WHY PEOPLE KILL
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© October 2019, L.D. Wilson Consultants,
Inc.
All
information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
Causes
for childhood and adult depression, anxiety and attention deficit range from
nutritional imbalances and chemical exposure to home and school problems.
Instead of addressing causes, many doctors and psychologists
treat the symptoms with powerful medications.
Today,
almost nine million children, or almost one out of every five American
children, take psychoactive drugs for their behavior disorders, many of which
are questionable diagnoses.
SIDE
EFFECTS OF PROZAC
Prozac,
Luvox, Paxil, and Zoloft
belong to a class of drugs called selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRI's. These
drugs can induce akathisia
- mental and physical agitation that sparks self-destructive, violent behavior.
They
can also induce dissociative reactions.
The one taking the drug becomes insensitive to the consequences of his
behavior.
The
combination of these effects can lead to anti-social behavior of the worst
kind. In one study, 6% of the
children on Prozac became psychotic (1).
THE SAD RESULTS
Here
are the sad results. Eric Harris was on Luvox before
taking part in the shooting at Columbine High School in April 1999.
Fifteen-year-old Shawn Cooper fired on students and high school staff in Notus, Idaho in April 1999. He was taking an SSRI.
Thirteen-year-old
Chris Fetters of Iowa killed her favorite aunt. She was on Prozac. Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old, first shot his parents, then killed
two and wounded 22 fellow students at Thurston High School in Oregon. He was
taking Prozac.
Joseph
Wesbecker was on Prozac when he killed seven people
at a printing plant in Kentucky, before taking his own life. In September 1999,
Buford O'Neal Furrow, Jr. fired 70 rounds at the North Valley Jewish Community
Center in Los Angeles wounding 5 people – while on an SSRI. A month earlier Mark Barton, who took
an SSRI, murdered his wife and two children and then methodically gunned down
21 people in two brokerage firms in Atlanta.
Jeff
Weise was another school killer in Red lake, Minnesota. His dose of Prozac had
just been increased to 60 mg daily. The story is the same - those involved were
taking SSRI drugs.
Since
1998, eight of the thirteen Ôschool shootersÕ were on psychiatric drugs. The
records on the remaining five are sealed. Did the drugs cause the violence?
Ann
Blake Tracy, PhD has studied Prozac for ten years. She researched 32 murder
cases involving women and their children. In 24 of the cases, the women were
taking Prozac or another SSRI.
Why
isn't this on the news? Perhaps because drug company
advertising supports most TV and radio stations, newspapers and medical
journals. Drug companies spend $11 billion a year on advertising. An article in California Lawyer, Dec.
1998, reported that Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Prozac, settled nearly a dozen
cases involving Prozac out of court in
one year. They did this to avoid unwanted publicity that would unleash an
avalanche of Prozac horror stories.
AN
EPIDEMIC
In
many areas, one of every five children is labeled with 'attention deficit' or
ADHD. The number of children so diagnosed increased by 90% between 1989 and
1996! Three-fourths of the doctor
visits resulted in drug treatment.
Clinical
Psychiatric News, July 1998, reported that 223 children under age 3 who enrolled in Michigan's Medicaid program before
December 1996 were labeled ADHD. The author adds: "Amazingly, 57% of these
children were treated with one or more psychotropic drugs including Ritalin,
Prozac, Dexedrine, Aventyl and Syban.
Thirty-three percent were medicated with two or more of these drugs." These drugs have not been well-tested on children.
Combining
anti-depressants (Prozac or Luvox) and psychostimulants (Ritalin) increases the risk of
cardiovascular collapse, seizures, euphoria and psychosis (3). Researchers at
the Brookhaven National Laboratory reported that
"when Ritalin was given to cocaine users, they couldn't distinguish the
Ritalin high from the cocaine high".
WHY THE EPIDEMIC OF ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER, DEPRESSION AND OTHER
PROBLEMS?
The
cause is not a deficit of Ritalin or Prozac! The culprits are atrocious diets, vaccines, overuse of medical drugs such as antibiotics, and mothers
who are malnourished and in poor health who give birth to sick children.
Another
factor that most people are not aware of is that schools often receive money
for every child they diagnose with ADHD.
This gives the schools a strong incentive to obtain the diagnosis. Here are more details.
ATROCIOUS
DIETS
Pellagra
is a vitamin B3 deficiency disease. In 1938, the American Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 196 published an article
titled, "The Mental Symptoms of Subclinical Pellagra" by T.D. Spies,
et al. Symptoms include hyperactivity, perceptual difficulties,
inappropriate social behavior, and children have learning and behavior problems
in school.
One
may say, how can one develop a vitamin deficiency
disease today? The answer is
easily. Just live on a standard
diet of products made from white flour, white rice, and refined sugar.
In
a California study involving 400 prisoners, 200 were given a
multi-vitamin-mineral supplement, while the others were given a placebo.
Neither the prisoners nor the prison staff knew who was getting the placebo.
The number of discipline violations in the treated group fell 38% in the 15
weeks of the study. There was no
change in violations in the placebo group.
Psychiatrist
Abram Hoffer, MD has added much to our understanding
of human nutrition. Two of his contributions concern food allergies and dosages
of vitamins. He wrote
that "food allergy can
produce almost every known psychiatric symptom, from autism and schizophrenia
to mood and behavioral disorders".
His
work with Korean concentration camp victims proved that some people need much
higher doses of vitamins than others to maintain health.
CRIME
AND NUTRITION
Many
studies support the concept that better nutrition reduces crime and delinquency
in adults as well as in children.
For
example, in 2002, the British Journal of
Psychiatry published a study of juvenile delinquents. Half of a group of 230 young offenders
were given a food supplement containing vitamins, minerals and essential fatty
acids. The other half were given a placebo or dummy pill (an excellent choice
of words, in this case).
Those
who took the real food supplement over an eighteen-month period experienced a
reduction in all repeat offenses of 25%.
Violent crime was reduced by nearly 40%. Those who took the placebo had no reduction in their repeat offenses
over the same period of months.
OLD
BRAIN AND NEW BRAIN
Our
brain has several parts. The so-called Ôold brainÕ is the diencephalon, often
referred to as the brain stem. It is responsible for our animal responses,
including the desire to harm or kill another. This can be a natural defensive response.
The
Ônew brainÕ is the cortex, which sits on top of the old brain. One of its functions is to modify our
animal responses, substituting the higher emotions such as forgiveness,
patience and compassion for the lower emotions of anger, hatred and aggression.
Dr.
Paul Eck taught that copper
stimulates the old brain, whereas zinc
is needed in greater quantity for the new brain. In fact, zinc is a calming neurotransmitter in its own right.
Hair analyses reveal today that over 50% of
the population is zinc deficient and copper toxic. Symptoms of copper toxicity from
standard textbooks include psychosis,
schizophrenia, and emotional instability.
Why
are the copper levels high? Among the important reasons are zinc-deficient
(refined food) diets, adrenal gland weakness, use of birth control pills and
copper intra-uterine devices in young women, vegetarian diets, and stress. For details, read Copper Toxicity Syndrome.
THE
PEPSI GENERATION
Caffeine. Another cause of erratic behavior is overstimulation with
caffeine and sugar. Both are found
together in soda pop and energy drinks. They give a temporary lift, but eventually exhaust the
adrenal glands, upset blood sugar badly, deplete nutrients and have other
harmful effects.
The
American Food And Drug Administration is very tough on vitamin manufacturers,
but ignores the danger of caffeine and sugar. This government agency is among the most corrupt of all the
government agencies. For details,
read The FDA Menace.
Refined sugar, labeled fructose, corn
sweeteners, honey, dextrose, liquid sugar or other names, depletes the body of
B-complex vitamins because the vitamins are used up during digestion of the
sugar. Eating sugar also upsets
blood sugar and feeds fungal and yeast infections. Yeasts produce alcohol in the brain, lead to a Òdry drunkÓ
syndrome that is quite common today and potentially an important cause of
anti-social and criminal behavior.
For details, read Dry Drunks.
Artificial
sweeteners. Substituting
Nutrasweet for sugar, as many people do, is even
worse for many people. This
chemical is called an excitotoxin and is very harmful
for the nervous system. It should
be banned. For details, read Aspartame Or Nutrasweet.
Calcium, magnesium and zinc deficiencies. Calcium, magnesium and zinc are called
the "sedative minerals". They are essential for mental well-being. Most children and adults today are deficient in these three
vital minerals. These deficiencies
cause widespread anxiety, irritability and can cause anti-social activity,
especially when one is under stress.
In
addition, soda pop contains phosphoric acid that binds and eliminates calcium,
magnesium and zinc from the body.
Thus drinking soda pop worsens mineral deficiencies.
TOXIC
METALS
Lead,
cadmium, mercury, nickel, aluminum and manganese damage the brain and cause
mood swings and violent thoughts. This
assertion is supported by many studies.
However, toxicology is not a popular subject among doctors or
psychiatrists. Most know very
little about it and it is not taught much in their schools.
Tissue
mineral tests on several serial killers found they had high tissue levels of manganese. They were welders who developed a well-known clinical
condition called manganese madness.
A
study of Navy recruits found the higher the cadmium level in their hair, the more disciplinary problems they
experienced.
The
"mad hatters" of Alice in Wonderland were real people. They became poisoned with mercury working in the hat industry in
the mid 1800's. Today, children
are poisoned with mercury on a much larger scale from their vaccines and from
dental fillings. Some European
nations have banned amalgam fillings.
The American Dental Association knows about the problem. If they told you the truth, there might
be lawsuits, so the poisoning continues.
The authorÕs experience. A troubled teen consulted the author
some years ago. He had been expelled from several high schools, and lived at
the Arizona Boys Ranch. His driver said he had "a bad attitude". In
my office, he said "Doc, my brain doesn't
work".
The
boyÕs hair mineral analysis indicated high levels of cadmium and aluminum. Both are very neurotoxic. We helped him improve his diet by
removing sugar and refined flour products, and recommended a development
program to lower the levels of toxic metals and balance the entire body
chemistry.
Six
months later the young man returned for a follow-up visit. On a retest hair analysis, the cadmium
and aluminum levels had improved.
The driver who brought the young man to us said, "His attitude has
turned around". In my office,
the boy said, "Doc, my brain works".
An
important principle is that when the diet is low in vital minerals, the body
absorbs much more of the toxic metals from food and the environment.
TOXIC
CHEMICALS
Pesticide
exposure can induce homicidal behavior. Many pesticides affect cholinesterase
activity. This enzyme affects the level of acetylcholine, a calming
neurotransmitter.
The
result can be a state of severe agitation and irritability. Studies show that many children by age
five have reached a dangerous level of pesticide exposure thanks to spraying of
many food items with pesticides.
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME
Schools
are often built today without windows for better insulation. Many have carpeting, which formerly was
never used in schools. This
creates a closed environment with a much greater possibility of high
concentrations of carpet molds, dust, toxic cleaning
chemicals and formaldehyde in furniture and building materials.
The
result is called "sick building syndrome". Excellent
books such as Is This Your Child's World?
by Doris Rapp, MD document the harmful effects these
chemicals can have on childrensÕ and teachersÕ
behavior. Perhaps it is no wonder
that shooters often open fire in schoolyards. Another reason for this, however, is that schools are often
Ògun-freeÓ zones, which means the shooter is much safer killing people here
than in places where someone might have a gun to stop him.
SIMPLE
SOLUTIONS
What
can be done about all this? A lot can be done. For example, all children and adults can be inexpensively
screened for toxic metals. The
food, the water and everything one touches and breathes can also be cleaned
up.
With
a development program with one of the Approved Practitioners,
most attention deficit disorder, panic attacks and irritability go away, often
within a few months to a year. So
also does most depression, anxiety and other mental
and emotional imbalances.
GUN
CONTROL AS AN ANSWER
It is tempting
to pass gun control laws to ÒcontrolÓ the violence. However, these laws do not work! By reviewing the
statistics does one begin to realize that guns in the hands of the citizens are
an excellent deterrent to crime, and in fact they prevent thousands of rapes,
robberies and murders every year.
For
example, Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring heads of households to have
at least one gun in the house. The crime rate dropped and has remained low.
There are excellent books detailing the benefits of gun ownership. Click here to read about gun
statistics in America and read Gun Policy.
If
the nutritionally atrocious diets continue and if biochemical imbalances that
are easily seen on a hair mineral analysis are not addressed, the violence will
only escalate. If guns are not
available, it will be with bombs, knives, chemicals or other weapons that could
be far worse than a gun.
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Parents
need to explain to children the rules of healthy eating and the government
needs to back them up by banning the food chemicals, refined foods and toxic
food products that today fill the supermarket shelves.
Have
fun explaining nutrition to children and they will listen. Tell them that fluffy, bleached,
preserved white bread is good for two things: cleaning up a mess on the floor,
and for blowing your nose if you don't have Kleenex. It has no place in a healthful diet. Bleached white flour is great for paper
mache, but not for eating. Don't keep junk food in the house, substitute healthier
products, and set a good example for children.
If
you send your children to school, which we do not recommend for many reasons,
then parents must stay involved with the school and how they are feeding your
children.
Yell
and scream until they take the soda machines and McDonald's-style meals out of
the schools. If they refuse,
consider taking your child out of that school. While visiting the school, note
if there is proper ventilation, and how many toxic carpets and other items your
child will be exposed to. For
details about schooling, read What
Is Wrong With The School System?
Give
your children choices of food, but make sure that food fits our standards
– loads of cooked vegetables, fresh meats, eggs, a little raw milk or raw
cheese, and a little whole grains, but not wheat.
Natural light,
provided by windows or full-spectrum bulbs, is also much healthier for children
than windowless school buildings and standard fluorescent lights.
Spend more
time with your children. Although TV violence is probably not the main cause of
school violence, why support violence on TV and movies? Ratings are everything.
If enough people tune out, the programming will change.
LOVE
THE CHILDREN
If your
child is diagnosed with ADHD or depression, use drugs as a last resort. Seek first for causes, including
nutritional imbalances, candida albicans
infections, food allergies and chemical sensitivity among others. We find if one does this, drugs are
very rarely needed or helpful.
Children
need to be loved and cared for carefully. Too many parents are burned out, too busy, or some just donÕt care enough about their
children. When children are not
loved and cared for properly, most cannot articulate their needs. Instead, they
"act out" - sometimes violently.
Under
the influence of drugs and other imbalances, it can be deadly. Perhaps we can
be grateful for these incidents. They may point us in directions that are
needed to better love the children.
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