Guest guest Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 > > Carla, > I have 9 amalgams and two neurotypical daughters and one 4 year old > son who was born typical and developed well until he had 7 vaccines > in one day while ill with a terrible cold and then regressed into > autism (PDD-NOS). I did not breastfeed any of them but I fed them > all commercial formula which probably has more metals in it than any > breastmilk ever would. I wish I had breastfed them even with the > amalgams. Vicki > Totally speaking for myself, I rather wish " they " had never invented formula. (big sigh)... In response to Carla's questions... In hindsite, I can see an " ebb & flow " of add/autism spectrum characteristics in my older children...and can often link these directly to vaccinations, outstanding toxic exposures, and other such fun things. My older girl, with whom I scraped lead paint while pregnant, was the only one with more outstanding & worrisome symptoms, as infant/toddler. Such as rather extreme jaundice, diag. asthma within her first month, had the cutest " accent " from her first " jabbering " moments, that never went away & speech therapy only made worse, an " easy " baby....But the autistic tendencies - those came later...the year after her K vaccinations, and, then again, in fourth grade, only this time they " back " with a vengeance - enough so, that these traits would have gotten her a diag - had she not acquired these at an " older " age. Feels like my relatively NT older kids, kept " getting better, " just to be knocked down again...Felt like they " coped, " if you may, with my toxic issues. Until they ran into their own amalgams & shots & malathion & mold & lead - well, these things feel like some of the " things " that took them from NT land, and led them into some permanent & semi-permanent forays into ADD/Autism land...... My migraine girl has alot of the concurrent belly issues & physical health problems that I see here...and I do believe things that " could have been, " without the knowledge I have gotten here, most certainly could have included symptoms of " autism. " Fish oil & epsom salts....these were the first two things that I did, and these got us some really big results, that I do think helped her thrive (And the other four, to boot!) - waaay back in the beginning. and the rest is history. ....really cannot convey how truly blessed I feel at moments like this - and end up sooo wishing blessing upon blessing to all the people here, yk? So, yes. My short answer is, I definitely think it is more than possible....fwiw, elizabeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Hi ...my apologies if my response felt like any sort of " stomping. " Not at all my intention, ever. " If you only knew... " just resonates with me - so many stories, so very many hard stories going on...that is the heartbreak of it all....yk? wishing you good answers, elizabeth > > I agree with removing fluoride as being very important. Avoiding fluoride is one way we have gotten our daughter to not have uveitis flares for seven months. Getting a whole house reverse osmosis system to remove fluoride is a goal of mine. Currently we have reverse osmosis for the drinking water only. I don't like the thought of it in the bath water. Fluoride is a trigger for autoimmune disease. > > I nursed all of my children. I meant to say for me, as a very toxic person, I wonder if I did more harm to my children than good with my specific breastmilk, not that breastfeeding is bad. I believe formula would have been way worse than my breastmilk. I just question whether or not I poisoned my children with chemicals in my breastmilk. If you only knew my family background with the mercury and radiation from fallout from nuclear disasters, I have to ask myself the question, is there ever a point where the amount of chemicals in a woman's breastmilk outweigh the benefits of breastfeeding? I hope that my girls breastfeed and I plan on chelating all of them to put them on the best footing for that. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 I having my breast milk tested now so I can make decision on breastfeeding Natalia eli8591 <eli8591@...> wrote: Hi ...my apologies if my response felt like any sort of " stomping. " Not at all my intention, ever. " If you only knew... " just resonates with me - so many stories, so very many hard stories going on...that is the heartbreak of it all....yk? wishing you good answers, elizabeth > > I agree with removing fluoride as being very important. Avoiding fluoride is one way we have gotten our daughter to not have uveitis flares for seven months. Getting a whole house reverse osmosis system to remove fluoride is a goal of mine. Currently we have reverse osmosis for the drinking water only. I don't like the thought of it in the bath water. Fluoride is a trigger for autoimmune disease. > > I nursed all of my children. I meant to say for me, as a very toxic person, I wonder if I did more harm to my children than good with my specific breastmilk, not that breastfeeding is bad. I believe formula would have been way worse than my breastmilk. I just question whether or not I poisoned my children with chemicals in my breastmilk. If you only knew my family background with the mercury and radiation from fallout from nuclear disasters, I have to ask myself the question, is there ever a point where the amount of chemicals in a woman's breastmilk outweigh the benefits of breastfeeding? I hope that my girls breastfeed and I plan on chelating all of them to put them on the best footing for that. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 > P.S. I find it interesting you mention your son needed folate to do well > with MB12... B12 is supposed to be methylated by 5-MTHF but MB12 bypasses > that (at least until it has been used once, then it becomes plain B12). Did > your son also have issues with TMG when he was folate deficient? When I gave mB12 without folic acid, my son developed SEVERE symptoms of folic deficiency. At first, he did not tolerate TMG [major problems], but after chelation he tolerated it for a few weeks, but not longer. He was folic deficient after chelation. A little later on, once I supplemented folic and carnitine, he tolerated it again for about 2 weeks. Not sure if this pattern means anything. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 I had just delivered my second set of twins when my son (only one who isn't a twin) was diagnosed autistic. However, I can tell you he didn't start out autistic either. He was so NORMAL until 18 months and then it was like something had just hit him one day. Now I know what it was.....vaccines. My last 2 have not been vaccinated. I have 4 boys and 1 girl (2 twin boys now 7, my 5.5 year old autistic son, and a boy and girl twins age 2). All are neurotypical except for my middle child. I think he just got the bad combo of autoimmune genes and vaccines. To think back, I'm often struck by the fact that I COULD have ended up with 3 autistic sons (the oldest 3) since they all had vaccines. I just think that if he hadn't had those shots, he'd still be normal. I have amalgams and breastfed all my kids. To be truthful, my son was the healthiest and most normal during the time of breastfeeding. When my last twins were born I decided to breast feed them as long as they'd let me. My daughter quit at about 13 months, and my son lasted till 15-16 months. If I were to have any more children, I'd breastfeed as long as possible, not get any vaccines for the kids, and be sure to feed them as organically as possible. > > > > > > Certainly not everyone has issues with folic acid, but even if > > they don't, > > > 5-MTHF is superior in terms of getting the methylation cycle > going. > > > > > > Folic acid requires two recycles* and a methyl group+ to become 5- > > MTHF. > > > Folinic acid requires one recycle* and a methyl group+ to become > 5- > > MTHF. > > > 5-MTHF doesn't require any recycling or methyl groups. > > > > > > * When I say " recycle " I mean it passes through the DHFR enzyme. > > There is a > > > limited amount of this enzyme and it requires B3 to be used. > > > > > > +The methyl group comes from DMG (cofactor: B2), MMG (cofactor: > > B2), Glycine > > > (cofactors: B3/B6) or Serine (cofactor: B6). This process > > requires the > > > folate pass through the MTHFR enzyme, so anyone with MTHFR > > mutations will > > > have decreased production of 5-MTHF. MTHFR itself requires B2 > and > > B3. > > > > > > -Lana > > > > > > P.S. I find it interesting you mention your son needed folate to > > do well > > > with MB12... B12 is supposed to be methylated by 5-MTHF but MB12 > > bypasses > > > that (at least until it has been used once, then it becomes plain > > B12). Did > > > your son also have issues with TMG when he was folate deficient? > > > > > > I gave my son boatloads of folic acid for several months. I tried > > > > folinic also, but either one was fine for my son. He was > SEVERELY > > > > folic deficient. Folic was very helpful for him for language > and > > also > > > > tolerance of mB12. > > > > > > > > Not all kids need to avoid folic. For some, it is required. > > > > > > > > Dana > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 I agree that commercial formula is worse than breastfeeding with amalgams, but that is not the only choice. You can get breastmilk pumped from say, a mom who has a clean hair test by joining your local Le Leche League to find someone, put the breastmilk in bottles and bottlefeed breastmilk. You could make a goat milk formula. This doesn't stop the placental mercury dump you will do to your baby during pregnancy. So, the baby of a toxic mom will need to be hair tested and chelated if they need it, regardless of physical symptoms of the baby at the time. Sometimes mercury does silent damage that you can't see, it is not always obvious, like my child #5 with the autoimmune induced no symptom, vision threatening eye disease. There is time for me to chelate my children before they have children. That is the complete focus of my life until it's done. So pardon my passionate nature (it's the mercury:) I do not agree that if you do not vaccinate you will have normal children with amalgams. First of all it probably depends on how many. I had now that I remember, somewhere between eight and fourteen amalgams, some of the work I had done was fillings only, had four children who were not vaccinated and we lived a life without chemicals because my husband has chemical sensitivity. Those four children are not normal (no offense to them) but for the sake of this conversation. I am not normal, my husband is not normal, my mom and cousins aren't normal. We are toxic. My grandma, her sisters, her cousins, half of them died or are dying from alzheimers....at around seventy five years old. This is me in thirty five years if I can't chelate. I already can't remember last week. I just vistited a cousin of mine in the nursing home. Don't even get me started on my teenager.....I have compassion on her because of the mercury....but we just stand in awe of her thinking process that is putting herself in danger. She has to chelate to save her life. I think she knows this too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 But our parents also had tons of amalgams; it was their only option. My mom is in her late 60s and had a mouthful. She would have had them placed in the 1940s and 1950s. The incidence of ADD/allergies/arthritis, etc in children was much lower in my birth generation despite moms with amalgams. It's all cumulative, I assume. That being said, I'll admit my sibs and yours truly are NOT neurotypical! But, we were born in a time where nut allergies, ADHD support groups and 1 in 5 kids qualifying for Special Education Services was non-existent. This makes me sad. Pam > > > > > > Certainly not everyone has issues with folic acid, but even if > > they don't, > > > 5-MTHF is superior in terms of getting the methylation cycle > going. > > > > > > Folic acid requires two recycles* and a methyl group+ to become > 5- > > MTHF. > > > Folinic acid requires one recycle* and a methyl group+ to become > 5- > > MTHF. > > > 5-MTHF doesn't require any recycling or methyl groups. > > > > > > * When I say " recycle " I mean it passes through the DHFR > enzyme. > > There is a > > > limited amount of this enzyme and it requires B3 to be used. > > > > > > +The methyl group comes from DMG (cofactor: B2), MMG (cofactor: > > B2), Glycine > > > (cofactors: B3/B6) or Serine (cofactor: B6). This process > > requires the > > > folate pass through the MTHFR enzyme, so anyone with MTHFR > > mutations will > > > have decreased production of 5-MTHF. MTHFR itself requires B2 > and > > B3. > > > > > > -Lana > > > > > > P.S. I find it interesting you mention your son needed folate to > > do well > > > with MB12... B12 is supposed to be methylated by 5-MTHF but MB12 > > bypasses > > > that (at least until it has been used once, then it becomes > plain > > B12). Did > > > your son also have issues with TMG when he was folate deficient? > > > > > > I gave my son boatloads of folic acid for several months. I tried > > > > folinic also, but either one was fine for my son. He was > SEVERELY > > > > folic deficient. Folic was very helpful for him for language > and > > also > > > > tolerance of mB12. > > > > > > > > Not all kids need to avoid folic. For some, it is required. > > > > > > > > Dana > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Well, I did stop reading at ABMD for a reason; however, what this doctor had to say seemed worth investigating. His comments seemed in congruence with the agouti mouse study. These cancerous, diabetic, obese, yellow mice were able to give birth to non-cancerous, non- diabetic, slim, brown mice simply by providing a diet for the mother high in methyl donors prior to conception and during the pregnancy. This advice wouldn't, IMO, be dangerous or difficult to implement. In fact, the kind of supplementation we're talking about would simply make the diet of the parents resemble a more traditional diet rather than the diet most of eat/are recommended today. I don't know how truthful the doctor's statements regarding this information were; however, in his other comments concerning recovery, etc, he certainly hasn't made any grand claims. In fact, the opposite. I wouldn't share the information if I thought he was simply grandstanding. Anita > > My experience with ABMD is that it is surreptitiously edited to exclude real or useful > infomation in favor of this kind of drivel > > > " I used to read at ABMD and a doctor there spoke of supplementing moms > > (maybe dads too, I can't remember) and in over 900 families (higher > > risk families, like ours) not one child with autism or downs (this > > doctor deals with downs children too). > > Reasons I don't believe this: > > That would require a far larger practice than most alternative doctors have; > > With 900 families certainly some would be lost to followup before the doctor knew the > status of the new babies. > > Andy > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 I don't know if it's true that there were 900 families in this study or if any of them developed Autism or Down's, but the most obvious cause of the lack of any further developmental delays in subsequent children.....was probably a reluctance to vaccinate among nutrition-minded families or families who had previously had and ASD child. I'm grateful to this dr as he helped me figure out the white patches on her skin, which I thought were Vitiligo, but was really just skin yeast. Otherwise I have read his posts saying there is NO cure for Autism, ever, which I never responded to as he has a Down's child. And despite his comments about her skin yeast a lot of what he had to say I found inaccurate. The board is run like the Gestapo prison camp. [ ] Re: Thinking of trying for baby # 3 - What to do to prepare? Well, I did stop reading at ABMD for a reason; however, what this doctor had to say seemed worth investigating. His comments seemed in congruence with the agouti mouse study. These cancerous, diabetic, obese, yellow mice were able to give birth to non-cancerous, non- diabetic, slim, brown mice simply by providing a diet for the mother high in methyl donors prior to conception and during the pregnancy. This advice wouldn't, IMO, be dangerous or difficult to implement. In fact, the kind of supplementation we're talking about would simply make the diet of the parents resemble a more traditional diet rather than the diet most of eat/are recommended today. I don't know how truthful the doctor's statements regarding this information were; however, in his other comments concerning recovery, etc, he certainly hasn't made any grand claims. In fact, the opposite. I wouldn't share the information if I thought he was simply grandstanding. Anita > > My experience with ABMD is that it is surreptitiously edited to exclude real or useful > infomation in favor of this kind of drivel > > > " I used to read at ABMD and a doctor there spoke of supplementing moms > > (maybe dads too, I can't remember) and in over 900 families (higher > > risk families, like ours) not one child with autism or downs (this > > doctor deals with downs children too). > > Reasons I don't believe this: > > That would require a far larger practice than most alternative doctors have; > > With 900 families certainly some would be lost to followup before the doctor knew the > status of the new babies. > > Andy > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Does anyone think their husband's amalgams or toxicity makes a difference? My husband had 7 amalgams and just recently had 4 removed (not properly I might add) and he's got 3 left. As a child he had epilepsy, asthma and food allergies. Worrying about myself aside, should I be worried about his toxic influence as well? BTW, all of the conversation and answers people are posting is GREAT! Thanks everyone! Carla > > > > My experience with ABMD is that it is surreptitiously edited to > exclude real or useful > > infomation in favor of this kind of drivel > > > > > " I used to read at ABMD and a doctor there spoke of supplementing > moms > > > (maybe dads too, I can't remember) and in over 900 families > (higher > > > risk families, like ours) not one child with autism or downs (this > > > doctor deals with downs children too). > > > > Reasons I don't believe this: > > > > That would require a far larger practice than most alternative > doctors have; > > > > With 900 families certainly some would be lost to followup before > the doctor knew the > > status of the new babies. > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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