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Amy Yasko was kind enough to leave a comment on an old post where I brought up the autism-answers website and some of her rather dubious products.
Just to clarify a point about where the "answers" are located on the autismanswer.com site...I donate hours each day to answer parents questions daily on the parent discussion group on that site. At this point we have over 18,000 posts which encompass hundreds of answers that I have taken the time to answer personally. The main purpose of the site is to share scientific information for parents to integrate into the programs they are using for their children, and also to give support and hope. It is not about selling anything. Many of the answers that are given have nothing to do with research I have done in developing the RNAs. The nutrigenomic test that we use was a test that I
designed in order to have the SNPs we need in that region available for parents. I spent months developing this test last summer after one of the labs that offered tests with the relevant SNPs suddenly closed, leaving parents without their genetic results.With love and hope for all the children,
Dr. Amy Yasko
Thanks Amy, I don't how I arrived at the idea your site was about selling anything. Maybe it was the links to various commercial websites and supplements for treating autism, I don't know.
Anyway, I apologize if I misunderstood or made any inaccurate statements about your products and intentions. I didn't realize that you "donate hours each day answering parents questions" and that you do it all out of the goodness of your heart. It must be a thankless job and I'm sure you are exhausted after each day of charitable research. The thought of those poor parents being left without their genetic results just breaks my heart.
Maybe the next time you stop by, that is if you are able to donate some of your precious time, you can tell us more about the way yeast nucleotides you sell as $100/oz RNA drops do anything for autistic children.
Maybe you can offer some sort of evidence to support this statement:
Defects in methylation can make one more susceptible to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, thyroid dysfunction, neurological inflammation, neurotransmitter imbalances, atherosclerosis, cancer and autism
With love and hope for all the charlatans,
Not Mercury
posted by notmercury @ 6:35 AM
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I'm so glad someone brought Amy Yasko up. I have heard that she has a questionable background and continues to brag about her "alphabet soup" of degrees. These parents write to her and she basically diagnoses problems and prescribes her products on her website. I have scanned her site in the past found it very odd. It seems that the parents keep writing back asking what to do next as their children continue to have problems. I can't believe parents listen to this woman. Additionally, from what I have heard, when you call her number you are asked to spend hundreds on testing, and even then, getting the results from whatever testing center she uses is a nightmare. Please continue to look into her and her background as I think she is a real scam.
Also, any doctor who calls themselves "Dr. Amy" and offers "love and hope" is nothing but a snake oil salesman. Someone really needs to investigate what she's really about.
I'm dying here from laughing-induced hypoxia.
Did someone say Snake Oil?
Did someone say RNA drops?
Did someone say Love and Hope?
Personally, I LOVE RNA and I HOPE that idiots with inflated CVs who can't even draw a nucleotide will someday soon quit trying to rip desperate parents off.
Thanks NM, I always enjoy venting about this nonsense.
NM said: "Maybe the next time you stop by, that is if you are able to donate some of your precious time, you can tell us more about the way yeast nucleotides you sell as $100/oz RNA drops do anything for autistic children."
Ms. Yasko had said: "At this point we have over 18,000 posts which encompass hundreds of answers that I have taken the time to answer personally."
Certainly with 18,000 posts that encompass hundred of answers, this won't be a problem for her to bring scientific answers (not speculation or pet theory). Everyone knows that the more posts a forum has, the more "correct" the answers become. The numbers do matter. Just like if you say the earth is flat a few hundred times, the earth remains round. But, If you get a few thousand flat-earthers together in a forum and collect hundreds of thousands of posts from each, the earth will indeed become flat!
Bartholomew Cubbins said: Personally, I LOVE RNA
Met too!! I had a big bowl for breakfast this morning.
R.N.Amy - that made me laugh.
I suppose a big bowl is better than a big bowel of RNA.
Is R.N.Amy related to D.N.Amy, of Kim Possible fame?
Just curious. I love KP! ;)
Jannalou said: Is R.N.Amy related to D.N.Amy, of Kim Possible fame?
I'm sure they must be related but RNAmy is always telling DNAmy what to do :-)
could someone please point me to a detailed discussion of the science behind yasko's protocol. thanks
There is no science behind Yasko's protocol. Love and hope is plenty for her.
i recently got my son's genetic test back from dr. amy. would anyone know where i could send the test results for some independent analysis.
Just wondering if any of you even know what CBS stands for (and I'm not talking about the TV network your pitiful little brains are tuned to 18 hours a day).
No?
Didn't think so.
Maybe you should spend some time researching cystathionine beta snythase instead of criticizing a woman who is actually helping people.
Helping people...now there's a foreign concept!
I have another idea: why don't you call up your buddy Dick Cheney and ask him to take you on a hunting trip.
By the way, I hope you don't have any upregulations in CBS. That would be most unfortunate.
Just wondering if any of you even know what CBS stands for (and I'm not talking about the TV network your pitiful little brains are tuned to 18 hours a day).
No?
Didn't think so.
Maybe you should spend some time researching cystathionine beta snythase instead of criticizing a woman who is actually helping people.
Helping people...now there's a foreign concept!
I have another idea: why don't you call up your buddy Dick Cheney and ask him to take you on a hunting trip.
By the way, I hope you don't have any upregulations in CBS. That would be most unfortunate.
Yes, well, the fact that one of you found a website "very odd" is enough to keep me off it!
Pray...what is the scientific basis for your designation of its oddness?
Not Mercury? Maybe you should change your title to Not Answers. I stumbled across this in my Google search to find out more - positive and negative - about Dr. Amy Yasko's program. How frustrating to come across this "counterpoint" that amounts to nothing more than snide sarcastic comments with virtually nothing of substance therein. If you're going to critique someone, please do it seriously and dispassionately with an ounce of respect for all of the human beings involved (you don't know the sincerity or integrity of those in question & the fact that you assume the worst speaks more about you than them) and perhaps you can then attract intelligent & productive discourse instead of being a home to opportunistic, people-skewering wit-nits (spelling intended)... shaking the dust from my sandals and moving on...
Dr. Amy Yasko,
Thanks for taking the time out to address this Blog. Sounds like some peope on here could use some tutoring on the methylation Pathways of the Body. Lets throw out some terms like BH4, Glutathionine, BHMT, RNA, DNA. Lets see them talk intellegently NOW! Ok nows your chance Speak UP! Show us your IQ. You want a DNA Test maybe we can help you out. Hmmmmm...........
If "Dr. Amy" is so knowlegable, how come she isn't mentioned in newspapers and magazines discussing her miracle cures? Certainly autism has been in the news quite a bit in the past few years. I don't notice her in any of the articles out there. Face it, there are many scam artistis in this industry.
So there anything wrong with some of us parents wanting hope and love for our children? Some of use are willing to pay 300 dollars or more for the RNA's if it means better health for our children. I don't understand!!! Call me a fool if you must, but I think Doc Amy has done more for my son than KU medical center.
I do not know or wish to know, at this moment about Dr. Yasko's protocol, her training or what she charges for her products. What strikes me about the many of the posts in this thread is the level of anger, rage and pain being expressed and riected at this person. Has she harmed each of you or a loved one in some way? I am saddened by comments such as "any doctor who calls themselves "Dr. Amy" etc... One of the finest health care providers I know si widedly referred to by his grateful patients as "Dr. Bill". And no, he does not "sell snake oil" . He is, in fact a dedicated health provider. Whether you believe, whether in fact, your child's illness is caused by mercury, there are many people - children and adults - whose health has been severely impacted by mercury. And many of us have researched and studied the issue and have used various protocols, including chelation, to improve their health.
The notion that all autistic children are mercury toxic is simplistic. The noticon that mercury is not implicated in the autism epidemic is also simplistic.
What we all share is a deep desire for health, for ourselves and our loved ones. Many of us are searching for answers, in a toxic world, for the questions of health and disease. If, in that search you find a Doctor, like Doctor Amy, whatever her qualifications, who is able to help you or your loved ones, then by all means do your own research into her background, contact the state board of medicine, ask your hard questions,negotiate the price and keep right on doing whatever she tells you to do as long as you are getting results you seek.
Just that Doctor Amy is willing to subject herself to the scrutiny and critical attention of those posting here is a testament to her strenght of character. God bless you all your loved ones waging the battle with autistic spectrum disorders.
Doug in Stratham, NH
check out Discover magazine April 2007 article on Autism, Dr. Amy is
highly mentioned.
Hooray for Dr. Yasko! She is quoted and mentioned in the April 2007 Discover article about the disease we call autism. Not only is she helping children heal, she is doing it with integrity, kindness and passion. Shame on you "not mercury" for your annoying and snarky little comments about her. Go read the Discover article.
Is Dr. Amy an actual medical doctor?
It wouldn't appear so: "Amy Yasko, PhD, ND, NHD, AMD, HHP, FAAIM"
I didn't think so. How is it that parents are taking her advice seriously? Amazing!
dr yasko's protocol has helped my children make huge gains. i stumbled across this site and found it useless, unhelpful, and filled with a bunch of angry people who are spending their energy mocking a woman who IS HELPING children move toward wholeness and health.
And it doesn't bother you that Dr. Amy is not even a medical doctor? At least the DAN doctors tend to have medical degrees.
DAN doctors TEND to have medical degrees? That's certainly a confidence builder. In all my research to help my son (now 17, with Aspergers)I have found fear, hopelessness, anger and scepticism, and have used several different therapies, but not chelation. Still a sceptic on that one. However, if someone else uses any therapy not endorsed by the 'proper' medical community and finds it helpful and not harmful, isn't that what's improtant? It seems conventional medicine hasn't proved itself in 'curing' autism. Someone has to go out on a limb and try new ideas as research into this devastating illness. Try to keep an open mind. As you criticize anyone trying to make a difference, please do your research and learn how to back up your opinion with facts.
And you would listen to someone who claims in Discover magazine to have moved to Maine to "hear the snow flakes fall?" Sounds like a flake to me. I do listen to people regarding different treatments....just not one like this!
Illogical rantings of idiots is the crux of the epidiemic of autism.
You are the pharmaceutical companies dream. Don't ask why..Don't look for answers. Attack others that do.
It makes a person ponder the real question...
Where are your loyalties? To the children or to big corporate USA. Now that's where the real shame begins and ends.
Or better yet....what's it to you? If parents want to spend their money trying to help their children, why should you care?
I love it--the choice is between children or big corporations? Well of course, I am on the corporation's side...
Always rely on the conspiracy theory if facts don't support you.
Here are the facts:
1. Mercury has nothing to do with autism.
2. Alternative treatments like Yasko's have no scientifically confirmed validity.
3. Big corporations couldn't care less about alternative treatments for autism,unless they actually worked and they could make money off them.
For all the heretics on this blog. The field that Dr. Amy Yasko's research is biomolecular nutrigenomics. A simple website search would lift your veil or ignorance. There is a company called Wellgen that has allotted 8 million dollars to the field the "snake oil salesman" you refer Dr. Yasko to. There is hard science out there relating to maximizing or minimizing gene expression in relation to nutrition. That is what Dr. Yasko is doing for autism, repairing a pathway, by giving it the nutrients it needs. Thereby giving the child a higher level of functioning.
I'm pretty sure that nobody who made their negative comments bothered to do any research but rather rely on heresay. Why don't you light up your torches and gather your pitchforks--you're no better than that!
It's really apparent that you work for pharma or CDC or their lobby groups. If you ever have a kid, by all means, you go ahead and get him those full mercury dose vaccines. And when you watch your child disappear inside himself right before your eyes, then you can get back to those of us whom you now mock and we'll be happy to tell you all about how chelation can bring him back.
"Me"....can we really take seriously a doctor who signs off with the following...."with love and hope for all the children" or who claims in an article to have moved to Maine "to hear the snowflakes fall." I mean....come on! She sounds like some flower child from the 60's.
Someone said...
"And it doesn't bother you that Dr. Amy is not even a medical doctor? At least the DAN doctors tend to have medical degrees."
NEWFLASH: M.D.'s don't have the answers -- they're not clinical researchers like Yasko and others, who, believe it or not, have actually helped kids (and adults) recover.
Do you ever wonder why millions are turning away from HMO's and other typical "traditional" M.D.'s? Could it perhaps be because they have found nothing that has helped them? In the vast majority of cases -- not all - but in the majority of cases, all an M.D. will do is pass out the latest drug the drug rep sold them that week -- drugs that only SUPPRESS SYMPTOMS and do NOTHING to TREAT THE CAUSE or CAUSES of one's illness. Drug comopanies would go out of business if they actually cured anything.
But, if you insist on seeing only M.D.'s, that's certainly your choice and I suggest next time you ask your doctor for a Prozac the size of a basketball, since you have such an incredible distaste for words like "love" and "hope".
p.s. Here's a link where an M.D. backs up Amy Yasko's work.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8983765831858919011&q=%22methylation%22
Dear Anon,
Please stop spamming this blog with advertisements for Dr. Amy and her bullshit yeast juice.
Gordon MD is just as bad, if not worse, and the two of them are suing each other last I heard over the many thousand$ they've managed to swindle over the years.
Dear NotMercury,
First of all, I've only posted those last two defenses of Yasko and Gordon, and only used Gordon because some on this blog think only M.D.'s are doctors, which...well, if you want to be closed-minded, that's your choice. I've not been "spamming" this blog. I've got other hobbies.
It just amazes and confounds and SADDENS me that people can be so vitriolic over something they haven't research thoroughly.
There are reasons why autism has soared in the last 30 years. It may not be mercury in a lot of cases, it may not be detoxification defects (Yasko's approach) in others...but you know...it just might.
Whatever the cause(s), it's never going to be just one cause, so something that works for one child or adult, won't work for others -- so waiting for some miracle drug from an M.D. -- in my opinion -- is a lost cause.
Just my two cents.
I do appreciate your willingness to allow posts of differing opinions! :)
I have been searching for a long time to find any published research supporting Dr. Amy's work. There isn't any. She really gives the impression that she's in the business of making a buck. She doesn't communicate with any of the other alternative (DAN!) types. I suspect she will be investigated by the FDA for selling products whose ingredients are not listed.
I don't think one necessarily needs to be a medical doctor to do medical research, but I do believe you do need to be one to actually treat them and prescribe medications.
My son has autism and my wife has spent THOUSANDS of dollars on "Dr." Yasko's potions in a vain attempt to cure our son. Why hasn't the government stopped this woman? She is obviously a fraud. People with complaints should contact the Maine Attorney General's Office. I did.
Has anyone on this site read Changing the Course of Autism: A Scientific Approach for Parents and Physicians by Byran Jepson MD? He talks about the Methylation Cycle which is at the heart of Yasko's protocols. He trusted his fellow physicians, but his wife did not. She went on the internet to research options for their child with autism and found protocols that worked. She challenged her husband to research for himself and this book is the result of that research.
My cardiologist, an MD, is starting to use some of Dr. Yasko's protocols to treat some of his patients. He does not stay in the box defined by his fellow MD's but goes after treatments that work: as a result his hospital admission rate has plumeted and his patients are getting better.
Why is a PhD any less knowledgable then an MD? Their knowledge base is different, but much of the work that MD's do is based on a foundation built by PhD researchers. I saw a nurse last year who was much more knowledgable about strokes than most doctors I talked with. An ND is a doctor with a different kind of training than a MD. You may not agree with the theoretical underpinnings behind naturopathic treatments, but don't dismiss someone just because you only trust medical doctors.
There are good MD's and bad MD's. There are good ND's and bad ND's. There are good PhD's and bad PhD's.
Has anyone on this site read Changing the Course of Autism: A Scientific Approach for Parents and Physicians by Byran Jepson MD? He talks about the Methylation Cycle which is at the heart of Yasko's protocols. He trusted his fellow physicians, but his wife did not. She went on the internet to research options for their child with autism and found protocols that worked. She challenged her husband to research for himself and this book is the result of that research.
My cardiologist, an MD, is starting to use some of Dr. Yasko's protocols to treat some of his patients. He does not stay in the box defined by his fellow MD's but goes after treatments that work: as a result his hospital admission rate has plumeted and his patients are getting better.
Why is a PhD any less knowledgable then an MD? Their knowledge base is different, but much of the work that MD's do is based on a foundation built by PhD researchers. I saw a nurse last year who was much more knowledgable about strokes than most doctors I talked with. An ND is a doctor with a different kind of training than a MD. You may not agree with the theoretical underpinnings behind naturopathic treatments, but don't dismiss someone just because you only trust medical doctors.
There are good MD's and bad MD's. There are good ND's and bad ND's. There are good PhD's and bad PhD's.
Jepson is not a reliable source. He works for Thoughtful House, which is owned and operated by the notorious Andrew Wakefield.
I've read some of his "research," which is published in silly places like _Medical_Veritas_ because no reputable peer-reviewed medical journal would print it. I'll be publishing a dissection of his book soon.
Jepson would be one of those "bad MDs" you were talking about. They're all about the customer base, not a knowledge base.
Not Mercury OK I bet it is nothing but mercury
You see the problem is that in the UK at least the rather large numbers of unvaccinated individuals (that is childhood vaccinations) do not include any autistic people.
Likewise the rather large numbers of autistic people do not seem to include any who are unvaccinated. To me that is QED what do you think.
I should say that the rather large numbers of vaccinated and autistic people does not necessarily include MMR but always includes DTP vaccines. QED x 2 but what do you think.
Lastly I might comment upon the fact that whilst the USA has 98.2% of its children vaccinated as do many western nations the UK has up to 20% of its children unvaccinated at all and does have reliable data about conditions and vaccine uptake. The medical establishment will not however contemplate any issue that includes autism and vaccines in the same sentence.
Tony Bateson
The "angry" ones on this blog truly sound like they are plain and simply ENVIOUS of Dr. Amy Yasko. ENVY-the green eyed monster.....I don't know who the angry, envious ones are on this blog....but, I can only imagine that you are either 1. an envious member of the medical community
2. work for Big Pharm
3. an envious angry parent of an autistic child without the time or money to begin Dr. Amy's Protocal.
Dr. Amy is recovering the children of the parents who are correctly following her protocal. If you fall in the #3 category, I truly feel sorry for you. If you fall in the #1 or #2 category, then I feel sorry for your cold, evil heart. You need to turn to the Lord and be able to recognize that some wonderful, brilliant people do exist in this world such as Dr. Amy Yasko.
Ok, first of all, they stopped using mercury years ago in vaccines, they have a new preservative that works better is cheaper and is natural. Second, For the genius that brought up the UK's insane predilection for non-vaccination, they also had some of the first outbreaks of whooping cough, and mumps in the last few years, for the first time worldwide since vaccinations almost killed those diseases forever. They just bided their time in out of they way parts of the owrld, til globalization freed them, then leapt back into action on a complacent world population. Ask any WWII gen person and they will tell you stories of kids in their classes dying or being crippled from polio, whooping cough, etc. As soon as the herd immunity given by the high level of vaccinated individuals dropped below the critical minimum, we started to have outbreaks. Interesting point of fact, the only whooping cough outbreak in America since the 40's happened in Orgeon recently, in ... Big surprise, Springfield, the very town where the American genesis of the anti-vaccination mania began. SO... whether or not mercury was involved in some of these cases, it is no longer even involved inthe debate and ppl who resort to histrionics over this issue are far behind the times. Also, the AMA recently released a report stating that the levels in one dose of breast milk (varying by region, industry etc) Actully contain several times the amount of mercury that was contained in those vaccines. There are many more logical culprits out there, and focusing on disproven stances hurts our chnces of finding a real solution. ALSO, i flat out dispute the statement that none of the non vaccinated children have autism , and only vaccinated ones do. If that were true, and it is not, i have looked for hours and given up (one would think earth shattering causality would be touted immediately and loudly) Please link your sources, or just concede that you are one of the many ppl out there, who tho well intentioned, get carried away and start making semi educated guesses and putting them out there as fact. As stated , it does nothing for the debate or the children you claim to care for. Also, for the mother who will undoubtedly attck me because "they saw with their own eyes, the vaccine gave my child autism" VACCINES ARE NOT MEDICINE. They are not designed to benefit individuals. They are designed to protect populations from the devastating effect of serious disease outbreaks. Complications from vaccination are many, but the rate of incidence is statistically very very very low. Much akin to being in a plane crash. You vaccinate your children out of love and desire to portect them, but their personal protection is an added benefit of, not the goal of vaccination. The only reason most of the side effectd occur is mainly the huge genetic variation in the human species, so no one drug or foreign substance affects all people in the same fashion. Once the field of genetic expression goes further they will be able to look at your DNA and uses drugs and treatments they know will work, but this science is still in its infancy... I could go on, but those were my main points.
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