7 Things about me that you may or may not know

1. I was an Electrochemist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA for a few years, and as a result I believe science can be a crooked discipline full of lies and false claims.

2. I have been on 4 missionary trips to La Romana in the Dominican Republic in order to build a hospital for Hatian refugees.

3. I practice Judaism as a religion. However, I am not Jewish nor Christian.

4. I played guitar in an ensemble for the New England Jazz Fest.

5. My former best friend and best man at my wedding is no longer my friend because he mistreated my son. My son was so young he could barely stand, and this monster of a man blew marijuana smoke in his face.

6. I believe that I talked to G-d when I was a student at Rutgers in New Brunswick, and this led me to believe that I am the messiah, but not Gd.

7. I have a diagnosed digestive enzyme disorder that causes me to experience a high on opiates if I consume gluten, milk, or milk products. This disorder may have led some people to think I was shy in high school, but under normal circumstances, meaning when I am not eating these foods and I am taking a digestive enzyme, I am much more able to be outgoing. Also, I have a milk and milk products allergy that if I consume, or sometimes I am just around milk, it causes me to get brain fog.

“ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, and other major disorders may be more related than we thought.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/psychiatric-disorders-genetics-mental-disorder-autism-adhd_n_2781772.html My extended commentary to a Huffington Post article on the subject of the title. I knew it all along. Why? Because I had them all. As a youngster, I had ADHD, but undiagnosed though every knew I had it. Then, I had a psychotic episode where I was told that my illness would only get worse. That was proven wrong by going not the holistic route, but the comprehensive route, where my family had to dig deep into their pockets in order that I would get healed. The treatment I receive comes by licensed practitioners at Comprehensive Psychiatric Resources in Waltham, MA. The separation of these diagnosis is often according to age more than anything else. Doctors are much likely to play the part of wishful thinking by diagnosing a kid with ADHD rather than make a mistake and give a diagnosis that has more stigma attached to it. If it’s a kid, then they call it autism or ADHD. Why? Everyone has a lot of hope that a cure will come for autism. And, frankly it is practically in style to get a diagnosis of ADHD. The problem is that autistic children become schizophrenic adults. That is when they get a, “You are beyond all hope diagnosis,” which is not entirely true if your doctor uses comprehensive resources like the Great Plains Laboratory. These folks are often able to get their diagnosis reduced to bipolar on a gluten and casein free diet, as I did, but there is no cure for the damage that ten or twenty years of opiates can deal to a young developing mind. Also, I recommend doing the test to see if a gluten free and/or casein free diet is necessary for you or your loved one. Lot’s of people go gluten free and just because they eat healthier, they report a false positive that removing gluten is helpful. That test can hopefully be administered to you through the Great Plains Laboratory that also requires that you work with a licensed practitioner in order to get the test. It will cost you an arm and a leg, and your health care almost certainly won’t cover it, but it can mean the difference between life and death. I, myself, am suspicious of the shots. Mainly, vaccines affect the immune system, and many of these disorders are traceable to the immune system. Thus, the thing that we are observing that has reaction to the immune system may go back as far as the appearance of narcolepsy, as a separate diagnosable disorder, where it was previously unknown to exist, and where these folks are observed to exhibit narcotic symptoms, that appear as if one has consumed opiates. It is that there are certain plants that contain gluten, and milk that contains casein, that these two proteins have opiate derivatives, which affect some people but not others. The fact is that the gut of someone with the illness in question, be it ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, narcolepsy, or chronic fatigue, etc, is fundamentally different. The gut of people with these illnesses digests gluten and casein different from the majority of the population. With respect to the doctor, Dr. Andrew Wakefield's, who lost his job for putting out a journal article for the above mentioned information. If the guy was actually a crook, out to do harm, he would have most likely not said something so profound as a link between vaccines and autism. That statement is so audacious that he would have had to have been a fool to make it and be trying to tell us all a lie. He would have been debunking the goodness of vaccines, and vaccines have long been considered perhaps in the 10 top medicinal inventions ever. Folks this guy was a doctor, and not a dummy. Only a dummy would make up such a lie as to correlate vaccines and autism, and frankly there is not a chance in hell that a doctor would have said that particular thing if it was in fact untrue.

Milk and Autism

Milk and Autism

Other possibilities for causation of autism spectrum disorder subtypes other than vaccines - Though I have been strongly receptive to the idea that vaccines cause at least one subtype of autism, I want to recognize one other, and that is allergens. I have seen data that reports with those receptive to a gluten free and casein free diet that most of these folks also have an allergy to gluten and/or casein (Cade). The question is whether a vaccine(s) causes the damage that leads to autism or that non-human milks cause the damage that leads to autism, or if sometimes both play a role.

With respect to weaning breast fed infants from human breast milk to cow’s milk, some children may not react to breast milk, but definitely have an allergic reaction to cow’s milk. Thus, onset of autism, and it’s severity might also be correlated to whether or not one receives cow’s milk at an early age. If that reaction is severe enough, I hypothesize that it might cause children to develop both a gluten and casein intolerance, different than an allergy, through damaging the gut, where the intolerance is related to production of opiates that cause a subtype of autistic symptoms, and the allergen is relative to the immune system. (Allergy is an immune response. Intolerance is a chemical response.) Thus, both the intolerance and the allergic reaction may give a double whammy that leads to various kinds of autism spectrum disorders, especially relative to severity of symptoms displayed in conjunction to the inception of the specific food to one’s diet, which is not to say a particular type of food is bad. However, specifics types of food, particularly cow’s milk, might be bad for certain individuals, such that immediate and total abstinence from a food type might be needed to prevent possible brain damage via a leaky gut that does not digest opiates commonly known to preexist in foods, but are generally null in most people’s systems. It is also thought that since there seems to be so many subtypes of autism, that milk alone is not the sole cause of all kinds of autism.

Further research is needed to gain discernment. I hypothesize that this reaction sequence of taking a child off breast milk at about the same time as the administration of vaccines has possibly falsely lead to blaming the occurrence of autism on vaccine’s in some instances. However, vaccines in some instances might be the sole cause of autism, where that would be a different subtype than the type that might be caused from an allergic reaction to cow’s milk. It is also thought that sheep’s milk, and goat’s milk can produce these same intolerant reactions.

Both instances of causation of autism causation hypothesized here involve immune system malfunction that results in subtypes of the autism spectrum, which might also include illnesses such as bipolar, schizophrenia, chronic fatigue and others. It is thought by the author of this note/blog that mental illness should be studied, especially as it relates to the immune system, and that the answers to many of the questions of causation that mental illness possess will be found here, both in genetics and environmental causes.

Personal History

I have given several personal histories in the past. This time I have added the possible correlation of cow’s milk allergy causing autism.

I was breast fed as a baby. Similar to many cases of those who develop autism, I developed autistic like symptoms at about the age of 1yrs old, a time generally for weaning from breast milk, and a time of many vaccinations. My mom had thought vaccination was a possible cause. However, one doctor had told my mom to take me off of dairy (casein), and my father refused. Thus, in my situation both possible causes that I hypothesize were in place.

I was not informed that the doctor had said this to my parents until after having a severe psychotic episode in college, where again another doctor said to take me off dairy, but this time it was both gluten and casein. I was informed that though I attended a top tier University, that my auditory comprehension was in the bottom 1% of people in a professionally given learning assessment, which also included IQ. I was not deaf. I could hear, but I had difficulty listening. I knew sounds were being made. I just couldn’t discern what they were in many instances.

The likely reason that I had made it so far academically was that though my auditory comprehension was atrocious, the other areas of my IQ were usually equally profound, all the questions were answered correctly in the various parts.

Through a company my psychiatrist ordered a tests for me. My urine tested positive for opiates that commonly occur in gluten and casein. This test is more specific than that of what is given for a common physical from primary care doctors, and it was not covered by insurance, but neither was the licensed psychiatrist that ordered the tests. I tested positive for gluten and casein intolerance. Additionally, a second test was administered that showed I have a very severe dairy and casein allergy. Thus, this is where my double whammy hypothesis comes from.

Additionally, I have had experience around babies, some having been breast fed, and some having been fed formula. When I was holding a baby that was fed human breast milk, I did not react to that milk that was on a baby’s breath though the scent of it was noticeably detectable. However, in two instances mild symptoms of exposure to milk affected me in when holding the formula fed babies (the formula was milk based). My own son was formula fed: She intended to breast feed him, but she only produced a few drops of colostrums. As a control, he was fed soy, and I did not react soy formula when it was on his breath.

The reasons he was fed soy formula instead of milk formula were firstly that he was showing signs of having a milk allergy, and secondly that merely having milk based formula in the house was too overwhelming for me, especially given that my dairy allergy and intolerance is so severe. Additionally, he is not affected with autism, or any psychiatric disorder, and is able to consume gluten. His dairy allergy, if he still has it was never as severe as mine.

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Criticisms of Paul Offit on Autism and Vaccines (NPR, Science Friday, 1/7/2011, transcript available)

by Craig Hamilton on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 6:52pm

My before the show Facebook comments:
Science Friday This Friday, Paul Offit joins us to talk about vaccines, autism and misinformation.
Comment 1:
Me:  I suggest that by stimulating the immune system through vaccinations, we are triggering autism spectrum disorders. Historically, only about 7 in 10,000 people were once diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. The studies that I am familiar with that show no correlation between autism and vaccines do not have a large enough sampling to show significance. The genes for schizophrenia are found within those of the immune system. Might the genes for autism be found there too?
Tuesday at 12:15am via Facebook Mobile

Comment 2:
Me:  My mom said I knew many words before I got vaccinated and then I stopped talking for an entire year after. My first psychotic episode was during my junior year of college. Before I started a gluten and casein free diet and taking an exorphinase pill my scores on a professional intelligence assessment were that my auditory comprehension was in the bottom 1% of people where my IQ typically showed 95th percentile in most areas, meaning I had answered all the questions correctly on many of the tests that combine to make the score. However, the test revealed that I had a poor short term memory. Since the special diet my short term memory and auditory comprehension have drastically improved. That is that I understand that though the dietary changes don't work for many people, they worked for me.
Wednesday at 3:58pm via Facebook Mobile

Comment 3:
If someone has a history of ASD in his or her family, given what we know, it is reasonable to consider not vaccinating.
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My commentary Paul Offit on Science Friday 1-7-2011:

Comment 4:
Me: I listened to Offit and he misunderstands some of the fundamentals of medicine. There is not room for detail here. However, he indicates for example a belief in a common man's fallacy regarding bacteria; all bacteria are harmful. The exposure of bacteria that a newborn experiences is not relative to vaccines because the vast amount of bacteria are not harmful and thus not comparable to bacteria a child would experience from vaccination.
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Comment 5:
Me: Other Offit fallacies. Let me paraphrase, "Since childrens' immune systems are stressed, it is good to stress them out even more." And, "doctors don't do unconscionable things, especially a large mass of them." Perhaps, Offit is unaware of what masses of doctors did during the Holocaust.
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Comment 6:
Me: Yet another Offit fallacy, let me paraphrase, "At my hospital we know we have good doctors because they are all conformists. In order to be a doctor at my hospital, you must conform to our vaccination policy. That way we know you have what it takes to be on our team."
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Transcripts are available for a fee @
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/misc/faq/tapesandtrans.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Offit