Chemical Causes of Diabetes: Overeating Is Not the Only Problem

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Chemical Causes of Diabetes: Overeating Is Not the Only Problem Friday, July

25, 2008 by: Mark Sircus Ac., OMD (see all articles by this

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| Key concepts: diabetes <http://www.naturalnews.com/diabetes.html>,

insulin<http://www.naturalnews.com/insulin.html>and

arsenic <http://www.naturalnews.com/arsenic.html>

(NaturalNews) Medical science has discovered how sensitive the insulin

receptor sites are to chemical poisoning. Metals such as cadmium, mercury,

arsenic, lead, fluoride and possibly aluminum may play a role in the actual

destruction of beta cells through stimulating an auto-immune reaction to

them after they have bonded to these cells in the pancreas. It is because

mercury and lead attach themselves at highly vulnerable junctures of

proteins that they find their great capacity to provoke morphological

changes in the body. Changes in pancreatic function are among the

pathogenetic mechanisms observable during lead intoxication.

 

The following is an excerpt from the Book " Survival Medicine for the 21st

Century " by Dr. Mark Sircus.

 

" The development of insulin-dependent

diabetes<http://www.naturalnews.com/diabetes.html>mellitus is thought

to be dependent on the interaction of environmental

agents with the pancreatic beta cells. " - University of Calgary

 

Lead exposure has been associated with an increased risk of

hypertension<http://www.naturalnews.com/hypertension.html>,

and is a well-established risk factor for kidney disease. Whether lead

affects blood pressure

<http://www.naturalnews.com/blood_pressure.html>indirectly through

alterations in kidney function or via more direct effects

on the vasculature or neurologic blood pressure control is unknown though.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School state, " Our findings support the

hypothesis that long-term low-level lead accumulation (estimated by tibia

bone lead) is associated with an increased risk of declining renal function

particularly among diabetics <http://www.naturalnews.com/diabetics.html> or

hypertensives, populations already at risk for impaired renal function. "

 

Cadmium is a widespread environmental pollutant that accumulates in the

pancreas <http://www.naturalnews.com/pancreas.html> and exerts diabetogenic

effects in animals. In a large cross-sectional study, urinary

cadmium<http://www.naturalnews.com/cadmium.html>levels are

significantly and dose-dependently associated with both impaired

fasting <http://www.naturalnews.com/fasting.html> glucose and diabetes.

Transsulfuration pathways in the body are fundamental for life. When

mercury<http://www.naturalnews.com/mercury.html>blocks thiol groups

cellular proteins lose their reactive properties, lose

their ability to carry out their routine function. Insulin has three

sulfur-containing cross-linkages and the

insulin<http://www.naturalnews.com/insulin.html>receptor has a

tyrosine kinase-containing sulfur bond, which are the

preferred targets for binding by both mercury and lead. Should mercury

attach to one of these three sulfur bonds it will interfere with the normal

biological function of the insulin molecule. Mercury, many times more toxic

than lead, is so dangerous exactly because it is collapsing/damaging

critical sulfur-containing cross-linkages which change the geometry of both

insulin receptor sites and insulin itself.

 

" Commercials tell children that junk

food<http://www.naturalnews.com/junk_food.html>is good food -- the

latest message from an industry that spends $10 billion

a year marketing to children. " - New

York<http://www.naturalnews.com/New_York.html>Times

 

Food is not considered junk just because of high

fat<http://www.naturalnews.com/high_fat.html>or sugar content, there

is a long list of poisonous chemicals used by the food

industry <http://www.naturalnews.com/food_industry.html> that are striking

people down. And there are many serious nutritional

deficiencies<http://www.naturalnews.com/nutritional_deficiencies.html>in

today's food that diminish the body's capacity to deal safely with

these

chemicals and heavy metals <http://www.naturalnews.com/heavy_metals.html> --

with magnesium and selenium

<http://www.naturalnews.com/selenium.html>deficiencies at the top of

the list.

For instance, according to Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, a researcher from the Johns

Hopkins School of Public Health, the

poultry<http://www.naturalnews.com/poultry.html>industry's practice of

using

arsenic <http://www.naturalnews.com/arsenic.html> compounds in its feed is

something that has not been studied: " It's an issue everybody is trying to

pretend doesn't exist. " Arsenic exposure is a risk factor for diabetes

mellitus. Inorganic arsenic is considered one of the prominent environmental

causes of cancer <http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer.html> mortality in the

world. Chicken consumption may contribute significant amounts of arsenic to

total arsenic exposure of the U.S. population according to the Journal

*Environmental

Health Perspectives*.

 

" Arsenic acts as a growth stimulant in

chickens<http://www.naturalnews.com/chickens.html>-- develops the meat

faster -- and since then, the poultry

industry <http://www.naturalnews.com/poultry_industry.html> has gone wild

using this ingredient, " says Donald Herman, a Mississippi agricultural

consultant and former Environmental Protection Agency researcher who has

studied this use of arsenic for a decade. At mean levels of chicken

consumption (60 g/person/day), people may ingest 1.38-5.24 micrograms/day of

inorganic arsenic from chicken alone. At the 99th percentile of chicken

consumption (350 g chicken/day), people may ingest 21.13-30.59 micrograms

inorganic arsenic/day and 32.50-47.07 micrograms total arsenic/day from

chicken. This can lead to prostate

cancers<http://www.naturalnews.com/cancers.html>.

It can also cause neurological, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and immune

system <http://www.naturalnews.com/immune_system.html> abnormalities. The

feeding of arsenic to chickens in the United

States<http://www.naturalnews.com/United_States.html>releases hundreds

of tons of arsenic into the

environment <http://www.naturalnews.com/the_environment.html> every year in

the form of poultry manure, which is spread on fields as fertilizer.

 

Researchers from the Department of Internal Medicine, National

Taiwan<http://www.naturalnews.com/Taiwan.html>University Hospital

found, " The association between arsenic exposure and

diabetes mellitus is a relatively new finding. Up to now, there are six

epidemiologic reports linking diabetes mellitus with arsenic exposure from

environmental and occupational sources. Two reports in Taiwan carried out in

the blackfoot disease -- hyperendemic villages, one cross-sectional and one

prospective follow-up of the same cohort -- indicate that arsenic exposure

from drinking artesian well water <http://www.naturalnews.com/water.html> is

associated with prevalence and incidence of diabetes mellitus in a

dose-responsive pattern.

 

The observation of the relation between arsenic exposure and diabetes

mellitus is further supported by studies carried out in Sweden and

Bangladesh. In Sweden, case-control analyses of death records of copper

smelters and glass workers revealed a trend of increasing diabetes mellitus

with increasing arsenic exposure from inhalation. In Bangladesh, prevalence

of diabetes mellitus among arsenic-exposed subjects with keratosis was about

five times higher than unexposed subjects. "

 

*Wistar rats were made diabetic

<http://www.naturalnews.com/diabetic.html>with a single injection of

Alloxan

*

 

Another example is Alloxan. Studies show that Alloxan, the chemical that

makes white flour <http://www.naturalnews.com/white_flour.html> look " clean

and beautiful " destroys the beta cells of the pancreas. Scientists have

known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years yet there seems to be a

conspiracy that defends the integrity of the

FDA<http://www.naturalnews.com/the_FDA.html>,

which allows dangerous chemicals

<http://www.naturalnews.com/chemicals.html>that can cause diabetes to

be used in drugs and food. " A growing body of

research shows that pesticides

<http://www.naturalnews.com/pesticides.html>and other contaminants are

more prevalent in the foods we eat, in our

bodies, and in the environment than we thought, " all confirming the chemical

nightmare in progress.

 

According to research conducted by Dr. H.J. Roberts, a diabetes specialist,

a member of the ADA <http://www.naturalnews.com/ADA.html>, and an authority

on artificial sweeteners, aspartame<http://www.naturalnews.com/aspartame.html>

:

 

1) Leads to the precipitation of clinical diabetes.

 

2) Causes poorer diabetic control in diabetics on insulin or oral drugs.

 

3) Leads to the aggravation of diabetic complications such as retinopathy,

cataracts, neuropathy <http://www.naturalnews.com/neuropathy.html> and

gastroparesis.

 

4) Causes convulsions.

 

Dr. Roberts said, " The loss of diabetic control, the intensification of

hypoglycemia, the occurrence of presumed 'insulin reactions' (including

convulsions) that proved to be aspartame reactions, and the precipitation,

aggravation or simulation of diabetic complications (especially impaired

vision and neuropathy) while using these products. " The FDA's own

toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that without a shadow of a

doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and violated the

Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food that is known to

cause Cancer. It is a monstrous crime to poison the food and water

supplies<http://www.naturalnews.com/water_supplies.html>yet this is

exactly what the FDA has been approving and undoubtedly they

are, in large part, responsible for flaming the diabetic winds. As the use

of MSG <http://www.naturalnews.com/MSG.html> and aspartame grows, the

incidence of obesity <http://www.naturalnews.com/obesity.html> appears to be

growing.

 

MSG causes a very large insulin response after it is ingested since there

are glutamate receptors in the pancreas. MSG opens

calcium<http://www.naturalnews.com/calcium.html>channels, thus

constricting blood vessels –- this may put diabetics with high

blood pressure <http://www.naturalnews.com/high_blood_pressure.html> at risk

by negating calcium channel blocker medication. In 1968, John W. Olney,

M.D., a respected researcher at Washington University Medical School, St.

Louis, Missouri, and member of the National Academy of Science, found that

mice in his laboratory that were being used to replicate a 1957 study by

Lucas and Newhouse, in which the administration of MSG had resulted in

retinal damage, had become grotesquely obese. Since 1969, many scientists

have confirmed Dr. Olney's findings of damage to the hypothalamus from MSG

with resulting obesity. Even the rats used in obesity, diabetes and exercise

studies are made obese by injecting MSG. MSG may cause food addiction and

though efforts have been made to reduce its use in processed and restaurant

foods, it remains hidden by semantics, now called such things as " hydrolyzed

protein " . Scientists in Spain have recently concluded that MSG when given to

mice increases appetite by as much as 40%.

 

There is abundant literature demonstrating that MSG and aspartic acid cause

hypothalamic lesions which, in turn, can cause gross obesity. Although there

are a number of causes for obesity, there is no question that one of the

main causes for the obesity

epidemic<http://www.naturalnews.com/epidemic.html>is the ever

increasing use of MSG and aspartame.

 

We know that the hypothalamus is very immature at birth. The damage to this

structure of the brain by MSG leads to severe endocrine problems later in

life, among them decreased thyroid hormone, increased tendency toward

diabetes, and higher cortisone levels than normal. A child consuming a soup

containing MSG plus a drink with NutraSweet will have a blood level of

excitotoxins six times the blood level that destroys hypothalamus neurons in

baby mice.

 

And we are just beginning to hear that a massive mistake has been made with

genetically modified foods, which can only fan those diabetic winds. Dr.

Arpad Pusztai, for instance, has already shown that genetically-manipulated

foods can, when fed to animals in reasonable amounts, cause very gradual

organ and immune system damage. Another study, carried out by Dr. Irina

Ermakova at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, at

the Russian Academy of Sciences, found that more than half of the offspring

of rats fed on modified soya died in the first three weeks of life, six

times as many as those born to mothers with normal diets. Dr. Manuela

Malatesta and colleagues in the Universities of Pavia and Urbino in Italy,

showed that mice fed on GM soya experienced a slowdown in cellular

metabolism <http://www.naturalnews.com/metabolism.html> and modifications to

the liver and pancreas. Researchers are reviving fears that GM food damages

human health and certainly would not be indicated for children or for people

with diabetes.

 

Many bottled soft drinks <http://www.naturalnews.com/soft_drinks.html> and

related beverages contain benzene <http://www.naturalnews.com/benzene.html>,

a well-known carcinogen. The EPA

<http://www.naturalnews.com/EPA.html>defines a " safe " level of benzene

as zero. Yet the Environmental Working

Group, a watchdog organization, found levels of benzene in soft drinks at

levels between 5 and 138 parts per billion.

A fair amount of benzene is taken in by our bodies by air pollution and

drinking water. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has known for almost

15 years that potassium benzoate and sodium

benzoate<http://www.naturalnews.com/sodium_benzoate.html>react with

ascorbic acid to form benzenes. Potassium benzoate,

sodium <http://www.naturalnews.com/sodium.html> benzoate and ascorbic acids

are all commonly used to preserve freshness in soft drinks.

 

The excess of diabetes reported for the Benzene Sub registry occurred in the

group aged 10 to 17 years, suggesting it is likely that IDDM is the type of

diabetes most prevalent. It has been demonstrated that most IDDM patients

have autoantibodies to the pancreas (Lernmark et al., 1981), as well as to

other organs Benzene has been shown to stimulate the

hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis of mice (Hsieh et al.,

1991), accompanied by increased ACTH/corticosterone release into the blood.

 

Corticosteroids are associated with the development of diabetes by reducing

insulin sensitivity, or possibly by impairing islet function frequently

associated with the development of impaired

glucose<http://www.naturalnews.com/glucose.html>tolerance. The

secretion of anti-insulin

hormones <http://www.naturalnews.com/hormones.html>, such as growth hormones

or adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), are also believed to play an

important role in IDDM development (Rodriguez, 1986). Steroid hormones play

an important role in determining the severity of beta cell damage in the

infected mouse, with androgens and glucocorticoids being particularly

critical (Craighead, 1981). Ethanol can enhance the immunosuppressive

effects of benzene. In addition, it has been demonstrated that various

benzene metabolites depress the production of interferon (Cheung et al.,

1988; Popp et al., 1992). IDDM is associated with a variety of hematologic

changes (such as anemia) and malignancies (such as lymphocytic leukemia,

lymphoma, and multiple myeloma) that might be directly related to or simply

coincidental with the diabetes (Bern, 1982). From the literature reported it

can be seen that all of these conditions are also associated with exposure

to benzene.

 

Anthropogenic emissions <http://www.naturalnews.com/emissions.html> to the

air are approximately 34,000 metric tons per year (USEPA, 1989), Absorption

of benzene varies with route of exposure. In humans, respiratory uptake has

been determined to vary from approximately 47% (Nomiyama and Nomiyama, 1974)

to 80% (Srbova et al., 1950), although dermal absorption can range from

0.05% to 0.2% (Franz, 1984). Absorption data for oral exposure in humans is

not available; however, in animals, absorption rates following oral exposure

to benzene were found to be from 90% to almost 100% (Parke and Williams,

Ingestion of contaminated food items has been suggested as a potentially

important pathway of human exposure to benzene (Hattemer-Frey et al., 1990

and many foods contain high levels of benzene. Benzene is ubiquitous in the

environment, having been measured in air, water, and human biological

samples. The major environmental sources include

automobile<http://www.naturalnews.com/automobile.html>exhaust,

automobile refueling, hazardous waste sites, underground storage

tanks that leak, waste water from industries that use benzene, chemical

spills, chemical manufacturing sites, and petrochemical and petroleum

industries (Fishbein, 1992; Edgerton and Shah, 1992).

 

Recently drinking more than one soft drink daily -- whether it's regular or

diet -- may be associated with an increase in the risk factors for heart

disease <http://www.naturalnews.com/heart_disease.html> and diabetes,

Framingham researchers reported in *Circulation: Journal of the American

Heart Association*. " In those who drink one or more soft drinks daily, there

was an association of an increased risk of developing the metabolic

syndrome<http://www.naturalnews.com/metabolic_syndrome.html>. "

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiovascular

disease<http://www.naturalnews.com/cardiovascular_disease.html>and

diabetes risk factors including excess waist circumference, high blood

pressure, elevated

triglycerides<http://www.naturalnews.com/triglycerides.html>,

low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL " good " cholesterol) and high

fasting glucose levels.

 

Prior studies linked soft drink consumption to multiple risk factors for

heart disease. However, this study showed that the association not only

included drinking regular calorie-laden soft drinks, but artificially

sweetened diet sodas as well, researchers said. " If you are drinking one or

more soft drinks a day, you may be increasing your risk of developing

metabolic risk factors for heart disease. "

 

The researchers also observed that compared to participants who drank less

than one soft drink daily, those who drank one or more soft drinks a day had

a:

 

* 31 percent greater risk of developing new-onset obesity (defined as a body

mass index <http://www.naturalnews.com/body_mass_index.html> [bMI] of 30

kilograms/meter2 or more);

 

* 30 percent increased risk of developing increased waist circumference;

 

* 25 percent increased risk of developing high blood triglycerides or high

fasting blood glucose <http://www.naturalnews.com/blood_glucose.html>;

 

* 32 percent higher risk of having low HDL levels. " It didn't matter whether

it was a diet or regular soft drink " .

 

" Results also don't appear to be driven by the dietary pattern of soft drink

users, i.e, by other food items that are typically consumed along with soft

drinks, " Vasan, the study author, said. So perhaps what we have blamed for

so long, the high fructose corn syrups, the empty calories, the aspartame in

soft drinks, is not the only thing causing an increase in these diabetic

risk factors. In combination with benzenes, it is highly likely that we have

found yet another toxic substance that adds to our inability to avoid

diabetes.

 

" Diabetes may in fact be a major side effect of antibiotics and other common

pharmaceuticals <http://www.naturalnews.com/pharmaceuticals.html>. " - Dr.

Lisa Landymore-Lim, Independent scientist for Atomic Health Limited

 

Doctors are on notice that many drugs have toxic effects that can

participate in destroying insulin creation and cell receptivity to it. In

her 1994 book, Poisonous Prescriptions, Landymore-Lim says that diabetes may

in fact be a major side effect of pharmaceutical drugs. The book provides

evidence from studies and

hospital<http://www.naturalnews.com/hospital.html>records. Diabetes,

usually thought to be largely a genetic disorder, may

actually have increased so much in the last 50 years due in large part to

the proliferation in the use, and over-use, of medicines. In 2004 the American

Diabetes

Association<http://www.naturalnews.com/American_Diabetes_Association.html>,

the American Psychiatric Association, the North American Association for the

Study of Obesity, and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists

made a similar announcement warning people to be careful to watch for signs

they are developing diabetes, obesity or high cholesterol if they are taking

Abilify, Clozaril, Geodon, Risperdal, Seroquel or Zyprexa. What medicines,

food and water have increasingly in common are the chemical poisons they

contain.

 

Researchers at the University of Liverpool recently released their studies

that examined the toxic effects on nerve

cells<http://www.naturalnews.com/nerve_cells.html>in the laboratory of

using a combination of four common food

additives <http://www.naturalnews.com/food_additives.html> -- aspartame,

monosodium glutamate (MSG) and the artificial colourings brilliant blue and

quinoline yellow. The findings of their two-year study were published at the

end of 2005 in the journal *Toxicological Sciences*. The Liverpool team

reported that when mouse nerve cells were exposed to MSG and brilliant blue

or aspartame and quinoline yellow in laboratory conditions, combined in

concentrations that theoretically reflect the compound that enters the

bloodstream after a typical children's snack and drink, the additives

stopped the growing of nerve cells and interfered with proper signaling

systems. The mixtures of the additives had a much more potent effect on

nerve cells than each additive on its own.

 

The study reported that the effect on cells could be up to four times

greater when brilliant blue and MSG were combined and up to seven times

greater when quinoline yellow and aspartame were combined, than when the

additives were applied on their own. What we can begin to conclude is that

future research is going to show how all the toxic

chemicals<http://www.naturalnews.com/toxic_chemicals.html>in the food,

air, water and medicines we consume are combining to destroy

our health. Any one poison discussed here in sufficient quantity can destroy

cell physiology, the pancreas beta cells, and diminish cell receptivity to

insulin.

 

We are depending more and more on processed foods, and with each year, the

FDA approves more and more chemicals for use in foods. With each year, the

food industry is using more and more chemicals in their products. These

chemicals increase shelf life, kill bacteria, improve taste, replace fats,

replace carbohydrates, and cause chronic diseases that eventually kill

people. Junk food is really a cover up image for something quite a bit

nastier than the image that junk congers. Junk foods are actually

slow-acting poisons because they come to us loaded with highly toxic

chemicals. We can only imagine the worst when we think about FDA approval

processes for in reality the FDA is poisoning the public. The FDA is the

wellhead of most iatrogenic diseases and death. There is no excuse for an

agency charged with protecting public

health<http://www.naturalnews.com/public_health.html>to have allowed

the massive poisoning of the public via food, drugs and

public water supplies.

 

*Bisphenol A Exposure May Lead to Obesity*

 

Bisphenol A (BPA <http://www.naturalnews.com/BPA.html>) exposure may lead to

obesity, altered glucose metabolism, insulin

resistance<http://www.naturalnews.com/insulin_resistance.html>and

Diabetes. Not only are chemicals used in foods, affecting the rates of

diabetes, but chemicals used in everyday

plastics<http://www.naturalnews.com/plastics.html>are contributing to

the rise in obesity and insulin resistance.

 

Debate over BPA is one of the most contentious environmental

health<http://www.naturalnews.com/environmental_health.html>issues

faced by government and industry. Traces are found in the bodies of

nearly all Americans tested, and low levels -- similar to amounts that can

leach from infant and water bottles –- mimic estrogen.

 

Extensive scientific literature reports adverse health effects from bisphenol

A <http://www.naturalnews.com/bisphenol_A.html> at very low doses. Studies

show that bisphenol A can alter the expression of several hundred

genes<http://www.naturalnews.com/genes.html>with effects varying among

special tissues and depending upon the timing of

exposure. More than 150 laboratory animal studies suggest that bisphenol A

exposure at very low doses is linked to a staggering number of health

problems <http://www.naturalnews.com/health_problems.html>, including

prostate and breast cancer, obesity, hyperactivity, diabetes, altered immune

system, lowered sperm count, and early puberty.

 

A study by Dr. Beverly Rubin and her colleagues at Tufts University Medical

School showed that bisphenol A makes rodents grow larger after they are

exposed in the womb, confirming similar findings from previous studies (17).

When rats were fed 100 µg/kg/day of bisphenol A during

pregnancy<http://www.naturalnews.com/pregnancy.html>through lactation,

their offspring were notably heavier after birth and into

adulthood. Significantly, in the female offspring, the lower of the two

bisphenol A doses used in the study produced a larger and more persistent

effect on body weight <http://www.naturalnews.com/body_weight.html> relative

to the higher dose. In addition, the fact that the effect persisted long

after exposure for the female offspring suggests that bisphenol A may

increase the number of fat cells

<http://www.naturalnews.com/fat_cells.html>in the rats and predispose

them to heavier weight throughout life.

 

In 2002, a team of researchers at the Ehime College of Health Science in

Japan <http://www.naturalnews.com/Japan.html> discovered that bisphenol A

can increase the conversion of embryonic cells into fat cells (18). In the

body, this effect could result in larger numbers of fat cells developing. In

addition to converting to fat cells, treated cells increased their fat

content by 150 percent over 11 days. Combined with insulin, bisphenol A

increased the fat content of cells by 1300 percent. In other words, this

experiment documented that bisphenol A could trigger and promote the two

main processes in developing obesity. In 2004, another study confirmed these

findings, showing that bisphenol A alone and with insulin increased the

uptake of sugar <http://www.naturalnews.com/sugar.html> into fat cells (19).

 

A recent study by Dr. Paloma Alonso-Magdalena and her colleagues showed that

low-level, chronic exposure of adult mice to 10 µg/kg/day of bisphenol A

caused insulin resistance, the precursor to Type II diabetes in people as

well as hypertension and cardiovascular disease (20). Dr. Alonso-Magdalena's

study showed that even a single dose of bisphenol A at levels currently

found in humans can result in altered levels of blood glucose and insulin,

and twice daily exposure for just four days results in insulin resistance.

 

Several studies show an increased rate of postnatal growth in both males and

females as a result of maternal doses between 2.4 and 500 µg/kg/day (21).

Accelerated postnatal growth is associated not just with obesity but with

insulin resistant diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease as well.

 

Is it any wonder that we are seeing the rising rate of diabetes in our

children and adolescents? The use of bisphenol A and the products containing

them have increased through the years as our use of glass and safer non

plastic containers has decreased. Its hard to even find non-plastic

onctainers for everyday use. And what is especially disturbing is news

coming to light that bisphenol A is being used in baby bottles for the

feeding of our infants at a very early age.

 

The number of children in the U.S. that are

overweight<http://www.naturalnews.com/overweight.html>have doubled in

the last 30 years (National Institutes of Health). Currently

about 20% of children, or one child in five is overweight. The increase is

true for children and adolescents of all age groups and races and for boys

and girls.

 

*Rising Obesity Trend in Adolescents*

 

Bisphenol A is a polycarbonate plastic. Bisphenol A-based polycarbonate is

used as a plastic coating for children's teeth to prevent cavities, as a

coating in metal cans to prevent the metal from contact with food contents,

as the plastic in food containers, refrigerator shelving, baby bottles,

water bottles, sport drink bottles, returnable containers for juice, milk

and water, micro-wave ovenware and eating utensils. In a small prospective

study, researchers in Japan report that bisphenol A levels are higher in

women with a history of repeated spontaneous miscarriages. This research was

based on proof that BPA causes meiotic aneuploidy in mice. Meiotic

aneuploidy is the commonest cause of

miscarriage<http://www.naturalnews.com/miscarriage.html>in people.

 

The effects of this chemical on our chromosomes will reach into generations

yet to come affecting not only ourselves, but our children and our

grandchildren. Researchers have found that the effects of continual low dose

exposures may not show up for years. Growing children are particularly at

risk to toxic chemicals in their environment because they are

physiologically more susceptible to them.

 

The Lancet analysed the prevalence of Type 2

diabetes<http://www.naturalnews.com/Type_2_diabetes.html>in Ontario,

Canada between 1995 and 2005. It found an increase of 69 per

cent over the 10 years compared with the World Health Organisation's

prediction of a 39 per cent increase between 2000 and 2030. Dr. Lorraine

Lipscombe, of the Institute for Clinical Evaluation Science, Toronto, said

that it also saw a higher rise in the rate of cases in younger people under

50 than in older people. " A 27 per cent increase has taken place after only

five years, " she said. " Rising rates of obesity could be the cause of this

striking growth and effective public health interventions to manage and

prevent obesity are sorely needed. "

 

The CDC <http://www.naturalnews.com/CDC.html> says that diabetes is

disabling, deadly and on the rise. The incidence of diabetes is skyrocketing

not only in adults but in the juvenile population as well. Healthcare

experts have called the alarming rise in diabetes and its related

complications " an epidemic " that threatens to spiral out of control.

 

In 1997, 15.7 millions adults in the United States were reported to have

diabetes. By the year 2002, this number had already swelled to 18.0 million

or 8.7% of all adults. Diabetes and its complications now claim hundreds of

thousands of lives in the U.S. each year, incurring total expenses of over

$130 billion in direct and indirect costs to the

healthcare<http://www.naturalnews.com/healthcare.html>system.

Worldwide, the number of people with adult-onset diabetes is

predicted to explode in the next 10 years, doubling to an estimated 221

million people. By contrast only 43,171 people in the United States were

diagnosed with AIDS <http://www.naturalnews.com/AIDS.html> and only 18,017

died.

 

Scientists have discovered a variant gene that leads to a sizable extra risk

of Type 2 diabetes -- 38 percent of Americans who have inherited a single

copy of the gene have a 45 percent greater risk of Type 2, the estimated 7

percent who carry two copies are 141 percent more likely to develop the

disease. What scientists are saying is that if all the variant genes in the

population were erased, so would be 21 percent of diabetes cases. Another

way of expressing variations in genetic makeup is constitution. Some people

are gifted with stronger constitutions (genes) than others and are more able

to stand up to massive chemical assaults on their bodies. Genetic causes do

not in anyway explain the explosive increases in diabetes but increasing

concentrations of environmental poisons penetrating our bodies via our air,

water, food and medicines can evoke breakdowns in genetic function.

 

Women who reported mixing and applying agricultural pesticides during early

pregnancy have a two times higher risk of developing gestational

diabetes<http://www.naturalnews.com/gestational_diabetes.html>during

the pregnancy. The strong association between first trimester

pesticide exposure and gestational diabetes mellitus suggests that pesticide

exposures may affect glucose metabolism and insulin resistance.

Specifically, four herbicides (2,4,5-T; 2,4,5-TP; atrazine; or butylate) and

three insecticides (diazinon, phorate, or carbofuran) were associated with

reporting gestational diabetes. Women who reported agricultural pesticide

exposure (mixing or applying pesticides to crops or repairing pesticide

application equipment) during pregnancy were more than twice as likely to

report GDM as compared to women reporting no pesticide use in pregnancy.

 

Exposure to dioxins by any route is known to cause various systemic effects

in exposed animals. The general population is exposed to small amounts of

dioxins, as exemplified by the fact that dioxins have been found in

virtually all samples of adipose tissue and blood (serum lipids) from

individuals with no known previous exposure. It is primarily the dioxins

with chlorine <http://www.naturalnews.com/chlorine.html> atoms in the 2, 3,

7 and 8 positions that are retained in animals and humans and which

selectively concentrate in body

fat<http://www.naturalnews.com/body_fat.html>and lipids. A recent

study on the health status of Vietnam

veterans <http://www.naturalnews.com/veterans.html> who participated in

Operation Ranch Hand did not find any signs of liver disease, but did report

increased levels of triglycerides and cholesterol in the blood (a second

report does not support these increases). In addition, an increase in body

fat, diabetes, and blood pressure were also noted. These effects were

strongly associated with TCDD levels in the serum.

 

Ranch Hand veterans also had changes in blood (increased white blood cells,

platelet, IgA, and sedimentation rates) which suggest a chronic inflammatory

response. It has take two decades of litigation for the U.S. Government to

finally recognize the devastating effects of dioxin exposure that have

disabled our veterans with cancers and diabetes. The average time it takes

to remove one half of the TCDD from the body is around 7 years. The

half-lives of other dioxins in the body are not known. About 98% of the

daily intake of dioxins for the general population comes from ingesting food

and milk. Inhalation exposure to dioxins for the general population

constitutes a minor portion of daily intake. Average intake of TCDD for

adults has been calculated to be about 25 picograms (pg) per day or 0.35 pg

per kilogram (kg) of body weight per day. If all dioxins and furans are

included and TEFs are used, the total average daily intake of TCDD

equivalents for adults is about 90 pg/day or 1.3 pg/kg body wt/day.

 

There are numerous other sources that contribute to dioxins in the

environment. Dioxins are known to form concurrently with furans during

combustion processes such as: incineration of municipal solid waste and

industrial waste, and are associated with ash generated in the incineration

process. Emissions from these sources vary greatly and depend on management

practices and the applied technologies. Combustion of many

chlorine-containing materials (such as plastic material like polyvinyl

chloride, paper, wood treated with pentachlorophenols, pesticide-treated

waste, and PCBs <http://www.naturalnews.com/PCBs.html>) can produce dioxins

and furans. Dioxins and furans have also been detected in emissions from

coal-fired power plants, home-heating systems, exhaust from cars running on

leaded gasoline, and cigarette smoke.

 

Phthalates are a group of man-made chemicals that are structurally related

to the organic acid, phthalic acid. The most important use of

phthalates<http://www.naturalnews.com/phthalates.html>is in plastics,

especially PVC where they act as plasticisers. Phthalates

are also present in a wide range of industrial, household and consumer

products, including personal care products. such as nail polish, hair

sprays, soaps, shampoos, perfumes, moisturizers. They are found in pipes,

vinyl wall and floor coverings, roofing materials, safety glass, car parts,

lubricating oils, detergents, food packaging, adhesives, paints, inks,

medical tubing, blood bags, pharmaceuticals, footwear, electrical cables,

stationery, and (until recently) in toys.

 

More than 75% of the U.S. population carries detectable levels of several

phthalate metabolites. Studies have found associations between some

phthalate metabolites and antiandrogenic effects in humans, including both

infant and adult males. Recently a study published in *Environmental Health

Perspectives* showed that exposure to phthalates correlated with two

metabolic abnormalities in men: abdominal obesity and insulin resistance.

Four phthalate metabolites were significantly associated with greater waist

circumference and three with increased insulin resistance,

PCP (organic chemical Pentachlorophenol) was used in the timber industry for

years as a cheap treatment for sapstain, a fungal infection commonly found

in softwoods such as pine. It is an organic chemical produced by reacting

chlorine gas with phenol. The process creates a number of toxic impurities

such as tetrachlorophenol, hexachlorobenzene and several types of dioxins

and dibenzofurans. The main route of absorption is through the skin. Some of

the more chronic health effects, including cancer and diabetes, do not

appear until long after exposure. The sawmill workers were constantly

exposed to PCP as they mixed chemicals and handled wet, treated timber.

 

According to the World Health Organization DIAMOND Project Group on

Epidemics, a major difficulty in the area of IDDM research -- despite strong

epidemiologic evidence that environmental agents are potent causes of IDDM

(Diabetes Epidemiology Research International, 1987) -- is that the

identification of such agents has been elusive. It is noteworthy that

several recent epidemiologic studies have reported that the incidence of

IDDM is increasing, suggesting that long-term changes in the environment are

altering the probability of eventual diabetes.

 

Among the most pernicious substances ever created is a group of chemicals

known as POPs or Persistent Organic Pollutants. Among them: DDT, dioxins,

PCBs and Chlordane. And even though twelve POPs -- the so-called " dirty

dozen " -- were restricted or banned by international convention in 2003,

they continue to pose a threat to people and wildlife because POPs

accumulate in the food we eat. Virtually every person on the planet has POPs

in their body and the chemicals have been linked to cancers, birth defects

and disabilities. Now a group of researchers in Korea have found strong

evidence linking POPs and diabetes.

 

Dr. David Carpenter, Professor of Environmental Health and Toxicology at the

State University of New York at Albany, reviewed the Korean study and said,

" Well, one considers individual

pollutants<http://www.naturalnews.com/pollutants.html>the magnitude

was between three and five fold increased risk but the most

striking observation was when they considered the sum of all six pollutants

that they monitored and they selected pollutants that we all have in our

bodies so that very few individuals had levels below the level of detection.

Under those circumstances they were getting increased risk of the order of

thirty-eight fold which is absolutely enormous. "

 

" The amount of persistent organic pollutants in each person's body is a

reflection of their diet, where they live, what the concentration of these

substances is in the air they breathe, and probably

related to how rapidly they metabolize these compounds. " - Dr. David

Carpenter

 

Dr. Carpenter continued saying, " The most interesting observation in this

paper is that there was no relationship between being obese and developing

diabetes in those persons that did not have high levels of these organic

pollutants in their bodies. It may well be that people that are obese eat

much more animal fat than people that are not obese and these persistent

organic pollutants are all found in animal fats. So the question really is

whether it is the obesity that leads to the diabetes or rather the presence

of these persistent organic pollutants. It may well be that it's the

pollutants that cause the diabetes, not the obesity. "

 

" In the human body these compounds last about ten years before you get rid

of half of them.

In the environment they're even more persistent. " - Dr. David Carpenter

 

Food is not considered junk just because of high fat or sugar content, there

is a long list of poisonous chemicals used by the food industry that are

striking people down. And there are many serious nutritional deficiencies in

today's food that diminish the bodies capacity to deal safely with these

chemicals and heavy metals -- with

magnesium<http://www.naturalnews.com/magnesium.html>and selenium

deficiencies at the top of the list.

 

Magnesium deficiency is a predictor of diabetes; diabetics both need more

magnesium and lose more magnesium than most people. In two new studies, in

both men and women, those who consumed the most magnesium in their diet were

least likely to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a report in the

January 2006 issue of the journal *Diabetes Care*.

 

The human race is facing an abyss, a massive breakdown in body chemistry.

All indications suggest that the medical industrial complex will not

squarely face the facts and the research and will not work in earnest to

reduce the chemical exposures the masses are facing. Too much money is

involved in manufacturing hundreds of millions of tons of chemicals each

year and huge fortunes are made by the economic elite in the sale of

toxins<http://www.naturalnews.com/toxins.html>that are dragging large

segments of the population to their sick beds and

early graves. Our civilization is poisoning itself and the medical and

dental communities participate with passion.

 

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Infectious Diseases, Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Unit, University of

Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Clin Invest Med. 1987 Sep;10(5):457-69

 

Toxicity of Fluoride to Diabetic Rats. C.A.Y. Banu Priya et al;

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Professor I.M. Trakhtenberg. Trakhtenberg, I.M. From Russian translation.

Chronic Effects of Mercury on Organisms. In Place of a Conclusion Thiol

poisons, especially mercury and its compounds, reacting with SH groups of

proteins lead to the lowered activity of various enzymes containing

sulfhydryl groups. This produces a series of disruptions in the functional

activity of many organs and tissues of the organism.

 

Timoshina IV, Liubchenko PN, Khzardzhian VG. Ter Arkh. 1985;57(2):91-5.

[Article in Russian] Examination of the exocrine function of the pancreas in

52 workers exposed to lead, including 36 with the symptoms of intoxication

(mild in 33 and marked in 3) revealed the primarily hyposecretory response

of acinar cells stimulated with pancreozymin and secretin, while the

hyposecretory and dyspancreatic responses were recorded less frequently. The

endocrine function of the pancreas was revealed to be also lowered, which

was confirmed by the decreased blood fasting insulin content and low blood

insulin content after glucose intake as well. The changes in pancreatic

function are among the pathogenetic mechanisms of the abdominal syndrome

observable during lead intoxication.

 

Shirng-Wern Tsaih et al. Lead, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Renal Function:

The Normative Aging Study. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 112, Number 11, August 2004

 

Cadmium sources: Tap water, fungicides, marijuana, processed meat, rubber,

seafood (cod, haddock, oyster, tuna), sewage, tobacco, colas (especially

from vending machines), tools, welding material, evaporated milk, airborne

industrial contaminants, batteries, instant

coffee<http://www.naturalnews.com/coffee.html>,

incineration of tires/rubber/plastic, refined grains, soft water, galvanized

pipes, dental alloys, candy, ceramics.

Increasing rates of type 2 diabetes worldwide suggest that diabetes may be

caused by environmental toxins. Cadmium is a widespread environmental

pollutant that accumulates in the pancreas and exerts diabetogenic effects

in animals. To test the hypothesis that exposure to cadmium is associated

with impaired fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes, we examined the

associations between urinary cadmium and the prevalence of impaired fasting

glucose (prediabetes <http://www.naturalnews.com/prediabetes.html>) and

diabetes in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

(NHANES III). In this large cross-sectional study, urinary cadmium levels

are significantly and dose-dependently associated with both impaired fasting

glucose and diabetes. These findings, which require confirmation in

prospective studies, suggest that cadmium may cause prediabetes and diabetes

in humans. Urinary cadmium, impaired fasting glucose, and diabetes in the

NHANES III Pathophysiology/Complications - National Health and Nutrition

Examination Survey Diabetes Care, Feb, 2003

 

Vandiver J, " Chicken Feed, " Daily Times (Salisbury, Md.), January 4, 2004

 

Tseng CH, Tseng CP, Chiou HY, Hsueh YM, Chong CK, Chen CJ. Epidemiologic

evidence of diabetogenic effect of arsenic. Toxicol Lett. 2002 Jul

7;133(1):69-76.

 

Tseng CH, Tseng CP, Chiou HY, Hsueh YM, Chong CK, Chen CJ. Epidemiologic

evidence of diabetogenic effect of arsenic. Toxicol Lett. 2002 Jul

7;133(1):69-76.

 

Mahfuzar Rahman et al. Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,

Department of Health and Environment, Faculty of Health Science Linkoping

University Sweden. Department of Occupational and Environmental

Health(DOEH), National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM),

Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh. American Journal of Epidemiology 1998;

Vol. 148, No.2: 198-203 The crude prevalence ratio for diabetes mellitus

among keratotic subjects exposed to arsenic was 4.4 (95% confidence interval

2.5-7.7) and increased to 5.2 (95% confidence interval 2.5-10.5) after

adjustment for age, sex, and body mass index (

(http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2003/6407...<http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2003/6\

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Lasky T, Sun W, Kadry A, Hoffman MK. Mean total arsenic concentrations in

chicken 1989-2000 and estimated exposures for consumers of chicken. Office

of Public Health and Science, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S.

Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, USA.

 

Tseng CH, Tseng CP, Chiou HY, Hsueh YM, Chong CK, Chen CJ. Epidemiologic

evidence of diabetogenic effect of arsenic. Toxicol Lett. 2002 Jul

7;133(1):69-76.

 

A solution of alloxan at 2% diluted in saline at 0.9% was administered to

the animals in a single dose corresponding to 40 mg of alloxan per kg of

animal weight injected into their penial vein. Alloxan induces irreversible

diabetes mellitus after 24 hours following its administration and the

condition proves to be chronic by laboratory tests after seven days.

Experimental Model of Induction of Diabetes Mellitus in Rats; Acta Cir.

Bras. vol.18 no.spe S o Paulo 2003 (

(www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-8650...<http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=\

S0102-86502003001100009 & script=sci_arttext & tlng=en>

)

 

Researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical to induce

the disorder in lab animals. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware of

alloxan and its potentially fatal link to diabetes because these facts are

not well publicized, are hidden by FDA approval, and certainly

doctors<http://www.naturalnews.com/doctors.html>and the food industry

are not informing parents that they and their children

are being poisoned by white flour containing alloxan. Diabetes and Chemical

Poisoning. (http://imva.info/)

 

Consumer Reports (Feb. 2006): (http://www.curezone.com/foods/aspartame.html)

 

((http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpsalpor...<http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpsa\

lpor/20051213elpepisal_1/Tes>

)

 

Genetically Engineered Food Biotech, Biotechnology, GMO, Genetically

Modified (http://www.organicconsumers.org/gelink.html)

 

Health Hazards of Genetically Manipulated Foods; (

http://www.soyinfo.com/haz/gehaz.shtml)

 

Dr. Irina Ermakova added flour from a GM soya bean -- produced by Monsanto

to be resistant to its pesticide, Roundup -- to the food of female rats,

starting two weeks before they conceived, continuing through pregnancy,

birth and nursing. Others were given non-GM soya and a third group was given

no soya at all. She found that 36 per cent of the young of the rats fed the

modified soya were severely underweight, compared to 6 per cent of the

offspring of the other groups. More alarmingly, a staggering 55.6 per cent

of those born to mothers on the GM diet perished within three weeks of

birth, compared to 9 per cent of the offspring of those fed normal soya, and

6.8 per cent of the young of those given no soya at all. (

(http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/babi...<http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/b\

abies010906.cfm>

)

 

Malatesta M, Caporaloni C, Rossi L, Battistelli S, Rocchi MBL, Tonucci F,

Gazzanelli G (2002) Ultrastructural analysis of pancreatic acinar cells from

mice fed on genetically modified soybean. Journal of Anatomy 201:409-415

 

Agency for Toxic Substance and Dissease Registry (

(http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NER/BENZENE/be...<http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NER/BENZENE\

/benzene.html>

)

*Foods Containing Benzene (level is ug/kg, where available)*

 

*Vegetables*

 

* Dry red beans

 

* Leek

 

* Mushroom

 

* Onion, roasted

 

* Parsley

 

* Potato, cooked peel

 

* Soybean milk

 

* Trassi, cooked

 

*Beverages*

 

* Cocoa

 

* Coffee

 

* Jamaican rum (120)

 

* Tea

 

* Whiskey

 

*Fruits*

 

* Apple

 

* Citrus fruit

 

* Cranberry and bilberry

 

* Black currants

 

* Guava

 

* Cayenne pineapple

 

* Strawberry (trace)

 

* Tomato, hothouse

 

*Dairy products*

 

* Butter (0.5)

 

* Blue cheese

 

* Cheddar cheese

 

* Other cheese

 

*Meat, Fish, and Poultry*

 

* Cooked beef <http://www.naturalnews.com/beef.html> (2-19)

 

* Irradiated beef (19)

 

* Cooked chicken (<10)

 

* Egg, hard-boiled (500-1900)

 

* Egg, uncooked (2100)

 

* Haddock fillet (100 to 200)

 

* Lamb, heated (<10)

 

* Mutton, heated (<10)

 

* Veal, heated (<10)

 

* Codfish

 

*Nuts*

 

* Filbert, roasted

 

* Peanut, roasted

 

* Macadamia nut

 

Soft Drinks, Diet And Regular, Linked To Increase In Risk Factors For Heart

Disease; 26 Jul 2007

((http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/article...<http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art\

icles/77699.php>

)

 

Journal Diabetes Care. February 2004

 

Lau K, McLean WG, Williams DP, Howard CV. Synergistic Interactions Between

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query.fcgi?CMD=search & DB=pubmed>

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Current Safety Threshold for

Bisphenol A. The current safety threshold established by the U.S. EPA --

called the reference dose (i.e., safe dose) -- was set based on animal

experiments conducted prior to 1988 showing that 50 milligrams per kilogram

of body weight caused weight loss in rodents. U.S. EPA declared 50 mg/kg/day

the lowest observed adverse effect level, or LOAEL. To arrive at the current

reference dose, U.S. EPA assumed without further study that a dose 1000

times lower than the LOAEL (i.e., 50 micrograms per kilogram per day, or 50

µg/kg/day) would be an acceptable reference dose. As over 40 studies now

illustrate, the official reference dose of 50 µg/kg/day is well above the

levels at which adverse affects have been found in numerous animal studies

over the past decade. For example, Dr. Kembra Howdeshell and her colleagues

found that the female offspring of pregnant mice fed bisphenol A at the low

dose of 2.4 micrograms per kilogram per day experienced the early onset of

puberty. If U.S. EPA were to use 2.4 µg/kg/day as a LOAEL and apply the same

logic used to establish the current standard, thereference dose would be 2.4

nanograms per kilogram per day (ng/kg/day). A reference dose of 2.4

ng/kg/day would eliminate commercial uses of bisphenol A in food and

beverage containers and products that babies are likely to put in their

mouths.

((http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh...<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai\

n.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/02/ndiab02.xml>

)

 

American Diabetes Association: Diabetes Facts and Figures [factsheet online]

1997 [cited August 1999][16 screens].

 

CDC.

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f/ndfs_2003.pdf>

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Reykjavik, Iceland, that specializes in finding the genetic roots of human

diseases. January 16, 2006

 

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rg/newscience/2007/2007-0706saldanaetal.html>

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Correlates with Obesity and Diabetes in Men; Melissa Lee Phillips; Environ

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New Zealand sawmill workers' health problems caused by chemical poisoning; (

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g2002/swap-a19.shtml>

)

 

About the authorMark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International

Medical Veritas Association (IMVA)http://www.imva.info/. Dr. Sircus was

trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional

Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New

England in Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla, in

México, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his

work. He was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists in the

United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various

disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.

 

He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on

vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents

that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of

children. His book The Terror of Pediatric Medicine is a free e-book one can

read. Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and courageous writer and one can read

through hundreds of pages on his various web sites.

 

He has most recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st Century

compendium (2,200 page ebook) and just released the Winning the War Against

Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the area of natural detoxification

and chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. He is also a champion of

the medicinal value of minerals and is fathering in a new medical approach

that uses sea water and different concentrates taken from it for health and

healing. Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a

stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement

magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular magnesium

levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure and pushes cell

physiology in a positive direction. Magnesium chloride delivered

transdermally brings a quick release from a broad range of conditions.

International Medical Veritas Association: http://www.imva.info/