Julie Matthews, CNC and author of Nourishing Hope discusses nutrient approaches for treatment of autism and ADHD.

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SHOW INTRODUCTION Autism has been in the news lately. There are reports that removing mercury from vaccines hasn’t lowered the number of new cases, but there’s no mention of the fact that vaccines still containing mercury are being used until they are depleted. Nor is there mention of how other related diagnoses are being added to those called autism. There is an enormous variation in how people who present with symptoms labeled this way feel and function. Many prefer to remain untreated and consider themselves to be different not ill. We’ve come some distance from what pioneer Bernard Rimland remembers in the early days of blaming mothers. Now we blame genetics. But genetic variants present in relationship to the environment they find themselves in. Genes can be turned on and off with changes in nutrients and reducing exposures to chemical irritants. We’re joined today by nutrition consultant Julie Matthews who has taken on the daunting task of chronicling this approach in her book “Nouishing Hope”