(Autism) Pollution, and Nutrients: a Unifying Relationship

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Since this is a discussion board regarding indoor environmental

quality, and pollutants are found indoors, and some of you want

certain types of science to accept any new realities, here is

something to ponder. This info is relevant to all multi-system /

unexplained illnesses.

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linda

" Each pollutant that becomes an intra-body toxin induces process of

detoxification and thereby draws upon the body's reserves of

nutrients needed for detoxification and for immunity. When the rate

of acquiring pollutants within the human body (eg, pregnant woman,

embryo, fetus, infant, toddler) exceeds that individual's intra-body

reserves of nutrients needed for detoxification, adverse sequlae

within one or more body systems (eg, brain, lungs, kidneys, pancreas)

are likely to occur. This tendency towards depletion of nutrients

needed for detoxification and for immunity is exacerbated (a) by the

individual having one or more weak alleles related to nutrition,

detoxification, and/or immunity, ( by an illness or recent illness,

and/or © by other other reason for supoptimal nutritional status. "

Advances in Autism Research

compiled by Binstock for ARI

April 2008

Autism, Pollution, and Nutrients: a Unifying Relationship

Commentary by Binstock

Thus far, every study that has screened for pollutants within the

human body has found numerous pollutants in the blood of every

individual so tested(reviewed in 4). Oxidative stress is associated

with autism and with pollutants (5-6). Nutrients participate in

detoxification and immunity. When a human embryo, fetus, infant, or

toddler has a large number of intra-body toxins (ie, " pollutants " ),

then he or she is at risk of experiencing and of living with adverse

sequelae. Effects may appear as PDD, language problems, autism, or

other autism-spectrum disorders - or as non-Hodgkin's lympoma,

Parkinson's disease, etc.

Why intra-body pollutants affect some children more than other

children brings forth findings related to susceptibility. Why do some

children have increased susceptibility? Let us ask again, for this is

a most important question: Why do some individuals have increased

susceptibility for developing one or more pathologies associated with

pollutants and other toxic molecules?

Answering this question leads us into various domains of medicine.

For instance, weak alleles of glutathione-related genes impair

detoxification and immunity. An illness may induce suboptimal, intra-

body nutritional-status. Nutrients are crucial to the proper

functioning of mitochondria.

An answer is becoming elucidated in peer-reviewed studies: nutrient

depletion.

Each pollutant that becomes an intra-body toxin induces process of

detoxification and thereby draws upon the body's reserves of

nutrients needed for detoxification and for immunity. When the rate

of acquiring pollutants within the human body (eg, pregnant woman,

embryo, fetus, infant, toddler) exceeds that individual's intra-body

reserves of nutrients needed for detoxification, adverse sequlae

within one or more body systems (eg, brain, lungs, kidneys, pancreas)

are likely to occur. This tendency towards depletion of nutrients

needed for detoxification and for immunity is exacerbated (a) by the

individual having one or more weak alleles related to nutrition,

detoxification, and/or immunity, ( by an illness or recent illness,

and/or © by other other reason for supoptimal nutritional status.

Ramifications blossom forth.

A. Years ago, the official policy was that sick children ought not be

vaccinated. However, so as to increase rewards for vaccination

coverage, that policy was changed in ways encouraging the vaccinating

of sick or recently sick children. The ethylmercury, aluminum, and

other pollutants (8-12) present in vaccines are more likely to induce

adverse effects in an infant or toddler who is sick or who was

recently sick and thus who has suboptimal levels of intra-body

nutrients.

B. Studies that focus upon single pollutants may miss or

underestimate adverse effects induced by the fact of myriad

pollutants within the human body, within breast milk and cord blood,

etc. Pollutant-induced depletion of nutrients ought become a focus as

important (and will be as likely to be ignored) as are additive,

cumulative, synergistic, and hormetic effects of so-called " low dose "

exposures.

Conclusion: Many factors contributing to why some individuals have

increased susceptibility for adverse effects from pollutants, whether

injected or obtained by other means. Many of these factors have been

identified. Proper nutritional status of pregnant women, infants, and

toddlers is important and ought be re-delineated in relation to the

individual's level of environmental pollutants, oxididative stress,

and weak alleles related to detoxification and immunity.

Warning: Many of the abstracts herein call attention to positive

benefits of sulfur-containing supplements. Importantly, a subgroup of

individuals is hyper-reactive to sulfur-containing molecules. More

information is available from long-time Autism Research Institute

colleague Owens (13).

References:

Data and overviews by physicians who are have experience with

autistic children.

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linda