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.