Autism: More Treatable Than Thought?
Expert: It Is, Along With ADHD, Asthma, Allergies
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Healing The 4 'A' Disorders
Dr. Kenneth Bock discusses the four "A" disorders with Harry Smith and offers treatment advice covered in his book, "Healing The New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies."
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He and writer Cameron Stauth contend that environmental factors and nutritional deficiencies trigger the conditions in kids who are genetically predisposed to them, and intervention can be effective in treating those youngsters, intervention involving "detoxifying" them and changing their diets, among other things.
They've penned a book called "Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders," in which they describe Bock's approach, and the results he's been getting at a facility he heads, results some consider quite impressive.
Bock is co-founder and co-director of the Rhinebeck Health Center and the Center for Progressive Medicine, and a clinical instructor in family medicine at the Albany Medical College.
Bock notes that he may be the first doctor to put the four conditions together.
On The Early Show Monday, Bock and co-anchor Harry Smith focused on Bock's work with autistic kids.
To see the segment, click here.
To read an excerpt of "Healing the New Childhood Epidemics,"click here.
There's a 36-minute documentary on Bock's work with autistic children, and it is available by clicking here. The documentary was done by an independent party.
For much more on autism, go to the Web site of the Autism Society of America, by clicking here.
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See all 61 CommentsOur son was diagnosed at age 4. Now at age 8 and lots of biomedical intervention, NO occupational therapy, he is completely recovered from autism.
Please do more shows about this, so many parents out there need to know!!
Another diet treatment that has proven how food affects the brain is the Ketogenic Diet. It is used very successfully to treat some forms of epilepsy.
Not a new treatment - goes back to biblical times.
A segment on this would enlighten viewers of the fact that what you eat can affect brain function.
My four year old grandson was successfully treated for two years by the staff at Detroit's Children's Hospital.
A good source of information on the subject can be obtained from the website "charliefoundation.org".
Our son was diagnosed at age 4. Now at age 8 and lots of biomedical intervention, NO occupational therapy, he is completely recovered from autism.
Please do more shows about this, so many parents out there need to know!!
I am all for unconventional practices provided they work... but there are too many children with true autism that do not respond to a gluten free diet to say it's the cure to autism. To those it works for - good for you. To those that it hasn't worked for (and yes, I gave it time) - here is to hoping for a true cure.
Our son was diagnosed at age 4. Now at age 8 and lots of biomedical intervention, NO occupational therapy, he is completely recovered from autism.
Please do more shows about this, so many parents out there need to know!!
He is recovering due to addressing and treating the food allergies,immune and metabolic dysfunction, GI disease and viral infection that affect him.
I know many families with children who are being treated and none of our children are on the same course of treatment.I just thought people should know that.
I am concerned for those parents , that , are doing everything to help their child and wasting thousands of dollars on all the natural remedies and putting alot of hope for a "cure" or "recovery". I believed that If I followed the gluten , milk, perservatives, yeast, food coloring, secretion injections, vitamin therapies, 30 hours of ABA instructions, speech , O.T.for over 3 12 years that this would have some kind of amazing results. Instead, I was left thousands of dollars in debt , grieving (again), and realizing that not all children with Autism will benefit from this . So, please , please be careful when airing these therapy options , that , you are causing desperate and guilty parents to try ALL options because if not , then they will be forever and always asking "what if I tried this" or "maybe if we tried that" My son is now 11 years old and not able to go to public school. Parents please pace yourselves this is a marathon not a "sprint" and you need to take care of yourselves , these "professionals" are making big money from our child's diability and we are being drain emotionally and financially!
Thank-you,
Jodi
Northern Maine
At 3, I started my son on the feingold diet (no artificial colors, flavors, sweetners, certain preservatives and naturally occuring salicilates). His cronic, acidic diareah went away immediately and over the next year, he was weaned off all his asthma medicine. Before feingold, he was sick 10 of 14 weeks during the winter plus an asthma attck that put him in the hospital for 6 days. This year, we had one ear infection.
As I read, I just kept thinking, "What would have happened if I had not found and started feingold?" I also know that my son's skin could be clearer and that I am missing something. I am hoping that this book gives me some clues.
Thank You for doing this story. As a parent, my son's health is my number one concern and I know that I need to be a researcher as much as anyone else, nothing works for everyone, but soem stuff works for some.
This kind of agenda has been pushed for years by people willing to take money for treatments or books and foist diet and other non-proven causes on unsuspecting parents. They charge alot, then produce little or nothing, yet in a disorder that is mysterious --like Autism-- find devotees.
The theory is tenous at best. Then to suggest that chelation --a potentially fatal treatment-- is beneficial is ridiculous. Let this guy publish well designed, well controlled scientific studies before he goes around braggin about cure.
This kind of agenda has been pushed for years by people willing to take money for treatments or books and foist diet and other non-proven causes on unsuspecting parents. They charge alot, then produce little or nothing, yet in a disorder that is mysterious --like Autism-- find devotees.
The theory is tenous at best. Then to suggest that chelation --a potentially fatal treatment-- is beneficial is ridiculous. Let this guy publish well designed, well controlled scientific studies before he goes around braggin about cure.
I totally agree with you tdam2, couple that with the ever increasing chemicals in our food, water, and air, along with the chemicals and poisons in immunisations, our children really dont have much of a chance... it appears to be one huge experiment to me and we are the guineapigs..well, why not, they experimented on orphans and intellectual handicaped children to see what effects drugs (mainly for immunisation I gather) had before it was given to the public.
Governments world wide are trying to bring in leglislation that a smack is child abuse, but on the other hand they say that it is child abuse if we will not allow them too pump our children with immunisations. Adult bodies have problems coping with all the poisons we stuff into them. but our babies are expected to cope with many diseases pumped in by injection all at the same time plus all the poisonous ingredients like mercury, formaldehyde, antifreeze, aluminium and many other toxins, and they wonder why children are sick and or dying. Our bodies cannot cope with all the poisons in our life, but what the heck the pharmaceutical companies get rich and bring our yet more poisons to counteract what they have caused to make more money and the governments keep the population down..
In talking to a few mothers whose child became autistic, I asked at what age did this become evident,, and they generally said about 2 years old... well isn't it about two that they have one of their immunisations??? they said that their children were progressing very normally, laughing playing talking etc then after their immunisation, it was all down hill and within no time the light went out of their babies eyes... so sad... but we are told that yes there are the casualties of immunisation and that the good outweighs the tragedies, but surely the number of children who die from immunisations and or are badly affected are important also, there seems to be so many more children dying of leukaemia/cancers or have some ADD, ADHD, Asthma, Autism, etc but they dont count this in their stats.. compare these life long horrors with the very odd child who died from what used to be called the mild childhood diseases and is it worth it???
My very bright grandson was told he was ADD, and if my daughter didn't put him on Ritalin that they would consider taking him off her as they then saw her as an unfit mother if she didn't.. So she took him out of school and I taught him and his sister at our home for 3 years without any problems and when they went back to a (private) school they were top of their classes.. hmmm .bright kids get bored so quickly..but I also feel that there are tooo many poisons in our society thus yes there are far to many children with real problems...
In some areas one in five are dignosed ADD??? or was that autism... When we were at school 50 years ago there was only one child in our large school who had asthma, now when my Husband takes the kids on a school camp, over 65% have to bring their medications of Asthma sprays, and that does not include the huge numbers who have to line up every morning for their ADD tablets etc.... We are allowing the pharmaceutical companies to poison our children under the pretext of mass immunisation and the betterment of society...
They say ??? that they want to eradicate all disease from the world, but how??? when most of the world still have the diseases.. total eradication is impossible..
Perhaps we should also look at why there are still epidemics amongst immunised children... OH sorry that wasn't supposed to be known eh... but of course we would be told that the disease would have been far worse if they were not immunised, well I have seen some rotten cases of chicken pox in immunised children...
As kids we all got the mild child hood diseases, and if they were so dangerious then why did parents do their best to make sure that their kids had them before they went to school, and had measles parties to make sure all the kids got it.. I dont remember any fear, and yes if a child didn't get it when they were small and got it when they were in the first trimester of pregnancy the baby could be born deaf, and or blind, and it was sad, and of course there was the very rare kid who had a complication but 99% of kids flew through it and were back at school within no time...
Our children are medically ill, and not special or wired in a different way. my son has serious Gastro problems and treating these makes him less autistic.
I am in the uk and "treating" my child with GF/CF diet vitamins and supplements and he is doing great.
If you have a similar story post it here.
Yes, unfortunately there are doctors in all forms of medicine that are in it for the wrong reasons. It's not fair to past judgement on someone when you are not fully informed of the facts. Dr. Bock has certainely been involved with studies that have been published. He wasn't on the witness stand to defend his credibility, if you have the ability and knowledge you can find that information. This was about bringing forth information to the public about forms of treatment that helped thousands of children.
Doctors tend to forget that we only have one body, not seperate parts linked together.
As to ADHD, I have a question...
What about Adult ADHD?
I belong to the Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group. We've been meeting regularly since 1992.
We have meetings every month, and enough people attend the meetings to sustain the group.
In case Doctors forget.. children to grow into adults:)
Doctors tend to forget that we only have one body, not seperate parts linked together.
As to ADHD, I have a question...
What about Adult ADHD?
I belong to the Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group. We've been meeting regularly since 1992.
We have meetings every month, and enough people attend the meetings to sustain the group.
In case Doctors forget.. children to grow into adults:)
Doctors tend to forget that we only have one body, not seperate parts linked together.
As to ADHD, I have a question...
What about Adult ADHD?
I belong to the Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group. We've been meeting regularly since 1992.
We have meetings every month, and enough people attend the meetings to sustain the group.
In case Doctors forget.. children to grow into adults:)
Lab tests looking individual components ARE the gold standard for finding deficiencies in the immune system that averages mask. Even the USDA food pyramid comes with a notation that EVERYONE should take a general vitamin supplement. It is reasonable, professional and responsible to supplement when a diet (using the gold standard of trial and error elimination) is restricted to non-allergenic foods.
Miners, welders and occupationally exposed individuals, not on the autism spectrum, routinely undergo chelation therapy when hair, blood and urine tests come up with the same readings as kids on the spectrum. Standard treatment for one segment of the population, does not require to be studied...it only needs to be determined the reason for application of the therapy exists. I have witnessed the medical healing Dr Bock's methods can bring to an autistic child (my grandson). Advised to be institutionalized at the age of 18 months, he is now 4 1/2, and talking, reading, playing, makes eye contact, attends school. %u201CProfessionals" who claimed he would never this are incredulous.
Hooray for Dr Bock and those who spend hours with our children rather than write them off.His credentials:http://www.4ahealing.com/aboutkb.html
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I am tired of the so called experts denying an autism, adhd epidemic--the epidemic is here!!Lets talk more about treatment. Good job, we want more!
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