In countries such as Britain or Australia, this translates to one in four children under the age of 14 years having asthma and one in five having eczema. One of every six children in America suffers from problems such as autism, aggression, dyslexia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In California, reported cases of autism rose 210 percent, from 3,864 to 11,995, between 1987 and 1998. A parent can ignore a child's unexplained tiredness only at peril. For a doctor to dismiss tired children and teenagers in pain simply because lab tests are negative is a grave error.
Unexplained tiredness is oxygen deprivation in brain and other tissues.
Muscle pain is oxygen deficiency in muscles. Those are the simple facts about tired children and teenagers in pain. With the right tests, my colleagues and I at the Institute can always see the microscopic and chemical evidence for oxygen deficiency. Those two epidemics are spreading primarily because of damage to oxygen enzymes caused by poor nutrition, sugar overload, antibiotic abuse, stress, and exposure to synthetic chemicals. I call the affected children and teenagers human canaries, because they are telling us something important about the shape of things to come.