Landmark Study Gives More Evidence to the Mercury Autism Connection

A new study, “Biomarkers of Environmental Toxicity and Susceptibility in Autism” in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Neurological Sciences, confirms a causal link between sub acute mercury poisoning in children and their autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. The autism community reported that this study presents, “…some compelling evidence…consistent with the author’s theory that mercury exposure plays a role in autism.” This paper presents the first prospective, blinded cohort study to examine children diagnosed with an ASD using: urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess the body-burden and physiological effects of their mercury, glutathione analysis to assess susceptibility to mercury poisoning, and Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) scores to measure ASD severity.

These evaluations established:

1. Non-chelated patients diagnosed with an ASD had UPPA profiles indicative of mercury poisoning that strongly correlated with ASD severity, measured using CARS scores.
2. Glutathione (a key biochemical in the body’s mercury detoxification pathway) was significantly lower in patients diagnosed with an ASD in comparison with its level in neurotypical controls.
3. Increasing mercury-poisoning severity, as indicated by the UPPA results, was associated with lower glutathione levels among the patients diagnosed with an ASD.

Based upon these findings, the researchers concluded,

ANOTHER Study Links Thimerosal Exposure to Increasing Risk of Autism

Another recent study, this time published in Neurendocrinology Letters, has given more fuel to the movement that the vaccine preservative Thimerosal contributed to the rising incidence of autism.

CDC Data Points To Vaccine-Autism Link

A newly published study in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences, the official journal of the World Federation of Neurology, links mercury from the Thimerosal in vaccines with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

Former NIH Director Says Research Vaccine-Autism Link; CBS News Exclusive

Jordan King was a typical baby. His parents called him vocal and vivacious. Then just before age 2, after a large battery of vaccinations, he simply withdrew from the world.

Autism Risk Linked To Distance From Power Plants, Other Mercury-releasing Sources

ScienceDaily — How do mercury emissions affect pregnant mothers, the unborn and toddlers?

Les Incompétents: My Open Letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics – Dr. Stoller, M.D.

This Letter was written by a colleague of mine, Dr. Kenneth Stoller, whom I’ve learned so much from.

Hepatitis B Vaccine Causes Brain Damage

The Journal of Neurotoxicity recently reported that brain damage occurs due to the Hepatitis B administration in newborn monkeys – often used to project what would happen in newborn infants. This vaccine was added to the recommended immunization schedule in 1991 – to be administered to newborn infants the day of birth or two weeks post.

The study compared newborn monkeys who received the Hepatitis B vaccine (the same one administered to newborn infants) and to a placebo group who received a saline injection. The vaccine group showed significant delay in the acquisition of key survival reflexes – root, snout and suck – all necessary for proper nutrition and feeding.