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Sudbury Boy Cured from Symptoms of Autism
“This is everything we ever wanted for our son,” said his mother, Jennifer McInerney-Barsamian. “He is almost completely recovered. He no longer needs assistance in school and is not on an education plan.”
When Zack Barsamian was 3 years old, doctors diagnosed his condition as “mid-functioning” autism. Five years later, the boy smiles, relates and enjoys other children in his second-grade class. He plays on the local soccer team, he even has a best friend.
He received both conventional autism treatments (speech, occupational and behavioral therapists, neurologists) and unconventional treatment (removal of heavy metals, oxygen therapy).
“We had heard that there may be a link between autism and the childhood vaccines so we decided to take a medical route and try to reverse any vaccine damage Zack may have sustained,” Jennifer Barsamian said.
They began with IVs for nutrition and chelation to remove heavy metals from the blood.
“We continued to have Zack tested for the metals (he had high levels in his blood and urine) and as the metals came out of his body he started to smile, relate, enjoy other kids and many other good things,” Jennifer wrote in an e-mail.
The detoxifying treatment removes toxins in the body caused by internal factors such as diet and external factors such as vaccines, the air we breathe, and the water we drink, Jennifer said.
Zack’s treatment also included oxygen therapy, which increases oxygen and blood flow to the brain. Twice a year Zack and his family travel to North Carolina where Zack receives treatment in a chamber of 100 percent oxygen.
To supplement that treatment at home, Zack does one to two hours of daily supplemental oxygen therapy in a special chamber his parents built in their basement.
“Unfortunately, many, many of our friends who have autistic children have not been able to afford the medical treatments,” she said. “Though these parents see their children improving, they are often not able to do as much chelation, (hyperbaric) oxygen therapy, nutrition and medical tests necessary to accompany these treatments because of the expense. This is heartbreaking…all children deserve the chance to recover. It is possible. …Our son Zack is proof.”
More and more kids are recovering from autism, according Wendy Fournier, president of National Autism Association, a parent-run advocacy organization located in Missouri.
“Doctors are realizing it’s medically based. If you treat them medically - treat them with what’s going on in the body, they get better,” she said. “The problem is the medical community looks at them like they have some incurable mental illness. Autism is thought of as a mysterious mental illness.”
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