Can We Reverse This Autism Pandemic? Leading Scientists Say Yes.

Did you know that 1 out of every 150 babies born in the U.S. has autism?

Autism currently affects about 1,500,000 people in the U.S., and the numbers are increasing, according to the Autism Society of America.

Some people are calling the autism pandemic “a national emergency,” as autism rates skyrocket worldwide.

Are we all just going to sit and watch the autism pandemic get worse day by day?

The truth is many leading scientists agree much more can be done to help people with autism. Just blindly accepting autism as fate doesn’t help anyone.

If you have a loved one with Autism and you want to give them the best quality of life possible, as soon as possible, then this may be the most important autism report you’ll ever read.

The signs of autism usually appear within the first three years of life. Currently, estimates claim the annual cost of caring for autistic people in the U.S. is about $13 billion per year and the lifetime care of an individual autistic person averages $2 million.

So, if we’re spending all this money on autism, then where is the cure?

Spending billions of dollars “treating symptoms” changes nothing. The only way to make a lasting difference is to eliminate the underlying cause of autism.

“Autism is one of the most complex challenges before us today.”

Before real cutting-edge advancements can become mainstream, the prejudices and blocks to proper care need to be eliminated.

To move toward a real solution, we must first we need to accept the reality that Western medicine has blatantly failed to help the autistic. It only adds insult to injury when doctors refuse to accept the reality of their inability to help anyone with drugs and surgery.

The real challenge is really about learning to listen better to what people with autism can teach us about the best ways to help them with healing alternatives. Until we agree on the cure, it benefits no one to condemn an autistic person to ignorance, social prejudice and stereotypes.

After decades of trial and error, new ways of helping autistic people are redefining what it means to be autistic as well as non-autistic. Today, we’re taking giant steps toward agreeing that autism is both preventable and curable . . . perhaps in the final lesson we will also discover what it means to be more human.

Autism In Perspective

Autism used to be quite rare, occurring in just 1 child out of 2000.

However, since the early 1990’s, the rate of autism has spread exponentially around the world with statistics as high as 1 out of 110, with boys being diagnosed 400% more than girls.

The Centers for Disease Control defines 5 main types of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

The five types of ASD are:

1. Classical autism
2. Asperger’s syndrome
3. Pervasive Developmental Disorder –not Otherwise specified (PDD-NOS)
4. Rett syndrome
5. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder

Let’s look at the history of this relatively young condition.

• 1911: Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist, used the term autistic to describe a group of symptoms related to schizophrenia.
• 1940’s: Dr. Leo Kanner from Johns Hopkins University, first coined autism as “Kanner’s syndrome,” and referred to it as an infantile psychosis.
• Meanwhile Hans Asperger, a scientist in Germany, identified a similar condition that’s now called Asperger’s syndrome.
• 1960’s: Bernard Rimland, a psychologist who was the father of an autistic child, redefined autism as a “brain disorder.”

For an entire decade, they used shock treatment, LSD and painful behavioral change techniques, as if torturing these people would cure them.

• During the 1980s and 1990s, the role of “pain and punishment therapy” evolved into using more intelligent learning environments to influence autistic students.

Currently, autism is considered a “neurological disorder” affecting the areas of the brain, which control social interaction, spatial cognition and language.

Did you know genetics account for less than 10 percent of cases and drug therapy is totally useless?

Addressing The Root Cause Of Autism

The nutritional approach has shown the most promise for addressing the root cause of autism. Changing to a better diet and supplementing with magnesium and vitamin B6 are helpful in helping improve mental focus and physical functionality.

Magnesium serves to increase the absorption of vitamin B6 and other nutrients, helping to improve cellular health.

The healthier your cells, the better they communicate between each other. This makes more sense than doping, shocking and torturing the patient — I’m sure you agree.

The challenge with using any nutritional approach is if the cells are filled with toxins, there’s no room for nutrients to enter. To make the most of using a nutritional approach, you first need to eliminate the toxic build-up within the cells.

One well-known cause of neuron damage is mercury toxicity, along with other heavy metals. Did you know mercury is the strongest inflammatory agent on earth short of uranium?

There is NO safe level of mercury!

When going through detoxification, seek a qualified health professional to help you.

The Biggest Underlying Cause Of Autism

Because of an increase of required vaccines, the accumulative build-up of mercury preservatives in children during their first 3 years is a legitimate concern.

Did you know today the list of required vaccines has increased from 8 in 1980 to 22 vaccines? Plus, many of these shots use “multiple injections!”

Children are being over loaded with mercury containing vaccines within a very short period of time.

Dr. Edward Yazbak, former medical assessor to the UK Committee on Safety of Medicines did a survey (Pulse Magazine, July 7, 2001), which reported that 76% of mothers who had been vaccinated just before, during or after pregnancy, had one or more children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Some single vaccines using multi-dose vials containing Thimerosal, injecting as much as 62.5 micrograms of mercury into the child, which happens to be more than 100 times greater than what the US EPA considers safe for the average 6-month old.

FACT: More than eleven years ago, in 1999 the American Academy of Pediatrics and the US Public Health Service issued a joint statement demanding the elimination of Thimerosal from all vaccines.

Their action clearly documents that repeated, low-dose mercury exposure does cause neurological abnormalities².

The mercury preservative Thimerosal has been scientifically linked to neuron death, by Leman Yel and colleagues. They found that toxic Thimerosal follows a pathway through the “energy factories” of the cells, called the mitochondria. As a result, neuron cell death (apoptosis) is induced⁴.

These findings are consistent with another study done by M.L. Humphrey et. al., who found the more Thimerosal and the longer cells were exposed determined the amount of cells killed. They too found evidence of mitochondrial damage.

Did you know Thimerosal has been used as a preservative in vaccines since the 1930s, but was assumed to be safe and has never been tested by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA)?

“The symptoms of mercury poisoning and autism are remarkably similar.”

Vaccines aren’t the only source of neuron killing heavy metal poisoning.

Mercury from fish can be transferred from pregnant women to their developing fetus and contaminate breast milk⁵.

While an infant only receives a few micrograms of mercury from vaccines, a single dose could represent as much as 353,000,000,000,000,000 mercury particles⁶. Neal A. Halsey MD writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association that the fetal brain is much more susceptible to mercury compounds than the adult brain.

More than 1 out of 5 U.S. women of childbearing age may have mercury levels that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s recommended threshold⁷.

Perhaps the first thing we need to do to prevent autism is eliminate all vaccines until after the third year. That would allow children’s immune systems to mature un-interrupted by vaccines and their toxic ingredients. It would also stop the autism pandemic worldwide.

Meanwhile, we can start detoxifying autistic children and start giving them healthier diets supplemented with “Ionic” minerals, such as magnesium, and make sure they all get plenty of vitamin B6, too.

Here’s one nutritional approach that doctors “in-the-know” are using to help detox many neurological disorders, similar to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD):

Because of advancements being made in nutritional science, heavy metals like mercury, lead and aluminum are being safely and effectively removed with oral and IV vitamin C, phosphatidylcholine, lipoic acid and EDTA⁸ (detox protocol).

Here’s the reason why some children are damaged more rapidly by heavy metals in vaccines than others:

According to William Walsh, PhD, of the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Illinois, autistic children have a defect in a vital protein called metallothionein, a protein compound that binds to heavy metals in your cells like mercury, cadmium, lead, copper, iron and zinc.

“In fact, 99% of autistic people have this metallothionein protein defect, which makes it hard to impossible for them to eliminate mercury on their own.”

In Walsh’s study, 499 out of 503 autistic people were unable to make their own metallothionein.

New Science Reveals New Hope

So far I’ve pointed out the damaging effects of heavy metal poisoning on pregnant mothers and young children, and revealed a natural way to detoxify heavy metals using a doctor approved food support protocol⁸.

In closing . . .

For now, autism is something we need to accept, until we can fully appreciate how we can help those who are autistic better adjust to a world full of human diversity, or cure it all together.

There is a blessing hidden in the condition in that about 10% of autistic. They are called autistic savants. Some of them have extraordinary artistic skills, some have impeccable memories and others seem to have replaced their social skills with amazing mechanical and engineering abilities.

In many ways, autistic people remind me of the struggle deaf and blind people go through. It’s important for us not to assume they are any less intelligent, or feel love and empathy any less than the rest of the world.

It’s vital we abolish stereotypical behavior and prejudice. After all, they are the ones we claim lack the ability to adjust socially, besides who wants to adjust to a broken world?

As we identify and eliminate these toxic environmental factors, which are damaging sensitive proteins and nerve connections, we can begin to experience these subtle interconnections again, as our ancestors once did.

The key to curing autism is linked to how our food, environment and even our thoughts affect us at every level. Scientists are learning how to help genes better express themselves through proper protein synthesis.

The new science of “epigenetics,^9.10” is showing us how we can better control and nurture these proteins using the simplest nutritional approaches, as well as integrated and even bio-energetic medicine.

The word “autism” was created about a hundred years ago, but the root of the word is the Greek word “autos,” meaning “self.” Autism describes a person who is removed or separated from social interaction, hence an isolated self. The truth is no one is isolated or disconnected; we all simply connect in different ways.

Until we arrive at a cure let’s learn how to help autistic people connect by learning how to better connect with them.

Sources:

1. British Medical Journal 322: 460-63, 2001

2. Pediatrics 107: 1147-54, 2001

3. Life Science 67: 1667-82, 2000

4. “Thimerosal induces neuronal cell apoptosis by causing cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor release from mitochondria,” L. Yel, L. E. Brown, K. Su, S. Gollapudi, and S. Gupta, International Journal of Molecular Medicine, Vol. 16, No. 6, December 2005, 971-7. Address: L. Yel, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, lyel@uci.edu.

5. Journal American Medical Assn 282: November 10, 1999

6. ARC Research, April 3, 2000

7. “An investigation of factors related to levels of mercury in human hair,” Technical Report #05-150, Steven C. Patch, Richard P. Maas, and Kimberly R. Sergent, Environmental Quality Institute, University of North Carolina-Asheville. Address: Steven C Patch, Environmental Quality Institute, University of North Carolina-Asheville, One University Heights, Asheville, NC 28804.

8. http://www.bioimmune.com/products.htm

9. http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/suppl_2/R138.abstract

10. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401145312.htm

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Martin Jacobse, a hearing and speech specialist of 30 years, was first inspired by the natural home remedies used by his Cherokee Grandmother. He has since expanded his interests into naturopathic, alternative and energy medicine. Excited to share his findings and close the gap between the medical profession and natural home remedies, Jacobse found a passion as an independent medical researcher and ghost writer, dedicating his life to getting the word out as a consumer health advocate for Barton Publishing. Jacobse spends his free time practicing the healing art of magnetic Qigong, publishing books and enjoying the quiet of a small horse ranch near the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.