Wireless
Radiation in the Etioligy and Treatment of Autism: Clinical
Observations and Mechanisms.
Australasian Journal
of Clinical Environmental Medicine, 2007;
Vol.26, No.2 pages 3 – 7
‘…the rise in cases
of autism is paralleled by the huge growth in mobile phone
and
Wi-Fi usage since
the late 1990’s…’
The following material is from the press release:
A
groundbreaking scientific study published this month (November
2007) in the peer-reviewed Australasian Journal of Clinical
Environmental Medicine warns that wireless communication
technology may be responsible for accelerating the rise in
autism among the world’s children.
Autism
is a disabling neuro-developmental disorder whose cause is
not completely understood, but is known to involve heavy metal
toxicity. American advocacy groups call
autism "the fastest-growing developmental disability
in the United States." Twenty years ago, only 1 in 10,000
children were diagnosed with some form of autism; U.S. government
data show the rate in 2002 to be 1 in 150; clinicians who
treat the disease estimate the occurrence today to be closer
to 1 in 100.
The children studied
were seen by Tamara Mariea 2,
a certified clinical nutritionist based in Nashville, Tennessee,
specializing in treating autism. She is the primary author
of the paper, along with Dr. George Carlo 1,
an expert on the dangers of electromagnetic radiation (EMR),
who headed the world’s largest research program on mobile
phone health hazards in the 1990s. Their work revealed the
autism-wireless technology connection following a series of
tests on autistic children monitored during 2005 and 2006.
The autistic children
followed specific detoxification protocols in an environment
that was mitigated with regard to sources of EMR including
mobile phones and Wi-Fi 3.
Heavy metal excretions were monitored from hair, urine and
feces over periods ranging from several weeks to several months.
The researchers found that with protocols administered in
the mitigated environment, heavy metals were cleared from
the children’s bodies in a pattern dependent on time and molecular
weight. The heaviest metals, such as mercury and uranium,
cleared last. In many of the children, the decrease in metals
was concomitant with symptom amelioration.
Tamara Mariea, said:
“These findings give us very important clues to solving
some of the enigmas we see in the autism literature regarding
the efficacy of detoxification. And, we are extremely pleased
with the results we are now seeing in these children. Our
protocols are working.”
Dr. Carlo said, “These
findings tie in with other studies showing adverse cell-membrane
responses and disruptions of normal cell physiology. The EMR
apparently causes the metals to be trapped in cells, slowing
clearance and accelerating the onset of symptoms.”
He continued, “Although
some of the increase in autism can be ascribed to more efficient
diagnosis by the medical community, a rise of this magnitude
must have a major environmental cause. Our data offer a reasonable
mechanistic explanation for a connection between autism and
wireless technology”.
The authors point out that the rise in cases of autism is
paralleled by the huge growth in mobile phone and Wi-Fi usage
since the late 1990’s – with worldwide wireless usage now
having reached nearly 4 billion persons
Footnotes:
1. In the 1990s, Dr George Carlo headed the $28.5 million
Wireless Technology Research program, funded by the mobile
phone industry and overseen by the federal government, studying
health hazards from mobile phone technology. He is currently
head of the non-profit Science and Public Policy Institute,
based in Washington, D.C.
2.
Tamara Mariea is Director of Internal Balance, Inc.
in Nashville, Tennessee. Since 2000, she has helped over 500
autistic children.
3. Wi-Fi refers to technologies that use wireless communication
to connect computers to the Internet.
The research paper can be accessed by following the link –http://www.icwhatsnew.com/special_features/index.htm
