What is the Cause of Autism?
Seeking the Cause of Autism Has Been Like Trying to Catch a Ghost — Until Now
Modern Medicine Can Shed No Light on the Cause of Autism
It defines and diagnoses it, but has no idea why it occurs.
Since the Late 1800′s, Medical Men Advanced the Idea of the “Germ Theory of Disease.”
This issue, however, was hotly contested in the academic halls.
Trying to diagnose autism centers around a search for germs as the leading cause. Since treatments of germs with anti-biotics has led to no profound reduction in the condition, other ideas about its cause flourish.
Modern medicine stands by the Germ Theory and implicates germs as major culprits in the condition but parents, however, are looking for other answers. Damage from vaccines is the current cause of the day.
The opponents of the Germ Theory argue that the key issue is not the germ but the break down in the host defense system that allows germs to thrive. If this is true, then one must wonder about what causes the break down in host defenses?
Vaccines and Individual Susceptibility Are Keys
Susceptibility is key but this cannot be found when trying to diagnose autism. Vaccines and other drugs are superimposed upon the pre-existing susceptibility.
By the time a child has received his full quota of vaccines, with the all-to-common use of anti-biotics to deal with the ear and throat infections, most kids are either reaching the peak of the autistic spectrum or will do so very soon.
Could a long shopping list of suspects be the cause of autism?
So, What is the Cause of Autism?
In my view, autism is caused by the susceptibility (a profound systemic weakness, if you will) first, followed by an overwhelming number of stressors from the use of medicines and environmental toxins.
The outcome of these stresses is that the child’s system becomes overwhelmed. The body’s response is to resort to survival mechanisms and this response isn’t understood in the definition of autism.
In my article, Current Concepts in Autism and Autism Explained, I review many of the issues related to the causes of autism and discuss issues that no one else has even considered as the underlying causes of autism.
