Tim O'Shea, D.C.
Inquiry into vaccine safety is exploding
like never before, even in the popular press. Research coming from dozens of
mainstream medical studies can no longer be easily suppressed, as it has been in
the past, especially with the prevalence of online information exchange.
On 15-17 Sep 00, some 2000 people, mostly
MDs, assembled at the Town and Country resort in San Diego to hear the latest
research on autism. Following the Apr 00 Congressional hearings on autism and
vaccines, this epidemic can no longer be ignored. The figure of one autistic
infant for every 150 is now widely documented. (Bernard, Megson)
Such celebrity unsheathes the usual
double-edged sword:
-
the focus of research on the causes of autism
-
the hawking of allopathic as well as
Alternative
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lite cures for autism
Both were well-represented in this
gathering. Nevertheless, some critically significant information emerged from
this confused assembly, chiefly in the presentations of three of the lecturers:
- Stephanie Cave, MD
- Amy Holmes, MD
- Andrew Wakefield, MD
Cave presented some very enlightening data
on mercury toxicity, drawn largely from the brilliant work of Sallie Bernard.
Cave explained how by age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of
mercury through vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA 'safe' levels of
.1 mcg/kg. per day. That's one tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.
Three days in particular may be singled out
as spectacularly toxic:
Day of birth: hepatitis B - 12 mcg mercury
30x safe level
At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50
mcg
60x safe level
At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg
mercury
78x safe level
Then at 15 months the child receives
another 50 mcg, equivalent to 41x safe level. These figures are calculated for
an infant's average weight in kilograms for each age. (Nathan)
These one-day blasts of mercury are called
"bolus doses." (Halsey) Although they far exceed 'safe' levels, there
has never been any research conducted on the toxicity of such bolus doses of
mercury given to infants all these years. (Hepatitis Control Report, 1999)
Inconceivable.
Historically, the toxicity of mercury has
been known for more than a century. Mad Hatters were more than a fantasy from
Alice in Wonderland. Mad Hatter's disease has been well known in England since
the mid 1800s. Hat makers would routinely go mad as a result of inhaling the
vapors from the mercury-based stiffening compound they used on felt to make top
hats. (Bernard)
SOURCES OF MERCURY
It is interesting to learn that common
household remedies that were used up into the 1960s like mercurochrome and
"teething powder" were often the cause of acute mercury poisoning and
disease.
In the U.S., EPA mercury toxicity studies
have involved contamination from fish, air, and other environmental sources.
This is inorganic, or elemental mercury. In the body inorganic mercury can
become organic, usually as methylmercury.
Methylmercury has long been associated with
serious neurological disorders, demyelinating diseases, gut disease, and visual
damage. (Merck)
The mercury in vaccines, however, is in the
form of thimerosal. Once in the body, thimerosal is converted to a much more
powerful organic form: ethylmercury. (Bernard)
Thimerosal is far more toxic than
methylmercury. Reasons for this include:
· Injected mercury is far more toxic than
ingested
· No blood brain barrier in infants
· Mercury accumulates in brain cells and
nerves
· Infants don't produce bile, which is
necessary to excrete mercury
· Thimerosal is organic mercury. Once in
nerve tissue, it is converted irreversibly to its inorganic form
- Autism: A Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning
Bernard patiently explains that the reason
thimerosal is a much more toxic form of mercury than one would get from eating
open-sea fish has to do with the difficulty of clearing thimerosal from the
blood. Ethylmercury has a major preference for nerve cells.
Without a complete blood-brain barrier, an
infant's brain and spinal cord are sitting ducks. Once in the nerve cells,
mercury is actually changed back to the inorganic form, where it becomes tightly
bound, and unable to cross back out through the blood brain barrier. (Pederson,
1999). Mercury can then remain for years, like a time-release capsule, causing
permanent degeneration and death of brain cells in an unpredictable fashion.
And this is how mercury can be the original
and unidentifiable cause of virtually any permanent neurological disease that
mysteriously pops up later in life.
Bernard also notes that the body normally
clears mercury by fixing it to bile. But before six months of age, infants don't
produce bile. Result: mercury can't be excreted. (Koos and Longo, 1976)
Four separate government agencies have set
safe levels for methylmercury, but no safe levels have ever been set for
thimerosal, because thimerosal isn't included in toxicity studies! (Egan, 1999)
Theoretically, that means that the above
excesses of safe levels of mercury on the single days listed above are actually
much higher!
Does the fact that the mercury is
accompanied by a vaccine somehow place it above scrutiny?
Sallie Bernard's exhaustive, landmark study
of vaccines and mercury toxicity - Autism: A Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning -
was probably the main reason that even Congress began to see the obvious
connection between them.
MERCURY AND VACCINES
Here's a curious coincidence. Autism was
discovered in the late 1930s by Leo Kanner. Kanner noted that autism was a brand
new type of condition, totally different from any other type of mental disorder.
(Bernard) So when was thimerosal introduced into vaccines? The 1930s.
A few years ago, Bernard and her associates
began to notice a striking similarity between the symptoms of autism and the
symptoms of mercury poisoning. The more research they did, the more it seemed
that these two diseases were virtually identical. Their many carefully-wrought
comparison charts demonstrate this identity beyond all doubt.
Autism and mercury poisoning both damage
the same systems in almost exactly the same way:
- brain and nerve cells
- gastrointestinal
- eyes
- muscle control
- cognition
- immune
- speech
Although mercury toxicity has been studied
for decades, and EPA safety levels had been set, and the EPA did a massive
review in 1999 of all prior mercury toxicity studies, during that entire time a
child's greatest exposure to mercury – thimerosal in vaccines – was never
even included in the toxicity studies!
All they have ever talked about was
methylmercury from seafood and the environment, totally ignoring the two most
toxic sources of mercury for children: vaccines and dental amalgams.
Reason: the EPA has no jurisdiction over
drugs. That's the FDA's job. This is why vaccines and amalgams don't even figure
into the equation when it comes to setting 'safe' levels of mercury.
But the FDA does have jurisdiction over
drugs and drug companies, right? And other drug company publications, like the Merck
Manual, which is the standard cookbook/catalogue for drugs and diseases,
found in every doctor's office in the world. Surely the FDA, as the government
agency charged with safeguarding the nation's health, would want the section on
mercury toxicity to warn doctors about the two biggest sources for children:
thimerosal and dental amalgams, wouldn't you think?
Yet looking at the most current edition of
the Merck Manual, (1999), in the section on mercury poisoning (p 2636),
thimerosal and dental amalgams again are not even mentioned!
How can this be, when mercury is widely
acknowledged as the third most deadly toxin in the world (Pilgrim) and
thimerosal and amalgams dwarf the trace amounts of mercury from fish and other
environmental sources of mercury?
Sniff – sniff…only one thing can put a
blackout of information over an entire area of study for years at a time in this
way – big money.
Such an omission probably wouldn't have
anything to do with the revolving door that exists between the FDA, the EPA, the
NIH, and the sweet positions held by their members before and after those
grueling years of public service… Or with the 800 waivers of the conflict of
interest rule that the FDA has granted in the past two years to
"experts" who are paid consultants to the drug companies, consultants
who are also members of the FDA Advisory committees that make decisions about
whether or not to approve vaccines and drugs…(USA Today, 25 Sep 00) No, of
course not…
SOAKING UP THE MERCURY
In the San Diego conference on autism, Dr.
Amy Holmes gave perhaps the only lucid presentation about treatment. She
explained how chelating drugs, which go through the blood like PacMan, munching
up mercury, alone don't do much good for autism. That's because most mercury
clears from the blood very soon. Mercury in thimerosal is stored in the gut,
liver, and brain where it becomes very tightly bound to the cells. Once inside
those cells, or inside the blood brain barrier, the mercury is reconverted back
to its inorganic form. Locked into these cells, the mercury can then do either
immediate cell damage or else become latent and cause the onset of autism, brain
disorders, or digestive chaos years later.
This is also the mechanism of autoimuune
neurological disorders, like MS and Guillame Barre. The body attacks its own
neurons. Forever.
Dr. Holmes reports good success using alpha
lipoic acid as an agent that can cross the blood brain barrier to soak up
mercury. Once the mercury is brought back into the bloodstream, standard
chelators like DMSA can theoretically take it out.
Dr. Holmes has used her protocol on about
300 autistics so far, and shows consistent increase in IQ scores.
The problem with pretending that autism is
a treatable disease, however, is that mercury remains in the brain for years
after exposure. Triggering an autoimmune response against the contaminated
neurons, these brain cells will continue to be attacked even in the unlikely
event that all traces of mercury can actually be removed. (Hu, 1997)
The reality is that fully 3/4s of autistics
become institutionalized and are permanently unable to live independently.
(Bernard)
FDA: PROTECTOR OF WHOM?
In the face of all this new awareness, it
was astounding that in Jul 00, the FDA came out with the parallel-universe
pronouncement that "vaccines have safe levels of mercury." Especially
after their 1998 position that
"… over-the-counter drug products
containing thimerosal and other mercury forms "are not generally recognized
as safe and effective" (FDA, 1998). -- – Bernard
As if there were any doubt who's really
running the show, inconceivable also is the impotence of FDA's request to the
vaccine manufacturers to discontinue the use of thimerosal in vaccines. (MMWR, 9
July 1999) Request. The same month, the CDC added its mousy suggestion of the
same thing – hey guys, uh, since all these kids are turning into vegetables
and uh, most of our researchers know it's the mercury, uh, would you mind not
putting any more thimerosal in your vaccines, please? No hurry, though. Whenever
you're ready… No need to dump all those batches of vaccine just because people
are finding out it's the mercury that's destroying these autistic children's
brain cells… (CDC, July 1999, Nov 1999)
The members of the FDA who decide which
vaccines get approved make up the Advisory Board. In his recent House
investigation on vaccines, Rep. Dan Burton found out that financial statements
of Advisory Board members are "incomplete." Noting that this is the
only branch of government that allows incomplete financials, in Sep 00 Burton
called the Advisory Board's sweetheart arrangements with the vaccine
manufacturers a "violation of the public trust."
This includes 70% of Advisory Board members
owning stock in vaccines, owning patents on vaccines, and accepting salaries and
benefits as employees of the drug companies. (McGinnis, Burton)
A MATTER OF TRUST
Still think you can trust the government or
your physician with your children's blood? Despite the facts and events cited
above, consider this joint statement of the US Public Health Services and The
American Academy of Pediatrics on 7 Jul 99:
"There is a significant safety margin
incorporated into all the acceptable mercury exposure limits. There are no data
or evidence of any harm caused by the level of exposure that some children may
have encountered in following the existing immunization schedule….Infants and
children who have received thimerosal-containing vaccines do not need to be
tested for mercury exposure"
---- (MMWR, vol 45, 1999)
These are blatant Orwellian distortions. No
harm? What about the autism epidemic, and all the evidence linking it with
mercury, cited above? What about the single day doses of mercury cited above
that are dozens of times in excess of EPA's own safety levels? And if everything
is so safe, then why did they ask the vaccine pushers to kindly discontinue
thimerosal from vaccines as soon as possible, at the end of this same statement?
It is beyond the scope of this chapter to
really go into the politics of mercury. In researching mercury toxicity, a whole
area of dry-rot has been unearthed which deserves its own chapter. (http://www.thedoctorwithin.com:
The New Agenda of American Dentistry
This is the shocking story of how the
American Dental Association and the California Dental Association have been
systematically hiding the truth about mercury toxicity in fillings for decades.
'Silver' fillings aren't just silver. They're 50% mercury, and they're extremely
toxic, and every dentist knows it. (www.altcorp.com) (http://www.amalgam.org/)
In a ludicrous blast of irony, both the ADA
and the CDA have inserted into their 'code of ethics' strict commandments
forbidding dentists from ever revealing to patients the realities of mercury
toxicity. No dentist is allowed to recommend removal of mercury amalgams for
health reasons, nor may tell the patient about mercury toxicity even if the
patient asks. This gag order has been in place since the beginning of American
dentistry.
Exaggeration? Check their websites out: http://www.amalgam.org/#anchor69176
http://www.amalgam.org/#anchor69541
Think dentists put mercury into their own
families' teeth? Ask them.
Anyone who is not a dentist is not
constrained by the Inquistorial gag order imposed on American dentists by the
ADA against telling patients what any perceptive researcher in the field of
mercury toxicity already knows – that no children should ever get mercury
amalgam fillings.
LAUGHINGSTOCK OF THE WEST
With media circuses featuring clowns like
OJ, Bill Clinton, the little Cuban boy, and the Bush/Gore twins, America has
long been the home entertainment center for most of Europe. So it was no
surprise when at the San Diego conference, two of the presenters expressed the
same sentiment – Dr. Stejskal of Sweden and Dr Shattock of Great Britain –
noting how researchers across Europe are generally appalled at the massive
amounts of vaccines given to American children under two years old.
Although Europeans are not as obsessed with
vaccines as we are, they do vaccinate. But most of Europe gives very few
vaccinations to children under two years old, primarily because of the unformed
gut, immune system, and blood brain barrier. This intellectual isolation of ours
regarding vaccines is a tribute to the suffocating brain control exerted on us
by the popular press and all media. Sheep to the slaughter, we don't know enough
to be appalled by our own ignorance.
AUTISTIC GUT
Headlining the September 00 San Diego
Conference was Andrew Wakefield, the British surgeon whose shocking new
discoveries show that mercury toxicity alone is not the only factor linking
vaccines with the autism epidemic. Dr. Wakefield's research centers around the
MMR vaccine – measles/mumps/rubella – which does not contain thimerosal.
Expanding on his presentation at the Apr 00
Burton congressional hearings, Dr. Wakefield explained how at least ¾ of
autistics have pathologically blocked bowels, due to the huge swelling of the
tissue lining the intestine. In virtually every autistic patient they examined,
this lymphoid nodular hyperplasia is both an immune response and an autoimmune
response which Wakefield and O'Leary have clearly linked to the presence of
measles virus from the MMR shot. No other virus was found in those cells. It is
a brand new bowel pathology.
Wakefield showed graphs of the US and UK 10
years apart that were identical in tracing the skyrocketing incidence of autism
just after the MMR vaccine was introduced. He also showed how the incidence of
measles had dropped over 85% on its own, before the MMR was ever introduced.
One incredible study cited by Wakefield
showed how 76% of children whose mothers were exposed to atypical measles became
autistic after the MMR shot! He calls this a "background
susceptibility" or predisposition to autism.
Wakefield reminds us that in neither
country have there ever been comparative studies on giving multiple vaccines
(polyvalent) on the same day. This custom of ours, with both the DTaP and the
MMR, is not scientific by any stretch, and is primarily for the convenience of
those administering the shots, and those being paid per vaccine. As a result,
there is a good chance of geometric ill effects.
Then Wakefield cited the original MMR study
from the 1969 Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 207. (Buynak)
Not only was the safety of multiple vaccines never mentioned; there was no
follow-up to the study to see if their conclusions were correct. In the usual
manner of testing vaccines on the live population, MMR was simply tacked onto
the mandatory schedule, and we've never looked back.
Despite studies in 1981 on Air Force
personnel showing major synergistic adverse effects in the gut from the
combination of Measles and Rubella vaccines, the mandatory schedule went
unchanged. (Crawford)
With no opposing studies whatsoever, the
British government has decried the work of O'Leary and Wakefield, an indication
that the political influence of drug companies extends to that side of the pond
as well. (Shattock)
ONE PILL MAKES YOU LARGER…
The most striking feature of the San Diego
autism conference was its Alice-in-Wonderland fascination with the minute
details of all the body's systems which the disease screws up, and the falsely
optimistic, self-congratulatory tone of medicine's supposed remedies. Like it's
just another unfortunate disease which has accidentally winged its way in on us
from the cosmos, but don't worry - everything's under control. Omniscient
American medicine to the rescue.
Nobody really put together the horror of
this manmade epidemic or thought it bizarre that all this time was being wasted
on treatment choices without anyone shouting Hey! We're poisoning our kids! And
we know it! And it's still going on every day. And nobody can force the vaccine
manufacturers and the FDA to stop injecting toxic mercury into American infants
until they've figured out a way to replace the billions the cartels will lose by
leaving thimerosal out of vaccines, or by halting MMR.
DARK AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
Lest the reader get the impression that
medical science has now solved the mystery of autism, and that everything is
fine now, the reality is that aside from the cutting-edge research cited above,
most of the other presentations at the San Diego conference were room-clearing
recitations of aimless scientific non-sequiturs, illuminating this or that step
of the Krebs cycle which is disrupted by the toxic onslaught of an infant's
blood. Penetrating insight: poison a child with the most toxic metal on earth
and cell metabolism goes haywire. Gee, really?
Still other presentations exemplified the
Alternative-Lite take on holistic nutrition, which is going to nurse the
poisoned child back to a normal dependency on drugs and potions: i.e., health.
Chatty women with no credentials were somehow allowed to address this medical
assembly and regale it with recommendations for healthy diets made up of chicken
mcnuggets and soy milk! Then there were the requisite exorcisms of gluten and
casein, droning on and on about unsubstantiated "food sensitivities"
that must be avoided in the 'autistic diet.' No marvel that several of these
experts were quite obese.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT? STARVATION PREVAILS
At the San Diego conference, there was a
glaring absence of authentic holistic nutritional concepts:
- enzymes
- problematic processed foods
- pasteurized vs. raw milk
- problematic white sugar
- problematic white flour
- synthetic vs. whole food vitamins
- colon detox
- chelated minerals
- hydration
- flora
- clean antioxidants
- clean meat: no hormones or antibiotics
- oral EDTA for metal chelation
- organic whole grains
- complete proteins
- estrogen mimickers in food and water
- the glut of partially hydrogenated
soybean oil in supermarket foods
Although the critical importance of EFAs
was peremptorily mentioned, even the basic concepts of good fats, as taught by
world-class experts like Udo Erasmus and Mary Enig, were conspicuously absent.
In a conference that is supposedly looking at one of the most rampant, epidemic
causes of myelin disruption, such an information gap tends to stand out.
THE GENUINE ARTICLE
It was very instructive that conference
attendees were presented with two obvious realities:
- there is no specific curative diet for
autism, different from a legit healthful detox diet
- even if there were, this group would be
among the last to know
Mainstream medical people are Johnny-come-latelys to the holistic nutrition forum. Real experts have been pointing out the toxicity of the standard, processed American diet since the beginning of the 20th century, including:
Harvey Wiley, MD
Royal Lee, DDS
Weston Price, DDS
JH Tilden, MD
Henry Lindlahr, MD
Edward Howell, MD
Stan Bynum, PhD
Henry Bieler, MD
Alexis Carrel, MD
Otto Warburg, MD
- www.thedoctorwithin.com, Conventional
Medicine
Who knows these names today? Their work was
built on fundamental principles of physiology and homeostasis, and backed by
years of clinical study. But without a huge PR machine behind them, their
discoveries were for the most part buried with them, except for true holistic
practitioners who have gone out of their way to research these natural ways.
Playing a ludicrous game of catch-up,
today's medical experts, like those at the San Diego conference, see the glitter
of alternative medicine and holistic nutrition, and with no regard for the solid
traditions of holistic nutrition, now marshal their considerable publications
resources to create the illusion that We Were There First. This phenomenon is
known as Alternative Lite(www.thedoctorwwithin.com)
The cleansing healthful detox diet is the
same for autism as for any other biochemical imbalance, employing three basic
principles:
- only give the body the nutrition it
needs, with complete bioavailability
- no metabolic residues
- no empty, devitalized foods of commerce
For everything the patient eats, there is a
decision: will this clog or nourish? Such a conscious diet is not a temporary
chore, or disease-specific – it's a lifestyle change.
The above fundamentals were painfully
wanting from the overall level of perception at this conference.
TREATMENT FOR AUTISM: STEP RIGHT UP
Just off the Auditorium, there was the
inevitable Exhibit Room, in which science seemed to be checked at the door, and
the marketplace took over. Here was a living circus of Alternative Lite: new
supplements and procedures, most created and marketed by the drug companies in
their efforts to hoover in on the burgeoning area of commerce now becoming so
popular - Alternative Medicine.
What do we see on the midway:
--- State of the art live blood cell
microscope analysis, frightening subjects by incorrectly identifying 'parasites'
and 'microbes' in the blood, convincing them to adopt an experimental regimen of
supplements.
--- Fruits and vegetables in capsules,
flavored by allergenic non-foods like high fructose corn syrup. Very nutritious
– a sure cure for the autistic.
--- Flax seed oils, hawked as EFAs,
oxidizing in their clear plastic bottles
--- Brain machines whose electrodes when
applied to the skull will automatically normalize those nasty brain waves made
irregular by the very real lack of neuronal myelin
--- An ocean of synthetic vitamins, with
some very nice labels
--- A sea of cookies, sanctified by their
lack of gluten and casein
--- A variety of MLMs, talking more about
their compensation plans than about their individual Magic Bullets
--- An array of portly diet counselors,
with varying degrees of lack of credentials
--- Several Krebs cyclists, each with his
own Missing Component
No big surprise here. The San Diego
conference was held and attended by the profession for whom the Germ Theory of
disease permeates their collective DNA. All their education, diagnostics,
treatment, and 99% of their research is predicated on the idea that bugs cause
disease and that medicine's job is to find the drug for each bug. Into this
milieu, the original research of Wakefield and Bernard has been thrown – a new
quantum in vaccine awareness. What can be done with this knowledge? Medicine can
only use the tools it has: germ theory, drug economics, spin control. Expecting
medicine to understand the significance of novel scientific research like that
of Bernard and Wakefield is like expecting a cat to fly.
GLIMMER OF HOPE
Despite these formidable obstacles, doubts
are creeping into the overall public "consciousness" from many
different directions about the safety of vaccines. At 1 in 150, the fact of
autism as an epidemic can no longer be covered up. The work of Wakefield,
O'Leary, Megson, and Bernard is getting more and more difficult to explain away.
Rep. Dan Burton seems relentless in his efforts to acquaint Congress with the
meretricious relationship between the FDA Advisory committee and the vaccine
manufacturers. The massive advertising campaign about the safety of vaccines in
the popular media, which is certain to be stepped up in the next few months, is
going to look very hollow in the light of clean, unbiased research that is not
funded by parties who stand to make billions from certain pre-determined
results. And the internet makes this well-referenced, scientific work accessible
to the public without the usual monodimensional smokescreen from the popular
press.
Ultimately, the value of the San Diego
Conference on Autism was its signal that autism will not be allowed to slip from
the public awareness, like so many other feature stories that come and go. The
simple truth has been unveiled, and anyone who looks can see it clearly: our
prime question should not be asking how we can cure autism once it occurs. The
evidence is now overwhelming that in most cases, this new epidemic that we call
autism is a preventable disease.
[excerpted from the revised edition of The Sanctity of Human Blood]
© New West 2001
www.thedoctorwithin.com
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