Mike is good in math???? What a shock!
Posted By Phyllis on March 3, 2010
“Mike” is now a junior in high school. He took algebra his freshman year and totally flunked it. He couldn’t focus on his work, was obsessed about a variety of non-scholarly subjects, couldn’t relate to peers, and generally was a total emotional wreck. He has Asperger’s, a mild form of autism.
At that time we had begun to treat him with supplements from Amy Yasko’s protocol. But they weren’t working. Then in December or so we were able to figure out which Yasko supplements help him, and had him only on those. He has been doing better and better ever since. He’s taking algebra again this year.
At his teacher conference yesterday his algebra teacher told me she thinks he has gift for math. He asks penetrating questions. He does all his work. He is organized. He interacts appropriately with his peers in the class. He is getting an A.
This is something I thought I would NEVER see. Perhaps he is living up to his heritage from his grandfather the CalTech Ph.D. and rocket scientist.
All of yasko’s supplements have the same ingredients in them. You’d never know which one works
Now, Dave, this is simply not true. By “Yasko’s supplements” you mean the supplements which Yasko suggests in her protocol. These are many and varied, and I purchase only one of them from Yasko–all the others I find cheaper somewhere else. They are different. They are intended to feed different parts of the methylation cycle, and other cycles in the mitochondria, where deficiencies exist. Examples: quercetin, yucca, curcumin, cow adrenal extract.
I do wish that Yasko had some kind of clinical study to point to. I suspect that her protocol works best for kids who have Asperger’s because of genetics, whose autism is treatment-resistant so to speak. This appears to be a small subset of the individuals who have autism these days.