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the toxins. The first thing we see in these patients is that neurotransmitters, fats, particular lipoproteins, and as a result they
the chemicals the body uses between brain cells—serotonin, dopamine and will cause different symptoms depending on
others—cannot be properly destroyed. After they complete their function, which part of the brain is clogged with these
these brain chemicals are transported to the liver to be destroyed or recycled. toxins.
That process requires lots of sulfur and if the body is deficient, it cannot do The brains of autistic children are loaded
this. So the body fills up with debris of these neurotransmitters, partially with toxins. These children are born with normal
damaged neurotransmitters. They still react with the brain cells and cause brains and they have normal eyes, ears and other
a lot of neurological and mental symptoms. sensory organs. These sensory organs collect
Viruses have been found in autistic patients. Andrew Wakefield found information from the environment. Little babies
measles virus. Another is herpes virus, and there is a proliferation of many stare at you, they touch everything, they are
other viruses as well. As long as your gut is populated by beneficial viruses, like little sponges, they collect information and
these pathogenic viruses should not take hold. then the information is sent to the brain to be
Nature likes to fight like with like. In order to deal with bad bacteria, processed. When the brain processes the sensory
you must have good bacteria; in order to deal with bad yeast you have to information, the child learns: this is mommy, this
populate the gut with good yeast; in order to deal with bad viruses, you is daddy, this is a spoon, this is a toy. I play with
have to populate the gut with good viruses. this toy like that and not any other way—I don’t
eat it or destroy it, but play with it.
TOXIC BRAINS If the brain of the child is clogged with
What happens when these pathogenic species of bacteria, yeast, viruses toxicity, all this sensory information cannot be
and other microbes overgrow in the digestive tract? They transform the gut processed properly, it turns into a noise, a mush.
from a source of nourishment to a source of toxicity. The food that comes Highly functioning autistic individuals tell us
along gets digested by this abnormal mass of microbes, they convert it into they can hear some frequencies but not others.
hundreds of toxins that flow into the blood stream through the damaged Some people’s voices sound to them like they are
gut wall. under water. Some of these sounds hurt. Or, they
What happens in autistic children or children with other learning dis- can hear frequencies of their mom but not their
abilities? These toxins get into their brains. Depending on the type, these dad. Some sounds are painful, some are pleasur-
toxins attach to particular brain structures, particular proteins, particular able, some are stimulating, some are annoying,

TOXINS PRODUCED BY YEASTS

ALCOHOL: The production of alcohol by candida and other yeasts results in what is called auto-brewery syndrome,
first described by a Japanese doctor in the 1970s. Today, this phenomenon is well-known. Gut dysbiosis can result in a
chronic state of semi-drunkenness, which is particularly devastating to young children.

ACETALDEHYDE: The liver converts alcohol into acetaldehyde, an extremely toxic substance. Anyone who has experi-
enced a hangover knows what acetaldehyde does. It causes hundreds of devastating effects on the body. Acetaldehyde
attaches itself to various proteins in the body and changes that protein’s structure. Then the immune system comes along
and looks at the protein and says, “You are foreign, you are not mine” and starts attacking it and producing antibodies.
So acetaldehyde in the body creates auto-immunity. And because acetaldehyde attaches itself to a lot of proteins that
are the working sites for various nutrients in the body, these nutrients cannot fulfill their functions. The most common
deficiency that can result is vitamin B deficiency. Tests show that B is present in the bloodstream, but the receptors for
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it do not work. Vitamin B deficiency is linked to the problems we see in autistic children—learning disabilities, hyper-
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activity and dyslexia—and in schizophrenics as well.
DERMORPHIN and DELTORPHIN: A New York biochemist named Alan Freedman found these two frightening substances
in the urine and blood of autistic children. These are identical to the toxins found on the skin of those colorful Amazonian
frogs. The local tribes dip the end of their darts on the skin of these frogs in order to paralyze their enemies—these are
extremely potent neurotoxins that cause paralysis. The interesting thing is that it is not the frog that produces the toxin
but a fungus that grows on the skin of the frogs. The suspicion is that the autistic child grows that fungus in his digestive
system and the fungus produces the toxin. This may account for some characteristic muscle tone abnormalities seen in
many autistic children

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