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Autism Revolution: Whole-Body Strategies For Making Life All It Can Be (2013)

by Martha Herbert(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1299178472 (ISBN13: 9781299178472)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Ballantine Books

review 1: The author has some interesting ideas about autism. In general, she believes that inflammation of brain cells can cause autism. Her suggestions include dietary controls, avoiding toxins (don't live next to heavy industry, etc.), and reducing stress. There are certainly some merits to this argument, but the presentation is flawed. This would make a really good 10-page pamphlet. Instead, the author repeats herself over and over to increase the page count. I'm glad I borrowed this from a library.
review 2: The Autism Revolution is an extraordinary book. It is a book written by a Martha Herbert, MD, PhD a Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Karen Weintraub, a journalist. The book is extraordinary because the authors step beyond the resea... morerch to talk about what they see and what they think about autism and how to treat it. They discusses the research into the causes of autism and how inconclusive they are. Yes there is a genetic component but it is much more complicated than one would think.They gives strategies about what parents can do now, mainly the environmental and nutrition factors that can be influenced to maybe ameliorate the effects of autism. They concentrates on basic things that can do no harm such as eating a varied organic diet rich in fruits and vegetables and selected supplements. They admit freely that she is running ahead of the science in these matters.I'm a hard edged guy when it comes to research and really prefer peer reviewed double blind crossover studies to anecdotal parent observations but you know something our kids are not science experiments and complicated genetic data doesn't matter to most parents what they want to know is how they can help their kids now. This book gives some ideas for parents on how to help their kids and the advice given certainly won't hurt anybody. The approach taken is that autism is something that needs to be "worked." Something that most parents, especially the moms, understandI give five stars out of five to this book. We got ours at the library but we are going get our own copy.There is a companion web site to the book called AutismWhyAndHow. Lots of good information there. less

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