On Saturday April 21^st I presented our work on “SVA Protocols for Children on the Autistic Spectrum” at the National Ayurvedic Medical Association in Plano, Texas. For those of you who were unable to attend, I have written a synopsis of my talk.

But before I go further it’s important to mention that there is a huge debate on what is causing the epidemic levels of autism nowadays. There are raging arguments on both sides: some people think the high number of vaccinations are at the root of the problem, while others are not quite sure, but they definitely don’t think it is coming from the vaccines.

The key word here is that they “think” this or that… So, we will take a look at some hard solid facts: information from the Centers for Disease Control, The American Academy of Pediatrics, The Food and Drug administration, and numerous peer reviewed double-blind studies. 

The other issue is this: the ancient doctors of India, who cognized Ayurveda, stated that they would leave the textbooks of Ayurveda open for the healers/doctors of the future to continue writing new chapters based on the new conditions and ailments that would arise from new cultural habits. So the ancient ayurvedic texts do not discuss “autism” per se, and they specially do not say anything about the risks and perils of injecting newborns and infants with nothing less than 73 shots, each containing aluminum – a potent neurotoxin – and a host of other man-made chemicals. I will discuss this later in the article. Consequently, there are no ayurvedic protocols for treating children whose brain is damaged from such an onslaught of chemicals. However, the ayurvedic texts give us the foundation, an in-depth understanding of the total human physiology, and a whole lot of tools to address its ailments. So it is that Vaidya Mishra and I spent years taking the pulses of these ASD children to figure out the hetu, or root-cause of their condition, and based on his findings, Vaidya made numerous remedies to attempt to fix the imbalances he saw in their pulses.

Autism is a complex neurobehavioral condition that includes impairments in social interaction and developmental language and communication skills. Children experience rigid, repetitive behaviors, speech and motor delays, and they avoid eye contact. Because of the range of symptoms, this condition is now called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

ASD occurs in all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups, but are almost five times more common among boys than girls. 

Modern research has repeatedly demonstrated that the testosterone in the baby boys attenuates, or makes stronger, the detrimental effects of the chemicals located in the immunizations.

According to the Merck Manual, the largest-selling medical textbook, vaccines can cause brain damage. They define an adverse reaction to a vaccine as the following:

“Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain that occurs when a virus directly infects the brain or when a virus or something else triggers inflammation. Encephalitis can occur in the following ways:

      A virus directly infects the brain or

  A virus that caused an infection in the past becomes reactivated and directly damages the brain or

  A vaccine triggers a reaction that makes the immune system attack brain tissue

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP):

In 1983: 24 doses of vaccines were given with 7 injected vaccines and 4 oral vaccines.

In 2016: 74 doses were given, with 53 injected vaccines and 3 oral vaccines.

Prevalence in the 1960’s was 1 in 2,000 children

By 2000 the rate was 1 in 150 children

2006 the rate was 1 in 86 children

Now it is 1 in 36 children

More children will be diagnosed with autism this year than AIDS, diabetes and cancer combined.

Endothelial cells inside the capillaries that bring blood to the brain establish the blood-brain barrier. This barrier protects the brain very carefully from outside chemicals and other toxins. The cells are so tightly packed that only certain necessary nutrients such as glucose, are able to pass through the capillary walls into the brain.

Research has shown that preservatives and other chemicals in the vaccines loosen the tightly packed endothelial cells increasing the permeability of the blood-brain barrier.

From the CDC’s website:

  Several types of aluminum

  Antibiotics

  Benzethonium. Chloride

  Thimerisol (mercury)

  DNA

  Albumin

  Bovine Calf Serum

  Formaldehyde

  Gelatin

  MSG

  Polysorbate 20 and 80

Aluminum is used as an “adjuvant” serving to “wake up” the immune system, provoking it to recognize the antigen within the vaccine, to strengthen the immune system’s response to the shot. This accounts for the epidemic of food allergies and autoimmune diseases we are seeing as it is difficult to determine how much one’s immune system might be pushed.

A child in the mid-1980’s would have received 1,250 micrograms of aluminum by their 18-month birthday. Today that number if 4,925 micrograms, quadrupling the amount of total aluminum injected into our babies.

Autoimmune diseases overall have increased by 500% over the last 100 years.

Canadian scientists Dr. Chris Shaw and colleagues published research studying aluminum adjuvants in shots and concluded, “Our research clearly shows that aluminum adjuvants have a potential to induce serious long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications.”

The aluminum in shots, called aluminum hydroxide, is a nanoparticle, absorbed by our body’s macrophages (the immune system’s “garbage men”). The macrophages can then easily transport the aluminum hydroxide to the brain since macrophages pass easily through the blood-brain barrier. Nanoparticles have higher toxicity than bulk or soluble forms of aluminum found in food, air, soil and water.

Aluminum is a potent neurotoxin and is primarily excreted through the kidneys. Infant kidney function, or the glomerular filtration rate, is low until one year of age, thus the kidneys are unable to excrete the aluminum, allowing levels to build up in the body creating neurotoxicity. This is why many countries delay the shots until the child is one year old, and as a result, they have reported much less incidence of autism in their populations (plus they give less immunizations overall as well).

In 2013 French scientists demonstrated that the aluminum adjuvant, when injected into the body of a mouse, ended up in the brain one year later. Researchers in Paris published a study in 2015 demonstrating how the aluminum adjuvant slowly makes it way to the brain where it stays forever.

This study explained that aluminum adjuvant can generate a long-term immune response because of its “bio-persistence,” which basically means our body has no ability to rid itself of aluminum adjuvant – it is a manmade substance that is highly toxic for the human physiology and very hard for it to be (fully) eliminated.

In 2016 aToxicology Journal study revealed a deeply alarming unique characteristic of aluminum adjuvant: low consistent doses were MORE neurotoxic than a single bolus dose, causing accumulation of aluminum in the brain. This study poked holes in the theory that autism could not be caused by the immunizations because the amount of aluminum is very low.

French researchers published an article stating that aluminum, which is in ionic form found in food and water is eliminated in feces and the kidneys. Also, ionic aluminum is blocked from entering the brain by the blood brain barrier.

However, the nanoparticle of aluminum found in shots are quickly “eaten” by the immune system macrophages, which then carry the aluminum in the brain.

Formaldehyde is used to inactivate viruses and detoxify bacterial toxins so they don’t result in sickness when injected.

Formaldehyde is a highly toxic systemic poison. The government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says, “health hazards of formaldehyde are primarily due to its toxic effects after inhalation, after direct contact with the skin or eyes by formaldehyde in liquid or vapor form, and after ingestion” adding that “Ingestion of as little as 30 ml of a 37% solution of formaldehyde can result in death and damage to other organ systems, including the liver, kidney, spleen, pancreas, brain and central nervous system.”

The American Cancer Society, the FDA, the National Cancer Institute and others have classified formaldehyde as a known carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and OSHA adds that it is not only a “complete carcinogen” but also “a sensitizing agent that can cause an immune system response upon initial exposure.

According to Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny by the time a child has reached 5 years of age, he or she has been injected with a total of 1,795 micrograms of 1.795 milligrams of formaldehyde, making it unsafe to repeatedly challenge the immature immune system (and organs) of an infant or child with such a toxic substance.

MSG is used as a preservative and stabilizer, keeping vaccines effective through heat, cold and shelf life.

Glutamate (a powerful excitatory neurotransmitter also made by the body) can excite cells to their death in a process referred to as “excitotoxicity.” Thus: its production as a neurotransmitter in the body is tightly controlled.

Modern research has proven glutamate found as food additives and in vaccines is associated with causing migraines, seizures, autism, ADD, hyperactivity, Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, MS and Parkinson’s.

Having treated hundreds of autistic children through the years, I can attest to the fact that children who receive vaccines are extremely hyperactive. We struggle holding them down when they enter my office, and it is almost impossible to settle them down to the point where I can take their pulse, even for a few seconds.

In fact, I had a patient who decided not to immunize her children. She fed them only home-made cooked foods, no leftovers, they were breastfed, and they were extremely calm and focused. When it came time for the older boy to go to kindergarten, the school pressured the parents to give him his shots. He only received two of them yet he became extremely hyperactive almost immediately upon receiving the shots. The mother was not only so upset to see this sudden change in her child’s personality but was relieved that he had not received the regular schedule of shots and wondered what would have happen to him if he had.

Polysorbate 80 acts as an emulsifier to disperse all the ingredients in the vaccine evenly within the liquid. However, Pediatrician Lawrence Palevsky, MD warns of the dangers of using it as a vaccine ingredient. He and numerous other researchers have now shown that it assists in the delivery of the aluminum and other chemicals in the shots across the blood-brain barrier, thus damaging the brain.

The blood-brain barrier is particularly weak and more easily penetrated during infancy and in old age.

In March 2004 the EPA announced that nearly all seafood contains traces of mercury. The FDA warns that a serving of fish is unsafe if it contains more than one microgram of mercury per gram of fish.

A normal 3 oz. serving of fish contains 18 micrograms of mercury.

Both the FDA and the EPA advise women who may become pregnant, pregnant women, nursing mothers and young children to avoid shellfish and some types of fish due to its mercury content. Mercury has been removed from all childrens’ vaccines, but is still found in the flu shot. A flu shot contains 25 micrograms of mercury per dose. Now women are given flu shots during their pregnancy.

The ancient doctors taught us that Apana and Prana go out of balance together. The vaccinations damage the friendly bacteria (in the Apana region, where the intestines are located).

The friendly bacteria make 90% of the neurotransmitters, so when they die off after a vaccination, the neurotransmitter production gets thrown off, affecting Prana Vata in the brain.

Within minutes of receiving an immunization, the toxins pierce through the 7 dhatus (tissues) and head straight for the bone marrow/nerve tissue (majja dhatu) and get stored there, disrupting both the functioning of the brain and the immune system (as they sit in the bone marrow, where all the immune system cells are born).

Here are SVA protocols and formulations developed by Vaidya Mishra, that I use in my practice to address autism in children.

First, one must regrow the friendly bacteria, using prebiotics, probiotics and must fix the lining of the gut allowing for better growth of the friendly bacteria.

You must rebalance all three functions of the brain:

  Dhi — knowledge going into the brain

  Dhriti — knowledge being stored

  Smriti — knowledge being retrieved

Brahmi (bacopa monneiri and gotu kola) are used to balance Dhi, Dhriti and Smriti

Jatamansi is used to balance the neurotransmitters in the brain and for the prevention of seizures

Jyotishmati is used to wake up the brain

Bal Saraswati Ghee is medicated ghee for the brain

A formula is used, based on cilantro, to chelate mercury and/or aluminum

Sensitive Plant is used to heal the brain/nerve tissue

Arjuna and Ashoka are used to balance emotional issues

Glutathione, made from natural sources, is used to bring back up the glutathione system (the body’s antioxidant system) which becomes depleted from so many chemicals in the shots.

Alpha Lipoic Acid is both fat- and water-soluble and can slip through the blood-brain barrier, protecting the brain and nerve tissue from oxidative stress. The one we use, extracted from broccoli and spinach, is 10 times more effective than the synthetic version currently on the market.

Guduchi (via transdermal cream in young children) is used to clean the nerve tissue/bone marrow.

Vaidya Mishra developed both transdermal creams and glyceride drops to deliver the herbs deep into the physiology. Transdermal creams contain the vibration of the herb and are used to take the herb directly from the skin and into the blood, creating less strain on the liver (if you swallow the herbs they are taken directly to the liver for processing).

Glyceride drops, also using the vibration of the herb is just as effective, if not more, than the crude herb. In this case, organic yellow squash is boiled into a syrup to deliver the herbs into the physiology.

Both treatments are easy to administer to babies and young children.

We need to educate the general public about the dangers of giving too many vaccines at too young an age. We need to conduct and present research, as well as engage in debate with the medical establishment.

And finally, we need to inform parents with autistic children that safe and natural protocols exist to help their child overcome the challenges they face.

Vaidya and I found prana vata active in the pulses of all these children. Keep in mind, children are in the Kapha stage of life, meaning that the element of kapha (earth and water) is highest at this time until about the teen years, when Pitta (fire and water) becomes more prevalent. 

So while it may be normal for children to have kapha-related problems at this point of their lives, coughs and colds, it is not normal for prana vata to be high (this is something we see in older patients in the vata stage of life). Not only that, Vaidya felt the presence of heavy metals and other garavisha (man-made chemicals) sitting in majja dhatu (the brain tissue). 

In fact, Vaidya expressly told me that the amount of chemicals and heavy metals he found in a 2-year-old were the amount that would have normally taken a whole lifetime to accumulate, amounts one would expect to find in a 70-year-old body.

Based on our years of taking and studying the pulse of thousands of children, there has never been a the shadow of a doubt in my nor in Vaidya’s mind as to what was causing this extremely high rate of autism. We just had to wait for research and scientific studies to prove what we were already seeing in the pulses. Our success rate at relieving the symptoms and bringing these children back to their healthy selves speaks louder and clear for itself.

Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

Cinnaminson, New Jersey

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