Two recent studies have found that elevated mercury levels in children were found to be correlated with the development of autism. The authors of the first study (1) evaluated 84 autistic children and matched them with 84 controls. Levels of pro-inflammatory blood markers (neurokinin A and B—pro-inflammatory neuro peptides that indicate the presence of mercury in the blood) were measured. The authors found a linear relationship between the Childhood Autism Rating Scale and both of the blood markers. Children with autism had significantly higher levels of serum neurokinin A and B than healthy controls.
The second study (2) looked at the level of mercury poisoning in children by measuring the urinary excretion of porphyrins which are compounds which can act as biomarkers for mercury toxicity. 100 subjects were enrolled in this study consisting of 40 healthy controls, 40 children with autism and 20 healthy siblings of autistic children. Results showed that children with autism had significantly higher levels of mercury, lead and urinary porphyrins compared to both healthy controls and healthy siblings of autistic children. The mothers of autistic children showed a higher percentage of dental amalgams (fillings) compared to mothers of healthy controls. This suggests that mercury levels in children with autism may be related to the mercury exposure from maternal dental amalgam.
Mercury, like lead, is a toxic substance. In fact, it is one of the most toxic substances known to mankind. There is simply no justification for injecting any form of mercury into any living being. Mercury is still found in many vaccines including:
· Influenza vaccine
· Tetanus shots (DTaP, DT, Td)
· Multidose H. influenza (Hib)
· Meningitis vaccine (Menomune)
I have written to you many times about the dangers of mercury. The most common sources of mercury are dental amalgams, fish, and vaccines.
There is no safe level of mercury. When a mercury-contaminated vaccine is injected into the body, the mercury has been shown to rapidly accumulate in the central nervous system—the brain. It does not take an advanced degree to question the wisdom of injecting a known neurotoxin–mercury–into the human body.
Conventional medicine praises evidence-based medicine. Where is the evidence that it is safe to inject mercury in the form of a vaccine into any living being? There is no such evidence.
In fact, the harm from injecting mercury-contaminated vaccines has been reported for many years.
If you are offered a vaccine contaminated with mercury, I advise you to refuse.
Finally, it is beyond ridiculous to have to state the following: The practice of injecting a mercury-contaminated vaccine into any child or pregnant woman should be banned across the planet.
DrB
(1) Metab. Brain Dis. 31:593-99. January, 2016
(2) Metab. Brain Dis. Published online: July 13, 2016
The title to me is a bit misleading compared to the post. Autistic children have higher mercury levels in their bodies. Maybe autistic children have faulty detoxification systems. I thought mercury was taken out of all the childhood vaccines and the elevated mercury level in autistic children persists. So maybe it isn’t the mercury in the vaccines. This is not an endorsement of vaccines on my part. I do primary care and have lots of issues (and questions) with the way we immunize our children. Certainly the mercury that was in the older vaccines affected autistic children negatively. I am glad it is gone. Though aluminum is still used. We need to get the mercury out of all vaccines and let it go. The mercury is not the cause of autism its a symptom found in autistic children. Let it go and lets look at other factors that vaccine loads may be doing. Also, the elemental mercury found in amalgam may certainly be a factor. It is significantly more toxic then methyl mercury.
Suzy,
There is nothing misleading here; Mercury in vaccines DOES cause autism.
DrB
I also wanted to reply to a comment in regards to the vaccines that we had as children, and that our parents had as children. We physical is autism much more widespread now…
My take is this…
We may had different names for autism in the earlier years.
Also, and this is only a hypothesis …It could be possible that we retained some amount through generation after generation. Although we don’t have autism, (in my case two of my autistic children were never vaccinated) could there be a missing variant that causes some of us to pass along the disorder (genetic or not in regards to retaining the mercury) to our children. Essentially our wiring has become changed in some small way that affects future generations while not always affecting our own.
In my case I have many mercury fillings. My 4 boys are autistic. (Even non vaccinated sons) It’s a theory of direct and indirect causes. Our bodies are all completely different. I have an autoimmune disease while every cousin of mine is healthy as can be. None have autistic children. There are 28 cousins and approximately 75 grandchildren at this point on my mother’s side. Although my parents passed while I was young, my grandmother is able to keep me updated on family history. I am not in contact with many of the family members anymore but she is. The majority of them have little or no mercury fillings. They were all vaccinated.
I assume that there is a possibility that autism could be passed down by changes made to our bodies and changes made with previous generations. In my case it could have been caused directly from my dental fillings. However, humans have such limited knowledge of the brain. It could be more about the dental fillings then the vaccines. It could be multiple reasons , or it could be something that is left undiscovered yet. I can’t say that mercury has caused the autism in my children. I can say that it is a possibility that needs to be kept on the table. Everything is a VERY VERY REAL possibility to those of us who experience autism in some form or another. People can declare that it doesn’t make sense or that there is too much evidence against it, but who are we or they to say that one way is wrong when we don’t know everything that is left to be discovered. Criticism and denial only delay the inevitable…the answers that we seek.
P.s.. I am not a doctor, scientist, researcher, etc etc. However, I am a mother to autism. If mercury fillings have caused autism by any means then I want to know. I want to change it if I can.
Autism has financially been devestating. I have 4 sons. They are autistic. They are my world. I’m thankful that God chose me to be their mother. However, I am so angry that they must go through this. I wish that I had answers but I don’t. It seems like many think that multiplex families have a genetic factor so less research is done. It’s a terrible and isolating feeling. I grieve constantly and I appreciate your article as an explanation for autism.
My two youngest sons have not been vaccinated. I can’t blame vaccines in their circumstances. However, I have many mercury filled dental fillings. My youngest(almost 3) seems to be the highest functioning. He already participates in pretend play while my other boys didn’t until age 4 or 5. My 5 year old still doesn’t but he has severe autism. It can’t be a coincidence that by the time that I became pregnant with my youngest, that a few of my mercury fillings were replaced by other types of fillings. I notice a difference in him. He is also the only one without a formal diagnosis but we presume that he is also autistic because he would meet the criteria. (Therapists and I have plenty of experience with it at this point)
This all makes me so angry. I’m angry about the fillings, I’m angry at myself. Granted, most fillings were done while I was a child, I could have taken better precautions or had them removed had I known.
I would like to know if there is a way to reverse this. I saw an article once about parents who were able to reverse it in their son, but it was an extraordinarily expensive process. I would literally do anything to help my babies to progress. I’m so desperate to hold my 5 year old and talk to him while he actually stares back. He is in a world that I have no access to and it takes a part of me each day.
There has to be a better way, a more efficient way. There has to be something done about the ignorance of those who care less to admit or even research this very idea that elevated mercury levels coexist with those with autism. I understand their refusal to see every possible cause. I understand why it is not as important to them as other possible causes. However, it’s important to me and to all of the other parents who only want the best for their children. It’s true that many people don’t understand what they don’t have to experience in every day life. That is not a good enough reason to only focus on what they think is the cause. An open mind is what is needed.
After reading this blog, many other articles and books has me feeling disappointed. A big concern for me is the federal government who is going after states that have immunization exemptions. These states are being pressured to take these exemptions away for public safety. My state mandates vaccines to enter primary public or private school, keep employment in the medical field, and/ or be educated at the university level in medical majors. Moving would be a temporary solution because of the “push” for “protecting” the public from outbreaks countrywide. Sadly, the majority, advocate blindly for their children,seniors and themselves. It is difficult to find medical doctors who will write an exemption, unless the child/adult has a seriously compromised immune system. Religious and/ or other beliefs are not grounds for a waiver, in our state. In essence, we have no freedom to believe freely, whether there are legitimate studies to show the damage an immunization can cause. I believe some immunizations harm us because of a synergistic reaction with our toxic environment and nutrition lacking diet. Unfortunately, no matter how much I learn about how some vaccines may harm us, my children are at the mercy of our state’s new mandates and the few MD’s brave enough to write an exemption. What I would love to read more about is what we can take to absorb less of the harmful adjuvants and how to repair our bodies after an injection.
What can we parents, grandparents do about the intransigence of our government’s medical apparatus?/ other than taking to the streets, we citizens must counter the medical types that meet us with scorn and derision if one attempts to say no to them/ this autism situation now comes back to haunt me as I remember my older students asking me after class about these issues/one woman was upset because her young son was being drugged for what sounded to me like his just being a boy actions/ I essentially told her to “bob and weave” her way out of it; listen to her mother’s heart/I was very vehement to my daughter when she was pregnant about getting her two boys these vaccines/ she found a doctor who got their substances from overseas that didn’t have these chemicals/ her boys are fine/ but my heart bleeds for the parents having to deal with an autistic child/ most of our little boys are being affected=one in 5!!// this situation simply has to stop now!/ remember what I told some of my students: Silence is Consent!/thank you, ret. English Professor, reporter on 4 Midwest n.p.s//
The real reason mercury causes autism is the babies are little tiny pack age of humans. They can’t deal with excreting it at that stage of development. Also, vaccines cause diseases to build up resistance. Whooping cough is VERY virulent now due to vacs.
My nurse friend gave me the state department of health booklet called “Plain talk about childhood immunisation”. In one section it talks about thimerosal. It says thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines as a precautionary measure. It doesn’t say exactly why it was removed but mentions that it was “influenced by the public health goal to reduce exposure to all sources of mercury in biological products for infants, children and pregnant women.”
It then goes on to quote Dr. Ari Brown who says that the mercury used in thimerosal is ethylmercury which “is a large molecule that cannot enter the brain and is rapidly eliminated from the body within a week.” This is as opposed to methylmercury which is small and can get into the brain and takes almost two months to break down in the body.
Is this true?
I’m confused; please help clarify. The kids with autism showed more mercury in their bodies. Wouldn’t all kids have about the same amount as the vaccines are probably controlled tightly so that they have almost exactly the same amount of all ingredients? [Following another thread of logic, if the vaccines are the same, but the autistic kids have more mercury, do they have something different in their bodies that retains the mercury?]
Park,
Some children can excrete it more than others.
DrB
Bill is right. Glypohosate–the active ingredient in RoundUp is a toxic agent that is pervasive in our food supply. It is sprayed on many different crops including wheat, soy, barley and oats. It should be avoided.
DrB
Dr. B is a colleague of Stephanie Seneff, the MIT expert on glyphosate. I too have had the pleasure to consult the Dr. Seneff.
This past summer she and her associates have found the critical link with autism and glyphosate. Very simply put the pesticide is killing the vital intestinal bacteria necessary for developing the immune system and brain. The bovine collagen where the vaccines are grown contain glyphosate. The latest research as of June 2016, is showing it is now found in the vaccines most likely from the aforementioned host. Please note that most baby formulas are loaded with glyphosate due to the soy content. Coupled with the mercury an infant is far more likely to contract neurological disorder if vaccinated. The good news to all the madness is many of these neurological symptoms can be positively turned around. An excellent book on this topic is Dr Perlmutter’s BRAIN MAKER. I encourage anyone suffering from any neurological disorder to read this book ASAP. Perlmutter is getting phenomenal results. Ironically, many of Perlmutter’s recommendations were made by Dr. B’s office 11 years ago for my son resulting in a complete developmental turn around at age 5. Cheers!
Very important that people be aware of the ill effects from heavy metals like mercury and lead. Thanks for spreading the news. We do have choice, and we make better ones when we are educated.
I had a tetanus shot about ten yrs ago and had a grand mal seizure. I wonder if it’s damaged my nervous system permanently?
Hair tests show good mineral levels and heavy metal levels. A Hair test 2X a year would help. One state banned Hair tests..maybe their water was polluted and they didn’t want people to know. If good minerals are low the person may not be absorbing nutrients in their intestines from gluten/GMO. Heavy metals poisoned me and I was like Autistic until I get their levels lower. I also had precancer/sagging eyelid/24 hour panic attacks/lost sugar digestion from the heavy metals/colloidal silver. Chemical reactions and thyroid were blocked until I detoxed fast with EDTA/DMPS IV chelations. Far Infrared Sauna may help you sweat out heavy metals fast. Vaccines with Al/Hg may hurt people and pets.
Thanks again for sage advice delivered clearly and concisely. I am the mother of a son who is 10, he is considered to be on the more severe side of the spectrum. I had thought I had finished my family, and had about 4 mercury fillings replaced as they were crumbling. The denist messed up and in the end, going to a new dentist, I had them replaced 3 times! I completely forgot all about this till I fell unexpectedly pregnant aged 42. Ed was fine till about 18 months after, after multiple bouts of ear infections and the resulting antibiotics, he decended quite fast to a place that was latter diagnosed 3 years latter as autism. He had all his jabs on time, each one I understand now was another burden on a struggling immune system till it just gave up.
It’s true that generations before didn’t have the rates of autism we have now, but our world is so much more toxic, and our food depleted in nutrients to a level our parents didn’t know. Our water, our air all polluted, invisible EMF pollution, chemicals in our cleaning and personal care products, even our clothes and furniture. They all play a role, but to inject what they do, when they do it, means our children increasingly have less chance of dealing biologically with it all.
My son is still on the spectrum, but I try all I can within my budget and intellect, to reverse his condition which is as a result of poisoning. He is pysically much better, and is slowly improving mentally, unlike his peers who’s parents who try nothing.
I feel it important that all the other ailments of our modern world, cancer, diabetes, mental health, Alzheimer’s, autoimmune disease etc, be also brought in the spot light of poisoning by these biological hazards. Your child may have escaped autism, but be suffering with some other vile disease,and I strongly feel the root cause is the same, the only difference is the reaction. Take heart friends, while the truth is being twisted and repressed, it will eventually come to light. In the meantime, always question everything for its truth. X
Liz,
Keep in mind our world is less polluted now as compared to a few decades ago when cars were burning leaded gasoline and there were no pollution controls.
Sorry to hear about your son. Keep up the good work!
DrB
My adult daughter works in pediatric urgent care – – always has to have a flu shot, every years. So sad. If she wants her job, it is not an option. As a physician’s assistant, that is her training. It may well undermine her health. It infuriates me that the whole medical community has such a non-scientific mentality.
Dr. B., I would love to hear your take on the recent discovery of glyphosate in vaccines.
The pharmaceutical companies profit at our children’s expense.
http://vaccineliberationarmy.com/2013/04/05/poster-comparing-1940-1980-and-2012-childrens-vaccine-schedule-2/
I was born in 1955 – my 8 siblings & I got whatever the vaccine protocol was back then (our mom was an RN) and none of us *seemed* to have been adversely affected. My kids were born in ’82, ’88 & 2002 – also followed the CDC vaccine schedule with no apparent regrets.
I never heard of the autism spectrum until I was an adult – and now everybody knows someone/people with some form of autism & some of us know teachers who help manage a class of autistic kids.
Were they always toxic, only now there are so many of them? (i.e, we got the mumps, chicken pox & measles when we were kids…)
Anything that sufficiently insults the immune system can contribute to autism. Mercury, certainly, but vaccines in general insult the immune system by design. Giving large numbers of them before the immune system is fully in place at 3-4 years of age is reckless. My current suspicion is that the “stealth” infections: lyme, bartonella, mycoplasmas, etc combined with horrid modern nutrition, toxic metals, etc make vaccine reactions much more likely. This also means that vaccines aren’t required to trigger autism, much less mercury in vaccines, they’re just the most noticeable trigger.
Agree, Brian.
There are multiple triggers that can cause inflammation of the central nervous system leading to neurodegenerative disorders. However, don’t minimize vaccines. Vaccines contain stealth infectious organisms ns as well as toxic ingredients like mercury and aluminum.
DrB
You have a typo in the date of your studies quoted.
Thanks for this. I’m attending a nursing CEU at our local hospital that will speak to the importance of vaccines.
Thank you for continuing to speak out about the dangers of vaccines, especially the flu shot containing mercury! I still have friends who continue to get these shots!