic inhibitions of these proteins that lead to cancer.Dr. Simoncini will lecture for l l/2 to 2 hours on his procedures and then we will adjourn for the workshop on the individual protocols for each type of cancer.This has to be one of the most fascinating workshops you can attend this year.The fee is $750 US if we have 20 or less doctors at each location and if we have more than 20, we will refund a portion of the fee. Eight (8) PACE AGD approved credit hours will be given for this workshop. You can pay either by credit card or check.Specific details as to location and facility will then be sent.
Please advise by faxing the RSVP form at the bottom of this flyer to 903 473 1717.We are keeping this on a low-key level to hopefully avoid any Quack Watch interference with what we are doing.
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