Mercury - a strong nerve poison Mercury has been known to be a potent nerve toxin for about fifteen years, and recently the University of Calgary has shown exactly how mercury causes this nerve degeneration by examining what happens to nerve cells in a culture medium when mercury is added. Please view this short yet excellent and understandable presentation from the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, to see for yourself how mercury attaches to the receptor sites of another protein, and destroys the structure of the nerve.

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Don't Eat Chicken with Rice Don't Eat Chicken with Rice And other foods that are not healthy when eaten together When I was 15, my skin began to break out, and a well-meaning but misguided dermatologist prescribed antibiotics. Fifteen years later, frequent use of antibiotics had weakened my body to the point where I had almost no functional immune system—and my stomach burned whenever I ate anything. By the time I was 30, I could tolerate only five foods.

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Parasites a health tip from Yaffa Regev In their award-winning television documentary program, The Body Snatchers, National Geographic reported, "Parasites have killed more humans than all the wars in history". [Season 1, episode 17] Parasites are probably the most diverse of all biological forms and yet, by definition, they remain implacably hostile to humans. Of the 7.8 billion acres of potential arable land on Earth, only 3.4 billion acres can be farmed; most of the rest cannot be developed because of parasites (malaria, trypanosomiasis, schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis).

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Break the bottled water habit? Break the bottled water habit? By Dr. Jonathan Wright Question: What's your stance on bottled water? Some people tell me I shouldn't drink it because the plastic bottles are poisonous. Others tell me I should steer clear of tap water because of fluoride and chlorine. What should I do? Dr. Wright: Most municipal water supplies do contain fluoride and chlorine, which have both been implicated in numerous health concerns. So bottled water does seem like the wise alternative.

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Autism & Multivitamins The prescription of nutritional supplements is one of the most common treatments for autism but little research exists about the effectiveness of supplements in autistic children and adults. According to the authors of this study, 49% of physicians recommend vitamin / mineral supplements for children with autism. In light of this fact, the authors designed a trial to determine if the recommendation is useful. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled three month vitamin / mineral intervention study was published in December 2011. The study involved 141 children and adults with autism. The researchers insured that none of the participants had taken a vitamin / mineral supplement for at least 2 months prior to the commencement of the study. The outcomes that were assessed during the trial included nutritional status, metabolic status and scores on the Parental Global Impressions – Revised (PGI-R) Scale. The PGI-R is an assessment tool that asks caregivers to rate the changes in certain symptoms over time on a scale from 1 to 7 with 1 being ‘much worse’ and 7 being ‘much better.’ The symptoms specified by the PGI-R are Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Hyperactivity, Tantrumming, Play, Cognition, Gastrointestinal Symptoms, Sleep, Sociability, Eye Contact, and Overall. When compared with healthy children, children with autism had statistically significant differences in their average levels of many important molecules such as biotin, glutathione, S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), plasma ATP and plasma tryptophan. The autistic children also had higher levels of oxidative stress biomarkers. During the study, the participants had a compliance rate of over 95% and both the vitamin / mineral supplement and the placebo were well tolerated. The participants in the supplement group improved the levels of all of the biomarkers and in some cases, completely normalized the levels to match those of healthy children. I should probably mention that lab tests were only performed with the local children who participated in the study. Therefore, most of the reported results are in reference to the small group of local pediatric participants (there were 53 children ages 5-16 in this group). All 141 participants were assessed using the PGI-R Scale at the conclusion of the study.

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