Autism Part 1

by Dr. Jerry J. Masarira ND, C.B.I.S. (Certified Brain Injury Specialist)

Autism is known as a gene programming disorder. Fetal development during the first month of pregnancy is sensitive to environmental insults that can disrupt epigenetic processes that govern which genes are expressed and which genes are silenced. As result these epigenetic abnormalities usually persist throughout one’s life.

Dr. Jerry J. Masarira ND, C.B.I.S. (Certified Brain Injury Specialist)

       One of the best writers on health ever known, Ellen G White wrote these words “The brain is the citadel of the being. Wrong physical habits affect the brain and prevent the attainment of that which the students desire--a good mental discipline. Unless the youth are versed in the science of how to care for the body as well as for the mind, they will not be successful students. Study is not the principal cause of breakdown of the mental powers. The main cause is improper diet, irregular meals, a lack of physical exercise, and careless inattention in other respects to the laws of health. When we do all that we can to preserve the health, then we can ask God in faith to bless our efforts. --CT 299 (1913).  {2MCP 381.5}” End of quote.

       In the brain, there are about one thousand interconnections also called, Synaptic junctions per cell, or about one hundred trillion interconnections in all. If we used some thirty thousand new connections every second of our life time, we could not use them all. God planned that man should live for eternity. He then equipped man with brain that could be fascinated with infinite universe for never ending eternity. But, man has destroyed himself and our bodies are sick and our brains are also sick. To make it more complex, is the way we feed and then treat our brains when sick. We use poison.

       One of the many diseases we have experienced and still experiencing at a faster pace, is Autism.

Autism is an enemy to the brain. It was first reported by a psychiatrist Leo Kanner in 1943. Autism has increased from 4 in 12,000 children to about 1 in 100 in the USA.

 School going children are mostly culprits to this epidemic. There is no explanation why the syndrome has increased sharply from the 1980 regardless of the medical field having more knowledge about its existent for a very long time.

Autism is known as a gene programming disorder. Fetal development during the first month of pregnancy is sensitive to environmental insults that can disrupt epigenetic processes that govern which genes are expressed and which genes are silenced. As result these epigenetic abnormalities usually persist throughout one’s life.

Industrial food processing that includes artificial sweeteners with aspartame and a combination of an inherited predisposition as well as severe environmental insults prior to age three are some factors to take into consideration.

The most noted cause of the epidemic is increased vaccinations, toxic metals exposures, also possible via vaccines.

Approximately 4 out of every 5 children diagnosed with autism are male. Autism seem to affect males more than females.

In typical regression cases children develop normally until they reach the ages one to two years when they start to experience a sudden decline in body functions.

Most families begin noticing child losing speech, repetitive movements, emotional meltdowns and gastrointestinal symptoms.

Many families experience horror when receiving a diagnosis of autism and told the condition cannot be treated and are advised to institutionalize the child despite many recovering when several options are chosen to attend to the condition.

Families should refrain using one permanent method of helping their child. It is the child’s right to get good health by all appropriate and individualized means.

There are variations when it comes to Autistic children.

Some are hyperactive and some are lethargic.

 Many are completely non-verbal and others have significant speech.

There are classic symptoms and traits in four key areas such as: -

  1. Behavior – This category includes repetitive movements, such as rocking, spinning or hand flapping, little or no eye contact. Obsessive interest in certain objects such as spinning toys. Sensitive to touch, light and sounds.

Also, impulsive behaviors such as running into the street or go to the backyard to play at the swimming pool area.

  1. Cognition – At this stage there is a slowness of acquiring new knowledge or skills.
  2. Language – It is either there is absence of speech or a major speech delay, inability to start a conversation or keep om going. There is also a tendency to repeat the sounds of others (Echolalia), an unusual tone, rhythm of speech.
  3. Socialization – There is very poor social skills at this stage and lack of interest in others. Resistant to cuddling and holding. They prefer to retreat into their own world.

Children with autism have problems such as constipation, food allergies, intestinal yeast overgrowth and very sensitive to toxic metals. This causes oxidative stress, immune dysregulation and also the body failing to detoxify.

Normally there are 3 groups of Autism spectrum disorders as follows: -

  1. Classic or Kannels’ Autism.
  2. Pervasive developmental disorder – (PDD)
  3. Asperger’s disorder.

There are great differences in severity because the Asperger’s syndrome is high functional autism and involves normal intelligence and competent speech but exhibit very poor socialization.

Classical on the other hand is the most severe disorder in Autism spectrum. Most of its sufferers exhibit most of the symptoms and traits at age 3.

Without effective treatment, these individuals are likely to experience a life time of frustration because of severe deficits in cognition, socialization as well as speech.  PDD children’s symptoms are intermediate in severity between Classical and Asperger’s syndrome.

Autistic children may have the same inherited predisposition but differ in the type, severity, and of environmental insults.  After age 6, therapies that effectively overcome oxidative stress, toxic overload, food sensitives, yeast overload, metal metabolism imbalance and Immune function can provide significant improvements but conditions of cognitive, or social or speech usually remains the same level.

The central problem in Autism is early brain development that dies and a full recovery is extremely unlikely unless treatment begins before completion of critical stage of brain maturation.

Autism researchers found that many children with autism experience rapid acceleration in brain size during the first year of life. Approximately 25% autistics develop unusually large heads during early development suggesting that early intervention is critical. Cognitive – behavioral treatment that includes therapy can be introduced early to the sick.

We start life with billions of short, dense brain cells that are immature. Brain development involves four basic phases: -

  1. Pruning of some brain cells to make space for growth of other cells.
  2. Growth of neurons, axions, dendrites and other cell components.
  3. Growth of inhibitions once a brain cell is fully mature.
  4. Development of synaptic connections.

In Autism, there are a reduced number of developed brain cells and fewer branches on the cells. The effect is a lessened ability to develop synaptic connections needed for learning, speech and socialization. The brain area with the most pronounced is the cerebellum, responsible for smooth controlled movements.

(To be continued…)

Dr. Jerry J. Masarira ND, C.B.I.S. (Certified Brain Injury Specialist)

 

Bibliography.

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Skyhorse Publishing Co. New York, NY 10018.

  1. Manual of traumatic Brain Injury Management.

By Felise S. Zollman, MD.

Demos Medical Publishing. New York, NY 10036

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