Recommended Reading

Resources by current thought leaders in the biomedical treatment for autism spectrum disorder. Generation Rescue suggests the following resources, but does not endorse or certify any one resource more than any other.  Please pursue your own research to find what is best suited for your journey.

Age of Autism

Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-made Epidemic
By Dan Olmstead and Mark Blaxill

Demonstrates the reckless use of mercury by the medical industry and manufacturing over five centuries.

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Autism

Effective Biomedical Treatments
by Jon Pangborn, PhD and Sidney MacDonald Baker, MD

Provides a comprehensive overview of the DAN! Protocol.

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Changing the Course of Autism

A Scientific Approach for Parents and Physicians
by Bryan Jepson, MD with Jane Johnson

Gives parents clear information and guidance on how to intervene and treat their children.  Addresses the importance of biomedical treatment and the vaccine-autism link.

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Children With Starving Brains

A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder
by Jaquelyn McCandless, MD

Provides a comprehensive summary of the Dan! Protocol, authored by a highly respected Dan! doctor who is also the grandmother of an autistic child.

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Evidence of Harm

Mercury Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
by David Kirby

Explores both sides of the mercury controversy, which has pitted families and their allies against the federal government, public health agencies and powerful pharmaceutical giants.

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Healing and Preventing Autism

A Complete Guide
by Jenny McCarthy and Dr. Jerry Kartzinel

A prescriptive guide to the healing therapies and treatments that have improved the lives of so many children.  This reference book focuses on the tools to heal a child, including biomedical diets and supplement protocols, alternative therapies, and approaches for partnering with medical professionals.

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Healing the New Childhood Epidemics

Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders
by Kenneth Bock, MD and Cameron Stauth

Details the approach one highly-respected doctor uses to treating the “4A Disorders,” and integrates many of the DAN! Protocol principles.

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Louder than Words

A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism
by Jenny McCarthy

Through this journey of a mother navigating her son’s autism diagnosis and treatment, a discussion about the disease and approaches to healing, as well as the value of hope, faith, and a supportive community.

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Mother Warriors

A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds
by Jenny McCarthy

No two autistic children heal in exactly the same way.  This book shares recovery stories from parents across the country, showing how parents have fought to find their own child’s perfect “remedy of interventions” and teaching parents how to navigate safely through the many autism therapies.

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Nourishing Hope

Nutrition Intervention for Healing Our Children
by Julie Matthews

An easy to read, step-by-step guide for parents and clinicians.  Based on scientific research and years of clinical experience, explains why autism diets help children, and how to be effective at any dietary intervention.

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Autism: Pathways To Recovery

Autism: Pathways to Recovery
by Dr. Amy Yasko

Dr. Yasko's new hard cover book, accompanying workbook, and DVD set offer an incisive and comprehensive overview of her protocol.

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Special Diets

Volumes 1 and 2
by Lisa Lewis, PhD

Great recipe ideas and more for using dietary intervention to treat your child.

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Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder

A Mother’s Story of Research & Recovery
by Karyn Seroussi

Makes a compelling case for the gluten-free/casein-free diet, and provides many practical solutions and recipes for maintaining it.

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Vaccine Epidemic

How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health and Our Children

edited by Louise Kuo Habakus, MA and Mary Holland, JD

In the words of 25 contributing authors who are credentialed experts and mainstream parents, a survival guide for all people who get vaccines for themselves or their children, addressing accounts of corruption and the extraordinary burdens placed on the vaccine-injured.

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Eat Smart Eat Simple

By Bo Wagner, Ph.D., D.N.M., N.D.,

Eat Smart Eat Simple describes our current state of health and how to achieve and maintain a youthful, vibrant existence with energy and great health for your entire life. Highlighted topics include healthful food choices for your body and blood type, Gluten and Casein Free dieting, combining your healthful food choices correctly, allowing the body to process meals with digestive ease using smart pH balancing, smart food portions and natural weight management.


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Guide to Smart Food Choices

By Bo Wagner, Ph.D., D.N.M., N.D.,

This is a comprehensive in-home guide that will help you achieve and maintain the highest level of health, digestion, absorption and elimination through careful dietary planning, correct food choices and proper food combining. In this book, readers will find: guidelines for digestive rules for each blood type, charts for all food groups for each blood type - O, A, B and AB, gluten free and casein/dairy free guidelines, smart food combining charts for each blood type, a family section, “All”, designed for all blood types in one set of charts, guides for healthy food choices and unhealthy food choices. By following the principles of Guide to Smart Food Choices you should be rewarded with better health, increased energy, trim bodies, improved sleep and an overall state of well-being and vitality.


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The Kitchen Classroom

32 Visual GFCF Recipes to Boost Development Skills

By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

For kids who need extra help with sensory integration, motor, language, communication, and attention skills, cooking offers a multitude of opportunities to help them work on these skills while having fun. Professional cooking teacher and parent of a son with autism, Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, shows how, with a little planning and preparation, parents and teachers can make cooking a rich learning experience, as well as a chance to connect with their child or student. THE KITCHEN CLASSROOM includes a book for parents and teachers with 32 quick and tasty gluten-free (GF) and casein-free (CF) recipes with specific teaching tips and a color photo of each finished dish. Also included is a CD-ROM with simple step-by-step instructions and almost 500 color photos illustrating the process of each recipe in detail so kids (readers and nonreaders) can follow along, see what happens next, and practice doing some steps on their own. Print the photo sequences and put them in a binder for future use, or view them on your laptop during cooking sessions.

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The Spunky Coconut Cookbook

Second Edition: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Sugar-Free

By Kelly V. Brozyna

From the hostess of the delightful cooking blog TheSpunkyCoconut.com comes a book featuring 118 of her most popular gluten-free, casein-free, and sugar-free recipes, including 50 color photos. In this second edition Kelly V. Brozyna bakes with flour blends of coconut, almond, tapioca, and brown rice. Casein, dairy's problematic protein, is avoided by using coconut milk, almond milk, cashew milk, coconut oil, and ghee. Throughout the book refined white sugar is replaced by natural sweeteners like stevia, honey, agave, and coconut sugar. No one with gluten/dairy/sugar sensitivities will feel deprived with The Spunky Coconut Cookbook.

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The Spunky Coconut Grain-Free Baked Goods and Desserts

Gluten Free, Casein Free, and Often Egg Free

By Kelly V. Brozyna

The Spunky Coconut Grain-Free Baked Goods and Desserts illustrated cookbook offers 80 innovative gluten-free and casein-free recipes, including 50 which are egg-free. Inspired by raw food, Kelly Brozyna incorporates nut milks and natural alternatives to sugar to create delicious grain-free cake, pie, ice cream, bread, cookies, and breakfast.

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