RE: OT - French -

[Guest guest]

I think it's a bit rich calling the

French rude and boring...and I'm British! Brits never like to give

the French credit for anything for some reason. Some British journalist is no

doubt planning an article to show that Brits think the French cook the worst

food, which is about as reasonable as a British paediatrician's stance on

mercury in vaccines.

If this decent looking study achieves

progress then I'll happily eat their smelly cheese, break their crumbly

bread and drink their rough country wines...

That's been out for awhile.

I think it's great that the French

are really nasty when they do their heavy metal/autism research.

Three cheers for the French!!!!!

Re: can somebody please post this thanks - French porphyrin study

Below

is all that is public for now, the publication date is 5.27

(Saturday).

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Heavy metals may be implicated in autism

27 May 2006

From New Scientist Print Edition.

http://tinyurl.com/ogyev

URINE samples from hundreds of French children have yielded evidence

for a link between autism and exposure to heavy metals. If

validated, the findings might mean some cases of autism could be

treated with drugs that purge the body of heavy metals.

Samples from children with autism contained abnormally high levels

of a family of proteins called porphyrins, which are precursors in

the production of haem, the oxygen-carrying component in

haemoglobin. Heavy metals block haem production, causing porphyrins

to accumulate in urine. Concentrations of one molecule,

coproporphyrin, were 2.6 times as high in urine from children with

autism as in controls.

Autism is thought to have a number of unknown genetic and

environmental causes. Lathe of Pieta Research in Edinburgh,

UK, says he has found one of these factors. " It's highly likely that

heavy metals are responsible for childhood autistic disorder in a

majority of cases, " he claims. The study will appear in Toxicology

and Applied Pharmacology.

Lathe says these porphyrin metabolites bind to receptors in the

brain and have been linked with epilepsy and autism. The researchers

restored porphyrin concentrations to normal in 12 children by

treating them with " chelation " drugs that mop up heavy metals and

are then excreted. It is not yet known whether the children's

symptoms have eased, but Lathe cites anecdotal reports suggesting

the drugs might do some good.

From issue 2553 of New Scientist magazine, 27 May 2006, page 21

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> > " It's highly likely that heavy metals are responsible for

childhood

> > autistic disorder in a majority of cases, " he claims. The study

will

> > appear in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology.

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> > http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?

> > id=mg19025535.400 & feedId=health_rss20

> >

> > This is the study Boyd Haley has been talking about. Thanks

Marty.

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[Guest guest]

Well, this is an interesting discussion. More to the point of our

general topic here on EOH, U.S. parents of autistic children are in

contact with their French counterparts. I can assure you that,

irrespective of any personality trends among the French population in

general, French parents of autistic children are extremely cordial,

very interesting and face obstacles even greater than we face here,

because the dominant force in the treatment and diagnosis of autism in

France is their psychiatric establishment, that still subscribes to the

refrigerator mother theory of etiology.

On May 30, 2006, at 11:40 AM, , EDS-DWP FUTURES wrote:

> I think it's a bit rich calling the French rude and boring...and I'm

> British! Brits never like to give the French credit for anything for

> some reason. Some British journalist is no doubt planning an article

> to show that Brits think the French cook the worst food, which is

> about as reasonable as a British paediatrician's stance on mercury in

> vaccines.

>  

> If this decent looking study achieves progress then I'll happily eat

> their smelly cheese, break their crumbly bread and drink their rough

> country wines...

>  

>

>

>  

> That's been out for awhile.

> I think it's great that the French are really nasty when they do their

> heavy metal/autism research. 

> Three cheers for the French!!!!!

>> Re: can somebody please post this thanks - French

>>> porphyrin study

>>>  

>>>

>>> Below is all that is public for now, the publication date is 5.27

>>> (Saturday). 

>>> =======================================

>>>

>>> Heavy metals may be implicated in autism

>>> 27 May 2006

>>> From New Scientist Print Edition.

>>> http://tinyurl.com/ogyev

>>>

>>> URINE samples from hundreds of French children have yielded evidence

>>> for a link between autism and exposure to heavy metals. If

>>> validated, the findings might mean some cases of autism could be

>>> treated with drugs that purge the body of heavy metals.

>>>

>>> Samples from children with autism contained abnormally high levels

>>> of a family of proteins called porphyrins, which are precursors in

>>> the production of haem, the oxygen-carrying component in

>>> haemoglobin. Heavy metals block haem production, causing porphyrins

>>> to accumulate in urine. Concentrations of one molecule,

>>> coproporphyrin, were 2.6 times as high in urine from children with

>>> autism as in controls.

>>>

>>> Autism is thought to have a number of unknown genetic and

>>> environmental causes. Lathe of Pieta Research in Edinburgh,

>>> UK, says he has found one of these factors. " It's highly likely that

>>> heavy metals are responsible for childhood autistic disorder in a

>>> majority of cases, " he claims.  The study will appear in Toxicology

>>> and Applied Pharmacology.

>>>

>>> Lathe says these porphyrin metabolites bind to receptors in the

>>> brain and have been linked with epilepsy and autism. The researchers

>>> restored porphyrin concentrations to normal in 12 children by

>>> treating them with " chelation " drugs that mop up heavy metals and

>>> are then excreted. It is not yet known whether the children's

>>> symptoms have eased, but Lathe cites anecdotal reports suggesting

>>> the drugs might do some good.

>>>

>>> From issue 2553 of New Scientist magazine, 27 May 2006, page 21

>>>

>>>

>>> > >

>>> > > " It's highly likely that heavy metals are responsible for

>>> childhood

>>> > > autistic disorder in a majority of cases, " he claims. The study

>>> will

>>> > > appear in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology.

>>> > >

>>> > > http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?

>>> > > id=mg19025535.400 & feedId=health_rss20

>>> > >

>>> > > This is the study Boyd Haley has been talking about.  Thanks

>>> Marty. 

>>> > >

>>> > >

>>> >

>>> >

>>> >

>>> >

>>> >

>>> >

>>> >   __________________________________________________

>>> >