NAET Relieves Autistic Symptoms
By Mary Mucci
This is one of the most exciting stories I have ever reported: There is a way to relieve autistic symptoms so that a child can live a normal life.
I just hope viewers can open up to the possibility that 21st century medicine is really here. We all accept that we can access an international database { the internet } via unseen radio frequencies using a device no larger than a deck of cards….and yet sometimes people refuse to accept the existence of energy medicine.
If you’re a regular News 12 viewer, then you’ll recognize that NAET has been featured before as a way to cure allergies and asthma. The waiting room at Dr. Cecilia Yee’s office in Massapequa is full of people who saw my first reports. I know because I too am a patient. Thanks to NAET, I have overcome my sensitivities to chocolate, dust, dairy and a dozen other foods and environmental triggers. I am delighted to have found this treatment for myself. But obviously for the parent of an autistic child it can be a miracle….
I want you to know that I pay for my treatments at ten percent off which is the professional courtesy rate. I try almost every single health provider I recommend in my reports…Needless to say the professional courtesy rate makes my experimentation more affordable. So except for this small discount, I get nothing from my recommendation other than the satisfaction of knowing I have helped someone.
While Dr. Susan Cunningham was featured in this report…all of the NAET practitioners listed below have been working with autistic children. The results differ for each child I’m sure. Some kids respond immediately… Brendan started talking after his second or third treatment , which was for calcium.
A study conducted by Dr. Nambutripad , the founder of this treatment, showed an 88% response rate. There were sixty kids in the study….divided into two groups of thirty… All but 12% were mainstreamed after one year. That’s amazing! I suppose there may be people w ho don’t respond to NAET. I don’t know. But if I had a child with any type of learning or behavioral disability, I would try it.
I hope it works as well for all of you who need it.
To Your Health,
Mary Mucci
Contacts:
Dr. Cecilia Yee of Massapequa…. 516 799 5956
Dr. Susan Cunningham of Levittown ….516 579 7099
Dr. Ken Moss…of Smithtown…..631 265 5656 Dr Moss is an acupuncturist…His office treats using both acupuncture and acupressure
Read More About It:
“NAET: Say Goodbye to Your Allergies” by Devi S. Nambudripad
June 15th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Well, of course people refuse to believe it. It sounds like nonsense, and the only assurance is “but it works.”
I’m no more against alternative medicine than I am about corporate medicine, personally, but “but it works” is, well, dangerous. What aspects “just work”? Who might not see the benefit? Where might they be harmful?
See, look at your report. Poking you with a stick while something is held NEAR you? Even “what do you mean we packed avian flu in with the vaccine?” Baxter doesn’t look that weird.
It’s something to think about. People who actually study these things using, well, science rather than just anecdotal evidence would make for a much better story.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Well Mary, here we go again with yet another “cure du jour”
A few of the real facts:
1) NAET as a whole is untested: there’s no information on whether it works or doesn’t work.
2) Parts of NAET have been tested individually: at best they were shown to be useless, at worst outright false
3) NAET shows no signs of ever getting around to performing any tests or revealing any test data
4) NAET marketers see no reason why NAET should be tested
Not a very promising situation when the best evidence that they can provide in their favor is ignorance, and they’re happy that way. It not only leaves the whole thing doubtful as to what it can and can not do, but it leaves the door wide open for scammers to make use of it. Somebody selling NAET can make up any claims that they want to, and there are no test results there to show that they’re lying.
NAET clashes with the concepts of anatomy, physiology, pathology, physics, and allergy accepted by the scientific community. The story of its “discovery” is highly implausible. Its core diagnostic approach — muscle testing for “allergies” — is senseless and is virtually certain to diagnose nonexistent problems. Its recommendations for dietary restrictions based on nonexistent food allergies are likely to place the patient at great risk for nutrient deficiency, and, in the case of children, at risk for social problems and the development of eating disorders. I believe that practitioners who use NAET have such poor judgment that they should not be permitted to remain licensed.
Remember, the NAET people refuse to provide that information. For close to 25 years they have refused to provide that information. We know that much of what little information they have given out is completely wrong. Not just suspect it, but know it for a certain absolute fact. And given the sorts of things that they are messing with (allergies can be a life-threatening matter, after all) and the desperation of many of the people who turn to them, it is important that people who are considering NAET have the information they need to make a reasonable choice rather than a wild guess. NAET doesn’t let them do that, though. NAET provides vague suggestions and appeals to emotion, and that’s it. People have nothing upon which to base what is likely a major crucial decision. And people being people, many desperate people are likely to make a blind choice to try NAET.
You pay your money – you take your chances.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Mary,
I applaud you for having the courage to step off into the deep end to try a modality of healing that has yet been “stamped” by orthodoxy.
There are so many people suffering, perhaps needlessly, that could find at least some measure of relief if they would only open their minds to new paradigms of how the body works.
You might check out the theories of an Iranian physician, Dr. F. Batmaghelidj and his remarkable, anecdotal evidence for the therapeutic potential of hydration.
It’s pretty compelling.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:01 am
To follow up my other comment, I need to point out that Dr. Silverman is no better.
He fails to provide a “valid” alternative. He doesn’t ever comment on the thorough failures of corporate medicine, even though he expects you to accept a practitioner’s money problems as evidence of bad science. He also doesn’t seem to mind completely ignoring chemistry and physics in his “debunking,” or he’s completely ignorant of the topics. And basically, it sounds like he’s saying, “a treatment is stupid unless an accredited doctor gets a paycheck.”
Both industries need to find a middle ground. I don’t like trying random things that sound like they might work if you believe in sympathetic magic, but otherwise sound like a way to waste an afternoon. Nor do I appreciate the idea that we should place our lives in the hands of people who use “science” as a watchword, but clearly don’t understand how it works, and turn a blind eye whenever the FDA completely drops the ball or someone points out that oncologists get the overwhelming majority of their income on chemo-markup or vaccines have been shipped with live viruses included.
Trust me, there’s nothing less entertaining than watching two priesthoods call each other names. There are also very few things less useful. Expose the problems and fix the problems.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I think all of the doctors out there who say alternative medicine will not help our children should open their eyes, shut their mouth, and wake up! These are probably the same docors that say vaccines do not hurt our children. That’s bologna. Almost every single child who is autistic has been vaccinated and that is the one common thread.
As a parent of an autistic child I have seen wonderful progress with alternative medicine. We have not tried NAET therapy yet, but it makes complete sense. I know my child may or may not respond to NAET or any of these alternative therapies but how do I as a mother not try. What if this is the one thing that can truly make a difference for him,And how can I go through life knowing that there was something out there that may have helped him and I did not try. I would never be able to live with myself. What if this was your child what would you do??? I love my child he is unbelievably smart, strong, and beautiful. I would not be he person I am today without him.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
The diagnostic approach of NAET is suspect, and the treatment approach isn’t much more reassuring. Most practitioners start off the session by asking you to grant permission from your conscious and subconscious minds to perform the procedure. Will NAET not work because your subconscious mind didn’t grant permission? Did inherent “healthy skepticism” somehow block the treatment? This raises an interesting point of whether it is necessary to “believe” in a treatment for it to be a success? I would argue that if a treatment requires the recipient to believe in it, that any results it produces are nothing but a placebo effect, and will only have a short-term value.
For the 25 hours after the treatment you need to avoid eating, touching, breathing or coming within 5 feet of the substance that was treated. Why 25 hours? Well, according to Dr. Nambudripad, this is the time it takes for the newly reprogrammed energy to be exposed to the 12 major meridians in the body. Then, after at least 25 hours, you can come back to be checked to see if the treatment held, and if so, move on to the next items on the list.
Of course, as predicted, sometimes the treatments don’t “hold” and you have to have it done again (another $50 check, just like the original treatment). Anyway, after 4 months of 2 or 3 weekly sessions and being treated for an exhaustive list of suspected allergens, chemicals, foods etc., MANY patients often don’t feel any better and decide to throw in the towel.
BTW- After 4 months it is not uncommon to spend upwards of $1500 on “treatments” – all not covered by insurance.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Dr. Silverman,
With all due respect the scientific method has caused a great deal of injury, no doubt has anecdotal reports of a modality’s efficacy.
We need only scan the litany of FDA-endorsed surgical procedures that have now been regulated to the status of failed medical interventions. Whether it was a class-III anti-arrythmic or the Dalcon Shield, the theoretical and practical liabilities of the current process for bringing drugs
or procedures the the public has been demonstrated to be, in many cases,
dangerous to the public, and upon further examination, often successes fall well within the probabilities of the placebo effect.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I have to say to everyone here that I myself am a patient at who has seen NAET first hand and it has worked for me. I am in no way trying to advertise or endorse it, if you would like to try it go for it and I promise you won’t be disappointed.
I’ll admit that I was just as skeptical right away but now I am a believer and would recommend NAET to anyone who has any type of reaction to food or environmental stresses.
I also have been able to meet with some of the children being treated for autism and can tell you that it does work and these kids are gaining a whole new life from NAET.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I am a NAET patient and it absolutely does work. I really don’t care how kooky it seems now that I am able to eat pizza, dairy, oatmeal, etc. without any allergic reactions after 15 years of avoidance or suffering the consequences of eating these foods. Dr Yee has saved my health and sanity!
June 18th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Glenn has it right. I don’t want to pile on Dr. Silverman, because I do think he’s trying to do the right thing by bringing skepticism to the table. However, he’s being dangerously uncritical of his own field (do I really need to bring up “Truper Dawg”’s quart of adhesive FDA-approved cure again?) AND he’s not suggesting anything better.
It’s the duty of a scientist, journalist, or, well, anybody with a brain to investigate anomolies, not take them for granted as impossible because that’s what it says in the textbook.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I am one of “those mothers” who puts her autistic child into the hands of Dr. Yee. What NAET has done for my son cannot be measured. He is living a life I did not imagine for hime when he was diagnosed. When I went to Dr. Yee, she did not ask my 6 year old to open his mind or “let NAET in” he is 6. It cannot and is not in his mind that these treatments work. What does work and shows it are his test scores at school, his behavior chart which is not filled up with pencil markings anymore. My son has never “failed” a treatment and we were never asked to do it over.
Walking in for the first time and seeing how and what they were doing was very different, however none of it and I mean none of it was ever evasive or harmful to my child. What was harmful to him prior were the weekly visits to Stony Brook to draw blood, and try new medicine and over stimulate him with the extensive “check up”. This is extrmemely intense to someone with sensory issues. The crying in the car as soon he realized where I was taking him. When my son knows he is going to see Dr. Yee, I don’t get not 1 tear. He leaves the office feeling great. He was not poked or proded, he did not have to give up any bodliy fluids and he is not a zombie from heavy medication.
My son could not read or write at the beginning of the school year. Now he knows 350+ sight words, writes stories, reads 2nd grade level books, gets 100 on every spelling test and attempts to spell any word you throw his way.
How does NAET work – I don’t know. I just know that it is not in my son’s head–it just works. So Dr. Silverman that is my answer–it just works. Anyone who is interested in seeing his school behavior charts as proof of how NAET has transformed my son feel free to ask.
As for the cost I would pay 1 million dollars to help my son, however I found NAET which is alot cheaper. It is also cheaper then the co-pays I had for all of the medication he was on each month that was “covered” under insurance, but still cost me an arm and a leg–NAET only cost an arm!!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:40 am
NAET and it’s positive role. I understand Dr. Silverman’s resevations with regard to the validity of the NAET approach as a useful treatment approach to allergies, asthma, Autism,etc. However I have had first hand knowledge of the use of NAET to combat my children’s asthma and allergies. Also as a health professional, I have had an opportunity to observe positive changes in the function and behavior of children diagnosed with PDD, Autism, ADHD etc. While I too would like to have more empirical data supporting the effects of the NAET technique, sometimes this is not available. When I began NAET for my two year old daughter diagnosed with “Reactive Airway Disease”,…or Asthma as no doctor would call it; she was limited from dairy, fruits, grains, eggs; due to rashes, reflux and asthma. She barely slept, had already suffered multiple episodes of bronchitis and pneumonia; was irritable, clingy and cried constantly. She was able to put nebulizer pieces together with supervision, sat for doctors in the hospital, tolerated bloodwork and pulse oxymeters and she was facing a year of prednisone, use of round the clock Albuterol and Pulmocort, a possible bronchoscopy, three cystic fibrosis tests, repetative bloodwork and endoscopies. At the time, we asked our renowned Pulmonologist “What side effects could we expect over the course of a year on Prednisone?”, “Would our daughter suffer any long term effects?” We were asked what our specific concerns were. “Would she suffer any kidney or liver damage?, Could she have trouble getting pregnant later in life?” Our physician laughed telling us we were ridiculous for being concerned for such issues with her at such a young age and there was no way of knowing what could happen as there were general risks. We were reminded that our concern was to be sure she could breathe.
NAET, while it may not have a multitude of studies to back up its effectiveness, is a non-invasive technique with postive results promoting health, wellness and alternatives. Thanks to Kenneth Moss in Smithtown, NY, her acupuncturist, our daughter’s overall health and resistence to illness transformed in front of our eyes. Her reactivity to allergens improved where we were safely able to stop daily medications under the supervision of physicians. Her ability to eat a variety of foods improved with normal digenstion and her behavior and demeanor improved to be a happy, engaging, rested young girl. It is now 7 years later and I know that the course of her life took a different turn toward health and wellness. The NAET technique helped us understand a body’s response to allergens, energy and balance.
I have had the privelege of observing positive changes with patients that I subsequently referred for NAET and Acupuncture/Acupressure with varying diagnosies. It is an asset to health that I believe physicians could embrace. If we are willing to accept invasive strategies despite the presence of pros and cons (i.e. drug therapies, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapies), why are we so resistent to cautious attempts at non-invasive strategies? Consider more holistic attempts at health. Benefits are astounding!
July 11th, 2009 at 3:24 am
Wow… some of you folks really need to learn what logical fallacies are. Causation does not equal correlation. Anecdotal reports are not evidence, let alone proof.
Oh, and let’s not forget, “a sucker is born every minute.”
NAET is utter crapola, just like most of the so-called “holistic or alternative medicine.” Like supernatural phenomenon – the effects are real because people believe they are real. Certain procedures do have measurable effects, such as acupuncture, but these effects are nothing more than temporary stimulation of the nerve synapse which cause neurotransmitters to be released. VERY few things in alternative medicine have been tested properly. Most of them are quite primitive and hail from eras and cultures where the people did not understand science.
The fact that NAET is embraced by the biggest group of scam artists in the medical profession – chiropractors – speaks for itself (can anyone show me a subluxtion on any type of body scan?)
For god’s sake, educate yourselves people or you can assure that these quacks will take your money, your hopes, and your health!
http://www.chirobase.org/06DD/naet.html
http://www.chirobase.org/
News 12 should be ashamed of themselves for promoting this sensationalist crap!
July 21st, 2009 at 10:12 am
We just started NAET with my son this summer and his asthma attacks are gone. We had tried (in various combinations) singular, advair, albuterol, flovent, claritin, zyrtec, and xopenex. The side effects were making him sick and he always ended up on steroids. We changed his diet and took him off all meds 3 yrs ago, but we still had to use xopenex in his nebulizer at least once a week. If I went off his diet, his asthma attacks lead to steroids. It’s been a month since he was first treated with NAET – no nebulizer at all and no wheezing at all. He jumped off the table after the first treatment (he was having an asthma attack when we walked in) and said, “Mom, I have zero asthma!” He was surprised and relieved. When doctors can’t help and medicines fail – give NAET a try and be pleasantly surprised!
August 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I have given NAET a try for my son for a year and the result is awesome. The cost of the treatments is nothing compared to the cost of xopenex and zyrtec and banadryl that I’ve purchased over a year period. I have never can understand why some people prefer to take medicine for the rest of their life and overlook a treatment that can cure for good.