Young People's Problems

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There is much agonizing today about the extreme behaviour of teenagers, including drug-taking, alcoholism, knife-crime and gang warfare.

Solutions suggested by Government vary from more police on the beat, to blaming and punishing parents, to long custodial sentences…. So long as we have built more prisons to house them all.

I think we need to look at things a different way. We need to realise there is a lot of mental illness out there, causing this level of breakdown. We need also to realise that mental illness is biochemical, that there are a lot of factors rife in the environment that cause the brain to develop abnormally and to function abnormally. All of this started long before the young people got their hands on street drugs or alcohol.

We need to look at what is going wrong with the developing brain and central nervous system, and what can be done to prevent this happening.

Psychological or behavioural problems tend to be tossed to and fro between the medics who feel that drugs such as anti-depressants or tranquillizers are the answer (which has recently been disproved) and the psychiatrists who feel that talking to them will be the answer. This will also not be effective.

Many factors are compromising the development of the brain and central nervous system in the present environment. Problems can start before conception.

Prior to Conception:

The health of the sperm and ova in the modern would-be parent is under severe pressure. Among the complications are:

Lack of vital nutrients such as vitamins and minerals due to much food being grown on exhausted soil, and foods being dried, packed, stored and kept for long periods, which can cause deterioration of nutrients. Lack of specific nutrients and oils can cause infertility, so may damage sperm and ova.

Intake of poisonous substances such as alcohol, smoke, caffeine, street drugs and medical drugs. These also reduce fertility, so will be reducing the health of the fetus.

At this stage there may be intake of hormonal drugs to encourage fertility.

There may be undetected allergies, or intestinal parasites. Allergens can damage any part of the body, as can viruses, pesticides and food additives.

Electromagnetism from whatever source can be damaging to the human cell. There is much pollution from DECT phones, mobile phones and masts and so on, as well as underground water courses.

All these factors can contribute to the weakness or non-viability of the modern ova and sperm. We are told that one couple in 7 has to seek help with conception. Only a small percentage of these receive help nutritionally, or with any other aspects of natural health care.

Many sperm and ova are forced together in unnatural circumstances, in some cases the sperm is injected into the ova. Many of the subsequent babies are miscarried, born very prematurely and many are noticeably permanently disabled. It seems likely that many of those that survive have brains with less than ideal development.

It appears to me, after 30 years of promoting fertility by enhancing natural health, that Nature is very wise, and that where the sperm or the ova are in less than good health, there is a mechanism that prevents conception. By resisting this mechanism and creating people in an unnatural way, we are doing them no great favours.

Once conception has taken place:

The mother may still be on hormonal drugs designed to ensure the pregnancy continues. She may be taking quite large doses of aspirin and / or Heparin. There appear to have been no studies of the effect of these various drugs on the mental development of the unborn. Apart from the drugs, the unborn will be subjected to quite a number of ultrasound scans. When scanning was first instigated there were queries about whether it caused dyslexia or deafness. I am not aware of this research ever being followed up. Dyslexia and deafness are both reaching epidemic proportions. The deafness may be a case of imprecise hearing, rather like a badly tuned radio, rather than an inability to hear sound at all. This may be part of the reason speech therapy is so in demand. Children with any kind of hearing disability may find intelligible speech hard. Lack of Vitamin A can also be a factor in deafness from birth.

Throughout the pregnancy the disadvantages of inadequate food, environmental poisons, untreated infections and allergies, coupled with electromagnetism from all sources, will take its toll on mother and baby.

A recent study in the USA detected up to 278 noxious chemicals in the amniotic fluid of a large cohort of babies. All these poisons would have adversely affected the development of the baby’s most sensitive organ, his brain. Huge efforts should be made to identify these chemicals and eliminate them from the environment as much as possible.

It is a measure of how unfriendly to the unborn the present day environment is, that one baby in every 4 is miscarried. This is appalling, but is largely ignored.

If one MP in every 4 perished every year in the House of Commons, strenuous efforts would be made to discover WHY. The unborn deserve that we show similar concern towards them.

At Birth and During Infancy:

The first health hazard facing the newborn may be the effect of the pain-killing drugs given during labour. These may range from gas and air, to a full anaesthetic for a Caesarian.

Mrs Beverley Beech of AIMS (Association for Improvements in Maternity Services) has discovered that children whose mothers were given drugs at birth are more likely to take to street drugs in their teens. It seems that the feelings these birth drugs give at such a moment of maximum impact can stay with them for a very long time, if not for life.

Immediately following the birth, the human baby is the only species where mother and baby are separated (Although I believe this is now less frequent than it used to be).

Even litter animals like sows or bitches will bite or resist fiercely if you try to take away even one of their young. A calf or foal separated from its mother will cry and neigh indefinitely. How is it we cannot understand how much a baby needs it own mother, and a mother needs her own baby? Deep psychological harm may be done to many babies by the cruel practice of unnecessary separation. (However, I think this at least is becoming more generally recognized – DV!)

If the mother has been heavily drugged during labour, it may be felt better to not give the baby the colostrums, which may be a bit of a two edged sword. It begs the question of what else you give the poor little screaming mite in the interim? Is it cow’s milk and sugar? Is it any better than drug-polluted colostrum? Is it the knock-out drops of the anaesthetic-laced colostrums that helps to give him/her a taste for drugs, or drinking to oblivion, 16 years down the line?

The next major whammy, if his mother is deficient in the essential nutrients she needs to make breast-milk, will be the lactation failure. After a brief period of semi-starvation the Baby may be put onto a mixture of cow’s milk (which is very allergenic) and tap water (which may contain lead, copper, chlorine, pesticides, possibly fluoride and traces of other effluent from industrial processes etc). This may cause a breakdown in the intestinal function, causing malabsorbtion and may top-up his load of toxins already obtained from the amniotic fluid.

S/he may, as many do, suffer otitis media (middle ear infection) which may be chlamydial in origin and stem from his passage down the birth canal. For this s/he will be given antibiotics that will further upset his intestinal flora. We know from the work of Pfeiffer and others how poor absorption from the gut causes deficiencies and thus limits brain function.

Then along come the series of immunizations and vaccinations. Each of these will elicit a response from the immune system, that, apart from other things, will call for more and more Zinc. Many are also floated in animal lymph, which is another problematic substance.

We know from the work of Pfeiffer, Vallee, Oberleas and Caldwell, Underwood, Passwater and Cranton, Sandstead, Riordan and others how badly Zinc deficiency can affect brain function, and postpone emotional maturity.

The recent work of Dr. Andrew Wakefield and Professor O’Leary demonstrated what havoc the MMR vaccine created in the gut with mal-attenuated measles bugs surviving and disrupting gut function. As we know, the result of all this was an epidemic of autism, about which the Establishment is still in denial.

I believe there is now a form of sub-clinical (i.e. less severe and therefore undiagnosed) autism that is rife in teenage boys.

Added to the above mix, most of them will be exposed to the aberrant radiation coming from local pylons, tetra and mobile phone masts, the phones themselves, ipods, wi-fi etc. All of this is bombarding the immature brain from an early age.

Flat screen TVs and computers put out less radiation than they used to, but in terraced houses in particular, people may be bombarded unknowingly from all sides by their neighbour’s gadgets as well as their own. This can cause headaches and insomnia and even epilepsy. Babies and small children are particularly vulnerable.

Bright street lighting, preventing the forming of melatonin in the brain, a natural chemical that is made only during darkness, is another brain disrupting factor.

All of this may lead to a distraught, hysterical hyperactive small child, with brain cells not functioning normally, who will be very difficult to rear. This may result in his mother deciding “to go back to work” and his being separated from her and put into “childcare”, which may, or may not, be particularly caring.

At best he will be with a series of people who can cope, but he will still miss his mother, and this will disturb him and make him sad even if not outwardly. As he goes through a Nursery Life there will be changes of carers, and with each change he will feel a little more abandoned, and their influence over him will lessen. If a small child is not strongly attached to a mother figure he will be very lonely and become more isolated, and this may turn to aggression as he becomes more hurt and more angry with his world, where adults seem to do nothing but admonish or abandon him.

Remember the rat mothers who were short of Zinc and Manganese entirely abandoned their young. The human mother may also be on “The Pill”. The pill induces Zinc deficiency. The Pill also often contains some testosterone, which again gives the mother atypical responses, or she becomes, at least temporarily, somewhat masculine.

As the child grows older, the effects on brain function do not necessarily lessen. Due to shortage of certain needed nutrients many will suffer from the high-raised palate which is know to increase the chances of brain malfunction from dyslexia and hyperactivity through to frank retardation.

There is little respite from the de-natured allergenic foods, the additives, the pesticides (including in the furnishings) the antibiotics, the booster vaccines, the metals in the tap water, the rogue electromagnetism, the flickering fluorescent lighting in the classroom and the relentless glare from the lampposts at night.

Then the child is “diagnosed” and put on Ritalin to suppress the hyperactivity. Ritalin is actually a stimulant derived from cocaine. Teenagers coming off Ritalin feel that personal relationships deteriorated while they were on Ritalin and their learning ability suffered. There is a natural progression, I suspect, from Ritalin and similar drugs either on to street drugs, alcohol or medical drugs such as Prozak, Seroxat etc.

It seems that a few who make this progression have enough push to become “celebrities”! This somehow glorifies the whole sorry process. They reel in and out of the “re-hab” while their financially involved agents fuel their publicity and try to glamorize the tragedy.

We should stop blaming the parents, or asking the police to cope with the unstoppable.

We need to unwind the whole sorry tangle and rebuild the environment to make a world fit for Our Tiny Heros to live in.

To Prevent this Escalating in Future Generations:

We need Preconceptual Care for one and all. We need better food, free from additives and pesticides. No fluoride.

Instruction in Natural Family Planning. Outlawing of “The Pill” and Copper Coil. More attention to genitourinary infections, allergic illnesses and parasites. No vaccines.

Legislation regarding toxic metals. No lead in artist’s paints, powdered inks, cosmetics or hair dyes. No mercury teeth repairs. No aluminium in anti persperants.

Electromagnetic pollution and factory effluent pollution to be much more intelligently monitored.

Pregnancy hormonal drugs to be discouraged and replaced by natural health promotion. Alternative methods of drug-free pain relief in childbirth to be more fully investigated – i.e. reflexology, warm water bottles, acupuncture and hypnosis.

Child-care to be taught in schools, particularly the importance of the mother-baby relationship (It should not be taught that a “career” outside the home is more desirable/important than caring for their children). This should only be taught by mothers who have successfully raised a family! Home-based mothers of under fives should have increased Child Allowance.

More research should be done into the chemical contamination of amniotic fluid and its affect on the baby’s development.

The use of fluorescent lighting in schools, and all street lighting should be reviewed as soon as possible. Curtailing street lighting all night will save huge amounts of money which can be re-appropriated.

Orthodontistry combined with cranial osteopathy should be used to lower the high raised palate by palate widening. This has a profound effect upon the child’s temperament and learning ability.

Hair analysis and mineral balancing should become a part of normal medicine. This should also be done for all delinquents/hyperactives/autistics. The normal development of our children deserves far more attention than it is getting. Preconceptual care for all would be an excellent start.

Too much talk goes on as to whether to tackle aberrant behaviour by crashing them with drugs, or talking to them. The debate goes to and fro and wastes time. The issue is one of brain health.

We have to find out all of the factors that destroyed the brain development in the first place, go back to the beginning and get it right.

The above is how to make a start.

Where the Problem Exists Now:

The Foresight Programme can be adapted for pre-school children, hyperactive, dyslexic, allergic, autistic children and for teenagers, delinquents etc. Each part of the programme is relevant. I would start with a hair analysis.

We can run Information Days on all aspects of the programme, with specific expert speakers. Reflexology, homeopathy etc. can be extremely helpful. Sorting out allergies is vital. Electromagnetic surveys should be used nationwide.

Factories making street drugs should be detected and closed down. Ports and airports should have more police with dogs, and more rigorous procedures to prevent illegal drugs entering the country. We have too many damaged and vulnerable young people to continue to allow this temptation to be put in their way.

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