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Top 10 Tests Every Child May Need

Whether your child has a diagnosis or perhaps you are worried that something is off and they just do not seem like “themselves” recently, it is important to know that behavior changes rarely happen without some biochemical changes in the body happening at the same time.  It is these medical or biochemical changes that can give your doctor important clues as to what may be troubling your child.

Top 10 Laboratory Tests

We have created an ebook, here at Empowered Medical Advocacy, of 10 clinical tests that you can discuss with your child’s practitioner.  All of these tests can give important insight into the health and well-being of not only your child’s body but also their biochemistry!

To purchase your Copy of The Top 10 Lab Tests for your Child’s Health, click here.

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Mito Resources

If you need more help navigting the Mitochondrial and Autism maze of diagnosis or treatment for your child, please contact us, we are happy to help.

1.)  Video- The Way Energy is Made

2.)  Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Simplified Approach  By Dr. Rossignol and Dr. Frye,  Autism Science Digest Issue 2

3.) Mitochondrial Disease Criteria:

Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders scoring system (2001)

Morava criteria (2006)

Mitochondrial Medicine Society (2015)

Dr. Frye discussion of Modified Walker & Monrava criteria and examples: Autism File Magazine (June/July 2016) pg 30-31

4.) Alyssa Davi’s Articles: Part 1, Part 2

Dr. Martin Natowicz’s  When to see A Metabolic Geneticist? Red Flags 

5.) Journal Article (1998)- Autism: a mitochondrial disorder?

Journal Article (2005) – Mitochondrial dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders: a population-based study

6. Hannah Poling Articles: Court Documents

News Coverage- CBS, Time, NYTimes, Scientific American

7. Journal article (2006)- Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism

Journal article (2008)- Mitochondrial Disease in Autism Spectrum Disorder Patients: A Cohort Analysis

8. Dr. Richard Kelley’s manuscript (2009)

Journal Article (2010)- Fever plus mitochondrial disease could be risk factors for autistic regression.

Journal article (2010)-  Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism

9. Dr. Richard Frye’s research

10. Dr. Doug Wallace’s research

11. Dr. Bob Naviaux’s Research and parent perspectives  

and news coverage

Cell Danger Response journal article

12. MitoToxins Articles : Food coloring, Acetaminophen, Anesthesia, Aspartame

13. Top 10 Tests for Mito

14. Mitochondrial Medicine Society Tool Kit for Testing  

15. Dr. Fran Kendall’s article on Mitochondrial disease and Autism with Tier 1 and Tier 2 testing: here

16.  FAMILY SUPPORT:

Empowered Medical Advocacy Support Group (contact us for meeting info) and First Steps Membership group.

Facebook group- Mitochondrial Autism and Autism Like Mito

Mitoaction’s website and quarterly mito/autism support call: here

Mitoaction’s Mito Autism Roadmap

Bonus Links-

Cristy Balcells book: Living Well with Mitochondrial Disease

Cleveland Clinic CME on Autism Spectrum Disorders:
Research and Medical Treatment Implications, (to share with your doctor) : here