Autism Spectrum Disorder

Diagnosis and Solutions

by C.E. Gant, MD, PhD

3 part webinar series

Autism #1 (March 31, 2011)

April is National Autism Awareness Month. Scientific evidence has clearly indicated that Autism is far more prevalent than originally believed, affecting one out of every 110 American children.

It can be treated and we will look at some of the latest strategies for dealing with this complex condition.

Autism #2 (April 7, 2011)

This week continues where we left off in Autism #1, and defines additional risk factors for autism.

The risk factor model, like the one which cardiologists use to approach cardiovascular disease, is the preferred model. When multiple cardiovascular risk factors are identified in a patient (cholesterol, hypertension, smoking etc.), the clinician cannot predict with much certainty which ones are the most causative of symptoms, but it is assumed that modifying such risk factors will nevertheless have an impact on arresting or even reversing further progression of cardiovascular disease. Similarly, if certain gastrointestinal risk factors such as clostridia infections, which were discussed last week, are diagnosed properly and treated, one still can not be sure if that risk factor is causing 5% or 95% of the autistic symptoms.

All that we can conclude with some certainty, based on amassed clinical research, is that every risk factor is likely to be playing a significant role in causing dysfunction, and that reversing each one will give the individual suffering from autism as much higher chance of recovery.

Autism #3 (April 21, 2011)

This final webinar on autism will summarize the risk factors to give parents a checklist of metabolic abnormalities to investigate. The risk factors will be assessed in the context of the old saying, “the absense of evidence is not evidence of absense.” In other words, just because some likely risk factors have never been scientifically studied or proven to be causative factors for autism, does not necessarily mean that they are not valid. The research just needs to be done.

The risk factors already presented in some detail in the previous two webinars – which are proven risk factors for autism – biopterin and neopterin deficiencies and clostria gut infections, were simply included to give listeners a sense of the how a risk factor analysis is done. The radical notion that autism is reversible, provided that competent clinicians are on hand to interpret functional and genomic assessments and devise rational treatment interventions, will once again be set forth.

Finally, the main obstacle to eliminating autism, utter political stupidity and ignorance, will be discussed as the primary reason that autism continues to be a problem at all.

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