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Oral Clathration Therapy . . . Are
Today’s Teens More Toxic?
“For decades, researchers have focused on the human health consequences of
toxic metals—mainly asking, do they cause cancer?” notes environmental writer
Peter Montague, adding. “New research seems to be telling us that we should also be
looking at the way these pollutants are affecting human behavior.”
Meanwhile J. Robert Hatherill, Ph.D., a research scientist and faculty member of
the Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, seriously
questions whether teens today carry a heavier toxic burden than at any time in history.
“Perhaps in addition to checking our children for guns and explosives we should be
checking their blood for elevated levels of toxic chemicals,” he says. Neurotoxicity
Theory of Teen Behavioral Problems Sociologists have known for a long time that violent
crimes occur more in some places than in others. Some U.S. counties have only 100 violent
crimes per 100,000 people per year; other counties have rates of violent crime that are 30
times as high. The question is why some places have high crime rates and others don't.
According to the neurotoxicity theory, toxic pollutants, especially toxic metals,
cause learning disabilities, an increase in aggressive behavior, and, most important, loss
of control over impulsive behavior. This has a ripple effect through the network of
children, causing even generally mild children to become progressively more defensive
themselves in response to the uncontrollable, impulsive behavior by a few. These traits
combined with poverty, social stress, alcohol and drug abuse, individual character, and
other social factors contribute to producing individuals who commit violent crimes. In
fact, pollution robs children's intelligence and causes them to commit violent crimes
including homicide, aggravated assault, sexual assault, and robbery, according to new
research by Roger D. Masters and co-workers at Dartmouth College. Thanks to the Dartmouth
College research and other studies we now know five major points about the neurotoxic
theory of crime:
1. Individuals who engage in criminal behavior are more likely to have absorbed
toxic chemicals than a comparable control population. In fact, studies now show that
low-level lead and manganese poisoning is associated with learning disabilities and
attention deficit disorder, which are themselves associated with deviant behavior. Seven
additional studies show that violent prisoners have significantly elevated levels of lead,
manganese, cadmium, mercury or other toxic metals, compared to prisoners who are not
violent. Two additional prospective studies suggest that future violent behavior of young
people can be predicted based on their exposure to toxins. Lead uptake by age seven is
associated with juvenile delinquency and increased aggression in teenage and early adult
years. The largest study of 1,000 black children in Philadelphia showed that both lead
levels and anemia were predictors of the number of juvenile offenses, the seriousness of
juvenile offenses, and the number of adult offenses, for males.
2. A wealth of studies shows how lead and manganese cause changes in the
development of the brain, and in the functioning of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Different pollutants harm the brain differently. Lead in the brain damages glia, a kind of
cell associated with inhibition and detoxification. Manganese has the effect of lowering
levels of serotonin and dopamine, which are neurotransmitters associated with impulse
control and planning. Low levels of serotonin in the brain are known to cause mood
disturbances, poor impulse control, and increases in aggressive behavior, effects that are
increasingly treated with Prozac.
3. Children who are raised from birth on infant formula and who are not breast-fed
will absorb five times as much manganese as breast-fed infants. Calcium deficiency
increases the absorption of manganese. A combination of manganese toxicity and calcium
deficiency adds up to reverse Prozac. Also, because metals such as lead diminish a
persons’ normal ability to detoxify poisons, lead may heighten the effects of alcohol
and drugs.
4. Children are receiving doses of toxic metals sufficient to be associated with
violent behavior. Despite recent significant decreases in lead in the environment, because
of bans on leaded gasoline and paint, in towns where automobile traffic has historically
been high and in towns where industries have released large quantities of toxic metals for
years, many local soils still contain toxic quantities of lead, cadmium, and manganese
sufficient to poison children who play in the dirt. Aging water delivery systems very
likely contribute lead and manganese because lead pipes and even iron pipes contain these
toxins.
5. Children absorb up to 50 percent of the lead they ingest, compared to eight
percent for adults. Even low exposures in the womb and in early childhood can have
permanent effects on intelligence and behavior. It is now known that children exposed in
utero to polychlorinated biphenyls the mother absorbs through consumption of contaminated
seafood grow up with lowered IQ, poor comprehension and reading skills. Current lead
levels are known to have direct effects on neurotransmitters that are known to affect
cognition and to influence impulse control and the high highest levels of lead uptake are
reported in precisely the demographic groups most likely to commit violent crimes (inner
city minority youths).
FYI: Toxic Metals & Diet
Studies show a synergistic effect between toxic metals and poor diet. It has been
thoroughly documented that uptake of lead is greatly increased among individuals who have
a diet low in calcium, zinc and essential vitamins. Similarly, as noted above, calcium
deficiency greatly increases one’s absorption of manganese. Amounts of lead and
manganese that wouldn’t harm a well-nourished individual may poison undernourished
children.
Federal studies show that black teenage males consume, on average, only about 65
percent as much calcium as whites. The calcium needs of pregnant or breast-feeding women
are higher than average, which creates a particular problem for minority women.
Non-Hispanic, black women get only 467 milligrams of calcium per day compared to 642 mg
for white women, according to government studies.
Infant formulas should be considered possible toxicity potentiators because of
increased manganese absorption by babies who drink infant formulas and who are not
breastfed. Poor mothers tend not to breast-feed their babies. By 1986-87, 73 percent of
infants born to mothers with more than 12 years of education were breastfed compared with
49 percent of infants born to mothers with 12 years of education, and 31 percent of
mothers with less than 12 years of education. Furthermore, white infants are more than
three times as likely to be breastfed as black infants. The effects of manganese toxicity
associated with infant formula are thus greatest for the poor, for ethnic minorities, and
for those with little education. Alcohol increases the uptake of toxic metals, at least in
laboratory animals, and probably has a similar effect on humans.
Personal Counsel . . .
Childhood exposure to heavy metals is such an important issue. It is not the only
cause of maladapted teen behavior. But no caring parent should turn a blind eye to this
possibility in the event that a child engages in seemingly unexplainable violent behavior
or outbursts, suffers from poor comprehension, reading skills, attention deficit disorder
or is involved in criminal activities.
Test for metal contamination if a child is demonstrating symptoms of neurological
toxicity, if only to rule it out as a possible causative or exacerbating influence.
Detoxification may be required to save the child from a life of crime and heartache if
blood, urine, fecal or hair levels are above normal range for metal contamination. Many
avenues of detoxification are available. Low-heat saunas are proven to aid in the
elimination of heavy metals, pesticides, and other industrial toxins (see our advertiser,
page 00).
Use of PCA-Rx
may be the most important nutritional avenue available to parents who seek to aid
their children in detoxification. Clinical lab reports indicate its efficacy is comparable
to medically prescribed chelation agents.
PCA-Rx is an oral clathration formula that goes beyond typically employed metal chelation
agents such ethylene diaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA),
d-penicillamine, and dimercaptoproponol.
Chelation therapy may be described as one dimensional. In contrast, oral
clathration is a three-dimensional process. PCA-Rx is comprised of specifically sequenced
glycoproteins and peptides form a lattice or inclusion complex and multiple receptor sites
attach to a toxic molecule with irreversible bonds, literally wrapping around the toxic
substance to prevent additional reactions with tissues or organs as it is eliminated from
the body. Unlike the ionic bond utilized to transport metals from the body with chelation
therapy, oral clathration therapy utilizes ionic, covalent and hydrogen bonds. Not one but
three major types of bonds at multiple points are created. Also, DMSA and DMPA are drugs
that can stress the body and pose risks for side effects. They are not suitable for
long-term therapy. Heavy metal poisoning of children requires long-term therapy. Because
of its lack of toxicity and side effects, PCA-Rx is a better choice.
PCA-Rx is said to have a high bonding affinity for heavy metals. Most toxins or
heavy metals that attach to cell receptors do so in a manner that is competitively
reversible, so if molecules like those in PCA-Rx come along with greater affinity, the
toxins can be dislodged from the receptors, which then once again can be receptive to
neurotransmitters.
Because of the formula's tremendous affinity for heavy metals, this is an
improvement over chelation therapy, which has a much more difficult time removing heavy
metals from cell receptors.
Maxam Nutraceutics
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Hood River, Oregon 97031
USA
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