Diabetes, mercury, DU and heavy metals toxicity

[Guest guest]

I thought this should be of interest to all.

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Luciana Valentim

President of IMVA publications

www.imva.info

 

DNA and Mitochondrial Time Bombs

 

Uranium, Mercury and Diabetes

 

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. 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.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD International Medical Veritas Association

http://www.imva. info

http://www.magnesiu mforlife. com

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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.

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http://cndyorks. gn.apc.org/ news/articles/ du/drrb.htm

[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.

[iv] Diabetes Care 30:622-628, 2007 DOI: 10.2337/dc06- 2190 American Diabetes

Association.

http://care. diabetesjournals .org/cgi/ content/abstract /30/3/622

[v] Biol Trace Elem Res. 2001 Winter;84(1- 3):139-54. http://www.ncbi.

nlm.nih.gov/ entrez/query. fcgi?cmd= Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids= 11817685 &

dopt=Abstract

[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.

[viii] Trakhtenberg, I.M. From Russian translation. Chronic Effects of Mercury

on Organisms. In Place of a Conclusion

[ix] http://www.sciencef ormulas.com/

[x] http://www.detoxmet als.com/

[xi] In Science, Volume 311 on Feb. 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.

[xii] Kuzmenok O, Potapnev M, Potapova S et al. (2003) Late effects of the

Chernobyl radiation accident on T cell-mediated immunity in cleanup workers.

Radiat Res 159: 109-116

[xiii] Lomat L, Galburt G, Quastel MR, Polyakov S, Okeanov A, Rozin S (1997)

Incidence of childhood disease in Belarus associated with the Chernobyl

accident. Environ Health

Perspect [suppl 105] 6:1529-1532

[xiv] Ito C (1994) Trends in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus among Hiroshima

atomic bombsurvivors. Diabetes Res Clin Pract [suppl]:S29- S35

[xv] Ramanathan S, Bihoreau MT, Paterson AD, Marandi L, Gauguier D, Poussier P

(2002) Thymectomy and radiationinduced type 1 diabetes in nonlymphopenic BB

rats. Diabetes

51:2975-2981

[xvi] http://israelbehind thenews.com/ Archives/ Dec-19-06. htm#results

[xvii] J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2002 Jan;15(1):53- 7. Incidence of childhood

type 1 diabetes mellitus in Gomel, Belarus.Martinucci ME, Curradi G, Fasulo A,

Medici A, Toni S, Osovik G, Lapistkaya E, Sherbitskaya E. Regional Centre for

Juvenile Diabetes, Paediatric Hospital A. Meyer, Florence, Italy.

[xviii] Trends in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus among Hiroshima atomic

bomb survivors. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 1994 Oct;24 Suppl:S29-35. Hiroshima

Atomic Bomb Casualty Council, Health Management Center, Japan.

[xix] The measure correlates highly with body fat. Calculated as weight in

kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kg/m 2 ).

[xx] 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

Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. Zueva NA, Kovalenko AN, Gerasimenko TI,

Man'kovskii BN, Korpachova TI, Efimov AS.

[xxi] http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/ entrez/dispomim. cgi?id=600496

[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.

[xxiii] http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/ entrez/query. fcgi?cmd= Retrieve &

db=PubMed & list_uids= 8502739 & dopt= Abstract

[xxiv] Biochim Biophys Acta. 2007 Feb;1770(2): 266-72. Epub 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.

[xxv] Diabetologia. 2005 Jul;48(7):1247- 57. Epub 2005 Jun 22. Diabetologia.

2006 Jan; 49(1):217-8. Vitamin D and diabetes.Mathieu C, Gysemans C, Giulietti

A, 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.

[xxvii] Chronic contamination with 137Cesium affects Vitamin D3 metabolism in

rats.Tissandie E, Gueguen Y et al; Toxicology. 2006 Aug 1;225(1):75- 80. Epub

May19. 2006

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[xxix] http://www.telegrap h.co.uk/news/ main.jhtml? xml=/news/ 2007/03/02/

ndiab02.xml

[xxx] Briner, W. and J. Murray (2005) " Effects of short-term and long-term

depleted uranium exposure on open-field behavior and brain lipid oxidation in

rats, " Neurotoxicology and Teratology, vol. 27, pp. 135-44: http://www.bovik.

org/du/du- on-rats.pdf

[xxxi] Monleau, M.; C. Bussy; P. Lestaevel; P. Houpert; F. Paquet; V. Chazel

(2005) " Bioaccumulation and behavioural effects of depleted uranium in rats

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[Guest guest]

Chinese Traditional Medicine , Twyla <twylahoodah wrote:

>

> I thought this should be of interest to all.

> th

>

>

> Luciana Valentim

> President of IMVA publications

> www.imva.info

>

> DNA and Mitochondrial Time Bombs

>

> Uranium, Mercury and Diabetes

 

The point this article makes is no doubt relevant - I had made a

similar point about generalized mitochondria disease in a recent post.

Many people are speculating about the role of toxicity at the

mitochondria in diabetes and evidence has been clear that these toxic

conditions interfer with metabolism at the mitochondria. The emphasis

though that the article makes concerning heavy metals I do not agree

with. The rise of toxic metal poisoning is responsible for many

disease processes in modern people - but there is an underlying issue

which makes the toxic metal accumulations more harmful than they would

otherwise be and this is Ama. Ama acts not just as a sticky film (the

Chinese call this 'phlegm mist')over the mitochondria acting as a

barrier to metabolism - nourishment and elimination - but it also

absorbs local toxins of all kinds - those taken in from outside and

those created by the body in ordinary metabolism. This decreased

metabolism leaves the cells drowning in a toxic soup - including heavy

metals, hydrocarbons, etc. Because of the sticky quality of Ama these

toxins are firmly bound and many of them eventually get absorbed into

the cell walls and become a part of the cells further interfering with

their function.

 

All of these Ama bound toxins devastate many ordinary essential

functions of the cells including Insulin receptor sites, Thyroid

receptor sites, thousands of enzyme functions, etc. etc.. The solid

organs like the liver, heart, brain, etc. suffer the most from this

breakdown of function because fluids move more slowly in these organs

- meaning that stagnations of fluids (kapha accumulations)and acids

(pitta accumulations)are more likely to happen - especially in those

who are over nourished, eat excess sugars and fats, and who are

lethargic and do not exercise much (a large percentage of modern

people). Breaking the Ama and putting the body in a draining mode will

eliminate many levels of these toxic accumulations - including toxic

metals. As the article said it is impossible to avoid these toxins but

we can do the best we can to keep these toxins from getting stuck in

the body unable to get eliminated. Sattvic condition being an alkaline

based metabolism means that the body stays in a constant draining mode

making such accumultions difficult or impossible - water is not

retained, acids get neutralized and eliminated, and Ama does not form.

We do not have many options for eliminating these toxins.

 

Dr Vinod Kumar

[Guest guest]

Sorry for double posting but the original article I wrote was written

for an Ayurveda audience - in this article I have edited the article

in a non-Ayurvedic terminology.

 

Chinese Traditional Medicine , Twyla <twylahoodah wrote:

>

> I thought this should be of interest to all.

> th

>

>

> Luciana Valentim

> President of IMVA publications

> www.imva.info

>

> DNA and Mitochondrial Time Bombs

>

> Uranium, Mercury and Diabetes

 

The point this article makes is no doubt relevant - I had made a

similar point about generalized mitochondria disease in a recent post

at another site. Many people are speculating about the role of

toxicity at the mitochondria in diabetes and evidence has been clear

that these toxic conditions interfer with metabolism at the

mitochondria. The emphasis though that the article makes concerning

heavy metals I do not agree with. The rise of toxic metal poisoning is

responsible for many disease processes in modern people - but there is

an underlying issue which makes the toxic metal accumulations more

harmful than they would otherwise be and this is phlegm. Phlegm acts

not just as a sticky film (the Chinese call this 'phlegm mist')over

the mitochondria acting as a barrier to metabolism - nourishment and

elimination - but it also absorbs local toxins of all kinds - those

taken in from outside and those created by the body in ordinary

metabolism. This decreased metabolism leaves the cells drowning in a

toxic soup - including heavy metals, hydrocarbons, etc. Because of the

sticky quality of mucus these toxins are firmly bound and many of them

eventually get absorbed into the cell walls and become a part of the

cells further interfering with their function.

 

All of these mucus bound toxins devastate many ordinary essential

functions of the cells including Insulin receptor sites, Thyroid

receptor sites, thousands of enzyme functions, etc. etc.. The solid

organs like the liver, heart, brain, etc. suffer the most from this

breakdown of function because fluids move more slowly in these organs

- meaning that stagnations of fluids and acids are more likely to

happen - especially in those who are over nourished, eat excess sugars

and fats, and who are lethargic and do not exercise much (a large

percentage of modern people). Breaking the mucus and putting the body

in a draining mode will eliminate many levels of these toxic

accumulations - including toxic metals. As the article said it is

impossible to avoid these toxins but we can do the best we can to keep

these toxins from getting stuck in the body unable to get eliminated.

Alkaline based metabolism means that the body stays in a constant

draining mode making such accumultions difficult or impossible -

water is not retained, acids get neutralized and eliminated, and mucus

does not form.

We do not have many options for eliminating these toxins.

 

Dr Vinod Kumar