Detoxifying
Detoxifying children with autism has proven very beneficial for their health.
There are a number of toxins that have damaged our children, partly because our world is far more toxic than it used to be and partly becasue our children seem to be very susceptible to these toxins, likely because of problems with certain fragile or damaged metabolic pathways.
A number of studies have shown that children with autism have higher loads of toxins, including toxic metals and diminished capabilities to excrete toxins,such as sufferling from low levels of glutathione.
Reducing Exposure to Toxins
The most important step in detoxification is to ensure that your child is not exposed to further toxins. Read MoreChelation Therapy
Chelation has proven very successful for some children with high body burdens of toxic metals.
Clinical outcomes have shown that children with autism often have excessive burdens of mercury, lead, antimony, aluminum, nickel, arsenic, cadmium and other toxic metals due to their inability to detoxify effectively.
Chelation is the introduction of a chelator to the body that will act to remove metals that have been sequestered in the body. Note that chelating is not exactly the same process as detoxifying, but instead a subset of general detoxification. Chelation is one of few therapies that has proven curative for certain people --that is, it can address the issues that are at the foundation of the medical problems some children suffer from.
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