Acidic Pesticides and Insecticides May Cause Motor Neuron Dis-Ease Like ALS

Motor neuron dis-ease is a rare, acidic and devastating
illness in which nerve cells that carry brain signals
to muscles gradually deteriorate. One form of it,
Lou Gehrig’s dis-ease or ALS (amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis), is familiar to the public in the lives
of scientist Stephen Hawking and Morrie Schwartz,
about whom Mitch Albom’s “Tuesdays with Morrie”
was written.

For most MND patients, the cause is unknown by current
medical savants but Dr. Robert O. Young, of the pH
Miracle Living Research Center, suggest, "MND is the
result of damage to the nerve cells due to dietary
and metabolic acids that are not being properly
eliminated through urination, respiration, perspiration
and defecation."

Figuring out why these people develop this acidic
dis-ease, which causes muscles to weaken, atrophy
and cease to function, is an important step in
developing therapies to treat or prevent motor
neuron disease.

Dr. Young states, "muscle weakness and atrophy of the
muscles is the result of latent tissue acidosis and a
deficiency of the lymphatic system to remove dietary
and metabolic acids from the tissues. The sluggish
or congested lymphatic system is the result of a
lack of movement via exercise and the proper alkaline
lifestyle and diet."

A team of University of Michigan scientists suggest
they are a step closer:

1) They have discovered transformations in one key
gene (neuropathy target esterase, or NTE) that cause
a previously unknown type of inherited motor neuron
disease. Dr. Young suggests, "this transformation
or mutation is caused by dietary and/or metabolic
acid."

2) The discovery paves the way for better diagnosis and
research on treatments. Dr. Young suggests, "the treatment
is here it is called prevention with an alkaline lifestyle
and diet. As the systems progress with muscle soreness,
inflammation, and weakness this is the time to hyper-
saturate the tissues with alkaline compounds such as
sodium and potassium bicarbonate."

3) Most intriguing, current medical scientists found
the transformations or mutations caused changes in a
protein already known to be involved when people
develop neurologic disorders as a result of exposure
to toxic acidic organophosphates — acid chemicals
commonly used in solvents and insecticides and also
as “nerve gas” agents. This discovery points to a new
lead in the search to understand MND. Dr. Young states,
organophosphates are strong acids that destroy body
cells, including nerve cells causing them to go through
a biological transformation or mutation."

“We speculate there may be gene-environment interactions
that cause some forms of motor neuron disease,” says
John K. Fink, M.D., professor of neurology at the
U-M Medical School and senior author of the new study,
which appears in the March issue of the American Journal
of Human Genetics. He also is a researcher at the VA
Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

“Our findings support the possibility that toxic
organophosphates contribute to motor neuron disease
in genetically vulnerable people,” says Fink. He
believes the results suggest that altered activity
of the gene found in patients in the study may also
contribute to other motor neuron disorders, possibly
including ALS.

Motor neuron disease affects five per 100,000 people
and according to Dr. Young are the results of dietary
and metabolic acids.

To protect your body from the acidic effects of
pesticides and insecticides it is important to
only eat organically grown fruits and vegetables.
It is also very important to wash your vegetables
in ionized alkaline water to clean off the acids of
pesticide and insecticide residues.

To learn more about the importance of ionized
water for drinking and for cleaning your fruits
and vegetables go to:

http://www.phmiracleliving.com/ionizer5000.htm