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ABC’s of Autism: A is for Arginine and Alanine

Arginine and Alanine are types of amino acid. Amino acids are the building blocks for all sorts of materials in the human body, including protein and muscle. Research suggests that arginine is an important factor in the treatment of ASD (autism spectrum disorder) symptoms. As of right now, there is not a standard chemical test performed to diagnose ASDs. However, as research on the connection between arginine and autism progresses, a diagnostic test may develop in the near future. Autism may have a biochemical origin.

Scientific studies have shown that many adult males diagnosed with autism have arginine levels that are higher than typically developing control subjects. The study concluded: “The present study identified deviated plasma metabolite levels associated with oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in individuals with ASD.” Arginine can serve as a biomarker (a quantifiable substance that indicates the presence of diseases, disorders, or other biological maladies) for autism. This new research is interesting since it suggests that autism has an underlying chemical component. Bodily chemical imbalances can be treated through physical steps. This is sometimes as easy as adding a daily supplement to one’s diet or removing a toxin from the environment.

Alanine has also been found to be an abnormal biomarker in individuals with Autism. To read more about alanine and autism click the link below:

Dr. Richard Kelley’s ASD/MITO paper

What can you do? Talk to your doctor about additional blood tests that may reveal more about your child’s condition. To help with this process, our Chief Patient Advocacy Officer Kristi Wees created an eBook called “Top 10 Lab Tests For Your Child.” In this book, Kristi simplifies the seemingly complicated world of laboratory blood testing and describes it in a way that parents can understand, giving them the information they need to have an educated conversation with their child’s physician.

If you want to learn more about potential treatments for ASDs, need help talking to your doctor, or don’t know where to begin, we are here to help. Check out our Empowered Library for more resources.

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The ABC’s of Autism #AutismAwareness

Happy Autism Awareness Month. Please join us for the month of April as we share the ABC’s of Autism both here on the website and on our  Facebook page.

The posts on the website will be for our #BeEmpowered Members only. If you would like to have access to those posts, you can join us here.

If you are already a #BeEmpowered Member, you can log-in here to view that information plus a whole lot more (Including our webcast archive of I Have A Child Who…  episodes).

You can also join us on Facebook for a live video each day giving you a sneak peek of our letter and topic of the day. We would love if you could share these videos with friends, family, teachers, therapists and just on your profile, in general, to help us share awareness about autism beyond the puzzle piece!

 

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I Have a Child Who…

We are embarking on a new project in 2019 with our friend and colleague, Patricia Lemer.

This project will take the form of a weekly webcast (broadcast here on Facebook every Wednesday) called “I have a child who…”

For instance, you may have a child who…

– is a picky eater

– has Autism

– can’t sit still

– is allergic

– doesn’t sleep

– has tantrums

Tune in each week on Wednesdays HERE, to learn about a different topic, a different “child who” and a discussion about root causes and what parents can do to help their child. Take a peek here at our announcement and vision for the show:

Kristi Wees is our Chief Advocacy Officer here at Empowered Medical Advocacy and has published an ebook called Top 10 Lab Tests for Your Child which can be purchased here, online. Patricia Lemer is the author of a few books, her newest which is being released in March 2019, is called Outsmarting Autism and can pre-ordered here.

If you would like to have access to the archived “I Have a Child Who…” webcasts after they air, online, become a member of our #BeEmpowered Membership group. 

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Top 10 Lab Tests for Your Child EBOOK is Here!

We are so excited to announce that today we are releasing our top 10 Lab Tests for Your Child E-Book!

E Book Cover Top 10 Lab Tests

This book has been an idea we have had for a number of years. It came from our own journey through the medical maze with our child. We realized early on that symptoms and behaviors were often noted in a chart but rarely investigated to try to determine what the collective “meaning” of the entire symptom constallation might be.  Perhaps your child is displaying their own dizzying array of “symptom constellations” at the moment, with more symptoms and behaviors to count than stars in the Milky Way.  You might have been told that it is just them being “a kid” or perhaps you have been told something much worse, like your child has a developmental disorder, autism or a mental illness.  STOP.  Before you take one more step. Please read this book. There is HOPE. There is more you can do for your child, but it requires that you empower yourself with some information about basic lab testing so you can help advocate for them effectively.

You are not alone. We are here to help. This book is a starting point for any parent who needs to dig deeper because their parental instict alarm is going off, saying something is “not quite right” with thier child’s health. Take the first step toward helping your child. Read the book.

(You can complete it in one evening, I promise!)

If you have specific questions after you read the book, please reach out to us. We are here to help.

Order your copy here:

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