108: Preventing autism
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
"Preventing autism" is such an audacious goal! Is it possible? How can we prevent it if we don't know what causes it? Dara Berger is a mom whose son was diagnosed as autistic before he was three years old. She was told that there was no cure or hope beyond ABA (applied behavior analysis). This was the start of her quest to find answers and help for her child, and to avoid a similar diagnosis for children she hoped to bear, down the line.
There are no simple solutions, Dara readily admits. She has done much research, interviewing a variety of doctors and autism specialists for her book "How to Prevent Autism." She has concluded that autism is in all likelihood a disorder tied to toxic overload. To regain their health and to prevent the condition in future children takes much work.
In today's episode, she gives ideas about where to begin. She touches on:
- how dietary changes are critical for the child's health
- the importance of seeing an integrative health specialist
- how autism is related to gut health
- how functional medicine is making huge strides against this disorder by recognizing the volume of factors that lead to an autism diagnosis
- the genetic mutations that make it difficult for the brain and gut to function properly
Today's episode will give you an idea of how to help a child on the autistic spectrum and even how to "clean out" your own body from its toxic load, so that you may avoid the diagnosis altogether with a subsequent baby.
For more information on Dara and her book, visit howtopreventautism.org.
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| 0:16.2 | Quite honestly we don't have the ability to point to any one thing. There are so many things that are different in the environment now than when autism existed 20, 30 years ago at such small fraction of the numbers there are today and we have many things I mean the food that people are |
| 0:21.0 | eating is less than optimal. |
| 0:22.6 | Everybody's eating food on the go from a box or a bag. |
| 0:26.7 | And then the Wi-Fi is coming at us from everywhere. |
| 0:29.9 | GMO food was not so prevalent 20 years ago. |
| 0:33.7 | And then the vaccine schedule, I mean everybody, |
| 0:36.4 | we know that that is a huge trigger for many children. |
| 0:40.6 | But I don't believe you can just do one thing and prevent autism. I think that you have to do all these things to protect your child. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for |
| 0:54.4 | Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:58.3 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm your host Toldilabrada Gore. This is episode 108 and my guest is Dara Berger. |
| 1:17.0 | Dara is a mom whose experience with her son on the autism spectrum motivated her to pursue answers and healing. |
| 1:24.3 | She is a documentary filmmaker and a certified integrative nutrition |
| 1:28.1 | health coach. She is also the author of the book How to Prevent autism. |
| 1:32.1 | In this book Dera interviews doctors and |
| 1:34.4 | experts to get their take on the condition. In today's episode she presents |
| 1:38.2 | some of what she discovered along the way, like the idea that there is not one |
| 1:42.3 | root cause of autism, that children do |
| 1:44.9 | indeed recover from it, and how it is linked to gut health. |
| 1:48.6 | Before we get into the conversation, we want to take a moment to thank our sponsors. |
| 1:52.2 | The Wise Traditions Podcast is supported in part by Real Milk. |
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