| When we consider how many children experience hyperactivity, over-excitability, the inability to focus, and emotional hyper-reactivity or absolute mental lethargy, one has to ask, “why are so many children affected with these conditions when 70 years ago it was extremely rare?” Researching how few references there are of these issues in children in medical reviews of the early 1900’s can substantiate this. The answer to that would be in the question “What has changed the most affecting the lives of children over the last 70 years?” Food and the chemicals they are putting on and in it and of course sugars and stimulants. It is established that the soil today is now over 80% deficient in the minerals we require for healthy minds and bodies. That is not good when you consider that the famous scientist and double Nobel Prize Laureate (peace and chemistry) Linus Pauling stated, “One could trace every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.” This includes symptoms that classify as mental health issues. No pun intended, but minerals are the bedrock of human nutrition. Vitamin literally means “vital mineral”. Our food chain is poisoning us and children are the most symptomatic because their detoxification systems are not mature enough to win the fight against the over 3,000 toxic chemicals they are exposed to even before birth, many of which compromise the health of their neuroendocrine system before they are even born. Heavy metal toxicity is becoming more and more epidemic today along side the mental health disorders they cause. Amalgam dental fillings, thimerosal (mercury) in vaccinations, fish, pesticides, fungicides and insecticides are the most potent sources of mercury poisoning today. Lead, mercury, antimony, arsenic are all established to cause mental health issues including ADD/HD, autism, mental lethargy, etc. Think about it—metals are conductors! And that is exactly what they do, stimulate conductivity throughout the body and over stimulate everything from mental to physical nerve communication processes—and when you over stimulate you cause advanced cell death! These topics are exposed in far greater detail in the full book but to counter the biggest lie on the airwaves which the pharmaceutical and sugar industries own with their advertising dollars I will demonstrate with real science of how sugar over stimulates a child and then make it impossible for them to relax and learn something. To begin this example, I will start with this: Think about the last time you nearly escaped a car accident, remember how your pulse was raised, your heart was pounding and your thoughts were distant yet at the same time all over the map. How feasible would it have been in that moment to sit down and study for a college final? Or prepare a report for work? Or learn a new, second language? Well, that is exactly the same biochemistry playing itself out in a child on a high simple carbohydrate; cereal, bread, pasta, candy, coke, and other processed foods—sugary dead-food diet. And you can rest assured that if the child’s diet is not designed to avoid refined sugar, it is most likely filled with aspartame—other toxic sweeteners, stimulants and chemical food additives that will ensure a lifetime of physical and mental symptoms robbing them of quality of life, opportunity and peace of mind. Excess sugar in the diet will cause a spike in insulin that in turn will drive sugar levels to abnormal lows. This will cause a release of adrenaline to stimulate glycogen release from the liver. The added energy from the glycogen release combined with the adrenaline is a simplified explanation of how sugar creates hyperactivity, agitation, and the inability to focus in children. Over time, the adrenals will become fatigued (I have tested children as young as 4 years old positive for adrenal exhaustion!) and when the resulting low cortisol effects on the brain are combined with the low blood sugar symptoms children can become irritable, hyper-emotional (temper tantrums), destructive, angry and even violent. The blood sugar roller coaster these diets produce also burn out the thyroid and cause mental health issues involving low Thyroid Hormone. When considering all the other toxic assaults children endure which the lion’s share are extremely neurotoxic, there is no question as to where the root cause of this epidemic of mental distress and symptoms of over stimulation—then complete mental and physical exhaustion in both children and adults originates. The blood sugar roller coaster exhausts every gland and function of the neuroendocrine system that can and does create all the common mental health complaints today. Sugar is the real gateway drug because it sets the person up for a lifetime of symptoms that they will seek to self medicate any way they can. Addictive biochemistry—such as a predisposition for alcohol addiction is many times established by the over consumption of sugar at a young age. This can cause such sugar dysregulation issues that the chronic highs and especially low blood sugar symptoms (including those of the low TH which usually accompanies this condition) will create a clear path to alcohol as a “medicine” for the symptoms they suffer. Researchers at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine studied 163 men and women who had no personal history of alcoholism or other drug use. Half of the participants had a family history of alcoholism, while the other half did not. The researchers found that study participants with a family history of alcoholism were 2.5 times more likely to have a sweet tooth compared to the other group.[ http://www.cheersbook.com/who/The_Council_on_Alcohol_and_Drugs_News_Today.html ] A family history of alcoholism would indicate the child was born of a family line with a deficient neuroendocrine system most likely caused by alcohol and other dietary and lifestyle behaviors that would damage the body’s sugar regulation systems. This does not indicate that there is a genetic disposition; it indicates there is an inherent disposition that can be corrected with dietary and lifestyle modifications that serve to heal those damaged organs of the neuroendocrine system. Another gateway to accelerated brain cell death and over stimulation is the fact that neurotoxins such as psych drugs and mercury eat away at the membranes of cells. This reduces the cells protective coating, which “chooses” what goes in and out of the cell. When this membrane is damaged, it can cause an over firing between cells which over stimulates the person and causes symptoms such as anxiety and hyperactivity. In service we shine, Shine! Genita M. Mason LMP, HHP, NC Medical Director The Biosasnctuary www.thebiosanctuary.com 866.820.0369 | 
