Jump to content
RemedySpot.com

Deliquency and Food.html

Rate this topic


Guest guest

Recommended Posts

Deliquency and FoodPLEASE PUT ON FOODS LINK ON CHILDSCREEN

Kathy

YOU ARE WHAT YOU DIGEST:

STUDY OF DELINQUENTS:

A PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL STUDY OF DELINQUENTS

von Hilsheimer,

The Humanist Press,

549 Turnpike Road

Golden Valley, MN 55416, 1977

(This article has been reprinted with permission from the author)

MALABSORPTION AND DELINQUENCY

A way the hypothalamic choreographer might be deranged is by

malabsorption syndrome. If this suggestion is valid it directly leads to some

simple therapeutic guidelines and implications for inexpensive and productive

research.

Malabsorption might result from:

a.. constitutional inadequacy;

b.. failure of intestinal flora;

c.. some variant of celiac disease;(Salvadori, 1976

d.. other food intolerances, especially to cow's milk;

e.. toxins - e.g., lead or manganese, or even so common a

f.. substance as granulated cane sugar;

g.. psychosocial stress.

Malabsorption would result in:

a.. proteinurias caused by toxic processing in the gut and

b.. imbalances of protein intake;

c.. vitamin dependencies, also resulting from toxic

by-products

d.. and poor uptake, especially in the new born;

e.. lipidosis;

f.. mineral imbalance, especially deficiencies of zinc;

g.. ascorbic acid depletion;

h.. reactive allergies and other immune dysfunctions.

I suggest that malabsorption syndrome is a whole complex of

metabolic disorders which interact with psychosocial stress, infection,

allergies and endocrine disorders. Malabsorption is a stressor in itself.

Malabsorption is associated with high levels of circulating

adrenocortocotrophic hormone (ACTH) and with high levels of acetylcholine (ACh).

ACTH and ACh are in turn associated with modes of learning which are

characterized by poor habituation (the animals do not learn or unlearn well), by

high levels of avoidance, by efficient escape conditioning, by neophobia and by

poor instrumental conditioning. The experimental evidence suggests that children

with malabsorption will often be similar in their electrophysiological and

conditioning patterns to animals with lesions to the hypothalamus and to the

hippocampus. (Di Sant'Agnese & , 1962.)

Background

The term " malabsorption syndrome " describes the symptoms caused by

impaired intestinal absorption of nutrients. This syndrome characteristically

causes diarrhea, seatorrhea, weakness, weight loss, vitamin deficiencies and

hematologic abnormalities to appear. The onset of this syndrome may be sudden or

insidious. A thorough review of the condition is found in Losowsky, and

Kellerer (1974).

Celiac disease, and adult celiac disease (also known as nontropical

sprue), carbohydrate intolerance and pancreatic deficiency may also be

considered in a differential diagnosis.

Many authors have remarked on the similarity of the symptoms of

sprue and celiac disease to schizophrenia (Dohan, 1969). Abnormal levels of

hydrochloric acid in the stomach are associated with hysteria and neurosis

(Hepler, 1970). The classic celiac syndrome is said to occur in about one case

in every two thousand patients seen by pediatricians, and there is a similar

frequency of nontropical sprue in adults. However, one authority (Hodgkin, 1973)

reported seeing only one case of celiac disease and no sprue in ten years on a

British National Health Service with 2500 patients. My own experience is that

many physicians are reluctant to diagnose celiac disease and that the

variability of its frequency as a diagnosis may be even greater than that among

expert clinicians diagnosing diabetes from laboratory results (viz. from 2 to

76%. Jarrett & Keen (1976)).

Wheat or Gluten Sensitivity

Hemmings (1976) reports that circulating blood is flooded with

foreign protein after meals when many large molecular weight breakdown products

invade the blood stream. He says that 60% of bovine immmunoglobulin (Ig) G

labelled with radioiodine is recovered as breakdown products from rat tissue

eight hours after

feeding; and that 46% of alpha-gliadin is recovered as breakdown

prdoucts 24 hours after feeding. Alpha-gliadin is complexed in serum, which

suggests it may directly interfere with the biochemistry of the body.

Alpha-gliadin is the active toxic fraction of gluten in celiac disease (Baker,

1975).

Giadin digest causes at least third grade toxic effects in all cells

tested (lung, intestine, adrenal, kidney and carcinoma of the larynx) within

five hours in celiac patients and in normal controls. Oral papain seems to

protect against the toxic effect of gluten (Messer & Baume, 1976).

Jellife and Jellife (1976) indicate that the gut is " open " and

absorbs markedly more large molecule products in the first six months of life

than later. Cow's milk fed babies consequently have less competent immune

systems, more allergy and high risk for lipid abnormalities than breast fed

babies who are substantially protected from these effects.

The lymphocites from celiac patients react specifically to a

subfraction of gluten; similar immune responses are seen in other diseases

(Gowand & McGregor, 1965). The disease may spontaneously remit and patients may

tolerate wheat for years, then, for unknown reasons, the disease may recur and

respond to a gluten retricted diet (MacGregor, 1976).

and Losowsky (1975) in an extensive review found celiac

disease to be associated with many other diseases, particularly autoimmune

disorders, or immune deficiency diseases, hypo- and hyperthyroidism, myxedemic

madness, and elevated ACTH and ACh. Hypoglycemia is frequently associated with

celiac disease.

Celiac syndrome may appear quite late in life (Hamilton et al,

1976); may present without jejunal anomalies in the first biopsy, and the

tolerance for gluten may be high. The disease may be stimulated by an abnormally

high intake of grain products (Sewell & Blenkinsopp, 1976).

Gluten's effect is similar to that of plant lectin and may act as a

lectin due to cell abnormality. Gluten sensitivity has been seen as a sequel to

viral infection, and then may be progressive. The first degree relatives of

celiac patients have changes in jejunal cells similar to celiacs at a frequency

300 times that of the general population (Weiser & , 1976).

Both soya meat and bread extracts cause severe cytotoxicity

(whole-meal bread is less toxic than white); but serum abolishes cytotoxicity.

Soy lectin does not appear to be cytotoxic but wheat lectin causes cell rounding

and a toxicity distinctively different from that of gluten and bread (Freed &

, 1977).

The lymphocites of celiac patients show a marked increase in DNA

synthesis after in vitro incubation with a subfraction of gluten which is not

shown by the cells of controls. This results in an immune sensitization (Sikora

et al, 1976).

Alpha-tocopherol deficiency may be seen in patients with the

impaired fat oabsorption of celiac disease. The effect of Vitamin E's protection

against toxins may be lost in these cases (Binder, 1965).

This is also true for Vitamin D, and consequently, severe problems

of bone metabolism are often encountered (Losowsky et al, op cit).

The efficiency of the absorption of nutrition in the gut is strongly

affected by the balance of nutrients and by the presence of benign

microorganisms which assist in absorption and proudce essential vitamins

(Scrimshaw & Young, 1976; Rettger et al, 1935).

In an extensive survey Dohan (op cit) concludes that some

schizophrenias may be due to wheat or to gluten intolerances.

Singh and Kay (1976a, B) gave either gluten or a soy placebo to

schziphrenics in a double-blind, cross-over study. The gluten caused regression

in those patients who were least responsive to tranquilizers. The authors argue

that since anticholinergics cause regression in schizophrenics who are most

responsive to tranquilizers, then the effect of gluten is clearly different from

the effect of the anticholinergics and gluten's pathway of action may be an

immune, allergic or toxic reaction. The side effects from neuroleptic

tranquilizers were no different during the gluten and gluten-free periods of the

study.

Celiac " disease " is more properly called a syndrome. It appears to

be associated with and to mimic many other diseases. The point of view that it

is a very rare inborn error of metabolism which appears only in a classic form

in very young children and is not seen in modified or in subclinical forms is

not supported by the literature.

Proteinurias

During stress reactions the gut is passively permeable for many

substances which are normally rejected. For example, oral adrenalin and

histamine are toxic to an animal under stress but are not normally toxic. Horse

serum, given by mouth, is sensitizing when an animal has first been stressed,

but normally it is not. Endogenous metabolites which do not normally produce

immune reactions will do so under stress (Selye, 1950).

It is well known that excessive concentrations of amino acids in the

blood are highly toxic to the central nervous system (CNS) in certain inborn

errors of metabolism; but toxicity caused by dietary imbalance may occur without

an inborn error (Dodge et al, 1975).

More than 20 studies reviewed by Dodge and his colleagues indicate

that monsodium glutamate produces lesions of the hypothalamus and that

pyridoxine buffers this effect. Eating disproportionate amounts of amino acids

may provoke metabolic difficulties which mimic inborn errors of

metabolism(, 1965).

Vitamin Dependency

Hunt and his colleagues (1954) first suggested that some patients

might have an infirm requirement for very large amounts of vitamins. The

development of the evidence for vitamin dependency is thoroughly reviewed by

Scrivner (1973).

Vitamin dependency might also be a functional disorder. Diani (1975)

showed that sucrose diets produced muscle and nerve degeneration, loss of

absorptive cells, blood vessel lesions and signs of infection in the intestines

of diabetic Chinese Hamsters which were similar to findings in human intestines

(also see Fordtran, 1975). Sucrose, meat, alcohol and stress reduce or eliminate

the normal stomach flora. Vitamin K (as well as B vitamins) is synthesized by

the intestinal flora. Intestinal flora are commonly deficient in malabsorption

syndrome (Gordon, 1975). Cantor and Eichler (1977) found that sweets, like

opiates, are " super normal reinforcers:, and Levin (1977) has linked sugar to

hyperactivity.

Frequent bruising is a symptom of Vitamin K deficiency and also of

food allergy (Rea, 1976). Part of the folk lore of correctional institutions is

that delinquents are sugar addicts and that they bruise readily.

Long Term Effects of Malabsorption

The development of the hippocampus and the supply of

neurotransmitters are peculiarly vulnerable in the newborn and require adequate

supplies of thiamin and pantothenic acid, in particular. If these coenzymes have

been deficient, an imbalance of lactate to pyruvic acid will often persist

(Winick, 1976). When pantothenic acid is low the adrenals produce insufficient

steroids (Beau et al, 1955; Notwosky, 1968).

Winick (ibid) also noted that the ratio of pyruvate to lactose is

imbalanced in adults who suffered hypoxia and glucose deficiency at birth or

during infancy (THE CORD CLAMP THEORY, SEE #1 PROPOSAL on www.childscreen.org).

I found this imbalance in 18.5% of 101 delinquents surveyed (von Hilsheimer,

1977). Victor et al (1971) indicated that this imbalanced ratio could be due to

thiamin deficiency.

Axelrod and Trakotellis (1964) reported that pyridoxine deficiency

impairs cellular and humoral immunity; et al (op cit) suggested that

pyridoxine deficiency in the fetus may cause permanent immune defects.

Pyridoxine is also related to thyroid efficiency (Fisher, 1971; Pitman, 1971;

Rivlin, 1971). Pyridoxine deficiency results in major anomalies (, 1970)

and other problesm (Coursin, 1972).

Given the dietary habits of Americans generally, youth in

particular, and delinquents as an especially horrible example, these

deficiencies need not be due to malabsorption. Shneour (1974) reported that one

out of three preschool children are at serious nutritional risk by common

standards. Teen-aged mothers, in particular, have exceptionally poor nutrition

and increasing numbers of teenagers are mothers (Birch & Gussow, 1970).

Hill and his colleague (1977) have replicated three earlier American

studies by finding serious nutritional deficiencies in general surgery patients.

Many of our delinquents receive psychoactive drugs and it is well established

that vitamin deficiencies and derangement of insulin production can follow drug

treatment (Frenkel et al, 1973; Millichap, 1969).

In 1945 Weston Price (1970) reviewed an enormous number of field

observations that he had made of preindustrial populations before and after they

were introduced to a modern diet. He reported a significant increase in

anomalies of the face, palate and teeth of children who were born after the

introduction of white flour, refined sugar and processed foods. Price found that

in Melanesian, Polynesian and ish populations where economic factors or war

had caused isolated villages to rever to their preindustrial diet, the anomalies

did not occur in children born a year or more after reintroduction of the native

diet. Price observed Swiss, Scotch, African, Polynesian, Canadian Amerind,

Peruvian Amerind, Malanesian, Maori and Australian ahoriginal peoples in a

variety ofsituations. When Price examined teeth and apalats from thousands of

skulls associated with these peoples, he found that the older skulls did not

have dental irregularities and bony anomalies of the face and mouth, but that

these anomalies began to appear in significant numbers at the time the Western

diet was introduced.

Pasamanick and Knobloch (1966) reviewed a large number of studies

and concluded that toxemia and anoxia, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, mental

retardation, behavioral disorganization, and reading disability are functionally

related to dietary deficiency.

Other variables also linked to these problems (i.e., race, socio

economic stress and weather) appear to be triggers for the background dietary

stress. In other words, if your diet is very good then stresses are ignored.

Winick, Katchadurian Meyer and (1975) have shown that

children who were markedly malnourished before the age of two are significantly

shorter and have lower IQ's than those from the same group (Korean orphans

adopted into American homes) who were well nourished. This effect persists

despite the fact that the adoptive homes were all superior in income, education

and parental IQ to the generality of homes in America, and that the malnourished

and well nourished orphans adopted into these homes were above IQ norms and

achievement ranks for American children. Even in an enriched environment, early

nutritional stress retards development.

Lipids

The discovery that phenylketonuria (PKU) is a disease of amino acid

metabolism due to an heritable enzyme defect, provided a model which led to the

discovery of many heritable neurological disorders.

There are now nearly 150 well mapped inborn errors of metabolism

(Brady, 1976), a considerable number of which are essentially sphingolipidoses

(O'Brien, et al, 1972). These and less well traced abnormalities have been

reviewed by Rosenthal (1970) and are associated with the vitamin responsive

inborn errors reviewed by Scrivner (1973).

Lipid-free diets prevent reproduction; esperimental diets deficient

in essential fatty acids cause skin rash, small brain, delayed growth,

incomplete brain cell division, high neonatal mortality in the second generation

and other disorders in animals (Cantarow & Trumper, 1975).

Vulnerability of lipid metabolism is illustrated by the metabolism

of linoleic and linolenic acid. These two essential fatty acids do not

themselves appear in brain phospholipids but are desaturated in the liver to

form long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids which are then used in the CNS. This

biomagnification process is inhibited by disease, by deficient diet and where

genetic error is present (Crawford, et al, 1976).

Fleischman and his colleagues (1975) in a preliminary report on a

pilot study for this investigation noted that: the actions of the anti-psychotoc

drugs in enhancing dopamine turnover (Matthysse, 1973); the coordinated

functioning of neural transmitters-gamma- amino-butyric acid, dopamine,

acetylcholine and glutamic acid (, 1973); and symptoms associated with

dysfunctions in brain circulation (Issidorides, 1971), all suggest a central

role for lipids in any biological model for psychopathology.

Selye (op cit) reported that stress results in increased secretion

of ACTH, lymphopenia, eosinopenia, polymorphonuclear leucocytosis, lympolysis,

increased phagocytosis and antibody formation and gluconeogenesis (non-sugars

transformed into carbohydrates); these results may be reversed in stress of long

duration which is similar in its effects to longitudinal treatment with

glucocorticoids. The blood cells in capillaries tend to agglutinate into

irregular clumps, changing blood to a circulating sludge. Louvett-Doust obersved

this sludging of blood in schizophrenics (personal communication). Such sludging

results in endothelial anoxia of the stagnant type which is followed by thrombi

(and can readily be studied on the bulbar conjunctive).

Anti-coagulants do not prevent the sludging but transfusion of

saline, glucose, plasma or whole blood tend to break up the agglutinated masses.

Cells tend to adhere temporarily to the blood vessel walls and then the count

will rebound so that esosinopenia (etc.) is followed by esinophila (etc.).

The interaction of these immune mechanisms with lipids is well

established; cholesterol falls after surgery, hemorrhage, radium and X-ray

treatment and other stresses; ACTH treatment diminishes cholesterol (CL) in man

after six to eight days of treatment (45% fall in esterified, and 28% fall in

free CL. This effect is not related to diet since normal animals fed a fat free

diet will have normal CL content in organs and sometimes a slight incread, while

the adrenal lipids are severely depleted in the adaptation reaction.

Kurtz, Levy and Kanfer (1972) reported that cerebral sphingolipids

are reduced 30 to 50 per cent in pyridoxine deficient rats. Maniero et al (1973)

demonstrated that the brain phospholipds (PL) are more dynamically involved with

pyridoxine than PL from other organs.

Pyridoxine deficiencies in formula fed infants resulted in

irritability and seizures which required injections of 100 mg of B-6 to

remediate. The PL accunt for 20 to 25 per cent of the dry weight of mammalian

brain, the bulk of which is a component of myelin sheaths. The total lipid

deposition can be used as a measure of myelin synthesis because of the low

turnover in myelin. The total quantitity of PL may be associated with the degree

of arborization, or maturity, of the dendrites (Salvadori, 1976; Winick, op

cit).

Lipids provide the basic substrates for the nervous message tranport

system. Lipids also provide a flag for immune ractions affecting the CNS since

loss of certain lipids (notably sphyngomyelin and cerebrocide) into the blood

stream indicates lysis of CNS cells (Fishman & Brady, 1976; Schettler, 1967).

The lipoprotein transport system must have PL to function. The

normal range of the ratio of PL to CL is 1.00 to 1.2 (el & Reitman, 1963).

If PL is high in relation to CL it suggests:

1..leakage from the cell walls where it is a major constitutent

a. damage associated with coronary disease (Cramer, 1961);

b. lysis of cerebral cells.

2.Underproduction of CL due to elevated ACTH (Brown & Goldstein,

1976; Catt, 1971).

Phospholipid (PL) could be elevated in an immune reaction involving

the nerve sheath and brain cells. Central nervous system damage would liberate

sphyngomyelin and cerebrocide (which consists of sphygomyelin plus a galactose

molecule or two bound glucose molecurles). If galactose levels are elevated

with a high PL/CL ratio it would suggest that the high PL resulted from

breakdown of CNS cells.

Leopold and Kermer (1961) suggested that leucocytes interact with

lipid metabolism. The lysosomes, which are central to immune reactions, are

lipoproteins; and other phospholipoproteins are also are also involved in immune

ractions (Rappoport, 1973).

Diets high in cow's milk often are associated with an essential

fatty acid deficiency as well as with milk intolerance. Cow's milk allergy is

the most common childhood allergy and is especially high in children who were

not breast fed (Jellife & Jellife, (1976).

Pantothenic acid is also required for efficient metabolism of

lipids, and when the hoxos monophosphate shunt in the citric acid cycle is

utilized the demand for thiamin and pantothenic acid is increased. Pantothenic

acid is a constitutent of coenzyme A (which is the cofactor for acetylation,

especially of acetylcholine) which is utilized in the metabolism of

carbohydrates, fats, protein, synthesis of fatty acids, cholesterol and other

steroids.

If these metabolic pathways were deranged because of malabsorption,

or hyperimmune reactions stimulated by the toxins procuded in malabsorption, the

lipoprotein structures in the brain would be highly vulnerable. The mean half

life of protein in the brain is about 14 days (four grams synthesis per day).

The brain lipoprotein molecules are very dynamic and the constitutent amino

acids are constantly moving into and out of the protein molecules ( et

al, 1970).

Trace minerals are not generally regarded as important mediators of

lipid metabolism; however, Fleischman (1966, 1967) has reported normalization of

blood lipids in patients at risk for cardiac disease by the use of calcium

Rimland (1977) reported that phamacological doses of pyridoxine

produced irritability in young mental patients which was relieved by magnesium.

and Fleischman (1975) reported on a number of interactions of trace

minerals with psychophysiolocial measures in delinquents.

Trace Minerals

Zinc

a.. Davies (1974) reviewed an impressive series of mineral

deficiencies which can result because of excessive intake of one metal versus

another which has similar chemical properties. The most likely excess is of

copper which imbalances zinc. Because of zinc's role in the hippocampus, and its

role as a potentiator of ACTH zinc may be a central factor in delinquent

behavior. Zinc is lost when copper is high and copper stimulates hyperactivity.

b.. There are at least 27 zinc proteins and eznymes with 15 metal

enzyme complexees which are activated by zinc (Parisi & Valee, 1969).

c.. The role of zinc in human health is reviewed by Prasad (1976).

d.. Horse racing stables often give copper to their animals before

a race to encourage speed and generally higher activity (Krischer, 1975).

e.. Flowers (personal communication) has supplemented the diet of

stallions with zinc for some 20 years as a method to promote stallion fertility.

He also supplements the food of mares with manganese for fertility and viability

of the foal. Zinc is well known to have a sedating effect and is both

synergistic with and antagonistic to copper in a complex interaction (Krischer,

op cit).

f.. Generally zinc deficiency is associated with high zinc

excretion and inadequate removal of metallic toxins (Pfeiffer & Iliev, 1972).

When lead toxicity produces porphyria (including mild and subclinical states)

zinc is chelated by uroporphyrin and excessive amounts are excreted. Copper is

accumulated and pyridoxine is bound while manganese is excessively excreted.

Higher doses of pyridoxine and zinc increase the excretion of copper and iron

and lower the excretion of coproporphyrin. Excretion of kryptopyrole decreases

in proportion to the improvement in patients' mental and physical condition

(Lokken, et al, 1973).

g.. Zinc deficiency results in poor condition of hair and skin

since zinc improves the value of some amino acides in protein formation

(McConnel et al, 1970).

h.. Lack of sufficient zinc is associated with learning deficits

and poor brain development (Lokken, op cit); hyperactivity and aggression

(Halas, et al, 1975); diabetes (amador et al, 1975); epilepsy (Barbeau &

son, 1973); and loss of taste and poor growth (Hambidge et al, 1972).

i.. The metal is central to rapid cellular division (as well as to

the formation of the pyrolle ring in hemoglobin) and any appreciable stress may

be manifested by redistribution of tissue zinc and excessive excretion (Pallaut

& Kirchgessner, 1973; Alvares et al, 1973).

j.. Zinc deficiency produces symptoms indistinguishable from B

vitamin deficiency; however, this is a distinct entity and remediation is not

achieved by supplementation with B vitamins alone without zinc (Mahloudji et al,

1976).

k.. Dietary iron probably antagonizes zinc and while supplements

of the two together do not promote growth in malnourished boys supplementation

with either alone does promote growth (Ronaghy et al, 1974).

l.. Zinc supplementation promotes grwoth in malnourished boys even

thoush the plasma zinc levels remain subnormal ( Mesrobian, 1971).

m.. Zinc promotes knitting of bone fractures ( & Moynahan,

1973) and healing, while its deficiency is associated with skin lesions (Saito &

Matsumoto, 1973).

n.. Insulin, glucose and zinc have similar effects increasing

glucose utilization and glycogen (Masironi, 1973).

o.. Serum ACTH and zinc are positively correlated and zinc

potentiates the effect of ACTH (Flynn et al, 1971).

p.. Zinc, as well as chromium, manganese and vanadium usually have

beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system; cadmium and cobalt are harmful

( et al, 1973).

q.. Vitamin A requires zinc for its mobilization (Ogiso et al,

1974).

r.. Zinc is synergistic with and also antagonistic to copper and

an excess of one will deplete the other (Krishnamacharic, 1974). Severe adrenal

insufficiency may be accompanied by increased tissue copper and reduced zinc

(Pfeiffer, et al 1969).

s.. Zinc relieves the depression associated with exclusively

intravenous feeding (and dialysis dementia) (Kay & Tasman-, 1975).

(ALUMINUM FOUND IN IV's!)

t.. In acrodermatitis enteropathica, a zinc deficiency disorder, a

characteristic mood change is often dismissed by physicians who label the

patients schizoid, depressed, miserable or sullen. These patients resent

attention, are not relieved by cuddling or similar appropriate behaviors, are

photophobic and avoid direct eye contact like autistic patients. All these

symptoms are relieved by zinc supplementation but will recur in fever. The

visual cones are very sensitive to zinc deficiency and color vision which has

been lost in a chemically induced optic atrophy will be restored with zinc

(Endre & Katona, 1976).

u.. Zinc seems to regulate linoleic acid and in its absence the

acid accumulates and is immunosuppressive. When zinc is supplemented,

individuals with negative skin tests to allergens may give positive reactions

(Guiraleds et al, 1975).

v.. Zinc is concentrated in the hippocampus, especially in its

mossy fibers. Zinc may be important in the ontogeny of the hippocampus and serve

as a substrate for synaptic functions in neurotransmission (Crawford & Connor,

1975).

w.. In schizophrenics and alcoholics there is less zinc in the

hippocampus than in normal controls (McLardy, op cit).

x.. Alcoholics excrete zinc at a much greater rate than controls.

This excessive loss is inhibited by treatment with pyridoxine (Sullivan &

Lankford, 1965).

Copper & Manganese

a.. Excessive copper is associated with some schizophrenias,

manic depression, epilepsy (Barbeau & son, op cit), alcoholism

(especially with chromium deficiency), hyperkinesis (Pfeiffer, op cit) and

pellagra (Krishnamacharic, op cit).

b.. Schroeder (1966) surveyed the literature on manganese

metabolism finding that deficiencies may be associated with sterility, decreased

libido, birth problems and defects, increased excitability and tendency to

convulsions. Industrial manganism is a disorder chiefly of the CNS. Early

manifestations of the disease mimic schizophrenia, and manganism symptoms are

similar to Parkinsonism. Cotzias (1962, 1969) suggested that the phenothiazines,

which complex one form of manganese, cause Parkinsonism as a toxic effect by

mobilizing manganese. If this idea is correct then manganese from other tissues

is moved to the brain.

c.. Kunin (1976) reported that hair magnangese was low in some

chronic schizophrenic patients and in 15 cases, four responded promptly and well

to managanese supplementations, while nine enjoyed moderate improvement. Kunin

also suggests that the Parkinsonism may be a result of exacerbation of manganese

deficiency caused by the chelating activity of the phenothiazine. In some of his

patients these effects were buffered by manganese supplementation.

d.. The efficiency of absorption of metals is effected by dietary

variables, and ascorbic acid, in particular, is required in adequate amoutns for

efficient utilization. Pyridoxine is the orchestrator of the transaminase

functions and is a central coenzyme for metal metabolism.

Ascorbic Acid

Stone (1972) reviewed the literature documenting the involvement of

ascorbic acid in a large series of biochemical interactions. Stone suggests that

the primates (including man), guinea pigs and the fruit bat suffer an inborn

error of metabolism, namely that they cannot manufacture ascorbic acid as do

other mammals. He states that the need for ascorbic acid varies enormously in

humans. If man's requirements under stress are comparable to the amounts

manufactured by other animals, the needs of delinquents should be substantially

greater than several grams daily.

Varicose veins under the tongue were discribed by Lind 200 years

agoas a sign of scurvy. In 1976 reported that the endothelium of small

blood vessels repture when ascorbic acid is deficient. This phenomenon is

frequently seen in the elderly, and in some younger people, but is rarely seen

in vegetarians or after supplements of ascorbic acid. (1976) reviewed

studies which show that even when plasma levels of ascorbic acid remained

relatively high, healthy young men deprived of Vitamin C for only a month

exhibited vascular changes with petechial hemorrhages in the skin, under the

tongue and in the conjunctivae.

Ascorbic acid deficiency is associated with collagen damage,

decrease in phagocytic action of white cells of tyrosine metabolism, thyroid and

adrenal efficiency and platelet aggregation. Ascorbic acid levels fall below

15ug/108 cells in normal people after a cold.

Capillary fragility increases in diabetics who have normal blood

levels of C but is reduced by a one gram daily supplement. Chronic low C

disorders the lipid metabolism and increases the level of cholesterol.

(1976) notes that ascorbic acid potentiates antibiotics and

is depleted in the leucocytes and plasma by the common cold and in allergy. When

given with aspirin the uptake of both is enhanced.

Sprince (1976) demonstrated that ascorbic acid interacts with drugs

that block the effects of the catecholamines, greatly increasing their

efficiency.

Halliwell (1976) reported that the toxicity of hyperbaric oxygen in

rats is lowered by ascorbic acid which enters the lung tissue and binds

superoxide; he suggested the use of high doses of ascorbic acid in insecticide

poisoing (paraquat). The use of substances with similar antioxidizing effects

has been substantiated in other toxicities. For example, Brown (1976) reports

successful use of sodium bicarbonate in detoxifying tricyclic antidepressant

overdoses (also see Editors, 1976a). Randolph (1976) used intravenous ascorbic

acid with sodium bicarbonate to detoxify heroin addicts.

Kubala and Katz (1960) report that when dietary supplements of

ascorbic acid increase the blood ascorbate, IQ also increases.

Holmes and (1935) reported that ascorbic acid could be sed

to reduce tissue lead burden.

Hyperimmune reactions

The CNS and the immune system protect the whole organism in

remakably similar ways (Salk, 1969). Stein, Schiavi and Camerino (1976) reviewed

the research in psychoimmunology and found substantial evidence of rich

interactions among emotion, behavior and immunity.

Resistance to infection may be modified by experience: In laboratory

animals, avoidance conditioning, stressingly loud sounds, living in groups

rather than in isolation, fighting, and exposure to predators have all been

shown to decrease resistance to infection;

The development of neoplasms may be modified by experience:

a.. Brief daily handling and mild electric shock in early

different housing and separation by gender reduce survival time after

implantation of cancers in experimental animals.

b.. Infective agents and types of cancer interact differently

after varying experiences;

Avoidance learning, overcrowding, grouping dominance, complex

perceptual enrichment, conflict conditioning, stressing stimuli, brief handling

during the nursing period, and electric shock have all been known to alter

plasma levels of cortisol, levels of antibodies, timing of responses, and

levels of histamine;

Hypothalamic lesions effect the humoral immune responses and there

is some evidence that they also modify cell mediated immune responses.

Bartrop and his colleagues (1977) made the first demonstration of a

post stress abnormality in immune function which was not obviously caused by

hormonal mediators. They found lymphocytes severely depressed in 27 healthy

bereaved spouses measured two and six weeks after bereavement. They found no

difference between the bereaved and their matched controls in number of T and B

cells, protein, autoantibodies, delayed hypersensitivity, or in cortisol,

prolactin, growth hormone or thyroid.

and Schupf (1977) demonstrated that antigen injected

through healed impanted cannulas into rat brains caused behavior changes in

thirsty rats similr to the effects of norepinephrine; but did not cause

overeating in sated rats in the way that norepinephrine does. Apparently a

direct immunochemical binding of cells can mediate behavioral changes without

using humoral agents.

In 1961 Crook and his colleagues reported on 50 patients and

reviewed the literature giving evidence of allergy mediated fatigue, confusion

and related symptoms. (1068) reported on allergic cerebral edema with

subsequent behavioral disorders. A historical review of neurological allergy was

given by on in 1952.

Rowe (1928, 1931) reported on psychological symptoms in reactions

to common foods. Manfestations of human disease in transaction with the

environment have been summarized in Dickey (1976).

Lockey (1971) reported that salycilates in foods and other food

chemicals provoked hives and other symptoms. Feingold (1973, 1976) extended this

finding to include hyperkinesis in children.

Hawley and Buckley (1976) confimred that discovery while

demonstrating that hyperkinesis could be provoked by very dilute solutions of

analine food dyes. Cunningham (1975a, 1975b) reported that 54% of the children

he has seen with a history of idiopathic seizures have a history of allergic

complaints (versus 34% of all patients in his clinic). Blood eosinophil counts

parallels susceptibility to allergy, infection and immunodeficiency (Schlegel &

Bellenti, 1969).

It seems apparent that malabsorption and other lesions might induce

hyperimmune reactions and that these reactions might induce behavior changes

leading to delinquency.

Consequences of Malabsorption

The literature reviewed suggests that if malabsorption is a common

ccurance among delinquents, then in many of them we would find that:

The literature reviewed suggests that if malabsorption is a common

occurrence among delinquents then in many of them we would find that:

1.. The ecology of the gut would be poor;

2.. Imbalances in blood chemistries and developmental anomalies

would indicate neonatal and fetal nutritional inadequacy;

3.. The adrenal glands would be depleted;

4.. The immune system would be over reactive.

1. Ecology of the gut.

In the gut we would expect the normal intestinal flora to be

absent or not thriving; the bowel movements would be characteristically bulky or

poorly formed and liquid, foul in odor, and the faeces would float and have

excessive fat content; hydrocholic acid would be poorly p4roduced. We would see

evidence of cell breakdown, particularly in the absorptive cells; such children

would have had many gastrointestinal (GI) complaints and as babies would have

been colicky and suffered from diarrhea and diaper rash. It isunlikely that they

were breast fed.

2. Indications of Nutritional Deficiency

The children will have more minor physical anomalies than

others. They will particularly have more dental anomalies than other children.

Many will have imbalanced lactate/pyruvate rations; pantothenic acid levels will

be low; lipid production will be deranged.

3. Adrenal Depletion

Ascorbic acid tolerance will be very high (indicting that the

adrenal and other stores of C are low); cholesterol will be low; thyroid low;

glucose and insulin curves will be erratic; ACTH and ACh high; and steroid low.

4. Overactive Immune System

Phospholipids will be high relative to cholesterol; eosinophils

high; polysegmented cells low relative to the level of lymphcytes; intradermal

injections of dilute fractions of allergens will produce many more reactions

than in normal children, and there will be other evidence of allergic, toxic and

food intolerance. IgA will be deficient and IgE excessively high.

These associations with malabsorption syndrome are by no means an

exhaustive list but include tests which are commonly ordered by general

practitioners and if such patterns are seen they would provide compelling

evidence for the existence of the syndrome even in the absnce of florid

symptoms.

Preliminary Studies

In 1969 I organized a strong medical program at my residential

treatment center, Green Valley. We standardized an extensive medical screening

on delinquents and so from 1970 through 1974, every admission to my program

received a blood chemistry screening which included the Auto-Analyzer (SMAC-12,

Profile II), CBC, and urinalysis (extended to include ascorbic acid and

hydrocholoric acid). Glucose tolerance tests were routinely done in 1970-71.

Some unusual hormones and metabolites were studied episodically.

From 1970 through 1974 evry admission routinely received

intradermal injections for skin reactions to at least 14 allergens plus saline

and histamine. From 1965 through 1974 we examined the stools of every child

admitted, for weight, fat content, parasites and composition. Results of these

studies have been reported elsewhere (Fleischman, 1975; & Fleischman,

1975; Klotz, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972a, 1972b, 1973; von Hilsheimer, 1970a, 1971a,

1971b, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977).

Integrity of the Intestinal Ecology

The faeces of these delinquents were characteristically loose,

bulky, light in color, foul and floated; the transit time for food (from eating

to elimination) was markedly slow. It was difficult or impossible to culture

lactobacillus acidophilus from the faeces. An unusual number of the adolescents

produced very little or no hydrochloric acid.

Burkitt (1976) claims that it is impossible to get normative data on

stool weight in European or American children. However, stools weight was

differentially distributed in our children and was roughly associated with

competence. Greater density correlated with a higher competence rating, which

also conformed to observations of eating habits,. In our center all the

operational staff ate in family settings with the delinquents and ethological

studies of eating practices were routinely summarized.

Stool fat content was significantly higher in our population

compared to laboratory norms. No parasites were reported in ten years of study.

If the children were divided into frequent and infrequent sick call

responders the habitual sick call attenders averaged a GI complaint every six

days. In their histories we characteristically found colic, poor sleep, a great

deal of diaper rash, eczema, GI problems and almost a third had respiratory

allergies. Unfortunately, we did not carry out immunoglobulin studies on these

adolescents. However, the cells associated with allergy - eosinophils - were

higher than in normal children.

There is no question but that the ecology of the intestines was

compromised in the children resident in our center.

Developmental Anomalies

A colleague and I (von Hilsheimer & Kurko, 1977) examined the minor

physical anomalies (MPA) of 244 middle class and 143 lower class kindergarten

children in Fort Worth, Texas; 42 small town junior high school children; 52

behavior disordered residents of a special school; 70 learning disabled

residential students; 32 pupils at a special elementary day school; and 10

children with the diagnosis " autism " .

We found that the middle class kindergarten pupils and the junior

high school students had similar numbers of anomalies. The lower class

kindergarten pupils and the behavior disordered residential students resembled

each other and had more MPA than the middle class and small town students. The

residential learning disabled students and the day school special education

pupils had similar higher numbers of MPA. The autistic children were higher in

anomalies than all the other groups.

The normal students (junior high and middle class kindergarten) had

the fewest anomalies. Significantly more anomalies were seen in the lower class

kindergarten children and the behavior disordered students. The special

education children, including the autistic, had more MPA than the other two

groups. As general social and school competence declined, the number of mPA

increased.

These findings support a number of studies which have found a higher

number of MPA in children associated with a variety of developmental

disabilities including hyperkinesis and learning disability (Binkley, 1971;

Daryn, 1961; Firestone et al, 1976; Rapoport et al, 1974; Rosenberg, 1973;

Waldrop et al, 1968; Waldrop & Halverson, 1969, 1971).

Adrenal Depletion

I reported (von Hilsheimer, 1976) on ascorbic acid spillage in 149

sequential admissions to Green Valley. Not one delinquent spilled ascorbic acid

on the day of admission, compared to two thirds of adolescents encontered

accidentally in the school system. In the next 13 months we ran wight surveys of

free ascorbic acid in the urine of our students. After a month of heroic efforts

to insure that substantial supplements were in fact ingested by the students, we

found 56% were spilling ascorbic acid in their urine. This was the best result

obtained despite the fact that the students were receiving from 4 to 44 grams of

ascorbic each every day. Ninety students ingested four kilograms each week. In

the eight other surveys the percentage spilling ascorbic acid ranged from 25 to

37. In a control group in the public schools who were not taking supplements 76%

spilled ascorbic acid.

Selye (op cit) reports that adrenal depletion is associated with

abnormalities in the ratio of polysegmented cells and lymphocytes. I reported

(von Hilsheimer, 1977) on a series of laboratory examinations on 229 adolescents

in residence from July 1970 through June 1972. The polysegmented/lymphocyte

ratio was abnormal in most of the delinquents examined. Cholesterol and thyroid

were weakly (but significantly) low. Glucose tolerance curves in three separate

studies (1970-72, 1972-73, 1973-74) were extremely erratic in all the

delinquents analyzed. This included all admissions in the first study,

sequential samples in the second, and accidental samples in the third. Eleven

per cent of the delinquents were low in 17-OH steroids, 72 % were low in

17-ketosteroids, 22% were low in creatinine and 62% of the boys were low in

testosterone (10% of the girls).

Klotz and his colleagues (1973) reported on three studies of the

behavioral effects of food as allergen using delinquents from Green Valley as

subjects. In the first study nurses were asked to report unusual behavior as

positive reactions after serial dilutions of food extracts were placed under the

tongue in a double blind method.

There were nine positive reactions, one of which was false, in 360

trials (placebo and active allergen.

Forty other subjects were observed by medically naive aides at

physical education and only one dilution was given of four food extracts.

Thirteen positive reactions were reported in 320 trials, three of which were to

placebo.

Eleven psychotic subjects were absolutely fasted, receiving nothing

but spring water while living in an air filtered secure room. Eight of the

eleven subjects became distinctly improved or symptom free within five days.

When these eight were challenged with placebo or active fractions of food

extract in a double blind method, all eight positively reacted to allergen with

no false positives.

These authors conclude that when a preselected panel of patients is

screened the sublingual method of testing allergens is valid and reliable. The

idea that common foods may provoke unusual behavior was strongly supported.

Immune Reactions

Klotz (op cit) reported on ten years of his clinical and research

experience with delinquents at Green Valley. Only four out of 105 youngsters

seen by him in 1970 failed to have significant whealing to intradermal

injections of allergen (given in a double-blind method).

Fleischman et al (1975) found the ratio of phsopolipids to

cholesterol to be high in delinquents at Green Valley and suggested that this

might be due to lysis of the CNS. He suggested that an autoimmune or other

immune mechanism might be causing a loss of phospholipid. My finding (1977) that

a high percentage of our delinquents had excessive glactose, a sugar broken down

from phospholipids, tended to confirm this suggestion. These delinquents

resemble psychiatric patients in having low immunoglobulin A, which is necessary

for absorption of food (Sabiliahti 1972; Tomasi, 1968).

Jellife and Jellife (op cit) reported that cow's milk intolerance is

the most common childhood allery and is much more frequent in children who were

not breastfed. Less than 5% of the children sent to us were breastfed babies.

Losowsky and his colleaues (op cit) reported that cow's milk intolerance may be

indistinguishable from gluten intolarance and may occur together. matthew and

his colleagues (1977) reported that when infants are maintained on an allergen

avoidance 5routine they have far fewer allergic symptoms at six months and one

year than controls and a lower IgE serum level at six weeks.

We found that our children ate disproportionaely large amounts of

wheat, corn and cow's milk. These three substances, plus tobacco and coffee,

were the most frequent foods provoking symptoms in these youngsters. Corwin

(1975) reported that cooked foods, especially when they are rapidly cooked or

cooked at high temperatures, are more stressing to animals than raw or slowly

and lightly cooked foods. We found that our delinquents were more reactive to

fast food products than to more gently cooked foods.

Our adolescents seemed markedly responsive to allergen challenge.

Foods were especially provocative of florid symptoms. Other evidence of allergic

hyperreactivity such as elevated eosinophils confirmed this evidence.

If we look at the data in these preliminary reports from the

standpoint of the predictions made by a theory that malabsorption frequently

occurs in delinquents the results are compelling;

a.. The delinquents have poor gut ecology; They have a

statistically significant larger number of minor physical anomalies which are

associated with perinatal stress and poor nutrition;

b.. The delinquents were depleted of ascorbic acid and

demonstrated other metabolic anomalies associated with chronic stress and

adrenal depletion;

c.. The delinquents are much more reactive than other subjects to

injections of allergens into the skin when compared to controls; and they

demonstrate a number of metabolic characteristics associated with immune

deficiencies.

Evidence for Malnutrition in Middle Class Delinquents

Summarizing the preliminary reports reviewed above and looking at

my delinquents in their light suggest that compared to other children:

1.. Delinquents are more often products of unfortunate

pregnancies;

2.. They suffer more pregnancy and birth complications;

3.. They are seldom breast fed;

4.. They have more colic and other early indications of GI

distress and food intolerance;

5.. They are often victims of celiac syndrome and other inborn

errors of metabolism;

6.. They are early addicted to diets high in sugar and refined

carbohydrates;

7.. They have poor absorption of food deficient intestinal flora,

and slow transit times for food products moving through their guts;

8.. They have thiamin, pyridoxine and pantothenic acid

deficiencies as neonates.

These facts suggest that delinquents are at high risk for unusual

CNS development, CNS damage, poor continuing synthesis of CNS amino acids and

neural transmitters, and are extremely vulnerable to derangements of the immune

and allergy systems.

Comments in 1998

We studied 114 delinquents using 61 different measures.

a.. A Neuropsychological Taxonomic Key accurately (.87) predicted

prognosis of 1. excellent outcome; 2. good outcome but learning disabled; 3.

criminal recidivist (catastrophic outcome); 4. chronic patient (poor outcome).

b.. A Biological Taxonomic Key accurately (.82) predicted 1.

active cooperation; 2. agitated acting out; or 3. passive incompetence.

c.. " Status " delinquents (no active crime) who enjoyed excellent

outcomes were healthiest in six general categories of measurements (z=6.73, p =

1-10).

d.. Active delinquents differed from status delinquents in having

significantly greater dysphoria; more minor physical anomalies (MPA); more

allergic reasctions; higher insulin; lower thyroid; more eosinophils, monocytes,

and lymphocites and fewer polysegmented cells; more Ca, Mg, Cu, Zn and Pb, and

less Na, K, Mn and Li; lower lipids and either very high or very low rations of

phospholipids to cholesterol; higher galactose; and metabolite measurements,

especially glucose and insulin, were much more variable than in status

delinquents.

e.. Active, agitated criminal adolescents significantly differed

from other adolescents with similar diagnosis and with learning disability (LD),

schizophrenia (SZ) or status delinquents in having a higher basal skin

resistance (BSR), fewer orienting responses by GSR (OR); less verbal

stabilization of the OR, less condition ability, high pain tolerance.

f.. LD adolescents who were passive tended to be less biologically

competent than LD adolescents who were active and agitated.

g.. SZ adolescents tended to commit more serious felonies than all

others and to be less biologically competent than SZ status delinquents.

Neuropsychologically competent but actively criminal adolescents

who did not demonstrate LD had very low phospholipids, poor lead excretion, and

were biologically less competent than status delinquents.

Criminal, felon SZ, and chronic patients had the greatest evidence

of malabsorption syndrome of all the subjects, who generally evidenced

malabsorption. Felon SZ had lower hair Cu than SZ patients who were not actively

delinquent.

Minor Physical Anomalies (MPA) correlated significantly with the

overall battery, and even more highly with lipids and conditioning.

Lipid levels and ratios, conditioning and MPA were efficient

predictors of recidivism. MPA are not likely to be a result of post natal

psychosocial stress and MPA give an estimate of the biological vector in the

etiology of delinquency. The data did not support unitary concepts of " brain

damage " , " organicity " , psychosis, delinquency or learning disability.

Formally adjudicated delinquents were unlike normal controls, and

actively criminal delinquents were unlike status delinquents. Schizophrenics

were reliably separated into three distinct patterns; LD into four; and a

Taxonomic Key reliably described 9 distinct patterns of delinquency,

significantly agreed with ethological observation by briefly trained volunteers

(.42, p=.001).

There is no reasonable basis for denying that

1.. delinquents are different;

2.. the manner in which they are different is biologically

vectored;

3.. inexpensive screening reliably separates those for whom

interventions are likely to prevent further delinquency; and

4.. reliable methods of correction should begin with competent

medical care.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER THREE, MALABSORPTION IN DELINQUENTS

a.. Alvares, O.F. et al, J. of Oral Pathology, 1973, 2.

b.. Amador, M. Hermelo, M., Flories, P. & , A., letter,

Hair-zinc concentrations in diabetic children, Lancet, 1975, 7945

c.. Axelrod, A.E. & Trakotellis, A.C. Relationship of pyridoxine

to immunological phenomena. Vitamin & Hormones, 1964, 22, 591

d.. Baker, P.G. Facts about gluten, letter, Lancet, 1975, 7948,

1307

e.. Barbeau, A. & son, J. Zinc, taurine & epilepsy. paper

read at the 8th Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences, 1973

f.. , P.M. & Moynahan, E.J. Royal Soc of Medicine, 1973, 66

g.. Bartrop, R.W., Lockhurst, E., Lazarus, L., Kiloh, L.G. &

Penn6, R. Depressed lymphocyte function after bereavement. Lancet, 1977,

1:8016, 834-836

h.. Beau, W.B., Hodges, R.E., & Daum, K. Pantothenic acid

deficiency induced in human subjects. J. Clin. Invest., 1955, 34:1073

i.. Binder, H.J., Herting, D.C., Hurst, V., Finch, S.C. & Spiro,

H.M. Tocopherol deficiency in man. New Eng. J. of Med., 1965, 273-1289 1965).

j.. Binkley, E.L. Jr. Some characteristics of allergic pediatric

patients. Fuller Memorial Sanitarium Symposium on Ecologic Medicine, South

Attleboro, Mass., 1971

k.. Birch, H.G. & Gussow, J.D. Disadvantaged Children: Health,

Nutrition and School Failure. Harcourt, Brace & World, N.Y. 1970

l.. Brady, R.O. Inherited metabolic diseases of the nervous

system. Science, 1976, 193:4255, 733-739

m.. Brown, T.C.K. Tricyclic antidepressant overdosage:

experimental studies on the management of circulatory complications. Clin. Tox.,

1976, 9:2, 255-272

n.. Brown, M.S. & Goldstein, J.L. Receptor-mediated control of

cholesterol metabolism. Science. 1966, 191:4223, 140-154

o.. , M.D. Neuological allergy. Rev. of All., 1968, 22,

80.

p.. Cantarow, A. & Trumper, M.M. Lipids. in Clinical Biochemistry,

5th edition. Latner A.L., ed. W.B. Saunders, Phila., 1975

q.. Cantor, M. and Eichler, R.J. reported in Science News, 1977,

111:19, 299. (Chemtech, April, 1977).

r.. Catt, K.J. An ABC of Endocrinology. Little, Brown & Co.,

Boston, 1971

s.. , H.E. Utilization of essential amino acids by man. in

Newer Methods of Nutritional Biochemistry, Vol. II, Albanese, A.A., ed.Academic

Press, New York, 1965

t.. Cotzias, G.C. Manganese. in Mineral Metabolism, an Advanced

Treatis. Comar, C.L. & Bronner, F., eds. Academic Press, New York, 1962

u.. Cotzias, G.C. Metabolic modification of some neurological

disorders. J.A.M.A., 1969, 210, 1255-1262

v.. Coursin, D.B. Pyridoxine. in Pediatrics, 15th Edition.

Barnett, H.L. & Einhorn, A.H., eds. Appleton-Century Crofts, New York, 1972

w.. Crawford, M.A., Hassam, A.G., , G. & Whitehouse,

W.L.

x.. Essential fatty acids and fetal brain growth. Lancet, 1976,

1:7957, 452-453

y.. Crawford, I.L. & Connor, J.D. Zinc and hippocampal function.

J. of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 1975, 4:1, 39-52

z.. Daryn, E. Problems of children with diffuse brain damage.

Archives Gen. Psychiatry, 1961, 4, 105

aa.. Davies, N.T. Trace metal deficiencies, Proc. Nutr. Soc.,

1974, 33, 293

ab.. , S.D., , T. & Shepard, T.H. Teratogencicity of

Vitamin B-6 deficiency: omphalocele, skeletal and neural defects and splenic

hypoplasia. Science, 1970, 169:1329

ac.. Diani, A.R., Gerritsen, G.C., Stromsa, S. & Murray, P. A

study of the morphological changes in the small intestine of the spontaneously

diabetic chinese hamster. Diabetologia, 1976, 12, 101-109

ad.. Di Sant'Agnese, P.A. & , W.O. The celiac syndrome

(malabsorption) in pediatrics: classification, differential diagnosis,

principles of dietary management. J.A.M.A., 1962, 180, 308.

ae.. Dodge, P.R., Prensky, A.L. & Geigin, R.D. Nutrition and the

Developing Nervous System. C.V. Mosby Co., St Louis, 1975

a.. Dohan, F.C. Schizophrenia: possible relationship to cereal

grains and celiac disease. in Schizophrenia: Current Concepts and Research.

Sankar, D.V.S., ed., PJD Publications Ltd., Hicksville, New York, 1969.

b.. Editors, Sodium bicarbonate and tricyclic-antidepressant

poisoning. Lancet, 1976a, 2:7990, 838

c.. Editors, Vitamin B6 and diaetes. Lancet, 1976b, 1:7963,

788-789

d.. Endre, L. & Katona, Z. Aetiology of cellular immune deficiency

in acrodermatitis enteropathica. Lanced, 1976. 1:7950, 91-92

e.. Firestone, P., Levy, F., , V.I. Hyperactivity and

physical anomalies. Can. Psycatric Assoc J. 1976, 1:21, 23-26

f.. Fisher, D.A. in The Thyroid. Werner, S.C. & Ingbar, S.H., eds.

Harper & Row, New York, 1971

g.. Fishman, P.H. & Brady, R.O. Biosynthesis and function of

gangliosides. Science, 1976, 194:4268, 906-915

h.. Fleischman, A.I., Yacowitz, H., Ha7yton, T. & Bierenbaum, M.L.

Effects of dietary calcium upon lipid maetabolism in mature male rats fed beef

tallow. J. of Nutr., 1966, 88, 255-260

i.. Fleischman, A.I., Yacowitz, H., Hayton, T. & Bierenbaum, M.L.

Long term studies on the hypolipemic effect of dietary calcium in mature male

rats fed cocoa butter. J. of Nutr., 1967, 91, 151-158

j.. Fleischman, A.I., Philpott, W.H., von Hilsheimer, G., ,

L., Milner, P. N. & Klotz, S.D. Lipid chemistry and the psychiatric patient. J.

of Orthomolecular Psychiat., 1975, 4:2, 168-173

k.. Flyn, A., Pories, W.J., Strain, W.H. & Hill, O.A., Jr. Mineral

element correlation with adenohypophyseal-adrenal cortex function and stress.

Science, 1971, 173, 1035-1036.

l.. Fordtran, J.S. Intestinal absorption of sugar in the human in

vivo. in Intestinal Absorption and Malabsorption. Czakty, T.Z., ed., Raven, New

York, 1975

m.. el, S. & Reitman, S. Cranduchl's Clinical Laboratory

Methods and Diagnosis, Vol. I. C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1963

n.. Freed, D.L.J. & , R.J. Cytotoxicity of bread and soya

protein in tissue culture. Lancet, 1977, 8007, 371-372

o.. Frenkel, E.P., McCall, M.S. & Sheehan, R.G. Cerebrospinal

fluid folate, and Vitamin B12 in anticonvulsant-induced megaloblastosis. J.

Lab. Clin. Med., 1973, 81, 105

p.. Gordon, H.A. The role of the intestinal flora in absorption.

in Intestinal Absorption and Malabsorption. Czaky, T.Z., ed. Raven, New York,

1975

q.. Gowand, J.L. & McGregor, D.D. the immunological activities of

lymphocytes. Ped Aller., 1965, 9m 1-78

r.. Guiraleds, E. Sorensen, R., Gutierrez, C., Cofre, P. &

, B. Zinc sulfate for acrodermatitis enteropathica. Lancet, 1975,

2:7937, 710-711

s.. Halas, E.S., Hanlon, M.J. & Sandstead, H.H. Intrauterine

nutrition and aggression. Nature, 1975, 257:5523, 221-222

t.. Halliwell, B. Ascorbic acid and paraquat toxicity. Lancet,

1976, 2:7990, 854

u.. Hambidge, K.M., Hambidge, C., s, M. & Baum, J.D. Low

levels of zinc in hair, anorexia, poor growth, and hypogeusia in children.

Pediat. Res., 1972, 6:12, 868-874

v.. Hamilton, J. D., Chambers, R.A. & Wynn-, A. The role

of gluten, prednisone and asathioprine in non-responsive celiac disease. Lancet,

1976, 1:7971, 1213-1216

w.. Hemmings, W.A. Absorption of dietary protein. Lancet, 1976,

7961, 697.

x.. Hepler, O.E. Manual of Clinical Laboratory Methods, 4th

Edition. C. , Springfield, 1970.

y.. Hill, G.L., Pickford, F., Young, G.A., Schorah, C.J.,

Blackett, R.L., Burkinshaw, L., Warren, J.V. & , D.B. Malnutrition in

surgical patients, an unrecognized problem. Lancet, 1977, 1, 689-692

z.. Hodgkins, P. Toward a Better Diagnosis. & Unwin, London,

1973

aa.. Hunt, A.D., Jr., Stokes, J., Jr., McCrory, W.W. & Stroud,

H.H. Pyridoxine dependency: report of a case of intractable convulsions in an

infant controlled by pyridoxine. Pediat., 1954, 13, 140.

ab.. Issidorides, M.R. Neuronal vascular relationships in the zona

compacta of normal and parkinsonian substantia nigra. Bran Res., 1971, 15:2,

289-299

ac.. Jarrett, R.J. & Keen, H. Hyperglycaemia in diabetes mellitus.

Lancet, 1976, 2:7993, 1009-1012

ad.. Jellife, D.B. & Jellife, E.F.P. Breast is best. Lancet, 1976,

2:7986, 635.

ae.. Kay, R.J. & Tasman-, C. Zinc deficiency and intravenous

feeding. Lancet, 1975, 2:7935, 605-606

af.. Klotz, S.D., Putting medicine into the medical model. Human

Learning No. 9, J. am. Soc. Humanistic Ed., 1969, Orange City, FL

ag.. Klotz, S.D., How Green Valley put medicine in the medical

model. in How to Live with Your Special Child, von Hilsheimer, G. Acropolis

Books, Washington, D.C., 1970

ah.. Klotz, S.D., A new conept in the evaluation and treatment of

beio-behavioral disturbanced. Proc. lst Int. Congress of the Int. College of

Psychosomatic Medicine, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1971

ai.. Klotz, S.D., & von Hilsheimer, G. Allergy screening

consultation service to an inpatient psychiatric care center. Proc. Society for

Cllinical Ecology Advance Seminar for Physicians, Albuquerque, 1972a

aj.. Klotz, S.D., Making the child accessible for

teaching/learning: the role of the internist and allergist in learning

disabilities. in Doctor, Teacher, Parent, Child. Von Hilsheimer, G., ed.

Academic Therapy, San , Ca. 1972b

ak.. Klotz, S.D., Moeller, R.K. & von Hilsheimer, G. An apparent

" allergic " mechanism in psychiatric patients. Proc. 8th Int. Congress of

Allergy, Tokyo, Japan, 1973.

al.. Krischer, K. Metal metabolism and hyperkinesis. paper read at

11th Annual Conference of Clinical Ecology, Toronto, 1975

am.. Krishnamacharic, K.A.V.R. Some aspects of copper metabolism

in pellagra. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 1974, 27:2, 109

an.. Kubala, A.L. & Katz, M.M. Nutritional factors in

psychological test beahvior. J. Gen. Psychol., 1960, 9:6, 343-352

ao.. Kunin, R. Manganese and niacin in treatment of drug-induced

dyskinesis. J. Ortholmolecular Psychiat., 1976, 5:1

ap.. Kurtz, D.J., Levy, H. & Kanfer, J.N. Cerebral lipids and

amino acids in the Vitamin B6 deficient suckling rat. J. Nutr., 1972, 102:291

Leopold and Kermer (1961)

aq.. Levin, A.C. reported in Science News, 1977, 111:19, 299

(Behavior Today (1977)

ar.. Lokken, P.M., Halas, E.S. & Sandstead, H.H. Influence of zinc

deficiency on behavior. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med., 1973, 144:2, 680-682

as.. Losowsky, M.S., , B.E. Kelleher, J. Malapbsorption in

Clinical Practice. Churchill Livingston, Edinburgh, 1974

at.. MacGregor, G.A. Gluten and lymphocytes in celiac disease.

Lancet, 1976, 2:7990, 869

au.. Mahloudji , M., Reinhod, J.G., Haghshenass, M., Ronaghy,

H.A., Fox, M.R.S. & Halstead, J.A. Combined zinc and iron compared with iron

supplementation of diet of 6 to 12 year-old village school children in Southern

Iran. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 1975, 28:6, 721-725

av.. Maniero, G., Toffano, G., Vecchia, P. & Orlando, P.

Intervention of brain cortex phospholipids in pyridoxal phosphate-dependent

reactions. J. Neurochem., 1973, 20:1401

aw.. Masironi, R. Nutr. Rep. Internat. 1973, 7.

ax.. Matthysse, S. Antipsychotic drug action: a clue to the

neuropathy of schizophrenia. Federation Proc., 1973, 32, 200-205

ay.. McConnell, K., Hsu, J.M., Herrman, J.L. & , W.L 1970)

az.. McLardy, Lardy T. Hippocampal zinc and structural deficit in

brains from chronic alcoholics and some schizophrenics. J. Orthomolecular

Psychiat., 1975, 4:1, 32-38

ba.. Mesrobian, A.Z. Trace Subst. Environ. Hlth., 1971 U of Mo.

bb.. Messer, M. & Baume, P.E. Oral papain in gluten intolerance.

Lancet, 1976, 2:7993, 1022

bc.. Millichap, J.G. Hyperglycemic effect of diphenylhydantoin.

NEJM, 1969, 281, 447

bd.. , L.S. and Fleischman, A.I. Subclinical lead toxicity.

J. Orthomolecular Psychiat., 1975, 4:1, 61-70

be.. Nitwosky, H.M. Nutrition. in the Biologic Basis of Pediatric

Practice. Cooke, R.E. & Levin, S., eds. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968

bf.. O'Brien, J.S., Ho, M.W., Ukada, S., Zrekle, K., Veath, M.L. &

Tennant, L. Spingolipidoses: detection of heterozygotes and homozygotes. in

Sphingolipids, Sphingolipidoses and Allied Disorders. Volk, B.W. & Aronson,

S.M., eds. Plenum Publishing Co., New York, 1972

bg.. Ogiso, T., Moriyama, K., Sasaki, S., Ishimura, Y. & Minato,

A. Inhibitory effect of high dietary zinc on copper absorption in rats. Chem.

Pharm. Bull., 1974, 22:1, 55-60

bh.. Pallaut, J. & Krichgessner, M. Intern. A. Vit. Ern Forsch.,

1973, 23. & Kirchgessner, 1973;

bi.. Parisi, A.F. & Vallee, B.L. Zinc metallo-enzymes:

characteristics and significance in biology and medicine. Am.J.Clin.Nutr., 1969,

2, 1222

bj.. Pasamanick, B., & Knobloch, H. Retrospective studies on the

epidemiology of reproductive casualty: old and new. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly,

1966, 12:1, 7-26

bk.. Peiffer, C.C., Iliev, V., Goldstein, L. & Jenney, E.H. Serum

polyamine levels in schizophrenia and other objective criteria of clinical

status. in Schizophrenia: Current Concepts and Research. Sankar, D.V.S., ed. PJD

Publications Ltd., Hicksville, New York, 1969

bl.. Pfeiffer, C.C. & Iliev, V. a study of zinc deficiency and

copper excess in the schizophrenias. Intern. Rev. Neurobio., Suppletment 1,

1972, 141-165.

bm.. Pitman, J.A. in The Thyroid., Werner, S.C. & Ingbar, S.H.,

eds. Harper & Row, New York, 1971

bn.. Prasad, A.S. ed. Trace Elements in Human Nutrition and

Disease, Vol. I. Academic Press, New York, 1976

bo.. Price, W. A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

Price-Pottenger Foundation, Pasadena, Ca, 1970

bp.. Randolph, T.G. Ecological illness. in Clinical Ecology.

Dickey, L.D., ed. C. , Springfield, Ill., 1976

bq.. Rapoport, J.L., Quinn, P.O. & Lamprecht, F. Minor physical

anomalies and plasma dopamine-beta-hydroxylase activity in hyperactive boys.

Am.J. Psychiatry, 1974, 131:4, 386-390

br.. Rappoport, M.M. Can immunotherapy develop into a viable

discipline? in Psychopathology. Hammer, M., Salzinger, K. & Sutton, S., eds.

Wiley & Sons, New York, 1973

bs.. Rea, W.J. Cardiovascular issues in allergy. paper presented

at Advanced Workshop for Physicians, Society for Clinical Ecology, Dallas, 1976

bt.. Rettger, L.F., Levy, M.N., Weinstain, L. & Weiss, J.E.

Lactobacillus Acidophilus and its Therapeutic Application. Yale University

Press, New Haven, Cn 1935

bu.. Rimland, B. Infantile Autism. Appleton-Century Crofts, New

York, 1977

bv.. Rivlin, R. S. Vitamin metabolism. in The Thyroid. Werner,

S.C. & Ingbar, S.H., eds. Harper & Row, New York, 1971

bw.. , S., Zomzely, C.E. & Bondy, S.C. Protein synthesis in

the nervous system. in Protein Metabolism of the Nervous System. Lajtha, A., ed.

Plenum, New York, 1970

bx.. , E. Introduction to contributions of neurochemistry

to neurology and psychiatry (present and future). Feceration Proc., 1973, 32,

181-182

by.. Ronaghy, H.A., Reingold, J.G., Mahloudji, M., Ghavami, P.,

1974).

bz.. Rosenberg, J.B. & Weller, G.M. Minor physical anomalies and

academic performance in young school children. Devel. Med. Child Neurology,

1973, 15, 131-135

ca.. Rosenthal,, D. Genetic Theory and Abnormal Behavior.

McGraw-Hill, New York, 1970

cb.. Saito, M. & Matsumoto, T. Effects of dietary zinc level on

carbohydrate metabolism in the child. Nippon Chikusan Gakkai-Ho, 1974

cc.. Salk, J. in Part IV: Theoretical psychophysiological

considerations, general discussion. Bahnson, C.B., moderator. Ann. N.Y. Acad.

Sci., 1969, 164, 590-634

cd.. Salvadori, B., Vador, E. & Bachhi-Modena, A.

Lecithin/sphingomyelin ratios in otopharyngeal fluid. Lancet, 1976, 1:7956, 429

ce.. Schettler, G. Lipids and Lipidoses. Springer-Verlag, New

York, 1967

cf.. Schroeder, H.A., Balassa, J.J. & Tipton, I.H. Essential trace

metals in man: manganese. J. Chron. Dis., 1966, 19, 545-571

cg.. Schroeder, H.A. & Nason, A.P. Trace metals in human hair. J.

Invest. Derm., 1969, 53:1, 71-78

ch.. Shneour, E. The Malnourished Mind. Doubleday, Garden City,

New Jersey, 1974

ci.. , B.B. & Losowsky, M.S. Celiac disease: a cause of

various associated diseases? Lancet, 1975, 2:7942, 956-957

cj.. Scrimshaw, N.S. & Young, V. The requirements of human

nutrition. Sci. Am., 1976, 235, 50-64

ck.. Scrivner, C.R. Vitamin-responsive inborn errors of

metabolism. Metabolism, 1973, 22:1219

cl.. Sewell, J.R. & Blenkinsopp, E.C. Celiac disease unmasked by

self-challenge with wheat germ. Lancet, 1976, 1:7960, 638-639

cm.. Sikora, K., Anand, B.S., Trulove, S.C., Ciclitira, P.J. &

Offord, R.W. Stimulation of lymphocytes from patients with celiac disease by a

subfraction of gluten. Lancet, 1976, 2:7982, 389-91

cn.. Singh, M.M. & Kay, S.R. Gluten as a pathogenic factor in

schiophrenia. Lancet, 1976a, 191:4225, 401-402

co.. Singh, M.M. & Kay, S.R. Gluten and schiophrenia. Lancet,

1976b, 2:7987, 689-690

cp.. , J.C., Jr., Mc, E.G., Fan, F.F. & Halstead, J.A.

Zinc: a trace element essential in Vitamin A metabolism. Science, 1973,

181:4103, 954-955

cq.. Sprince, H. Med. Trib., 1976, 36

cr.. Stein, M., Schiavi, R.C. & Camerino, M. Influence of brain

and behavior on the immune system. Science, 1976, 191, 435-440

cs.. Sullivan, J.F. & Lankford, H.G. Zinc metabolism in chronic

alcoholism. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 1965, 17, 57-63

ct.. , G. Vitamin C and Stroke. Lancet, 1976, 1:6953, 247

cu.. Victor, M., , R.D. & , G.H. The

Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome. a clinical and pathological study of 245 patients,

82 with postmortem examinations. in Contemporary Neurology Series No. 7. Plum,

F. & McDowell, F.H., eds. F.A. Co., Philadeplphia, 1971

cv.. von Hilsheimer, G. Correcting the incorrigible. Am.Lab.,

1977.

cw.. von Hilsheimer, G. Is there a Science of Behavior? Humanitas

Press, Orange City, FL 1967

cx.. von Hilsheimer, G., How to Live with your Special Child: A

Handbook for Behavior Change. Acropolis Books, Washington, D.C., 1970a

cy.. von Hilsheimer, G., A behaviorist's apporach to reading.

Proc. 7th Int. Conf. Assoc. for Children with LD. Academic Therapy, San ,

1970b von Hilsheimer, G., Reading achievement as a function of maturity, diet

and manipulation of chronic states of high arousal. Proc. 8th Int. Conf. ACLD,

Chicago, Ill, 1971a von Hilsheimer, G., Klotz, S.D., McFall, G., Lerner, H., Van

West, A. & Quirk, D. The use of mega-vitamin therapy in regulating severe

behavior disorders, drug abuses and frank psychosis. Schizophrenia, 1971b, 3:1,

67-73

cz.. von Hilsheimer, G. Conditioning the unconditionable. Proc.

2nd Int.Cong. College of Psychosomatic Med.. Amsterdam, 1973

da.. von Hilsheimer, G., Allergy, Toxins and the Learning Disabled

Child, Academic Therapy, San , Ca., 1974

db.. von Hilsheimer, G., Philpott, W., Milner, P.N. & Tucker, J.T.

Ascorbic acid metabolism in a population of adolescent psychiatric patients. J.

Ortho. Psychiatry, 1976a 5:1, 43-44

dc.. von Hilsheimer, G., Hypersensitivity syndreome: an

ethological treatment apporach to unresponsive allergic and toxic patients. in

Clinical Ecology. Dickey, L.D., ed. C. , Springfield, Ill, 1976b

dd.. von Hilsheimer, G., Levy, A., Tucker, J.T., & , L.S.

HOD-MMPI: a comparison. J. Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 1977, 6:1, 8-17

de.. von Hilsheimer, G. Correcting the incorrigible, American

Laboratory, 1977a

df.. von Hilsheimer, G., & Kurko, V. Minor physical anomalies and

learning disability. J. of Learning Disabilities, 1977b

dg.. Waldrop M.F., Pedersen, F.A. & Bell, R.Q. Minor physical

anomalies and behavior in preschool children. Child Development, 1968, 39,

391-400

dh.. Waldrop, M.F. & Halvorson, C.F., Jr. Minor physical

anomalises: their relation to behavior in a normal and a deviant sample. paper

read at meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Santa ,

Ca, 1969

di.. Waldrop, M.F. & Halverson, C.F. Minor physical anomalies and

hyperactive behavior in young children. in Exceptional Infant, Vol II: Studies

of Abnormalities. Hellmuth, J., ed. Brunner Mazel, New York, 1971

dj.. Weiser, M.M. & , A.P. An alternative mechanism for

gluten toxicity in celiac disease. Lancet, 1976, 1:7959, 567-469

dk.. , C.A., Jr., & Schupf, N. Antigen-antibody reactions

in rat brain sites induce transient changes in drinking behavior. Science, 1977,

196:4287, 328-330

dl.. , C.W.M. Vitamin C for common colds. Lancet, 1976,

1:7959, 586

dm.. Winick, M. Malnutrition and Brain Development. Oxford

University Press, New York, 1976

dn.. Winick, M., Meyer, K. K. & , R.C. Malnutrition and

evnvironmental enrichment by early adoption. Science, 1975, 190:19, 1173-1175

do.. Bibliography von Hilsheimer Malabsorption and

Delinquency A Psychobiological Study of Delinquents, 1977 The Humanist Press,

Golden, Minnesota

Children’s Academy for Neurodevelopment & Learning

Brain Training Center: 918 S. Monroe St. Spokane, WA 99204 *

(509) 624-3109

Mailing Address: PO Box 10497 Spokane, WA 99209 * (509)

328-7308 FAX 509-325-1344

E-mail: kidscanlearn@...

Being the 'Best I Can Be' learning to live with prenatal exposure

brain damage.

Alcohol - meth - cocaine - heroin - marijuana exposure in the womb.

PARENTS NOTE: " Programs and activities are recommendations only and

are not medical, therapeutic or psychological prescriptions. They are based on

the experience of a Neurodevelopmentalist and represent suggestions to the

family. Every parent needs to assume the responsibility for their own child and

make their own decisions as to the techniques and methodologies to use with

their child. "

©2002 Children’s Academy for Neurodevelopment & Learning

web weaver: jodee@... www.betterendings.org

You may copy, publish, or distribute this article with proper credit

given with or without permission.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...