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About
Information for Parents
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The
Nutri Link Practitioner Group has developed out of a growing need for
professionals, parents and children to find a safe effective route for
treatment.
In 1996 I listened to Dr Sid Baker talk at the Third International Symposium
on Functional Medicine in Vancouver and was inspired by his courteous
and extensive grasp of the clinical needs of his patients, including a
large number of Autistic children. Interesting though this was it was
not my area of focus at the time. However Dr Bakers name kept appearing
in various articles I read and he was a regular and popular presenter
at the IFM conferences and as such I began to explore the information
concerning the integrative management of autistics with growing interest.
As parents you will know just how complicated and overwhelming the subject
can be, and for practitioners and clinicians the effect is the same, picking
a path of care through a complex biochemical soup of action, inaction
and reaction is daunting to us all. As such I have always looked for the
area of greatest impact with the minimum of risk in the management and
treatment of people within the ASD spectrum.
In 1999 Eve Gilmore a colleague then asked if I would help her present
a training day to nutritionists on the biochemical and nutritional implications
of autism. This meant putting into context the areas of interest, namely
the neuro-endo-gastro-hepatic link that appeared to be present in ASD
people. From this emerged our first work book for clinicians.
As a result of this work my patient list began to grow and the opportunity
of treating larger numbers of children and testing them began to put practical
experience onto the theoretical bones of concept. The exciting part was
that parents began to notice positive changes, often entirely different
from other parents, this raised more questions and more research.
Many eminent and pioneering researchers and clinicians including Dr Paul
Shattock and Dr Rosemary Waring were discovering various biochemical and
immune abnormalities and this encouraged me to explore the inflammatory/detoxification
problems in ASD. I began to work with Donna Williams and spent many hours
exploring the ideas I had with her before we undertook a treatment programme
with Donna. Her comments are below.
“I
first got treatment from the field of nutritional medicine as a rather
crazy girl in my twenties, the year before I wrote my first book,
‘Nobody Nowhere’. In the years that followed my progressive
awakening I looked for better solutions. I had progressively come
to understand that what I had was a dietary disability and with the
right supplementation and special diet (in my case dairy/gluten free,
sugar free, low salicylate, additive free) for what I called my 'dietary
wheelchair'. I wanted to treat the underlying causes of what got called
'my autism'. This lead me first to treatments for the digestive disorder
of leaky gut and progressively beyond this to Mike Ash's Eldon Health
Clinic in Devon where I was diagnosed with SIgA deficiency, essentially
meaning I had reduced gut immunity, altered ability to signal the
enzymes for digestion and no real messenger to my impoverished white
cells to tell them what to even begin to look to clean up in my blood
and, essentially, what feeds our brains.
Miraculously, in six weeks, I had normal SIgA for what I expect is
the first time in my life and with the sensible combination of a low
dose of anti-anxiety medication, diet and supplementation I have kept
it there and gone from someone at times quite severely effected by
my 'autism' to someone only now quite mildly effected. It’s
been a progressive climb but one in which Mike Ash and his clinic
have played an essential, enlightened, but more to the point a warm
and supportive part.'
Donna Williams |
Jonathan
Tommey then contacted me to ask me to write about the biochemical problems
associated with autism and more importantly how one could change them
for the better. Out of this meeting grew the idea of creating a network
of trained nutritionists who could guide and help parents through the
programme. Hence the formation of the Nutri-Link Practitioner group and
the evolution of post graduate training.
These practitioners operate private practices in differing areas around
the country. It is expected that more will join the group over the coming
months. In many cases it is not necessary for you to actually attend a
practice as a treatment plan can be undertaken through e mail and telephone
consultations. Please discuss with your practitioner the fee scale and
the method that best suits you.
We wish you the best of health.
Michael
Michael Ash BSc(Hons). DO. ND. Dip ION
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