About Autism as a Whole-Body Condition
Martha Herbert PhD MD is generally credited as the researcher and clinician who brought the idea of autism as a whole-body condition into public consciousness with the publication of her book The Autism Revolution: Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be in 2012. In the book, she details how interventions such as dietary changes, removing toxins and immune-boosting changes that can relieve bodily symptoms such as acid reflux, constipation and allergies often can also have positive effects on the brain. Reducing the total load of stressors on the body can help both the body and brain to heal.
About the FLIGHT™ Study
Dr. Herbert is the Principal Investigator and Scientific Director and Dr. Tallman Ruhm is the Medical Director of Epidemic Answers’ Documenting Hope Project, which is conducting scientific research studies: The FLIGHT™ Study (Facilitated Longitudinal Intensive Investigation of Genuine Health Transformation) and the CHIRP™ Study (Child Health Inventory for Resilience and Prevention).
The FLIGHT™ Study builds upon the CHIRP™ Study as a foundation for capturing clinical data over time to test the hypothesis that comprehensive personalized lifestyle interventions will result in symptom abatement, improved health and potentially full disease reversal.
The study tracks individual participants through 18 months of lifestyle interventions personalized to their needs. The full study aims to enroll up to 14 children with chronic health or developmental conditions. The study will be filmed, and the results shared with the public.
About This Webinar
While the FLIGHT™ Study is not just about autism, our first participant is a four-year-old boy with autism, so it gives us an opportunity to talk about autism and what the opportunities are for children diagnosed with autism.
In this webinar, Drs. Herbert and Tallman Ruhm discussed the following:
- Why should autism be considered as a whole-body condition?
- What is the FLIGHT™ Study?
- Where are the first participants located and will there be other locations?
- What kinds of conditions will the FLIGHT™ Study be looking at?
- What kinds of clinical outcomes are you expecting to see for children enrolled in the FLIGHT™ Study?
- How do you think the information you are collecting in the FLIGHT™ Study will be helpful to parents and families who are not participating in the FLIGHT™ Study?
- Can you tell us about some of the diagnostic and assessment tools that are being used to help identify “root causes” or imbalances in each participant?
- Why does the FLIGHT™ Study use a personalized intervention plan? Aren’t there therapies or supplements or strategies that are good for everyone?
- How can parents and caregivers follow along and continue to learn from the experience of families enrolled in the FLIGHT™ Study?
- April is autism awareness month. What are some key things that parents of children with autism can learn from the FLIGHT™ Study?
Please note that you will be asked to provide your email address at the 30-minute mark to continue viewing the replay.
About Martha Herbert PhD MD
Martha Reed Herbert PhD MD is the Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of Epidemic Answers’ Documenting Hope Project.
She is a pediatric neurologist, neuroscientist, systems thinker and writer who trained in medicine at Columbia University, Pediatrics at Cornell-New York Hospital and Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
At Harvard, she founded the collaborative multidisciplinary TRANSCEND Research Program which takes a whole-body-brain approach to challenged brain development.
Prior to her medical training she received her PhD in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writing her dissertation on the evolution and development of learning processes.
She founded the Higher Synthesis Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose mission is to study and inspire successful regenerative approaches to complex health and environmental problems, particularly those that fall under the umbrella of its “Gifted Clinicians, Transformative Treatments, Sensitive Measures” Project and her Body-Brain-World thematic.
She is the author of the book The Autism Revolution: Whole Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be as well as many scientific papers. Her websites are: drmarthaherbert.com and highersynthesisfoundation.org
About Heather Tallman Ruhm MD
Heather Tallman Ruhm MD is the Medical Director of Epidemic Answers’ Documenting Hope Project.
She is a Board Certified Family Physician whose primary focus is whole-person health and patient education.
She draws on her conventional western training along with insights and skills from functional, integrative, bioregulatory and energy medicine.
She believes in the healing capacities of the human frame and supports the power of self-regulation to help her patients recover and access vitality.
Dr. Tallman Ruhm was born and raised in Montana. She graduated from Montana State University and later the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard where she received a Master’s in Public Policy. She attained her MD degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine Residency in Colorado and Alabama.
She has practiced ambulatory medicine from coast to coast, first at the Whitaker Wellness Institute in California, and later multiple integrative clinics in New England.
She served as a college professor for over a decade where she taught Pathology and Foundations in Complementary Health and Wellness, a course she co-designed. She is a sought-after public speaker who currently maintains a part-time private practice in Southern New Hampshire.
Dr. Tallman Ruhm, along with her husband and daughter, have hosted numerous exchange students. She has also studied and trained abroad and speaks several languages. Although she competed at an elite level in several sports, she is now content with her practice of yoga, skiing, cycling, hiking and gardening.
Disclaimer
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