{"id":1596,"date":"2012-11-09T03:40:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T07:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2012-11-09T03:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T07:40:24","slug":"gut-brain-connection-leaky-gut-no-longer-crazy-talk-says-aap-lisa-ackerman-real-help-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/09\/gut-brain-connection-leaky-gut-no-longer-crazy-talk-says-aap-lisa-ackerman-real-help-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Gut-Brain Connection? Leaky Gut? No longer \u201cCrazy Talk\u201d says AAP \u00ab Lisa Ackerman \u2013 Real Help Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tacanowblog.com\/2012\/11\/08\/gut-brain-connection-leaky-guy-no-longer-crazy-talk-says-aap\/\">By Dr. Bob Sears, Pediatrician and TACA Physician Advisory Member<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tacanowblog.com\/2012\/11\/08\/gut-brain-connection-leaky-guy-no-longer-crazy-talk-says-aap\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sears_pic.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just taken a giant leap toward recognizing the association between gastrointestinal problems and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD.) The November 2012 issue of their journal, Pediatrics, has a 200-page supplement entitled Improving Health Care for Children and Youth With Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Note: this guide was not currently available online.) As I perused the various articles to see what the AAP was up to, one particular gem caught my eye: Gastrointestinal (GI) Conditions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Developing a Research Agenda. Curiously optimistic, I decided to pause the Saturday-afternoon college football game and read the article. After a mere three sentences, my jaw dropped. \u201cMany individuals with ASDs have symptoms of associated medical conditions, including seizures, sleep problems, metabolic conditions, and gastrointestinal disorders (the italics are mine), which have significant health, developmental, social, and educational impacts.\u201d A few lines later I found there is a \u201clack of recognition by clinicians that certain behavioral manifestations in children with ASDs are indicators of GI problems (eg, pain, discomfort, or nausea).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/tacanowblog.com\/2012\/11\/08\/gut-brain-connection-leaky-guy-no-longer-crazy-talk-says-aap\/\">Gut-Brain Connection? Leaky Gut? No longer \u201cCrazy Talk\u201d says AAP \u00ab Lisa Ackerman \u2013 Real Help Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Bob Sears, Pediatrician and TACA Physician Advisory Member &nbsp; The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just taken a giant leap toward recognizing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[56,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}