If I May Be So Bold?

Another musing on autism

I was brought up to call a spade a spade. My guiding principle in science was and remains Occam’s razor. I struggle with ambiguity or perhaps more accurately, inexactness. The term ‘autism spectrum disorder’ is ambiguous and, in my opinion, divisive. The latter because it does not discriminate between brain damage and brain difference. The former, brain damage, is what I consider as autism. It is wholly avoidable. Brain difference is what makes us human. It is neither deficit nor gift. It is simply brain wiring both physical through connections between neurones and other non-neuronal cells and chemical through substances such as neurotransmitters. It explains why I could never be Mozart no matter how long and hard I practiced the piano.

However, there is a spectrum of brain damage defining the autism phenotype. There is also a continuum of brain damage brought about by continuous exposure to its perpetrator. Brain damage defining autism is not per se reversible. However, providing its perpetrator is no longer wreaking havoc, compensation is possible through damage repair allowing improved brain function. Of course, the nature of compensation will depend upon the severity of the initial insult and resulting damage.

As an active scientist, working at the bench and being at the whim of funding bodies and journal reviewers and editors I maintained a guarded approach to the subject of aluminium and autism. I stood by what the peer reviewed published science reported and I concluded, of course, that more research was needed to refute or confirm a role for aluminium in autism. As a fallen scientist, retired against my wishes and writing a substack I can now reveal my true conclusions on this matter.

I am now convinced that the perpetrator I wrote about previously is aluminium. Critical in allowing me to reach this conclusion was our observation that immune reactive cells shown to populate vaccine injection sites, such as lymphocytes and macrophages, carry cargoes of neurotoxic aluminium from the periphery into the brain. The significance of this route of entry of aluminium into brain tissue cannot be overstated. Before we made this seminal observation our and the general understanding of how aluminium entered brain tissue was centred upon mechanisms that only allowed a gradual accumulation of aluminium in brain tissue over decades of exposure. To my mind, prior to this observation there was no mechanism whereby aluminium could be a cause of autism. There was no route by which aluminium could enter the brain of an infant in sufficient amounts to produce an encephalopathy and inflammatory response characteristic of brain damage in autism. Our research, and specifically our imaging of aluminium in autism brain tissue, threw all of this out of the window and turned our understanding of aluminium toxicity on its head. However, this revolutionary research (of course, you do not know that it will be revolutionary at the time) also revealed another factor, one that can only be highly controversial generally if not to me. In an infant the only route of exposure to aluminium in everyday life capable of delivering an acutely toxic cargo of aluminium to brain tissue is through vaccination. No other route of exposure, including the scandal of aluminium in infant formulas, will result in loading of significant numbers of migratory phagocyctic cells with aluminium.

Migratory cells that will carry their toxic load throughout the body as part of their normal housekeeping duties. Migratory cells that subconsciously transport neurotoxic amounts of aluminium into infant brains as part of a normal physiological response. They may be responding to a cry for help from a minor insult in brain tissue only to exacerbate and further catalyse the insult through the delivery of acutely neurotoxic aluminium. This response will continue for as long as there is aluminium adjuvant available at a vaccine injection site.

Thankfully, it is the case that this delivery of aluminium is not made for every infant receiving an aluminium adjuvanted vaccine. There is a trigger and why this trigger is pulled for some infants and not others needs to be understood. However, while we are in denial about the role played by aluminium in brain damage in autism such research will never be carried out. Almost certainly a better and immediate solution is to stop using aluminium adjuvants with immediate effect. If I may be Nostradamus for just this moment, I can easily predict that an immediate ban on the use of aluminium adjuvants in vaccines will end the autism (brain damage) epidemic.

The question then arises as to how to treat and protect those infants and individuals already brain damaged by their exposure to aluminium through the childhood vaccination programme. The key is to reduce all further exposure to aluminium. While some of this can be achieved through lifestyle changes and especially reducing exposure through diet the insurance required is regular drinking of a silicon-rich mineral water.

It is impossible to avoid all exposure to aluminium in the aluminium age but by regular drinking of a silicon-rich mineral water you will optimise your excretion of aluminium from the body. I have received many anecdotal reports of the benefits of drinking silicon-rich mineral waters in infants and adolescents with autism. While, as I have written previously, it may not be possible to reverse brain damage in autism it is possible to optimise the brain’s recovery from such an insult and to prevent further damage through continued exposure to aluminium.

My musings on autism may not be everybody’s cup of tea. I make no apology for using my substack to tell you all what I couldn’t say as an active and respected working scientist. I want to see an end to autism as I want the same for Alzheimer’s disease. I want to see an end to the pharmaceutical industry and medicine in general benefitting from the misery of others. I will always remain optimistic that this will happen. I write this substack for everyone. However, if you think my words and opinions are worth a small donation then do not be afraid to take out a paid subscription. It will be very much appreciated.