Autism
Autism is still considered by many people to be a strictly psychiatric condition, but it
now appears as if that is an incomplete perspective, which sometimes results in
diagnostic error. Autism involves behavioral problems, but it certainly doesn’t start
from emotional problems. It starts from physical harm to the brain. Therefore,
autism is actually a psychiatric condition that stems from a neurological disorder.
More specifically, in most children, autism is primarily a neurotoxic disorder,
because in the majority of autistic children, autism seems to be caused primarily
by the presence of destructive, toxic elements that injure the brain.
Six Major Sources of Neurological Damage In Autism
1. Neurotoxic chemicals, and neurotoxic heavy metals.
2. Viruses.
3. Incomplete proteins.
4. Inflammation.
5. Immune cells that attack the brain.
6. Nutritional deficits, particularly those that impair detoxification.
These harmful forces can wreak havoc upon the brain, particularly in a child with
certain genetic predispositions. The same forces also cause terrible damage to
the rest of the body, and this additional physical damage often results in further
diminishment of proper neurological function.
These damaging factors are destructive not only to children’s nervous systems,
but also to their very sensitive gastrointestinal systems and immune systems.
That is why I consider autism to be a three-faceted illness, with direct damage to:
A. The immune system
B. The gastrointestinal system.
C. The nervous system.
After these three systems have been damaged, they begin to further injure one
another, in a vicious spiral of interwoven destruction.
The Autistic Spiral of Destruction
The destruction includes:
- Inflammation of the brain and gut.
- Viral infiltration of the brain and gut.
- Severe nutritional deficiencies that directly and indirectly harm the brain.
- Food reactions that have neurological consequences.
- Autoimmune attacks upon the brain and body.
- Immune system over-activity and under-activity.
- Undernourished muscle tissue.
Unfortunately, most of these problems cannot be easily observed. All that can be
readily seen is the behavior that they cause.
As physicians and parents, we must learn to see beneath the surface of this
behavior, and to solve the underlying root problems that result in the misclassified,
misunderstood, once-dooming diagnosis of autism.
