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"Autism - Cut The Crap"

Evelyn Pringle, an investigative journalist, writes and excellent article titled, "Autism - Cut The Crap". 

From the title, you would suspect this would be an angry OpEd.  Quite the contrary.  Evelyn has done an excellent job collecting several pages worth of data, stats, studies, etc. related to mercury/thimerosal.  In fact, the piece required me to fight off boredom as Evelyn unleashed damning fact after damning fact.  (No offense Evelyn!  Someone needed to wrap this all up in one place.)

The premise of the entire article is based on the theory I use all the time; when you want to get to the bottom of something or determine motivation, follow the money. 

So in the face of an ever growing mountain of evidence, why the motivation to continue the charade? 

"The vaccine makers are fighting hard against the removal of thimerosal for two reasons. The first is the usual suspect, greed. But the second reason is now higher on their list. The industry knows that if thimerosal were to be completely removed from all vaccines tomorrow, the public would not be able to ignore the corresponding decline, not only in cases of autism, but in the epidemic of all the strange disorders that have engulfed the public school system in all 50 states over the past 15 years. The decline is already happening in California, one of the first states to ban thimerosal."

It is critical to realize that mercury doesn't just cause autism.  Mercury is an insidious poison attacking us where we are weakest.  My weaknesses may not be the same as yours.  (Read the first chapter of my book.)  And it is important to remember that some of us are just naturally/genetically poor excreters of heavy metals.

The next shoe to drop is the connection between mercury and the spectrum of chronic conditions.  Not that mercury causes all of these things per se, but mercury weakens our body's ability to fight.

Collodial Silver

Dani Veracity puts together a thorough collection of studies and information for "Colloidal silver gaining ground as a proven, effective antibiotic remedy" over at NewsTarget.com. 

I have not tried the Silver 100 product that the Health Ranger recommends.  I have however been very impressed from my own experience using Sovereign Silver from Natural Immunogenics.  (Impressed enough to sell it at Jigsaw Health obviously.)

This is a true hydrosol where the silver is broken down into MUCH smaller particles than typically found in most colloidal silver products.  Learn more about Sovereign Silver.

 

RFK on The Daily Show

Erik Nansteil has posted The Daily Show interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over at AutismMedia.org. 

Erik does a great job of capturing and hosting all of the autism related audio/visual.  Text is good, but A/V makes an amazing impact.  So while you're there, donate a few bucks to keep his servers happy.

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Mike Adams: Disease Management

A follow up to this post yesterday, Mike Adams (aka "The Health Ranger") posts this excellent article today.

"...our modern health care system isn't health care at all: it's a disease management system."

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Mike Adams: The True Cost of Healthcare

Mike Adams, the "Health Ranger" from NewsTarget.com has absolutely nailed it with "Beyond Dollars: The Real Cost of the U.S. Health Care System." 

Dr. Mercola agrees wholeheartedly.  (Though the two of them must fervently disagree on the use of soy since Mike is pro-soy and Dr. Mercola is big time anti-soy.  I'm also big time anti-soy.)

"Tim Russert Meets Thimerosal"

According to this post (membership required to view) on the Evidence of Harm Yahoo! discussion board, David Kirby is going to be debating Dr. Feinberg of the IOM on "Meet the Press", August 7.  Mark your calendars because this could be really interesting. 

On a related note, here is a very well-crafted, non-lunatic, logical post on the Evidence of Harm Yahoo! board explaining what the thimerosal-autism debate should REALLY be about...

"THIS DEBATE SHOULD BE ABOUT, THE LINK BETWEEN ETHYL-MERCURY AND NEURODEVLOPMENTAL DISORDERS, NOT VACCINES AND AUTISM."

UPDATE 1:42pm - I didn't realize the Evidence of Harm group was members only for posting AND viewing.  Here is that post:

THIS DEBATE SHOULD BE ABOUT, THE LINK BETWEEN ETHYL-MERCURY AND
NEURODEVLOPMENTAL DISORDERS, NOT VACCINES AND AUTISM.

Keep in mind that leaders of large organizations don't have the time
to stop and read the details of every thing that crosses their desk.
For Example, the president signs legislation hundreds of pages long,
but he does not have time to read it. Therefore, he relies on his
subordinates to educate him on key bullet points of the bill's
content.

Dr. Feinberg, being the leader of a large and prestigious medical
organization, does not know the details of the Thimerosal debate. He
is too busy with other matters to be concerned with this trivial junk
science. <Arrogance off>

So expect nothing new from the defenders of Thimerosal on August 7th,
it will be the same old routine: the Danish study AND "since
Thimerosal was removed in 1999 we should have seen a decrease in
autism" NO SH*T SHERLOCK, I'll bet Feinberg has not seen the latest
California autism rate decline, and even if he did, he would
arrogantly dismiss it.

The change-the-debate-defense, my favorite. How many times have we
seen Thimerosal defenders change the debate entirely by using these 2
tactics:

1. Vaccinations have saved millions of lives over the last 100
years and continue to be the cornerstone of a successful public
health policy. Blah, blah blah. ZZZZZZZZZZ. This has nothing to do
with injecting ethyl-mercury into infants.

2. If we don't vaccinate we'll see resurgence in vaccine
preventable diseases. Oh how clever, paint us as anti-vaccine nut-
jobs who want to destroy the vaccine program. Again, this has nothing
to do with injecting ethyl-mercury into infants.

Carefully crafted lawyer-like tactics need to be revealed. Why did
the IOM purposefully narrow the scope of the Thimerosal debate from
neurodevlopmental disorders to autism? It's easy to say that vaccines
don't cause autism, it's much more difficult to defend: the
relationship between ethyl-mercury and neurodevlopmental disorders.

Boyd Haley Profile

"UK chemist tilts at autism's origins"
CHALLENGING THE SCIENTIFIC WISDOM, BOYD HALEY TAKES AIM AT MERCURY

The Lexington Herald-Leader wrote what seemed to me to be an insightful, and relatively fair and balanced article about Dr. Boyd Haley, anti-mercury PhD chemist and activist.  He has done much, inside and outside the lab, to bring exposure to this issue.

To those who don't like Dr. Haley -- and there are MANY -- they could point to certain things in this article and demonize him.  For instance:

Asked about McCormick [a professor of maternal and child health in the Harvard School of Public Health, chaired the IOM committee on autism] last week, Haley said this: "I think there's a special place in hell for her."

That must be one of those "colorful southern sound bites."

As an aside, I think this study by Dr. James Adams at ASU whom I have met personally is what the article is referring to as the "Mercury in the hair" research.  Flawed?  Not likely.

Probiotics: New research confirms benefits

I learned about the importance of a healthy intestinal flora many years ago.  The body must have a certain amount of "good bugs" living in our small and large intestines to stay healthy.  Many gastro issues -- including IBS, chron's disease, colitis, etc. -- occur because we don't have enough good bugs to fight off the bad bugs.  Eventually, we are overrun by the bad guys.

I had a terrible "gut dysbiosis" for many years, mostly consisting of an overgrowth of candida yeast.  To make a long story short, this was mostly the result of a bad diet (lots of processed foods, white flour, and other simple carbohydrates) and far too many broad-spectrum antibiotics as a child.

I read Dr. Mercola's blog today about a recent study done on Probiotics in the American Journal of Gastroenterology (which was also covered at the Science Blog).

"...86 percent of those treated with a probiotic bacteria mixture experienced relief of their mild to moderate ulcerative colitis."

This is great to have a peer-reviewed study confirm this, but it's not news to me or many others at all.  That's just how our intestinal tract works.  (Read more about the gastrointestinal system.)

I believe the Probiotics we have developed at Jigsaw Health are great for several reasons.  First, the strains are all human-based strains.  DDS-1 in particular has many scientific studies showing it's efficacy over a 25-year period. 

Second, we pack a LOT of bugs in there.  We guarantee 25 billion good bugs when it gets to your door and we even sent the product out for testing . . . in the middle of an Arizona summer!

Why did I work with a formulator to design the product this way?  Because I wanted something that would work! 

I have spent thousands of dollars myself on probiotic products over the years that showed little or no impact on my own dysbiosis.  There are approximately 70 trillion bugs in the intestinal tract which has the surface area the size of a tennis court.  It takes dietary changes, time, and many "bugs" to fully overcome a severe dysbiosis.

So if you're in the market for probiotics and you don't like fermentted foods or yogurt (like me!), take a look at Jigsaw Health Essential Blend Probiotics.