Raena Morgan: Can good nutrition help with autism?
Dr. Gary Kohls: Yeah. Autism is controversial, mainly because the CDC and the FDA and the American Academy of Pediatrics are stonewalling and trying to discredit the reality that the—it probably arose during the decade of the 90s when children were starting to get immunized with vaccines. There are getting two or three times more vaccinations than earlier decades. Sometimes like 20 to 25 vaccines in their childhood. And most of those vaccines have mercury in them, during the decade of the 90s. So, the autism spectrum disorder—that’s autism and Asperger’s, and that’s real nebulous thing—but that peaked—it started peaking in the decade of the 90s. And right at the beginning of the 1990s, hepatitis B vaccines—all of which had mercury in them, during that decade—was started at birth. They want infants being given hepatitis B, whether there was any risk of that at all—hepatitis B is—maybe we need to use that for immigrants or from people coming in from third world countries, but certainly not middle-class or upper-class children. There’s no risk of hepatitis B in infancy. But it was a very profitable thing. So, they decided to start that at day one. So, when the baby’s blood brain barrier was at its most immature, when stuff got into it much more readily—and that happens in the first six months of life, the brain is much more susceptible to toxins, etcetera—we were giving mercury containing vaccinations for hepatitis B—a series of three. That was brand new. Children now are getting three more mercury containing shots than in the 80s. Then they were getting chicken pox and then MMR—measles, mumps, rubella—which don’t have mercury in, but they have live viruses in there that are known to cause encephalitis in their natural state. We were giving those, too. So—
Raena Morgan: From infancy.
Dr. Gary Kohls: From infancy, two months, four months, six months. But now we were giving them at birth, without long term safety effects. So, whereas in the 80s, so-called autism—whatever that is—it’s a neurological disorder, it’s brain disabling something or other—it was a rare disorder before the decade of the 90s. By the time the 90s were over with, it was one out of 160 kids in the United States were diagnosed eventually with autistic spectrum disorder. And it was rare before. And we know that mercury is one of the most toxic metals on nerves in every cell. Mercury is a highly toxic metal. It’s a heavy metal, just like lead and uranium. All those heavy metals are very poisonous to everything, especially nerve cells. So, it just makes sense to have that be a high probability that it was contributing. Just theoretically, you don’t use heavy metals on living tissue. It kills it. The reason that mercury is in the vaccines in the first place is 70 or so years ago they started using vaccinations and they would have 10 doses in each vile—it’s the most economical way to have one vile and you can get 10 kids shots from that one vile. Well, so, you have to put a needle in there 10 times, so you have to have a rubber stopper, even though you do an alcohol swab on it, it doesn’t kill all of the germs, so they needed to have a something toxic that would kill bacteria in there, preservative. So, they chose mercury, which was cheap. And there’s not a lot in there, but there’s no safe level of mercury. There’s no safe level of lead. There’s no safe level of heavy metals. Any is toxic. But because it’s a heavy metal, it precipitates to the bottom of the vile. So, it says on the vile ‘shake well before using’—they called it thimerosal, by the way—kind of a euphemism for very poisonous substance—thimerosal, kind of nice sounding name, but its mercury.
Raena Morgan: Alright.
Dr. Gary Kohls: Shake well before using. Well, you know, how many times do we not shake well before using, before drawing the—or shake it and then set for 10 minutes and then draw the vaccine out. And so, maybe that tenth baby would get a massive dose. Or maybe if you didn’t shake it well and then the needle went way to the bottom, that baby would get a massive dose of mercury. Maybe that’s the kid that gets the adverse effect—the brain damaging effect from that vaccine.
Raena Morgan: Well, once that damage is caused—
Dr. Gary Kohls: Can’t cure it.
Raena Morgan: Supplements?
Dr. Gary Kohls: Dead brain cells never regenerate. Most cells in our body have the capacity of making more of them, not the brain. Once you lose a brain cell, that brain cell—once it’s dead—cannot regenerate. So, brain cells do not reproduce. So, once you kill one off from whatever the toxin is, it’s a goner. Now, maybe there are certainly ways where maybe new—the old cells that are still there—can maybe form new pathways, but it’s not certain. There’s uncertainty there. So, you shouldn’t mess around with the brain. Shouldn’t mess around with mother nature in the first place, but especially the brain, because brain cells do not replicate themselves. But there are— one real plausible theory—and boys have more autism spectrum disorders than girls, so like a 3:1 ratio or 4:1 ratio. And it’s probably a hormonal related thing because testosterone suppresses glutathione, so baby boys have less glutathione—which is an intracellular antioxidant—very important. And it can detoxify heavy metals. So, glutathione, if you can get to those kids early, by enhancing the glutathione content—and I back up here. So, the glutathione deficiency in baby boys, makes the mercury exposure more poisonous to them than girls. Estrogen, apparently, enhances glutathione, or at least it doesn’t deplete it. So, these baby boys, because of testosterone, may be depleted in glutathione and glutathione is a natural defense to heavy metals. And so, that is a plausible theory to me that the lack of glutathione is probably one of the culprits, if not the major one in detoxifying the mercury from the baby shots. I don’t think there’s any—there’s no drug treatment for autism, although Janssen’s Risperdal got approval from the FDA as treatment for autism. Autism, of course, eventually people with damaged brains are going to be different and may be disruptive, so kids are sometimes disruptive and they get labeled autism. Risperdal handles disruptiveness. It’s not specific for autism. It’s another brain damaging substance and it’s not going to be good long term, but at least it will help with the disruptive behaviors, with bad, long term consequences.
Raena Morgan: Okay, thank you, Dr. Kohls.
Dr. Gary Kohls: You’re welcome.
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