Treating Autism Through Nutritional Testing and Diet

I'm amazed at sometimes when people come in to see us how little testing has been done. We see this a ton with autistic children. I had a 10-year-old who came in and he had like mild to moderate autism. He was really struggling with some of his development, his coordination, and his interaction with other kids. But nobody had done some basic nutritional testing on him, which I was just you know, nobody had checked his iron levels, which, you know, that's something that every doctor can do. And so why wouldn't you check his iron levels? And he had low iron, which impacts his energy and is impacting him in terms of development. It can make heavy metals more toxic to the brain. And so we replaced his iron. And of course, we cleaned up his diet, you know, and took him off of you know, got him on a more nutritionally dense food, you know, more nutritionally dense foods. Yeah, we got him off of the sugars and the food coloring and stuff and took away some inflammatory foods for him. But then we just replaced him nutritionally. You know, we did some more testing on his mitochondria, which, you know, those are the powerhouse of your cells and they help with taking your food and turning it into ATP or energy. And so, When we looked at his mitochondria, we saw that he had some deficits there. And so we really worked to support his mitochondria with extra carnitine, the activated B vitamins, magnesium, CoQ10. And with the shift in his diet, giving him some iron, supporting his mitochondria, he really did so well. I was just talking to his mom the other day, and she was just impressed. He's doing so much better at school. He's interacting more with other kids. He's improving energetically, too.