The New Autism: One Parent’s Perpective

When our son Alex was diagnosed with autism in March of 2007, I was travelling on business just outside of Detroit.  I spent the entire night in a motel room with my head in my hands, poring over the internet finding out as much as I could about the disorder, and the news was disheartening.  For the most part, the established medical community offered little hope, urging early and intense therapy with an outside chance of developing a “highly functioning” special needs child who may or may not eventually be able to live on his/her own.

I know now, through my son’s recovery and from witnessing the improvement and recovery of many other children, that autism is treatable with far more weaponry than therapy alone.   Therapy is important, but equally so, I believe, is healing the digestive and immune systems through biomedical intervention so that the body can assist in healing itself and respond to therapy far better than if therapy is received without these complementary treatments.

While historically autism was a very rare disease that struck at birth, the epidemic we see today is a form of regressive autism that typically does not present itself until about 24 months of age.  The medical profile of these children – digestive problems, frequent colds and/or ear infections, abdominal pain, high levels of “bad” metals, low levels of “good” metals – is far too common and similar to be attributable to coincidence.  This form of autism, I am convinced, is not the same as the classic, congenital form that existed decades ago.  The symptoms may be similar, but I believe they are attributable to underlying biomedical deficiencies that are caused by exposure, at a young age, to the toxins in our environment – the food we eat, the air we breathe, the manmade chemicals we ingest.

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