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Mercury on the Mind

by W. , Jr., MD

by W. , Jr., MD

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afflict widely different age groups, autism and Alzheimer’s disease share a

common

cause: mercury. Dr. Boyd Haley, professor and chair of the chemistry department

at the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Bernard Rimland, founder of the Autism

Research Institute, presented evidence at this year’s Doctors for Disaster

Preparedness meeting that connects mercury with these diseases.This heavy metal

is highly poisonous. A Dartmouth professor studying the chemical

characteristics of an organic form of mercury – dimethyl mercury – spilled

two drops of it

on her gloved hand. The first sign of mercury poisoning occurred four months

later when her speech began to be slurred. This was followed by difficulty

walking and loss of vision. She then fell into a coma and died. Another person,

attempting to smelt the silver in dental amalgams he obtained (they are 35

percent silver, 50 percent mercury, and 15 percent tin, zinc, and other metals),

heated them in a frying pan. The mercury vapor thus generated killed him

quickly. The two other family members in the house at the time also died.Mercury

is

one proton (neutron and electron) heavier than gold – the atomic number of

gold is 79; mercury, 80. It is distributed throughout the earth’s crust.

Unlike

other metals, mercury, in its elemental state, is liquid (molten) at room

temperature. And it releases a steady stream of gaseous mercury atoms that

linger

in the atmosphere for months (eventually falling back to earth and its oceans

in an inorganic form in rain drops). Even when in a solid state, combined with

other metals as an alloy, mercury atoms continually escape into the

atmosphere. Once added to latex paint, put in teething powder, used in making

hats, as a

fungicide on seeds, as an antiseptic (Merthiolate), and as a treatment for

syphilis (the cure was worse than the disease), human exposure to mercury today

comes principally from three sources: dental amalgams, vaccines, and fish.

Elemental mercury when released by a dental amalgam is inhaled and (80 percent

of

it) absorbed by the lungs and retained in the body. Vaccine makers add

thimerosal (which is half ethyl mercury) to vaccines to prevent bacterial

contamination. This injected organic form of mercury is readily taken up by

brain and

heart muscle cells. Fish harbor another organic form of mercury – methyl

mercury, which is obtained from plankton that synthesize it from inorganic

mercury

extracted from the sea.Currently the two most important sources of mercury

exposure for Americans are dental amalgams and vaccinations. The Federal

government’

s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug

Administration (FDA), for reasons not explained, have chosen to ignore this

fact.

These agencies and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) focus exclusively on

mercury in seafood, to the extent that the NIH will not fund studies that

address mercury in amalgams and vaccines.In lockstep with the government, the

American Dental Association (ADA) claims that amalgams are safe, and the mercury

in

them poses no problem. The (government-funded) Institute of Medicine (IOM) and

various specialty societies, notably the American Academy of Pediatrics

(AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American Medical

Association (AMA), say the same thing about mercury in vaccines. There is

growing

evidence, however, that mercury in vaccines and amalgams cause both autism and

Alzheimer’s disease. The CDC and the FDA and the medical establishment, led by

its specialty societies, discount or ignore this evidence – evidence that

includes privately funded epidemiological studies; research on how mercury

damages brain cells grown in culture; animal studies in rodents, sheep, and

primates; and clinical studies in children and adults.Autism was discovered in

1943,

in American children, twelve years after ethyl mercury (thimerosal) was added

to the pertussis vaccine. (The disease was not seen in Europe until the 1950s,

after thimerosal was added to vaccines used there.) In a typical case, shortly

before his 2nd birthday a normally developing, healthy boy stops

communicating with others and withdraws into himself. He avoids eye contact and

becomes

strange and aloof. His vision becomes blurred; and he develops various motor

disturbances, such as involuntary jerking of the arms and legs and walking on

his

toes. In addition to these manifestations, Dr. Sallie Bernard and her

colleagues, in a study titled, " Autism: A Unique Type of Mercury Poisoning, "

describe

the speech difficulties, unusual behavior (such as unprovoked crying spells

and head banging), various degrees of cognitive impairment, gastrointestinal

difficulties, and immune difficulties that these autistic children can have.

Mercury is most likely a causative factor in other developmental disorders as

well, such as delayed speech and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Investigators have shown that there is a direct relationship between increasing

doses of mercury in vaccines and autism. In the 1950s, with an immunization

schedule limited to four vaccines (against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and

smallpox), 1 in 10,000 children developed this disease. As vaccines for other

diseases were added, health care providers began injecting increasingly larger

doses of mercury into children. Those born in 1981 were given 135 micrograms of

mercury (on average), and one case of autism occurred in every 2,600 children

born that year. With the addition of hepatitis B vaccine (injected on the day of

birth) and one for Haemophilus influenzae Type b, providers injected 246

micrograms of mercury into children born in 1996. Autism occurred in one out of

every 350 of these children. Today, providers follow an immunization schedule,

prepared by the CDC and approved by the AAP and AAFP, that includes 13 vaccines

given, with variable numbers of booster shots, 33 times before a child

reaches the age of 2 (when the development of the brain is completed). Autism

now

afflicts 1 in 100 boys and 1 in 400 girls, and physicians diagnose 100,000 new

cases of this disease every year in the U.S (using diagnostic criteria, in the

DSM-IV, that is more restrictive than the previous DSM-IIIR). Over the last 30

years more than one million children have come down with this disease, and

currently one in every 68 families in America has an autistic child.Mainstream

medical journals, like Pediatrics and The New England Journal of Medicine, only

publish studies that claim thimerosal is safe. And it turns out that these

articles are written in large part by researchers in the pay of vaccine makers,

as the Coalition for Safe Minds (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury-Induced

Neurological Disorders), a private nonprofit organization, has shown. Editors of

these journals will not publish studies that show a link between thimerosal

and autism like " Thimerosal in Childhood Vaccines, Neurodevelopment Disorders,

and Heart Disease in the United States " by Mark and Geier, which

documents a strong association between the amounts of mercury injected in

vaccines

and autism. Such articles can only find acceptance in alternative (i.e.,

" politically incorrect " ) journals like the Journal of American Physicians and

Surgeons, where this one was published.The amount of damage a given dose of

mercury

can do to the brain (and also the heart) depends on one’s age, sex, and

genetically determined ability to excrete mercury. Young children with still

developing brains are more susceptible, and males are more vulnerable to a given

dose

of mercury because testosterone enhances its neurotoxicity. Most important,

however, is one’s genetically programmed ability to rid the body of mercury.

The

brain has a house-cleaning protein that removes dangerous waste products,

which comes in three varieties: APO-E2, APO-E3, and APO-E4. The APO-E2 protein

can carry 2 atoms of mercury out of the brain; APO-3, one; and AOP-E4, none. The

genes we acquire from each parent determine which two we have. People with

two APO-E4 proteins (and thus no APO-E2 or -E3) have an 80 percent chance of

acquiring Alzheimer’s disease. And according to one study, autistic children

have

a huge preponderance of APO-E4 protein in their brains.Alzheimer’s disease

was discovered in 1906, again in America, where dentists used mercury-laden

amalgams to fill cavities (dentists in Europe largely avoided them). Today, more

than 4 million Americans now have Alzheimer’s disease. It afflicts half of

people over the age of 85 and 20 percent aged 75 to 84. The first symptoms of

this

disease are difficulty concentrating and variable degrees of memory loss,

leading ultimately to devastating mental deterioration. The brains of people

with

Alzheimer’s disease shrink by 25 percent and have distinct pathologic

hallmarks (neurofibillary tangles, amyloid plaques, and phosphorylation of tau

protein). Brain cells grown in the laboratory develop the same three pathologic

findings when exposed to nanomolar (3.6 × 10-10 molar) doses of mercury, an

amount

approximating that found in the brains of people who have a lot of amalgam

fillings.Dental amalgams are the main source of mercury in an adult’s brain.

An

average-sized amalgam filling contains 750,000 micrograms of mercury and

releases around 10 micrograms a day. Researchers put radiolabelled mercury

amalgams

in the teeth of sheep and determined where escaped mercury went with a

scanner. They showed that mercury atoms exhaled through the nose travel up

filaments

of the olfactory nerve to the hippocampus, which controls memory, and to

other critical areas in the brain. In another study, rats given the same

concentration of mercury that people inhale from their amalgams develop the

pathologic

markers of Alzheimer’s disease. People with Alzheimer’s disease have mercury

levels in their brains that are 2 to 3 times higher than that seen in normal

people.The mercury in flu vaccines also plays a role in this disease. One

investigator has found that people who received the flu vaccine each year for 3

to

5 years had a ten-fold greater chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease than

people who had zero, 1, or 2 shots. Another important factor with regard to

mercury on the mind, which officials at the CDC, FDA and the professors in the

IOM do not consider, is synergistic toxicity – mercury’s enhanced effect

when

other poisons are present. A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and

a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a

striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury that have a 1 percent

mortality

will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there. Vaccines

contain aluminum. Why do officials at the CDC, FDA, and leaders of the medical

and

dental establishment discount or ignore all these important facts? Some of

them being in the pay of vaccine makers is one reason. The specter of litigation

for having sanctioned thimerosal and amalgams and, in the case of the FDA,

not doing appropriate safety studies on them is another. But it is more

complicated than that. The hypothesis that mercury causes autism and

Alzheimer’s

disease is a new truth. And as Schopenhauer points out (see my article on him),

each new truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it

is

violently opposed. And third, it is accepted as self-evident. The mercury

truth is now in the second stage.In the 1790s Jenner observed that milk

maids did not have pock marks on their faces, like people did who had contracted

and survived smallpox. Milking cows with cowpox rendered them immune to

smallpox. He took fluid from the pustules of infected cows, injected it into

children, and found that it protected them, when exposed, from contracting

smallpox.

The medical establishment of the day dismissed the idea of vaccinating people

with cow pus as nonsense; and Sir ph Banks, president of the British

Royal Society (the IOM of the day), told Jenner that he would ruin his

reputation

if he tried to publish these findings, which were so much at variance with

established knowledge. When other doctors and informed individuals like

Jefferson recognized that " vaccination " did indeed work, its value was, in time,

accepted as self-evident. Jenner’s vaccine saved millions of lives and

eradicated a disfiguring disease that has a 30 percent mortality rate. (But

laboratories in the U.S. and U.S.S.R. preserved the virus that causes smallpox,

and we

now know that Soviet microbiologists grew vast quantities of it in chicken

eggs for use as a biological weapon of mass destruction.) Today the medical

establishment, led by the AAP, AAFP, AMA, CDC, and IOM, has gone to the other

extreme. The accepted wisdom now is that vaccines are a panacea. Health care

providers start injecting them in infants on the day of birth, and government

officials seek to have them made mandatory for all Americans. But some

little-discussed facts belie their value. Deaths from diphtheria, for example,

declined 90

percent from 1900 to 1930, due to better sanitation and nutrition, before

there was a vaccine for this disease. Likewise, the death rate for measles

declined 95 percent (13.3 to 0.03 deaths per 100,000 population) between 1915

and

1958, before the vaccine for measles vaccine was introduced in 1963. Viewed from

a risk/benefit perspective, providers and government officials downplay the

deleterious effects that vaccines can have on one’s health and inflate their

benefits. The top medical textbook on the subject is Vaccines, edited by Drs.

Plotkin and Orenstein. In the 1999 3rd Edition that I reviewed (a slightly

longer 4th Edition was published last year), its authors confine their

discussion

of mercury in vaccines to two short paragraphs in this 1,230-page book. They do

not address concerns that have been raised about its neurotoxicity.Vaccine

manufacturers have started removing thimerosal from vaccines. And for the first

time since the state began keeping records on this disease, California has had

a decrease, of 6 percent, in the annual number of children over the age of 3

who have been diagnosed with autism. This occurred in children born in 2000,

when the phase-out of thimerosal in vaccines began. Iowa has passed a law

banning thimerosal in that state, and California has done the same thing for

pregnant women and children under 3 (the bill awaits the governor’s

signature). But

pharmaceutical companies still add thimerosal in their Flu vaccines; and

pediatricians are vaccinating children with their remaining supply of

thimerosal-containing vaccines, which the FDA has chosen not to recall.Taking

mercury out

of vaccines would substantially reduce the incidence of autism, but this alone

will not eliminate the disease. Giving too many vaccines over too short a time

to infants whose nervous system is not yet fully developed can also trigger

autism and its spectrum of disorders. As Dr. Blaylock has shown (see

Recommended Reading below), multiple vaccines given close together

over-stimulate the

brain’s immune system and, via the mechanism of " bystander injury, " destroy

brain cells. Much more research needs to be done on the neurotoxicity of mercury

and excessive vaccination. Dr. Haley terms autism Mad Child Disease. Finding

one cow in the U.S. with Mad Cow Disease, from Canada, prompted the Federal

government to spent millions of dollars examining other cows to see if they had

contracted it. With regard to Mad Child Disease, however, the government spends

$59.00 in research for every case of autism diagnosed in this country.

Avoiding flu shots that contain thimerosal, and having dentists stop implanting

mercury amalgams in people’s mouths would lower the incidence of Alzheimer’s

disease. If you have amalgam fillings, particularly if there is a family history

of

Alzheimer’s disease, you might consider having them removed. Be sure to have

a dentist do it who follows the protocol established by The International

Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology for safely removing them.For the third

source of mercury, follow the CDC’s advice and don’t eat

mercury-contaminated

fish, especially if you are pregnant because mercury in your bloodstream crosses

the placenta and is concentrated in the fetus’ brain.Recommended Reading –

in

addition to the online links provided aboveAn excellent review of thimerosal

and autism, titled " Mercury in Medicine – Taking Unnecessary Risks, " is to be

found, of all places, in the Congressional Record. Prepared by its Subcommittee

on Human Rights and Wellness, this report was presented to the Committee on

Government Reform, chaired by Congressman Dan Burton (who has an autistic

grandson). Congressional Record, May 21, 2003, E1011–E1030. SafeMinds

president,

Lyn Redwood, presented testimony at a Congressional hearing held on September 8,

2004 that exposes malfeasance by the CDC and FDA related to thimerosal. It is

titled " Truth Revealed: New Scientific Discoveries Regarding Mercury in

Medicine and Autism " and is posted on their website, safeminds.org. See also

this

organization’s 84-page Report to Congress titled, " A Brief Analysis of Recent

Efforts in Medical Mercury Induced Neurological and Autism Spectrum Disorders "

(September 8, 2004). " The Three Modern Faces of Mercury " – in fish, vaccines,

and dental amalgams – by son in Environmental Health Perspectives

Volume 110 | Supplement 1 | February 2002 | pages 11–23. This study provides

an

current-day perspective on mercury exposure, post Calomel, Merthiolate, and

Mad Hatters. If your dentist parrots the American Dental Association stance on

this subject and says that " silver " – i.e., mercury – amalgams are perfectly

safe, insist that he or she read Dr. Boyd Haley’s response to the president of

the ADA on his defense of dental amalgams. It is posted on this website. I

sent it to my dentist who I had been going to for a number of years. When he

chose to ignore it, I changed dentists – to a mercury-free one and had him

remove

all my amalgam fillings. " Mercury: the Silent Killer, " Chapter 3 in Health and

Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life by L. Blaylock, M.D. As a

board-certified neurosurgeon, Dr. Blaylock, like me, is a member of the medical

establishment. He now, however, studies and writes about wellness and

complementary/alternative medicine on a full-time basis.Are Vaccines Safe and

Effective? by Neil Z. (2002). This 78-page (paperback) book is well worth

reading, especially if you have children or if you are being pressured to get a

flu shot.For a comprehensive review, with 167 scientific references, on how

vaccines damage infants’ and soldiers’ brains (Gulf War Syndrome) when given

too

close together, see Dr. Blaylock’s " Interaction of Cytokines, Excitotoxins,

Reactive Nitrogen and Oxygen Species in Autism Spectrum Disorders " in the

Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association (JANA 2003;6[4]:21–35). See

also

his study, " Chronic Microglial Activation and Excitotoxicity Secondary to

Excessive Immune Stimulation: Possible Factors in GulfWar Syndrome and Autism "

in

the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JAPS 2004;9[2]:46–52). Dr.

Blaylock has written a simplified version of these studies for the general

public

titled " Vaccines: the Hidden Dangers, " in his Blaylock Wellness Report (Vol.

1, No. 1), which is published monthly and can be purchased online.September

29, 2004 (send him mail) is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of

Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle and a member of Doctors for

Disaster Preparedness and writes articles on a variety of subjects for

LewRockwell.com, including bioterrorism. His web site is

www.donaldmiller.com.Copyright

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All the best,

" Parents should decide through informed choice, which vaccines if any should

be

given to their children "

Vaccine Information or vaccinetruth.org

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Go to the url ..great charts.

All the best,

" Parents should decide through informed choice, which vaccines if any should

be

given to their children "

Vaccine Information or vaccinetruth.org

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Hi,

would love to but no URL came up..........did i miss something?

Joanna

lovthatlea@... wrote: Go to the url ..great charts.

All the best,

" Parents should decide through informed choice, which vaccines if any should

be

given to their children "

Vaccine Information or vaccinetruth.org

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There are some charts here:

http://poisonevercure.150m.com/autism_charts.htm

Kimberley

http://www.vaccinationsandSIDS.com