July 18th, 2008
Will there be a run on this in the wake of this sort of testimony:
“This is the stuff that really made Evan excrete yeast and start talking more.”
This is “the stuff”: Threelac Original Defense Probiotic.
This is the source.
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By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 4 comments
June 14th, 2008
Says Hilary Godwin, chair of environmental health sciences at UCLA and the mother of an autistic son in a June 16th LA Times article about the dangers of over-the-counter chelating products:
“Parental anxiety drives people to try anything.”
Anything and everything (including a certain kind of enema), all in the name of detoxifying autistic children’s bodies of […]
By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 118 comments
April 30th, 2008
“Detoxifying” a child’s body of “heavy metals” via chelation is an alternative, and not uncontroversial, treatment for autism. It is based on the belief that exposure to environmental toxins is one factor behind the increase in the number of children diagnosed with autism in the past decade-plus. This book talks about the dangers of heavy […]
By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 28 comments
April 15th, 2008
It’s April 15th, halfway through Autism Awareness Month 2008, and you’ve surely heard more than a few mentions about the supposed “autism epidemic” that we’re currently facing, and musings about what is causing the recent rise in the prevalence rate of autism: In the 1960s, autism was considered a rare disorder that occurred in only […]
By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 60 comments
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