How to Use B Vitamins to Reduce Autism Symptoms Naturally
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Once classified as a single disorder, autism is now viewed along a spectrum. Children on the autism spectrum may exhibit problems with communicating (both verbally and nonverbally), understanding other people’s communication, and may not approach developmental milestones as quickly or as soon as other children. They may also be “socially awkward” to varying degrees (having trouble with concentration, maintaining eye contact, learning and following socially acceptable behaviors, etc). A large number of scientific studies and anecdotal reports indicate that autism and nutritional deficiencies go hand-in-hand. Children with autism spectrum disorder / ASD tend to eat poorly and eating poorly tends to exacerbate autism symptoms.
Autism, Trauma and Electromagnetic Energy
The onset of autism in children is frequently associated with vaccination or other forms of trauma like birth trauma.Keep in mind that some children with autism may have Candida overgrowth, SIBO, or a heavy parasite load as well, all of which can lead to decreased absorption of nutrients and poor eating habits. Therefore, in order to obtain the maximum benefit from any specific treatment like vitamin B therapy, parents must consider ASD from a few different perspectives in order to see true changes and benefits. In some children, ASD may be caused by an infection or a pathogen of some kind that traumatizes the body physiologically at the cellular level. Chlorine dioxide solution for autism often functions as a cure for ASD because of its ability to quell the Cell Danger Response, but also because it can remove toxins and kill pathogens that are causing a trauma response at the cellular level. Click here to read more about Kerri Rivera's protocol for using CDS for autism and ASD.
Before we can continue though, we have to address the idea of guilt and ASD. Parents of children with autism are understandably prone to feeling guilt about their child’s condition. All parents of all children feel guilty about things that go “wrong” in their child’s life. But in the following discussion, we elaborate on the idea of trauma and autism, so it’s important to state here that parents are often not even aware of what exactly has traumatized their autistic child. By definition, trauma is something that the body, not the mind identifies as potentially life-threatening. So trauma can be anything from a painful dental appointment to being scratched by a wild kitten that frightened the child. But trauma can also happen in response to vaccination, severe illness, or prolonged or difficult labor. In fact, the vast majority of parents of ASD kids have been traumatized severely themselves just merely by what their children have to go through as a result of their illness. Parents have been traumatized by “losing their child” who was there originally, but who become distant and unreachable for unknown reasons. All of this trauma makes it more difficult for the family, as a unit, to overcome the circumstances of ASD just merely because of what trauma is and what it does to the psyche.
Lydian and I ascribe to the idea that parents heal their ASD kids and that, in order for parents to do this work, they have to address their own trauma, heal their relationships (to the best of their ability), and get to a place where they can experience their life as meaningful (as opposed to random and chaotic). This may seem like a tall or even impossible order, but we discuss it in greater depth in this article at our sacred medicines web site.
While some children may be traumatized by the administration of a toxin-laden vaccine, other children may fall prey to birth trauma which can create a heavy emotional load that acts like a constant electrical “draw” on the autonomic nervous system. In a situation involving emotional trauma in a young child, we might want to think of the problem by observing how paranormal psychologists experience a haunting or a ghost – ghosts often emit or draw electromagnetic energy, after all. Paranormal psychologists may experience phenomena like goosebumps in some situations (which would be an emission of electromagnetic energy and a sympathetic dominant response) or they may experience phenomena like fatigue, dizziness, nausea or the sudden desire to fall asleep (which would be electromagnetic “draw” from the autonomic nervous system and a parasympathetic “freeze” or “play dead” response). Humans, either incarnate or discarnate, can cause these kinds of electromagnetic shifts in an environment and other humans who are paying attention to this kind of shift can notice it for what it is.
Indeed, parents may feel a “draw” from their child or even an “emission” of electromagnetic energy. And parents can also release energy or draw from their child as well. This kind of energy exchange is not acknowledged often in mainstream society, but it is so common as to be mundane in paranormal psychology. Needless to say, a child who has been traumatized emotionally, physically, or biologically and physiologically may have this kind of challenging electromagnetic dynamic that affects parents and other siblings. Their electromagnetic shifts might accompany specific ASD symptoms.
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A child who has been traumatized is “split” in that the memory / left brain component of the traumatic experience has been separated from the “felt sense” / right brain component of the experience. This kind of “splitting of the psyche” can also occur on a cellular level where part of the cells of the body go dormant while another set of cells stay active and “alive”. If we think of trauma in children as an event that can cause this kind of “split” that results in either a burst of electromagnetic energy or a “draw” on a person’s electromagnetic energy we can use models from paranormal psychology to understand certain aspects of the experience of having an ASD child in the home.
Believe it or not, poltergeist phenomena is an established psychic phenomena that has been happening for hundreds of years, much to the dismay of God-fearing Christians whose homes at times have become host to some truly incredible (and frightening) events. Poltergeist phenomena is often, but not always, associated with an adolescent child. Adults also can cause poltergeist phenomena. Though ASD children don’t often have associations with poltergeist phenomena, the parents of ASD kids experience the same level of alienation as people living in homes with poltergeist phenomena. And like poltergeist phenomena, ASD symptoms can sometimes be viewed through a lens of energy shifts and imbalances that have, perhaps, been most thoroughly observed and recorded by paranormal investigators.
Before we continue on with a discussion about vitamin B and autism, though, it’s important to frame out a new way of looking at ASD. But in order to step into a frame of mind where it’s possible to look at autism and ASD as related in some way to a haunted house, we have to step away from mundane mainstream science into a quick metaphor before we return full-force to bleeding-edge scientific information.
Let’s begin the metaphor by thinking about your own human body as though it were a house with windows and doors, just like any house (except it is a body–your body). The windows might be like your eyes, for example. A family of personalities live inside this house (see Dr. Richard Schwartz, a famous trauma specialist, and his Internal Family Systems therapy for more information). These personalities each take turns answering the door depending on who is knocking.
For example, if this metaphorical house is the human body and your personalities live inside of it like a family, the personality that answers the door would depend on whether your human body (the house) is located at work, at home, at a class, in a group of like-minded people, or in a group of people who seem threatening to you, etc. We use different facets of ourselves to interact with the world, after all. Each facet or personality that may “answer the metaphorical door” is complete in the sense that it can fully embody your body and step into your physical form through the autonomic nervous system.
Sometimes though, we don’t fully embody our bodies. We may live on the doorstep of the metaphorical house, half-in and half-out (which often feels to a person like profound embarrassment from an unknown cause). If something truly terrifying happens to us, a part of us – a personality – may pack up and leave and go to live in a nether-realm of the unconscious mind and refuse to “embody the body” anymore at all (unless the patient enlists the help of specific treatments and medicines to bring this personality or soul part back into the body again).
We have all heard the phrase, “The lights are on, but no one is home.” This phrase is often used in a pejorative sense to speak of stupidity, but it also speaks to a particular look that people can get in their eyes when that person is faced with a situation that challenges them deeply. We might say that a person in this state seems “distant” – but why do we use this word? If the person is standing right in front of us, how is it that we feel as though they are “distant”?
When I was a little girl, I grew up on a farm and so I often had a lot of batches of kittens around me. Some of the mother cats would die or disappear, so I would feed the kittens with a tiny baby bottle. I used to observe as a child that when a hungry kitten latches onto a bottle, that they go to “The Faraway Place”. Their entire body relaxes as they suckle and they get a distant look in their eyes. When the suckling is finished, they “come back” and that look of being “distant” disappears.
In children with ASD, the look of being “present” is replaced in a more permanent way with a look of being “distant”. Parents recognize the problem intuitively right away. Then sense that something is wrong even though the child can’t directly communicate about it.
“Embodiment” is a word used by somatic therapists and actors to describe how we step into our own physical bodies. But “embodiment” also describes how we can fail to step into our physical bodies. It helps us understand how we can live on the fringes, on the doorstep, or even in the nether-realms of an unconscious space that is shared with others including at times, other parts of ourselves, but also other parts of other incarnate people. Indeed, the autonomic nervous system plays a vital role in embodiment. It is a system through which our various personalities or soul parts can hook into the body through nerve plexuses to move the body around, use it to think and to speak. We share space with the other personalities inside the unconscious and we also share this space with other incarnate people who also have an internal family living inside their body.
Finally, I need to call attention to the fact that in individuals with dissociative identity disorder / DID (also known as multiple personality disorder – a mental health issue that is powerfully related to everything that we’re talking about here), can have one personality that has diabetes and another personality that does not. One personality may be myopic while another has perfect vision. This fact demonstrates how these different parts of us, the Internal Family System that lives inside the human body can not only be very different personality-wise, but also in terms of how the body is functioning. The fact that people with DID can have temporary bouts of diabetes or myopia demonstrates the extent to which we can push parts of ourselves out of the house and fully embody other parts even to the point of having or not having diseases that we normally regard as “permanent”.
A child with autism has evacuated their house partially. They have trouble bringing their personalities / parts back into their body perhaps because there is a problem with the body physiologically or the autonomic nervous system is malfunctioning. Healing the body and the autonomic nervous system is vital to encourage these personalities / parts to feel safe and be willing to embody the body. In shamanic medicine, one of the most common treatments for serious diseases like autism or epilepsy in children is soul retrieval which involves the induction of a trance state by someone who is skilled at navigating the unconscious realm, but there are a number of trauma-informed therapies that work to accomplish identical goals.
The Cell Danger Response, a term coined by Dr. Robert Naviaux describes in his studies on Suramin for autism, demonstrates how our cells can become traumatized by exposure to pathogens or toxins. On a cellular level, cells go into dormancy, which is equivalent to the parasympathetic “freeze” response which has been described by Dr. Stephen Porges. Dr. Peter Levine was the one who took theories of the autonomic nervous system into the realm of trauma-psychology though to describe how many of the mental health diagnoses in psychology as merely a manifestation of the autonomic nervous system’s natural reflexive response to trauma. When our bodies, namely the autonomic nervous system, are faced with a traumatic event (emotionally, physically, or biologically), our bodies have a powerful reaction. We want to run or scream and protect ourselves. If a doctor gives us a diagnosis that frightens us to our core, our bodies want to run away from it, yet our minds chastise the body to sit quietly and to do what the mind tells the body to do. Our minds may or may not permit the body to act the way that the body wishes to act for social reasons in a situation that feels dangerous. In turn, the conscious, analytical mind (the left brain) may not permit a personality that receives some horrible traumatic blow to embody the body after this personality receives the blow because the personality feels so much pain. Essentially, the mind and the body disagree and the “split” occurs between the right brain and left brain. As such, our bodily reaction to trauma remains incompleted and it becomes frozen in time as a dance that must eventually be danced, experienced, and felt if the personality is ever to become whole and complete again as an Internal Family System.
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Note also that in Bert Hellinger’s system known as Constellation Therapy, incompleted love movements can also be traumatizing. These are displays of affection toward other people that were not able to be completed for one reason or another. They remain frozen in time, waiting for moments to embody the body, produce and combine with the powerful feeling with which they are associated and play out the love-related action to completion. Many of the feelings represented by these incomplete actions, be they due to trauma or due to some interrupted display of love are so powerful that we actively resist them. One of the most powerful medicines that allow us to pull these powerful emotions forward so that we can embody these lost soul parts again is to take psilocybin mushrooms either as a microdose or through macrodosing.
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Vitamin B Complex and the Autonomic Nervous System
The B Complex vitamins are just one piece of the autism puzzle. The B vitamins are necessary in order for the autonomic nervous system to function properly as they are intimately involved in the production of neurotransmitters. Obviously, a child who has been traumatized by vaccines that have overwhelmed the cells or by birth trauma or by any number of traumatic experiences are more likely to heal if their physical body is optimized in terms of its structure and function, but most parents need to do more than supplement with B vitamins for ASD. Needless to say, B vitamins are always an essential part of a cure for mental health issues because they can have miraculous effects on our state of mind and body.The B-complex vitamins are closely connected to the development and treatment of ASD according to the scientific literature. Below is a brief description of the role of the 8 different B vitamins in ASD: Children who are deficient in thiamine are significantly more likely to develop symptoms of ASD or even to be diagnosed formally with an ASD. Deficiency of vitamin B1 may happen in infants and children whose mothers are or were deficient in thiamine in particular and who eat a diet low in thiamine and other nutrients. Studies have shown that, in animal studies, children of mothers who consume low levels of thiamine and who exclusively breastfeed may be more likely to have memory problems. In both humans and in animals, infants who consumed breastmilk or formula with little thiamine were more likely to develop aggressive behaviors and memory or learning deficits.
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Autism and mitochondrial dysfunction have been linked in the scientific literature, and since thiamine is an essential part of ATP and acetylcholine production (and therefore proper mitochondrial function), deficient levels of this vitamin may play a role in ASD via its impact on brain function. The mitochondria in the cells are like batteries or energy converters that ensure that electricity keeps flowing through the body. Low energy levels can cause children to become hyperactive and inattentive. Supplementation with thiamine can help improve mitochondrial function so that the body and mind can function normally and healthfully.Deficiency of thiamine can also lead to damage in the cerebellum, similar to the cerebellar swelling seen in many autistic children. Macrocephaly is also frequently seen in children with ASD, and is another symptom of thiamine deficiency. Some studies have shown that children along the autism spectrum who have been treated with thiamine show improvements in various symptoms, however these studies appear to be limited. Click here to read more about Acorus calamus for cerebellum inflammation in ASD.
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- Vitamin B3, when given as niacinamide (a non-flushing form of niacin), can help increase serotonin and melatonin levels in children with autism, and can thus improve sleep quality and calm feelings. Some experts have noted that niacinamide can reduce repetitive behaviors seen in children with autism.
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Vitamin B6 (particularly in combination with magnesium) is noted as being a particularly valuable supplement for infants, children, and even teenagers or adults diagnosed with ASD. The dosage of these two nutrients is generally given at 500 mg of vitamin B6 daily with 250 mg of magnesium. Experts say that supplementing with vitamin B6 and magnesium may not cure autism completely, but in some cases supplementation can have highly significant, positive results on ASD symptoms.
According to some people, including Dr. Abram Hoffer (an orthomolecular medicine expert), autism could potentially be categorized in some cases as a nutritional dependency disease (rather than a nutritional deficiency disease). In nutritional dependency diseases, a person’s physiology is such that they need to consume higher than normal amounts of a nutrient. Thus, if a child has an unusually high need for a particular nutrient, such as vitamin B6, but they don’t obtain the levels they need, they may develop symptoms of a deficiency in that vitamin (even if their consumption meets the average person’s daily requirement for that vitamin, they aren’t getting enough for their bodies).
Vitamin B6 supplementation (with magnesium) is shown to be beneficial in approximately 30% of children with autism. In these children, supplementation results in higher levels of calmness and comfort, improved problem-solving abilities and ability to communicate this problem-solving with others, and improved access of the child’s own internal resources.
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- Vitamin B9 (Folate/Folic Acid) and Vitamin B12
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- The Other B-Complex Vitamins
Vitamins B2 and B5 may also prove useful in the orthomolecular treatment of autism spectrum disorders. Vitamin B2 is necessary for the conversion of vitamins B6 and B9 into their active forms, so a deficiency in this vitamin may lead to a subsequent deficiency in these vitamins as well. In addition, vitamin B2 can improve mitochondrial function, ATP production, and carbohydrate metabolism, all important factors in improving energy levels and mood. Vitamin B2 also helps reduce the abnormal levels of organic acids in the urine of autistic children. Vitamin B5 improves energy production and the function of the adrenal glands. It has been given at a dose of 25mg per day with positive results in children with autism.
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Summary: Mineral and Vitamin Supplements for ASD
Our views regarding vitamin and mineral supplements for ASD are similar to those espoused by orthomolecular medicine specialists and conventional medicine doctors except that we ascribe to the idea that many children need more than just nutrient supplements for ASD in order to fully embody their bodies. Some children who are given ASD supplements are able to bring their soul part or parts back into the body with no coaxing at all. Other children need more than just vitamins, minerals, and an ASD diet, medicines, etc. to overcome this disease.Only a few doctors and experts are looking at ASD as a disease process that might be better understood by looking into paranormal psychology rather than mainstream psychology, but parents who are open to the idea that their child’s disease might actually lead them into the cutting edge science that sits well beyond the mainstream boundaries even of fringe science will find a wealth of information and possibilities awaiting them there.
Resources:
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