Monday, December 21, 2009

The Carolina Center Expands to Fayetteville to Focus on Autism Treatment

Raleigh-based Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine (CCIM) has afresh partnered with Autism Answers to action analysis to patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the Fayetteville area. Carolina Center is operating its convenance from the Autism Answers appointment amid at 346 Wagoner Drive, Suite 206 in Fayetteville and will be headed by CCIM architect Dr. John Pittman, who will see both new autism patients, as able-bodied as accepted CCIM patients, one Monday anniversary month.

Dr. Pittman accustomed his medical amount from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and abounding the Pediatric Residency Program at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. He is the alone bounded physician absolutely certified in chelation analysis for the analysis of abundant metal toxicity and alone one of six medical practitioners in the accompaniment of North Carolina who is certified through the American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology. Currently confined as President of the North Carolina Integrative Medical Society (NCIMS), Dr. Pittman was accustomed by Business Leader annual as one of their 2008 Triangle Impact Health Care Leaders, and added afresh accustomed Triangle Business Journal’s 2009 Health Care Heroes Award.

Autism is a astringent adorning ataxia that begins at bearing or aural the aboriginal two-and-a-half years of life. It is a ache of assorted causes wherein ecology toxins and comestible deficiencies may play a above role. Research now indicates that assertive genes may accomplish some individuals added accessible to the accoutrement of toxins or pollutants. Dr. Pittman is a allotment of the few physicians in the accompaniment accomplished by the Autism Research Institute to bear the Defeat Autism Now! protocol, which addresses the commutual problems of academician inflammation, abdominal aggrandize overgrowth, comestible deficiencies, and disorders of detoxification that accord way to neurotoxic overload. Dr. Pittman explains that his clinic’s research-based access focuses on issues that are accepted to around all autistic children, including alarmist dysfunction, baneful overload, comestible deficiencies, aggrandize overgrowth, dysbiosis, and added forms of abdominal discord.

“Many cases of autism can be abundantly improved, or even antipodal if bent aboriginal enough, by analytic at the liver, acclamation the GI [gastrointestinal] amplitude and allowed arrangement problems we generally see in these kids, and authoritative targeted comestible changes,” explains Dr. Pittman. “Certain comestible strategies are generally actual accessible and tend to accomplish added strategies far added effective.”

Dr. Pittman says that the a lot of accepted comestible action is to annihilate assertive “trigger” foods, such as casein-containing dairy products, aureate and added gluten sources, sugar, chocolate, preservatives, and aliment coloring. Many individuals with autism accept poor comestible status, poor digestion, and GI anarchic altitude that absolute comestible absorption. Following a accustomed diet (as declared above) and acclamation aliment sensitivities or aliment allergies can advice abate accent to the GI tract, and, by extension, to the academician of the adolescent with autism.

Becky Givens, architect of Autism Answers and a amusing artisan who has formed with adorning delays and brainy affliction for over 20 years, agrees with acclamation the affair of diet and says that humans charge to be added acquainted of what they are putting into their mouths and body.

“The awful aesthetic and candy American diet is absolutely adverse to our bloom and we accept to change the way we eat in adjustment to affect change in our life,” says Givens. “ I ambition humans to apperceive that accretion from autism is accessible and attending advanced to partnering with Carolina Center and Dr. Pittman to advice acquaint this message.”

To agenda an adjustment with Dr. Pittman in the Fayetteville office, alarm (919) 571-4391.

About the Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine
The Carolina Center utilizes a aggregate of beat commutual and addition therapies, alternating with comestible and affairs modifications, to amusement a advanced array of abiding illnesses and allowed arrangement dysfunctions. Along with alone tailored comestible and botanical regimens, the Center utilizes a amount of avant-garde approaches, including Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Colon Hydrotherapy, IV Glutathione, Cellular and Bioenergetic Testing, and assorted strategies for Biological Detoxification to advice patients with abiding exposures to abundant metals, mold, parasites, and assorted chemicals. For added information, alarm (919) 571-4391 or appointment www.carolinacenter.com.

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