Autistic Twins Got Better After Reducing Toxins — Case Study

Cleaning up one’s diet can dramatically improve the psychological disorder of autism, according to a recent case study.

A case study published earlier this month detailed how a pair of autistic twins experienced significant improvements to their condition after their parents reduced their toxin exposure.

“A parent-driven, multidisciplinary, therapeutic intervention involving a variety of licensed clinicians focusing primarily on addressing environmental and modifiable lifestyle factors was personalized to each of the twin’s symptoms, labs, and other outcome measures,” the case study said in the ‘Abstract’ section. “Dramatic improvements were noted within several months in most domains of the twins’ symptoms, which manifested in reductions of Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC) scores from 76 to 32 in one of the twins and from 43 to 4 in the other twin. The improvement in symptoms and ATEC scores has remained relatively stable for six months at last assessment.”

Autism is a neurological developmental disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of social ineptness, meaning that it is caused by a malfunction of the brain. These issues often stem from brain damage, including metal toxicity from vaccines.

The researchers provided background information on the prevalence of the brain disorder of autism.

“Autism diagnoses were exceptionally rare prior to the latter decades of the twentieth century. In the early 1990s, the prevalence of autism among children in the United States was still estimated to be just 1 in 2000 [1]. Even after the autism spectrum disorders (ASD) diagnostic criteria were subsequently expanded throughout the 1990’s, CDC data suggested that only 1 in 150 children had an ASD diagnosis in 2000 [2,3,4,5,6] The most recent data from the CDC revealed that 1 in 36 children had an ASD diagnosis in 2020, representing an over 300% increase in the past twenty years utilizing similar diagnostic criteria,” the case study said in the ‘Introduction’ section.

It was recently reported that 1 in 9 U.S. children are now autistic due to massive amounts of brain damage.

Notably, the researchers provided information on common causes and triggers of autism.

“Specific modifiable environmental and lifestyle risk factors for ASD include exposure to environmental toxicants [45,46,47], poor diet [29,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63], disruption of the gut microbiota [64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74], excessive exposure to non-native electromagnetic fields (EMFs) [75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84], and accumulation of heavy metals,” the case study said in the ‘Introduction’ section.

Also in the ‘Introduction’ section, the researchers detailed various autism therapies related to dietary restrictions and nutrient supplementation.

“These include dietary interventions [48,62] such as gluten and casein-free [87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95], GAPS, a specific carbohydrate diet [48], low glutamate [96,97,98,99,100,101], and ketogenic [102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111]. While the effectiveness of a number of these dietary interventions for improving ASD symptoms has been evaluated utilizing randomized controlled designs, blinding is often challenging for such interventions, and some degree of expectation bias is possible. More studies are needed for a conclusive inference to be made with respect to the universal effectiveness of any single dietary intervention, particularly in light of the heterogeneity of both ASD etiology and presentation of symptoms. Targeted dietary supplements such as vitamin D [112,113], methylfolate [114,115], and carnitine [116,117], vitamin B₁₂ and other micronutrient supplementation [51,118], mitochondrial support, or supplements thought to be relevant to a child’s functional genomic situation,” the case study said in the ‘Introduction’ section.

Besides what the body takes in, the autist’s activities likely play a roll as well.

“Addressing other modifiable lifestyle factors and environmental interventions, such as more time in nature, a reduction in exposure to artificial light, and improving indoor air quality, have demonstrated promise,” the case study said in the ‘Introduction’ section.

A detailed description of the dietary alterations the twins experienced was given after the researchers discussed activity alterations focused on reducing their autistic behavior.

“Alongside Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA, which is typically recommended for new ASD diagnoses), beginning at 22 months and ending at 33 months, and speech therapy starting at 24 months, the twins’ parents implemented a rigorous diet and nutrition intervention around the time of diagnosis. They eliminated sources of glutamate in the children’s diet following the Reduced Excitatory Inflammatory Diet [163]. The twins were also put on a strictly gluten-free, casein-free diet that was low in sugar and had no exposure to artificial colors, dyes, or ultra-processed foods. An emphasis was placed on consuming organic, unprocessed, freshly prepared, and home-cooked food from local sources when possible. The family also consulted with a dietician for guidance around these dietary interventions. A number of dietary supplements, including omega-3 fatty acids, a multivitamin, vitamin D, carnitine, 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, and bio-individualized homeopathic remedies, were taken by both girls,” the case study said in the ‘Therapeutic Interventions’ section. “A combination of labs and genomic information were utilized to inform dietary supplementation. The family consulted a naturopathic doctor who guided them in some DNA-targeted precision medicine using the IntellxxDNA genomics tool [135]. There were some common findings, such as impaired serotonin metabolism and a recommendation that the girls be fed a diet rich in tryptophan to upregulate serotonin production, as well as consume foods rich in vitamins B₁₂, B₆, and folate. Both twins had several genetic variants, which may increase their risk of systemic inflammation. The mother was advised to feed the children foods that are high in betaine and choline, as well as to supplement with lion’s mane mushroosm and resolvins. However, each girl also had needs that were independent of each other. P had variants that may increase her need for vitamin D. L has several variants that may increase the risk of neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and compromised detoxification. Advice was provided to support glutathione production.”

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