Re: Autistics Clinically Proven Mercury Poisoned Digest Number 11274

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This is great news folks. Let's see what they do with it!!! Anyone know how much

the test is?

Alison F.

Autistics Clinically Proven Mercury Poisoned

http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org

Washington, DC-

Recent peer-reviewed scientific/medical studies by Nataf et al. (2006) and

by Geier and Geier (2006) leave little doubt that many children with autism

spectrum disorders (ASDs) are indeed mercury poisoned. These studies utilized

urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess body-burden and

physiological effects of mercury in autistics. Today, any parent, physician, or

healthcare provider can easily confirm whether a non-chelated autistic is

mercury poisoned by having UPPA testing run at Laboratory Corporation of

America (LabCorp) (CLIA-certified, Test#120980) or Laboratoire Philippe Auguste

(ISO-certified, Urine Porphyrin Profile).

UPPA is a highly accurate, inexpensive, non-invasive, and routinely

available method for estimating body-burden and toxicity of mercury. Numerous

peer-reviewed scientific/medical papers published over the past 40

years, many of them supported by the US NIH, have proven the validity of using

UPPA to identify mercury poisoning.

UPPA profiling, unlike attempts to directly measure mercury in the blood,

urine or feces, or in tissues (e.g., hair and nail), is a proven method for

assessing mercury toxicity.

Using UPPA, Nataf et al. (2006) studied the urinary porphyrin patterns in

French children using the results reported by Laboratoire Philippe Auguste.

Similarly, Geier and Geier (2006) studied the urinary porphyrin patterns in US

children using the results reported by LabCorp.

Both published studies:

. Clearly demonstrated that non-chelated autistics had porphyrin

patterns indicative of clinical mercury toxicity, while normal children and

their normal sibling controls did not.

. Found that the more severely affected the ASD children were the higher

their evidence of mercury toxicity.

. Established that treating autistics with chelating agents resulted in

lower mercury-specific urinary porphyrins, which corresponded to apparent

reductions in the mercury body-burden of these children.

Many other physicians who take care of ASD patients have ordered UPPA

testing and confirmed the observations made by Nataf et al. (2006) and Geier and

Geier (2006).

Thus, urinary porphyrin profile testing is being successfully used to:

. Demonstrate the role of mercury in populations of autistics,

. Identify those children and adults who are mercury poisoned, and

. Track mercury excretion from affected children undergoing treatment.

For the past several years there has been a raging controversy as to

whether or not mercury in medicines, especially in vaccines, has caused the

dramatic rise in the rate of children diagnosed with an ASD. Many experts have

insisted ASDs are caused by some yet-to-be-identified genetic cause. A paper

recently published in Nature Genetics described the results of

multi-million-dollar genetics study (which studied a thousand-plus families with

at least two autistics using in-depth genetic screening). Tellingly,

the authors reported, " None of our linkage results can be interpreted as

'statistically significant'. " (The Autism Genome Project Consortium, 2007). This

makes it unlikely that purely genetic aberrations ! are t he root cause of most

ASD cases.

With the current porphyrin study results, public health officials should

now publicly admit what they have been saying in their private transcripts and

memos all along: Mercury from Thimerosal-containing vaccines and other medicines

has been a major cause of ASD cases, which, according to recent CDC (2007)

estimates, may occur one in every 150 children.

CoMeD's web site, http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org contains:

. Further information on how to order these tests,

. Full copies of the Nataf et al. (2006) and Geier and Geier (2006)

papers, and

. Some of the many published papers validating the UPPA test.