Table Of ContentContents
Publishing info
A Note from the Author
Introduction
METAL & MEDICINE
A flicker of light
Everywhere & Nowhere
Charles Bell
Babies
Strabismus
Bell's First two cases
Bell's Third Case
Medicinal Metals
Torticollis
Bell's Fourth case
Pull to Sit
Motor & Sensory Nerves
Autism & Asymmetry
Autism & Asymmetry
Even the Bones?
It's All Of Them
In search of Autoimmunity
Horror autoxicus
METAL, MICROBES & MEDICINE
Aluminum
BB under scar
Granulomas
The Way It Moves
Intracellular Bacteria
Metals, Microbes & Medicine
Triggered
Triggers & Exertion
Stress, Pregnancy & Seasonal Changes
What's in a name?
DISEASES OF METAL
Crooked Smiles
Crooked Eyes
Right side high. Left side low.
Lymph in the Brain
ADHD
Fevers Improve Autism/ADHD?
Speech Disorders
Vision Disorders
Hearing & Motion Disorders
Eating Disorders
Behavioral Disorders
Behavioral Disorders
POTS
Tics, Tourette's & Facial Pain
A Very Early Case of Autism?
The Dorsal Vagal Complex
Neurasthenia & Shell Shock
Autism & Babies
Immobilization. Restraint.
Why Don't Girls Get Autism?
The Circumstraint
DISEASES OF METAL & MICROBES
Allergies & Asthma
Crohn's & Ulcerative Colitis
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Zika
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
The Original Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
PANDAS
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Chronic Lyme Disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Type 1 Diabetes
Sarcoidosis
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
The Problem with Vitamin D
Why You Can't Tan Anymore
Females & Autoimmunity
Parkinson's
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Thyroid & Hashimoto's
Multiple Sclerosis
Eczema
Anemia
Heart Disease
HEALING & RECOVERY
First Steps
Metal Toxicity
Healing Chronic Infection
Healing Chronic Infection
Signs of Acute Metal Toxicity
Epilogue
Notes
Notes
Crooked
Man-made disease explained
The incredible story of metal, microbes, and medicine — hidden
within our faces.
by Forrest Maready
Besides historical references, the names, places, and accounts
mentioned in this book are used anonymously. Any resemblance to actual
persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright ©2018 by Forrest Maready
Cover typography ©2018 by Forrest Maready
Cover photo stock image and posed by model.
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Feels Like Fire,
an imprint of Feels Like Fire.
ISBN 978-1983816628
Printed in the United States of America
Thank you to my wife & research partner, LeAnne.
This book would not have been possible without your heroic suffering,
your indomitable spirit, your inquisitive mind, and your constant support.
There is the unknown and there is the unknowable.
We were made to figure out the difference.
A Note from the Author
A few years ago when I first started noticing people had crooked faces,
I could not have imagined the chase it would lead me on. It started as a
simple search for what was causing our lopsided smiles and misaligned
eyes, but over the next two years, it would transform and focus every
waking (and sometimes sleeping) hour of my existence into an attempt to
understand if crooked faces might actually be a common thread that tied
all of the “modern” diseases together.
Who am I to suppose I could discern the answers to riddles that have
been vexing the world’s physicians and scientists for two hundred years or
more? I am not a scientist. I am not a physician. I am no one, not even a
hobbit from the Shire. I studied music and religion in school, playing the
compositions of Bach on the pipe organ and dissecting the works of
Gerard Manley Hopkins. I excelled at neither.
But my mind was on fire — always. A cosmic game of connect-the-
dots spinning in my head, latching on to the most trivial details from an
important lecture while forgetting all that was significant, storing them in
my brain for later retrieval in an organizational system that made no
sense. I was always learning — just the wrong things at the wrong time.
Eventually, after having acquired enough wrong things and after
having connected enough dots, a pattern emerged — a curious
constellation that was both intriguing and horrifying. It became clear to
me much of the sickness and suffering that currently plagues humanity
was man-made — all due to an entirely noble attempt to help each other
with a decidedly ignoble result.
This book — this story, represents the journey I undertook, the
connections I began to see, and the theories (or hypotheses as some of my
actual science friends will insist they be called) describing how our bodies
are not only being harmed, but more importantly — how they might be
healed.
The ideas presented in this book are theories, or hypotheses, if you
will. They have come from a very comprehensive study of medical history
and the most recent scientific research available. I may speak with
confidence within as if I am sure of everything I say. Without the
encumbrance of putting a giant disclaimer on every page, realize that I do
not know if these things are true. I believe them to be true. Indeed, I am
terrified they may be true. But it is important that they be discussed,
mulled over, researched and either tossed in the trash or acknowledged. If
my theories are wrong, I can go back to looking for a nice hobbit-hole in
which to smoke my pipe. If they are right, well then perhaps there is more
hope for healing and recovery than any of us thought possible. Perhaps we
are ready to depart this age of man-made disease after all.
Introduction
In all of human history — the pocks and pustules, the fevers and
fatigue, the nausea and neuropathy — every symptom of disease we have
ever experienced is the result of the body trying to rid itself of a perceived
invader. Even the fatigue and ensuing sleep that often went along with
being sick were specifically requested by the body in such a way as to
maximize a response. Whether the intruder was a trivial invader or posed a
genuine threat to life, disease was the necessary side effect of healing.
It may seem that today is no different than two hundred years ago,
which was no different than two thousand or two million years ago. It may
appear that all of the effects of disease we see today are simply the body
recognizing an invader and trying to either kill or expel it. Whether the
attack be viral or bacterial, our body may give the appearance it is
responding to the assault the exact same way today it did thousands of
years ago.
What if all of the modern diseases that have appeared in the last two
centuries actually follow a different pattern? What if something unique
happened recently that in the previous millions of years of history had
never happened before?
As it turns out, something did happen. Something did change that I
believe will one day divide the whole of human history in two. Humans
began digging ore from the earth’s crust and extracting the metals
contained inside — a process that would help create the biggest leap in
industrial, agricultural and technological progress the world is likely to
ever see.
But that is not the demarcation. During this period, humans began to
ingest and inhale these metals. At first, accidentally — through the lead
water pipes of 3rd and 4th century BC Mesopotamia or the mining of the
materials themselves. Later, the metals would be found to have some
medicinal value, and humans began to ingest them — purposefully. Their
danger became well known, but with the knowledge of the human body
and disease so primitive, the extent of damage the metals were doing was
woefully underestimated.
The era of “metallic medicine” truly began in the late 1700s, when old
ideas about how to treat sickness experienced a revival and led to frequent
prescriptions of mercury and arsenic containing pills, tonics and powders.
The next 100 years of human civilization would be a horrible chapter in
the history of medical care, as the treatments used during this period
undoubtedly killed far more people than they saved.
Despite this suffering, toxicity from heavy metals was muted until the
late 1800s due to the methods by which they were administered — through
ingestion. Because they were taken orally, most of the heavy metals were
blocked by the intestines and excreted before they caused much harm. This
could destroy one’s teeth and bowels in the process, but it achieved the
desired effect — to purge whatever might be ailing the body (along with
everything else in the intestines).
If it seemed ineffective at curing the ailment, dosing of the mercuric
medicines might be increased until “salivation was achieved.” Inevitably,
enough of the metal would be absorbed into the body from whence a
thousand different maladies might spring forth. It’s little wonder the 1800s
is known less for its medical miracles and more for its asylums and
fainting rooms.
In the late 1800s, the toxicity of metals would exponentially increase.
The syringe, having recently gained popularity with morphine injections,
was to create a more direct pathway into the body. While the intestines
were an efficient barrier, the rest of the body was not. Injections bypassed
all of the sophisticated protection of the gut and gave metals free entry
directly into the vulnerable organs inside. Even the kidneys and their
miraculous abilities of filtration struggled to excrete tiny amounts of
injected metal.
Before this time, the body’s immune system had only organic matter to
deal with.1 Its white blood cells could enclose and destroy any microbe it
encountered. Metals present a unique series of challenges the body does
not have an answer for. White blood cells cannot destroy it, so the metal
will exist as a toxin inside the body until it is converted into another form
