Ocean of Tears Evaporated by Science
May 22, 2006
Friends,
For many years, pro-vaccinators have used the fact that autistic children consistently have low parts per million of metal in their hair as a way of dismissing the dangers of mercury in vaccines.
Here's the question: "Why do autistic children have an average of only 0.47 parts per million of mercury in their hair, whereas normally developing children have an average of 3.63 parts per million?"
Here's the answer -- finally.
Jock
http://www.tddmps.com/successstory/
Excerpt from transcripts of the May 6, 2004 U.S. Congressional
Sub-Committee Hearing:
Dr. Rashid Buttar
(one of 190 doctors U.S. board certified in clinical metal
toxicology)
"We started treating children with autism in 1996. By 1997,
we were being referred patients by a pediatric neurologist, who was following a
mutual patient and observed significant changes in the child's behavior after
implementation of our treatments.
"However, by the end of 1998, taking care of children with
special needs proved more than I wanted to handle.
"Although we had far better success than the traditional
approach, our treatments had not been responsible for "normalizing"
any children. The emotional component was also overwhelming, just having to
deal with the pain and frustration of the parents of these children.
"As a result, we stopped accepting new patients with the
diagnosis of autism or any type of developmental delay in early 1999.
"On January 25, 1999, my son Abid Azam Ali Buttar was born.
By the time he was 15 months old, he was saying "Abu" (which means
father in Arabic), and a few other words such as "bye-bye".
"But by the age of 18 months, my son had not only failed to
progress in his ability to speak, but had also lost the few words he had been
saying. At the age of 36 months, he had absolutely no verbal communication
except for the one syllable that he would utter, "deh", on a
repetitive basis.
"As he grew older, I began to worry more and more that he was
suffering from a developmental delay. He exhibited the same characteristics
that so many parents with children that have developmental delays have observed
such as stemming, walking on tip toes, and lack of eye contact. Sometimes I
would call to him but his lack of response would convince me there must be
something wrong with his hearing.
"Certain sounds would make him cringe and he would put his
hands on his ears to block the obvious discomfort he was experiencing. He would
spend hours watching the oscillation of a fan. But through all this, when he
would make eye contact with me, his eyes would say, "I know you can do it
Dad." The expression he would give me, for just an instant, would be that
of a son encouraging his father.
"The oceans of tears that I cried and the hours that I spent
trying to figure out what was happening to my son are no different than that of
any other parent in the same situation. The only difference was that I was one
of only 190 doctors throughout the United States board certified in clinical
metal toxicology. And if this was metal related, I should know how to fix the
problem.
"I tested him and re-tested him and tested him again,
searching for mercury. My son's tests showed his system showed no appreciable
levels of mercury.
"But the older he became, the more obvious it was that my son
was not developing as he was meant to be. My son was not meant to be this way
and that was the one thing that I knew for certain.
"About the same time, while desperately searching for the
cause of the same ailment that had afflicted so many of my patients previously,
I was invited to present a lecture regarding some of our research on IGF-1 and
the correlation with cancer. I had notified the conference that I was too busy
to present this lecture, but when I learned that Dr. Boyd Haley was also
scheduled to present at this conference, I changed my schedule and agreed to
lecture just so I could meet and discuss my son's situation with Dr. Haley.
"That meeting turned out to be one of the key elements which
resulted in our development and subsequent current protocol for treating
children with autism, autism like spectrum and pervasive developmental delay.
My son was the first one who went through this protocol once safety had been
established.
"Dr. Haley told me of a study that, at the time, had not yet
been published. Just before the turn of the century, Holmes, Blaxill and Haley
did a study assessing the level of mercury measured in the hair of 45 normally developing
children versus 94 children with neurodevelopmental delays diagnosed as autism
using DSM IV criteria.
"The finding showed that the autistic children had 0.47 parts
per million of mercury in their hair whereas the normally developing children had
3.63 parts per million, more than 7 times the same level of mercury as the
autistic children. Opponents of the mercury-neurodegeneration camp used this
opportunity to state that this study clearly showed that mercury had NOTHING to
do with autism or any other neurodegenerative condition. However, they
completely missed the point of the study. For the reader, the conclusion of the
study is obvious.
"The reduced levels of mercury in the first baby haircut of
autistic infants raises clear questions about the detoxification capacity of a
subset of infants. Despite hair levels suggesting low exposure, these infants
had measured exposures at least equal to the control population, suggesting
that control infants were able to eliminate mercury more effectively. In the
case of autistic infants, those in our sample were exposed to higher levels of
mercury during gestation, through dental amalgams or Rho D immunoglobulin
injections in the mother.
"The addition of multiple postnatal exposures to mercury in
childhood vaccines would have more severe consequences in infants whose
detoxification capacity is reduced or who may be closer to a dangerous
threshold exposure. In the case of control infants, mercury hair levels were
strongly affected by exposure levels, suggesting that detoxification and
excretion played an important role in ensuring normal development in children
with elevated toxic exposure relative to peers.
"If reduced overall mercury elimination is related to hair
elimination, then autistic infants will retain significantly higher levels of
mercury in tissue, including the brain, than normal infants. In light of the
biological plausibility of mercury's role in neurodevelopmental disorders, our
study provides further insight into one possible mechanism by which early
mercury exposures could increase the risk of autism.
"These findings were published in the International Journal
of Toxicology in 2003. Understanding these findings led me to the conclusion
that a more aggressive method of treatment was necessary compared to DMSA and
various other treatments I had employed in the attempt to document high levels
of mercury in my son, which up to this point, had not been successful.
"The first two attempts with DMPS as a challenge treatment
were unsuccessful. The first attempt due to difficulty catching the urine since
Abie was only 2 years old at the time, and the other due to loss of the urine
specimen while being delivered to the laboratory.
"The third try with DMPS, which represented the 6th test we
did on my son with all previous tests showing no appreciable levels of mercury,
illustrated that his mercury level was over 400% that of safe levels.
"It is important to note that this level was only indicative
of what we were able to "elicit" or "sequester" out of him.
His actual levels were far greater.
"I started his treatments on his 3rd birthday, using a
rudimentary version of the current TD-DMPS (DMPS in a transdermal base) that my
partner, Dr. Dean Viktora, and I had played around with a few years previously.
"By the age of 41 months (five months after initiating
treatment with TD-DMPS) my son started to speak. His speech progression was so
rapid that his speech therapist commented that she had never seen such rapid
progress in speech in a child before.
"Today, at the age of 5, Abie is far ahead of his peers; learning
prayers in a second language, doing large mathematical calculations in his
head, playing chess and reading simple 3 and 4 letter words. His attention span
and focus was sufficiently advanced to the point of being accepted as the
youngest child into a martial arts academy when he was only 4.
"His vocabulary is as extensive as any 10-year-old's, and his
sense of humor, power to reason and ability to understand detailed and complex
concepts constantly amazes me. This was the preliminary basis for our study
that we initiated, which came about as a result of the extraordinary results
obtained in the treatment of my son, Abie.
"In our clinical experience, the only effective method that
has resulted in the consistent removal of mercury resulting in the elimination
of the "spark" in the pediatric population is the TD-DMPS that was
originally formulated only for the purposes of treating my son's developmental
delay.
"We have now successfully treated scores of patients, many of
whom have completely recovered and all of whom have improved since the
implementation of this treatment. These results have been duplicated by other
physicians involved with the care of patients with neurodegenerative disease
processes."
http://www.tddmps.com/successstory/
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In health,
Jock Doubleday
Director
Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc.
A California 501(c)3 Nonprofit Corporation
Jock
Doubleday is the author of
"Spontaneous
Creation:
101
Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital, Vol 1:
A Book
about Natural Childbirth and the Birth of Wisdom and Power in Childbearing
Women"