Can a healthy diet customized to a patient's needs reverse autism? There’s a real hope that it can after a groundbreaking study was able to almost reverse all the symptoms in prematurely born twin sisters who were autistic.
By the end of the two years of the study, their behavior and speech were “indistinguishable” from those of children who didn’t have autism.
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine developed a personalized approach for each twin that included speech therapy, behavioral analysis and the Reduced Excitatory Inflammation Diet. The diet excludes gluten, casein (a protein in dairy), and processed food, instead emphasizing organic, fresh and home-cooked food.