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A consortium of organizations including Consumers for Dental Choice, the Mercury Policy Project and the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology filed a petition to the FDA to immediately ban mercury fillings for pregnant women so as to protect their unborn children. The FDA has six months to respond to the petition.
"We're doing this primarily as a precautionary measure to protect unborn children from unnecessary exposure to mercury," says Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project, located in Montpelier, Vermont. |
Andreas Moritz
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 One in every six women of childbearing age has enough mercury in her bloodstream to cause neurological damage to her unborn children, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Is it mere coincidence that rates of autism increased when the Center for Disease Control inserted additions to the recommended vaccination program for infants in 1988? In the 1980s, autism rates were estimated at only six in 10,000 children. Today one in 150 children is autistic, though in some areas autism affects closer to one in 50 children. The U.S. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Pregnant mothers with this toxicity pass it on to their unborn children, with disturbing results. In 2001, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported that the developing fetus and young children are disproportionately affected by mercury exposure. Children whose mothers ate substantial amounts of fish showed deficits in learning, attention, memory, spatial perception, and motor skills by age seven. The children performed as though they were a few months behind for their age. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 This type of testing can give important information on what type of lifestyle, diet, and supplements the pregnant mother and infant should take to optimize their health and avoid the nutritional and toxic disasters that can face unborn children and infants. Let me give you an example.
As many as 10 percent of Caucasians produce low levels of a specific enzyme required for proper detoxification in the body. In fact, at least twenty-five commonly used drugs need this enzyme to be present in the body for the detox pathway to work efficiently. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 Again Verny writes: "In fact, the great weight of the scientific evidence that has emerged over the last decade demands that we reevaluate the mental and emotional abilities of unborn children. Awake or asleep, the studies show, they [unborn children] are constantly tuned in to their mother's every action, thought and feeling. From the moment of conception, the experience in the womb shapes the brain and lays the groundwork for personality, emotional temperament, and the power of higher thought. |
David Steinman
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 The EPA says DuPont further concealed its own 1981 research showing that its pregnant workers were passing the chemical to their unborn children. In addition, the company is alleged to have failed to report evidence that the chemical had contaminated the water supply for twelve thousand people.
The EPA says that the chemicals used in Teflon and related products could pose "a potential risk of developmental and other adverse effects" on human health.45
Save the world? My God, I've got to save me first. Relax. Everything is going to be okay. We can get you over this. |
| In spite of these precautions, however, their contact with solvents appears to have had effects on the developing brains of their unborn children that were measurable years later.
The study indicated that as levels of solvent exposure increased, children scored lower in language and motor ability. "Significandy more exposed children were rated as having mild or severe problem behaviors. The findings suggest that maternal occupational exposure to organic solvents during pregnancy is associated with poorer outcome in selective aspects of cognitive and neuromotor functioning in offspring. |
Bottom Line Health
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| We're doing this primarily as a precautionary measure to protect unborn children from unnecessary exposure to mercury," says Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project, located in Montpelier, Vermont. "We're very concerned that our government is not doing what it should to protect the unborn.
"Why isn't the FDA joining Health Canada and the other countries in banning the placement [of mercury fillings] in expectant mothers?" he asks. "FDA silence over mercury is the same kind of silence our government once had for tobacco."
Still, any ban could have consequences. |
Andreas Moritz
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| It is also a well known fact that too much vitamin A causes deformity in unborn children. For this reason, there is a law preventing the use of this vitamin in food. Yet this law does not apply to animal feeds even though it is well known that vitamin A is accumulating in the liver of farm animals. Pregnant women are warned not to consume liver to avoid damaging their babies. If taking extra vitamin A is considered poisonous for pregnant women or unborn babies, it cannot be considered safe for the rest of the population either. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Don't worry about your unborn children. This chemical is perfectly safe! Result: 10,000 children born with physical deformities. Doctors continued to use infants and pregnant women in pharmaceutical experiments for the next fifty years. See Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children, Minorities, Woman and Inmates (1845 - 2007).
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Feed your children processed foods! White bread is good for them, don't you know? And monosodium glutamate is perfectly healthy for children, which is why food companies add it to baby food! |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Since unborn children have very little to say about these issues, yet other's decisions will affect them for the rest of their lives, it is the responsibility of parents and health officials to do as good a job as is possible to help our future generations get started on the right foot.
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New Fat-Burning Discoveries
A completely new mechanism of leptin control has now been discov ' ' ered involving leptin regulation of muscle energy production.127 This is different than the primary central control of leptin by the subconscious brain. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Pregnant women should be tested for HIV as soon as possible, so that they and their unborn children can receive vital treatment. HIV is sometimes contracted by healthcare workers who are stuck with infected needles. Also, be aware that the virus cannot be transmitted through casual contact, such as coughing, sneezing, shaking hands, or dry kissing.
Like all viruses, once HIV has entered the body, it seeks to replicate itself. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They can be found even in unborn children. A 2004 study by the Environmental Working Group identified 287 industrial chemicals in babies’ umbilical-cord blood, including 180 known to cause cancer and 217 that are toxic to the brain and nervous system.
In my research to develop a detoxification system for prospective mothers, I recently learned about a naturally occurring mineral called zeolite, which has a unique, negatively charged, crystalline structure. Zeolite is formed from the fusion of lava and ocean water, and combines all four elements. |
Mike Adams
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 D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies in their unborn children, which predisposes them to type 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia later in life. 81 percent of the children born to these mothers were deficient in vitamin D.
Up to 80 percent of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient.
Microalgae (spirulina and chlorella) and succulents
Spirulina shown to prevent and treat cancers while boosting immune system function
Spirulina's blue-green color is more than a pretty facade; it is also the source of much of its cancer-prevention abilities. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 D deficient, causing widespread vitamin D deficiencies in their unborn children, which predisposes them to type 1 diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia later in life. 81% of the children born to these mothers were deficient.
Up to 80% of nursing home patients are vitamin D deficient.
 What you can do:
Sensible exposure to natural sunlight is the simplest, easiest and yet one of the most important strategies for improving your health. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 No one gave the choice to the pregnant woman who wanted to protect her unborn children from the devastating effects of high fluoride concentrations in her baby's body. The choice has been denied to the child whose teeth have been destroyed by dental fluorosis, especially to children of poor families that cannot afford the expensive dental work required to correct this devastating condition. And no one gave the choice to elderly persons who will spend their waning years crippled from skeletal fluorosis or devastated by a neurodegenerative disease. They have all been forgotten. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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 If they use more caution and have more awareness, their unborn children will have a better chance of being normal.86ab
Infertility is a major concern at the present time. It rose from 14.4% to 18.5% in 1995.48 As many as 5% of couples cannot conceive unless artificial reproductive techniques are used.48
There are measures that both the males and females can take prior to considering conception that should significantly increase their chances of producing a healthy, normal baby. |
| It is obvious that their contaminated soil, water and food continue to pollute their breast milk and bodies— and harm their unborn children.
What has it specifically done to the health of the Vietnamese people and American veterans who were exposed? About 500,000 Vietnamese have already died. Of the 650,000 or more Vietnamese who remain ill but alive, the major complaints include rashes, asthma, cancer, gastrointestinal, muscular, skeletal, neurological, endocrine, reproductive and psychological illnesses. Many Vietnamese families have four or five seriously disabled suffering children. |
| Toxic chemicals might possibly genetically damage unborn children.2'I0' 12 It is known that mothers working in cotton fields exposed to malathion and other pesticides had children with chromosome breaks. This means that there is damage to the gene or cellular structure of exposed children.2 Proven genetic damage to mosquitos has also been reported from malathion.3b
There are critical, brief periods of time during pregnancy when unborn infants (and the young of wildlife) are in jeopardy because their mothers breathed pesticide-contaminated air. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 Pregnant women and their unborn children can be considered to be at higher risk from exposure to all kinds of substances. The same is true for elderly people. As age increases, the functional capacity of various organs, such as the liver and kidneys, starts to decline. Changes in metabolic and eliminative functions can cause significant changes in the toxicity of various substances. In addition, the reserve capacity of various organs is often severely reduced in the elderly, which may mean that seemingly small toxic exposures can have severe consequences. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
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 But these strategies will also improve the quality of life for people with type 1 diabetes, and will reduce the risks for mothers with gestational diabetes and their unborn children.
As the New England Journal of Medicine reported in 2002, the treatments for insulin resistance, prediabesity, and diabetes emphasize the broad benefits of the following treatment tools:
RISK ASSESSED, RISK AVERTED ow that we have a better understanding of the different types of diabetes and the causes of type 2 diabetes, it becomes easier to accurately predict and analyze risk. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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 Most drugs are tested only on animals and not on humans for safety during pregnancy, because such testing would subject unborn children to unnecessary risks.
It is best to avoid all drugs during pregnancy, but this rating system can help you and your doctor to assess the risk-to-benefit ratio should drug treatment become necessary. You and your doctor should discuss these benefits and risks carefully before any drug treatment is initiated. You should not take any medications (including nonprescription drugs such as laxatives or cold remedies) without your doctor's approval. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Mercury toxicity in mothers can cause learning disabilities, autism, and ADHD in unborn children by fast placental transfer and could explain the explosion in learning and behavioral problems since World War II when mercury was first used in dentistry. Symptoms of mercury toxicity include irritability, anxiety, restlessness, memory and attention problems, confusion, and loss of coordination. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Also, genital herpes can be sexually transmitted, and pregnant women can transmit the virus to their unborn children via blood or through direct contact with infected tissue during delivery.
_Symptoms_
Genital herpes causes surface sores on the skin and lining of the genital area. In men, penile blisters may appear on the tip of the foreskin and turn into surface sores for several days before healing. In women, sores can appear on the cervix, vagina, or perineum. These sores may be accompanied by a discharge or vaginal blisters. |
Maesimund B. Panos, M.D. and Jane Heimlich
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 If the patient is a girl, a more disturbing side effect, in view of the high incidence of teenage pregnancies, is that tetracycline can permanently stain the teeth of unborn children and even interfere with enamel formation.
Clindamycin can cause ulcerative colitis. I learned this firsthand from a patient, a young woman named Lee, who had a constant sore throat. Lee, a busy executive, became impatient with homeopathic treatment, and consulted a throat specialist who prescribed clindamycin. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Sternglass, as long as unborn children are exposed en masse to radiation, there is a possibility of widespread intellectual decline.
The post-Chernobyl statistics in the United States, compiled by Dr. Sternglass and presented at the First Global Radiation Victims Conference in New York in September 1987, impressively convey the seriousness of the radiation problem. The infant mortality rate following the arrival of the Chernobyl fallout in early May of 1986 showed a 54% increase in June 1986 in the Pacific region of the United States. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| Pregnancy Alert: Pregnant women who habitually drink alcohol may put their unborn children at risk for lowered birth weight and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) as well as fetal alcohol syndrome, a cluster of irreversible physical and mental defects (see p. 234).
Reproductive Alert: Ethanol intake may lower testosterone production and contribute to infertility.
OSHA/NIOSH Standards: The federal standard (PEL) for airborne exposure is 1,000 ppm (1,900 mg/m3).
Ethylenediamine
Ethylenediamine is a colorless, clear, thick liquid. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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 Some contaminants can also harm unborn children.
The most important determinant of the true toxicity of a substance is dosage. Everything that exists has the potential to be toxic. In toxicology, this is called the dose-response relationship. Scientists determine how toxic a substance will be by performing tests on animals to identify the LD50, or lethal dose (the amount necessary to kill 50% of the animals). The only way to avoid contaminants in herbs is to depend on top-quality manufacturing. |
| I fully expect that as knowledge in this field improves, we will rediscover ancient methods and also find new ways to use herbal medicines to benefit unborn children. See the Resource Guide to find a qualified herbalist. Also, refer to the Appendix for a comprehensive list of herbs to avoid during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Herbs That Can Kill
Certain herbs used commonly in the past are now known to be poisonous and are no longer available except to professionals. |
Grace Ross Lewis
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 Unborn children have suffered liver damage as a result of mother's use. Animal studies show lung, kidney, and gastrointestinal problems resulted from consumption. Australia, Canada, Germany, and Great Britain restrict sales of comfrey.
Synonyms: NONE KNOWN. contugated linoleic acid__
Products and Uses: A fatty acid that occurs naturally in meat and dairy products.
Precautions: No negative side effects known. In some lab tests, high doses of CIA prevented some cancers and heart disease, boosted immunities, and reduced body fats. |
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