Joseph A Cannizzaro - Answers for the 4-A Epidemic: Healing for Kids with Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies

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ANSWERS FOR THE 4-A EPIDEMIC by Joseph A. Cannizzaro, MD

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Copyright 2012 by Joseph A. Cannizzaro

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to the following: my father, Mr. P. Cannizzaro, who led me on an unrelenting quest for wisdom, and to my mother, Mrs. K. Cannizzaro, whose unconditional love and deep compassion for all those in need were the inspiration to begin my journey in medicine; my beautiful spouse, Carol Ann, who has made the last forty-three years of my life the most wonderful any husband could imagine; and my three sons, Joe Jr., Tom, and Marc, who have made my life as a father very meaningful.

I also dedicate it to all those committed to healing and empowering children to overcome grievous calamity and win, and to all those who influence change.

And finally, heres a special dedication to the 4-A children whose courage and endurance amidst unimaginable pain and suffering have taught me the immense capacity of the human spirit. For our very survival on this planet, they are showing us the way.

I gratefully acknowledge and wholeheartedly thank my wife and three sons for their never-ending encouragement and support. A special thanks goes to David Harley for tirelessly researching many of the principle topics in the body of the manuscript. I am especially thankful to Gina Rumble, whose keyboard skills resulted in the timely submittal of every draft. Thank you to the staff at Charisma House and to Kathy Deering for their invaluable help in organizing my writings, and to my Integrative Medicine mentors and colleagues for all that they have taught me. And finally, to my ultimate and most consistent teachersthe 4-A patients and their parentsI am most thankful.

W hat has gone wrong? As even a casual reader or listener of the news knows, the statistics are alarming. Autism, ADHD, asthma, and allergiesall four of which happen to begin with the letter Aare on the rise, especially among children. In fact, it is not stretching the definition of the word epidemic to use that term for the way these disorders are sweeping the Western world. None of them are communicable in the classic understanding of the term, but all four sets of disorders, as you will see throughout this book, share common root causes that contribute to the development of current epidemic proportions. Autism, attention deficit disorder (with and without hyperactivityADD/ADHD), asthma, and allergiesthese are the new childhood epidemics.

A tragedy of this magnitude would be overwhelming except for a salient fact: these new epidemics can be defeated. After twenty years of treating patients, I have found that beneath the surface there is an unmistakable, unshakable web of interrelationship among the 4-A disorders, and I have learned to recognize the patterns. Toxicity in the brain and body causes metabolic dysfunction, which cascades with other factors to produce one or more of these disorders. Often they overlap with each other in the same person. By uncovering and treating the common causes of these 4-A disorders, we can embark on a common (and hope-filled) path to recovery.

You are already aware of this epidemic, or you would not have picked up this book. Most likely you are a parent of a child (or more than one child) who carries a diagnosis of one of these disorders. You may be overwhelmed with your situation at home, while your search for help merely seems to bury you in information and saddle you with enormous medical bills.

I want to empower people like youparents of 4-A childrenwith comprehensive and effective tools. With you, I want to advocate for the health of your kids. At the same time I want to increase your skills to recognize your own bodys ongoing responses to disorder and stress so that you can make an ongoing and accurate assessment of how youre doing as a whole family.

HOLISTIC-INTEGRATIVE SELF-MEDICAL CARE

This book is a guide, not a cookbook. It will teach you principles as well as facts and point you in the right direction as you search out the best path. Recovering from any of the 4-A disorders is a journey, replete with side trips and even dead ends. But together with others you can make tangible progress toward the healthy, even contented, lifestyle you want for yourself and your loved ones.

What you as an individual do with this information is up to you. I want to teach you how to self-practice self-care in a holistic, integrative, and natural way. I want to introduce you to upstream medicine, in which we all play a role in searching out the causes of disease and eliminating them at the root.

The causes of this particular 4-A epidemic (and if I were not a pediatrician, I might add a fifth and more mature A to the list: Alzheimers disease) are omnipresent in our man-made, inevitably toxic environment. The detrimental effects of our environment have been causing all sorts of damage and disorder that are initially imperceptible and can remain so for varying durations within a persons lifetime. In the case of many of our children the damage has manifested early on as the 4-A disorders, although some children escape.