Autism and Mercury Poisoning

Medical News Today reported on a study whereas the implications of the results are so profound, I am almost tempted to type this week's Health Tip in bold print. By using a highly accurate, inexpensive Urine test, researchers have found that autistic children were clinically found to be mercury poisoned. This study, conducted in 2006, used French and American children. Mercury levels were taken from two groups, children with autism and children without. Normal siblings of children with autism were also tested. The children with autism were found to have toxic mercury blood levels high enough to have been clinically poisoned from mercury. The more severe the autism, the higher the levels of mercury. The children without autism, including siblings, did not demonstrate any levels of mercury poisoning. The urine test, Urine Porphyrin Profile Analysis (UPPA) is being used to test for mercury in populations of autistic children, identify children and adults who were mercury poisoned and measure the removal of mercury in poisoned individuals via chelation therapy. According to the article, researchers on autism were divided into two camps. One group felt autism was a genetic abnormality the other group felt that autism developed do to ingredients in vaccines and other medicines. A recent paper based on the Autism Genome Project 2007, found that there was no statistically significant linkage to autism and genetics. On the other hand, Mercury toxicity from vaccines and other medicines containing thimerisol, clearly shows a clinical link to autism. Thimerisol, up until recently was a main ingredient in vaccines and is currently used in the Flu shot, which is still being recommended to pregnant mothers, babies and small children. The Center for Disease Control estimates that the autism rate in New Jersey is 1 for every 94 children. Any parent who wants to have his or her child tested for mercury poisoning can do so at any Labcorp with a prescription for UPPA CLIA Certified Test # 120980. Chelation Therapy is a process using intravenous minerals that gradually remove mercury from the body. Chelation Therapy is performed in Medical Doctors office's that specialize in said treatment.

Thought for the Week: "He who stops being better, stops being good." --- Oliver Cromwell

Chiropractic Thought for the Week: "In chiropractic, the doctor /client relationship is different than the doctor/patient relationship. Patients have a short term outlook (get me out of pain), patients look at chiropractic as something that happens to them and they see health as a destination. Chiropractic clients enjoy a long term perspective, they are in-touch with their bodies and want to opitimize their health. Clients see health as a process, not a destination. The client realtionship is more of a partnership approach to health with open lines of communication. Are you a client or a patient?" ------- Bill Esteb, Health Care Author