Autism is an incredible condition. Did you know that 1 in 150 children are afflicted with this condition today. The ratio is even more frightening when it is related to males. England and Ireland recently reported that autism is affecting 1 in every 58 people there.
I applaud all of you who are teaching the world about autism and how to manage or recover from it. From my perspective, it seems that autism and candida are linked. Almost everyone with autism appears to have elevated levels of candida in their system, probably because of the elevated mercury in their systems. I thought that since you are someone interested in candida, it might be interesting to read an article about Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey’s son, Evan, who has recovered from autism.
In this article, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey state: “We believe what helped Evan recover was starting a gluten-free, casein-free diet, vitamin supplementation, detox of metals, and anti-fungals (they used ThreeLac) for yeast overgrowth that plagued his intestines. Once Evan’s neurological function was recovered through these medical treatments, speech therapy and applied behavior analysis helped him quickly learn the skills he could not learn while he was frozen in autism. After we implemented these therapies for one year, the state re-evaluated Evan for further services. They spent five minutes with Evan and said, “What happened? We’ve never seen a recovery like this.”"
Read the rest of the article at: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/02/mccarthy.autsimtreatment/
A story like this gives hope to the hundreds of thousands of people out there who have loved ones struggling with this condition. Progress is finally being made - but you notice who is making the progress? It is the parents who are actively involved in finding solutions to combat this devastating condition.