Psychoactive drugs in our drinking water could be triggering autism notes biology professor
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
June 7, 2012
A new scientific study has uncovered evidence suggesting a link between low levels of anti-depressants and other psychoactive drugs in drinking water supplies and the triggering of Autism.
The New Scientist reports that the study, undertaken by professor of evolutionary biology Michael Thomas of Idaho State University in Pocatello, found that just traces of selective serotonin uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as prozac, a common anti-depressant medication, had significant effects on the neurological activity of fish.
Thomas exposed fathead minnows to the drugs for a period of just under three weeks in doses comparable with the highest estimated environmental levels, and found that the exact same genes turned on in people with autism were also triggered in the fish after exposure.
“While others have envisioned a causal role for psychotropic drugs in idiopathic autism, we were astonished to find evidence that this might occur at very low dosages, such as those found in aquatic systems.” Thomas said.
Thomas notes that his findings could indicate that residues of psychiatric medications found in the drinking supply may be a cause of autism in humans.
The study notes that its findings dovetail with previous research indicating that pregnant women who take SSRIs are more likely to have autistic children. It also adds weight to research that has previously found a link between Psychiatric drugs and autism-like symptoms in rats exposed to the medicines.
The study has been published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
Thomas says that before any conclusions can be drawn further tests need to be carried out on mammals. His team of researchers plans to spike the drinking water of pregnant mice with the same pharmaceuticals to observe the effects.
They also intend to study drinking water supplies across the nation with the highest concentrations of the drugs, in order to determine whether fish and people in the areas are exhibiting autism-like gene expression patterns.
“An environmental cause is really not on the radar for a lot of people,” Thomas told reporters. “My sincere hope is that this opens the door to a new question and allows people to look into that possibility.”
As Thomas notes in his study, anti-depressants can easily work their way into the drinking water supplies because up to 80 per cent of each drug passes straight through the human body without being broken down. Filtration of waste water supplies does not adequately remove the substances. “They just fly right through,” Thomas notes.
Of course, a huge number of Americans are already being mass medicated against their will through the water supply by the artificial addition of sodium fluoride, from which one of a myriad of debilitating health effects includes lowered IQ and increased docility. Indeed, as Joseph Borkin documented in his book The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, the first occurrence of artificially fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany’s Nazi prison camps. The Nazis explained that the reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize women and coerce the victims of their concentration camps into calm submission.
In addition, health authorities are actively pushing for drugs that have been found to deepen depression and cause memory loss to be added to public water supplies, in a chilling throwback to how the population in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World were mass medicated with Soma to keep them docile and easy to control.
Studies have shown that the dangers of statins have been deliberately underplayed by drug companies.
Statins are taken by tens of millions of people worldwide, a boon for drug companies like Merck, whose chief executive Henry Gadsden back in 1975 dreamed of being able to sell a drug to people who had no immediately identifiable illness, or as Mike Adams writes, “They needed a way to sell drugs to healthy people.” Statins were born and the financial windfall for Big Pharma quickly followed.
Drug companies claim that statins have been proven to lower cholesterol and help prevent heart disease and strokes, leading many health experts to insist that they be artificially added to public water supplies, but dangerous side-effects buried by drug companies conducting statin trials have now come to light, in addition to the fact that “for three quarters of those taking them, they offer little or no value.”
A study published in the Cochrane Library, which reviews drug trials, examined data from 14 drugs trials involving 34,000 patients and found evidence of “short-term memory loss, depression and mood swings,” that had been deliberately underplayed by the drug companies funding the research.
The researchers warn that, “Statins should only be prescribed to those with heart disease, or who have suffered the condition in the past. Researchers warn that unless a patient is at high risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, statins may cause more harm than good.”
However, despite the fact that statins have also been linked to a greater risk of liver dysfunction, acute kidney failure, cataracts and muscle damage, health authorities have been pushing for the drug to be added to public water supplies as part of a mass medication program that is not only illegal without consent, but also threatens a plethora of unknown consequences.
George Lundberg, MD, the editor of MedPageToday, which is a mouthpiece for the American Medical Association, recently wrote an op-ed entitled, Should We Put Statins in the Water Supply?
In May 2008, renowned cardiologist Professor Mahendra Varma called for statins to be artificially added to drinking water.
Putting statins in the water supply was also considered during a November 2008 discussionwhich featured Robert Bonow, M.D., of Northwestern University in Chicago, Gordon F. Tomaselli, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Anthony De Maria, M.D., of the University of California at San Diego.
Also in November 2008, CNBC aired a segment lauding the effectiveness of statins, after which one of the hosts remarked, “Why don’t they just put statins in the water supply,” to which CNBC’s medical expert replied, “A lot of people have said that and they are in the water in fact.”
In December 2009, we reported on how Japanese health authorities were considering adding trace amounts of lithium to public water supplies as a “mood stabilizer” in a bid to lower the suicide rate. Fox News medical expert Dr. Archelle Georgiou gave the concept tacit approval when she labeled the study an “interesting concept” and refused to even mention the moral aspects of mass drugging people against their will.
In his 1977 book Ecoscience, current White House science czar John P. Holdren also advocated adding sterilant drugs to the water supply as part of a program of “involuntary fertility control”.
Of course, the water supply is just one of a myriad of factors to consider when studying disorders such as autism. As we have previously noted, cases of autism have exploded with the increase of childhood vaccinations.
Cases of autism in the U.S. have now increased by over 2700 per cent since 1991, which is when vaccines for children doubled, and the number of immunizations is only increasing. Just one in 2,500 children were diagnosed with autism before 1991, whereas one in 91 children now have the disease, up from one in 150 in 2003.
Multiple studies have found a direct link between the use of the mercury based preservative thimerosal and a dramatic rise in cases of autism. however, such findings have been consistently dismissed by the CDC.
Similar/Related Articles
- Sixth study in recent months links mercury in flu shots to brain damage, autism
- Too Much Fluoride in the Drinking Water
- Is atheism linked to autism? Controversial study points to relationship between the two
- Local group forms to battle fluoridation of public drinking water supplies
- Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Drugs Added To Water Supply
- Avoiding Artificial Sweeteners? They Are In The Drinking Water
- Why Fluoride Should Be Banned From Our Drinking Water
- Studies find more chemicals, medications in drinking water
- Japanese Researchers Suggest Putting Lithium in Drinking Water
- Radiation Found In San Francisco, CA Tap Water – 18,100% Above Drinking Water Limit
- Fluoride in Drinking Water may Negatively Affect Health of Fetuses and Infants
- Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities
Starta en blogg!
Logga in
Registrera dig
Kontakt
Stefan
Inlägg - RSS 2.0
0
(NaturalNews) If vaccines play absolutely no role in the development of childhood autism, a claim made by many medical authorities today, then why are some of the most popular vaccines commonly administered to children demonstrably causing autism in animal primates? This is the question many people are now asking after a recent study conducted by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh (UP) in Pennsylvania revealed that many of the infant monkeys given standard doses of childhood vaccines as part of the new research developed autism symptoms.
