ATEC Score Drops from 43 to 20 in 5 Months
The following testimonial is excerpted from pages 409-410 of Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism, 2nd Edition by Kerri Rivera, published in 2014.
The book outlines a protocol in which chlorine dioxide is a key component. More recent editions have since been released with updated information.
A link to the full book in PDF format is provided at the bottom of this page.
Our 10 year old son, Ben, showed symptoms of autism since he was an infant. Until he was 6, he never connected normally with family or peers. As his mother, I ached for a hug, to be called “Mommy,” or for a lingering look of love. I never got them.
Until he was diagnosed with autism at age five, I was utterly befuddled. What had I done? What was wrong with Ben? Why didn’t he want to play with other children? Why did he drool endlessly, laugh constantly for no reason, and bolt from play dates and parties with no warning? Why was he constantly lethargic, to the point where we called him “the playdough boy?”
Ben was always happy, dwelling far from us, in his own perfect little heaven. My husband and I were depressed, even despondent, despite attempts at gluten-free, casein-free diets, ABA therapy, and many supplements, because we saw no substantive and lasting changes in our child.
Finally we found the Son-Rise Program, which brought Ben back to us. After three-plus years of a mostly full-time Son-Rise Program, Ben became highly interactive, engaged, and interested in his peers. That alone was a palpable miracle. As we say in Hebrew, Dayeinu! That would have been sufficient. But we constantly experienced regressions back into autistic symptoms. For no apparent reason, and despite endless biomedical interventions, including the DAN! protocol—to the tune, I might add, of tens of thousands of dollars, multiplied over four to five years—Ben would suddenly revert to autistic behaviors, and we would lose contact. He became once again non-responsive, uninterested in family or peers, and seemingly unable to connect. Only the day before, he had been totally connected.
After being on the SCD and GAPS diets, and finding even them ineffective to alleviate these regular and devastating returns to autism, we were advised by Dr. Campbell-McBride that it sounded to her as if Ben had parasites. A friend of mine who was also a Son-Rise mom had mentioned to me that she and another Son-Rise mom friend of ours were trying something called “MMS.” When I heard the words for which the acronym stood, I gave an internal scoff. “Master Mineral Solution? Is this a joke?”
I can tell you, in all seriousness, that now, five and a half months into our MMS autism protocol, MMS is definitely no joke. Since starting MMS, we have seen nothing but progress in Ben. We are still doing GAPS, but avoiding foods we know Ben cannot yet digest. Ben’s ATEC score has dropped from 43 when we started MMS to a startling 20. We are seeing sustained, natural, unsolicited and consistent eye contact, like never before. Ben is consistently responsive, certainly on par with most 10 year old boys. He is playing hockey in our driveway with friends. He is solicitous of others, and compassionate when others are hurt in any way. He is funny, expressively loving, and eager to please and be loved. It makes me cry to write this. I wanted this so badly, and now, with MMS leading the other interventions, I have what I prayed for.
We are not perfect on the MMS. Ben is in his first year of school post-Son-Rise, and dosing during the school day is not easy. But we are tremendously hopeful and excited.
I truly believe, as Kerri Rivera has often said, that parasites are the missing piece of the autism puzzle. Like so many other warrior parents, we have done everything. But everything minus one was not enough for Ben. Now, I think we truly have the tools, and it is only a matter of time, faith, and love, to fully and permanently recover our beloved Ben.