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Mercury Levels in Autistic Children

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A new study just came out that showed the level of mercury in autistic children is about the same and not statistically different than, the amount of mercury in non-autistic children.

Now, before you jump to conclusions and say,

"Ah, I knew it.  Mercury’s not a factor. "

You are Wrong. 

You have to look at it from this perspective: 

Why is mercury affecting the autistic kids differently than the non-autistic kids? 

That’s the question you have to answer.  I’m going to tell you. 

I think it boils down to the fact that these kids that are being affected by the mercury, they’re having an immune system reaction to it.  Mercury will definitely stimulate your immune system.f

The reason why aluminum and mercury are in vaccines is because they a foreign compound and your immune system recognizes it as an invader.  That’s what makes those vaccines work "better.' Because mercury and aluminum don’t belong in your system and your immune system wants to kill them. 

Now, in this subset of kids that are being affected by mercury levels, they’ve got something else going on. 

There’s something else that’s made their immune system hyper-recognize it, and that needs to be investigated. 

They may have already had a predisposition for it... but it's like an  immunological nuclear bomb when these kids get vaccinated.

It’s not necessarily, not necessarily the metals that are causing the problems.  The fact that their immune system is being  put on crack for a couple of days post-vaccination...their immune system can mistakenly recognize their own tissues as invaders. 

Once that happens, you don’t turn that off.  That doesn’t stop.  Only thing you can do is try to control it.  I’ve certainly seen that in my practice and a lot of kids like that. 

So, when you see this study and you see people bandying about this idea that  mercury’s not an issue because this study showed that the level of mercury in autistic kids and non-autistic kids is the same...don’t believe that.  .

What you say back to them is .. "Why are some of these kids being affected by mercury and some aren’t?" 

For me that answer, starts with their immune system.  They may have had a preexisting imbalance in their immune system.  (We can talk about that more some other day. ) Or, they had a pre-existing barrier problem either in their brain or their gut or their lung.

 Don’t be fooled when somebody tries to say, “See, I told you so,” because they’re wrong.

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Don't Be Fooled By Drug Company's New Autism Unit

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Well, it finally happened. 

A drug giant has opened an autism unit to try to find new uses for current medications for autism.

Get ready. 

I mean, get ready because the Pandora’s Box just got opened. 

There’s a lot of press on this about how great Pfizer is.  Maybe I shouldn’t have said that, but what the heck.  It’s public record.  ...How great Pfizer is for opening up this new wing in their company.  The guys that are running it have kids that are autistic. 

I’ve got news for you.  Most kids, in fact, I’m gonna say 92 percent of the kids that I’ve ever seen in my practice that tried any medication ....did not do well on it. 

Why?  Because that is not the problem.  You can try all day long to find medications to make them less aggressive, less anxious, less socially withdrawn....but it’s gonna take a long time to ever find one that’ll ever come close without horrible side effects.

Okay, let’s take a deep breath and realize for a second that we’re talking about a drug company that makes billions of billions of dollars.  I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I’ve got to tell you, I don’t really think that they probably have the most altruistic of motives. Because if you know anything about autism. there are thousands and thousands and thousands of those kids being diagnosed every year.  That’s a great market for Pfizer, isn’t it? 

I’m sure they’d like to find a new use for current medications and get those kids taking Paxil and Prozac and all this other stuff. 

And here’s the thing....

Probably a small percentage of those kids will respond to them.  The vast majority won’t.  In fact, the vast majority will respond negatively to those medications because that’s not the problem. 

The problem is they have a functional neurological imbalance, most often involving a weakness or a malfunction on the right side of their brain. 

Combined with that, almost every one of them has metabolic problems. 

....blood sugar disturbances. 

.....inflammation in the brain.

...GI inflammation. 

...detoxification problems. 

...autoimmune conditions. 

Those drugs aren’t gonna do anything for these.  They’re gonna do nothing for these problems. 

So, I don’t mean to knock the shine off of the pretty new press release and the ribbon cutting ceremony they had...but...

...the real drug trials on autistic kids are gonna happen real soon, folks.---When they start giving these current (old) medications to some autistic kids and see how they respond.  The kids are gonna be the canary in the coal mine. 

Don’t believe the hype.  (Hopefully, I don’t sound like I’m being hype.)  I’m trying to tell you the real deal here. 

Pfizer....not real sure about their motives.  In fact, I’m real sure I don’t trust them at all.

These are the same people that made some of the vaccines that actually damaged some of these kids, so I kind of think they’re trying to get it from both sides.  You know? 

"We make a product; we try to ram it down your throat."

-->The vaccines cause an immunological assault against your kid, that is certainly a factor in autism. 

"Oh, and by the way, we’ve got some medications over here that could address some of the symptoms that we caused by that." 

-->You’re kind of getting it from both ends there, aren’t you? 

That’s it for me today.  I just had to rant for a second.

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California's Autism Rates & Environmental Chemicals

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Let’s talk about the skyrocketing rates of autism in California. 

Now, if you’ve been following this at all, you know that over the last, ten, fifteen years, it’s like quadruple and quintuple the rates of autism being diagnosed in boys. 

Some of the naysayers and the people that really don’t believe that autism can be helped or that their vaccines and other things aren’t really an issue, they like to say things like,

“Oh, well there’s more kids obviously because there’s better counting,”

or,

“There’s better diagnosis now.” 

Well, a comprehensive study conducted in California by the University of Berkeley showed that...guess what?... that ain’t it. 

The rates of autism that we’ve seen in California, that can’t be explained by better counting and better diagnosis. 

This is the key quotation that I want to focus on here today. One of the authors says,

“It is time to start looking for the environmental culprits.” 

That’s huge! ...Because finally we’ve got in the research literature, somebody saying on a very grand scale that the environment has a major role to play in Autism.

Let’s define "environment" because we’re not just talking about the sky and the air.  We’re talking about everything that the child is exposed to. 

For me, I define environment as what happens to mom and what happens once that baby’s born. 

What we have to start looking at is the fact that there are millions-- if not hundreds of thousands-- of chemicals in that child’s environment. 

We don’t have any idea what they can do to a body. 

We don’t know how they interact with each other.  We have no idea...except-- actually we do. 

We do have a couple of good ideas.  We know that BPA or Bisphenol A will definitely affect a child’s behavior.  We know that lead will make a child mentally retarded. 

We know certain chemicals are taking horrible tolls on the brain--- they certainly couldn’t be better if they were in combination. 

So as one of the authors bravely stated... it’s time to start looking for environmental culprits,---I couldn’t agree more.

What they’re missing there, though, is that there obviously has to be in some of these kids a predisposition for these chemicals to affect them.  Because there are some kids that we can expose to all these horrible things and they seem to develop normally, even 15, 20, 35 years into adulthood. 

Other kids get exposed to that and they do not develop normally. 

So we know that genetics does play a role too, but that’s not the only thing.  (So trying to define the genetic reason for autism is probably gonna be a fruitless endeavor. )

The point is there’s a lot of factors that go into whether a child develops the problems of Autism.  The reason I’m even talking about these factors is because knowing what factors are involved for that child can tell you how to help that child. 

The bottom line is, every kid that gets diagnosed with autism, Asperger’s, PDD, anything on the spectrum, they’ve got two problems. 

1. They have a neurological problem

2. They have a metabolic problem. 

They’re actually intertwined.  They don’t just have this one by itself or the other one by itself. 

The problem is, most doctors that these kids go see--and everybody means well.  Everybody wants these kids to be better---but no one is really taking a step back and saying,

“Hey, let’s look at the neurological and the metabolic at the same time,”

This why I used Clark Brain-Based Rehab®, that trademarked system that I developed.

I investigate metabolic factors along with the neurological ones.

How is their liver?  Are they anemic?  Can they detoxify?  What’s their intestinal environment like?  Autoimmune?

You have to look at all those things and you have to look at them all at the same time. 

I think it’s fantastic that someone in the research community has finally denounced and debunked this idea that, “Oh, well in California it’s just because they count better.  That’s why there’s all these kids that have autism.” 

No. ... It’s because the environment has outpaced our ability to keep up with it. 

You follow what I’m saying, right? 

That little child, whether he’s in the womb or been born... he and she cannot keep up with how their environment has changed.  Our human bodies can’t do it and the idea that it’s strictly a genetic problem is "crap." 

I guess that’s the scientific way to put it. 

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