Reproduced with permission from Healing Magazine

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Note of Interest: My husband is a "holistically-oriented" dentist .  Learning disabilities and autism have for a long time been of great interest and concern  to parents and educators, but the causes have  been elusive.  While I have written and lectured about the possible role of grief issues relating to learning and behavioral difficulties, my husband has some interesting observations that come from his field of dentistry.  While there is a great deal of information on autism, ADD, ADHD etc. on the internet,  you have probably not have come across these ideas.

Mercury toxicity has long been thought by many to be a causative factor in autism, but  researchers have not been able to find a meaningful link.  Here's a possible connection that has been found by researchers although this research is not very well known. See  http://www.mgoldmandds.com/autism.htm

Yet another possible link to these problems might be sleep apnea and obesity - both in the pregnant mother and in the growing child before and well after birth:  http://www.mgoldmandds.com/sleep%20apnea%20and%20snoring.htm

These ideas, discussed on his website, www.mgoldmandds.com , while not yet considered "hard scientific facts", are, nonetheless, interesting and compelling reading that you might find helpful.