IMVA - Multiple Causes of Autism Part 2 & a Wonderful Testimony - July 25, 2006

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Dear IMVA,

Below is a testimonial sent in by a mother of Spectrum Disorder children.

I truly hope it will convince many more people how useful Transdermal Magnesium

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autistic children.

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My name is Debbie Graves. I am a friend of Carol Lively's. Recently she

was kind enough to purchase some of your magnesium oil for my family. We have

three children; all suffer with " Spectrum Disorders " . My daughter was diagnosed

autistic at about 3 1/2 yrs old. One of her symptoms is that she can become

constipated for many days, which starts a cycle in her body that continually

sends her " over the toxic edge " . After years of trying everything under the sun

to try and help her, the only thing we had found that had any impact was

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One night she was having a particularly hard day and we had no way to get

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Carol on the phone she began to tell me about how magnesium would relax the

muscles, and told me to give my daughter a back rub with the oil, which up until

now had been used primarily in baths. Within an hour of her first back rub she

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Debbie Graves

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It is a total shame to deny any children with neurological disorders the

full amount of magnesium they need. The official recommendations from DAN for

magnesium repletion are much too low and in general the importance of mineral

therapy is still put behind when it should be put in front of chelation.

Chelation easily turns to a nightmare when any of the essential minerals are

deficient. When it comes to magnesium it is the transdermal approach that offers

security, for oral supplementation is more than iffy. The all natural Magnesium

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Below is the continuation of the Multiple Causes of Autism, and it covers

medical birthing procedures, nutritional deficiencies, and psychological forces

that are rarely factored into health nor disease. We tend to forget all too

often that we are not just physical entities. Babies are born with an incredible

vulnerability of being that is routinely cast aside by pediatricians.

It is very sad to contemplate the children and what is being done to them

and how they are responding. Nothing is more indicative of modern civilization

and where it is going.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

Director of International Medical Veritas Association

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Multiple Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Part Two - http://www.imva.info/essay_causes_autism.shtml

International Medical Veritas Assocation

Autism and Birth

There are many things about pregnancy and birth that need to be

factored into the autism equation. There is, for instance, information

associating autistic disorders with the use of an artificial hormone (Pitocin)

which is given to pregnant women to induce or speed up labor.[1] Pitocin is a

synthetic exogenous source of the natural hormone oxytocin which stimulates the

gravid uterus to contract. It was developed as a drug by the Parke-

pharmaceutical company in 1953 and put into general use in 1955. It comes from

the pituitary glands of cattle and includes acetic acid for pH adjustment and .5

percent chloretone as a preservative. Dr Hollander of New York's Mount

Sinai School of Medicine, a physician who specializes in treating autistic kids,

reported noticing that 60% of the autistic patients in his clinic had been

exposed to this drug as a fetus.[2] Yet doctors like Ellen Grant find

progesterones and oestrogens even more dangerous than Pitocin.

It is clear that the preponderance of available evidence

suggests the importance of multiple biologic factors acting through

one or more mechanisms to produce the autistic syndrome.

Dr. J. Cohen &

Fred Volkmar

Pitocin is not the only drug received by women whose labors are being

induced or augmented. The use of Pitocin requires that the mother also be given

IV fluids, have continuous electric fetal monitoring in place and remain

sedentary in her hospital bed while connected to this equipment. Pitocin-induced

uterine contractions and enforced maternal immobility makes labor more painful,

so much so that under these circumstances most laboring women also receive

narcotic pain relievers and/or epidural anesthesia.

Drugs used on pregnant women have never been tested to determine

if they are safe for fetuses and neonates. Not a single one.

No one has a clue about the long-term consequences.

California College of

Midwives

Most labors today are induced at some point primarily because

obstetricians are closing the birth canals of women by placing the expectant

mothers in bed, keeping them on their backs and sacrum. " Being forced to

immobilize her sacrum in a dorsal position, the laboring woman closes her birth

canal up to 30% - a terrible mistake that is only aggravated when the OB

chemically whips the uterus to contract violently with either Pitocin or

Cytotec " , writes Dr. Todd Gastaldo, a chiropractor who deals with the realities

of the spine and the sacrum.

Most midwives understand the basic physics of birth where as

obstetricians seem to want to defy the laws of gravity, deliberately making

birth much more difficult than it has to be. Dr. Gastaldo warns us that

pressures from a closed birth canal can distort the brain case causing brain

bleeds and asphyxiation (prolonging delivery of the baby) of brain tissue. This

compression leads to a series of complications forcing interventions -

episiotomies, c-sections and drugging of the mother, which of course means the

babies are drugged.

Just a two-minute delay in clamping a baby's umbilical cord

can boost the child's iron reserves and prevent anemia for months.[3]

University of California, .

Most umbilical cords are clamped and cut[4] before all the blood from

the placenta is allowed back into the baby, meaning they start out with as much

as a 40% decrease in blood volume.[5] Birth in itself is a shock to one degree

or another. Babies need time to adjust, to light, to sound, to the simple act of

breathing. But they are not given the time they need. As soon as they are born,

antibiotic drops or ointment is put in their eyes and they are given a vitamin K

shot. Trouble is the shot contains nasty chemicals like benzyl alcohol, phenol

(carbolic acid), propylene glycol (antifreeze), acetic acid and hydrochloric

acid.[6]

Over 200 years ago Erasmus Darwin ( Darwin's grandfather) was

writing about early cord clamping and said, " Another thing very injurious to the

child, is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon; which should

always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all

pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it

ought to be, a portion of the blood being left in the placenta, which ought to

have been in the child. "

An informal survey among midwives failed to identify babies born at

home who have since been diagnosed with autistic disorders. It could be supposed

that the people who gravitate to natural home births represent a sizable part of

the small percentage of people who go against the lock step of society and do

not vaccinate their children. Or the lack of aggressive medical interventions

during birth can be seen as a key determinant in that it is absent when midwives

are attending the birth. Dan Olmstead, doing investigative reporting for UPI,

had a very difficult time finding any cases of autism in the Amish community.

The Amish, with their belief in avoiding as much modern technology as possible,

tend to mirror the experience of midwives meaning they gravitate to home births

and away from childhood vaccinations.

The structural and functional integrity of the human brain is

dependent on a continuous oxygen supply; lack of oxygen causes permanent brain

damage. Midwives are much more likely to be gentle and surrendered to natural

processes then hospital staffs and will let the baby adjust fully before

clamping the umbilical cord. At birth, during the natural third stage of labor,

placental oxygenation continues until pulmonary oxygenation is well established

and until an adequate blood volume is achieved to circulate oxygen. Cutting this

flow is an absolute and totally unnecessary threat to the child.

The current obstetrical practice of immediate and routine premature

cord clamping jeopardizes the newborn's brain and other organs by interrupting

placental oxygenation and placental transfusion, during the transition from

" fetus " to " newborn " .[7] The newborn needs this blood to expand its lungs, so

that they can take over the function of oxygenation from the placenta. Speaking

about the rise of autism Dr. Malcolm Morley and Eileen Simon PhD.

say, " We propose that increased incidence of autism, infant anemia, childhood

mental disorders and hypoxic ischemic brain damage, all originate at birth from

immediate umbilical cord clamping. The influence of new environmental exposures,

such as iatrogenic birth traumas, such as interruption of placental transfusion

at birth, cannot be discounted. " [8]

When we add the Hep B vaccine a few hours later, with its aluminum

hydroxide, thimerosal (in some countries) and modified genetic material one can

only wonder about pediatricians and what they are thinking. In the September

14th issue of Neurology (2004; 63:838-42) a Harvard group published their

findings confirming our worst fears about the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine

and its role in increasing the chance of recipients contracting multiple

sclerosis (MS). Researchers from Harvard estimate that it increases the risk by

over three times. This is highly significant to our multiple causes of autism

model because, as suspected by Dr. Blaylock, this vaccine is creating problems

in the brain's immune system leading to serious auto-immune diseases. According

to Blaylock, autism spectrum disorders are basically auto-immune disorders.

If the central nervous system becomes infected at a

critical time, either before or after birth, Autism may result.

Prof. Uta Frith

Mercury exposure is a factor from conception onwards and starts early

in pregnancy with the fully loaded mercury containing Rhogam shot for some

women, the tetanus and flu shots - all of which still contain thimerosal. Then

there is exposure to mother's dental fillings leaking vaporous mercury, the

mercury that mom consumes through eating too much fish, then the vaccines that

are injected right from birth also containing mercury, besides the background

mercury pollution in the air and water. The Rising Tide of Mercury, a new book

soon to be published by the International Medical Veritas Association, describes

a nightmare that is increasing with each passing year. Simply put, we live in a

mercury polluted world and that pollution gets worse each and every day. Clearly

mercury is neurotoxic thus our children, who are the most vulnerable to toxic

influences, will increasingly be put in harms way.

Most recently research is giving us one more reason to favor natural

birth over Caesarean section that has implications for later development of

neurological problems. A natural birth provides a baby with better protection

against diseases and allergies than if it is born by Caesarean section,

according to researchers at Glasgow University, who discovered that the gut of

babies who had been delivered normally contained higher levels of " friendly "

bacteria, such as bifidobacteria. These are particularly important, as they are

the first bacteria to enter a child's digestive system and play a crucial role

in developing the immune system.[9]

Professor said, " If you are Caesarean delivered,

you have to pick up bacteria from the environment around you - you are not

getting exposure to your mother's bacteria. If you are born vaginally, you are

getting bacteria from around that area, but if you are born by Caesarean you are

in a very sterile environment when you are actually born. " indicated

that this first exposure to bacteria was significant for the child. " There are

no bacteria in that baby at all. It's been living in an environment without any

bacteria, and so the first ones that get in have a huge advantage over the

competition. Your immune system is being taught by the bacteria starting to

colonize your gut. Without bacteria in your gut, your immune system never

develops properly. " With many indications that autism and immune system weakness

are related, we have every reason in the world to favor natural birth.

Autism and Nutrition

Many who love nutritional medicine feel that addressing diet and

removing wheat and giving common nutrients like omega 3 oils and key minerals

will go a long way to curing a child of neurological dysfunction. Research

shows that children with autism and other developmental issues suffer from bowel

disease and nutrition problems more frequently than their typical peers. When

these children are treated nutritionally, many show dramatic improvement. This

is especially true for minerals because our plants and soils are so nutrient

depleted, even if we eat the healthiest foods, we are not getting all the

minerals we need. All the weaknesses that predispose a child to

neurodegeneration and those that prevent healing can be addressed powerfully

with proper mineral supplementation.

Signs that diet intervention may benefit a child include: pallor, gray

circles under the eyes, excessive drooling, eczema, diffuse dot rash on

shoulders or limbs, white dots on nails, cracked or peeling nails, gray coated

tongue, bright pink/red glossy tongue, red ears, cracks or rash at lips, anal

itching, frequent illness, constant constipation and or unformed wet stools,

reflux, hiccups, rigidity in food choices, poor picky appetite, colic, tantrums

or poor sleep.

Dr. Jill of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine has

documented a unique metabolic profile in 95 autistic children with regressive

autism.[10] Regressive autism is a form of the disease in which children develop

normally for a certain period before losing previously acquired language or

behaviors and being diagnosed with autism. The metabolic profile in the

study children manifests as a severe imbalance in the ratio of active to

inactive glutathione in autistic children, compared to a group of healthy

control children. Glutathione, a potent antioxidant, is the body's most

important tool for detoxifying and excreting metals and its production in the

body is dependent on good nutrition.

The study shows that children with regressive autism have

consistently elevated levels of oxidative stress as compared to normal healthy

children. Individuals with reduced glutathione antioxidant capacity will be

under chronic oxidative stress and will be more vulnerable to toxic compounds

that act primarily through oxidative damage, including mercury

Yet it seems like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) lives on a

different planet. To them " Autism is not a specific disease, but rather a

collection of disorders of brain development with a strong genetic basis,

although its exact cause is not entirely known. " [11] Yet most doctors know, " It

is impossible to have a sudden epidemic of a genetic disease. The genetic factor

or other predisposing weakening factor is there but it needed the environmental

trigger to make it surface. That's why we think the genetic inability to excrete

mercury e.g. Apo-E4 and/or a metallothionine abnormality underlies those that

crash after being exposed to mercury injections, " says Dr. Godfrey.[12]

Dr. and coworkers showed that there were abnormalities in several of the

substances involved with the methionine cycle (also called the methylation

cycle) and the transsulfuration pathway in children with autism. These are

important in the synthesis of glutathione, which was found to be about 80%

depleted in children with autism.

Magnesium deficiency measured in 95% of 116 Polish children with ADHD:

78% low hair, 59% low RBC's, 34% low serum.[13]

A case can easily be made that substitutes what allopathic medicine

considers background genetic disposition for nutritional deficiencies.

According to Dr. Ellen Grant, nearly all the autistic children tested at Biolab

had zinc, copper, SODase and magnesium deficiencies. We know that mercury

displaces essential elements like magnesium, zinc and copper from cells causing

disruptions of enzyme systems in the process. So we can expect, when we correct

nutritional deficiencies, that we will see a reversal in symptoms. So for

instance a double-blind administration of 200 mg elemental magnesium per day to

25 children produced measurable decrease in hyperactivity over 6 months compared

to control.[14]

Impaired antioxidant production provides a common rationale

for many disparate features of autistic disorders.

Serious vitamin and mineral deficiencies weaken the immune system and

lead to developmental problems independently of other factors. This is a crucial

point that was made after the deaths from encephalopathy of two Israeli infants

who were exclusively fed a soya formula made in Germany that lacked vitamin B1

(thiamin).[15] A recent documentary on these children show the most seriously

disabled staring into space and barely able to move. While some babies being

treated are improving, others seem to be irreversibly damaged with several of

them feeling no pain and never able to cry. Complete nutrition is crucial for

neurological development and function and any kind of nutritional deficiency

will weaken children leaving them more vulnerable to diseases of all kinds.

Naturally some children would be better mercury eliminators than

others, and some kids just can stand higher levels of toxicity without falling

apart. Most of medicine and science is geared to examining toxic influences and

not deficiency disorders. Deficiencies in basic minerals like magnesium and

selenium can make all the difference between health and disease, between being

able to withstand chemical attack and not. Constant low level mercury stress in

the body will diminish selenium because of the high affinity between these two

elements and this is a big problem because of diminished glutathione production

when selenium is not available.

One deficiency that is never thought of, especially in pediatrics

unless a child is acutely ill is dehydration - water deficiency. Unintentional

dehydration is more common than anyone acknowledges and is an easy condition to

fall into for child or adult. Many of the soft drinks we give children actually

dehydrate the body and much of the water we do drink is actually poisoned with

chemicals either deliberately put there (fluoride, chloride, chloramines) or

leached into the ground water from a myriad of pollution sources, and even

neurotoxic lead is still present because it is still in pipe fixtures. It might

come as a shock that something as simple and basic as water can be a cause of

neurological disorders in children but just imagine the difference and the vast

complications that ensue in the body when it is dehydrated; when it's plum-like

and juicy cells become transformed into prune-like and drying cells because of

insufficient water. [16] Dehydrated cells don't do anything as well as

hydrated ones and that includes dealing with toxic insults.

Water is the most basic of all nutrients.

It should be noted that no matter what a child's genetic background

and strength is, or what deficiency that is present in the body, there is a

certain level of thimerosal or general mercury poisoning that will kill them;

that will begin to destroy their nervous system leading to general autistic

decline. The exact amount just happens to vary widely from child to child.

Autism is not a genetic disease; there is no proof to indicate it is. It is only

the handiest theory for pediatricians to explain what they do not want to

understand.

Measles virus exhausts the immune system, leading to increased

susceptibility

to subsequent microbial infections. This scenario is more likely in the

malnourished child, especially with vitamin A deficiency.[17]

Dr. Blaylock

Nutrition is a vast subject with a large impact for neurologically

dysfunctional children. It also opens the door to detoxification and chelation

protocols that can also be driven through nutritional principles and

supplementation.

Where Physiology and Psychology Meet

The hours, days and months following birth are undoubtedly the most

critical phases in the life of human beings. It is a sad reality of modern life

that has infants routinely disturbed physiologically and psychologically by

medical interventions administered from the first moments of life. Doctors have

decade-by-decade intensified their interference with natural childhood

development sequences without regard to serious deleterious outcomes or effects.

The recent explosion in autism does run parallel with the increases in

injections,[18] but no one has been paying attention to the possible emotional

collateral effects to what is being done to infants. Most physicians can hardly

believe that emotions matter in health or disease at all or that they might

contribute significantly to disorders like cancer and heart disease and even

fewer would think that stabbing infants with poison would bother them. At least

one medical scientist has tested hundreds of babies for subtle changes. Dr.

Viera Scheibner recorded the breathing of babies with computerised Cotwatch

Breathing Monitors saw that many of them changed their breathing patterns soon

after vaccination. Within an hour stress level in breathing increased and was

clearly visible on the computer printouts. Just because a doctor cannot see and

perceive something to be there does not mean its not.

Emotions physiologically are chemicals raging through

the blood stream, products of endocrine function.

In psychology there is a syndrome called Post-Traumatic Stress

Disorder (PTSD), which has been studied thoroughly on biological and emotional

levels. Golemen in his book Emotional Intelligence tells us, " Any

traumatizing event can implant such trigger memories in the amygdale. " Dr.

Dennis Charney, a psychiatrist and director of clinical neuroscience at the

National Center at Yale University tells us that, " It does not matter if it was

the incessant terror of combat, torture, or repeated abuse in childhood, or a

one-time experience. All uncontrollable stress can have the same biological

impact. " [1] The operative word here is uncontrollable. The key psychological

aspect of PTSD is helplessness, the feeling that you are being threatened or

your life is in danger and there is absolutely nothing you can do to avoid

it.[19] Dr. Charney said, " Victims of devastating trauma may never be the same

biologically. " And Dr. Krystal, director of the Laboratory of Clinical

Psychopharmacology, says, " It's the feeling that your life is in danger and

there is nothing you can do to escape it - that's the moment the brain change

begins. "

Over the last 30 years increasing evidence has been found

for the existence of complex links between the immune system,

the central nervous system and the endocrine system on

the one hand, and psychological phenomena on the other.

Van Gent, et al.[20]

Dr. Boyd Haley has already shown in his laboratory at the University

of Kentucky how even relatively benign substances like Tylenol and endocrine

hormones like testosterone increase mercury's toxicity, which explains at least

partially why more boys succumb to autism than girls. But perhaps part of the

sex difference is from the effects of PTSD in the boys from the medical

circumcisions they endure. Some people think that routine infant circumcision is

the cruelest and most barbaric, sadistic, and senseless child abuse and torture

ever invented. Some mothers feel that the trauma of circumcision interferes with

breastfeeding, thus it also interferes during an important time of bonding

between mother and child.

Allopathic medicine has a very difficult time relating to children

as sensitive beings who have feelings that matter clinically.

Modern man tends to belittle the feelings and emotions of young

children. Adults who have lost the ability to be vulnerable with their own inner

feelings have little or no capacity to empathize with little boys who might be

reacting in far stronger ways than anyone imagines to medical circumcision.

Medical circumcision cannot be considered the same as the spiritual and

religious rituals carried out with the utmost of care.

Children without doubt find vaccination a traumatic experience though

it seems as if most would get over it quickly. Today though they are given up to

four shots at a time and this significantly amplifies the trauma. It is

important to remember the key to Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome is helplessness.

It should not be too difficult to see the possibility that bringing in a child

for multiple dangerous injections could provoke a change in internal brain

chemistry, when they are dragged against their will, into a danger that could

kill them. Or as the VAERS system clearly shows, all too easily send them to the

hospital because of convulsions and exceptionally high fever.

It is just a fact that for some children vaccines are lethal

injections and for others it brings on severe enough consequences to hospitalize

them. Any psychologist involved with PTSD would probably agree that this could

qualify for an uncontrollable stress event that can result in some kind of

biological impact.

Many doctors would laugh thinking how could children know, think or

feel that they are in danger when the doctors themselves think they are doing no

harm but only good in administering the vaccines. But veterinarians are well

aware of the capacity of animals to intuit danger. Young children have this same

basic capacity to sense danger and no doubt their crying and screaming as they

are dragged into receive their needles is a good indication of this.

" When I brought my son in for his Hep B inoculation, he went screaming

and flailing like a banshee Indian, and it took 5 people just to hold him down,

totally against his will. It took me a long time to regain his trust, " wrote

French RN. Maureen Fontaine, remembering back to age two said, " I lost

trust for my mother on that day she brought me in for my shots and I never ever

did completely recover that trust with her. " [21]

Babies scream without end when they are violated and hurt

in a way that challenges their capacity to endure.

It does not take a great stretch of the imagination to see that we

might have a very special case when PTSD psychological and biological changes

come together with heavy toxic loading from vaccines combining to form a special

matrix of changes in both immune and brain chemistry. Any in-depth theory of

autism spectrum disorders has to include some analysis of why some kids fall in

neurological dysfunction and others not. Both emotional and nutritional factors

are important in differentiating one child from another. Nutritional

deficiencies also have a great bearing on the emotional life of children and

their strength to withstand both emotional and chemical shocks.

Conclusion

We are only now waking up to the full dimension of the nightmare and

to a form of medical insanity that has been increasing decade by decade.

Newborns and young children are being subjected to increasingly aggressive

interventions and they are not standing up well to the assault. The conclusion

of course is devastating. Autism is primarily an iatrogenic disease. It is

caused mostly by obstetricians, pediatricians, their nurses who inject toxic

chemicals into the babies, and even by dentists who expose mothers to mercury

through their dental fillings. But coming up fast as a primary cause are

environmental hazards especially mercury, which we find increasingly in our air,

water and food.

The causes of autism are known, it just so happens that many people

do not want to face the truth of the causes and this is in and of itself a

further crime of the medical establishment, especially the branch of pediatrics.

Denial only continues the horror and the suffering by blocking appropriate

treatments and removal of the insulting causes. The medical establishment has

completely abandoned its responsibilities of protecting the young from harm and

is not even warning parents about the environmental hazards from mercury. Health

and governmental organizations should be the first ones fighting for the

conditions that will insure the health of our children but instead we find them

in bed with the pharmaceutical companies and other industries that are just

exposing them to more and more mercury and other poisons.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

Director International Medical Veritas Association

http://www.imva.info

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