Is biomedical intervention proven?

Originally published March 29, 2009

A lady I know who has a son who’s fighting autism has recently compiled tons and tons of information about whether biomedical interventions in autism is scientifically proven.

 Honestly, this is hard. It’s hard to explain what it is, and why it works, and why your doctor doesn’t know anything about it. So I’m glad she took the time to figure all this out -- I’ve been very lax about keeping records about what I read or where I find information.

 So, here’s what she’s found:

There are over 500 researched white papers published by PhDs and MDs on biomedical intervention. One reason they’re hard to find is because they’re not all listed in one place, and many are protected from distributing because they are in journals which require paid subscriptions.  PubMed is probably the best for finding many of them, but you need a subscription to that as well.

Some great authors have compiled hundreds of research articles and summaries of white papers in their books.  Here is my friend’s list which she hands to all "doubting" family members, friends and professionals. 

Drs. Edelson and Rimland, Recovering Autistic Children, contains 100+ references

Dr. McCandless, Children with Starving Brains, contains 57 references

Dr. Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics (Autism, ADHD, Asthma and Allergies), contains 100+ references

Dr. Bryan Jepson, Changing the Course of Autism, contains 500+ references

David Kirby, Evidence of Harm, contains 436 references

Rev. Lisa Sykes, Sacred Spark, contains 100+ references

One of the biggest problems in treating autism is that some children respond to certain treatments and others don’t. That’s why there are so many people who question the treatment. One new theory is that not all children on the spectrum have methylation pathway defects, and therefore not all respond to biomedical intervention therapies targeted toward the repairing the immune system.  However, there is a test that measures the markers in the pathway.   

If you’re interested in autism, and in why this treatment works, here are the websites where you can read the papers that explain everything. This is Lisa’s list, but it’s pretty similar to where I started while researching all of this:

http://www.autism.com/medical/research/index.htm

http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/publications.htm

http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/supporting_research.htm

http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science_ news/index. php?WT.svl= Top_Nav

http://www.autismcenter.org/research_ publications. aspx

http://www.lymeinducedautism.com/presentations.html

http://www.autism. org/    (search engine for research articles)

http://www.safeminds.org/research/

http://www.autismone.org/download2008.cfm

http://www.generationrescue.org/autism/

And I love my friend’s tagline, and wish I thought of it first:

May you be well equipped to answer questions, and remain confident and steadfast in your quest to recover your children!