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Medical News
DNA and Mitochondrial Time Bombs
Uranium, Mercury and
Diabetes
March 14, 2007
The Centers of
Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta declares that
33% of the babies born this year will be diabetic by the
year 2050.
Dr. Alan Cantwell
Diabetes, which
is expanding almost exponentially in the world today, can in
part be traced to the increasing radiation to which we are
all being exposed. Every physician knows that
radiation can lead to cancer, but making a connection
between depleted uranium (DU) and diabetes seems ludicrous
at first glance is anything but. Most medical doctors have
never heard of this but neither have they paid attention to
the fact that mercury and other toxic chemicals are also
primary causes of diabetes. Even though there is little
research into the connection between radiation poisoning and
diabetes we should not remain blind, deaf and dumb about it.
Diabetes is a
fundamental disease that affects the entire colony
of cells in a person because it has to do with energy
metabolism
and the vastly important hormone insulin and its receptor
sites.
Type two
diabetes, which is fundamentally due to nutritional
deficiencies (especially a lack of magnesium), colliding
head on with a host of chemical poisons and heavy metals, is
also being triggered by the heavy metal toxicity and
radioactivity of uranium oxide and other radioactive
isotopes that are circulating widely in the environment.
Unfortunately,
exposure levels
are increasing dramatically with each ton of vaporized
depleted uranium
but that is not
stopping the American and British governments from
manufacturing, selling and using depleted uranium weaponry.
“Depleted (DU)
uranium is highly toxic to humans,
both chemically as
a heavy metal and radiological as an alpha particle emitter,
is very dangerous when taken internally,”
writes Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Canadian Epidemiologist.[i]
A new study, conducted by biochemist Dr. Diane Stearns at
Northern Arizona University confirms that, separate from any
radiation risks, cells exposed to uranium will bond with the
metal chemically.[ii]
Uranium and phosphate have a strong chemical affinity for
each other and the DNA and Mitochondria are loaded with
phosphate so uranium is a DNA and Mitochondria deep
penetration bomb. The uranium is attacking on fundamental
cellular levels while mercury offers a knock out punch by
attacking the sulfur bonds besides being highly toxic to
nerve cells. It’s totally crucial to medical practice
in the 21st century this convergence of
toxicities. We can now clearly see what is being attacked
and who are mortal enemies are. Invisible clouds of
radiation are meeting up with what can only be called The
Hun Hordes of Mercury. Mercury now sits across our
planetary environment everywhere, an invisible chemical
cloud whose density is only increasing.
Diabetes is
often conceptualized as a severe imbalance of part of
endocrine system that destroys our ability to metabolize
food.
The imbalance results in elevated levels of insulin, a lack
of insulin,
or the cell insulin receptor sites becoming insensitive to
insulin.
The common
causes of diabetes are thought to be obesity, poor diet and
lack of exercise but the science is rock solid in pointing
to etiologies that are more fundamental. Poor diet is in
reality a cover up phrase for not only severe malnutrition
but for massive chemical poisoning from food additives,
preservatives and pesticides. Some of these chemicals, like
MSG and Bisphenol A, are known to directly provoke obesity.

Adult obesity rates in Britain have quadrupled in 25 years.
Carbonated soft
drinks are the single largest
source of calories in the American diet.
[iii]
Non
profit Center for Science in the Public Interest
When we look at
a person like this we just assume that if he only would stop
eating he would be well. Our notions about obesity just
happen to be erroneous. There is something seriously wrong
with the food being eaten by the masses. Essentially,
populations are
being poisoned and starved simultaneously by the food they
eat and
now genetically modified food is being brought front and
center before science and found to be a terribly dangerous
idea. Obesity is actually a state of gross malnutrition in
most people, one that finds a person unable to metabolize
foods correctly. This is accompanied by high body burdens of
toxins some of which are provoking the obesity. The public
has been led to accept junk food resulting in people with
weakened immune systems who are under nourished and over
fed. Their food is irradiated, contaminated with highly
profitable chemicals, and then mix in your genetically
modified foods - with inevitable consequences.
Organochlorine
pesticides and some PCBs may act through
increasing insulin resistance to heighten the risk of type
2 diabetes.[iv]
As it is with
the autism epidemic, the medical establishment and the
government are stonewalling investigations and understanding
of the runaway train that diabetes is fast becoming. We are
officially recognizing the tragedy of skyrocketing diabetes
rates in adults and children but the multiple causes are
being ignored and so treatments are not appropriate and
prevention efforts a joke.
What we have to see
clearly is that diabetes is actually an extremely serious
warning to civilization, it is an announcement that the
rising tide of radiation, mercury, other deadly chemicals
and pharmaceutical drugs are poisoning humanity.
Heavy metal
poisoning is so common these days that it is literally
impossible to avoid it. Even young newborns have been shown
to
have heavy metals as soon as they emerge from their
mother’s
womb, as well as receiving mercury from breastfeeding.
Dr.
George Georgiou
These toxins are
literally killing us. Metals such as iron, mercury, arsenic,
lead and possibly aluminum play a role in the actual
destruction of beta cells through stimulating an auto-immune
reaction to them after they have bonded to these cells in
the pancreas. It is well documented in the medical
literature that chemicals and drugs can cause temporary or
permanent insulin-dependent diabetes. But the permanent
radioactive contamination and environmental devastation of
areas bombed with depleted uranium are showing huge
increases in cancer and birth defects following attacks.
These will increase over time due to chronic exposure,
increasing internal levels of radiation from depleted
uranium dust, and permanent genetic effects passed on to
future generations. In areas thousands of miles from the
battlefields and tests sites everything will be in slow
motion compared to places like Iraq and Afghanistan. The
further away the slower but the contamination is everywhere
exerting a downward pressure on the health of the entire
human race.
Both
mercury and uranium oxide are floating in the
environment like invisible clouds that have spread out
everywhere.
They are raining down on us, damaging and damning our
future.
Simultaneous
exposure to mercury and uranium shows markedly increased
damage to the kidneys than when exposure is to each metal
singly. Insulin has three sulfur-containing cross-linkages
and the insulin receptor has a tyrosine kinase-containing
sulfur bond, which are the preferred targets for binding by
both mercury and lead. Should mercury attach to one of these
three sulfur bonds it will interfere with the normal
biological function of the insulin molecule.
Nephrotoxicity of the kidneys with necrosis of proximal
tubules has been seen to increase significantly with
dual
exposure to both uranium and mercury.[v]
In
February, 2007 The Canadian Institute for Health Information
(CIHI) reported that the number of new cases of kidney
failure jumped 114 per cent. The burden of renal disease is
also growing rapidly in India. The mean age of ESRD patients
requiring dialysis in India is 32-42 years compared to the
60-63 years in the developed world. Chronic kidney disease
(CKD) is a worldwide public health problem.[vi]
Doctors fear that
within a generation or so, a huge wave of new cases could
overwhelm the public health system and engulf growing
numbers of the young, creating a city where hospitals are
swamped by the disease's handiwork, schools scramble for
resources as they accommodate
diabetic children, and the work force abounds with the
blind.
New York Times
Lead and
aluminum are other common heavy metals have also been shown
to dramatically increase the toxicity of mercury.
Interesting also is that lead is the final end product of
the step by step radioactive decay of uranium. It would not
be far fetched to imagine uranium and lead having very
similar chemical characteristics though uranium is twice as
dense. Heavy metals are not the only trigger invoking the
acceleration of diabetes. Dr. Lisa Landymore-Lim in her
book Poisonous Prescriptions explains
clearly how many drugs used by the unsuspecting public
today, are involved also in the onset of impaired glucose
control and diabetes. She explains using the example of the
drugs streptozocin, and alloxan, both used in diabetes
research to make lab rats diabetic and in Vacor, a rat
poison known to cause insulin dependent diabetes in humans.
Allopathic medicine has to face up to the fact that many
drugs, including most surprisingly, the antibiotics
including penicillin, as well as an entire host of others,
causes changes in the beta cell and/or insulin function.[vii]
(See Chemical Causes of Diabetes on the IMVA site.)
Thiol poisons,
especially mercury and its compounds, reacting with
SH groups of proteins lead to the lowered activity of
various enzymes
containing sulfhydryl groups. This produces a series of
disruptions in
the functional activity of many organs and tissues of the
organism.
Professor I.M. Trakhtenberg[viii]
Russia
It is through
mercury’s attack on these sulfide bonds (SH) that mercury is
able to change the biological properties of proteins and
change important physiological functions. What few doctors
and health officials recognize is that chemicals and
radiation combine to act on the very same cellular enzyme
pathways. Lead is no slouch in this area either. The
interaction of lead with sulfhydryl (SH) sites causes most
of its toxic effects, which include impaired heme synthesis,
inhibition of erythrocyte Na/K ATPase, diminished RBC
glutathione, shortened RBC life span, impaired synthesis of
RNA, DNA and protein and impaired metabolism of vitamin D.
Lead may also affect the body's ability to utilize the
essential elements calcium, magnesium, and zinc.
One type
of contamination reinforces and strengthens the other so
medical treatments need to simultaneously address both
chemical toxicity and radiation poisoning.
Exposure to radiation causes a cascade of free radicals that
wreak havoc on the body. Radiation also decimates the body's
supply of glutathione, which allows free radicals to run
rampant through our tissues and organs. These free radicals
are destructive and are one of the most fundamental causes
of disease. So we need a broad full spectrum chelator[ix]
and antioxidant that is certified for both uranium
and mercury and a list of other heavy metals and toxins.
There are also targeted natural chelation formulas[x]
on the market that also work well at eliminating uranium in
addition to mercury that are not so complete but fit into a
total detoxification and chelation program. Importantly we
do not want any medical or healing substance to add its own
toxicity to the cesspool of chemicals already present in the
body and blood stream.
There are three
things that determine the toxicity of radioactive materials:
Chemical effects – Uranium is chemically very
toxic.
Radioactive effects (includes half-life and
energy released) One gram of DU (1/20th of a cubic
centimeter) releases 13,000 alpha particles a second. One
alpha particle can cause cancer under the right conditions
and certainly it has the capacity to wreck havoc in beta
cells and everywhere else.
Particle size
- in the nano particle range (diameter of 0.1 microns or
smaller) the particulate effect (non-specific catalyst or
enzyme) is far more biologically toxic than the first two
effects. This is why DU is so devastating.[xi]
(See extensive notes on this in the reference section)
Type Two Diabetes
is an increasingly prevalent disease in the
world, especially the United States, where the number
of new patients grew 49% between 1991 and 2000.
The Chernobyl
incident was a major humanitarian disaster, which has
resulted in a plethora of health problems that are still far
from being fully recognized. Most studies analyzing the
medical consequences of this catastrophe have so far focused
on diseases such as thyroid cancer, leukemia, immune and
autoimmune pathology[xii],[xiii]
even though an increase in the incidence of Type 1 diabetes
mellitus, a disorder involving the immune system, was
observed within the residential population of Hiroshima
among survivors of the atom bomb detonation.[xiv]
Studies have also shown that thymectomy and a sub-lethal
dose of gamma radiation induces Type 1 diabetes in rats.[xv]
Dr. Chris Busby
analyzed bomb crater samples and an air filter from an
ambulance used in Beirut in July during the Israeli attack
on Lebanon and found not only DU, but also that it was
enriched with U235. The US sent the DU bombs to Israel two
years ago, which was all over in the US media, and more in
July when Israel ran out of them.
Leuren Moret,
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab whistleblower,
predicts that we can expect the use of depleted uranium
weaponry
by Israel in the recent aggression against Lebanon will
continue
to add to increasing diabetes in the region as well as
globally.
And behold,
alarming news is coming in from northern Israel in the
wake of their use of depleted uranium in the recent war in
Lebanon. In recent months a sharp increase has been noted in
the number of new patients suffering from juvenile diabetes
in the north. This is reported by the juvenile diabetes
department at Ziv Medical Center, Safed. The staff of this
department still has no numerical data on the dramatic
increase in the number of new patients, since they continue
to arriving at the hospital every day. "The children who
have come to us over the past weeks live in Safed and other
communities in the Galilee-populations that have not shown
such a high incidence of the disease in the past," said Dr.
Orna Dali-Gottfried, director of the department of
pediatrics, juvenile diabetes and endocrinology at the
hospital.[xvi]
The truth seems to indicate that American depleted uranium
munitions nuked both Israel and Lebanon.
Researchers at
the Paediatric Hospital A. Meyer, Florence, Italy studied
this question by assessing the incidence of the disease in
children in Gomel, Belarus, in the years subsequent to the
Chernobyl disaster. The results of the study seem to confirm
the hypothesis of the influence of environmental pollution
subsequent to the Chernobyl accident can cause diabetes.[xvii]
Mass screening for
diabetes mellitus has been conducted on 64,000- 113,000
atomic bomb survivors resident in Hiroshima City since 1961.
From 1971 to 1992 a 2.7-fold increase in the prevalence of
diabetes mellitus was observed in males and a 3.2-fold
increase in females.[xviii]
Liquidators of
the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident (LCA) who had worked
within the 30-km zone for not more than 3 months in 1986,
and early in the year 1987, were examined in 1988-1992 and
again in 1997-1998. Hyperinsulinemia was recordable in these
workers with normal and abnormal body mass index[xix]
for the space of 3 to 12 years after the accident.
Hyperinsulinemia, as the researchers saw it, was related to
direct or indirect action of irradiation because those
persons with prior acute psychogenic stress and healthy
people have been found to be free from hyperinsulinemia. The
possibility cannot be ruled out that hyperinsulinemia is a
predictor of increased body weight gain and obesity in these
workers.[xx]
We have a
significant and documented increase
in the incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children and
adolescents after Chernobyl in the radioactively
contaminated area of Gomel compared to Minsk.
Heinrich Heine University
Dusseldorf,
Germany
Dr Chris Busby,
who has extensively researched the low-level radiation
threat, and is the scientist who revealed vastly increased
radiation levels over England after the last attack on Iraq,
has made a link between everyday radiation exposure and a
range of modern ailments: “There have been tremendous
increases in diseases resulting from the breakdown of the
immune system in the last 20 years: diabetes, asthma,
AIDS and others which may have an immune-system link, such
as MS and ME. A whole spectrum of neurological conditions of
unknown origin has developed.”

According to
Moret, it won’t take more than two days
for the uranium particles to reach India from Iran. Egypt,
the
Middle East, Central Asia and Pakistan would also be
affected
To top off all
the aforementioned evidence, there is now a new form of
diabetes being identified and classified. There is an
increasing number of people who are being seen to have both
type one and type two diabetes at the same time, and now
this Type 3 Diabetes is being linked to gene mutation.
Type 3 is caused by mutation in the hepatocyte nuclear
factor-1-alpha gene (142410), which maps to chromosome
12q34.[xxi]
Chronic complications and clinical expression of diabetes
seems to be more severe when genetic mutations are involved,
leading to more frequent development of diabetic
complications.
With Bisphenol A
it seemed very clear that the genes for obesity are
being affected, causing a rise in insulin resistance and
diabetes. Not
so clear with DU, but seems that it might do much the same
if not worse.
With all the
controversial information available today on diets, obesity,
it gets so confusing and complicated that no one in their
right mind could reasonably figure out what to do for
themselves, except by trial and error. Some diets work for
some, others work for others. All have their limitations
and potential problems. Everyday both doctors and patients
are looking at this "new peptide" and that new bit of info
about "fat" or "carbohydrate" and "sugar" and its effects on
our bodies, instead of looking at these causes. Chemical
causes might not be the only causes, but they are most
likely the source of the environmental triggers that have
already been accepted as playing a major role in both Type 1
and Type 2 diabetes.
Low level
radiation risk is 100 to 1000 times greater than the
International Committee for Radiation Protection models
estimate.
Leuren Moret
Scientists may
be seriously wrong in their idea of just how much increased
background radiation the human body can withstand without
long term effects. Public health officials across the board
tend to grossly underestimate the dangers[xxii]
and medical officials are out there claiming, as usual, that
toxic substances are actually good for your children. They
say that about mercury and they say that about radiation.
Along with the
pancreas, insulin receptor sites are vulnerable
to chemical poisoning like any other part of the body.
Perhaps
these aspects of human physiology are even more sensitive
and that is why we are seeing exploding rates of diabetes.
Dr. Herman
Muller, who has received a Nobel Prize for his work, has
shown how the human race's continuous exposure to so-called
'low-level' radiation is causing a gradual reduction in its
ability to survive, as successive generations are
genetically damaged. “The spreading and accumulation of even
tiny genetic mutations pass through family lines, provoking
allergies, asthma, juvenile diabetes, hypertension,
arthritis, high blood cholesterol conditions, and muscular
and bone defects.”
Streptozotocin
injected to animals exposed to 1-Gy gamma irradiation
experienced a drastic decrease in beta-cell function
which was
manifested by hyperglycemia and less intensive secretion and
lesser content of insulin in isolated pancreatic islands, as
compared to control.[xxiii]
“The data is
coming in country by country confirming my discovery of a
global epidemic of diabetes which began with Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 1945 and has continued to increase during
atmospheric testing, nuclear power plant operations, and
very sharply since depleted uranium was introduced in 1991.
Govt. data from Japan, the US, India, and now Europe confirm
large increases in diabetes since 1991, in most cases, the
highest increases since 1945,” writes Leuren Moret.
The Lancet,
analysed the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in Ontario,
Canada between 1995 and 2005. It found an increase of 69 per
cent over the 10 years compared with the World Health
Organisation's prediction of a 39 per cent increase between
2000 and 2030. Dr Lorraine Lipscombe, of the Institute for
Clinical Evaluation Science, Toronto, said that it also saw
a higher rise in the rate of cases in younger people under
50 than in older people. "A 27 per cent increase has
taken place after only five years," she said.
According to Dr.
Katsuma Yagasaki ““One alpha particle passes hundred
thousand atoms before it stops, blowing out hundred thousand
electrons constituting a molecule.” Basically each and every
uranium oxide particle is dangerous to our health and this
view was sustained on 29 June 2005 when a National Academy
of Sciences panel in Washington DC pronounced that no level
of radiation is safe for humans. The panel concluded that
"any dose of radiation, no matter how small, can induce
cancer.” Doctors say Type 2 can often be postponed and
possibly prevented by eating less and exercising more.
Though eating less poisonous food already deficient in basic
nutrients is always a good idea, it will not protect the
body from heavy metal and radiation contamination.
A Los Angeles
Times front-page report on 16 September 2006 claims
that there are more than 41 million Americans with blood
glucose abnormalities "that indicate they may soon develop
diabetes."
Researchers have
even investigated in vivo the effects of a chronic exposure
to DU on vitamin D(3) metabolism, a hormone essential in
mineral and bone homeostasis. Anything that affects mineral
homeostasis is going to be important in setting up
conditions for diabetes.[xxiv]
This is the first time that DU was seen to depress levels of
vitamin D active form and vitamin D receptor expression, and
consequently could modulate the expression of vitamin D
target genes involved in calcium homeostasis.
This brings up
the whole point of toxicity breaking down mineral content,
something that is crucial in the process of becoming much
more vulnerable to the chemical onslaught. Mineral content
depletion is a basic cause in diabetes and neurological
disorders, it leaves the body less able to cope and
eliminate toxins on a daily basis. As we shall see in the
section on treatment the depletion of normally high levels
of zinc in the pancreas leaves a person more susceptible to
beta cell destruction from heavy metals.
This is
important to our medical review that concludes that toxic
exposure to uranium is dangerous and readily provokes
diabetes. In this case we see that vitamin D deficiency
predisposes individuals to type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Vitamin D deficiency has been shown to impair insulin
synthesis and
secretion in humans! Furthermore,
epidemiological studies suggest a link between vitamin D
deficiency in early life and the later onset of type 1
diabetes. In studies on diabetic mice, pharmacological doses
of vitamin D have been shown to delay the onset of diabetes,
mainly through immune modulation.
Clearly vitamin
D deficiency is involved in the pathogenesis of both forms
of diabetes.[xxv]
Cesium-137, which is a radioactive form[xxvi]
of Cesium that is a common radioactive contaminant also
weighs heavily on vitamin D.[xxvii]
According to the Center for Strategic and International
Studies the most likely radioactive element in a dirty bomb
is cesium-137. The words "dirty bomb" has been on the lips
of health and law enforcement officials since the terrorist
attacks of 2001 but, like everything else when it comes to
problems with nuclear fallout, no one is prepared.[xxviii]
When it comes to
diabetes, doctors are not even close to the truth. Many
people believe that because of the huge income diabetes
provides doctors and hospitals, the medical industrial
complex is not interested in pinning down causes. Certainly
they are not interested in radically changing treatment
protocols or at looking into the diagnosis of toxic body
burdens that diabetic patients are commonly carrying.
Parents of autistic children are accustomed to this official
confusion about neurological disorders and their causes.
Now millions
around the globe who are falling prey to diabetes will have
to accept their suffering quietly because the medical
community is not going to help them avoid or recover from
diabetes. Neither the FDA, CDC or EPA or AMA is going to
halt the use of depleted uranium weapons nor the use of
mercury by dentists nor cut down severely the pollution of
the environment with mercury. You will not hear the cry for
organic food go up either so the population can clean its
blood streams of pesticides and many other hostile
chemicals. We all need to start seriously questioning
current findings, form fresh approaches to pathology, and
find new methods to eradicate ailments that plague
humankind. Without a large revamping of methodological
procedures, we will continue to have lower success rates and
other less than ideal outcomes when it is clearly not
necessary.
There is nothing
easy about the diagnosis of heavy metal poisoning and
medical authorities have been known to denigrate doctors who
test for heavy metals and use treatment programs to chelate
out these metals. Some medical boards have even gone so far
as stripping doctors of their medical licenses for
practicing chelation therapy. This means doctors are kept as
far away from the truth as possible. This will change
rapidly starting as early next year as handheld devices
become available in doctors offices that will directly test
cell toxicity levels down to the parts per billion levels.
Qatar and other
Gulf States now top the world in the
incidence of obesity and diabetes among their nationals.
We are now in a
global diabetes epidemic since 1991 and it does seem
reasonable to assume that the global contamination from
depleted uranium is a contributor. Mercury has also been
rising steadily (as well as other pollutants) so it’s a
heads or tails throw to ascertain which toxic influence is
contributing more to what can only be called a plague. India
now has 39 million diabetics and expects 50 million by 2010
(in third world countries 80% go undiagnosed.)
The US Centers
for Disease Control reported in 1980 that there were 5.7
million diagnosed cases of diabetes. That number increased
by 1 million in a decade, by 1990, to 6.7 million. Between
1990 and 2002 the number increased to 13.5 million, with the
largest increase of 2 million in a single year between
1996-97. That is an 18% increase from 1980 to 1990 and a
136% increase from 1980 to 2002, the last year numbers are
available. 1996-97 was the period Clinton did heavy grid and
carpet bombing in Europe and now we know it was with massive
amounts of depleted uranium dirty bombs.
Uranium oxide
particles are DNA time bombs. Because of the
affinity of a phosphate in human DNA towards uranium,
these particles destroy the DNA so the disastrous effects
of depleted uranium won’t be limited to only one generation.
According to
Moret, depleted uranium is the “Trojan horse of nuclear war.
It is the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.” The
pyrophoric nature of depleted uranium causes it to burn at
very low temperatures. This makes it an ideal radioactive
gas weapon. “Once it gets vaporized, microscopic particles
of uranium oxide remain suspended and form the radioactive
component of dust.”
Attack on Iran
would be nothing short
of a low level nuclear war against India.
Leuren Moret
That Trojan
horse has already come to roost in Great Britan, where
radiation levels, weeks after the last war in Iraq started,
went up by a factor of eight from normal levels. Dr. Busby
calculated that some citizens in different parts of the
country would have inhaled about 26 million particles of
uranium oxide. Like Troy burning, the blood in Britain’s
citizens is smoldering. Matt Hunt, science information
manager at Diabetes UK, said: "By 2010, we estimate that the
number of people with diabetes in the UK will increase
by around 30 per cent to three million.[xxix]
Thirty percent in three years is a catastrophe.
Since the
military use of DU is barely 15 years old, it is too early
to know what the long term cumulative effects might be over
the course of a century or more. We do know that uranium
oxide particles are here to stay and that the invisible
particles are suspended in the air, with some are rained out
into the soil, the water, the dust; they become recycled
back into the air, pervade the food chain; and often nobody
can tell until years after the biological damage has been
inflicted that their health or existence has been
jeopardized.
The biggest
crime and fallacy is that while diabetes can be reversed by
dietary and exercise programs, everyone is ignoring other
plausible ways to reduce our loads of these toxins, thus
improving our lifestyles and outcomes. These diets and
programs and even the "cures" they are coming out with are
often brutal in their need for time, attention and often for
even more toxic drugs. Such programs come at a high price,
including an often extreme cost to a quality of life that is
often markedly degraded. Everyone is looking for the magic
pill, and most succumb to the pills and medicine their
doctors often injudiciously, and without real understanding,
give them at the drop of a hat.
It is
disheartening enough that industry pollutes our world with
mercury to produce the energy necessary for modern societies
to function. But to learn that the military, for no other
purpose than to further the political and economic ambitions
of a few, is polluting the entire world for eternity is the
most terrible catastrophic event in history. There is no
possibility of reversing the current uranium pollution and
probably no way to influence the Americans and British to
rethink and admit their ways.
The people
responsible are single-handedly destroying all sense of law
and order, making the entire system hypocritical beyond
belief. Americans throw thousands of people in jail every
year for smoking pot, the safest drug of all, so safe that
not one death has been traced back to its use anywhere in
the world. Yet millions applaud leaders who are destroying
the future of our children by using the most dangerous
substances known on earth, radioactive substances that will
be around for thousands of generations. We should not be
surprised actually as we have seen these same people poison
the water with fluoride, poison and kill us with
pharmaceuticals and a host of chemicals in our foods. We
even let them get away with bringing down the world trade
centers right before our very eyes.
Unified Field of
Cause between Neurological and Metabolic Disease
The above
facts are clear and compelling. The only sensible response
to them is to irrevocably conclude that the rise in
incidents of diabetes, autism and some neurologically
based disorders are due to a pool of common causes. There
are, after all, not different universes of cause provoking
plagues in metabolism and neurology. It has been terribly
misguiding to assume that a hodgepodge of unrelated
factors is causing these diverse diseases.
The entrenched
resistance to looking deeply into what is really going on
could easily lead us to make harsh indictments of
common medical standards and practices. The objective though
is the creation of radical treatment models with a higher
success rates than are currently extant today. Doctors do
need to start seriously questioning current findings,
form fresh approaches to pathology, and find new methods
to eradicate ailments that plague humankind.
DU is a toxin that
crosses the blood-brain barrier,
producing behavioral changes in male rats and lipid
oxidation regardless of gender in as little as 2 weeks.[xxx]
Depleted uranium
is able to enter the brain after exposure to repeated
inhalation, producing behavioral changes.[xxxi]
Mercury of course is neuro-toxic as is lead. Our kids are
being attacked on all sides by chemicals and heavy metals
and radioactive substances with their own special type of
toxicity. It is inane to separate out causes of this nature
one from the other since we have to deal with the entire
spectrum of environmental pollutants ending up in our
children’s bodies. Both autism and diabetes are human
disasters of untold proportions and I include some
information from David Humphrey below to open our hearts to
the size of one of medicines greatest shames.
By David Humphrey
http://kimstagliano.blogspot.com/2007/03/guest-blogger-ive-been-asked-to-post.html
Autism around the
world is rarely talked about in the United States. Until
recently it really wasn’t talked about at all. The following
is the best information on the number of children facing a
life with autism in Asian countries
China 2,500,000
University of Beijing
estimate – working with Johns Hopkins to get a better number
India 2,000,000
Reports from parent
groups not confirmed by government (number attempted to be
verified by AS)
United States 600,000
INCLUDED FOR
REFERENCE # - Current estimate of CDC in the US
Indonesia 350,000
Estimated by Health
Minister of Indonesia
Japan 300,000
Widely reported to
have the highest rate of autism in the world
Philippines 250,000
Estimate by the
Autism Society of the Philippines – a reliable source
Vietnam 200,000
Unreliable number
Thailand 180,000
Estimate of the
Minister of Mental Health
The numbers don’t
mean much until you meet the children and talk to their
families. I have done that a lot in the past few years.
What is crushing for
families in the US - with pretty good resources - is
unbearable in countries were families have very limited
resources.
Governments in most
of these countries virtually ignore the problems of autism
because the just can’t deal with the enormity of the
problem. We were in North Korea were their solution is to
send children with autism upon the first symptoms to a
remote institution where their life expectancy is less than
2 years. Most starve.
Even in 2nd world
countries with strong economies - lots of Starbuck’s --
conditions can be horribly bad - I have been in Autism
institutions where these children are literally warehoused
in shocking conditions.
You are permanently
changed from the experience of walking through an
institution and seeing 3,000 children with autism - some
tethered to their beds lying in fecal matter as a result of
chronic diarrhea and untreated medical problems.
[ii]
A radioisotope of an element will bind best to the
same substrates which a non-radioactive isotope of
the same element will bind. Dr. Stearns has
established that when cells are exposed to uranium,
the uranium binds to DNA and the cells acquire
mutations, triggering a whole slew of protein
replication errors, some of which can lead to
various cancers. Stearns' research, published in the
journals Mutagenesis and Molecular Carcinogenesis,
confirms what many have suspected for some time -
that uranium can damage DNA as a heavy metal,
independent of its radioactive properties. The
biochemical reaction of heavy metals can cause
genetic mutations, which in turn can curtail cell
growth and cause cancer. Heavy metals that are also
radioactive amplify this effect and can cause
distortions in shape and thus function even of red
blood cells.
[iii]
Full-calorie soft drinks are also linked with
reduced intake of milk and fruit and increased risk
of type 2 diabetes. "Recommendations to reduce
population soft drink consumption are strongly
supported by the available science," concludes the
review of 88 studies. "Nobody claims there is a
single cause to the obesity problem, but the
existing science certainly puts soft drinks in the
list of leading contributors," said review
co-author Kelly Brownell, Ph.D. Of 21 studies, 19
showed that as people drink more soda pop, the
number of calories they consume rises. Instead of
satisfying a sweet tooth, soft drinks may do just
the opposite. The "most striking link" was
between soft drink consumption and the incidence of
type 2 diabetes, according to the reviewers.
"This result alone warrants serious concern about
soft drink intake, particularly in light of the
unprecedented rise in type 2 diabetes among
children," the review says.
[vi]
In February, 2007 The Canadian Institute for Health
Information (CIHI) reported that the number of new
cases of kidney failure jumped 114 per cent, from
just fewer than 1,100 in the first year to more than
2,100 cases in 2004, adding that the incidence of
Type 2 diabetes jumped during the same period. In
the United States (US), there is a rising incidence
and prevalence of kidney failure. The number of
patients enrolled in the end-stage renal disease
(ESRD) Medicare-funded program has increased from
approximately 10,000 beneficiaries in 1973 to 86,354
in 1983, and to 452,957 as of December 31, 2003.
In 2003 alone 100,499 patients entered the US ESRD
program.
[vii]These
is some structural similarity between the chemicals
streptozotocin, alloxan and vacor: in each, there is
at least one oxygen atom joined by two bonds to a
carbon atom (C=O), which forms a carbonyl group,
which is flanked on each side by a nitrogen (n)
atom. This is interesting since carbonyl groups and
nitrogen atoms are often reactive species due to
their excess of negative charge. That is, they are
electron rich sources that very often have an
affinity for positively charged species such as zinc
ions (ZN)2+.Therefore, they behave like magnets
attracting oppositely charged species. Since insulin
is stored in the pancreas in combination with zinc,
the pancreas has the highest concentration of zinc
in the body and could conceivably present a source
for chemical attack.
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3, 2006, page 622-628 is an article called ‘The
Toxic Potential of Materials at the Nano Level.’ It
explains how any kind of material - it could be
ordinary carbon or a metal that is not radioactive -
if these particles are small enough (tinier than a
micron which is a millionth of a meter, or one ten
thousandths of a centimeter) if these particles are
that small, it turns out they are toxic in
themselves, whatever their composition. “That’s
exactly what’s happening in the case of
nanoparticles which are produced when the uranium
burns upon impact and melts steel and the fine
particles are so small, they act like a gas. So what
you’re getting is a gas of uranium that gets
transported around the world and is now proven by
these latest measurements,” says Dr. Sternglass.
Depleted uranium shouldn’t be used. It’s a gas, and
we’ve
already signed the Geneva protocol not to use gas
in warfare.
It’s already illegal. It’s a metal fume. A metal
fume is a gas.
Dr. Rosalie Bertell
International Institute of Concern for Public
Health
Mankind has lived with low-level background
radiation for as long as we have existed but the
uranium in a DU weapon explodes on impact as it
penetrates a target. It burns with an extremely high
temperature (above 5,000 degrees centigrade) and in
the process vaporizes into particles so small
that more than half them, by mass, are smaller in
size than the wavelengths of light. The
minuscule radioactive particles then become airborne
like a gas and will eventually extend throughout the
planet. They are a phenomenon that does not exist
naturally and never did before now. They are
a totally new, biologically dangerous, and have
global reach. These nanometer-size uranium particles
are a growing part of our world since 1991 and
government and military officials are incredibly
cavalier about it.
“Comparing a small DU particle to a red blood
cell would be like comparing a man to a 50,000-foot
high mountain, a mountain twice as high as Mt.
Everest” writes Rolf A. F. Witzsche. The few
atmospheric nuclear-bomb tests that were conducted
in the 1950s and 1960s utilized only small amounts
of uranium, too little to be significant in
comparison with the thousands of pounds of the stuff
that have been exploded in four battlefield theatres
and on many military test ranges.
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Bihoreau MT, Paterson AD, Marandi L, Gauguier D,
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The measure correlates highly with body fat.
Calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the
square of the height in meters (kg/m 2 ).
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Lik Sprava. 2001 Jul-Aug;(4):26-8. Analysis of
irradiation dose, body mass index and insulin blood
concentration in personnel cleaning up after the
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[xxii]
It could be
possible, for instance, that a mere .001 rise in the
rem could generate an increase globally in sickness.
And the proximity of the source of rem increase may
be less relevant than we think. Long term exposure
to >0.001 increased rem overall may be actually be
quite profound. Our knowledge of the effects of
radiation derives primarily from groups of people
who have received high doses so in reality medical
science knows and understands very little about low
level risks.
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2006 Oct 19. In vivo effects of chronic
contamination with depleted uranium on vitamin D3
metabolism in rat. In DU-exposed rats, the active
vitamin D (1,25(OH)(2)D(3)) plasma level was
significantly decreased. In kidney, a decreased gene
expression was observed for cyp24a1, as well as for
vdr and rxralpha, the principal regulators of
CYP24A1. Similarly, mRNA levels of vitamin D target
genes ecac1, cabp-d28k and ncx-1, involved in renal
calcium transport were decreased in kidney. In the
brain lower levels of messengers were observed for
cyp27a1 as well as for lxrbeta, involved in its
regulation. Experiments were carried out in rats
after a chronic contamination for 9 months by DU
through drinking water at 40 mg/L (1 mg/rat/day).
This dose corresponds to the double of highest
concentration found naturally in Finland.
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Bouillon R. Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and
Endocrinology (LEGENDO), Catholic University of
Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
chantal.mathieu@med.kuleuven.be
[xxvi]
Cesium-137 (137Cs) has a physical half-life of 30
years with a beta energy peak at 174.0 keV.Following
entry into the blood, it is distributed uniformly
through all body tissues. Approximately 10% of
cesium is eliminated rapidly with a biological
half-life of 2 days and 90% is eliminated more
slowly, with a biological half-life of 110 days.
Less than 1% of the cesium was retained with a
longer biological half-life of about 500 days.
Cesium follows the movement of potassium and is
excreted into the intestine, reabsorbed from the gut
into the blood, then to the bile, where it is
excreted again into the gut (enterohepatic
circulation). Without insoluble Prussian blue
treatment, ~80% of cesium is excreted through the
kidneys and ~20% in the feces. Because of cesium’s
long physical half-life, the rate of radiation
elimination is similar to the rate of element
elimination from the body.
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