Defying Determinism with Healthy Living Genetics may load the gun, but a healthy lifestyle can foil the factors that would pull the trigger.

摘要

A little girl whom I wrote up in my book The Autism Revolution was diagnosed with the idic 15 mutation. Because this mutation is associated with autism, her geneticist told her family that her current set of limitations were what they could expect she would live with her whole lifetime. These limitations included inability to talk, lack of social relat-edness and chronic diarrhea. The family took her with reluctance and skepticism to another doctor, a primary care pediatrician with an in-tegrative-wellness orientation, who looked for other potential contributors and found vulnerability to celiac disease. After four months off gluten the child started to babble and the diarrhea went away.