Race Baiting in the Controversy of the MMR Vaccine and the CDC

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Mark Pegram

There has recently been news related to the admittance by the CDC of omitting data about the MMR vaccine and the African-American population. It seems that there is data from as early as 2001 that the MMR vaccine is responsible for a 240% increase in autism in that population. Words such as “murder” and “black babies condemned to medical violence” have been used. I do not think that this is appropriate language. The greater question is why does dark skin cause a higher incidence of autism? Is there a key factor that allows a higher incidence of autism with the MMR vaccine? Here is Mike Adams article on the media cover up and his explanation. Mike is great in finding out the facts. Also, here is a fifteen minute You Tube video of an interview about how the information came to light from independent journalist Gary Franchi. Also, Dr. David Brownstein’s comments.

I believe there are two primary factors associated with the higher increase in autism in the dark skin population. First, I believe it is directly related to the well-established fact that people with darker skin have lower levels of vitamin D. The greater question should then be does lower vitamin D levels in children lead to a higher incidence of autism? Second, I do believe there are nutritional issues where children do not get enough sulfur proteins and vegetables and not enough folates, a B vitamin, (please note, not folic acid another health issue) to allow the body’s natural elimination process for toxins to occur.

Until scientist start using proper statistical methods to allow for a better understanding of multivariate causes, we will continue to have issues with clearly understanding the data. All studies should use nutritional testing in addition to testing for specific effects. There are methods that have been used in manufacturing that could readily be adapted to medical studies that have been in place since the 1970’s. These graphical methods not only allows the novice to see the effects, it also allows the reviewer to see which variant caused the effect and clearly shows interactions. Dr. John Cannell, Vitamin D Council, has stated in the past that all of our medical studies may be invalid because of not testing nutritional factors specifically vitamin D.

To protect your child against the toxicity of the MMR vaccine, there should first be assurance that the child is getting enough sunshine for exposure to UVB or supplementation of vitamin D. Also the child should be getting enough of the sulfur proteins and vegetables to allow the natural detox functions. A colorful array of fruits and vegetables should also allow for enough B vitamins and minerals to allow the function of the protein sulfur processes to generate glutathione, a natural waste remover in the body. Here is a list of high sulfur foods from Livestrong.com.

It is not just the dark skin population that we should have concern, but all of the population. Political dalliances along with the understanding by our government that the economic strength of the nation through our health sector is more important than the health of the individual; we have created a very unhealthy population. Our children’s life expectancy is now less than their parents. With the election of a person with dark skin to President, we have caused more racial unrest through his actions. Race baiting in not the proper approach. God loves all his children – seek first love, joy, and peace. – Pandemic Survivor

On Mother’s Day

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Mark Pegram

My mother was a lovely beautiful woman who had nine children. She worked both hard in the kitchen and hard in the fields. She promoted the characteristics of commitment, integrity, and character. We celebrate mother’s all over the world for without them, we would not be. Mother’s effort:

It is important to remember the children as well on this day. Sometimes infants are born with hearts that do not thrive. It is important, along with standard treatment to be sure they are getting enough vitamin D. Read about this at he Vitamin D Council, Infant Heart Failure.

As we forgive and ask for forgiveness for the number one cause of death in the US, a mother’s right to choice, we celebrate life. – Pandemic Survivor

Assault on the Nervous Systems by Anti-Cognitive Chemicals

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Mark Pegram

What do chloramines, fluoridation, lead corrosion, vitamin D deficiency, bromine, mineral sulfate removal, and iodine deficiency have in common? They should all be classified as anti-cognitive biological chemical processes. We can be our own worst enemy. We have been highly successful in our use of chemicals for technological advancement. We try to protect ourselves from toxic substances and pathogens, while creating health problems through unintended consequences. This has been the case for increases in Alzheimer’s, ADD, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and other general cognitive impairment. Halogen (iodine, bromine, fluorine, etc.) physiology along with mineral deficiencies needs to be significantly reviewed in the US and the use of halogens in our food supplies and water sources need to be adjusted accordingly.

Consider in the late 1990’s that the EPA decided it would be a really great thing to reduce the amount of chloromethane created from the chlorination of water. They did this by forcing the use of ammonia added to water at the treatment plants creating chemicals in the water called chloramines. Chloramines formed in water are so toxic that fish cannot live in it. However, it is a longer lasting water disinfectant and it does not seem to generate as much chloromethane, a carcinogen. However, the other toxic disinfectant byproducts (DBP’s) that are created and unregulated are of concern. One of these may be halogen acetic acids. HAA’s have a stated standard with standards for chloro-acetic acid and iodo-acetic acid, but no standard for fluoro-acetic acid.

Chloraminated water is much more corrosive, most likely from the created HAA’s. This causes the leaching of lead from water pipes in supply and distribution systems (my city has thousands of miles of iron pipe held together at the joints with lead like must municipalities) and home potable water systems that are joined with solder lead joints. There have been several studies showing an increase in lead content in water after the start of chloramination or the use of chloramines.

Fluoride has been shown to aid the build-up of the concentration of lead in the human body. So by fluoridation of water to supposedly improve our dental health along with the use of chloramines, we have inadvertently created higher amounts of lead. This is of major concern for the developing brains of our children and the aging brains of elderly.

The US is the only country in the world that allows the use of bromine in baking and in cloudy citrus drinks. This iodine mimic causes significantly physiological malfunction in the thyroid as well as other functional biological iodine processes. Consider that children have a ten to fifteen times higher uptake of iodine versus adults and consider the damage. Bromine is not used in other countries because it is a carcinogen.

Add to this vitamin and mineral deficiency. Vitamin D is responsible for mineral balance in the body, in particular the sodium-sulfate co-transporter. Adequate sulfate is necessary for the formation of cerebroside sulfate that is necessary for proper neuron development. Also consider that iodine deficiency is considered by the World Health Organization as the number one cause of mental illness in the world. Sulfate also is the body’s best defense against toxins as it removes them through water soluble sulfate esters. Cities remove the sulfate minerals from the water because it is stinky and plugs the pipes. Iodine, D3, and sulfate deficiencies combine as a disaster for mental function.

Take away iodine, vitamin D3, sulfate and add neuro-toxins and iodine mimics and you have the perfect conditions necessary for cognitive impairment. Well the cause is idiopathic the experts claim. Is Dr. M. Scott Peck accurate in his description of group evil through specialization? One thing is certain, idiots and unintended consequences always seem to find each other. In the case of water disinfection and vitamin and mineral deficiencies, you might say that this meeting of idiots and unintended consequences has created epicentric waves of causation for cognitive impairment. For now, your cognizant commenter – Pandemic Survivor

Deeper Sleep, Reduced Pain, Better Daytime Performance

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Mark Pegram

Sleep requirements, including quality, depth, and length of sleep are extremely important to health and a normal active day. Stress is the major detractor of sleep in its many forms. Whether it is stress from play, work, relationships, or physical pain, a downward spiral begins when stress is not relieved. Of course the best mental stress reduction is to pray continuously or to meditate throughout the day for brief periods. But what about the physical stress of pain? Is there something simple that I can take that is safe that will allow me better sleep? An absolute yes! GELATIN!

In the industrialized world, our diet has changed so that we are consuming primarily muscle meat protein. It turns out that approximately fifty percent of the protein in the body is contained in collagen or in the cooked form, gelatin. There has been such a push on reduced fat for heart health that many people confuse fat with gelatin. They separate it from the cooked meat instead of making protein rich gravy as it was done fifty years ago on the typical American table. It was always one of my favorite things as a child to feast on the rich gravies that my mother made. It did not make any difference what type of meat we had. There was always gravy. White flour gravy with chicken was just the right touch to savor with conversation after Sunday diner. Dark brown gravy that accompanied the roast beef with the evening meal on a work night was fantastic. After the meal, sleep came on with splendid ease. Red eye gravy that we mixed with the grits for breakfast seemed to always make the day go much easier.

You have a cold that just want go away and your mother wraps you up in nice warm blankets and prepares a hot bowl of chicken soup. Ah, how relaxing a mother’s love and chicken soup that seem to make the cold evaporate as vapors leaving with the morning sun. What did that chicken soup have that was never associated with health benefits? It was of course the chicken stock collected from cooking down remains of the last meal prepared with chicken. The stock of course was collected from the pot that cooked down skin, bones, and chicken carcass. This stock was rich in peptides, amino acids, and proteins or from shorter to longer, the building blocks necessary for health. And let’s not overlook the fats that are a part of the rich drippings that are necessary for the formation of hormones in the body as well as many other functions.

Let’s not forget the multiple arrays of gelatin deserts and punch mixes. Fruit gelatin was a great desert that was not filled with added sugar or artificial sweeteners. One of my favorites was cherry gelatin made with fresh ripe red cherries in early June. Ah, the punches were just unbelievable for special occasions. Ginger ale mixed in equal parts with pineapple juice with a pack of lime Jello added is just unbelievably good – mmmmmahhhh! There is much sugar in this punch, but it was only served on special occasions.

It is bedtime and you have had a terrible day. Go find that pack of gelatin without sugar added and wet the powder out in a small amount of cold water. After the powder is wetted and dispersed, you can then further dissolved it in hot water with a sleepy time tea or other hot drink like warm milk. Just plain gelatin does not have much taste. I know one person that just mixes a whole packet of gelatin or about a tablespoon full with water. She then slugs it down just before bed and claims an extremely restful evening and much clearer thinking the next day. It seems the right amount of gelatin for relaxation is about one teaspoon for each fifty pounds of body weight. In the morning, you can sprinkle gelatin on your oatmeal or put it in your favorite smoothy.

Let’s not forget the ladies in the farm neighborhood where I grew up that took gelatin to relieve joint pain. Yep, that’s right, just plain old gelatin. Their claims were that it would make their joint pain just disappear in a matter of hours after consuming gelatin. But then again, they also ate lots of dark leafy greens that seemed to be the other part of this formula for joint relief.

So you don’t believe me and you want to mess up my pleasant memories of childhood with messy science that most likely has been manipulated for profit? Then you are on your own, but if you have that bent, it is some extremely interesting reading. See further reading below. From your laid back and relaxed, healed from back pain, and sleep apnea with great enjoyment of life from appropriate micronutrients and the love of God and others; feel your stress dissolve and your pain fly away as you go to sleep little baby – Pandemic Survivor

Gelatin from Wikipedia
Gelatin, Stress, and Longevity – Ray Peat
GABA and Glycine
Vanilloid receptor-1 (TRPV-1)-dependant activation of inhibitory neurotransmission in spinal gelatinosa neurons of mice –
TRPV1; on the road to pain relief
The effects of glycine on subjective daytime performance in partially sleep restricted volunteers
TRPV1 from Wikipedia

Children – How Much Vitamin D

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Mark Pegram

Children and vitamin D will be the discussion for the next several decades as we try to discover the true importance of how sunshine interacts with growth and disease states. We have spent the last fifty years figuring out ways to keep children from going into the sun. The sun, we were told is going to be very bad for your skin and will lead to skin cancer if you get burned as a child. We were also told even if you do not burn that too much exposure to sun is not a good thing. We have never been told that low or no exposure to sun is a not good and even a very bad thing because of infections and chronic disease.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, there were never any of my friends that had trouble with their backs unless they had hurt themselves in some fashion. Spine issues were minor of course except for the few cases of spina bifida or scoliosis. I truly believe that both of these diseases are from the mother being vitamin D deficient in combination with other nutrients like folic acid for spina bfida. Now it is impossible to talk with a teenager that does not know someone their age that has had back surgery. This is just the beginning of a host of chronic diseases for children of the 1980’s, 90’s, 10’s that will result in mass illness of many forms.

To prevent the most of diseases, both chronic and infectious, vitamin D is a necessity. So then the question arises how much vitamin D should we get and how should we maintain a healthy exposure to the sun. Let me first say that exposure to the sun is still a growing science and we do not know all of the biochemical activity that is happening when we expose ourselves to the sun. Our relationship to the sun has changed forever with the development of sunscreens and sun block. Only with a consistent effort to redevelop this relationship will health be achieved. I maintain that the best approach is to just use common sense. The best common sense approach is to maintain a vitamin D level as if it is summer all year round. If you read the medical research while using common sense you will discover that is really what the researchers that are proponents of vitamin D are saying. From your personal perspective you do not get colds in the summertime and the reason is sun exposure. By maintaining your level of vitamin D in the winter time to the summer level you will most likely not get colds then either. I have not had a cold since 2004 when I started this effort.

Babies with colds and congestion?- mothers tell me your experience. I suspect that your child will have significantly less issues if enough vitamin D is made available.

How much vitamin D does it take to achieve this summertime level? From all that I have read a good rule of thumb is to get about 40 IU of D3 from all sources for each pound of body weight. So it does not make any difference if you are a ten pound baby or a two hundred pound senior citizen. For the baby this would give it 400 IU’s per day and for the two hundred pound senior citizen that would be 8000 IU per day. This level of vitamin D intake or production in the skin should maintain your vitamin D level above 60 ng/ml, which is the bottom of the range for vitamin D for person living in a sunny country. Work done by Grant and Holick have shown the 25(OH)D level for sunny country people to be 54 ng/ml to 90 ng/ml.

Of course the only way to know if your serum level of vitamin D is above sixty is to test!

If your total level of intake or production is not 40 IU of D3 per pound of body weight and you do not test to maintain your level above 60 ng/ml then expect disease states. – Pandemic Survivor

Vitamin D Deficiency Survivor

Changing the Face of Health with Vitamin D

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