LANDMARK STUDY: AUTISM RECOGNIZED AS MEDICALLY TREATABLE

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Below is link to a CoMeD, Inc. PRESS RELEASE for

a new study that establishes that mercury

poisoning causes autism.

http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/081010_CoMeD_PR_LandmarkStudyFinds_MercuryPois\

oningCausesAutismb.pdf

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Dr. King

http://www.dr-king.com

LANDMARK STUDY FINDS: MERCURY POISONING CAUSES AUTISM

PRESS RELEASE CONTACTS:

For Immediate Release CoMeD President [Rev.

K. Sykes (Richmond, VA) 804-364-8426]

October 10, 2008 CoMeD Sci. Advisor [Dr. King

(Lake Hiawatha, NJ) 973-263-4843]

WASHINGTON, DC New study, “Biomarkers of

Environmental Toxicity and Susceptibility in

Autism” in the peer-reviewed Journal of the

Neurological Sciences1, confirms a causal link

between subacute mercury poisoning in children

and their autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

diagnosis. The autism community reported that

this study presents, “…some compelling

evidence…consistent with the author’s theory that

mercury exposure plays a role in autism.”2

This paper3 presents the first prospective,

blinded cohort study to examine children

diagnosed with an ASD using: urinary porphyrin

profile analysis (UPPA) to assess the body-burden

and physiological effects of their mercury,

glutathione analysis to assess susceptibility to

mercury poisoning, and Childhood Autism Rating

Scale (CARS) scores to measure ASD severity.

These evaluations4 established:

• Non-chelated patients diagnosed wiBiomarkers of

Environmental Toxicity and Susceptibility in

Autismth an ASD had UPPA profiles indicative of

mercury poisoning that strongly correlated with

ASD severity, measured using CARS scores.

• Glutathione (a key biochemical in the body’s

mercury detoxification pathway) was significantly

lower in patients diagnosed with an ASD in

comparison with its level in neurotypical controls.

• Increasing mercury-poisoning severity, as

indicated by the UPPA results, was associated

with lower glutathione levels among the patients diagnosed with an ASD.

Based upon these findings, the researchers

concluded, “ASDs may result from a combination of

genetic/ biochemical susceptibilities in the form

of a reduced ability to excrete mercury and/or

increased environ-mental exposures at key developmental times.”

The Autism Research Institute, the non-profit

CoMeD, Inc., and, through a grant from the Brenen

Hornstein Autism Research & Education (BHARE)

Foundation, the non-profit Institute of Chronic

Illnesses, Inc. funded this research study.

Today, any parent, physician, or healthcare

provider can easily confirm whether or not a

non-chelated child diagnosed with an ASD is

mercury poisoned by having UPPA testing run at

LabCorp (CLIA-certified, test# 120980) or

Laboratoire Philippe Auguste (ISO-certified, 119

Philippe Auguste Avenue, Paris, France 75011).

Please, visit CoMeD’s web site,

http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org for information

on how to order UPPA tests and full copies of

some of the many published papers validating the UPPA test.

Your generous tax-free donations will help us to

fund additional research, similar to the present

study, to examine mercury’s links to autism and

other illnesses, define the causal roles of

mercury in the linked childhood and adult

illnesses, and find appropriate curative therapies.

To support the ongoing efforts of CoMeD, Inc.

with your tax-deductible contributions, please

use the PayPal link on CoMeD’s Internet website,

http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org. CoMeD, Inc. is

a not-for-profit 501©(3) corporation that is

actively engaged in legal, educational and

scientific efforts to stop all use of mercury in

medicine, and to ban the use of all mercury-containing medicines.

1 Geier DA, Kern JK, Garver CR, JB, Audhya

T, Nataf R, Geier MR. Biomarkers of environmental

toxicity and susceptibility in autism. J Neurol

Sci. 2008 Sep 24. [Epub ahead of print].

2

http://www.autismvox.com/new-study-on-heavy-metal-toxicity-and-detoxification-by\

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3 This new study involved a multi-national

collaboration between researchers, including:

A. Geier, Janet K. Kern, PhD, RN, Carolyn

Gavery, PhD, B. , PhD, Tapan Audhya,

PhD, Nataf, MD, and Mark R. Geier, MD,

PhD, FABMG, FACE. These researchers have

extensive research backgrounds in medicine,

biochemistry and neuroscience, and include

professors from the University of Texas,

Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas) and Arizona State University (Tempe).

4 Laboratoire Philippe Auguste and Vitamin

Diagnostics performed biochemical testing; Dr.

Kern conducted the CARS scoring

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Institute of Chronic Illnesses, Inc., Silver

Spring, land, USA; CoMeD, Inc., Silver Spring, land, USA.

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) may result from

a combination of genetic/biochemical

susceptibilities in the form of a reduced ability

to excrete mercury and/or increased environmental

exposure at key developmental times. Urinary

porphyrins and transsulfuration metabolites in

participants diagnosed with an ASD were examined.

A prospective, blinded study was undertaken to

evaluate a cohort of 28 participants with an ASD

diagnosis for Childhood Autism Rating Scale

(CARS) scores, urinary porphyrins, and

transsulfuration metabolites. Testing was

conducted using Vitamin Diagnostics, Inc.

(CLIA-approved) and Laboratoire Philippe Auguste

(ISO-approved). Participants with severe ASDs had

significantly increased mercury

intoxication-associated urinary porphyrins

(pentacarboxyporphyrin, precoproporphyrin, and

coproporphyrin) in comparison to participants

with mild ASDs, whereas other urinary porphyrins

were similar in both groups. Significantly

decreased plasma levels of reduced glutathione

(GSH), cysteine, and sulfate were observed among

study participants relative to controls. In

contrast, study participants had significantly

increased plasma oxidized glutathione (GSSG) relative to controls.

Mercury intoxication-associated urinary

porphyrins were significantly correlated with

increasing CARS scores and GSSG levels, whereas

other urinary porphyrins did not show these

relationships. The urinary porphyrin and CARS

score correlations observed among study

participants suggest that mercury intoxication is

significantly associated with autistic symptoms.

The transsulfuration abnormalities observed among

study participants indicate that mercury

intoxication was associated with increased

oxidative stress and decreased detoxification capacity.

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