Nexus - 1801 - New Times Magazine-pages

Page Content (OCR)

helped several times by being taken to a sanitarium. There they did not let him paint or drink his absinthe beverage. He would recover, be released, but go back to painting. Then van Gogh would breathe in those paint chemicals, drink his alcohol/absinthe beverage and become deranged again. (MCS as a diagnosis was unknown in those days.) Some famous people who may have suffered from porphyria—as a result of deliberate or accidental poisoning with heavy metals—include Mozart and Beethoven. The hair mineral analysis test has proven hat King George III and Beethoven had been poisoned—George with arsenic, and Beethoven with ead. Chronic porphyria may often result from heavy metal poisoning. Beethoven's Hs CH, doctor was the L same one who a Hes os reated Napoleon HjG-C. c= -G=cH, Bonaparte, who is ca aN nown to have HG MAGNESIUM been poisoned \ with arsenic.* _. Piel) ef _. By the mid-1990s, a few medical physicians conducted studies that showed that 70 to 90 per cent of MCS sufferers had porphyrin metabolic disorders.’ In 1996, Dr Downey hypothesised that up to 20 per cent of mankind may have a genetic predisposition to develop some form of chronic porphyria after a toxic exposure— which would then cause the sufferer to have some permanent, chronic and/or environmental illness.’ More recently, other physicians have written journal articles linking hidden porphyria to fibromyalgia* and to Alzheimer's disease. Still other physicians have found that chronic infections cause some people to suffer from either a worsening genetic—or an acquired—porphyria. Could many of the people who become very ill and/or allergic after infection with si Candida, viruses, Lyme disease or acu, Chg CHa = GHy H,0-c7 Ce H- =CHy Hyo-C” apes ~H= =CH, so » —_ are » Hyc-G, aah > ~CHs Hyc-G, ofagek S CH Cle CH Che CHe CHy CHa CH; CHe a 2 hae eta protozoan parasites also be rd Nod s suffering from f porphyria? While =H ne porphyria is a HyC-C, Cie mae “CHa genetic disorder, cr ii = it can be greatly CH» CH exacerbated by GH CHe exposure to toxins . . and/or infectious (left) with magnesium at the centre; agents. This may with iron at the centre. be, at least in part, because the extra toxins overload the cytochrome P450 enzymes’ detoxification capacity. Different people have different food intolerances. Some people need to rigorously avoid foods containing any of the following: MSG, sulphur compounds (onion, garlic, broccoli, cabbage and other vegetables), salicylates (many fruits), oxalates, sialic acid (meat or dairy), histamine-forming foods, spices, gluten, lectins, nightshades (tomato, potato, peppers) or fats/oils. One reason for reacting to different substances in foods is because there are different cytochrome P450 enzymes that detoxify each of these substances. So you see that some well-known problems may really be a subset of porphyria. Take hyperactivity, for example: a recommendation of the Feingold diet for hyperactive children is to avoid salicylate-containing fruits, but a separate cytochrome P450 enzyme processes salicylates. One class of chemicals is deliberately manufactured to destroy the cytochrome P450 enzymes: pesticides. Yes, plants have cytochrome P450 enzymes that enable them to detoxify or metabolise compounds, too. And many, perhaps most, pesticides overwhelm or destroy the plants' cytochrome P450 enzymes. But our cytochrome P450 enzymes are nearly identical to those of plants—telling you what a monstrous thing it is to have people eating food containing any level of pesticides. Environmental Illnesses and Food Intolerances Figure I: Plant chlorophyll molecule haem molecule (right) It is important to remember that eavy metals or other toxins can cause much illness without inducing porphyria. But the hidden porphyric often does not ever completely recover after some exposures—including to eavy metals, pesticides, moulds and other toxins. He or she may become chronically ill and/or “allergic”. Mercury—such as is found in dental fillings, vaccines, ish, air and other sources—is likely the worst inducer of chronic porphyria. While mercury toxicity is well known o alternative practitioners, the fact that chronic porphyria is often induced in such patients unfortunately is not. Van Gogh's case is also the epitome of what | call "two sides of the same coin". On one side are the environmental illnesses; on the other side is porphyria, and possibly subsequent illnesses that occur once someone's system breaks down with porphyria. The environmental illnesses include MCS, electromagnetic field sensitivity (EMFS) and near-universal food reactivity. Porphyria may also be involved in Gulf War syndrome and illnesses resulting from breast implants, 9/11 World Trade Center destruction and Agent Orange exposure. The first to propose that MCS is linked to porphyria was the American dentist David C. Downey, DMD, whose report was published in 1992.” He found that some of his patients became chronically ill and “allergic” after metal-containing dental prostheses were implanted in them and they couldn't seem to get well. Figure I: Plant chlorophyll molecule (left) with magnesium at the centre; haem molecule (right) with iron at the centre. NEXUS * 33 DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 20II www.nexusmagazine.com