Off topic: Autism

CS does your realm of understanding overlap into the treatment of autism at all? Just curious as I have a cousin that has autism and my Aunt was looking for some advice.

I can't find it at the moment but I believe in a thread you mentioned niacinamide being used to support brain function. I am thinking about suggesting some MCP or humifulvate as well since it is safe and some children with autism have shown signs of heavy metal toxicity.

Also I have been looking into LDN therapy (Low Dose Naltrexone). Apparently these low doses have been showing promise in treating autoimmune diseases like MS and some others and have shown an increase in cognition in people with autism.

Dr. Jaquelyn McCandless, a Board-certified specialist in Psychiatry and Neurology, took up the cause of childhood autism 10 years ago when her granddaughter was diagnosed with that disorder. Dr. McCandless delivered a detailed discourse on the suspected causes of autism spectrum disorders and highlighted the role of LDN, which has impressed some 75% of affected parents as contributing to significant improvements in cognition and socialization in their children.

She also announced a current clinical study using LDN in autism involving 30 children and 70 adults, which will measure a panel of immune markers both before and after the sixteen weeks of the research, ending in June 2006.

Dr. McCandless said that, with LDN and other new treatment approaches, if she were given an autistic child by the age of three, she has grown much more optimistic about the child's being able to attend a mainstreamed kindergarten. Dr. McCandless is the author of the book Children With Starving Brains, and has written an article summarizing her work in using LDN to treat autism.

Sorry for the non hair related question. Thanks a bunch.

hapyman - Actually I know quite a lot of about this area as I worked at an integrative medical facility that does take autism cases using several modalities.

I have to run but will post some info on what can be done about this, especially stuff at home because in my opinion using professional services can be exorbitant and there are fortunately cheaper ways to achieve good progress. One of them is called Transdermal DMPS, more on that later.

Also iodine, enzymes, food allergies, vitamin D, heavy metals, EFA's.

Will expand on this later.

Turns out don't have to go anywhere so here goes:

A 100% of autistic children have a defect in methylation. Methylation involves the use of folic acid on cells and
is of course involved in the removal of toxins.

20% of the population have a defect in metylation but at least one of the differences is they did not find a toxin they were not able to overcome.

Something is going on, since autism has increased from 1 in a 1,000 to 1 in 150.

Mercury is one particular type of toxin and it could easily be transmitted in the womb or after birth through various avenues. The blood-brain barrier is more vulnerable in these early years so it is a critical time. Certainly there is debate about vaccinations too and I found it interesting that non-vaccinated people have almost no record of autism.

Removing mercury from the brain is partly key in treatment. The best way to achieve this is by using TD-DMPS or Transdermal DMPS.

In one case, the inventor of this treatment Dr. Rashid Buttar tested his son for mercury and it came out negative and at the same time did not know that his ex-wife had taken their son for vaccinations.

Fortunately he was an expert in heavy metal removal and pressed on despite the "negative" results of mercury. Using TD-DMPS he reversed his son's autism 100% and eventually his son testified before congress (being the youngest at age 5 I think).

Using TD-DMPS is not the only treatment but removing mercury is extremely important even if tests come up negative. I would suggest using Humifulvate which is the most effective oral supplement (probably on the planet) for removing mercury from the brain. In both cases, TD-DMPS and Humifulvate, they should be taken for as long as necessary such as a year or more if needed. It's a long process but improvement could be seen sometimes in as little time as months.

The remaining protocol is to identify and removes any allergens and bad foods such as wheat/gluten, dairy, processed foods most any kind). To restore methylation using sublingual folate + B12 is important.

A special RNA product designed to restore cellular metabolism and is unlike other RNA products. It's not cheap but it is powerful stuff...here's the link for it:
http://www.longevityplus-rna.com/store/home.php

This protocol has a 100% success rate. And that is even without the Humifulvate, but would still add it.

But I would add some additional items which in my own research I think are essential. Probiotics, digestive enzymes, Lugol's solution and Vitamin D.

In closing, the only thing here that requires a prescription is TD-DMPS. If for some reason this is not available as it is unique, Humifulvate should be used at the very least.

Thanks a million CS. I will relay the information.

hapyman - No problem, plus off topic questions make this place more interesting.

Forgot essential fatty acids. Plenty of Omega would be a good idea too.

Regarding LDN, we were having good success with this where I worked but had not tried it on autistic patients at the time.

What's exciting is that autism can be reversed so perhaps LDN could be used while in the treatment process.

I see that site you linked has about 7 different RNA supplements. I am assuming I want the 'Health Foundation' one because it is the only one that mentions nerves. Is this correct?

As far as humifulvate is concerned is there a drop off in quality between brands. The reason I ask is that there is a much cheaper supplement on Swanson's website that also contains other things, cilantro being one of them. Here is a link if you want to check it out, it has the same mg of humifulvate as the iHerb product: Dr. Laszlo Meszaros' Metal Shield

I am going to look around on the net and see if I can find a doc in our area that will write prescriptions for TD-DMPS.

Thanks again.

hapyman - Either Stress, Bowel or Health Foundation, which ever is most suitable in this case. Ideally though, all products combined would be ideal. Some will have a greater need for bowel than for stress depending on their needs. I would suggest alternating with each of these three specific formulas.

The swanson's version is a better deal but they both contain the same amount of Humifulvate. I know that some people are allergic to cilantro so that could be a deciding factor.

Here's some additional information on the RNA therapy:

http://www.preventionandhealing.com/articles/RNA_Based_Nutrigenomic_Therapy_for_Neuro_Degenerative_Diseases_NEW.pdf

IH - What are your thoughts on mercury removal with spirulina and cilantro?

Awesome info CS!

hapyman,

I thought this quote was interesting

"However, in the process of healing his son, he did experiment with chelation every day and did not get the same results and pulled out less mercury than when he chelated every other day. This is because he believes the body has to redistribute the mercury and needs 48 hours to do it. You chelate a little bit out every 48 hours."

"He likes chelation every 48 hours because this gives the body time to redistribute the mercury and you deplete a small amount every other day. It is like removing a little bit of mercury from a bottle of toxic water then pouring the cleaned water back in the bottle. The remaining mercury will redistribute itself and all the molecules will move around so that more can be pulled out. He likes to chelate every 48 hours for this reason."



http://www.defeatautismyesterday.com/Buttarnotes.htm

sublime - I don't know too much about what cilantro will do other than absorb mercury from tissues and increase its excretion, but not sure what human organs this would effect. As far as Spirulina it is highly protective of the kidneys in terms of mercury exposure.

It was my understanding that cilantro, or some compound in it, actually crosses the blood/brain barrier, bind with mercury, and escort it out of the body.

The El Nautral doctors that attempt to treat autism that appears later in life (ie: not at birth) say that it is vital to treat early before whatever toxic compound begins to alter how the brain functions.

Cilantro pesto is a very well established path @ curezone for heavy metal detox - bunch of followers there and swear by its efficacy.

I know this is an old thread but I thought this was an interesting quote

"Medical scientists at Arizona State University tell us that antibiotic use is known to almost completely inhibit excretion of mercury in rats due to alteration of gut flora. Thus, higher use of oral antibiotics in the children with autism may have reduced their ability to excrete mercury. Higher usage of oral antibiotics in infancy may also partially explain the high incidence of chronic gastrointestinal problems in individuals with autism."

"Children with autism also had significantly higher usage of oral antibiotics during their first 12 to 36 months of life."

"More than two-thirds of youngsters with the condition received four or more antibiotics in their first year, a British survey has revealed."


http://www.naturalnews.com/022800.html

"Modern medicine" is like a real nightmare. Any child given antibiotics before the age of four is just asking for a lifetime of allergies and perhaps that's just the drop in the bucket to what comes next.

Cs, since this post is a little over a year old, where do you currently stand on the issue of autism and its treatment? Can you point me in the right direction in helping someone with a High functioning autistic child? Also, any plans for a healthyfixx article on the subject? Thank you...

Hey ill defer to CS but when i was gung ho paleo one naturally comes across the GAPS diet.
The diets founder seems to be a reputable doctor who specifically developed the diet because her own child was autistic.

Here is some more information if your interested:
http://gaps.me/preview/?page_id=35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAse3Apfjo8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfzQx2ZAnow&feature=related

OpenUp2URminD wrote:Cs, since this post is a little over a year old, where do you currently stand on the issue of autism and its treatment? Can you point me in the right direction in helping someone with a High functioning autistic child? Also, any plans for a healthyfixx article on the subject? Thank you...

I wrote the following article not along after the original post, which was sometime in early 2010:

http://www.immortalhair.org/apps/blog/show/2629448-the-causes-of-autism-what-to-do-about-it

Since that time, what granger451 posted is good stuff. Fat soluble foods and the avoidance of the bad
foods plays a strong role in the recovery process.

In the article I wrote, one product is unfortunately no longer available with 'thanks' to the FDA for banning OSR. It was a very effective way to remove mercury from the body.

In the article I mentioned earlier an important way to fix the methylation problem is with a special form of folate that will penetrate the blood brain barrier along with methyl B-12.

http://www.iherb.com/Thorne-Research-Methyl-Guard-180-Veggie-Caps/18717?at=hil335

Granger and CS, as always, thank you...

I know this thread is old, but I have a cousin with autism and it would make my life complete to help him at all. I'm just now reading through some of the links in this thread. Is autism actually reversible? We gave up on a cure for him a long time ago. I'm sick of being lied to by these medical professionals...

hiilikeyourbeard wrote:I know this thread is old, but I have a cousin with autism and it would make my life complete to help him at all. I'm just now reading through some of the links in this thread. Is autism actually reversible? We gave up on a cure for him a long time ago. I'm sick of being lied to by these medical professionals...

http://www.dramyyasko.com/our-unique-approach/methylation-cycle/

Autism is reversible.

I used to work in one of the largest integrative clinics...we had some autism patients there.

We routinely used metal chelation (a must), because most of the time, it's mercury.

There's also gut disturbances so diet has to be changed (no grains) nothing GMO.

All Wi-fi activity has to be carefully assessed to see how they behave around dirty electricity and EMF.
Observe how they behave outside of this. Faraday cage, hard wired house might be necessary.

They need sulfur.

Here's a protocol on top of that (real results).

http://cdautism.org/

CausticSymmetry wrote:Autism is reversible.

I used to work in one of the largest integrative clinics...we had some autism patients there.

We routinely used metal chelation (a must), because most of the time, it's mercury.

There's also gut disturbances so diet has to be changed (no grains) nothing GMO.

All Wi-fi activity has to be carefully assessed to see how they behave around dirty electricity and EMF.
Observe how they behave outside of this. Faraday cage, hard wired house might be necessary.

They need sulfur.

Here's a protocol on top of that (real results).

http://cdautism.org/

This is all kind of blowing my mind right now. He's had it since he was an infant, right after his vaccinations. He is 7. Is there hope for him if it's been this long?

hiilikeyourbeard wrote:I know this thread is old, but I have a cousin with autism and it would make my life complete to help him at all. I'm just now reading through some of the links in this thread. Is autism actually reversible? We gave up on a cure for him a long time ago. I'm sick of being lied to by these medical professionals...

Have you ever tried a ketogenic diet?

The keto diet may be a bit extreme, but it has very interesting results for autism. I personally had a very brilliant professor with Asperger's, which is on the spectrum, and he said that he never experienced more improvement in his condition than when he started keto. He said that one should benefit even going very low carb, such as sub-50 grams of carbs daily.

hiilikeyourbeard - Yes there is hope.

In that link, you will see cases and hear of cases that recovered in the teens or later.