MAKE THE CONNECTIONS
BETWEEN ASTHMA + THE OTHER 4-A EPIDEMICS
Incidence of asthma has rocketed wildly upward over the past 25 years, in
tandem with the other new 4-A childhood epidemics of autism, ADHD, and
allergies.
The combined increase of these four disorders is not a coincidence.
Asthma is part of a larger pattern. The pattern consists of four primary childhood
disorders that are triggered by the following root causes:
• Increased exposure to toxins, from the environment. These toxins
create the inflammation that exacerbates autism, ADHD, and allergies –
and is the primary root cause of asthma.
• Decreased ability to detoxify, due to heavy metal overload and
nutritional deficits. When the toxins remain in the body, the inflammation
remains, and renders children’s bodies vulnerable to asthma.
• Genetic predispositions that impair the ability to detoxify, and thus
create vulnerability to negative lifestyle and environmental factors. The
same genetic traits can result in apparently disparate symptomatology. In
one child, a failure to detoxify could result in asthma, and in another it could
trigger some of the symptoms of ADHD.
• Dysfunction of the immune, gastrointestinal, and nervous systems.
These three systems can each be involved, in very different ways, in any of
the 4-A disorders.
These root causes have resulted in a wide array of childhood illnesses and
problems, most of which generally appear to be unrelated. However, as a rule,
only the most obvious symptoms of these disorders are unrelated. Asthma, for
example, has symptoms that are quite different from those of autism, ADHD, and
most food allergies. Nonetheless, asthma, autism, ADHD, and allergies are all
often caused by the same forces, which have varying effects upon the body.
Furthermore, all four of these disorders can even be present in the same child.
This combination of combined disorders is not at all unusual.
