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Is ruling in the genes? All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king

12-year-old girl created family tree linking 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to King John of England, who signed Magna Carta in 1215
Only eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was not related to John

By SNEJANA FARBEROV

PUBLISHED: 20:14 EST, 4 August 2012 | UPDATED: 23:58 EST, 4 August 2012

What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that all of them but one are cousins.

The remarkable discovery was made by 12-year-old BridgeAnne d’Avignon, of Salinas, California, who created a ground-breaking family tree that connected 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to one common, and rather unexpected, ancestor: King John of England.

‘They all have the trait of wanting power,’ d’Avignon told the station WFMY .

Budding genealogist: BridgeAnne d'Avignon created a family tree that connected 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to one common ancestor

History detective: It took d'Avignon several months to search through more than 500,000 names and trace the male and female lineages of American leaders

King John, also known as John ‘Lackland’, is renowned for signing the Magna Carta in 1215, which limited the monarch’s power and helped form the British Parliament.

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John’s other claim to fame, or infamy, is that he was depicted as the villain in the Robin Hood tales.

Common grandfather: The 12-year-old traced the lineages of nearly all of the U.S. presidents to King John, the signer of the Magna Carta

D’Avignon, a seventh-grader at Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, started the project in hopes of tracing back her own bloodline in France, but somewhere along the way she decided to take her genealogical quest to the highest level.

In order to create the family tree, the 12-year-old spent months scouring through over 500,000 names in search of the ‘presidential Adam.’

Her 80-year-old grandfather, who has been tracing roots for nearly six decades, helped her make the presidential links.

D’Avignon started with the first U.S. president, George Washington, she traced both the male and female family lines to make the connection.

Prior to d’Avignon’s discovery, genealogists were only able to link 22 families of presidents, likely because they only focused on male bloodlines.

The only former commander-in-chief not linked to King John is the eighth president, Martin Van Buren, who had Dutch roots.

The teen also found out that she is the 18th cousin of President Obama. She even wrote to her new-found relative a letter to share her findings with him.

So far, however, d’Avignon said she received only a generic response from the White House.

Odd man out: Only the eighth president of the U.S., Martin Van Buren, was not related to King John because he had Dutch roots

D’Avignon created a poster of the presidential family tree and is selling signed copies of it in hopes of raising enough money to make a trip to Washington DC. The middle-school student says her goal is to hand-deliver a replica of her family tree to the president.

'I think we just all go back somewhere; it’s just a matter of proving it,' she said.

Powerful relative: D'Avignon discovered that she is the 18th cousin of President Obama

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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