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ADD/ADHD, Autism, Behavioral & Learning DisabilitiesDiet and targeted therapeutic nutritional supplements recommended for your child’s special needs.
What
is Autism? Who will Benefit from Targeted Therapeutic Nutrition? Virtually everyone can benefit from increased nutritional support and gain a vital sense of well being. Therapeutic Nutrition may be the single most potent tool in preventative medicine.
Autism, also known as Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental syndrome with onset prior to age 36 months. It is four times more prevalent in boys than girls and knows no racial, ethnic, or social boundaries. Recent epidemiological studies suggest that autism may affect 1 in 150 U.S. children.
Children and adults with autism typically have difficulties in • Communication • Social interactions • Play activities • Aggressive and/or self-injurious behavior • Repeated body movements (hand flapping, rocking) • Unusual responses to people or attachments to objects • Resistance to changes in routines • Heightened sensitivities in the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste)
Over one half million people in the U.S. today have autism or ASD. While it is one of the most common developmental disabilities, the majority of the American public, including professionals, are unaware of the scope of this disease and how to effectively evaluate and help its victims.
Heavy or toxic metals are trace metals with a density at least five times that of water. As such, they are stable elements (meaning they cannot be metabolized by the body) and bio-accumulative (passed up the food chain to humans). These include: mercury, nickel, lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, platinum, and copper (the metallic form versus the ionic form required by the body). Heavy metals have no function in the body and can be highly toxic. Once liberated into the environment through the air, drinking water, food, or countless human-made chemicals and products, heavy metals are taken into the body via inhalation, ingestion, and skin absorption. If heavy metals enter and accumulate in body tissues faster than the body’s detoxification pathways can dispose of them, a gradual buildup of these toxins will occur. High-concentration exposure is not necessary to produce a state of toxicity in the body, as heavy metals accumulate in body tissues and, over time, can reach toxic concentration levels. Human exposure to heavy metals has risen dramatically in the last 50 years, however, as a result of an exponential increase in the use of heavy metals in industrial processes and products. Today, chronic exposure comes from mercury-amalgam dental fillings, lead in paint and tap water, chemical residues in processed foods, exposure to herbicides, pesticides and chemical cleaners and solvents, and "personal care" products (cosmetics, shampoo and other hair products, mouthwash, toothpaste, soap). In today’s industrial society, there is no escaping exposure to toxic chemicals and metals. Studies confirm that heavy metals can directly influence behavior by impairing mental and neurological function, influencing neurotransmitter production and utilization, and altering numerous metabolic body processes. Systems in which toxic metal elements can induce impairment and dysfunction include the blood and cardiovascular, detoxification pathways (colon, liver, kidneys, skin), endocrine (hormonal), energy production pathways, enzymatic, gastrointestinal, immune, nervous (central and peripheral), reproductive, and urinary. Breathing heavy metal particles, even at levels well below those considered nontoxic, can have serious health effects. Virtually all aspects of animal and human immune system function are compromised by the inhalation of heavy metal particulates. In addition, toxic metals can increase allergic reactions, cause genetic mutation, compete with "good" trace metals for biochemical bond sites, and act as antibiotics, killing both harmful and beneficial bacteria. Much of the damage produced by toxic metals stems from the proliferation of oxidative free radicals they cause. A free radical is an energetically unbalanced molecule, composed of an unpaired electron that "steals" an electron from another molecule to restore its balance. Free radicals result naturally when cell molecules react with oxygen (oxidation) but, with a heavy toxic load or existing antioxidant deficiencies, uncontrolled free-radical production occurs. Unchecked, free radicals can cause tissue damage throughout the body; free-radical damage underlies all degenerative diseases. Antioxidants such as vitamins A, C, and E curtail free-radical activity. According to conventional medicine, there is nothing a person can do to address aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, or nickel exposure, aside from avoiding known sources. Given the prevalence of these toxins in our lives, this is impossible. Fortunately, there is a way to get these harmful substances out of the body and minimized further accumulation of toxic metals in the body. Oral chelation, detoxification protocols, and specific nutritional therapies can remove heavy metals and chemical toxins and reduce the toxic load our bodies endure on a daily basis.
Mercury Sources and Specific Effects 1. Mercury Sources of exposure: Air pollution, batteries, cosmetics, dental amalgams, diuretics (mercurial), electrical devices and relays, explosives, foods (grains), fungicides, fluorescent lights, freshwater fish (especially large bass, pike, and trout), insecticides, mining, paints, pesticides, petroleum products, saltwater fish (especially large halibut, shrimp, snapper, and swordfish), shellfish, and tap water. Target tissues: Appetite and pain centers in the brain, cell membranes, kidneys, and nervous system (central and peripheral). Signs and Symptoms: Abnormal nervous and physical development (fetal and childhood), anemia, anorexia, anxiety, blood changes, blindness, blue line on gums, colitis, depression, dermatitis, difficulty chewing and swallowing, dizziness, drowsiness, emotional instability, fatigue, fever, hallucinations, headache, hearing loss, hypertension, inflamed gums, insomnia, kidney damage or failure, loss of appetite and sense of smell, loss of muscle coordination, memory loss, metallic taste in mouth, nerve damage, numbness, psychosis, salivation, stomatitis, tremors, vision impairment, vomiting, weakness, and weight loss. The primary source of exposure to mercury is "silver" dental fillings (approximately 50% mercury when placed); over 225 million Americans have these fillings in their teeth.14 Mercury fillings release microscopic particles and vapors of mercury every time a person chews. Vapors are inhaled while particles are absorbed by tooth roots, mucous membranes of the mouth and gums, and the stomach lining. In people with mercury amalgam fillings, measurements of the mercury level in the mouth ranges between 20 and 400 mcg/m3. Keep in mind that this is continuous exposure. The National Institute of Occupation Safety and Health places the safe limit of environmental exposure to mercury at 20 mcg/m3, but that is assuming a weekly exposure of 40 hours (the work week) and the mercury involved is outside the body. 15 The Environmental Protection Agency’s allowable limit for continuous mercury exposure is 1 mcg/m3 but, again, that is based on mercury sources outside the body.16 Neither figure addresses 24-hour-a-day exposure from mercury in one’s mouth. Hal Huggins, D.D.S., a specialist in the effect of mercury amalgams on health, reports that 90% of the 7,000 patients he tested showed immune system reactivity from exposure to low levels of mercury. In 1984, the American Dental Association (ADA), without providing scientific evidence, claimed that only 5% of the U.S. population is reactive to mercury exposure, and that this figure is insignificant. Meanwhile, the ADA mandates that dentists alert all dental personnel to the potential hazards of inhaling mercury vapors.17 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) goes further, instructing dentists to treat mercury amalgam as a toxic material while handling before insertion, and as toxic waste after removal.18 Mark S. Hulet, D.D.S., who conducts research on amalgam fillings, wrote a pamphlet for his patients, in which he cites five categories of pathological reaction to mercury fillings, as identified by dentists, doctors, and toxicologists. The categories are: Neurological: emotional manifestations (depression, suicidal impulses, irritability, inability to cope) and motor symptoms (muscle spasms, facial tics, seizures, multiple sclerosis) Cardiovascular problems: nonspecific chest pain, accelerated heart beat. Collagen diseases: arthritis, bursitis, scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosis. Immune system diseases: compromised immunity. Allergies: Airborne allergies, food allergies, and "universal" reactors. One of the keys to mercury’s effects on health may be its ability to block the functioning of manganese, a key mineral required for physiological reactions in all five categories, notes Dr. Hulet.
Autism
and Mercury/Heavy Metal Poisoning Recent literature published by numerous respected health professionals and health journalists suggest that many side effects and health conditions are related to childhood vaccinations. The incidence rate of autism is on the rise. In the first three months of 2001, the California Department of Developmental Services reported California, 700 cases of the severest form of autism were formally diagnosed and reported During the same period last year, the department identified 416 new cases. Five years earlier, that number was 234. The State of California tracks autism incidence more closely than many other states. "The numbers are staggering," said Dr. Robert Byrd, an epidemiologist at the University of California at Davis.
It is theorized that cases of idiopathic (of unknown cause) autism are induced by early mercury exposure from thimerosal, a preservative added to many vaccines.
“Thimerosal Content in Some U.S. Licensed Vaccines” “Thimerosal Policy Question and Answers”
This has become a major source of mercury (Hg) in children who, within their first two years, may have received a quantity of mercury that exceeds safety guidelines. Exposure to mercury can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions, almost identical traits that define autism.
Mercury, as with all heavy metals, is bio-accumulative. This means that the more you are exposed to mercury, whether chronic low doses or acute high doses, the accumulation of this heavy metal builds upon itself. The neurotoxicity of mercury has long been recognized.
Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have determined that the typical amount of mercury injected into infants and toddlers via childhood immunizations has exceeded government safety guidelines on an individual and cumulative vaccine basis.
Due to the extensive parallels between autism and mercury poisoning (HgP), the likelihood of a causal relationship is great. Many parents of autistic children say that their child was developing normally until symptoms appeared at around 15 to 18 months of age, when the MMR vaccine is normally administered.
A recent study published by the California Department of Health Services, and another issued by the Institute of Medicine in Washington, casts doubt on claims of a link between the vaccine and rising cases of autism. Advocates of the vaccine theory were not entirely satisfied with the conclusions of the report, but were pleased that it had been undertaken in the first place. "This is a vindication for those of us who have been trying to get mainstream medicine to take a look at this issue," said parent advocate Rick Rollens, who was instrumental in creating the MIND Institute for researching autism at UC Davis. As for the conclusions of the report, he said, "The jury is still out. . . . We're pleased to see the recommendation for more good, independent research."
Heavy
Metal Detoxification/Therapy with Oral Chelation Intravenous (I.V.EDTA) chelation therapy, extensively and successfully used to remove lead and other heavy metals from the body is expensive (hundreds of dollars per visit) and not widely available. In America, there are comparatively few experienced medical doctors certified in IV chelation therapy. Intravenous EDTA also has a very low affinity for mercury. Fortunately, there is an even safer, inexpensive, less invasive, and more easily obtained alternative: oral chelation. Our oral chelation formula has the ability to chemically bond with and cause the elimination of all of the main heavy metals (aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead nickel) and mercury from the body -as evidenced by mercury levels in urine samples before and after oral chelation. As mentioned earlier, EDTA does not chelate mercury. In our formula, it is the other chelating agents—cilantro, chlorella, and lipoic acid—that effectively act on mercury. The heightened benefits of oral chelation may result from the synergistic effect of combining EDTA with numerous natural chelating agents, such as activated clays, certain bioflavonoids, chlorella, cilantro, coenzyme Q10, garlic, L-cysteine, L-glutathione, lipoic acid, methionine, selenium, sodium alginate, and zinc gluconate. Each chelating agent has a predilection for different chemicals and mineral or metal ions. The addition of nutrients known to support liver function and detoxification also increases an oral chelation formula’s effectiveness. A companion formula of antioxidants and other nutrients enhances the chelation process by replacing beneficial minerals removed during chelation, promoting the healing of tissues, and preventing free-radical oxidative damage. As with chelating agents, different antioxidants work on free radicals formed by a variety of oxidizing agents. For this reason, the formulas contain a wide range—there are 30 different antioxidants in the Longevity Plus formula. Antioxidant activity may play a particularly important role in amplifying the benefits of chelation. Elmer Cranton, M.D., author of Bypassing Bypass, believes that the prevention of free-radical damage (which EDTA does) is the main action behind chelation’s positive effects. In addition to heart patients, I particularly recommend oral chelation for anyone with a family history of heart disease, longstanding poor dietary practices, or a history of exposure to heavy metals or toxic chemicals. More generally, oral chelation is useful to anyone who wants to reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease and clear their body of the metals and toxins that we all accumulate and which can cause a variety of health problems. As such, oral chelation can serve as a convenient, non-invasive, long-term health maintenance and preventative program. The gradual dosage delivery significantly reduces the risk of side effects; oral chelation is safe for children and adults. The formulas exert beneficial effects on the entire cardiovascular system. By detoxifying your body and improving circulation in veins and arteries, these formulas ensure that your tissues, glands, organs, and interrelated systems receive ample oxygen-rich blood, which in turn improves their efficiency. In terms of ingredients, the formulas have two overall advantages: 1. They are plant-enzyme based. Enzymes, which are the catalysts for all metabolic actions, assist in the optimal assimilation and utilization of the food people consume (giving them the most nutrients for their money). Enzymes also assist in the assimilation and utilization of the other nutrients in my formulas; thereby ensuring you get the most out of each ingredient. Without enzymes, proper utilization of nutrients is not achieved. With enzyme supplementation, you can get up to ten times more assimilation of food and nutrients as without. 2. Aside from EDTA, the nutrients in the formulas are whole food/plant based which means you get the range of nutrients and co-factors found in that plant or food, rather than only isolated fractions (as in synthetic vitamin supplements). The healing actions are thus more powerful. In addition, since the formulas are plant based (concentrated food nutrients), there is no need to be concerned about drug interactions or side effects. Dosage starts at one tablet of Longevity Plus at breakfast (increasing gradually to three tablets) and one capsule of the Oral Chelation Formula at dinner (increasing gradually to three). It is important to drink eight 8-ounce glasses of filtered water daily. If intake is far below that, it can be raised in increments. In rare cases, people experience irritability, low-grade headache, or overall achiness. These symptoms arise from the heavy metals or chemical residues that have been pulled out of tissues and are circulating in the body prior to excretion. The symptoms do not indicate an adverse reaction to the formulas, but rather that the body has been storing significant amounts of toxins. Decreasing the dosage of the formulas, increasing water intake, and adding extra liver support product will eliminate these symptoms.
Summaries of Clinical Studies on the Oral Chelation and Longevity Plus Formulas Note: Copies of the full studies are available upon request. In 1998, we conducted heavy metal urine analyses on 14 patients, ages ranging from 29 to 73 and from a variety of different occupations, before and after only one day’s dose of the Oral Chelation and Longevity Plus formulas. Omegatech, King James Medical Laboratory, Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio, analyzed the urine samples. The results showed significant excretion of all six of the heavy metals most commonly encountered and damaging to health. The following are the average percentages of increase in the 14 patients’ heavy metal excretions after just one day on the formulas: Aluminum: 229% Arsenic: 661% Cadmium: 276% Lead: 350% Mercury: 773% Nickel: 9,439%
Mr. Bob Smith, Vice President of Elemental Analysis, Great Smokie’s Diagnostic Laboratory, who has interpreted the hair analysis of many thousands of patients, stated that, in his professional opinion, "your results (patients using only the Oral chelation and Longevity Plus formulas) exhibited significant reduction of heavy metals in just six months."
Conclusion Research has proven the benefits of chelation for cardiovascular health, heavy metal toxicity, and other conditions. The number of physicians who are available to diagnose and treat advanced health problems and administer intravenous chelation continues to grow. This development, along with the recent advent of oral chelation, reflects the rapid changes occurring in U.S. health care. The transformation of medical practice is due to both public dissatisfaction with the "cut or medicate," linear-delivery system of medicine and the demonstrated effectiveness of alternative and complementary therapies. Preventive health protocols (diet, exercise, and lifestyle modifications), chelation therapy, and nutritional sufficiency are the medicine of the future.
Evaluation
of Individual Biochemical Deficiencies and Needs 1. Urine analysis, which shows nutritional status, specific, underlining deficiencies and related body chemistry imbalances? 2. Blood analysis, which isolates potential food allergies? 3. Diagnosis of candida, parasites, and intestinal permeability, which are determined through stool analysis? 4. Heavy metals and mineral levels which are determined by hair analysis?
URINE ANALYSIS—shows nutritional status, specific underlining deficiencies and their related body chemistry imbalances. These imbalances directly effect the expression of health in certain organs, glands, and systems. The urine analysis also shows digestive competence, or incompetence, individual and specific enzyme status and deficiencies, liver and colon toxicity levels, kidney function and stress, calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, and trace minerals/electrolyte levels, the body’s ph and metabolism to name a few.
BLOOD ANALYSIS— isolates potential food allergies (many of which can be corrected by specific digestive enzymes) that often are a contributing factor to the health and well being of the child.
STOOL ANALYSIS—Diagnosis of candida, parasites, and intestinal permeability (which can contribute to neurological interference and imbalances) are determined through stool analysis.
HAIR ANALYSIS—Heavy metals and mineral levels are determined by hair analysis. Through this test the nutritionist is able to determine to which specific neurotoxins in the environment the child has been exposed.
Chemicals in our children’s environment from the water they drink, the water they bathe in, the food they eat, and the air they breathe play a profound role in the increased incidence of birth and developmental defects, particularly the increase in attention problems, autism, and learning disabilities. It has been established that one in every six children in America suffers from problems such as autism, aggression, dyslexia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A variety of theories have been advanced to explain this increase. Through the variety of body analysis described above, the nutritionist is able to determine which of the major body imbalances are contributing to the child’s problems and special needs. Each child is then placed on an individual protocol of therapeutic supplements and diet to correct these deficiencies, imbalances and toxicities. Natural oral chelation supplement therapy is implemented if heavy metals are found to exist. Children are re-assessed at three-month intervals with a view toward achieving optimal bio-chemistry, nutritional sufficiency, and gentle natural detoxification.
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