Unraveling the Complexity of Modern Pediatric Conditions - PowerPoint Presentation

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Unraveling the Complexity of Modern Pediatric Conditions2015

Millicent Holliday RN, BEPQuintessential Health Carewww.quintessentialhealth.net

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Goal

To examine numerous topics pertaining to current pediatric health conditions, with the intent of generating creative thought and conversation so that we (the health practitioners) can be more informed, thus allowing both parents and practitioners to assess and expand on the data presented. My goal with this presentation is to assist people to move away from fear-based medicine, and to provide starting points that allow for practical evaluation of benefit verses risk, as we navigate the health issue’s that impact our children in these days.

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Childhood Related Health issues that were not present, or were minimally present, 30 years ago…

ADD/ADHDAllergiesAphasia (Language dysfunction)

Apraxia (Motor Speech disorder)AsthmaAtaxia (Involuntary muscle movement)Autism/Aspergers Behavioral DisordersDiabetes

Dyspraxia (Developmental co-ordination disorder)

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Childhood Related Health issues that were not present, or were minimally present 20 to 30 years ago…

EczemaGastro-Intestinal DisordersCandidiasis ColitisGERD’s

Leaky GutHypotonia (Poor Muscle Tone)Immune Dysfunction

IntussusceptionLearning DisordersMood DisordersMulluscum

Contagiosum

Nutritional Deficiencies

Gluten Sensitivities

Key Mineral Deficiencies

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Childhood Related Health issues that were not present, or were minimally present, 20 to 30 years ago…

Nervous System DisordersBipolar DiseaseSeizures

Schizophrenia ObesityObsessive Compulsive DisordersPervasive Developmental DelaysTourette SyndromeSIDS

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What is Happening to our Children?

Why is there a global epidemic of increasing chronic disease and developmental disabilities?Why has the incidence of autism increased by more than 1700% since 1991?

Why is 1 child in 6 learning disabled?Why are 15 % of children now diagnosed with ADD/ADHD?

Ref. Andrew Moulden, B.A., M.A., M.D., Ph.D.

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We have to Ask Why?

Why did autism grow from a relatively rare incidence of 1 in every 10,000 births in the 1980s? 1 in 500 in the late 1990s.

1 in 250 in 2000. 1 in 150 in late 2000.“1 in 87 in 2014.” (cdc.gov)

David Kirby “Evidence of Harm”

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Why?

Why is 1 child in 9 asthmatic?Why is 1 child in 450 diabetic?

Why has the prevalence of eczema (Atopic Dermatitis) risen to impact 80% of children, with most children developing symptoms before 12 months of age?Why are infants and toddlers dying with “cause of death undetermined” on their death certificates?

Ref: Andrew

Moulden

, B.A., M.A., M.D., Ph.D.

Ref: March 8, 2004, Understanding Eczema, by Debra

Indorato

, RD, LDN., Vol. 16 No. 5 p. 35

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Why?

“Why did the CDC and the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) allow mercury exposure from childhood vaccines to more than double between 1988 and 1992 without bothering to calculate cumulative totals and their potential risks?” “Why, for that matter, was there a corresponding spike in reported cases of autism spectrum disorders

(ASD)?

David Kirby

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Statistics…

About 1 percent of the world population has autism spectrum disorder. (CDC, 2014)Prevalence in the United States is estimated at 1 in 68 births. (CDC, 2014

)Five times more common in boys 1-42. Girls 1-189More than 3.5 million Americans live with an autism spectrum disorder. (Buescher et al., 2014)Autism is the fastest-growing developmental disability. (

CDC, 2008)Autism services cost U.S. citizens $236-262 billion annually. (Buescher

et al., 2014

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1 in 6 Children have developmental disabilities/speech and language disabilities statistics taken between 2006 -2008

www.cdc.gov

http

://www.autism-society.org/what-is/facts-and-statistics/

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Finding the answers to all these questions can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

This age of information overload has successfully complicated the honest attempts of many people to find not only answers but solutions.

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The overarching need today is for there to be a return to practicality relative to our children’s health issues.

Parents need to have an in depth (or even cursory) understanding of how the immune system works so that they are more able to make informed decisions relative to their children's health.

There is the need for a deeper understanding of the miracle of the human body and its ability to counteract and expel even the most virulent pathogens.

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Historical Vision…

A major cause of the Roman Empire’s decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into neurological cripples.

Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.

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History

“Mad Hatter’s Disease”

Symptoms:Depression

Sluggishness

Acute anxiety

Irrational fears

Nervousness

Timidness

Blushing

Uncomfortable in social situations

Avoiding people

Easily upset

Trouble with movement and coordination

Agitation

Irritability & aggression

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Acrodynia/Pink Disease-1930

Acrodynia

, afflicted tens of thousands of children in the 1930s.

25% of

babies with pink disease died.

Resulted from exposure to inorganic mercury found in teething powder, calamine lotion and mercurochrome.

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in 500 exposed children developed the disease.

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Symptoms of Pink Disease

Loss of joyfulness

Children stopped playing, laughing or smiling

Sad expression, melancholy even desperate

Aphasia (stopped talking)

Constant crying, cranky and moaning

Affectivity

modified

Lack of awareness of parents

No

response to kisses

Irritability

Hostility

Biting, hitting

Bizarre behavior

Alternating excitation and depression

Anger turned inwards, head banging etc.

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Minamata Disease: 1950

Named after

Minamata Bay in SW Japan. In the early 1950s, residents began noticing bizarre

behavior in cats. They convulsed and screeched in agony.

Then

people began to be affected, first noted in fishing communities located near factories that expelled waste, including mercury, into the sea.

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Symptoms of Minamata Disease

Numbness in arms, legs and mouth

Sensory disturbances Problems with hand-eye coordination and movement.

Generalized lack of coordination

Difficulty in walking

Fatigue

Tremor

Weakness

Seizures

Reduced or slurred speech

Diminished vision & hearing

Partial Paralysis

Jerking movement

Difficulty swallowing

Convulsions

Brain Damage

Death

Birth defects

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The Iraqi Grain Incident-1971

Persian Gulf in 1971 suffered a catastrophic drought which wiped out

their wheat production.Iraqi government imported 178,000 tons of drought resistant wheat seed from Mexico. The grain was treated with methylmercury (and in some cases

ethylmercury) as a fungicide, and dyed pink.

The grain arrived too late in

Iraq

to plant so villages ground it into flour to make bread.

Thousands of Iraqi consumed this bread, finding the pink color attractive and festive.

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Iraqi Grain Incident Symptoms

Burning and prickling skin

Fuzzy eyesightLoss of muscle coordination

Blindness

Hearing loss

Coma

Death

6000 people

hospitalized

450 deaths

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Iraqi Grain Incident cont…

Fetuses exposed possibly 10 times more sensitive to mercury

Symptoms of children exposed during pregnancy

Cerebral palsy

Mental retardation

Weakness

Seizures

Delayed development

Symptoms in older children

Seizures

Abnormal reflexes

Delayed development

Children

exposed to mercury in utero “appeared fairly normal at birth, with only slight abnormalities of reflexes and muscle tone, but later had seizures, long delays in learning to walk and talk, and severe

clumsiness”

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Gulf War Syndrome 1990

Many Gulf Was veterans suffered from bizarre symptoms on return to the U.S.A., like severe weight loss, GI inflammation, neurological damage, short-term memory loss, even tumors.

Mercury levels in there hair measured around 14 ppm (5ppm is considered mercury toxicity) Some veterans received as much as 800 micrograms of mercury in there military vaccinations.

IV chelation therapy has proved effective in resolving many of there symptoms

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Mercury Safety Levels

MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) states that thimerosal is “Highly Toxic”, that there is a “Danger of cumulative effects. Avoid prolonged or repeated exposure.

The chemical, physical, and toxicological properties have not been thoroughly investigated.”

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Dangerous Dosages

EPA

cites safety limits for ethylmercury at 0.1 micrograms per kilogram per day.

A 10

lb

or 5 Kg babies should not be exposed to more than 0.5 mcg a day.

In the late 1980’s, and all through the 90’s, at

two months many babies routinely receive

diphtheria-tetanus with 25 mcg

ethylmercury

Hib

shot with 25 mcg

ethylmercury

Hepatitis B with 12.5 mcg

ethylmercury

= 62.5 micrograms in a day.

By age 18 months many children have received a total of 237 micrograms of mercury, 175 micrograms received in the first 6 months when body weight is low and the immune and nervous systems not fully developed.

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Foreign Foresight & Myopic Vision

In 1990 the World Health Organization began to investigate allergic reactions to

thimerosal.

In 1992 thimerosal

was removed from all childhood vaccines in Scandinavia.

In 1997 the European Union had begun looking into the preservative and it’s toxic effects.

June 29, 1999 in an address to high level American and European health officials, Jon Christian

Ryter

said “WHO was concerned that the accumulation effect of more than 200 mcg of mercury in a fetus or infant could cause moderate to severe brain damage that would result in a rise of learning impaired children”.

This alarmed FDA

officials,

who encouraged removal of mercury from

childhood

shots. But in order “not to jeopardize immunizations programs” it was considered advisable to eliminate it “on a gradual basis”.

David Kirby

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What Caused the Dramatic Rise is Autism in the past

30 years

In 1988 Hib vaccine was added to the childhood schedule, calling for four shots in the first year of life beginning at age two months. Some brands of

Hib vaccine contain 25 mcg of

ethylmercury

-each.

In 1991, hepatitis-B was added to the list, at that time all these vaccines contained 12.5 mcg of mercury. The schedule was 3 injections in the first year, beginning with a “birth dose”.

These vaccines added an additional 137.5 mcg of

ethylmercury

, during a

childs

first most vulnerable year.

In just three years, total potential exposure leapt from 100 micrograms to 237.5 micrograms.

David Kirby Evidence of Harm

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Why the Hepatitis B Vaccine?

In 1991 hepatitis-B was added to the childhood schedule. At that time all Hep-B shots contained 12.5 micrograms of mercury.

Three injections in the first year was initiated starting with a “birth dose”.

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CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, June 2000

The CDC’s Dr. Thomas

Verstraeten determined that the odds of there being a neurological outcome with each incremental increase in

thimerosal exposure is dramatic. (0, 12.5, 25, 37.5, 50, and 62.5 micrograms or more).

Verstraeten

stated “What these estimates suggest is that there seems to be an increasing trend, an increasing risk for any of these neurological developmental outcomes, with increasing

thimerosal

exposure among children who received the highest exposure, compared with children who received little or no mercury at all”

In Atlanta GA, July 2000 he also stated that children exposed to 62.5 micrograms were 35% more likely to have a neurological developmental disorder than children exposed to 12.5 micrograms.

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Verstraeten’s Observations cont

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For ADD they found that a child that received 62.5 micrograms by six months of age was 30% more likely to develop ADD than a child who received 12.5 micrograms.Likewise children who received 62.5 micrograms of ethylmercury

by 3 months of age, compared with children who received 12.5 mcg’s, were 110% more likely to develop language disorders.

With autism the risk in the higher exposure group at 3 months were 69% more likely to develop autism than the baseline group.

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BREAK…

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Neuro Toxicity & Adjuvants

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration (University of Calgary)

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Boyd Haley’s Research 2002

He exposed mouse neuronal cells in a culture to

thimerosal (in the same 0.01 percent solution found in vaccines); aluminum and neomycin which is widely used in pediatrics and found in the MMR vaccine.

Haley measured the percentage of neurons that were still alive after 24 hours. There was also a control group of unexposed neurons (all survived after 24 hours).

In the aluminum exposed group nearly

90%

of the cells survived.

In the antibiotic group survival was

80%.

In the thimerosal group only

30%

survived after 24 hours.

When all three were mixed together the survival rate plummeted to less than 10% after 24 hours.

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Boyd Haley’s Research cont.

Body Haley’s team made another remarkable finding: In normal children elevated mercury levels in hair correspond to the number of dental amalgams in the mother. In contrast, autistic children have very low mercury levels in there hair even if the mother has a mouthful of fillings.

“This clearly shows that autistic children do not handle mercury like normal children…, they do not excrete mercury very well.”

EPA states that mercury above 1 part per million (ppm) is a consideration for action.

A reading of 5 ppm means mercury poisoning.

International Journal of Toxicology

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Boyd Haley’s Research cont…

He found that

thimerosal broke down when exposed to light, releasing its ethylmercury

at a rapid rate. Thimerosal

without exposure to light caused

80%

loss of protein, but an even higher toxicity resulted in the

photolyzed

vaccine.

He also found that methylmercury was not as toxic to tubulin as the

ethylmercury

released from

thimerosal

after exposure to light.

He also found that the mercury laced shots were tenfold to a hundredfold more toxic than those without

thimerosal

. There was one outstanding exception the preservative-free MMR vaccine. It was as toxic as the

thimerosal

-containing vaccine. There was something in MMR that inhibited enzymes and brain proteins, as yet

undetermined.

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The Perfect Storm Hypothesis

Chemical ToxinsFluoride +++Geopathic StressorsGMO’s

Glyphosatearticles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/.../dr-huber-gmo-foods.aspxHeavy Metal Toxicity

Aluminium

Ethylmercury

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB7Os0tos5k

Methylmercury

Mal-nourished

Mothers

Ultrasounds

Vaccines

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/01/24/catastrophic-vaccine-reactions.aspx

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Adjuvants…

Aluminum is being implicated as interfering with a variety of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system and in other tissues.

Conclusion: Aluminum is eliminated from the body primarily through the kidneys. Infants kidney function (glomerular filtration rate) is low at birth and doesn’t reach full capacity until 1-2 years of age. Infants may not be able to effectively excrete aluminum, contributing to heavy metal toxicity.

Ref:

Zatta

PF,

Alfrey

AC (

Eds

). “Aluminum Toxicity in Infants Health and Disease” 1997 World Scientific Publishing

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Adjuvants

Different vaccines contain a number of different ingredients that can be toxic for humans and cause serious health problems, such as:

Vaccination: The Neurological Poison So Common Your Doctor Probably Pushes It April 11, 2012 Dr. Mercola

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Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent

Phenol (carbolic acid)

Neomycin and streptomycin (antibiotics)

Resin and gelatin, known to cause allergic reactions

Polysorbate

80 (Tween80™), which can cause anaphylactic reactions, and may cause miscarriage and infertility (see the next section for details)

Triton X100 (detergent)

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Adjuvants

Adjuvants can cause your immune system to overreact to the introduction of the organism you're being vaccinated against, leading to a break down in self-tolerance, i.e. your immune system attacks your own body as “other” Vaccine-induced immune challenges can lead to permanent alterations in brain and immune function, including serious, chronic inflammatory conditions Children are particularly vulnerable to toxic insults; a new report states that a “rigorous evaluation of the vaccine-related adverse health impacts in the pediatric population is urgently needed”

Vaccination: The Neurological Poison So Common Your Doctor Probably Pushes It April 11, 2012 Dr. Mercola

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GMOs, Glyphosate & The Human MicroBiome

Two studies published in the past six months reveal a disturbing finding: glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup® appear to suppress the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, leading to the overgrowth of extremely pathogenic bacteria.

GM agriculture may be contributing to the alarming increase, worldwide, in infectious diseases that are resistant to conventional antibiotics, such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Carbapenem-resistant

Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which the CDC's director recently termed a 'nightmare bacteria.‘

Glyphosate

has been found to be toxic to human DNA at concentrations 450-fold lower than presently used in agricultural applications.

[ii]

When combined with

adjuvants

and other so-called 'inactive' ingredients, the glyphosate-formulations are far more toxic than their component ingredients taken in isolation

March 28th 2013 at 5:00 am

Written By:

www.GreenMedInfo.com

Sayer

Ji

, Founder

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Glyphosate

Research has demonstrated that pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are neurotoxic, capable of damaging your nervous system. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 60 percent of herbicides, 90 percent of fungicides, and 30 percent of insecticides are also carcinogenic.Most notably, as reported by Reuters,

 the USDA does not test for one of the most pervasive and one of the most harmful agricultural chemicals of all, namely glyphosate:As has been the case with past analyses, the USDA said it did not test this past year for residues of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide and the world's most widely used herbicide.USDA Claims Pesticide Residues in Food Is Safe—Here’s Why They’re

Wrong January 27, 2015 Dr. Mercola 1/27/15

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Glyphosate

The researchers also note that previous studies show that glyphosate "disrupts the endocrine system and the balance of gut bacteria... damages DNA and is a driver of mutations that lead to cancer.“Ref: USDA Claims Pesticide Residues in Food Is Safe—Here’s Why They’re Wrong

January 27, 2015 Dr. Mercola 1/27/1542

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Correlation between Glyphosate and Health Problems…

The researchers searched US government databases for GE crop data, glyphosate application data, and disease epidemiological data, and analyses revealed "highly significant" correlations between glyphosate applications and the following health problems among the US population:

USDA Claims Pesticide Residues in Food Is Safe—Here’s Why They’re Wrong January 27, 2015 Dr. Mercola 1/27/15

Hypertension

Stroke

Diabetes

Obesity

Lipoprotein metabolism disorder

Alzheimer's disease

Senile dementia

Parkinson's disease

Multiple sclerosis

Autism

Inflammatory bowel disease

Intestinal infections

End stage renal disease

Acute kidney failure

Thyroid cancer

Liver cancer

Bladder cancer

Pancreatic cancer

Kidney cancer

Myeloid leukemia

 

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Genetic Predispositions

MTHFR Mutations – Developmental delays, severe mental retardation, peri-natal death, psychiatric disturbancesMTRR/A66G – A marker for chromosome damage & developmental delays

MAO A / R297R Monitor clinical indication of abnormal serotonin and plasma tryptophan. Ref: 1999-2014 Doctor's Data, Inc.If Glyphosates potentially has the ability to impact your DNA, could it alter gene function as well?Could children with these genetic

predispositions be more prone to developing neurological deficits?

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Genetic Polymorphism…

Methylene-tetra-hydro-folate Reductase (MTHFR)The MTHFR gene provides instructions for making an enzyme called methylene-tetra-hydro-folate reductase

. This enzyme plays a role in processing amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase is important for a chemical reaction involving forms of the vitamin folate (also called vitamin B9). Specifically, this enzyme converts a molecule called 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate to a molecule called 5-methyltetrahydrofolate.

This reaction is required for the multistep process that converts the amino acid homocysteine to another amino acid, methionine. The

body uses methionine to make proteins and other important compounds

.

http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/MTHFR

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MAYA Clinic & MTHFR

Patients with severe MTHFR deficiency (enzymatic activity 0%-20% of normal) develop homocysteinuria, a severe disorder with a wide range of associated clinical manifestations, including developmental delay, mental retardation, and premature vascular disease. Seven unique

MTHFR mutations have been associated with homocysteinuria, all among patients who were either homozygous or compound heterozygotes for 1 or more of these mutations.www.mayomedicallaboratories.com 

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Folate/B12

In infants and children, folate deficiency can slow growth rate. Women with folate deficiency who become pregnant are more likely to give birth to low birth weight premature infants, and infants with

neural tube defects.The role of vitamin B12 and folate in depression is due to their role in transmethylation reactions, which are crucial for the formation of neurotransmitters

(e.g. serotonin, epinephrine, nicotinamides, purines, phospholipids).Low levels of folate or vitamin B

12

can disrupt

transmethylation

reaction, leading to an accumulation of

homocysteine

(

hyperhomocisteinemia

) and to impaired metabolism of neurotransmitters (especially the hydroxylation of

dopamine

and

serotonin

from

tyrosine

and

tryptophan),

phospholipids,

myelin,

and receptors.

High homocysteine levels

in the blood can lead to vascular injuries by oxidative mechanisms which can contribute to cerebral dysfunction. All of these can lead to the development of various disorders, including

depression.

www.ask.com/health/vitamin-b12

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Cranial Nerves

The cranial nerves are composed of twelve pairs of nerves that emanate from the nervous tissue of the brain.  The motor components of the cranial nerves are derived from cells that are located in the brain.

The sensory components of cranial nerves originate from collections of cells that are located outside the brain. In summary, the motor components  of cranial nerves transmit nerve impulses from the brain to target tissue outside of the brain.  Sensory components transmit nerve impulses from sensory organs to the brain.

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The Cranial Nerves

I

Olfactory

II Optic

III Oculomotor

IV Trochlear

V Trigeminal

VI

Abducens

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Cranial Nerves

VII Facial

VIII Vestibulocochlear

or

Auditory

IX Glossopharyngeal

X

Vagus

XI Accessory

XII

Hypoglassal

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Neurotransmitters Make All the

Difference

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MMR Vaccine

1955 Death rate in measles was less than 3 per 10 million that was 8 years before the measles vaccination

campaign

began in

1963

The vaccine court has ruled that the MMR can cause acute encephalopathy followed by permanent brain injury or death.

MINE (Measles-Induced

Neuroautistic

Encephalopathy) syndrome has a constellation of symptoms similar to autism.

Ref:

Dr

Sherri

Tenpenny

, “Saying NO to

Vacines

”, p 91

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MINE & Subacute

Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE)

SSPE is an extremely rare, serious complication of a measles infection. It is also listed as a possible adverse reaction to the MMR vaccine by manufacturer Merck & Co. (Feb. 2000).

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SSPE

The virus can remain quiescent for years prior to erupting in the CNS as complications of SSPE.

Prior to 1963, when the measles vaccine was introduced, more than 500,000 cases of measles were reported each year. 60 Cases of SSPE occurred annually.By 1975, SSPE had dropped to 41 cases per year. Only 80 cases reported in the U.S. over the last 15 yearsHowever, since the late 1990s > 2,000 children have been diagnosed with MINE syndrome and many thousands more have been diagnosed with autism (1 in 166 children).

(2014 Autism 1 in 87)

Ref: J

Ped

Neurology. 2004: SSPE & MINE

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MINE

All children diagnosed with MINE syndrome had the MMR between 12 and 21 months of age. There are no reported cases in unvaccinated children.

Prior to vaccination, none of the children showed any features of autism or any signs of enterocolitis. Vaccine-strain measles virus found in children’s blood and spinal fluid

Slow viruses: many autistic symptoms develop many months after the measles vaccine, an interval characteristic of diseases caused by “slow viruses” such as the measles virus.

Ref: Saying NO to Vaccines, Dr Sherri Tenpenny

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Possible Adverse Reactions to MMR Issued by Merck & Co. (February 2000)

Body as a Whole:

Panniculitis (inflammation of a layer of fatty connective tissue of the anterior wall of the abdomen)Fever Syncope

HeadacheDizziness

Malaise

Irritability

Cardiovascular System:

Vasculitis (inflammation of the blood or lymph vessels)

Digestive System:

Pancreatitis

Diarrhea

Vomiting

Parotitis

Nausea

Endocrine System:

Diabetes mellitus

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Possible Adverse Reactions to MMR Issued in 2000 by Merck & Co…

Ear:

Nerve deafnessOtitis media

Eye:RetinitisOptic neuritis

Papillitis

Retrobulbar

neuritis

Conjunctivitis

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Possible Adverse Reactions to MMR Issued by Merck & Co…

Haematic

and Lymphatic System:Thrombocytopenia (abnormal decrease in number of blood platelets)Purpura (hemorrhage into skin, mucous membranes, internal organs and other tissue)

Regional Lymphadenopathy (disease of lymph nodes)Leukocytosis (increase in number of leukocytes (WBC) in the blood, generally caused by the presence of infection)

Immune System:

Anaphylaxis

Anaphylactoid

reaction

Angioneurotic

edema (spasm or paralysis of blood vessels

Bronchial spasm (asthma)

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Possible Adverse Reactions to MMR Issued by Merck & Co…

Musculoskeletal System:Arthritis

Arthralgia (pain in joints)Myalgia (pain in muscles)

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Possible Adverse Reactions to MMR Issued by Merck & Co…Nervous System:

Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain…may be a specific disease entity caused by an arthropod-borne virus, or it may occur as a result of influenza, measles, German measles, chickenpox, herpes virus, infection, smallpox vaccinia or other diseases)Encephalopathy (any dysfunction of the brain)Measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE)

Subacute sclerosing

panencephalitis

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Possible Adverse Reactions to MMR Issued by Merck & Co…

Nervous System (cont’d)Guillain-Barre Syndrome (polyneuritis with progressive muscle weakness of extremities that may lead to paralysis; usually occurs after recovery from an infectious disease; has also occurred as a rare complication of immunization with influenza vaccine)

Ref:Taber’s Medical DictionaryFebrile convulsions

Afebrile convulsions or seizures

Ataxia

Polyneuritis (inflammation of multiple nerves)

Polyneuropathy (disease of multiple nerves)

Ocular palsies

Paresthesia (tickling, prickling or burning of skin)

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Possible Adverse Reactions to MMR Issued by Merck & Co…

Respiratory System:Pneumonitis

Sore throatCoughRhinitisSkin:

Steven-Johnson syndrome (see erythema multiforme

below)

Erythema

multiforme

(a form of macula showing diffused redness over the skin caused by capillary congestion usually due to dilatation of the superficial capillaries as a result of some nervous mechanism within the body, inflammation or some external influence)

Taber’s Medical Dictionary

Urogenital System:

Orchitis

Other:

Death from various and, in some cases, unknown causes has been reported rarely following vaccination with MMR; however, a causal relationship has not been established.

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Pertussis Vaccination and Asthma: Is there a Link?

Why is 1 child in 9 asthmatic?In a study of 450 children, 11% who had received the pertussis vaccination suffered from asthma as compared with only 2% of the children who had not been vaccinated.

Ref; JAMA. Aug 24-31 272 (8): 592-3 1994

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Why are Childhood Allergies so Prevalent?

The following vaccines and vaccine additives have been associated with an increase of serum IgE

, the antibody present in most persons with allergies:Aluminum; DT vaccine; Aluminum is eliminated from the body primarily through the kidneys. Infants kidney function (glomerular filtration rate) is low at birth and doesn’t reach full capacity until 1-2 years of age. Infants may not be able to effectively excrete aluminum, contributing to heavy metal toxicity.

Gelatin; Influenza;

Pertussis

& MMR vaccines; mercury (

thimerosal

)

Mercury

depletes glutathione, polarizing the TH2 dominance. Can induce a strong increase of

IgE

.

Ref

:

Zatta

PF,

Alfrey

AC (

Eds

). “Aluminum Toxicity in Infants Health and Disease” 1997 World Scientific Publishing

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Why?

Why are vaccine manufacturers and those who administer them protected from liability by the government when their products cause injury?Why do so few parents know that they can report adverse reactions to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)?

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Between mid-1999 and January 4, 2004, a total of 128,035 adverse reactions were reported to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System).

Because it is estimated that only 1% of all adverse reactions are voluntarily reported, this figure may actually represent 1.28 million adverse reactions.During this same period, 2,093 deaths that occurred soon after vaccinations, were reported to VAERS

.

Ref: JAMA 269 and “Saying NO to Vaccines” 29

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What can be done?

Wait 2 years Draw blood titers No antibiotics or steroid x 4 weeks before a vaccineGive only one vaccine at a timeNever vaccinate a sick

childReport ALL “Adverse Events” to VAERSVaccine Exemptions:PhilosophicalReligious

Medical

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Suggested reading…

Evidence of Harm, by David KirbyA shot in the Dark, Harris L. Coulter & Barbara Loe Fisher

Multiple books written by Neil Z. MillerSaying No to Vaccines by Dr. Sherri TenpennyCallous Disregard by Dr. Wakefield Websites

www.mercula.comwww.nvic.org

www.greeninfo.com

www.iaomt.com

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Case Studies

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