I got a book from the library that might be interesting, but the printing is tiny and fuzzy. Piss poor printing from Hampton Roads, Canada. I will have to wear my spectacles, but it might be worth it.
Title:
The Natural Medicine Guide to Autism, by Stephanie Marohn.
Anyone read this?
I have not read it, but it does look interesting.
Here is an excerpt from Chapter 1 on pdf, so you can enlarge the text if you like:
http://www.stephaniemarohn.com/autismch1.pdf
It was published in 2002, Renaeden.
http://www.stephaniemarohn.com/books_autism.html
OK, I gave this book a shot. Obviously, they want to entice us into their research program.
Here's a bit touching on the premise, that one's inability to properly metabolise metals and maintain average metallothionein levels is a major factor in creating autistic symptoms, even in the non-autistic.
I read it all the way through, then skimmed it again, using the internet to fill in the blanks and help me with some of the bio-chemistry and homeopathy.
Any book that makes these earth-shaking claims has got to be at least somewhat full of shit, in my view. The problem is that I can't find others who have done similar research or can even back up many of the postulations put forth, herein.
This man's work,
Dr Lawrence Lavine, is referred to, many times. Note his definition of osteopathy, for a quick headache.
This man, Dr. Walsh, head honcho, is also referred, often.
Here is the institute where he does his work, if you want to delve more deeply into his efforts.
More on metallothionein. This page and its links were very helpful.
Wiki on metallothionein, for a brief overview, in case you are unfamiliar.I am taking from this the fact that, once again, autism is a mystery, yet to be solved.
However, some of the recommendations won't hurt a damn thing or cost much money and I plan to give a couple of dietary supplements a try. My intentions are to attempt to increase our zinc intake, by increasing zinc heavy vegetables in our diets, for all three of us, since we all show symptoms of serum copper abundance and zinc deficiency. That, along with an increase of B6 should help to increase the stability of our metallothionein levels, presumably.
I have already tried to clean up, or at least minimize, complex chemical additives from our diets.
He also talks a bit about casein/gluten free diets, which we tried and noticed no differences (That's fucking difficult as hell to do!!). However, his assumption is that the heavy metals in the blood stream complicate the body's use of these common nutrients and removing the metals from the bloodstream
first is the key to success with C/G free diets.
That's all the book report I'm writing!
BTW, the reason I keep referring to the book in the second person male, instead of female like the author, is that it is written that way, as if the author is taking dictation and making footnotes. No disrespect to the femininity of the author is intended.
