50 Human Studies In Utero, Conducted in Modern China Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound:
A New Bibliography
By Jim West
Western medical authorities insist that diagnostic ultrasound (DUS), used to observe the fetus in pregnant women, is harmless, with no known risks. But some urge caution. According to Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, author of How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor, “Ultrasound is the latest example of an unproven technology being sold to the public as being ‘perfectly safe.’ It falls in the same class as painting radium on watches, fluoroscoping children’s feet in shoe stores, routine mammography, routine chest X-rays, radiation therapy for tonsils, exposing army personnel to atomic bomb tests—in each case, the medical profession failed to take the necessary steps to protect people against a malignant technology whose risks were already known.”
In this book, researcher Jim West presents a new ultrasound bibliography, the Chinese Human Studies (CHS), conducted in China to investigate damage to the human fetus by DUS. The Chinese exposed women who had elected to undergo abortion to DUS and then studied the abortive matter. The findings: alteration and injuries in the organs, tissues, cellular ultrastructures; damage to the cytokine signalling in molecules, red blood cells, neurons and mitochondria.
Damage is proportional to duration and intensity of the machine—very worrisome since the FDA allowed an eight-fold increase in intensity in 1991, so doctors “could get a better picture.” Fetal monitors—used today instead of stethoscopes to listen to a baby’s heart—employ the same technology.
This is madness! Doctors have forgotten the dictate, “First, do no harm.” And since the medical profession is insouciant, moms will need to protect themselves. “Just say no” to diagnostic ultrasound and fetal monitors.
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Spring 2016
Thank YOU WAPF for your part in sharing this vital information! Jim West’s book and a new one, just published in 2019, The Dark Side of PreNatal Ultrasound by Jeanice Barcelo, are noted by RFK Jr in his Children’s Health Defense newsletter 8/20/19:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/known-culprit/ultrasound/prenatal-ultrasound-not-so-sound-after-all/
I was first warned about ultrasounds by my boss in the Dept of Neuroscience at UCSD, who pointed me to his own 1987 study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3308504
Intramembrane Cavitation as a Predictive Bio-Piezoelectric Mechanism for Ultrasonic Brain Stimulation
http://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011004
Here are some other great resources on ultrasounds:
Ultrasound: More Harm than Good? (many referenced studies)
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/ultrasoundwagner.asp
How Ultrasound Could Harm Your Baby
http://reset.me/story/the-possible-dangers-of-obstetric-ultrasound/
17 Scans In One Pregnancy? Why These Scientists Warn Ultrasound Could Harm Developing Brain
http://reset.me/story/17-scans-in-one-pregnancy-why-these-scientists-warn-ultrasound-could-harm-developing-brain
Why some experts suggest holding off on first-trimester ultrasounds [2016]
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865663984/Why-some-experts-suggest-holding-off-on-first-trimester-ultrasounds.html
Prenatal exposure to ultrasound waves impacts neuronal migration in mice
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538990/
“Our analysis of over 335 animals reveals that, when exposed to USW for a total of 30 min or longer during the period of their migration, a small but statistically significant number of neurons fail to acquire their proper position and remain scattered within inappropriate cortical layers and/or in the subjacent white matter. The magnitude of dispersion of labeled neurons was variable but systematically increased with duration of exposure to USW. These results call for a further investigation in larger and slower-developing brains of non-human primates and continued scrutiny of unnecessarily long prenatal ultrasound exposure.”