Jim’s Reviews > The Autism Revolution: Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be > Status Update
Jim
is 40% done
All of the questions regarding treatment options are complicated. 25%: "There are three issues here: 1) Is there really any toxic body burden in the first place, and if so, does it matter? 2) Do the body’s detoxification processes really need help? 3) If so, is helping them with good nutrition and other natural support enough? On all three of these, medical evidence is thin and controversy is substantial."
— Jun 09, 2012 07:49PM
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Jim
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Many doctors believe, like Ana’s Dr. Cosford, that autism, chronic fatigue, and a variety of other chronic illnesses all involve a deterioration of the biological systems that help us cope with the environment. To Cosford and others, the autism is not a “thing” or “specific disease” but the way the brain and body behave when their cells are having a hard time.
— Jul 08, 2012 06:04AM
Jim
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What's going on in the brain? ~35%: Examining why children with autism have big brains, studies show a lower density of cell metabolites, more fluid where there should be cell fibers, and lower brain activity where these problems occur. Brain-imaging studies suggest that the extra “stuff” making the brains bigger could be made up of fluid. It’s more evidence that the cells are not working at their best.
— Jul 01, 2012 06:29AM
Jim
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22% "Toxins almost definitely made things worse for Ana. She grew up in an industrial town, and her childhood home backed up onto a regional airport. The air often smelled like a steel mill, she says. Tests in her mid-twenties revealed that Ana’s bloodstream had high levels of contaminants from jet fuel and heavy metals found only in industry."
— May 25, 2012 07:05PM
Jim
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"When Ana’s chronic fatigue syndrome was treated at the cellular level, her autism melted away... Ana did not simply have a mind problem causing her fatigue, or a brain problem causing her autism. She had a whole-body health problem causing both."
— May 14, 2012 05:57AM
Jim
is 19% done
"Children are generally exposed to more toxins than adults. Children spend more time on the floor than adults, kicking up, breathing, and swallowing the dust and dirt that collects there. They put all kinds of things in their mouths that adults are never exposed to. They get sick from germs to which adults are already immune. They take more medications to get rid of those..."
— May 11, 2012 12:26PM
Jim
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"I believe that autism is not a genetic tragedy, but rather an unfolding and unprecedented challenge related to many other health and environmental crises. We need to build a world that makes us healthy."
— May 08, 2012 01:23PM
Jim
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3% "If I believed that autism was a genetically determined, lifelong brain impairment, then I would have to deny to myself the extraordinary capabilities and changes I saw in my patients. If I believed what I saw, then I would have to rethink everything I knew about autism. That’s what I proceeded to do, and you are reading the result of that exploration."
— May 06, 2012 07:56AM
