Discussing Autism

Today, Kristina Chew of Autism Vox questioned: Why, in the face of evidence, do some still believe that autism is mercury poisoning? My answer? Because they have no one else to blame and everyone has to blame someone for their misfortune, right?

Yesterday I posted that Holly Robinson Peete believes that the MMR vaccine caused her son RJ’s autism. Supposedly the autism rate has risen “in tandem with increasing numbers of vaccines that contain a known neurotoxin, ethyl mercury.” But the United States Public Health Authorities say that is just coincidence.

The first autism cases were discovered in the United States and Europe at the same time. Coincidence?

Child psychiatrist Leo Kanner published his landmark paper at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1943; pediatrician Hans Asperger published his — about a slightly less severely affected group of children — in Vienna in 1944. Cut off by a world war, neither knew of the other’s work.

Coincidence, say the experts, who attribute the timing to improving diagnostic techniques in both countries.

Or, as Dan Olmsted questions in his article, The Age of Autism: Quite the coincidence,

is it a clue to when and where autism started — and why?

“The question reflects a huge, and hugely important, debate. If autistic children always existed in the same percentages but just were not formally classified until the 1940s, that would suggest better diagnosis, not a troubling increase in the number of autistic children.

“If, however, autism had a clear beginning in the fairly recent past … then the issue is very different. That would suggest something new caused those first autism and Asperger’s cases … something caused them to increase, and something is still causing them today.

At this same time, Olmsted speculates, both a German and American company created ethyl mercury fungicide, who sold it to Europe and the US where it was used agriculturally.

Now, speculatively speaking and on a personal aside, Little Pickel is originally from (conceived and born) a lumbering village. Ethyl mercury is said to be a lumber preservative.

However, from what I have gleaned in the last few months, it is more than just coincidence that mercury is connected to autism; it is science and biology. In my opinion, it is the lack of methylation in children that is the real cause of autism, not the mercury. But, most people never dig that deep. They chose the easy solution.

Heavy metals interrupt the process of methylation, preventing the body from producing glutathione, which leads to impaired to Neuronal Synchronization, which we describe as Autism. Some people have genetic risk factors (like MTHFR, Transcobalmin II, MS Reductaise, COMT, and UBE3A), which causes this methylation interruption to happen at much lower levels of metal exposure. And oh, by the way, Thimerosal is one of those substances that interrupt methylation, and for some people with these severe genetic predispositions it does so at VERY small amounts, even a few nano-molars.

So, assume that Little Pickel’s methylation process is not functioning properly (it isn’t) or is actually “broken” (it could be) and then give him the MMR vaccine with Thimerosal/mercury in it. His neurodevelopment system would then be completely shot because the Thimerosal/mercury would destroy any functioning methylation activity and there would be no way for him to rid his body of heavy metals or toxins.

This is my hypothesis of what has happened to Little Pickel’s body: Please note that he was in Russia in an orphanage for almost 2 years. He was on antibiotics for most of that time for chronic ear and bronchial infections. He also contracted H Pylori, an intestinal bacteria that eats away at the stomach lining. He was malnourished and developmentally delayed when we adopted him at 26 months old.

* The Genetic code may have flaws. While there is a genetic component to Autism, genetics alone cannot explain the recent rise in Autism in industrialised nations.

* The cell membrane that protects each cell is less than optimum, leaving it vulnerable. There is much support in animal and human studies that a reduced intake in Omega 3 fatty acids results in impaired cell membranes and Neurodevelopmental disorders.

* Antigens (foreign toxic matter, heavy metals, viruses and bacteria) attack vulnerable cells and damage them, resulting in cells that cannot carry out their function normally.

* Antigens can damage or change the genetic code in the cell, and when the cell reproduces itself it does so with the changed code leading to dysfunction in future cells.

* There is emerging evidence that a dysfunctional methylation system may result in abnormal genetic expression leading to dysfunctional cells. Vit. B12, folate, B6 and Magnesium play a central role in regulating Methylation.

* Abnormal methylation can damage metallothionein protein which regulate zinc/copper ratios and other metals in cell membranes.

* Impaired cellular structures can result in multi-systemic disorders, affecting gastrointestinal, Immune, endocrine and central nervous system.

* The delicate balance between beneficial and detrimental bacteria in the gut can be upset by antibiotics, food preservatives and other environmental toxic additives, leading to a condition known as intestinal dysbiosis.

* Opportunistic bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract may irritate a vulnerable gut wall resulting in irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut and food sensitivities.

* Some bacteria can produce amines. When these bacteria are overgrown, they can produce large amounts of amines. Amines are known to have receptors in the same areas in the brain as neurotransmitter receptors. This can result in a scrambling of brain signals by amines.

Coincidence? No, science, genetics, environment, and the faulty body.

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