After stopping pills in 2013 and 2014, I continued learning about natural treatments. I read Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., Dyslexia, A.D.H.D., Depression, Schizophrenia (2010) by Natasha Campbell-McBride, a former neurosurgeon who reversed her son’s autism. I read Bugs, Brains, and Bowels (2013), an... See more

In 2016, the nonprofit Moms Across America sent five childhood vaccines to Microbe Inotech Laboratories to be tested for glyphosate. Using the ELISA test, glyphosate was found in all five vaccines, at 0.107 to 2.671 parts per billion.81 The MMR vaccine, which is grown as a live culture on gelatin, contained the most glyphosate. Additional tests... See more

Nutrients, fasting, grounding (touching Earth with bare feet or other body parts), sunlight, sleep, and exercise facilitate the body’s detoxifying, self-healing abilities. Animal organs are ample, underused sources of fat-soluble vitamins. Silicon-rich mineral water removes aluminum from the body.125 Bacillus subtilis , a rod-shaped bacteria, can... See more

The genetic theory also can’t explain “acquired autism,” when symptoms appear after years of normal development;62 why 30 to 50 percent of autists regress, becoming suddenly more autistic;63 or why, according to studies in Pediatrics International ,64 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ,65 and other journals, an estimated 10 to 20 percent... See more

In 1974, two years after DDT was banned in the U.S., the already corrupt and/or incompetent EPA allowed Monsanto, the main seller of DDT, to begin selling glyphosate in its weedkiller Roundup. Seven hundred tons of glyphosate were used in the U.S. that year, 20,000 tons in 1995, and 138,000 tons in 2014,70 a 200-fold increase nearly matching the... See more

In NeuroTribes , Silberman writes that many in Silicon Valley, in the tech industry, seem autistic. I’ve noticed that many autobiographical authors and graphic novelists do too. There’s a connection between autobiographical self-expression and autism, or auto-ism , from the Greek word auto , meaning “self” or “self-referential.” Pain and discomfort... See more

To me, the answer seems clear: because corporations have convinced most governments, scientists, journalists, and media outlets that their products are safe.

These days, among two million Americans, around 20,000 have ankylosing spondylitis (an autoimmune disease I have that can lead to a crooked spine), 50,000 are mentally retarded,112 at least 50,000 are schizophrenic,113 35,000 have dementia (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc.),114 10,000 are severely autistic, and 650 are deaf-blind.115

The United States—which as of 2011 had the highest first-day infant death rate in the industrialized world124—might succumb to autism, becoming a cautionary example for other countries. The autism rate here has doubled an average of every five years since 1970. At this rate, the majority of American boys will be autistic by 2036, and by around 2045... See more