MS and toxins

Is there any connection (direct or not) between Multiple Sclerosis (MS), other autoimmune disorders and environmental pollution with nasty toxicants?

Even official (synthetic pharmaceuticals based) medicine started admitting reluctantly, that environmental pollution could be a  possible cause of MS:

“Association with occupational exposures and toxins – mainly solvents – has been evaluated…”
“Vaccinations were also considered as causal factors for the disease…”
information from Wikipedia.

Nonetheless, there is a different – far more better approach. It’s used by doctors who have no financial ties with powerful pharmaceutical industry. Good examples:

• Poisons, toxins and autoimmune diseases
• Welcome – Autoimmune Epidemic

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But how toxins can impair health so significantly?

One affected could think, that he or she is just unlucky, or sensitive, or even his/her her genes aren’t good…

It’s uneasy even to frame a proper question. It might be something of this sort: Why toxicants are poisonous?.

Luckily, searching for information on pesticides, I came across a piece of information of this kind – in a book on pesticides (pesticides after all are toxicants):

Chemical Pesticides: Mode of Action and Toxicology (Hardcover)
by Jørgen Stenersen

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Useful information is placed in chapter 2 of this book “Why is a toxicant poisonous?“, part 2.1 “Seven routes to death“. Here is presented a shortened version:

1. Enzyme inhibitors – The toxicant may react with an enzyme or a transport protein and inhibit its normal function…  Typical   toxicants… are carbamates and organophosphorus insecticides that inhibit the enzyme acetyl cholinesterase… Enzyme inhibitors may or may not be very selective…
2. Disturbance of the chemical signal systems – Organisms use chemicals to transmit messages at all levels of organization, and there are a variety of substances that interfere with the normal functioning of these systems. Toxicants, which disturb signal systems, are very often extremely potent, and often more selective than the other categories of poisons… toxicants may act by imitating the true signal substances, and thus transmit a signal too strongly, too long lasting, or at a wrong time… typical agonist is nicotine, which gives signals similar to acetylcholine in the nervous system, but is not eliminated by acetylcholinesterase after having given the signal. One of the strongest man-made toxicants… dioxin, is a good example…
3. Toxicants that generate very reactive molecules that destroy cellular components – Most redox reactions involve exchange of two electrons. However, quite a few substances can be oxidized or reduced by one-electron transfer, and reactive intermediates can be formed. Oxygen is very often involved in such reactions. The classical example of a free radical-producing poison is the herbicide paraquat… producing hydroxyl radicals. This radical is extremely aggressive, attacking the first molecule it meets, no matter what it is… Free radical producers are seldom selective poisons. They work as an avalanche that destroys membranes,   nucleic acids, and other cell structures. Fortunately, the organisms have a strong defense system developed during some billion years of aerobic life.
4. Weak organic bases or acids that degrade the pH gradients across membranes – Substances may be toxic because they dissolve in the mitochondrial membrane of the cell… The pH difference is very important for the energy production in mitochondria and   chloroplasts, and this can be seriously disturbed. Substances like ammonia, phenols, and acetic acid owe their toxicity to this mechanism…
5. Toxicants that dissolve in lipophilic membranes and disturb their physical structure – Lipophilic substances with low reactivity may dissolve in the cell membranes and change their physical characteristics. Alcohols, petrol, aromatics, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and many other substances show this kind of toxicity. Other, quite unrelated organic solvents like toluene give very similar toxic effects. Lipophilic substances may have additional mechanisms for their toxicity. Examples are hexane… a nerve poison, and methanol, which is very toxic to primates.
6. Toxicants that disturb the electrolytic or osmotic balance or the pH – Sodium chloride (table salt) and other salts are essential but  may upset the ionic balance and osmotic pressure if consumed in too high doses. Babies, small birds, and small mammals are very sensitive. Too much or too little in the water will kill aquatic organisms.
7. Strong electrophiles, alkalis, acids, oxidants, or reductants that destroy tissue, DNA, or proteins – Caustic substances like strong acids, strong alkalis, bromine, chlorine gas, etc., are toxic because they dissolve and destroy tissue. Many accidents happen because of carelessness with such substances… More interest is focused on electrophilic substances that may react with DNA and induce cancer. Such substances are very often formed by transformation of harmless substances within the body…

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Presented information is of rather technical nature, so not so easy for a lay person to understand. Nevertheless, it’s a warning sign to avoid all man-made chemicals as much as possible.

Although above information has been extracted from a chapter, named “Seven routes to death“, it’s not necessarily a road to death.

Most importantly – nobody knows, what malady is awaiting a person, traveling that way – it’s personal!

Smoking and MS

Today (April 10, 2010) I came across MS related news, published April 8, 2010. Being actively involved in everything MS-related, I started reading at once.

As an example, www.sciencedaily. com in article Does Smoking Compound Other Multiple Sclerosis Risk Factors? presented results of newest investigations:

“…study shows that smoking may increase the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in people who also have specific established risk factors for MS. The research is found in the April 7, 2010, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of  Neurology…”

Later some details are presented: number of participants – MS sufferers and in control group, etc. Finally researchers explain influence of a specific gene… Leader of research group explains:

“The consistency of an association between MS, smoking and the body’s immune response… suggests this finding is not due to chance”, said study author Claire Simon, ScD, with Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. “This relationship may provide clues as to why certain individuals develop MS while others do not.”

Some more specifically scientific information has been included…

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Earlier scientific discoveries are rather controversial:

• Smoking Has No Effect On Progression Of Multiple Sclerosis, Study Suggests (October 2007)
• Young Smokers Increase Risk For Multiple Sclerosis (March 2009)
• Smoking Associated With More Rapid Progression Of Multiple Sclerosis (July 2009)

So perhaps humanity arrived at a threshold of a giant discovery?

Or maybe not?

What’s in cigarette smoke?

Being neither a smoker, nor cigarette smoke researcher I had no idea, what makes this smoke so poisonous. Consequently I went to Google and typed a phrase: ” cigarette smoke pollutant ” – and I was provided with over 300,000 articles.

Immediately I entered an article Have You Ever Wondered What’s In a Cigarette? It provides plenty of required information.

Just look:

• Nicotine is highly addictive. Smoke containing nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, and the nicotine reaches brain in as little as 6 seconds
• Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known carcinogenic (cancer-causing) compounds and 400 other toxins -nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, and formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, DDT etc
• Nicotine in small doses acts as a stimulant to the brain. In large doses, it’s a depressant, inhibiting the flow of signals between nerve cells. In even larger doses, it’s a lethal poison, affecting the heart, blood vessels, and hormones
• Most of the chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke stay in the lungs. The more you inhale, the better it feels—and the greater the damage to lungs . . .

Cigarette Maker Now Lists Ingredients

For the first time, an American tobacco company has begun listing long-secret ingredients contained in its cigarettes directly on the label… List includes:

“…high fructose corn syrup, sugar, natural and artificial licorice flavor, menthol, artificial milk chocolate and natural chocolate flavor, valerian root extract, molasses and vanilla extracts, and cedarwood oil. Less familiar additives include glycerol, propylene glycol, isovaleric acid, hexanoic acid and 3-methylpentanoic acid…”

What researchers say

“…not all of the chemicals in your cigarettes are there for taste enhancement. For example, a chemical very similar to rocket fuel helps keep the tip of the cigarette burning at an extremely hot temperature. This allows the nicotine in tobacco to turn into a vapor so your lungs can absorb it more easily.”

“Toilet Bowl Cleaner? Most people prefer to use ammonia for things such as cleaning windows and toilet bowls. You may be surprised to learn that the tobacco industry has found some additional uses for this household product. By adding ammonia to your cigarettes, nicotine in its vapor form can be absorbed through your lungs more quickly. This, in turn, means your brain can get a higher dose of nicotine with each puff.”

The complete list of chemicals added to your cigarettes is too long to list here. Here are some examples that will surprise you:

• Fungicides and pesticides — Cause many types of cancers and birth defects
• Cadmium — Linked to lung and prostate cancer
• Benzene — Linked to leukemia
• Formaldehyde — Linked to lung cancer
• Nickel — Causes increased susceptibility to lung infections

If you are angry that so many things have been added to the cigarettes you enjoy so much, you should be. Many of these chemicals were added to make you better able to tolerate toxic amounts of cigarette smoke. They were added without regard to your health and with the intent to keep you addicted.

As the tobacco industry saying goes:

An addicted customer is a customer for life,
no matter how short that life is

More information – in article.

Smoking and MS – conclusions

I have started analysing possible triggers of MS in 2006 – just when I’ve started my website Beyond MS.

Key idea beyond all listed triggers is rather simple:

There are so many ways to worsen one’s health

and to deregulate immune system…

Just look at all these triggers – you’ll see regularities.

But why some so-called MS researchers refuse to see results of other researchers?

Why they exclude a common sense?

Or is it political correctness?

MS – vaccination

What mainstream medicine and big pharma explains us

The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) of the World Health Organization (WHO) has given careful consideration to the article published by MA Hernán and others in the 14th September 2004 issue of Neurology (2004;63:838-42) on the risk of multiple sclerosis associated with recombinant hepatitis B vaccine. The findings are based on a case control study conducted within the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) in the United Kingdom. Dr Hernán has previously presented his results and interpretation of them to the GACVS at the December 2003 meeting of the committee.

On the basis of the data and argument given by Hernán et al in their article, the GACVS does not believe that the findings provide convincing support for the hypothesis that immunisation with recombinant hepatitis B vaccine is associated with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis -

Paragraph from WHO article

Study suggests hepatitis B vaccine increases risk of multiple sclerosis

The report’s key finding was: “The proportion of cases that received at least one hepatitis B immunisation during the 3 years before the date of first symptoms was 6.7%, compared with 2.4% of controls. The odds ratio of MS [multiple sclerosis] for vaccination vs. no vaccination was 3.1… Full article hepatitis B vaccine increases risk of multiple sclerosis

Non-mainstream opinions about MS – vaccination connection

The link between multiple sclerosis and vaccination has been well established and documented. This is emphasised in Chapter 5, Vaccination General and Polio Vaccination. In the 1960s when two and a half million New Zealanders were vaccinated with contaminated monkey-based vaccine the (then) Minister of Health Dr A. Malcolme said it could, in time, result in the onset of multiple sclerosis in those vaccinated.

Leukemia, encephalitis, multiple sclerosis – and now I believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation to the explosion of AIDS

- World Health Organisation, advisor, Times, May 11 1987, Hans Ruesch, One Thousand Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection, page 39

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Obviously, there is a possibility to find lots and lots of information on multiple slerosis – vaccination connection. Usual scenario:

• mainstreem medicine, pharma, medical journals, societies etc – no connection
• others – sufferers, thousands of curious MD’s etc – There is a connection

Some basics behind vaccination

The term “immunisation”, often substituted for vaccination, is false and should be legally challenged, because the direct injection of foreign proteins and other toxic material (particularly known immune-sensitising poisons such as mercury) sensitises, meaning makes the recipient more, not less, easily affected by what he/she encounters in the future. This means they do the OPPOSITE of immunise, commonly even preventing immunity from developing after natural exposure.

Vaccines “de-immunize”…

A host of health problems (and sometimes death itself) result from these directly injected poisons, which are in unpredictably varying amounts from one batch to the next.

Sanctioned Russian Roulette…

The only thing that does immunise (i.e. enable the body to protect itself from harm by foreign organisms) is Mother Nature, provided she is properly supported with sufficient basic nutrition, and her sophisticated immune development process not interfered with. “Organically-grown” (vaccine-free) children arouse frequent comments due to their noticeably stronger health, alertness, awareness and happier demeanor. Their parents frequently comment that they learn faster than their vaccinated older siblings did, and are ahead of their peers at school…

I found all these nice and appealing words on a website www.vaccination.inoz.com/

Vaccines – heavy metals connection

Isn’t it strange – vaccines makers admit:

…we have a form of mercury that has been used in vaccines since the 1930s and no one has bothered to study its effects on biological systems, especially the brain of infants. Their defense throughout this conference is “We just don’t know the effects of ethylmercury”…

There are so many things we do not know about this toxin (thimerosal) that we had better use very wide margins of safety. For most substances, the FDA uses a 100-fold margin of safety. The reason for this, which they (vaccine makers) do not mention, is that in a society of hundreds of millions of people, there are groups of people who are much more sensitive to the toxin than others. For instance:

1. The elderly
2. Chronically ill
3. Nutritionally deficient
4. Small babies
5. Premature babies
6. People on certain medications
7. Inborn defects in detoxification

…neurological problems seen with the use of aluminum hydroxide and aluminum phosphate in vaccines…

…The 3-year-old had developmental delay and hypotonia (loss of muscle tone). A biopsy of the children’s vaccine injection site disclosed elevated aluminum levels… In a study of some 92 patients suffering from this emerging syndrome (macrophagic myofascitis), eight developed a full-blown demyelinating CNS disorder (multiple sclerosis)… All these details and much much more are precisely described in an article on Dr. Mercola’s website.

More thimerosal (ethylmercury) – vaccines related questions

• What is Thimerosal?
• Why is Thimerosal Controversial?
• What Does The FDA Say About Thimerosal in Vaccines?
• Why is Thimerosal a Concern Now If It Has Been Around For Many Years?
• What is Mercury?
• Why is Mercury More Dangerous in Children?
• What is a Vaccine?
• Do Vaccines Have Side Effects?
• Which Vaccines Contain Thimerosal?

Exhaustive answers to all above specifically thimerosal (ethylmercury) related questions can be found in a specifically thimerosal related website.

MS – 2 females for 1 male

Unfortunately, woman are suffering from MS almost twice as often as man

While mainstream medicine permanently explains that MS causes are unknown, the explanation how toxic man-made chemicals are involved in MS may clarify the situation a lot

So what happens in average house:

Begin by thinking of your home as a toxic waste dump. The average home today contains 62 toxic chemicals – more than a chemistry lab at the turn of the century. More than 72,000 synthetic chemicals have been produced since WW II. Less than 2% of synthetic chemicals have been tested for toxicity, mutagenic and carcinogenic effects, or birth defects. The majority of chemicals have never been tested for long-term effects.

• An EPA survey concluded that indoor air was 3 to 70 times more polluted than outdoor air
• National Cancer Association released results of a 15-year study concluding that women who work in the home are at a 54% higher risk of developing cancer than women who work outside the home
• Formaldehyde, phenol, benzene, toluene, xylene are found in common household cleaners, cosmetics, beverages, fabrics and cigarette smoke. These chemicals are cancer causing and toxic to the immune system
• The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has found more than 2500 chemicals in cosmetics that are toxic, cause tumors, reproductive complications, biological mutations and skin and eye irritations…

Obviously, woman usually are housekeepers, grow children and use cosmetics much more than men…

So what happens next?

MS – predominantly dental disease?

One characteristic of MS seems to be ignored completely. MS only seems to have existed for less than the past 200 years…

Shortly after 1800, for example, people in Europe first had their teeth filled with amalgam (http://www.amalgam.org), first in England and then in France. This rather exact chronological correspondence with the beginning of the MS disease could be a pure coincidence. However there are further indications that lead to amalgam.

Observations have been made that MS occurs more often in industrialized countries than in third-world countries. Until now there is no commonly accepted explanation. Amalgam could fill this explanation gap quite easily…

http://www.hendess.net/ms_e.htm

Many scientific, political and commercial issues on amalgam fillings and MS are presented in an article Mercury Amalgam Fillings

Since its discovery around the mid-1830s, there has been endless speculation about the cause of Multiple Sclerosis. Now we’ve come to realize that the first reported appearance of the disease occurred only a few years after the original insertions of dental mercury as amalgam fillings in 1826. During our interview, Cardiologist Thomas Levy told me that Dr. Hal Huggins has researched this medical history and acted on it. “Dr. Huggins has consistently witnessed improvement in MS patients undergoing amalgam removal. He observes clear symptomatic and laboratory test improvements in up to 85 percent of the patients. Until he relinquished his Colorado dental license, it was common to see wheelchair-bound patients discontinue use of their support chairs and take steps on their own once again,” said Dr. Levy. Multiple sclerosis recovery has happened repeatedly for patients so afflicted because they have undergone dental amalgam removal. Clinical observation confirms that multiple sclerosis is predominantly a dental disease. It is brought on by dentists packing mercury and other amalgamated metals into the cavities of people with impaired teeth. Mercury amalgams have made people what holistic and mercury-free dentist Richard T. Hansen, D.M.D., of Fullerton, California, has described as “dental cripples”… The success rate of healing for MS patients increased with Dr. Huggins’ discovery of fluoride in all its forms as a complicating factor in the disease. Fluoride must be scrupulously avoided by MS patients. They must not drink fluoridated water, brush with fluoridated toothpaste, or take fluoride dental treatments. Ingestion of this chemical retards the patient’s clinical progress toward healing or even promotes frank clinical relapse of MS symptoms…

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From the biological standpoint mercury can attack myelin tissues and generate an autoimmune response. Mercury can also alter the 3-dimensional form of proteins that can lead to the inhibition of catalytic activity that may be necessary in nerve impulse transmission… Mercury damages the protective abilities of the blood-brain barrier that select what can and cannot cross into the brain, thus indirectly allowing other harmful substances to enter nervous tissue… http://www.curezone.com/forums/fmp.asp?i=5005

Nice and thorough explanation of Mercury – Multiple Sclerosis connection is provided in an article “Are Silver Fillings Harmful?“

MS and heavy metals

Toxic heavy metals pose the second worst environmental health problem in the United States according to a 300 page study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

There are 35 metals that concern us because of occupational or residential exposure; 23 of these are the heavy metals…

For some heavy metals, toxic levels can be just above the background concentrations naturally found in nature. Therefore, it is important for us to inform ourselves about the heavy metals and to take protective measures against excessive exposure…

Commonly Encountered Toxic Heavy Metals:

• Arsenic – Chronic or lower levels of exposure can lead to progressive peripheral and central nervous changes…
• Lead – Chronic exposure to lead may result in birth defects, mental retardation, autism, psychosis, allergies, dyslexia…
• Mercury – Chronic exposure to mercury may result in permanent damage to the central nervous system. Metallic mercury used by dentists to manufacture dental amalgam is shipped as a hazardous material to dental offices…
• Cadmium
• Iron
• Aluminum – Environmental exposure is frequent, leading to concerns about accumulative effects and a possible connection with Alzheimer’s disease…

Chronic toxicity to heavy metals results from repeated or continuous exposure, leading to an accumulation of the toxic substance in the body. Chronic exposure may result from contaminated food, air, water, or dust; living near a hazardous waste site; spending time in areas with deteriorating lead paint; maternal transfer in the womb; or from participating in hobbies that use lead paint or solder. Chronic exposure may occur in either the home or workplace…

Information from Life extension foundation website

Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of civilized man, and, like many other diseases of our modern age, it is a disease of an overactive and misdirected immune system. The specific reasons for this are unclear, but a prominent theory relates heavy metals like mercury, lead and aluminum as the agents that might replace normal molecules in the myelin sheaths, leading to an onslaught of free radical damage which destroys the myelin sheaths, resulting in MS. In addition, the immune system now sees this tissue as foreign, because of the replacement of heavy metals, and produces antibodies which attack the myelin, leading to further damage.

The toxic effects of heavy metals and chemicals are increasingly being recognized by the medical profession as the root cause underlying much of mankind’s suffering. The December 1992 issue of The American Family Physician, published by the American Academy of Family Physicians, devoted an entire article to the signs, symptoms and causes of mercury toxicity, and also recommended chelation therapy as the treatment of choice for this affliction. In January 1993, the journal spoke of the ill effects of lead toxicity and recommended chelation therapy for this problem as well. Both mercury and lead can inflict terrible damage upon any tissue.

Read more about heavy metal toxicity, symptoms and chelation

There exists very strong and widening opinion that heavy metals, especially mercury, can trigger multiple sclerosis

If you want to know more about mercury (the most poisonous heavy metal) influence on health, please take a look at Mercury Exposure website – very well written and presented! Here is just one excerpt:

Research published 1st March 2006 shows neurodevelopmental disorders in children has decreased following removal of thimerosal, a preservative containing the neurotoxin mercury, from American childhood vaccines…

Chemicals – MS triggers

The predominant theory today is that Multiple Sclerosis results from attacks by an individual’s immune system on the nervous system and it is therefore usually categorized as an autoimmune disease. There is a minority view that MS is not an autoimmune disease, but rather a metabolically dependent neurodegenerative disease. Although much is known about how MS causes damage, its exact cause remains unknown -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis

Out of 700 listed in a database pesticides biggest part act as immunotoxins -

http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/samples.htm

Immunotoxins trigger autoimmune diseases

An immunotoxin is a chemical that can cause immune system malfunction with exposure. When the immune system function is suppressed (immunosuppression) there is an increased susceptibility to infectious diseases and cancers. Polychlorinated-biphenyls (PCB), asbestos and herbicide DDT are known immunosuppressants. Immunotoxins can also cause autoimmune disease, where an overactive immune system attacks the bodies cells -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotoxic

More: Poisons, toxins and autoimmune diseases

Chemicals – neurotoxins

A neurotoxin is a toxin that acts specifically on nerve cells – neurons – usually by interacting with membrane proteins and ion channels. Many of the venoms and other toxins that organisms use in defense against vertebrates are neurotoxins…

Toxins ingested from the environment are described as exogenous and include gases (such as carbon monoxide), metals (such as mercury), liquids (ethanol) and an endless list of solids. When exogenous toxins are ingested, the effect on neurons is largely dependent on dosage -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotoxin

Out of 700 pesticides, almost all are neurotoxins!..

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We easily came to a point where we see that multiple sclerosis can be completely triggered by toxic chemicals!

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Present toxic reality

Our bodies have become virtual dumping grounds for the hundreds of thousands of toxic compounds that invade our air, water, and even the soil that nurtures our food

More than 77,000 chemicals are in active production in North America. More than 3,000 chemicals are added to our food supply; and more than 10,000 chemicals in the form of solvents, emulsifiers, and preservatives are used in food processing, packaging, wrapping, and storage.

Every day, all of us ingest tiny amounts of these chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, USA) estimates there are more than 20,000 chemicals that our bodies cannot metabolize. Chemicals not metabolized are stored in the fat cells throughout our bodies where they continue to accumulate. As these chemicals build up, they alter our metabolism, cause enzyme dysfunction and nutritional deficiencies, create hormonal imbalances, damage brain chemistry, and cause cancer. Because the chemicals accumulate in different parts of the body and at different rates and in different combinations, there is a disturbingly large variety of different chronic illnesses that can result.

Today, our environment is toxic and the foods we eat, even the air we breathe and the water we drink is laden with chemicals foreign to our system.

Our body is designed to utilize natural substances, which includes foods, herbs and phytochemicals. Any foreign substance will serve as a stimulus to our immune system, which has the function of removing these substances.

Man has neglected one fundamental biological rule; to check and see if the organism is adapting to its new environment. We obviously are the first generation to be exposed to such an unprecedented number of chemicals. The work of detoxifying these causes serious deficiencies. This maladaptation in turn has resulted in chronic disease. But disease is not a drug deficiency.

Dr. Sherry Rogers, a fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and a diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, says in her book Detoxify or Die that …

bio-accumulated toxic load in the human body is responsible for all disease not attributable to bacteria or virus

Probably the most accurate and up-to-date description of modern life realities has been presented in the article “Blood tests show chemical toxins“:

A number of toxic man-made chemicals were found in the blood of every person tested during a survey by an environmental pressure group.

Environmental pressure group WWF said long-banned substances such as DDT, which has been associated with cancers and nervous and immune system disorders, were still being found.

There is very little information available about the safety and health risks posed by the vast majority of chemicals in use

“We just don’t know what might be considered a safe level of exposure to these chemicals, especially when they persist in the body for long periods and react together inside the body in a potentially dangerous cocktail.”

WWF’s survey shows that our bodies are being used as toxic chemical dumps

Our contaminated blood is proof that it’s time for the government and chemical companies to phase out the production and use of these chemicals and develop new safe alternatives

Most dangerous chemical – aspartame

The clerk at ‘Grains and Greens’ told me about substitutes for sugar, non chemical type. She said that she had previously lived in Harbor Beach, Michigan, which has (had?) a NutraSweet manufacturing plant. One of the NutraSweet tankers was involved in an accident and spilled on the street. Emergency workers were not allowed to work on the spill, according to the clerk. Instead, a hazardous materials team was called from out of state, and did the clean-up in moon suits. When the cleanup was completed, she said the pavement was badly pitted.

We are putting this stuff into our body system every day! -

http://www.new-visions.com/dietfoods.html

Once upon a time, aspartame was listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent. Today it’s an integral part of the modern diet…

Aspartame is the most controversial food additive in history. The most recent evidence, linking it to leukaemia and lymphoma, has added substantial fuel to the ongoing protests of doctors, scientists and consumer groups who allege that this artificial sweetener should never have been released onto the market and that allowing it to remain in the food chain is killing us by degrees…

Aspartame, sold commercially as NutraSweet, Equal, Equal-Measure, Spoonful, Canderel and Benevia, is currently available in more than 100 countries and used in more than 5,000 products by at least 250 million people every day. Worldwide, the aspartame industry’s sales amount to more than $1 billion yearly. The US is the primary consumer -

http://www.lifetechnology.org/blog/2006/10/aspartame-and-biochemical-warfare.html

Multiple sclerosis and aspartame

Read carefully:

National MS Society (USA) explains:

Several websites and documents circulating on the Internet are making unsubstantiated claims about aspartame, an artificial sweetener used in many diet soft drinks and other foods.

These stories claim that Aspartame is the cause of a variety of illnesses, including MS, lupus, Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, birth defects, Desert Storm syndrome, brain tumors, and seizures. However, please bear in mind the following:

• The claims are not documented…
• There is no evidence that authors of the claims have any scientific, medical, or academic credentials; nor is there any evidence that they have done any scientific research to support their claims…

- http://www.nationalmssociety.org/headlines-aspartame.asp

MS Society was created to protect interests. But whose ???

At the same time, after I typed “multiple sclerosis +aspartame” in a Google search window, I received over 75,000 results. Some are written by highly educated medical doctors, for example:

H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P. I should first indicate that I am a Board-Certified Internist, a member of the American Academy of Neurology and a member of the Endocrine Society. I have written on MS for nearly four decades – including a chapter in my first text (DIFFICULT DIAGNOSIS; A GUIDE TO THE INTERPRETATION OF OBSCURE DISEASE, W. B. Saunders, 1958), and a number of prior personal research studies pertaining to the pathogenesis of M.S.

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“…aspartame is neurotoxic. Its components easily transcend the blood-brain barrier, interfering with normal nerve cell function…” -

Former FDA Investigator Exposes Aspartame As Deadly Neurotoxin That Never Should Have Been Approved

MSG – another neurotoxin in a food!

For the last fifty years, the medical community has been baffled by the rise in cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and autism. These two diseases, unheard of before 1950, have been striking an increasing number of children. Physicians have been unable to explain to parents why their children are suffering these maladies despite there not being any family history of the disorder.

Finally these parents will know one possible answer. Thanks to John Erb, a developmental disorder researcher and author of the book The Slow Poisoning of America, one possible cause of ADHD and Autism is no longer a mystery.

“These diseases appear to be caused by a food additive commonly known as MSG or Monosodium Glutamate,” John Erb explains.

MSG is added to food because of its addictive qualities, it is nicotine for food. It is highly reactive in the human brain and other organs

MSG and its related ingredients have been found in increasing amounts in processed and fast foods. Almost every restaurant and most processed foods from snacks and soups to ready-made meals have glutamate in them in some form or another. MSG has no nutritional value. Scientific studies have shown that food laced with the MSG cause people to eat more of it, and faster, than food without it…

MSG is a highly reactive amino acid. It is used by scientists in studies to purposely cause death to areas of the brain and is fed to rodents to make a strain of obese and pre-diabetic test subjects. MSG is classified as a neurotoxin: too much of it introduced to the brain can cause rapid cell death…

Autism, unheard of before 1950, (MSG was introduced to the American diet in 1948) has now risen to epidemic proportions with one in every 200 children born with the affliction…

More details – in article MSG: Nicotine for Food

Every dose of MSG (a neurotoxin) destroys brain neurons that carry messages in both children and adults. MSG (621) is not required by the body as it makes what it needs. All of the flavour enhancers are neurotoxins (code 620 to 625). MSG is not permitted in baby foods, but why is it there?

http://www.mbm.net.au/health/guide.htm

Splenda — the public health experiment

…biochemistry moment: Splenda is the trade name for sucralose, a synthetic compound stumbled upon in 1976 by scientists in Britain seeking a new pesticide formulation. It is true that the Splenda molecule is comprised of sucrose (sugar) — except that three of the hydroxyl groups in the molecule have been replaced by three chlorine atoms…

While some industry experts claim the molecule is similar to table salt or sugar, other independent researchers say it has more in common with pesticides. That’s because the bonds holding the carbon and chlorine atoms together are more characteristic of a chlorocarbon than a salt — and most pesticides are chlorocarbons…

Excerpts from an article Sugar substitutes and the potential danger of Splenda

Obviously, aspartame & Co are bad guys: these MS and other neurological diseases sufferers who stop using it, usually gradually recover !

Poisons, toxins and autoimmune diseases

An autoimmune condition evolves when the immune system for some reason cannot distinguish between self and other.

Conventional (orthodox) way to treat all autoimmune disorders has been suppressing the (deregulated) immune system, and afterwards treating the damage to the involved organ whenever possible.

Holistic medicine uses a different – much better approach.
The root of it always remain the same:

1. Remove the triggers that are deregulating (poisoning) the immune system so it starts damaging organs and/or tissues, causing the body to become “allergic” to itself
2. Relieve the inflammation caused by tissues damage and hyperactive immune system
3. Restore nutritional deficiencies that may be preventing the enervated immune system from knowing how to turn off hyperactivity once it is harmonized

Immune system is greatly complicated. Scientists are using hundreds of special (sophisticated) terms to describe it.

But we (ones attacked by autoimmune diseases) are interested, how such disorders, including Multiple Sclerosis, occur. Probably one of the best and very understandable ways of action of healthy as well as unhealthy (deregulated) immune system has been described in a book “What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders: The Revolutionary Drug-free Treatments for Thyroid Disease, Lupus, MS, IBD, Chronic Fatigue, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Other Diseases”. This book is real eye-opener.

Stephen Edelson, M.D., author of the book, has practiced medicine for more than 20 years. As an autoimmune specialist and Founder of the Edelson Center for Environmental and Preventative Medicine in Atlanta, he has successfully treated thousands of patients using innovative and effective alternative therapies.

Excerpts from the book:

• Unfortunately, there are millions and millions of individuals whose immune systems do not respond normally to an attack. Instead of attacking foreign invaders with antibodies-substances produced by the immune system to fight invaders-the immune system components attack the body’s own healthy cells-perhaps bones, joints, blood, brain, nerves, or other body parts-as if they were the enemy. When the immune system reacts in this way, it is producing autoantibodies-substances that attack healthy cells instead of foreign invaders. This situation is known as an autoimmune response
• More than eighty separate medical conditions have been recognized as being the result of an autoimmune response. Some of them are quite common; others are rare. In this book we concern ourselves with the more common conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, type 1 diabetes, autism, chronic fatigue syndromes, autoimmune hepatitis…
• While conventional medicine simply treats the symptoms, we heal the body by going directly to the origins of the disease-the autoimmune response at the cellular level. To get a better understanding of how we do that, it’s first important to understand why autoimmune conditions develop in the first place.The reason, I believe, is simple: direct damage and free-radical damage to cells from environmental toxins (heavy metals and chemicals).

So, immune system starts offending a host body after it is detuned by environmental toxins!

Nothing in this world happens without a reason !

• More good details as well as controversial (although truthful) ideas can be found in an article Autoimmune Disorders.

• Another wise and easy description of the problem has been provided in an article “Autoimmune Disease: Are Conventional Treatments Working?“