Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders
by Kenneth Bock, Cameron Stauth
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Author: Cameron Stauth, Kenneth BockEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-29
ISBN: 0345494512
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Reviews of Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders
Book Review: Comprehensive assessment of the 4-As and biomedical treatment approaches
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply among the best within a new genre of works that tackle the treatment of autism, ADHD, asthma, and allergies, this reviewer chose to purchase four additional copies to distribute. The difference with this text is that Bock and Stauth not only discuss treatment, but the links between these modern epidemics (to which Bock refers as the "4-As") through detailed case studies (of a biomedical treatment program that has been applied to about 1,000 individuals over the past seven years prior to book publication), as well as findings not otherwise readily available elsewhere in the year-2010 marketplace (and a 16-page bibliography that references supporting source material not original to Bock). The fact that Bock is a physician who has training and experience in nutrition provides additional credibility in a country where most physicians focus on drugs (although Bock is clearly not opposed to drugs, since the fourth element in his healing program is medication).
The Healing Program that the subtitle to this book touts does not start until about midway through the text (the third part of the book). The first part introduces the 4-As through some of the children that Bock has treated, as well as some of the results that the healing program has achieved, and the second part discusses the 4-As one-by-one through extensive case studies that are intermingled with research findings (the only two critiques that this reviewer offers this book, and these are relatively minor, are that because of this intermingling, it is rather difficult to look up specific topics, and while the bibliography is rather extensive, there are no foot notes or end notes within the body of the text). Note also that other childhood epidemics closely associated with the 4-As are also discussed, most prevalently in chapter fifteen: childhood cancers, diabetes, obesity, and learning disabilities. The text is a relatively easy read, at least in comparison to some other books in this genre, such as Kenneth J. Aitken's "Dietary Interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Why They Work When They Do, Why They Don't When They Don't" (see my review).
The links that Bock draws between the 4-As are convincing. For example: "children on the autism spectrum commonly have ADHD traits, typically have allergies, and have a higher incidence of asthma", "presence of asthma or allergies during a mother's pregnancy doubles her changes of having an autistic child", "children with asthma, according to a recent, large study, had significantly higher rates of ADHD behaviors, including poor concentration and conflicts with other children", "77 percent of asthmatics have chronic gastroesophageal reflux, a common symptom of food allergies", "people with asthma are approximately 300 percent more likely than others to be obese, even when they exercise as much as others, partly because inflammation contributes to both disorders", "asthma, hypothyroidism, and allergies are the three most common co-morbid physical disorders among people with autism", and "90 percent of all children who have asthma also have allergies".
Bock writes with a sensitivity that can be encouraging to readers who have 4-A children, especially those who have already started along the path to seek treatment but have been discouraged along the way. For example: "Priya, in fifth grade now, had to stay away from school, and was tutored at home, as Anju searched laboriously for treatments that could help her. At one point, Anju went to a doctor who recommended a special nutritional formula designed to promote growth and development. The formula, though, had soybean oil in it, and Anju told the doctor that Priya was very reactive to soybean oil. 'That's not possible,' said the doctor. 'People are allergic to proteins, not fats and oils. There's nothing in the literature about allergies to oils.' 'I don't care what the literature says,' Anju replied. 'She reacts to soybean oil.' The doctor sighed, and began to give Anju the condescending Crazy Mom treatment. Because Anju was a physician herself, she was generally spared from that attitude, but she knew all about it, because the mothers of her autistic patients often mentioned it. Their hometown doctors rarely tried to hide the scorn that they felt for the mothers who questioned their conventional approaches."
The Healing Program that Bock has developed is broken down into four elements: (1) nutritional therapy, (2) supplementation therapy, (3) detoxification, and (4) medication. The discussion of this program in the third part of this book is very well put together. The authors make sure to first discuss the three healing principles, which are that (1) the four elements of this program are synergistic, (2) this is a lifelong plan for optimizing health, and (3) the Healing Program is highly individualized. Finding a physician is then discussed, as well as tests that include basic body chemistry profiles, nutritional and metabolic tests, and individualized tests that include immune testing panels and provoked urine testing for heavy metals, urinary porphyrins, and genetic polymorphisms. There is overlap between the discussions of the four elements of the Healing Program. This reviewer especially enjoyed the last element on medication, because it draws some of the previous elements together, and discusses some of the reasons behind over prescription of medication by physicians. The authors close with an especially appropriate message: "[A]lthough the primary goal of the biomedical approach is to heal children, when this occurs, it also heals families. Helping whole families to once again center their lives around their love for one another, rather than around the daily routine of medical necessities, is the final, fullest goal of the Healing Program".
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Summary of Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders
Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these conditions now strikes one in every three children in America. But there is hope. Leading medical innovator Kenneth Bock, M.D., has helped change the lives of more than a thousand children, and in this important book, with a comprehensive program that targets all four of the 4-A disorders, he offers help to children everywhere. This is the book that finally puts hope within reach.Doctors have generally overlooked the connections among the 4-A disorders, despite their concurrent rise and the presence of many medical clues. For years the medical establishment has considered autism medically untreatable and utterly incurable, and has limited ADHD treatment mainly to symptom suppression. Dr. Bock and his colleagues, however, have discovered a solution ? one that goes to the root of the problem. They have found that deadly modern toxins, nutritional deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal systems trigger most of the symptoms of the 4-A disorders, resulting in frequent misdiagnosis and untold misery.
Dr. Bock?s remarkable Healing Program, drawing on medical research and based on years of clinical success, offers a safe, sensible solution that is individualized to each child to help remedy these root causes. The biomedical approach to autism, ADHD, and the other 4-A epidemics, as innovated by Dr. Bock and some of America?s finest integrative physicians, is one of the most promising and exciting medical movements of our time.
In this eminently readable account, written by Dr. Bock in collaboration with critically acclaimed author Cameron Stauth, you will meet children and parents whose dramatic stories will inspire you to change the life of your own child. This program may be the help that you have been praying for.
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