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Today’s Deep Dive is a guest post by my friend Beth Lambert (founder of Documenting Hope - an organization I’ve been filming for years), and it focuses on new published scientific literature showing the reversal of an autism diagnosis.

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Today’s Deep Dive is a guest post from my dear friend Beth Lambert, Founder of Documenting Hope (an organization I’ve worked with for years as a filmmaker, capturing stories of children who have healed from “irreversible” conditions).

Documenting Hope’s newest case report, published in the March issue of Integrative Medicine, A Clinician’s Journal, centered on the use of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet as a therapeutic intervention for a boy diagnosed with autism. The case report chronicles his health history and symptom reversal achieved through intensive nutritional intervention. This paper is part of a growing body of literature that tells a very different story about autism than the one most clinicians were trained to believe. When you look closely at that literature, a consistent pattern emerges. A child once meeting full criteria for autism gradually regains language, connection, and function until, ultimately, those diagnostic criteria are no longer met.

This recovery is the kind of outcome that continues to be dismissed or classified as a case of misdiagnosis. And yet, this story sits atop a mounting pile of similar case reports as well as an entire library of peer reviewed papers explaining many of the underlying biological and physiological mechanisms that result in the syndrome of symptoms that we label as autism.

The evidence is clear: autism symptoms, in at least a significant subset of children, can improve dramatically and in some cases fully resolve when underlying medical issues are identified and thoughtfully treated.

As far back as the 1970s, there were published reports of children diagnosed with autism who later no longer met diagnostic criteria. Gajzago and Prior described cases of “recovery” in what was then called Kanner syndrome.^[1]Bemporad later documented the adult outcome of a child previously diagnosed with autism who went on to function typically.^[2] These early reports were often set aside as anomalies, but they established an important observation: the autism diagnosis could be overcome, at least in some cases.

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