Sunday, January 24, 2010

Maine Wants Autistic Boys to Look Like This



The State of Maine advises people that using Risperidal to treat autism is "evidence based medicine". However, Maine neglected to include the fact that risperidal has been found responsible for boys growing breasts. So, we can conclude the Maniacs would much rather turn autistic boys into transgender mutants than to cure them.

Please see previous blogpost for a complete description of the idiocy practiced in Maine regarding autism.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Maine Condemns Autistic Children to Life In Prison

The liars and profiteers who control the management of autism in the state of Maine have published the most dishonest report I have ever seen to ensure that no child in Maine will ever receive any help in curing their autism. Here's the link to this pile of pseudo-intellectual, government speak that uses grievous lies of omission to misrepresent the truth about how to treat autism.

You don't have to read any further than the page that lists the authors of this report to know what you will read in the rest of the report. It's exactly the dishonesty that we have been hearing for years from the same liars who profit from our childrens' brain damage. Every person who contributed to this report profits from keeping our children autistic. If we cure our kids, all of these people will be looking for jobs except the state employees who, as always remain on the payroll and just have less work to do.

This report is pure propaganda to endorse ABA as the only method that should be used to treat autism. None of the liars who wrote this dishonesty tried to elaborate on how teachers can reverse the effects of having mercury and aluminum sitting in a child's brain. They just decided not to mention how they designed that miracle. We know that autism is caused by mercury from vaccines and that the mercury will stay in the brain forever where it will keep killing brain cells. Yet, we have these behaviorist "magicians" from Maine who are trying to make us believe that they can help autistic children by using words to provoke the mercury to stop causing harm to our children. I'm sure they can cure rattlesnake bites by using ABA against the venom with equally wondrous results.

The liars from Maine decided to include chelation in their report. They mentioned how one child was killed by intravenous chelation using EDTA. They did not include the fact the doctor who killed this child committed malpractice by using the wrong kind of EDTA and they neglected to mention the fact that no person has ever been harmed by using DMSA and ALA to chelate mercury out of the brain orally.

These dishonest Maniacs spent a great deal of time in their report describing the dishonest term "evidence based medicine". They neglected to tell us that the rules for "evidence based medicine" are determined by the same people who decided it was acceptable to keep shooting mercury into babies and fetuses after they admitted that this caused autism in 1999. It is clear to enyone who looks at these "definitions" that they are merely weasel worded government speak designed to exclude evidence that they want to keep hidden so they won't be identified as criminals. To the liars in Maine, that means they do not accept the fact that we have cured a lot of children with chelation because we have not succumbed to the liars demands to prove our facts by following the rules that they made up for the sole reason of finding an excuse to exclude that evidence.

The truth that the Maniacs will not even address is that there are cured children all over the place who were cured by removing the mercury that caused the autism from their brains. All the Maniacs have to do is look at these children, talk to the doctors who cured them and review parents' records of chelation treatments to see the truth. However, the liars in Maine refuse to accept this evidence because nobody has bothered doing a study that satisfies the demands of the people who caused all of the autism by never bothering to do the same kind of study they ask for, on thimerosal.

Lots of people might read this pseudo-scientific report, read the long list of studies and names of alleged "experts" who support lying to the public about the dishonesty of the medical profession and the Pharmaceutical industry and think that that is a good reason to believe this deception.

Nobody should believe one word of this dishonest report from the lying Maniacs because I, and thousands of other parents are proof that they are being completely dishonest. I cured my son of all of the nightmarish behaviors associated with autism as well as all of the physical symptoms that were caused by mercury. I cured his four or five year battle with constipation within the first two months of starting chelation. When the mercury left his "gut", the constipation vanished and his bowels have been normal for six years now. My son had always dragged one leg behind the other from the time he took his first step and that physical symptom vanished at the same time. He has walked normally ever since. His head banging vanished. His screaming vanished. His sleep was controlled with melatonin, another thing the Maniacs lied about. They support using stronger drugs that can cause harm to the liver and worse.

My son stopped bolting into traffic and out of classrooms. He stopped biting himself, stopped assaulting people who were trying to restrain him since he no longer needed to be restrained. He began to make eye contact again, began to learn in school rather than just being allowed to spin in circles all day because no teacher could communicate with him at all. He learned to hit golf balls rather than eating the golf club, something I had tried to teach him every day for nine years. I taught my other children how to swing a golf club in one day. He learned to understand language and respond to it, though he still can't speak. He learned to use basic signs to have his needs met. He stopped smearing feces. I could go on but, the point is that he is a different child thanks to removing mercury from his brain with chelation.

I don't profit from telling people the truth about how to cure autism. The problem here is that the people from Maine who do profit by not telling people the truth about how to cure autism are just as hazardous to autistic children as the doctors who shot the mercury into them with their vaccines. The liars in Maine will not even make any mention of chelation using DMSA and ALA because they know the truth. They know that it works to cure autism, the same as I do. Maine is condemning autistic children to a lifetime of suffering because the state of Maine is allowing dishonest "experts" to present false information to the public.

Every person associated with this report is a liar. I challenge all of them to charge me with libel for making that statement. I can prove that all of you are dishonest. All I have to do is show up in court with one child who was helped by chelation. That will be proof that you are not looking out for the best interests of any autistic child.

Chelation is cheap, simple but time consuming. It can take years to remove all of the mercury safely but it is the only way to cure autism. All of the junk these Maniacs present in their dishonest report can merely improve some synptoms. Their methods do nothing for the physical pain that autistic kids endure due to having mercury in their organs.

Chelation consists of dosing a child with 1/8 to 1/2 mg per pound with ALA, every three hours for three days. Then take either four or eleven days off. Some other supplements are used but that is the gist of it. The liars in Maine should be telling everyone that that is how we cure autism. The fact that these Maniacs refuse to tell this truth makes them criminally negligent.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

National Autism Association, Please Wake Up!!!

This is a repost. Today it applies to Wendy Fournier for not having the ability to understand the word "UNLESS".
Will someone please explain to Wendy that the words below after the word UNLESS mean that the practice of restraining autistic children will not change at all based on this bill? NAA has decided that the people at TASH are their friends. They do not realize that TASH is synonymous with Neurodiversity and their sole intent in this little propaganda war is to harm autistic children. NAA just sent out a letter asking parents to support this horrid bill and they have no clue what they are asking. They are asking for autistic children to be abused by underpaid nitwits who aren't strong enough to control them safely. Somebody please give Wendy the "slap in the head" that she needs.




Here's HR 4247 which has the deceptive title of preventing restraint.

Under Section 4 (1) and Section 5 (2) (A), this bill calls for chemical and physical restraint for children whose behavior poses danger to themselves or others. Biting, head banging, bolting, hair pulling, punching, kicking and ripping earings out of pierced ears certainly pose danger to the children and the teachers. So, this bill doesn't do anything at all to reduce restraints on autistic kids who will engage in some or all of these behaviors.

All this bill does is further Ari Ne'eman's political agenda of making it look like he's doing something useful for the autism community while he engages in anything and everything that serves the purpose of preventing anyone from curing autism.

Those of us experienced at curing autism know that all of these behaviors can be eliminated by removing the mercury from the brain that caused the brain to malfunction and produce these behaviors. Removing that mercury from the brain is the best way to eliminate the behavior and end the risk of children being harmed while in restraints. Yet, Ne'eman has this bill carefully worded so that autistic children will still be drugged, beaten in self-defense and immobilized by how ever many adults it takes to subdue them.

Any bill regarding autistic children that does not include instructions on how to cure the dangerous behaviors medically is harmful to autistic children and must be opposed. Therefore, I urge everyone to call their Congressmen(women) and tell them to vote against this sham legislation.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:

(1) CHEMICAL RESTRAINT- The term `chemical restraint' means a drug or medication used on a student to control behavior or restrict freedom of movement that is not--

(A) prescribed by a licensed physician for the standard treatment of a student's medical or psychiatric condition; and

(B) administered as prescribed by the licensed physician.

SEC 5(2) School personnel shall be prohibited from imposing physical restraint or seclusion on a student UNLESS

(A) the student's behavior poses an imminent danger of physical injury to the student, school personnel, or others;

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Cass Sunstein, A Description of Neurodiversity

Here's an artcle from Salon.com about Cass Sunstein, head of Obama's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The artcle could be written about Neurodiversity. Sunstein advocates the exact same method of using propaganda that Neurodiversity has been using for years.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Rick Tallman Supports Killing Autistic Kids in Schools

Rick Tallman is a father of an autistic adult. Rick also had a child killed while being restrained. One would think that a man who has been through the horror of having a son murdered would oppose legislation that mandates business as usual to drug, beat and restrain autistic people. Any idiot knows that that's the design of this legislation when they see it being touted by Ari Ne'eman. That's Ne'eman's goal, to kill all autistic people. That's common knowledge.

Rick runs some Yahoo groups so I asked him if I could post what I wrote about Ne'eman and this bill that calls for torturing autistic people indefinitely. After several attempts to drag an answer out of Rick, he won't even answer my request.

I have to wonder what is wrong with parents of autistic kids when they support degenerates who abuse our kids like Ne'eman instead of helping other parents learn how evil this college student is. Perhaps Rick will wake up to this evil if Ne'eman manages to murder Rick's autistic son. I can only hope someone can bring Rick to his senses before that happens. In the meantime, anyone who belomgs to one of Rick's groups should hold Rick responsible if their child is killed while being drugged or in restraints. I tried to warn people about the evil that is this bill but Rick would rather kiss Ari Ne'eman's ass then let me disseminate that information.

Here's HR 4247 which has the deceptive title of preventing restraint.

Under Section 4 (1) and Section 5 (2) (A), this bill calls for chemical and physical restraint for children whose behavior poses danger to themselves or others. Biting, head banging, bolting, hair pulling, punching, kicking and ripping earings out of pierced ears certainly pose danger to the children and the teachers. So, this bill doesn't do anything at all to reduce restraints on autistic kids who will engage in some or all of these behaviors.

All this bill does is further Ari Ne'eman's political agenda of making it look like he's doing something useful for the autism community while he engages in anything and everything that serves the purpose of preventing anyone from curing autism.

Those of us experienced at curing autism know that all of these behaviors can be eliminated by removing the mercury from the brain that caused the brain to malfunction and produce these behaviors. Removing that mercury from the brain is the best way to eliminate the behavior and end the risk of children being harmed while in restraints. Yet, Ne'eman has this bill carefully worded so that autistic children will still be drugged, beaten in self-defense and immobilized by how ever many adults it takes to subdue them.

Any bill regarding autistic children that does not include instructions on how to cure the dangerous behaviors medically is harmful to autistic children and must be opposed. Therefore, I urge everyone to call their Congressmen(women) and tell them to vote against this sham legislation.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:

(1) CHEMICAL RESTRAINT- The term `chemical restraint' means a drug or medication used on a student to control behavior or restrict freedom of movement that is not--

(A) prescribed by a licensed physician for the standard treatment of a student's medical or psychiatric condition; and

(B) administered as prescribed by the licensed physician.

SEC 5(2) School personnel shall be prohibited from imposing physical restraint or seclusion on a student unless--

(A) the student's behavior poses an imminent danger of physical injury to the student, school personnel, or others;

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Phil Plait and the Pharma Whores from Discover Magazine

Here is a link to an article written by a dishonest simpleton named Phil Plait.

This is a good example of how to argue with dishonest Pharma whores who want to keep causing autism by shooting mercury into babies via vaccines. Since these nitwits are always dishonest in every word they utter regarding autism and vaccines, it makes no sense to try to argue with the words they use. Their arguments are all childish attempts at sophistry so you have to argue their motivation for using the sophistry. It only took a few comments from me before Phil Plait tucked his tail between his legs and banned me from making any more comments to expose his band of liars for the dishonest scumbags that they are.

It's always fun to watch these Pharma whores hide from the truth by banning me from their blogs. I'd like to take this opportunity to invite all of them to comment here and show off just how intelligent they are by giving me an intellectual beating regarding thimerosal and autism.

Come on, Phil, show us all how smart you are.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

E-Mail From A Jackass

I get lots of moronic emails like this. This is a good example of how intellectually challenged people are who fall for the propaganda from Neurodiversity.

Anton Feichtmeir" tong.duurai@gmail.com
To
bettwice33@myfairpoint.net
Date
01/12/10 19:32:25
Your hatingautism blog advocates things which are in direct defiance of GOD'S will! God put autists here on Earth and those who attempt to corrupt them by spreading lies about them such as this stupid fantasy that autism is caused by mercury poisoning...........and I'm talkin' bout you Punk! Calling autism evil is saying prayers to the devil in the eyes of the almighty. Accept the presence of autists on Earth and do not hinder them or eternal HELL awaits you. ~Anton~

Saturday, January 09, 2010

New Hampshire HB 569, Autism Treatment Bullshit

Here's the relevant text of HB 569 which takes effect in March, 2010. This bill authorizes ABA for every autistic person but rules out curing autism by treating the cause medically. You can have ABA prescribed by a nurse, psychologist or a social worker but if you have an MD who prescribes chelation, methyl B-12, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) or any other medical interventions that deal with mercury as the cause of autism, this inane bill will not cover that treatment.

ABA is outrageously expensive at forty hours per week while chelation only costs a few hundred for an intial doctors consultation and another few hundred for the drugs needed to remove the mercury from the brain.

The only people who have ever been cured of autism have done so with chelation. ABA has never, and will never, cure anyone of autism. Behavioral junk does not remove mercury from brains. All it can ever do is improve some behaviors in some children who are only mildly affected by mercury. ABA can not help any severely affected children with autism. It's a complete waste of time, effort and lots of taxpayer money.

Below in red is the key statement from this horrid bill that uses the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as their guideline for treating autism. The key point to remember about the AAP is that they are the mental cases who caused all of the autism by shooting way too much mercury into our infants and fetuses via vaccines. They will not admit that they committed malpractice and poisoned our children into autism, and the idiots from the New Hampshire legislature are using these liars for a guideline on how to treat autism.

Coverage for Treatment of Pervasive Developmental Disorder or Autism

I. For the purposes of this chapter, treatment of pervasive developmental disorder or autism as required under RSA 417-E:1, III(h) shall include the following medically necessary care prescribed by a licensed physician, advanced practice registered nurse, psychologist, or clinical social worker:

(a) Professional services and treatment programs, including applied behavioral analysis, provided by a pervasive developmental disorder or autism service provider to produce socially significant improvements in human behavior or to prevent loss of attained skill or function;

(b) Medications and any health-related service necessary to determine the need or effectiveness of the medications;

(c) Direct or consultative services provided by a licensed psychiatrist, advanced practice registered nurse, psychologist, or clinical social worker; and

(d) Services provided by a licensed speech therapist, occupational therapist, or physical therapist.

II. Treatment, including frequency and duration of treatment, shall be covered in accordance with a written plan signed by a licensed physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or psychologist stating that the treatment is medically necessary for the patient and is consistent with nationally recognized treatment standards for the condition such as those set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Coverage shall not be denied on the basis that services are habilitative in nature. The benefits included in this section shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the policy and shall be no less extensive than coverage provided for similar conditions or illnesses.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.



Here are some sophisticated lies from the AAP to try to convince people not to cure autism. The AAP does not want anyone to cure autism because, curing autism by removing the mercury that the pediatricians shot into our babies proves that they caused the autism. This is where the NH legislature finds what they consider to be "nationally recognized treatment standards". Those of us who have already cured autism by removing mercury from our childrens' brains aver that what is below is pure nonsense.

From the American Academy of Pediatrics:

Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is defined by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine as "a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine."200 The definition of CAM adopted by the Cochrane Collaboration is "a broad domain of healing resources that encompasses all health systems, modalities, and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs, other than those intrinsic to the politically dominant health systems of a particular society or culture in a given historical period."201 Detailed reviews of CAM as related to developmental disabilities and ASD-specific CAM have been published recently.202–204
Use of CAM is common in children with ASDs.152,205–207 Levy et al206 reported that by the time their clinical population received a formal diagnostic evaluation for a suspected ASD, almost one third of the children already had received a complementary or alternative therapy, and a survey conducted in a predominantly white, middle-to-upper socioeconomic-status private-practice population found that 92% of parents who responded had used CAM therapies for their children with ASDs.205 Another recent parent survey found that 52% of the children with an ASD had been treated with at least 1 CAM therapy, compared with 28% of a group of control children without disabilities.207 Surveys indicate that only 36% to 62% of caregivers who used CAM therapies for their children with ASDs had informed the child's primary care physician,207,208 although more information on CAM is something that families indicate that they want from their child's primary health care professionals.209

It is important that health care professionals understand how to evaluate the evidence used to support all treatments, including CAM, psychopharmacologic, and other interventions. Ideally, the evidence supporting or refuting a treatment should include peer-reviewed studies with appropriately diagnosed, well-defined homogeneous study populations; a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design; an adequate sample size to support the statistical analysis presented; control for confounding factors; and use of appropriate, validated outcome measures. When evaluating the efficacy of studies, it is particularly important to keep in mind confounding factors, such as the placebo effect, and the natural history of the disorder. Participation in a study may alter the way a parent interacts with a child and confound the perceived outcome,210 and improvements are expected with maturation and educational interventions. Only appropriately controlled studies are helpful in proving that an effect is attributable to the intervention being studied.

The practitioner should encourage families to seek additional information when they encounter the following claims or situations211:

treatments that are based on overly simplified scientific theories;

therapies that are claimed to be effective for multiple different, unrelated conditions or symptoms;

claims that children will respond dramatically and some will be cured;

use of case reports or anecdotal data rather than carefully designed studies to support claims for treatment;

lack of peer-reviewed references or denial of the need for controlled studies; or

treatments that are said to have no potential or reported adverse effects.

To help to describe their proposed rationales and mechanisms, CAM therapies used to treat ASDs have been categorized as "nonbiological" or "biological."204 Examples of nonbiological interventions include treatments such as auditory integration training, behavioral optometry, craniosacral manipulation, dolphin-assisted therapy, music therapy, and facilitated communication. Examples of biological therapies include immunoregulatory interventions (eg, dietary restriction of food allergens or administration of immunoglobulin or antiviral agents), detoxification therapies (eg, chelation), gastrointestinal treatments (eg, digestive enzymes, antifungal agents, probiotics, "yeast-free diet," gluten/casein-free diet, and vancomycin), and dietary supplement regimens that are purported to act by modulating neurotransmission or through immune factors or epigenetic mechanisms (eg, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and magnesium, folic acid, folinic acid, vitamin B12, dimethylglycine and trimethylglycine, carnosine, omega-3 fatty acids, inositol, various minerals, and others).203,204

For most of the aforementioned CAM interventions, there is not enough scientific evidence yet to support or refute their use as treatment for ASDs. However, evaluation of treatments is possible, and a few CAM treatments have been appropriately studied. For example, more than a dozen randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials involving more than 700 patients have demonstrated that secretin (a biological treatment) is not an effective treatment for ASDs.212,213 Evaluation of nonbiological treatments also is feasible. This has been demonstrated in the case of facilitated communication, a technique that uses a trained facilitator to provide physical support to a nonverbal person's hand or arm while that person uses a computer keyboard or other device to spell. Evidence suggests that the communications produced actually originate from the facilitator214,215 and that facilitated communication is not a valid treatment for ASDs.216–218

Because of methodologic flaws, insufficient numbers of patients, or lack of replication, many CAM therapies have been inadequately evaluated; therefore, evidence-based recommendations for their use are not possible. The most recent and most appropriately designed trials have demonstrated no significant benefit of dimethylglycine,219,220 vitamin B6 and magnesium,221,222 or auditory integration training.223–225 Both positive226 and negative227,228 results have been described for small, methodologically flawed studies of intravenous immunoglobulin. A recent double-blind, placebo-controlled trial revealed no statistically significant differences on Aberrant Behavior Checklist subscale scores between small groups of children with ASDs who were given omega-3 fatty acids and those who were given placebo.229 However, the investigators noted a trend toward superiority of omega-3 fatty acids over placebo for hyperactivity, which suggests that further investigation may be warranted.229 The gluten/casein-free diet is based on a hypothesis of abnormal gut permeability and exogenous opiate excess. Although use of the gluten/casein-free diet for children with ASDs is popular, there is little evidence to support or refute this intervention, and reviewers have determined that meaningful conclusions cannot be drawn from the existing literature.230,231 Subsequent to these reviews, a randomized, double-blind pilot study demonstrated no significant benefit.232 Double-blind, placebo-controlled elimination and challenge studies are in progress, and it is anticipated that these studies will provide substantially more useful information regarding the efficacy of the gluten/casein-free diet.204,230 Measurement of urinary peptides has not been proven to be clinically useful as a marker for ASDs or as a tool to determine if dietary restriction is warranted or would be effective.

Many popular interventions, such as chelation of heavy metals, antifungal agents to decrease presumed yeast overgrowth, and antiviral agents to modulate the immune system, have not yet been studied in people with ASDs; their popularity is based on unproven theories and anecdotes or case reports. None of these interventions can be endorsed as treatment for ASDs outside of well-designed and appropriately monitored clinical trials. Some treatments, such as intravenous chelation, may be particularly dangerous and should be discouraged. One child with autism died as a result of chelation with edetate disodium (Na2EDTA) despite the facts that a causal association between mercury and ASDs has not been demonstrated, there is no scientific evidence that chelation is an effective treatment for ASDs, and the effectiveness of chelation therapy to improve nervous system symptoms of chronic mercury toxicity has not been established.233 Unless there is clear evidence of current heavy metal toxicity, chelation by any method is not indicated outside of monitored clinical trials.

In some cases, interesting findings await replication or further investigation. For example, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of vitamin C, improvement was found in total and sensory motor scores on the Ritvo-Freeman Real Life Rating Scale,234 and several small studies have suggested that music therapy had some short-term benefit on communication skills but not on behavior problems of children with ASDs.235 Recently, a group of 20 children with ASDs were compared with children without ASDs and found to have an imbalance of methionine and homocysteine metabolism, which was interpreted to represent impaired capacity for methylation and increased oxidative stress.236 Treatment with trimethylglycine, folinic acid, and methylcobalamin resulted in normalization of laboratory findings. The study did not measure clinical response to the intervention, but anecdotal improvements were noted. Interpretation of these preliminary findings awaits further investigation.

Health care practitioners who diagnose and treat children with ASDs should recognize that many of their patients will use nonstandard therapies. The importance of becoming knowledgeable about CAM therapies, inquiring about current and past CAM use, providing balanced information and advice about treatment options, identifying risks or potential harmful effects, avoiding becoming defensive or dismissing CAM in ways that convey a lack of sensitivity or concern, maintaining open communication, and continuing to work with families even if there is disagreement about treatment choices has been emphasized.237 It also is essential to critically evaluate the scientific merits of specific therapies and share this information with families, educate families about how to evaluate information and recognize pseudoscience, and insist that studies that examine CAM be held to the same scientific and ethical standards as all clinical research.202,238

Parents of children with ASDs will understandably pursue interventions that they believe may present some hope of helping their child, particularly if the therapies are viewed as being unlikely to have any adverse effects. Unfortunately, families are often exposed to unsubstantiated, pseudoscientific theories and related clinical practices that are, at best, ineffective and, at worst, compete with validated treatments or lead to physical, emotional, or financial harm. Time, effort, and financial resources expended on ineffective therapies can create an additional burden on families. Health care professionals can help parents and other caregivers to distinguish empirically validated treatment approaches from treatments that have been proven to be ineffective and those that are unproven and potentially ineffective and/or harmful.

Tell the IACC to Tell the Truth

Dear Mr. Best,

Thank you for your comments to the IACC. They will be forwarded to the committee.

The IACC will meet next on January 19, 2010. Details about this meeting including the time, location and remote access information is posted to the IACC website (http://www.iacc.hhs.gov).

Sincerely,

The Office of Autism Research Coordination


-----Original Message-----
From: bettwice33@juno.com [mailto:bettwice33@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1:04 PM
To: NIMH IACCPublicInquiries (NIH/NIMH)
Subject: Written Comment

The IACC is ignoring the fact that we have been curing autism since 2001 with
chelation. Please note Dr Andrew Cutler's protocol and give it out to the world so
parents can learn how many of us have helped our autistic children safely.

While the IACC has been wasting time by allowing people to serve on your committee who advise people that we should not even try to cure this nightmare, many of us have helped our children by following Dr Cutler's advice.

My son spent the first eight years of his life spinning in circles and screaming in pain for hours at a time because no doctor would even try to help him. His time in school was a total waste because his autism was so severe that no teacher could reach him on any level. He would bite himself for hours at a time, smeared feces all over the house hundreds of times and banged holes in every wall in the house with his head.

Within two months of starting chelation, the head banging stopped, the feces smearing diminished and the constipation that he had suffered from for years vanished. He began to make eye contact, something he had not done since he was ten months old and he began to learn at school.

It took some time to end the self-biting that went on for years but it's now gone.
The feces smearing is gone. The pain that he was experiencing from some unknown source is gone. He no longer needs Seroquel or painkillers that he used to take every day. He is a happy child and he is making progress.

After five years, we are still using chelation and my son continues to improve. We
took two years off due to the biting. Without Dr Cutler's help in removing mercury from my son's brain, he would still be a "zombie" and he would probably be stuck in
an institution.

The IACC has an obligation to learn from parents who have cured their children
completely with chelation and report this success to the world. You need to throw those people off the committee who refuse to accept the fact that mercury caused this "horror show" and go about the business of helping these horribly impaired and
suffering kids.

Dr Cutler's protocol and contact information is pasted below my signature. Thank you.
John Best
113 Old Derry Rd
Londonderry, NH 03053
(603)434-3928

Andrew Hall Cutler, PhD, PE
3006 230th Lane SE #X103
Sammamish, WA 98075
(425) 392-3428
January 22 nd, 2001

ALA/DMSA Mercury Detoxification Protocol

The unique advantage of this protocol is that literature pharmacology and
pharmacokinetics were put into standard textbook formulae to design an appropriate detox approach in the manner major drug companies often do when seeking FDA approval for a new drug to treat a specific condition.

Protocol

This detoxification protocol uses alpha lipoic acid (ALA), an over the counter
nutritional supplement, and may optionally also use DMSA or DMPS. All are administered orally with adequate frequency to maintain reasonably steady blood levels.

ALA detoxification is effective for the removal of mercury and arsenic from the brain. DMSA is effective for the removal of lead, and assists in the removal of mercury. DMPS assists in the removal of mercury and arsenic.

Due to it?s pharmacokinetics, ALA must be administered no less frequently than every 4 hours. If it is administered less often, e. g. every 8 hours, it preferentially concentrates mercury into the highest affinity tissues. Most patients on infrequent ALA suffer an increase in symptoms rather than a reduction. By administering it at least every 4 hours the toxins are preferentially removed rather than redistributed.
It is essential to continue to administer ALA at night. If the nighttime doses are
skipped the chelation cycle must be ended and several days must elapse before chelation is started again.

Chelation is done by giving ALA round the clock for several days, then skipping at least as many days and repeating. It is necessary to have skip periods to avoid increasing body levels of copper and zinc too much as ALA inhibits their excretion. Chelating for 3 days and the 2 intervening nights then skipping at least the rest of the week is practical in terms of patient (and caretaker) tolerance for lost
sleep and side effects. Giving the ALA every 3 hours during the waking period and every 4 during sleep seems to work well.

DMSA changes the side effect profile of ALA and also accelerates detox by 30-40%. DMSA must be given no less often than every 4 hours and it is best to give it with the ALA for convenience. DMPS may also be used orally in combination with ALA. Subjectively this leads to a much lower side effect profile. DMPS must be administered no less often than every 8 hours. Administration with every other
ALA dose is suggested for simplicity.

Reasonable dosages are 1/8 to 1/2 mg per pound for each of ALA, DMSA and DMPS. There is no need for any specific ratio between them ? most people adjust their ALA dosage up and down to find a level where side effects aren?t bothersome and then stay at that dosage. Since toxin removal goes as the square root of chelator dose there is no reason to tolerate substantial side effects in order to hurry things
along.

Side effects are an increase in symptoms or appearance of new symptoms during the
chelation cycle and for up to one day afterwards.

It is necessary to administer antioxidants due to the increased oxidative stress toxin mobilization causes. B complex, C and magnesium should be given 4 times a day, and zinc, E, carotenes, etc. at least daily. The B and C are not effective if not given 4 times a day due to their pharmacokinetics.

Diagnosis

Since this detox protocol is only effective for specific metals a good diagnosis is
required. This may be done according to the checklist method in Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment. Hair element analysis is especially helpful. For mercury, use the procedure at http://hometown.aol.com/noamalgam/countingrules to interpret the results.

Since autism appears to be the final common pathway of several different underlying
conditions differential diagnosis against all other causes must be performed. A high index of suspicion for some other cause should arise if the patient does not show marked improvement within 3 cycles if under 8 years, or 10 cycles if over age 8.

Tracking and management

While hair elements, fractionated urine porphyrins, and any other laboratory abnormals can be used to verify that therapy is working as they will normalize, there is no appropriate ?tracking test.? The determination of when chelation is finally done is subjective and is performed clinically when there are no further improvements and there are no longer side effects. Test results normalize well
before therapy is complete.

Common conditions that should be checked for and treated to reduce symptoms and side
effects are: elevated plasma cysteine (test at Great Smokies Labs) which is treated with dietary and supplement sulfur exclusion (thus no NAC or glutathione for this 50% of your patient population); low RBC magnesium which is treated with oral supplementation to just short of laxative effect, and intramuscular injections if needed; impaired cortisol response which is treated with stress avoidance and medications if unavoidable; impulsivity etc. (or abnormal) which can be treated with carbamazepine or valproate; fast liver phase 1 metabolism (causing chemical sensitivity with anxiety or agitation due to hydrocarbon fumes) treated with niacinamide qid or grapefruit juice qid.

If the case is requiring a large amount of management, go back to differential diagnosis, and make sure that the supplements (e. g. NAC, glutathione) aren?t harmful to that specific individual by appropriate testing.

For more information

Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment - http://hometown.aol.com/noamalgam.
Continuing education - http://hometown.aol.com/noamalgam/courseflier.
I can be reached electronically at AndyCutler@aol.com.
Parent reports are on http://www.egroups.com/community/Autism-Mercury.

Wednesday, January 06, 2010