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24 Feb 2013, 1:33 pm

"Study finds NAET treatments effective against allergy-related autism": The idea is that autism is either caused by or exacerbated by food allergies, so this method seeks to disable allergens.

http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/n ... utism.aspx

http://www.naet.com/Patients/whatsnaet.aspx

Is this legit, and has anyone tried it?



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24 Feb 2013, 4:52 pm

Tyri0n wrote:
"Study finds NAET treatments effective against allergy-related autism": The idea is that autism is either caused by or exacerbated by food allergies, so this method seeks to disable allergens.

http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/n ... utism.aspx

http://www.naet.com/Patients/whatsnaet.aspx

Is this legit, and has anyone tried it?


It always seems to me that just about any story that comes from a "natural news" type of web site is inevitably bogus and crackpot. They are inevitably so busy pushing their own agenda that truth and reality does not matter at all.



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24 Feb 2013, 6:59 pm

eric76 wrote:
Tyri0n wrote:
"Study finds NAET treatments effective against allergy-related autism": The idea is that autism is either caused by or exacerbated by food allergies, so this method seeks to disable allergens.

http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/n ... utism.aspx

http://www.naet.com/Patients/whatsnaet.aspx

Is this legit, and has anyone tried it?


It always seems to me that just about any story that comes from a "natural news" type of web site is inevitably bogus and crackpot. They are inevitably so busy pushing their own agenda that truth and reality does not matter at all.


Ridiculous. That wasn't the source of the study. Need more sources?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/com ... ent-autism

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/2 ... ng-autism/

An an uber official source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00277407



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24 Feb 2013, 7:47 pm

Here's the actual study.

http://www.imjournal.com/openaccess/teitelbaum105.pdf

You have a group that is very biased in favor of a particular treatment (everything is due to allergies, more or less) doing a non-blind study that involves subjective evaluations of the test subjects.

Do it again in a double blind study by someone who is not biased in favor of the treatment and report the results. That is, if you can find any reputable researchers who actually think that the NAET treatments are not quackery.

And find some rational reasons to explain how allergies cause Autism.



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25 Feb 2013, 11:58 am

I too have my doubts about this company, but since I live it every day, I have no doubts that at least for me there is a strong connection between allergies and my AS. Where I live juniper is in bloom, which is one of the worst pollens imaginable. Last week I got very sick from it and what I would guess is brain inflammation not only made my thinking, which is normally very clear, cloudy, and my AS got much worse. It's not that I don't have AS when my allergies aren't bothering me; I do. But allergy attacks not only make me physically ill, but aggravate my AS. In my case, there is a very strong nexus between my AS and my auto-immune issues, though I'm not sure exactly what that nexus is.