What is the evidence that the MMR is damaging to health?
It has apparently been shown that the MMR vaccine and the onset of ASD symptoms are not correlated. However vaccines are not tested against saline placebos. The same ‘immune’ stimulating adjuvants (containing known neurotoxins aluminium or mercury) are used in the placebo arm as the treatment arm, so that all adverse reactions caused by them are masked during trials.
Autistic Spectrum Disorder is an umbrella term referring to a range of social, communication and behavioural disorders. The interaction between a child and his or her parent at crucial stages of brain development causes synapses controlling social interaction and dopamine pathways to form. These synapses and acquired brain interconnections seem to be hindered in children with ASD. Autistic people are not defined by their diagnosis but the term is used for the purpose of study.
The gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield noted that autistic children made up a significantly large percentage of his referrals.(1) Indeed GI co-morbidities have been reported in 9-91% of ASD patients and the prevalence of symptoms four times greater than in children without ASD(2) Wakefield collected the data from a study involving other doctors and their patients (the Lancet 12). When asked for their histories some of the parents of the patients noted that symptoms had started not long after the MMR vaccine (and that a possible link had been denied by their GP’s and their concerns poo pooed).
Autism is also associated with vestibular dysfunction
and with frequent ear ‘infections’ or detoxing events caused by this dysfunction or by previous vaccinations or medications. ASD is therefore associated with frequent antibiotic use. The gut microbiome, among many other things, produces short chain fatty acids which feed colonocytes, regulates reactions to ‘self’ and ‘non self’, switches genes on and off, and protects the tight junctions between the cells in the lining of the gut. Regularly wiping them out with antibiotics will cause ‘leaky gut’ and GI symptoms.
The beneficial gut bacteria, especially Prevotella sp are fibre loving. As fibre is only found in plants, a diet rich in fruit, veg and legumes is essential. As autistic people tend to be ‘picky eaters’- whether cause or effect is unknown- this can be a challenge. My experience with people with learning disabilities showed me that they universally had poor diets, consisting mainly of junk food, crisps, white bread and processed meat. Protocols have been devised to help with picky eating. For example committing to trying one new food a day. Fecal transplants from fibre eating healthy individuals into ASD patients significantly improves behavioural symptoms.
Supplementing with compounds found in broccoli sprouts also improves disruptive behaviour, social interaction and verbal communication, possibly by decreasing oxidative stress and neuroinflammation, increasing glutathione and mitochondrial function and thus allowing the crucial synapses in the brain to form connections. The benefits were reversed with the supplementation was discontinued (3). Supplementation with broccoli sprout extract would seem to be a completely safe treatment which would not react with any drugs already being taken. In contrast Bacteroides and bilophilic bacteria associated with high meat and high fat diet appear to decrease gut barrier integrity and cause putrefaction in the colon exacerbating ASD symptoms.(2)
The way food is produced and the health of the microbiome in the soil is also crucial. Bacteria and plants can pass genes, such as antibiotic or herbicide resistance, by just being next to each other. This means that weeds around GMO crops must be sprayed with increasing numbers of different types of weed killers. Glyphosate works by disrupting the shikimate pathway (found in plants and bacteria but not in humans) which creates the essential amino acids phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine.
Continual use of herbicides and fertilisers, with no green manure rotation, destroys the microbiome and depletes the soil, meaning that humans and animals are eating malnourished plants. Humans become sick and are treated with yet more pharmaceuticals. The incidence of autism has increased in line with the increasing use of glyphosate.
A healthy microbiome in humans not only protects the gut lining. It crucially protects the blood/brain barrier. The brains of babies and children are constantly developing, growing and, as they interact with other people, creating synaptic connections that control social interaction and behaviour. The brains of those children unfortunate enough to have the MMR at an early stage of development at the same time as a course of antibiotics (or who frequently have them) or who are taking certain pain killers, will be particularly vulnerable to the vaccine as the blood/brain barrier protection is compromised.
It is also known that extra concentrated MMR doses (from the bottom of the vial, if not shaken properly between doses) or accidental double doses are sometimes given. It is also common practice to receive more than one type of vaccine during a single doctors appointment. The vaccines contain known neurotoxins such as aluminium.
Autism now estimated to affect 1:54 children in the US
The autism pharmaceutical market was worth $2.12 billion in 2020.
It was apparently worth $3.78 billion in 2021
The MMR is unnecessary as these conditions were already in decline and deaths were virtually zero by the time the vaccines were introduced and there is no evidence that they are caused by viruses.
Our society will not be able to sustain the burden of care for much longer. To say nothing of the sorrow and frustration felt by those who are suffer from ASD or who love someone who does.
Pharma already makes a killing out of marketing the ever increasing number of vaccines. They also make a killing with drugs to treat the consequences.
The least we can do is talk about it.
Jo
References
1. Callous Disregard Andrew Wakefield
2.Dietary Considerations in Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Potential Role of Protein Digestion and Microbial Putrefaction in the Gut-Brain Axis
Megan R Sanctuary 1, Jennifer N Kain 2, Kathleen Angkustsiri 3 4, J Bruce German 5 6
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PMID: 29868601
PMCID: PMC5968124
3.Sulforaphane treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Kanwaljit Singh 1, Susan L Connors 2, Eric A Macklin 3, Kirby D Smith 4, Jed W Fahey 5, Paul Talalay 6, Andrew W Zimmerman 7
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PMID: 25313065
PMCID: PMC4217462
Big Pharma gives with the one hand, and takes far more with the other. Clever business model they got there.
S-Methylmethionine in raw or very lightly cooked crucifers (brassica vegetables) would seem more likely helpful than nasty tasting sulforaphane. It restores deficient methylation. If the picky eaters won't eat the crucifers, one can buy synthetic SAM-e (S-adenosylmethionine).
BTW, metals can be toxicants, but not toxins. They aren't biologically secreted (with minor exception of bacterial methylation of mercury to the more toxic dimethylmercury). Please change 'neurotoxin' to 'neurotoxicant' unless in reference to an actual biologically produced poison.