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Letter to Steve Tvetden from John S. Blye, D.C. Pesticide poisoning and its effects on the brain
Steve, The search for
a genetic link between pesticides (or vaccinations, or any neurotoxin)
and Gulf War Syndrome, brain damage, etc., is a red herring...and an
expensive one, at that.
The true cause
of mental, emotional, immunological, and neural damage of the brain
by neurotoxins is much simpler. And much more damning.
As you know, a
neurotoxin by definition is any substance that has an affinity for nerve
tissue AND is capable of damaging that tissue. Neurotoxins range
greatly both in ability to damage and in half - life. Alcohol
creates a brain reaction that lasts for 10 to 12 hours. Mercury
lasts for your entire lifetime and is passed on from mother to child.
Sarin creates a lot of damage in a short time, but appears to have a
very short half - life.
What people don't
get is that the brain, like any other tissue in the body, reacts to
even minor tissue damage with inflammation. Inflammation
is, in fact, the primary method that the body uses to reorganize damaged
tissue. Inflammation usually plays itself out in a few days, but
not in the brain. Why? Because the brain is a relatively
closed container. Inflammation needs space. The 4 cardinal
signs of inflammation we doctors are taught are: rubor, dolor,
calor, tumor. (redness, pain, heat, and swelling). Redness,
pain, and heat pose little problem (heat is somewhat problematic).
Swelling is the major problem. Inflammation in a closed space
will perpetuate itself for months or years. The brain swelling
of encephalitis in a head injury, according to the 'experts,'typically
takes 60 days to resolve. Even then, the patient maybe left
with "sequellae", leftover symptoms that last for life.
At least, that's
what everybody thinks.
I was reading
a book on brain damagedue to childhood vaccines by medical historian
Harris Coulter. Dr.Coulter had made a very interesting connection...the
symptoms that parents were reporting in their vaccine - damaged children
were identical to the sequellae following recovery from von Economo's
Encephalitis, a disease that swept throughEurope and America in the1920's. Coulter was
the first, I believe, to suggest the actual mechanism by which vaccines
caused brain damage - encephalitis. And this would be the same
mechanism (not genetic,though there might be genetic changes)
by which a pesticide, or ANY neurotoxin for that matter, causes brain
damage.
The way I discovered
what I'm about to tell you was quite simple...I reasoned that if brain
swelling (encephalitis, encephalopathy) were the cause of brain dysfunction
in a mild poisoning, then brain swelling should also be the mechanism
of death in severe poisoning. Guess what? Encephalitis is
the mechanism of death in alcohol poisoning,botulism poisoning, DDT
poisoning, mercury poisoning, lead poisoning, antifreeze (ethylene
glycol) poisoning, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
Now here's the
interesting part. Swelling in an enclosed space produces pressure.
Much of what we think of as brain damage is actually ongoing
brain pressure, technically Intracranial Pressure (ICP).
This is why the health problems of poisoned people, whether physical
or mental, tend to be dynamic. That is, depressed people (like
the Colorado farmers) have good days and bad days. People
with Fibromyalgia have good days and bad days. Even people with
Alzheimer's have good days and bad days. What we are seeing
here is a little bit of damage and a lot of inflammation (pressure).
How do I know
this? Because I have been fixing poisoned people in my practice
for the last ten years. Reversing depression, anxiety states, Fibromyalgia,
chronic headaches, dyslexia and 30 other conditions by relieving
the pressure in their brains. No, I'm not boring holes in
their heads. I'm simply unlocking fixated (subluxated) cranial
plates. And now I'm teaching other doctors (chiropractors) how
to do this.
My point is this...don't
get too lost in someone's attempt to find a genetic answer to the pesticide
problem. There are a lot of out-of-work geneticists only too willing
to implicate genes. Its much simpler than that. Some people
have very limited movement of their cranial bones...and if they encounter
a toxin they are going to suffer, much more than people with flexible
skulls.
I didn't want
to study pesticides and other neurotoxins, but if you end up in the
brain - swelling business, you have to. We need to become much
more responsible to our internalenvironments if we plan to inhabit this
planet for very much longer. If we don't, the United States will
go the way of the Roman Empire, which some feel was destroyed by
lead poisoning from the aqueducts of Rome.
Keep up your good
work! A responsible citizen is never truly happy with his government.
John S. Blye,
D.C.
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