The Sunday New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy article, The Kids Who Beat Autism.
The article is focused mainly on how intensive behavioral therapy has helped cure about 10% of autistic kids. The scientists interviewed basically said they didnt know why these particular children did so well .or why most kids dont benefit nearly as much from the therapy. And they cant predict in advance which children will benefit and which wont. But they do know that it is expensive, costing many thousands of dollars for each child.
As for food-nutrition related antidotes to autism, that subject received this kiss-off. Most doctors have long dismissed as wishful thinking the idea that someone can recover from autism. Supposed cures have been promoted on the Internet vitamin shots, nutritional supplements, detoxifiers, special diets, pressurized rooms filled with pure oxygen and even chelation, the potentially dangerous removal of heavy metals from the body. But no evidence indicates that any of them can alleviate any of the core symptoms of autism, let alone eradicate it.
Autism has been terribly vexing, and there has been so much published about it in terms of studies and possible treatments, so I dont expect the author of the NYTimes article to know everything. Still and all, there has been some recently published data indicating that raw milk, in particular camel milk, can have important positive effects on autism. Two items in particular stand out:
1. A small study out of Saudi Arabia, published in early 2014, offers serious encouragement. It studied the potential benefits of camel milk, which has long been consumed in the Middle East for its perceived health benefits.
In the Saudi study, 45 children with autism were divided into three groups of 15; one was given raw camel milk, one was given boiled camel milk, and a third was given a placebo, for a total of two weeks. The results? Camel milk administered for two weeks significantly improved clinical measurements of autism severity, the authors concluded. Subsequent studies are recommended.
2. In late 2013, the scholarly journal, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, published an article by the mother of a boy with autism about his remarkable progress after he started on camel milk. The mother, Christina F. Adams, recounted how she consulted with her physician so he could write what amounted to a prescription to order the camel milk from a supplier she had found in Israel:
On October 10, 2007, 2 weeks before my son’s tenth birthday, he drank his first half cup (4 oz) of thawed raw unheated camel milk .On the morning after my son ingested camel milk, he demonstrated astonishing improvements in behavior including eye contact, communication, emotional expression (I really love you; you’re awesome; you do so much for me), and self-organization. He ate breakfast more neatly, noted his schedule, put on his shoes, and got his backpack for school while conversing at the same time.
He continued consuming 4 oz of camel milk daily with rapid continued improvement in behavior and motor planning. For example, he started looking both ways when crossing streets and parking lots. His erratic behavior stopped, and my frequent offerings of extra protein, which had only somewhat mitigated the problem, were no longer needed. Within 3 weeks, there was also a marked improvement and smoothing of his skin condition. Increasing the daily amount of camel milk to 8 oz seemed to cause new facial grimaces and jerking in one arm, which disappeared when his intake returned to 4 oz. His pragmatic language and vocabulary skills were improved, and other academic skills tested above average and exceptional in some areas.
Interruption of camel milk consumption on several occasions resulted in behavioral and physiological lapses. Just before he turned 12, while I was away from home for two and a half weeks, he did not take camel milk. His school behavior deteriorated to the point that he was in danger of being moved to a special education classroom. Within 24 hours of resuming the camel milk intake, he returned to prior functioning levels.
I reported recently on a new American supplier of raw camel milk. Other parents have reported positive resultsto dairy producers and to each other about raw cow and goat milk in relieving autism symptoms in their children.
Yes, there is much we dont know about autismits causes and curesexcept that it is becoming ever more common (one in every 68 children), and feared. I reported a few weeks back about correlations between the rise in autism and the increased use of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsantos Roundup pesticide used with GMO foods.
But we do know that when it comes to raw milk, even the most promising health research, such as European research on asthma and allergies, is ignored in the U.S. Why? Maybe because it doesnt hold out the promise of huge financial incentives to the medical profession, or to the drug companies that covet “annuity” drugs, or to the oligopoly that controls milk production in the U.S.
My sense is that we’ll never discover a single “cure” to autism, but rather multiple antidotes that work differently with different children. For that reason, we owe it to ourselves to check them all out, and not allow special financial interests to determine the research direction.
It does not surprise me one little bit to hear moms reporting that small amounts of raw camels milk helps their kids with autism. I have been working with autism for 13 years in our consumer base here in CA,….many of the same things are also reported from all types of raw milk…goat, cow, sheep and now camels raw milk.
It is simple. The NIH and the Human Genome project have it right. Dr. Bonnie Bassler put the hammer on the nails head years ago. We are run by 98% bacterial DNA when it comes to our genetic information highway that starts in our gut and runs our human system. Deny the gut its food to feed the bacteria and deny the gut its bacteria…and we become an autoimmune mess. Simple as that. Autism is nothing short of a full blown manifestation of the loss of our genomic data on a multiple generational basis.
What food did nature spend 100 million years perfecting to assure the survival and thriving success of all mammals???….the answer is raw mammals milk. Humans have been stealing other mammals milk for thousands of years as a food to gain an advantage.
In the last 75 years….we screwed this up royally. Now the CDC and FDA contradict their own billion dollar tax payer funded research ( Human Biome project ) that confirms this 100 million year biologic truth.
The real enemy of progress is the dominance of money and corporate greed that sits above human need in our culture. This will only last a short time…before the error is realized and the adjustment is made. But during this readjustment period the children pay dearly with their health and their minds and bodies.
TEACH TEACH TEACH and then TEACH even more!! Nothing like some truth to expose the big fake lies.
Here is something we can all get behind. We all know that law enforcement is very tough and requires continuous training and experience. What we do not need are a bunch of USDA inspectors carrying machine guns when they check our goats or apples. That is simply dangerous for everyone including the inspectors. If the USDA needs some back up then they should make their case to local or regional law enforcement and get their support. I can not think of one USDA function that should need lethal force to enforce…not one. Why should be provide machine guns to USDA inpectors. As a paramedic we always considered ourselves somewhat immune from bad guy abuse because we did not have guns and treated all sides fairly as humanitarians. Once you take up arms…you have now taken a side and prepare to become subject to being shot at. If I was a USDA inspector I would let everyone know that I was unarmed and just here to check on the chickens. All sorts of crazy stupid things start to happen when some USDA dirt checker shows up with a machine gun and fumbles with it. This is stupid and really wasteful.
Please check the link and demilitarize the USDA and other food checkers. A bill introduced into congress aims to keep the food inpectors doing just that…checking food, not taking up armed positions against food producers or god knows what else. When ever an armed inpector shows up at OPDC the entire tone of that visit changes…and more often than not…not for the better. It is very distracting and the armed agents are all in a bothered tither over their guns and not their jobs. This is stupid totally insecure government at its worst. If the inspectors are worried…they have failed in their jobs…lets hire friendly inspectors and people that are secure in their persons.
David, unfortunately it is nearly impossible to separate special financial interests from the research direction as opposed to public interest, and I can’t think of any ways we could affect the directives unless we do away with corporate laws and make the individuals making the corporate decisions accountable instead of hiding behind those laws. Just ask the huge majority of people who want GMO foods labeled as such, about how big money usually gets its way even in supposedly public voting.
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/milk_content.htm
I searched for quite a while and this is all I found that seemed like reasonable information. The stuff at some of the other sites, wiki most notably, started out telling about the differences and then morphed into the “but people shouldn’t be drinking milk past weaning from the breast anyhow” type conversation.
I would think realmilk and WAPF probably have info regarding this, but I just ran out of time.
There, fixed.
Personally I think this is related to another purchase order request USDA put out in the last year for mobile slaughter equipment for doing kill-offs of small scale poultry flocks.
You start taking away peoples food under false pretences in order to protect your master’s profit margins and people have every right to be up in arms.
I ran through numbers on 20th century democide a while back and well over half were accomplished via control of food.
Part of the challenge of comparing nutritional components in different milks is that “nutrition” occurs in a couple of dimensions. There is the nutrition as done on the linked site, comparing protein, fat, carbs, vitamin C, etc. Then there is the realm of micronutrients, enzymes, conjugated linoleum acid and such, which isn’t quantified in any kind of standardized way, that I know of. I suspect that the milks differ significantly in these arenas, as well, not only among animals, but among breeds of animals (especially cows) which may account for some of the differences in types of health benefits.
Nutritional content is all for not without a healthy bacterial colony in our gut in order to assimilate those nutrients. Indeed, gut physiology is of the utmost importance.
Andrew Wakefield and Angela McBride are closer to the truth then many would care to believe.
I would suspect the link between autism and raw milk stems from raw milks probiotic effect on an individuals gut flora and immune system that was damaged by vaccines or antibiotics, etc.
Ken
The ACS board even held a closed session just for the FDA. The FDA even made consessions and backed off on the issue of the “use of wooden boards” for cheese aging. When all was said and done…the FDA was friendly and vowed to assure that “ages old artisanal practices” would be preserved.
Why can’t the FDA meet the raw milk producers???
I heard why…we do not have an association!! They will only meet with or work with associations that represent a group of producers. Raw milk has yet to create such an organization. We are still viewed as splintered and far flung. My guess….industry and FDA likes it this way.
Perhaps it is time to form a National Raw Milk Producers Org.
RAWMI is trying its best to nail down the science of raw milk food safety and my by all measures…it has been able to demonstrate that Common Standards and RAMP works great. The RAWMI LISTED producers data clearly shows this track record. Now…how about an Association that can wrestle down the politics of a relationship with the FDA and bring raw milk for humans into the 21st century and get some long due respect?
Just an idea whos time might have come. Not sure who should initiate this org…pretty sure is not me. I appear to be a raw milk lightning rod to the FDA. I would love to be apart of this national org if it was formed. Anyone have some extra time and extra ambition to form this org? I would be the first to sign up…I know plenty of other producers that would sign up as well.
Always remember, labs are either owned or sponsored so they therefore will always have ulterior money or other motives, like ODPC (sorry Mark but it’s the truth and I’d say you are just about the MVP on this site (most valuable poster.)
Contact me or David regarding the award ceremony although he hasn’t heard about it yet.
I imagine the FDA took some heat from high-ranking pols over the wooden boards and aging cheese. The pols no doubt heard from constituents on that one (and a number of the pols, who value good cheese, were probably pissed as well). Michael Taylor probably heard directly on this, so suddenly we are seeing his pussy cat side.
http://culturecheesemag.com/blog/fda-meets-american-cheese-community
The American Cheese Society people must be feeling pretty impressed with themselves, the way their collaboration with FDA seems to be going. I sure hope they are prepared for the inevitable crisis that will arise when pathogens are found in a member’s cheese or facility, and the ACS will be called on to decide between a member’s interests, and satisfying their new masters at the FDA. Based on the way ACS abandoned its members Estrella Family Creamery and Morningland Dairy when these producers were pounded mercilessly by the FDA and state cohorts, members shouldn’t expect anything in the way of support from ACS in the event of a crisis.
So, form a non-profit yes, and get a voice. But first off, you can’t do this top-down. Raw milk farmers and consumers have already been treated as voiceless and powerless by the State. This has to be built from the ground up. Pour the foundation first before you build the roof of the barn. Find out from all your farmers what they want to see in an organization. Survey them, interview them. Put all the information together. Set up a website, email address, post office box, and phone number. Keep everyone informed of how it is going. Even see http://bcherdshare.org/community-survey/ for how it is being done for one province.
If you want a voice with government, you need to form an organization that can then have a voice. But legitimacy, a mandate, and a social licence to speak with that voice, all needs to come from the raw milk community. NOT imposed top-down by a small group of people who have big plans and think they have the right to speak for people they’ve never met and never asked what their opinions were. Don’t’ keep the community voiceless the way that government and Big Dairy has done. Just my own humble opinion.
I nominate you as the first president of the North American Raw Milk Producers Association or NARMPA. Sounds pretty powerful to me. We just need a president that can stick with the program and the voice when the FDA hits the fan and everyone runs for the doors. Takes true vision and guts.
Meanwhile, grab yourself up those domain names ASAP – NARMPA.com, NARMPA.org, etc. – before our friends at the FDA or Big Dairy decide to grab them in order to cybersquat and keep them from us.
Great advice!
mark
Pursuant to your advice….in the last hour, NARMPA.ORG NARMPA.COM NARMPA.NET NARMPA.INFO are now all owned by OPDC. NARMPA is reserved for the future: North American Raw Milk Producers Association. Sounds very official.
Now we just need to find a president that shares a vision of the farmers voice and not some perverted corporate dominated top down autocracy. I like the NFU ( National Farmers Union ) model….all very democratic with elected representatives from every state all meeting one time per year to create policy and execute on values. A huge dream…but it started here and the website and name is now protected.
RAWMI is not an association. It serves a different goal and vision of assuring low risk raw milk production through RAMP and establishing a defendable and data driven track record that can be used to forge a new low risk raw milk pathway forward in the market place.
When you begin reading you’ll wonder what the heck it’s all about, but stay with it and keep reading to the end (although in the middle of the pdf there is about a page and a half you can skip over and read later, or whatever, dealing with other subjects). This is from his original newsletter which used to be delivered only by postal mail, not email. I hate pdf’s but it’s the only way it was available to share. 😉
http://www.orost.org/Alternatives/0907Walt-noColdsFlu.pdf
**I realize the article is from 2007 so if anyone finds anything updated, post it here and let everyone know.
Also, for those of you who don’t know or care to know how to convert gram to tsp (which is the way most americans gauge things) 1 gram = 1/4 tsp (approx), so the adult dose would be about 1/2 to 3/4 tsp daily (which equals the 2 – 3 gram dose recommended for adults). Children would be about 1/4 to 1/2 tsp daily, depending on their age. But this stuff is pretty safe so I can’t imagine that giving them a tad more than that would be “dangerous”.
I found this interesting.
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
I look for an end to the corruption of government for commercial purposes.
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
Yes sir, good for animals and people – what could be easier and better? This is one corporate deal I don’t mind seeing flourish! Just think of those healthy animals and that alone is such a good thing.
I’m going to start off inhaling the dust (as mentioned for the reason the employees stayed healthy in the first place) because I’m on another alternative protocol right now and don’t want to interfere with that too much. My DH is getting some of this today and is picking up about a dozen packages because everyone who read about it wants to try it. Should be interesting to see the results in a wide base of people with different ailments, and I’m going to keep close track, too.
I agree with Dr. Williams and have said many times starting YEARS ago, before I’d even heard of the guy, that boosting the immune system is not a good idea, but balancing it is much better – easier on the system than a sudden jolt. Start small, that’s always a good thing to do with these ideas, doncha think?
This seems a bit strange, since a different theory says just the opposite: that gluten (contained in wheat) and caesin (contained in milk) makes autism worse. I guess the cluten and caesin theory talks about the peptides and how the child “gets drunk”. So could it be that “getting drunk” can be a good thing as in it relaxes you and thats why your kid did so well while “drunk” whereas other kids might do worse for that same reason? Speaking of “drunk”, you did mention he did worse when instead of having 4 oz he had 8 oz of goat milk. So maybe in his case getting “a little drunk” is good and getting “very drunk” is bad, while for other kids even a little drunk is also bad? How one reacts to being drunk is based on individual but the fact that they do get drunk in reaction to milk, in the first place, is a hallmark of autism?
On a different note, when you said how he done worse when goat milk was interrupted, this particular time you said you left home. So how do you know the reason is goat milk interruption as opposed to the simple fact that he didn’t have anyone around to answer to (or whoever was replacing you didn’t have as much authority as you did)? A lot more objective evidence would be if you remained home and everything remained the same, except for goat milk thing.