Children and adults with autism often have self-limited diets with insufficient intake of vegetables, fruit, protein, and essential fatty acids. Also, due to metabolic differences, they often need additional nutritional support. This presentation will summarize the positive results of several randomized clinical trials of a special vitamin/mineral/micronutrient supplement for autism, and the positive results of a comprehensive nutritional support study involving vitamins/minerals/micronutrients, fish oil, Epsom salts, carnitine, digestive enzymes, and a healthy allergen-free diet. The results of those studies resulted in the ANRC Guidelines for Comprehensive Nutritional Support, available from the Autism Nutrition Research Center (www.autismNRC.org).

Understand the potential benefits of supplementation with vitamins/minerals/micronutrients and how to implement it.

Understand the potential benefits of comprehensive nutritional support and how to implement it.

Professor, Director of the Autism/Asperger's Research Program at Arizona State University, President of the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix (USA)

is the Director of the Autism/Asperger's Research Program at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the medical causes of autism and how to treat and prevent it including the areas of nutrition (vitamins/minerals, essential fatty acids, carnitine, digestive enzymes, special diets), oxidative stress, gut bacteria, microbiota transplant, probiotics, toxic metals, and seizures. He has extensively researched prenatal supplements to reduce the risk of pregnancy complications and infant health problems, and has developed the first prenatal supplement tailored for each trimester. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed scientific articles, including over 60 related to autism. He is the President of the non-profit Autism Nutrition Research Center, President of Autism Diagnostics, President of Gut-Brain-Axis Therapeutics, and chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Neurological Health Foundation. He has an adult daughter with autism.