Landmark Study Finds Mercury Poisoning Causes Autism

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October 10th, 2008 by Dr. Buttar's Blogmaster

PRESS RELEASE CONTACTS:For Immediate Release CoMeD President [Rev. K. Sykes (Richmond, VA) ]October 10, 2008 CoMeD Sci. Advisor [Dr. King (Lake Hiawatha, NJ) ]

WASHINGTON, DC - New study, “Biomarkers of Environmental Toxicity and Susceptibility in Autism” inthe peer-reviewed Journal of the Neurological Sciences(1), confirms a causal link between subacute mercurypoisoning in children and their autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. The autism community reportedthat this study presents, “…some compelling evidence…consistent with the author’s theory that mercuryexposure plays a role in autism.”(2)

This paper(3) presents the first prospective, blinded cohort study to examine children diagnosed with an ASDusing: urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess the body-burden and physiological effects of theirmercury, glutathione analysis to assess susceptibility to mercury poisoning, and Childhood Autism RatingScale (CARS) scores to measure ASD severity.

These evaluations(4) established:• Non-chelated patients diagnosed with an ASD had UPPA profiles indicative of mercury poisoning thatstrongly correlated with ASD severity, measured using CARS scores.• Glutathione (a key biochemical in the body’s mercury detoxification pathway) was significantly lowerin patients diagnosed with an ASD in comparison with its level in neurotypical controls.• Increasing mercury-poisoning severity, as indicated by the UPPA results, was associated with lowerglutathione levels among the patients diagnosed with an ASD.

Based upon these findings, the researchers concluded, “ASDs may result from a combination of genetic/biochemical susceptibilities in the form of a reduced ability to excrete mercury and/or increased environ-mental exposures at key developmental times.”

The Autism Research Institute, the non-profit CoMeD, Inc., and, through a grant from the Brenen HornsteinAutism Research & Education (BHARE) Foundation, the non-profit Institute of Chronic Illnesses, Inc.funded this research study.

Today, any parent, physician, or healthcare provider can easily confirm whether or not a non-chelated childdiagnosed with an ASD is mercury poisoned by having UPPA testing run at LabCorp (CLIA-certified, test#120980) or Laboratoire Philippe Auguste (ISO-certified, 119 Philippe Auguste Avenue, Paris, France75011). Please, visit CoMeD’s web site, http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org for information on how to orderUPPA tests and full copies of some of the many published papers validating the UPPA test.

Your generous tax-free donations will help us to fund additional research, similar to the present study, toexamine mercury’s links to autism and other illnesses, define the causal roles of mercury in the linkedchildhood and adult illnesses, and find appropriate curative therapies.

(1) Geier DA, Kern JK, Garver CR, JB, Audhya T, Nataf R, Geier MR. Biomarkers of environmental toxicity andsusceptibility in autism. J Neurol Sci. 2008 Sep 24. [Epub ahead of print].(2) http://www.autismvox.com/new-study-on-heavy-metal-toxicity-and-detoxification-by/(3) This new study involved a multi-national collaboration between researchers, including: A. Geier, Janet K. Kern, PhD, RN,Carolyn Gavery, PhD, B. , PhD, Tapan Audhya, PhD, Nataf, MD, and Mark R. Geier, MD, PhD, FABMG,FACE. These researchers have extensive research backgrounds in medicine, biochemistry and neuroscience, and includeprofessors from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas) and Arizona State University (Tempe).(4) Laboratoire Philippe Auguste and Vitamin Diagnostics performed biochemical testing; Dr. Kern conducted the CARS scoring.

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