Healing Autism: Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey on Larry King
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Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey were on Larry King Live recently. I didn’t catch it on TV but I just watched all the segments on YouTube.
I love and admire Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey so much for speaking out and helping families recover from autism. I also commend them for telling the truth about vaccines and the greed that’s driving the pharmaceutical industry.
I agree with Jim and Jenny that autism is preventable and treatable. All you have to do is watch the video footage below of Jenny’s son to see that this child is no longer autistic. Healing autism is possible!
Healing Autism
According to Jenny McCarthy’s website, GenerationRescue.org, here are the four most important things you can do to help heal your child:
1. Bring the toxin load down
2. Help the gut heal
3. Get the nutrients up
4. Get the metals and other toxins out
Among other things, they recommend that parents of autistic children:
- Remove casein (dairy) and gluten (wheat) from the diet
- Remove other food allergens from the diet
- Get rid of bad food and sugar (trans fatty acids, artificial colors, artificial flavors, artificial preservatives, nitrates, and aspartame, Nutrasweet)
- Use fluoride-free toothpaste
- Give cod liver oil
- Give probiotics
Read all the recommendations on Jenny’s website here: Autism treatment on GenerationRescue.org
You can buy Jenny’s books about healing autism on Amazon (I haven’t read the new one yet but I’ve read her other books and they are not only full of great information but they’re really well-written and very gripping — I could not put them down):
Healing and Preventing Autism: A Complete Guide
Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism
Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds
Also, check out Gapsdiet.com. The GAPS Diet is a gluten-free, casein-free protocol founded by pediatrician and neurologist Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride who used this diet to heal her own son from autism.
The GAPS diet also recommends cod liver oil and therapeutic probiotics which is what Jenny McCarthy said helped heal her son. They have a Yahoo support group here. If you use my coupon code “CHEESE” in their store, you can get 10% off the recommended supplements, as well as Dr. Campbell McBride’s book, The Gut and Psychology Syndrome. (which, in my opinion, is a must read).
Please, if you know someone with an autistic child or a child on the autism spectrum disorder, share this blog post with them. There is hope for autistic children. Healing from autism is possible and it’s happening. Let’s get the word out to the people who are suffering.
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18/04/2009 at 8:54 am Permalink
While i agree with you mostly, & am so glad that someone like Jenny McCarthy can be out there making folks aware of the problem, this is a little too simplistic.
There are several different kinds of autism stemming from different etiologies. There are some that won’t be cured or prevented, but just a tiny portion. Most are preventable & our current “health care” system is doing nothing to try & prevent it. Sometimes it seems they are doing their best to create more cases.
I could go on & on about preventable illness & the lack of proper response from either the government or standard medicine.
Thank you so much for your site. I appreciate so much your commitment to health.
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18/04/2009 at 10:52 am Permalink
I really like Jenny and Jim. They are standing up for what they believe in and I am glad to see them.
18/04/2009 at 11:59 am Permalink
I am glad that they are speaking out against vaccinations. Thank you for posting this! I will pass it along.
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18/04/2009 at 5:20 pm Permalink
My sister teaches 1st & 2nd grade, and has seen first hand the impact diet can have on children suffering from both autism and behavioral disorders. She’s a huge fan of Jenny McCarthy — simply because she’s standing up for a point of view that isn’t always the most popular.
Thanks for posting and reminding everyone that choices abound – and parents DO have options that keep the well-being of their children in mind.
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18/04/2009 at 6:34 pm Permalink
I really love to see people out there questioning our healthcare system – raising awareness is where it all begins. Somehow people have become so incredibly brainwashed into thinking that the government is doing what is in our best interest. Thanks so much for posting this!
19/04/2009 at 6:18 pm Permalink
i too am glad that you are posting about ways to help autistic children but to say that is a cure is not true. yes it helps! yes it can make a HUGE difference. but it is not a cure because a cure implies that following these steps helps everyone and it isnt so unfortunately. i used to work @ a preschool for autistic children where every child was receiving early intervention and many of them were on the rigid diet, chelation etc. that jenny describes and while it helped them to a certain degree, it did not cure them. autism is a spectrum disease and every child is affected differently and therefore every child responds differently to treatment. i appreciate your commitment to health and agree that every child on the autistic spectrum and children in general should have these types of diets but to say there is a cure to autism is speaking too soon!
i hope i didnt come off as rude b/c that was not my intention!
20/04/2009 at 5:09 am Permalink
From the research I have been conducting lately, I am more and more convinced that autism is one of the environmentally and nutritionally triggered disorders of “modern trade foods”: refined grains, sugar, and messed-with-fats.
The condition is a spectrum, however, which means “severity” is up to the individual genome and environment. Each person’s needs are different and the ability to improve is also different.
Just my two cents. ~Anna
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20/04/2009 at 5:11 am Permalink
Hi Annmarie,
I wanted to know if we drink raw milk and use raw dairy do we still have to worry about the casein?
20/04/2009 at 5:32 am Permalink
Hi, Stephanie,
I did not use the word “cure” in my post. I said that autism is preventable and treatable and that we can heal autism. I did not say there is a “cure”. The word healing connotes that we can recover but it does not imply that all children will be completely cured.
Many of the children on a “rigid diet” are only doing GFCF. Dr. Campbell-McBride, author of “The Gut & Psychology Syndrome” says adamantly that gluten-free and casein-free is NOT enough. Many children see huge improvements when they go off gluten and casein, but many do not — and many regress after being on the diet for some time. She says that they must remove all complex carbohydrates to truly heal.
In addition, therapeutic-grade probiotics must be used. Not all probiotics are the same. I can attest to this. I had full-blown candida overgrowth and arthritis and chronic fatigue when I was in my 20s. I reversed it all with diet and probiotics. But I have had different experiences with different brands of probiotics. I will tell you that MOST probiotics on the market do not work — they are not strong enough. The only ones I know to work are the ones you can buy online. I’ve never had a storebought probiotic work for me.
Jenny McCarthy describes in her book, “Louder Than Words” the HUGE changes she saw in her son after she switched him to GFCF and also after she got him on ThreeLac probiotics. The only probiotics I have ever used that worked for me are ThreeLac & BioKult (Dr. Campbell-McBride’s probiotic).
I also heard Jenny say in an interview that she saw big changes in her son after giving him cod liver oil. There’s a lot of research on vitamin A deficiency in autistic kids.
http://www.whale.to/y/autism_vitA.html
http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/04/17/a-is-for-autism-and-vitamin-a/
20/04/2009 at 5:35 am Permalink
Dawna,
Yes, raw dairy contains casein. The only casein-free dairy product is ghee. GAPS patients cannot tolerate casein because they don’t have the enzymes to digest it.
Acc to Dr. Campbell-McBride, most GAPS patients can start on ghee fairly quickly on the GAPS diet. And then slowly over time, you can start introducing more and more dairy products (one at a time, starting w/ ghee, and moving up to butter, then kefir and yogurt, then cheeses, then milk and finally cream).
20/04/2009 at 1:15 pm Permalink
This is where I stop reading your blog. Advocating snake-oil cures for autism and supporting anti-vaccination forces is biased, foolish, and absurd for someone who claims to want to follow proper scientific analysis and methods for better health. Good day, madam. You are now consigned to the dustbin of idiots.
20/04/2009 at 1:35 pm Permalink
Consigned to the dustbin of idiots? Ouch!
Please read Dr. Mary Megson and Dr. Campbell-McBride’s research before you toss me into the dustbin. Links above.
I would hardly call these doctors advocates of “snake oil cures”.
20/04/2009 at 3:10 pm Permalink
I found this post very interesting. I have been a teacher for 25 years and I can tell you that I have personally seen a rise in the problems associated with our children. There are more with attention deficit probelems, more with hyperactivity problems, more on medication, more with emotional problems, more with memory retention problems etc. I have tried to inform myself about the effects of the foods they eat, vaccinations, lack of exercise, and others, but still have a lot to learn. I feel that there is a problem with the vaccinations, though I don’t know what it is. In the interview, they say that parents need to inform themselves. I believe this to be true. Parents of young children should not be under the false impression that everything they hear from their doctors and television ads is necessarily true. They need to do their own research. If I were a new mother, it would frighten me to think of giving my baby so many shots at such a young age. I passed along a link to your post to a young teacher who is pregnant and due in 7 weeks. I hope that she does some looking into all of this. Thank you for all of the great information I have found at your site.
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20/04/2009 at 3:16 pm Permalink
Hi, AnnMarie,
There will always be people who are threatened by anything outside the mainstream that challenging their pet beliefs. It’s true to some degree of all of us, but it is most true of religious fundamentalists. In this case the religion I refer to is “Scientism”. (The belief that if science hasn’t already proven it, (or the popular opinion amongst the scientific “in crowd” holds otherwise) it is, by definition, not true.)
I wouldn’t worry too much about losing such a reader. A fundamentalist is hard to reach — but the aware enquirer, while possibly holding a different view, is open to questions about scientific truth. You have a message for the aware enquirer.
Misti
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20/04/2009 at 3:41 pm Permalink
“gluten (wheat) from the diet”
Just FYI for you readers, other forms of gluten include barley, oats, and rye.
21/04/2009 at 3:37 am Permalink
Peg -
It was Jenny McCarthy would encouraged me to learn about all of this in the first place. The last time I saw her on Larry King and Oprah, my daughter Kate was about 4 months old. As a mother these days, you worry about autism.
Well, watching Jenny and reading her books made me realize that I didn’t have to worry about autism. I learned from Jenny and Dr. Campbell-McBride that digestive issues and gut dysbiosis goes hand in hand with autism. I learned that autism can be treated by helping to heal the gut. You can also treat allergies, ADD, depression, etc. by healing the gut.
I started my daughter on BioKult when she was 9 months old. She has been on it ever since. She also drinks kefir and kombucha and eats naturally fermented sauerkraut and pickles and relish. I also don’t give her tap water (chlorine) and I would only resort to antibiotics in a dire emergency. I also try to give her plenty of bone broth — I cook her beans and rice in it, make sauces and stews, etc. Bone broth is really good for the lining of the digestive tract.
I’m doing everything I can to build up the good flora in her digestive tract so she can be healthy for life. And she has great movements, by the way. She poops like clockwork — twice a day.
24/04/2009 at 5:30 am Permalink
Sorry I guess I worded my question wrong. I realize raw dairy has casein in it BUT I thought since it was raw it had all the enzymes to help digest it (the casein) – so I wouldn’t have to worry about the casein content. My daughter is not autistic but does have vaccine damage. I want her to get all the wonderful nutrients in the raw dairy but am confused on the casein issue. How do you tell whether or not someone can tolerate it? Is casein bad for everyone? Did you ever hear of http://www.dogtorj.com (he seems to think so)? I just need some help deciphering what the best food options are for my children!!! Thanks for your site!
24/04/2009 at 6:15 am Permalink
Hi, Dawna,
Casein is not bad for everyone. It is only bad for people who have a damaged digestive tract. However the digestive tract can heal — but it does take time, avoidance of allergens, and you need to take good quality probiotics.
People who have a damaged digestive tract (leaky gut) are not able to produce the enzymes to digest complex sugars including disaccharides and polysaccharides. These include: dairy, grains, starches, and sugar (except honey). Dr. Campbell-McBride author of GAPS recommends going off all complex sugars for 3-4 weeks, then slowly introducing dairy starting with ghee or clarified butter to see if there is a reaction.
Please visit http://www.gapsdiet.com — tons of info there about the GAPS diet. They also have a Yahoo support group (click on Support).
I also recommend reading Dr. Campbell McBride’s book The Gut & Psychology Syndrome (they sell it on gapsdiet.com). If you use my coupon code, CHEESE on http://www.gapsdiet.com you will get 10% your order.
28/10/2009 at 2:26 am Permalink
Autism can be treated in so many ways. If diagnose at its early stage the better. There are therapies that can help an autistic child to cope with its surroundings.
02/12/2009 at 8:10 am Permalink
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Darren N.
Atlanta, Ga.