Live on Biochat Tonight!!

[Guest guest]

Tonight on the live chat accessible from Dr. Neubrander's site-

www.drneubrander.com--we will have guest speaker Owens. See

the information below and please come join us!!

Tuesday October 4, 9:00pm EST

SUSAN OWENS

Since completing her masters degree at the University of Texas in

Dallas, Mrs. Owens has lectured widely in the U.S, including the

Center for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health in

Bethesda. She has also lectured as far afield as Scotland, England,

Australia, and Norway. She brings into her lectures information she

has gained from ten years of interacting with parents and doctors of

children with autism while she maintained an intense study of the

medical literature, including literature that we need to understand

today's issues, but which got lost in earlier decades. This effort

has been directed mainly at finding the basic science that can tell

us how the sulfur system works: how it is integrated, how it matures,

and how it interacts with other systems. Oxalates appear to be part

of that system, but their role outside the role of binding to calcium

and incidentally forming kidney stones, is little understood.

As a member of the Defeat Autism Now! Thinktank (a project of the

Autism Research Instiute), she continually dialogues with physicians

and scientists who treat children with autism. She also consults with

sulfur scientists and other basic scientists who are on the cutting

edges of their fields, attempting to recruit them into studying

autism, but also attempting to cross-pollinate information that

generally stays behind disciplinary barriers. She does extensive

analysis of labwork, specializing in studying ratios and their

meaning in the plasma amino acid tests and studying correlations

within other tests. By comparing the findings and reference ranges

from labs all over the US and world on different tests, she has

developed some concerns about the suitability of how reference ranges

are calculated for urinary tests on young children. She is working

actively at getting some policy changes in place to assure more

accurate testing for this age group. Two years ago, in order to gain

from the experience of those outside autism circles, she began an

internet list where people discuss successes and failures they have

had with sulfur-related supplements at sulfurstories .

It now has over 720 members. She recently opened a new group called

Trying_Low_Oxalates, with 170 members, currently, where people can

learn how to implement a low oxalate diet. She is delighted to be

here to talk about the amazing improvements children are experiencing

on the low oxalate diet.