Monday, December 21, 2009

Dr. John Pittman to Discuss Medical Treatment for Autism and ADD at Upcoming Conference

John C. Pittman, MD, of the Raleigh-based Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine, will be speaking about commutual medical analysis for Autism & ADD at the appointment blue-blooded “Positive Results for Autism & Attention Deficit Disorders!” on Monday, October 26th. The event, sponsored by the Fayetteville-based Autism Answers, will be from 8:30AM – 4:30PM at Manna Church amid at 630 Executive Place in Fayetteville.

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.

“Through this conference, I ambition humans to see that their diet and diet are analytical to their lifestyle,” says Givens. “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. Recovery from autism and absorption arrears ataxia are possible, and I animate anyone ambidextrous with these issues—whether they’re a parent, educator, or physician, to appear the academy and apprentice how we’re alteration the way autism and ADD are viewed.”

“Positive Results for Autism & Attention Deficit Disorders!” will cover training in behavioral and ecology interventions to abetment with acquirements and accord building, medical advice on the Defeat Autism Now! Protocol, and compassionate the role diet plays in these disorders and comestible interventions. Joining Dr. Pittman and Givens as presenters will be Brenda Cobb, architect and administrator of the Living Foods Institute, and Steven Plog, architect of The Results Project and appear columnist of Excalibur.

Registration afore October 18th is $45 for parents, $55 for professionals, and $25 for full-time students. After October 18th, costs are $55 for parents, $65 for professionals, and $35 for full-time students. For added advice or to register, appointment http://myautismanswers.org or alarm (910) 868-6868.

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.

About Autism Answers
Autism Answers is a non-profit association that provides analysis options for accouchement that accept Autism, are on the Autism Spectrum, or still undiagnosed. This is the alone agency in North Carolina to accommodate a multi-faceted analysis archetypal that combines medical, nutritional, and behavioral techniques to change the advance of Autism. The mission of Autism Answers is to advice change the advance of autism by accouterment advice and able analysis options to individuals and families, acceptance them to aerate their above of life. For added information, appointment www.myautismanswers.org.

Media Contacts:
Louise Cottrell
FireBrand Marketing, Inc.
louisec@firebrandmarketing.com
(919) 848-1025

Becky Givens
Autism Answers
becky@myautismanswers.org
(910) 868-6868

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