Monthly Archives: April 2006

Does stress cause toxins to be more dangerous to health?

Evidence presented at the 45th meeting of the Society of Toxicology suggests that this may be true.  Glass, TA, Bandeen-Roche, McAtee, M and Schwartz, BS of Johns Hopkins suggested that environmental stress increased the cognitive damage caused by lead poisoning.  This is the first study of its kind and has major implications in human health.

Environmental toxins like heavy metals and solvents have long been know to cause neurological dysfunction in humans, especially children, but the effect of stress has not been tested on environmentally poisoned individuals until now.  The researchers found that higher levels of stress exacerbated the effects of lead exposure in children in Baltimore. These findings give rise to interesting treatment options to better aid those environmentally challenged.  Not only do they need to detoxify but they may need counseling as well as ways to lower their stress.

More on this subject in the coming days.

Obesity and Toxicity. The correlation gets stronger.

About 4 years ago, I made a presentation at a clinical nutritionists meeting in Las Vegas, proposing that toxicity (solvents, heavy metals, toxins produced by bacteria and parasites, etc) were part of the reason for the growing obesity issues facing people today.   I proposed that some toxins have the ability to block the entry point of the citric acid (Kreb’s) cycle and cause our resting metabolism to go down, sometimes dramatically.  Additionally, a number of these toxins are endocrine disruptors affecting the thyroid, adrenals, pituitary, hypothalamus and pancreas. 

Four weeks ago my brother came to my house and proclaimed that toxicologists have just discovered that obesity and toxicity are being linked together.  Needless to say my wife and I had a big laugh and reminded him of what I had proposed a few years before.  The abstracts of the presentations done at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology are available at http://www.toxicology.org. Beware, it is a huge file (552 pages).

I spent the past 4 days going though it and noticed a number of abstracts related to obesity and toxicity (start on page 307, abstracts 1503 – 1508). I will be posting some of the most pertinent issues and abstracts on this website in the coming weeks along with commentary.

Autism – CDC Coverup?

In a news release from Generation Rescue, recently uncovered documents have shown that the Center for Disease Control knowingly hid information linking the vaccine preservative thimerosal and the dramatic increase in autism worldwide. This revelation, which is certainly not surprising to many of us, should be viewed as shameful and extremely troubling.

My main question is: How can the people who hid the data and deceived the public live with themselves? If this is all true, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If you are interested in reading the entire the entire news release, go to the Newswire website or to Generation Rescue.