Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Necessary Steps in Curing Autism

There are two stages of autism improvement or cure:

1.Finding and solving the "physical" portions of autism is the first stage. 

2.    The second stage consists of behavior training and other education.

This article is devoted to the first stage.There are three distinct and separate therapies involved:

1.    Finding and solving the cause of the “brain damage.

2.    Solving the nutritional puzzle(s).

3.    Solving the allergy problems.

The Brain Damage Problem

There are many causes of brain damage, ranging from mercury and other “heavy metals”) in vaccines and the environment, to a pre-birth accident, or just very poor nutrition for the pregnant mother as the brain develops. Drug addict mothers are also sometimes responsible.  

For the accidental types of actual physical damage, there is little that can help other than increasing oxygen to the brain.  Neuroliminal Training does this by increasing brain blood flow by subliminal messaging during sleep..

For the majority of cases over the past 10 years or so, the cause is mercury poisoning derived from too many vaccines combined with our worsening environment. 

Big Pharma, the FDA, and the Bush government knew a long time ago that the mercury (used as a preservative to lengthen shelf life) was causing brain damage in infants.Is it a coincidence that the huge increase of cases from 1 in 10,000 to the present 1 in 150 or so corresponds to the use of mercury and the increase of “required” infant vaccines, that loads so much mercury in this mix that the liver simply cannot take it all out of the bloodstream, and the brain blood barrier cannot stop it from the brain circulation, and it does this physical.

(Adding insult to injury, the FDA (controlled entirely by Big Pharma) spent a lot of money trying to make any drugs approved by the FDA, not subject to lawsuits.  How’s that for a “double play”?)

Here’s another little known fact about mercury poisoning.  What is stored in the liver cannot be gotten out of the liver unless there is some chelating chemical in the bloodstream available to “neutralize it, and then excreting the combination out of the body.

Blood testing has been used by Big Pharma to “prove” that mercury “wasn’t” the source.  They are well aware that if no chelating material is in the blood, there will be little or no mercury present either.  A false proof indeed!)

This brings us to the first step in finding out how much mercury or other mineral toxins are stored.  Start at least a week prior to any blood or urine tests, and two months prior to any hair analysis.  Load the person with about 1000 mg (1 gram) of plain old vitamin C for every 10 pounds of person to be tested.The good thing about vitamin C is that the only effect of overdosing is diarrea.  Split doses in two or three or more doses per day.

The blood or urine sample should be taken about 2-4 hours after a dose for most accuracy. 

The next step is chelating (means grab onto) the mercury (and all other minerals), render it non-toxic in combination, and water soluble so that it is filtered by the kidneys and taken out of the body.  

There are many other chelators, some very expensive, and somewhat faster than Vitamin C , but I prefer it because it also confers protection against viruses and bacteria in these large doses, and it’s cheap. 

FYI, the cheapest Ascorbic Acid works just as well as the most expensive form, however, if the person is allergic to corn, then you may want to use Calcium Ascorbate, which is unlikely to cause allergic symptoms.   (Most of the people who think they are allergic to vitamins are only corn sensitivity -switch to CA!)

Autistic infants are virtually always low in another “natural” chelator called Glutathione.  This is part of the autism picture.However, research shows that is difficult and expensive to get it and keep it in the bloodstream.Vitamin C is easier.

Unless the mercury stored in the liver and other locations is taken down to very safe low level,  the brain damage may continue.  Thus the above is a critical first step in solving the autism puzzle.  Without solving it, the rest of the puzzle is much more difficult. 

The Nutritional Problems

These toxic minerals have a huge amount of stress to the body.This additional stress (you guessed it) requires even more nutrition.  The “normal” digestive tract contains bacteria that may be deadly if it gets into the bloodstream.The design of the digestive system is designed so that shouldn't ever happen.  It breaks down food into basic molecules, sugars, fatty acids, and amino acids in particular. 

Protein is a mix of different amino acids – the building blocks of all animals as well as bacteria and viruses.  The system breaks these down to only a very few amino acids in what is called a peptide string.  This makes sure than any bacteria or virus or yeast cannot get into the bloodstream as they are all much larger than the “usual” peptides coming thru in a “normal” system.

With this stress, the brain realizes that it MUST get more nutrition, so it opts for increasing the input all from the gut.  This means that larger and larger peptide strings are able to pass into the bloodstream.  We now have what's called a "Leaky Gut Syndrome".

Some of these larger peptide strings might resemble a virus or bacteria, and the brain puts up a “danger signal”.  This becomes a food allergy (or technically food sensitivity).  (The “usual” first foods for infants are milk and bread products, thus the casein free, gluten free diets often improve some autistic symptoms.)

The Leaky Gut Syndrome causes another very important problem.  It often allows the natural bacteria colonies that help digestion to become overrun with yeast.  The overuse of antibacterial drugs contributes as most are made from fungus/yeast.  The “healthy gut” has a balance of bacteria and yeast. 

So, we now have a vicious downward spiral.  This is a common story with autistic children. 

The first step is obviously to start getting enough nutrition so that the Leaky Gut Syndrome is no longer needed.  This means starting a vitamin mineral program and cutting out high carb sugary foods, replacing those with good home cooked meals, high in protein, and fiber along with those vitamins and minerals.

It’s hard to get away from “junk foods”, but it’s necessary if you want to really help an autistic child.Better health for the whole family is a good result.  You know what to eat – good meat, fresh fruits and vegetables.

Clearing up the food allergies

As mentioned earlier, mineral toxicity causes huge stress on the brain and body.These LeakyGut formed allergens are added to whatever "born in" allergies are present making a large amount of stress that requires even more nutrition to just handle.  Anything that lessens this stress is valuable indeed..

Most of these so-called “brain allergies” are unsuspected by the person with them.   Unlike the environmental allergies, causing visible symptoms such as hay fever, hives, etc, these only affect the brain, and most mental problems are due to these and the resulting stress.  I may surprise you to find that any allergy can be responsible for anything from insomnia to schizophrenia and bipolar depression.  For a lot more information http://drbate.com/Ref/allergy.html .

There are several ways to solve allergy problems, ranging from the very expensive Neurofeedback clinics, the slightly less expensive allergy clinics, all the way to many “alternate” therapies, including Neuroliminal Training (NT), one of the most effective, yet affordable therapies available.NT is done at home, it's very simple to use, relatively inexpensive, and consists of “sleep therapy using a special CD that actually does the same thing as the expensive NFB clinics – name raise one special brain wave that seemingly changes the affect on the brain by allergens. 

Dr Bate is a retired orthomolecular psychologist
who invented Neuroliminal Training, a simpler and
affordable way to change brain wave amplitudes solving
ADD-Autism, depression, insomnia, and more.
http://drbate.com – http://ADHD-Autism.com

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