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Five year old non verbal with autism
My cousins son was diagnosed with autism and is non verbal. Is there anything in the world of naturopathic medicine that can help him? I would love to pass along any helpful information to them.
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My niece’s son is the same. She’s waiting for him to be admitted into a special needs school. I would like to know. One thing she has done, is to reduce the carbonated soft drinks intake which has calmed him down.
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@Annie Sye
Although the conventional model says autism is “incurable”, the functional medicine model says otherwise.
At the root of autism is a host of different factors such as toxicity, nutritional deficiencies, metabolic and microbiome imbalances, genetic predispositions, and gut/immune imbalances.
I’d recommend she starts by educating herself about all of these factors in the book by Dr. Kenneth Bock called “Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders”.
It’s an excellent book regarding the application of functional medicine know-how to the most challenging pediatric epidemics (e.g., allergy, ADHD, autism). Lots of details and also some inspiring case stories.
I’d also recommend inviting your cousin to the call with next month’s guest expert Dr. Sabine Hazan. She’s a gastroenterologist based in California doing groundbreaking research on the microbiome. In fact, she recently published a study on familial fecal transplant improving a 19-year-old nonverbal severe autistic patient.
In a nutshell, fecal transplant takes poop from a healthy individual and transplants it into the unhealthy individual. The improvements in so-called “incurable” diseases are incredible. That’s the power of the microbiome, and we’re only scratching the surface. I believe it’s the future of medicine. We’ll be discussing this and more when she joins us next month.
We’ll be sharing the registration page link to that event in our upcoming June Insider Email scheduled for June 7th, if you’d like to share it with your cousin.
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@Annie Sye the registration page is ready if you’d like to share it with your cousin. They’ll get the zoom link after registering: https://bbettermembership.com/dr-sabine-hazan-session
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@Bernadette Abraham thank you B
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