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November 27 2007
How Cell Phones May Cause Autism

Rates of autism, a disabling neurodevelopmental disorder, have increased nearly 60-fold since the late 1970s, with the most significant increases occurring in the past decade.

The cause of autism is unknown, although theories include such potential causes as:
  • Genetic predisposition
  • Inability to clear heavy metals
  • Increased vulnerability to oxidative stress
  • Environmental exposures including mercury preservatives in vaccines
  • Trans-generational accumulation of toxic heavy metals
Now a groundbreaking new theory has been suggested by a study published in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine: electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from cell phones, cell towers, Wi-Fi devices and other similar wireless technologies as an accelerating factor in autism.

EMR May be the Missing Link

The study, which involved over five years of research on children with autism and other membrane sensitivity disorders, found that EMR negatively affects cell membranes, and allows heavy metal toxins, which are associated with autism, to build up in your body.

Meanwhile, the researchers pointed out that autism rates have increased concurrently along with the proliferation of cell phones and wireless use.

EMR, the researchers say, could impact autism by facilitating early onset of symptoms or by trapping heavy metals inside of nerve cells, which could accelerate the onset of symptoms of heavy metal toxicity and hinder therapeutic clearance of the toxins .

Speaking in reference to the huge rise in autism rates, the study’s co-author, said, “A rise of this magnitude must have a major environmental cause. Our data offer a reasonable mechanistic explanation for a connection between autism and wireless technology.”  

They also suggest that EMR from wireless devices works in conjunction with environmental and genetic factors to cause autism.

Wireless Radiation in the Etiology and Treatment of Autism (PDF Download Page)


Dr. MercolaDr. Mercola's Comments:
I am absolutely convinced that the explosion of cell phone usage around the world is one of the primary contributors to the autism epidemic. The information-carrying radio waves from cell phone base stations and cell phones makes children’s exposure to vaccines and heavy metals much more dangerous than they typically are.

Why?

Because EMR may actually trap heavy metals inside your cells, allowing them to cause damage and hindering your body from detoxifying them.

While I realize that most people will not avoid cell phones because of their convenience, I would urge you to not let your kids use them.

I warned of these dangers on my Today Show interview last month, but the media blacklisted it and only showed a short section of what I had to say.

So let me say it again here: the density of your child’s skull is far less than an adult’s, and their brain is far more susceptible to these information-carrying radio waves.

For this reason, you should not allow your child to use a cell phone, and you should also never hold an infant while you’re talking on one -- when you are on a cell phone the radiation plume can easily reach an infant in your other arm and penetrate their skull.

Folks, by the end of this year it’s expected that 4 billion cell phones will have been sold. This is a massive explosion in cell phone use, and one that is undoubtedly linked to health problems, including autism.

The information-carrying radio waves from cell phones may:
  • Damage your cell membranes
  • Decrease your intracellular communication by disrupting microtubular connections that allow biophotons to communicate between cells
  • Increase deposits of heavy metals into your cells, which increases intracellular production of free radicals and can radically decrease cellular production of energy -- thus making you incredibly fatigued
Cell phone users are also 240 percent more prone to brain tumors, and a study back in 2004 found that your risk of acoustic neuroma (a tumor on your auditory nerve) was nearly four times greater on the side of your head where your phone was most frequently held.

What is even more concerning, though, is that there is VERY solid evidence that the number of brain tumors will increase to 500,000 per YEAR in 2010 -- and this will double to 1 million every year by 2015 if the causes are not addressed.

Folks, this is the real deal and represents an impending health care crisis.

Can Cell Phones Ever be Used Safely?

Ideally, I believe you should not use cell phones. In reality, though, I know that’s not a practical option for many of you.

If you choose to use a cell phone you should use the speakerphone function whenever possible -- and keep the phone about two feet away from any body part. Do not keep the phone on your belt or in your pocket even when you’re not using it, as the radiation WILL penetrate your body wherever the phone is attached. Instead, stow it away in a purse, backpack, or your car’s glove compartment.
 
For times when a speakerphone isn’t practical, you can use a NON-Blue Tooth headset, such as the Blue Tube headset. While Blue Tooth is certainly safer than no headset at all, it is still broadcasting its own information-carrying radio waves into your brain, just at a lower intensity than a cell phone. And there quite simply is no safe biological threshold for either of them.

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Pete the Dad
[ Joined on 11/07 ] [ Posted on November 13, 2007 ]
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One of the most interesting areas biological research is in cellular signal transduction.  It's been long known that lipids and enzymes play a role in cellular signaling  and  EMR is emerging as another factor.
The "bucket" theory of autism causality makes the most sense to me.  This theory briefly states that the system is like a bucket and every person has a different size and shapebucket, depending on genetic predisposition.  The introduction of toxins from vaccines and EMR tend to fill certain people's buckets to overflow condition more quickly.
Some recent research has shown cell signaling taking place with as little as 10 seconds of exposure to cell phone level EMR.  Like flipping a switch.
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Aaltrude
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The same bucket analogy has been used to explain the development of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
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Russ Bianchi
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Just make sure the "bucket" is not leaky...
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Pat Ormsby
[ Joined on 06/06 ]  [ Posted on November 27, 2007]
       
   
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I like your bucket theory, and think it can apply to many of the problems we discuss on this forum.

Aaltrude, interestingly, many people with multiple chemical sensitivity also develop sensitivity to EMR.

  
  
see www.drcarley.com
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ABOUT AUTISM:

First, please go to http://www.drcarley.com and read her entire page when you get a chance.

Second, before I continue on, I am assuming there are conditions that MIMIC true autism.

Lastly, THERE IS ONE CAUSE OF AUTISM, AND ONE CAUSE ONLY.  I say this because TRUE AUTISM is a DEMYLINATING DISEASE, caused by autoimmunity.   Demylination is the stripping of the myelin sheath off the nerve cells, causing a slowdown of nerve impulses.  

THIS AUTOIMMUNITY IS CAUSED BY THE MEASLES VIRUS IN THE MMR VACCINE, which has NEVER had mercury in it.

How many of you know of the depopulation agenda of the global elite, and their use of vaccinations to make people really really sick ON PURPOSE?  If you are not aware of this, watch Alex Jones' DVD "Endgame", which is available on http://www.amazon.com or http://www.endgamethemovie.com.  This DVD is the most comprehensive material presented so far on how deep and how far back this eugenics agenda has existed, and continues to exist today. Also read books by Leonard Horowitz. Also listen to Alex Jones for free 24 hous a day at http://www.infowars.com.

The reason I bring this up is because it is related to all the disinformation coming out about autism.  The minions want everyone to believe that a zillion things, or just one thing (mercury) causes autism.  They do not want you to know that the measles virus itself causes the TRUE demylinating autism, because if people started to believe that, then they would put 2 and 2 together and realize that VACCINES CAUSE ALL AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES. Why is this important to NOT know, according to the minions???   Because when they release the CREATED bird flu virus, they will absolutely demand that EVERYONE take this vaccine. These vaccines will be more dangerous than any vaccine has ever been, because they are stepping up their genocidal actions, and we in America are not immune to this.

For those who have autistic children-Dr. Carley proves her theory by reversing this disease.

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Patty D
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I've been reading your site this morning.  Fascinating, but...I have a friend with an autistic child WHO HAS NEVER RECEIVED A VACCINE!  He is now 11 years old.

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pegapud
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My son never got the MMR yet was diagnosed with severe autism at 11 months old.  We tested his vaccine titers and indeed he had zero titers to measles.  A few months later he accidentally got "horizontally vaccinated" with the MMR by transmission from another child who had just gotten his booster shots.  We knew what happened immediately because he broke out in a pinprick rash all over his torso, which went away when we increased his Vitamin A supplementation.  We retested his vaccine titers, and sure enough he now has titers to measles/mumps/rubella.  However it did not affect his autism at all.  He has continued to make wonderful improvements from the biomedical interventions we've been doing.  The MMR is just one more stressor that gets dumped into the child's bucket.  Unfortunately for many children who develop autism, MMR happens to be the proverbial straw, that fills up their bucket and pushes them over the edge into autism.  Usually many vaccines, antibiotics, mom's amalgam fillings and fish consumption, viruses, yeast, and many other toxins and insults have already primed the bucket.  

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Cinnabar
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Readers here understand the dangers of vaccines and cell phones.  However, I am not sure why autism would be created in small children  by cell phones unless we're discussing frequency exposure around the reproductive organs of the parent(s).  Perhaps that could create mutations during natal development. The other possibility would be from damage to DNA, but I can't figure out how the autism would only happen in children.  Although they are more sensitive, they will have received relatively less exposure than adults.  Yet the adults are not discussed in the study.

At the same time, I'm having a hard time with the theory of MMR vaccines being the only factor involved.  As we can see from the feedback, not all autistic children have had that particular vaccine.  Therefore, it cannot be the only way to develop autism.  That doesn't discredit it as one of multiple factors.  Autism rates are lower in other countries where the vaccine is used.  There has to be another variable involved (ex: toxins/metals).

I got rid of my cell phone and started using Skype and Gizmo (online phones) with ferrite beads a few years ago.  With the cell phone, I sometimes felt a hot numbness by my ear.  That was enough for me to change over. Although I may have imagined part of my former symptoms, the headaches I was having disappeared.  

I think Alex Jones is right about a lot of things, and I (reluctantly) have faced the facts that there are shadow governments who have agendas beyond what the general public knows.  I try to stay grounded when I read stuff like that, though.  We have an explosion of ideas, but you can't believe everything one person says.  Take bits of information but not whole theories.

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Pat Ormsby
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Dear Cinnabar, as Dr. Carley points out, there are many conditions tha mimic true autism.  I don't think we are looking at anything really simple.  I was told by a social worker that in Japan, when cell phones were introduced about 2% of the population in every age group in every town throughout the nation became incapable of socializing.  This was originally called "autism" in the press, but they changed it later to "school refusal."  It's not that old people refuse to go to school, they just get grumpy and disappear.  Later, researchers demonstrated changes in cerebral blood flow in children (again, they ignored the older people) afflicted with the syndrome upon exposure to EMR.  (See omega.twoday.net/.../242929 for related research.)

The point with young children, however, is that their brains and ways of relating to the world are still under development, so they are much more vulnerable to impacts at that stage.

I don't like being irradiated because I am aware of its impact on my health (arrhythmia and immune function decline), but I avoid confronting cell phone users because I find they can be really really nasty.  I suspect it is hurting them far more than me.

  
  
ReBEL
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This user is BELOW novice level and all their comments need to be reviewed with great caution.

I find this very hard to swallow since autism is characterized by lots of physical effects, such as too much yeast in the body. How would a cell phone cause too much yeast in the body? And yes, why do other counties who use cell phones more than the US have less cases of autism? I'm sure these waves aren't good for anyone, but fail to see the autism link.

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PPF7984
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Very interesting thread.  I was recently privileged to be on a call with Dr. Linda Fickes, a gifted holisting health practitioner.  Dr. Fickes was speaking to the efficacy and magical results that one of her clients, a 13 year old autistic boy, experienced.  Prior to working with Dr. Fickes, this child required an aide to go to school and was the central focus of his family's routine.  In addition to chiropractic adjustments, nutritional supplementation which are the norm in such an office, Dr. Fickes worked with the family to insure the boy was protected from electro pollution.  The results have been nothing less than stunning.  The child has now requested that he be allowed to go to school without an aide, and is functioning in concert with the family.

I have Dr. Fickes' contact information and would be happy to make that available to anyone who would like to talk to her about their child.  You may contact me at  www.upgradeyourlifenow.com.

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Chucks_Party
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If the US has more heavy metals and such in drinking water then cell phones can trap those heavy metals in the cells of children, even unborn children. I don't see why that's difficult for you to understand.

It also clearly states that there may be other factors, people fail to realise all the above ground nuclear testing that was done in this country which I think may also have a major contribution to birth defects in the US.

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SignificantHealing.com
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I would have to say that environmental toxins and heavy metal toxicity is worthwhile looking into!  www.drdinn.com is a site that has questions and answers on zeolites for detoxification.  

  
  
Mr.AK
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Cellphones, wireless technology, powerlines and electrical magnetic fields everywhere - scientists estimate that we are being exposed to 100 MILLION times more EMFs than our grandparents were! Add to this our increasing exposure to MSG, another powerful neurotoxin, hidden in almost all processed food, and we are seeing the results in the increase of cancers and neurological diseases. MSG use has quadrupled every decade for the last 40 years.
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