Urinary porphyrin
profiles
[back] Mercury
BOYD HALEY comments: IOM To Hold Workshop on Autism (& not
vaccines)
This is the old ploy of "looking were it ain't" if you don't want to
find something. I have encouraged parents of autistic children in the USA
to get urinary porphyrin profiles done to determine if their child shows
signs of mercury toxicity. It is almost 100% that these children, at least
those that have reported back to me, are moderate to extremely mercury toxic
with regards to this clinical testing procedure. Just where would children
less than 7 years of age obtain enough mercury to inhibit their porphyrin
pathways? So the IOM suggests looking everywhere except where the most
logical place would be, in the vaccines given to these children that
contained thimerosal. The IOM ought to be ashamed of itself, if not for
doing something scientifically dishonest, then for being so inept as to
think vaccine exclusion from consideration of exclusion for autism causation
would be accepted by the American public. Most importantly, while they are
looking everywhere else these children lose time before an acceptable
treatment for mercury toxicity can be developed---and at least a significant
number of autistic children are definitely mercury toxic. Boyd Haley
[May 2007]
The mercury, autism debacle: How stupid do they
think we are? by Michael Wagnitz
If one was really interested in determining the body burden of
mercury they would perform the urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA).
Porphyrins are precursors to heme, the oxygen carrying component of
blood. Mercury inhibits the conversion of specific porphyrins to
heme. This test is backed by decades of published research. Recently
it was shown in two published, peer-reviewed studies, that mercury
inhibited porphyrins were significantly higher in autistic patients
when compared to age matched controls (1)(2). The other way to test
for mercury in the body is by using a provoking agent and measuring
mercury in the urine. ...... Dr. Fombonne refers to the amount
of mercury in vaccines as "trace". Again, if he were a toxicologist
or chemist, he would realize that the concentration of mercury in a
multi-dose vaccine vial is 250 times higher than what the United
States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies as hazardous
waste.