Autism
DIET, SUPPLEMENTS, AND AUTISM SPECTRUM DIAGNOSES: IS THERE THERAPEUTIC VALUE? By Judy Converse
Download Interview Transcript My first born son was diagnosed autistic
at the age of three which threw me into a huge learning curve because I had to
find a solution to his problem because my own profession had nothing to offer
which was a bit of a shock for me. Having found all those solutions, I went back
to the university. I completed a second postgraduate degree in human nutrition
and learned many more other things. As a result, my son fully recovered. He is
not autistic anymore. He is living a normal life. I have a clinic in
Cambridge in England, in the UK which is very busy with children and adults with
learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders and
children and adults with immune disorders and digestive problems.
....It was 1 in 10,000 when I graduated. It was a very rare disorder. Even
I as a medical graduate have never seen an autistic patient. By the time I
graduated from my medical school I have never an autistic individual. I have
seen other psychiatric conditions through my course in psychiatry but have never
seen an autistic child. To be honest, the first autistic child that I have
encountered was my own. As I said, 20 years ago in the Western world and
certainly in the English-speaking world, we were diagnosing one child in 10,000.
Fifteen years ago, we were diagnosing and five years ago we were diagnosing one
child in 150 which is almost a 40-fold increase in incidence. Now in Britain and
some countries, we are diagnosing one child in 66.