SchaferAutismReport: Landmark Study Finds: Mercury Poisoning Causes Autism

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Landmark Study Finds:

Mercury Poisoning Causes Autism

A 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 with 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, 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.

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