For families that have first-hand experience with autism the experiences are forever stamped within their memories. An often shocking and unwelcome line comes crashing into their collective realities separating what could have been with what will now be. For parents watching their child’s regression into autism, sometimes sudden and sometimes not, the signs can be similar. Loss of speech or social skills, repetitive behavior, blank stares, no eye contact and other clues can be some of the first indications for parents that something isn’t right with their child.
Dead End Docs
Currently the mainstream medical community has no real answers for parents and their children on the autism spectrum. In fact, much of the modern and historic mainstream medical solutions offered have been ineffective and sometimes just plain insulting. It was not long ago that medicine embraced the sociopathic idea that children who regressed into autism were a result of lack of maternal warmth. Presently there are only two directions recognized by establishment medicine. One option offered is for families to prepare their autistic child for an institution and the other is combinations of toxic, untested (when combined) pharmaceutical drug combinations.
What happens if parents don’t accept these dead end ‘solutions’? There has been a growing number of parents who are taking education, and the search for real solutions, into their own hands. Although still being either attacked or outright ignored by both the mainstream media and medical communities, some parents are recovering their children on the autism spectrum. A yearly collection of such valuable alternative knowledge is the nearly two-decade running annual conference called AutismOne. A collection of doctors, researchers and families gather each year to share their success stories and breaking research towards recovering autistic children.
Brain Balance
Dr. Marco Ruggiero recently appeared on HighWire with Del Bigtree to discuss the recent revolutionary breakthroughs in autism’s pathogenesis and recovery. Dr. Ruggiero had been working in the fields of neuroscience, experimental immunotherapy and oncology for the past 30 years. It was in 2013 when Dr. Ruggiero first meet Dr. James Jeffrey Bradstreet who shared with him how [transcranial] ultrasound imaging could help identify lesions in the brains of autistic children and how immunotherapy could help heal those lesions. Together the two embarked on a fruitful collaboration producing two of the most widely read scientific papers on autism to date in mainstream peer-review journals. Although Dr. Ruggiero admits that one single cause of autism cannot be pinpointed, he does state that he and Dr. Bradstreet work have given offered a better understanding towards how autism develops in the body (its pathogenesis) and how the medical community can begin to address it stating:
‘’Actually we found that there is a disruption in the flow of lymph from the brain so the brain cannot drain all its toxic waste whether it is dead cells, whether it is metabolites, or if you prefer to call them toxins or toxicants or metals or whatever. So the brain becomes clogged with all these toxic cells and maybe also infectious pathogens.”
Dr. Ruggiero went on to explain a revolutionary concept that has only been public for a few months by explaining:
“This is a completely new concept. I think that you know we have microbes in our gut, our so-called gut microflora or with a more modern term gut microbiom or microbiota. We know that it is absolutely essential for the functioning of a number of functions in our body from the immune system to the digestive tract and so on. Nowadays everybody is talking about reconstituting or keeping a healthy microbiota in the gut. But it was only a few months ago when I published a paper, again in a mainstream journal that you can find on PubMed in the National Library of Medicine in the US, where I described how the brain microbiota, that is the microbes we have inside our brains, all of us, not only have contributed to the evolution of the human brain…you don’t find microbes in the brains of cats and dogs you only find microbes in the brains of apes and humans. We have published papers describing how these symbiotic relationships between microbes and the cells in our brains, the neurons and the glial cells, has contributed to the evolution of the human brain as we know it today. But also influences its function in a way that has been described as immense.”
The role of the gut microbiom in autistic children has been well acknowledged yet now Dr. Ruggiero has discovered it is also essential to rebalance the microbial populations inside the brain. According to Dr. Ruggiero, one must also rebalance the often dysfunctional immune system and restore the flow of lymph from the brain so that the brain can get rid of all its toxic waste.
Trust Parents
Stepping back from the new and often technical descriptions discovered by Dr. Ruggiero, the good news is that the understanding of autism appears to be taking giant leaps forward. The answers and solutions are progressing even as funded autism research still tends to focus on genetic causes without factoring in the reality of environmental toxicity activating epigenetic triggers. It is, and has been, the parents who have supported and nurtured the idea and practices of autism recovery through their relentless searches and unwillingness to accept the limited mainstream answers.
While mainstream research and medical solutions to autism often miss the mark, it appears that nothing short of a breakaway civilization is occurring composed of medical practitioners who listen to and collaborate with parents to find and implement real solutions. Furthermore, there are many parents who could be considered part of this new breakaway paradigm that are using verified and accepted modalities to get measurable results towards recovering their autistic children.
Dead End Docs
Currently the mainstream medical community has no real answers for parents and their children on the autism spectrum. In fact, much of the modern and historic mainstream medical solutions offered have been ineffective and sometimes just plain insulting. It was not long ago that medicine embraced the sociopathic idea that children who regressed into autism were a result of lack of maternal warmth. Presently there are only two directions recognized by establishment medicine. One option offered is for families to prepare their autistic child for an institution and the other is combinations of toxic, untested (when combined) pharmaceutical drug combinations.
What happens if parents don’t accept these dead end ‘solutions’? There has been a growing number of parents who are taking education, and the search for real solutions, into their own hands. Although still being either attacked or outright ignored by both the mainstream media and medical communities, some parents are recovering their children on the autism spectrum. A yearly collection of such valuable alternative knowledge is the nearly two-decade running annual conference called AutismOne. A collection of doctors, researchers and families gather each year to share their success stories and breaking research towards recovering autistic children.
Brain Balance
Dr. Marco Ruggiero recently appeared on HighWire with Del Bigtree to discuss the recent revolutionary breakthroughs in autism’s pathogenesis and recovery. Dr. Ruggiero had been working in the fields of neuroscience, experimental immunotherapy and oncology for the past 30 years. It was in 2013 when Dr. Ruggiero first meet Dr. James Jeffrey Bradstreet who shared with him how [transcranial] ultrasound imaging could help identify lesions in the brains of autistic children and how immunotherapy could help heal those lesions. Together the two embarked on a fruitful collaboration producing two of the most widely read scientific papers on autism to date in mainstream peer-review journals. Although Dr. Ruggiero admits that one single cause of autism cannot be pinpointed, he does state that he and Dr. Bradstreet work have given offered a better understanding towards how autism develops in the body (its pathogenesis) and how the medical community can begin to address it stating:
‘’Actually we found that there is a disruption in the flow of lymph from the brain so the brain cannot drain all its toxic waste whether it is dead cells, whether it is metabolites, or if you prefer to call them toxins or toxicants or metals or whatever. So the brain becomes clogged with all these toxic cells and maybe also infectious pathogens.”
Dr. Ruggiero went on to explain a revolutionary concept that has only been public for a few months by explaining:
“This is a completely new concept. I think that you know we have microbes in our gut, our so-called gut microflora or with a more modern term gut microbiom or microbiota. We know that it is absolutely essential for the functioning of a number of functions in our body from the immune system to the digestive tract and so on. Nowadays everybody is talking about reconstituting or keeping a healthy microbiota in the gut. But it was only a few months ago when I published a paper, again in a mainstream journal that you can find on PubMed in the National Library of Medicine in the US, where I described how the brain microbiota, that is the microbes we have inside our brains, all of us, not only have contributed to the evolution of the human brain…you don’t find microbes in the brains of cats and dogs you only find microbes in the brains of apes and humans. We have published papers describing how these symbiotic relationships between microbes and the cells in our brains, the neurons and the glial cells, has contributed to the evolution of the human brain as we know it today. But also influences its function in a way that has been described as immense.”
The role of the gut microbiom in autistic children has been well acknowledged yet now Dr. Ruggiero has discovered it is also essential to rebalance the microbial populations inside the brain. According to Dr. Ruggiero, one must also rebalance the often dysfunctional immune system and restore the flow of lymph from the brain so that the brain can get rid of all its toxic waste.
Trust Parents
Stepping back from the new and often technical descriptions discovered by Dr. Ruggiero, the good news is that the understanding of autism appears to be taking giant leaps forward. The answers and solutions are progressing even as funded autism research still tends to focus on genetic causes without factoring in the reality of environmental toxicity activating epigenetic triggers. It is, and has been, the parents who have supported and nurtured the idea and practices of autism recovery through their relentless searches and unwillingness to accept the limited mainstream answers.
While mainstream research and medical solutions to autism often miss the mark, it appears that nothing short of a breakaway civilization is occurring composed of medical practitioners who listen to and collaborate with parents to find and implement real solutions. Furthermore, there are many parents who could be considered part of this new breakaway paradigm that are using verified and accepted modalities to get measurable results towards recovering their autistic children.
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