(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr...If you haven't noticed, I've taken over the "autism beat" for Pat Sullivan Blog.)
In this ridiculously long post by on 9/1/05, Dr. Buttar, *WHERE* is the Empirical Evidence, the meat of the post was near the end. It consisted of the paraphrased (for brevity-sake...HA!) email exchange between Dr. Buttar and myself.
Patrick Jr.: Dr. Buttar, for supporting the "empirical evidence" argument, it would be really helpful to know how many patients have had symptoms improve or disappear under your protocol (both you and the other docs practicing).
Dr. Buttar: I have treated over 180 myself....and a number of doctors have over a 100 patients each. I would estimate the number up to at least a 1000 or more that have been treated.
Answering how many have had symptoms improve is more difficult given that the process usually takes 18 months to slowly and safely chelate out metals and continually replenish minerals....but I think it would be VERY safe to say that most have had significant improvement, to the point that SOME parents have stated if they see no further improvements, they would be satisfied with the result attained thus far.
What is significant? Well, if you have a child that's 8 years old in diapers, and becomes potty trained in 4 months after starting TD-DMPS, I consider that HIGHLY significant.
Percentage response would be like giving you windage....I have no idea but I would certainly say it should be greater than 50% improvement to date if averaged among all of them.
Two weeks later, I am finally getting to post the rest of our email thread:
Patrick Jr.: So to help me add some meat to this, can you tell me exactly how many autistics this treatment has worked for in your practice?
Dr. Buttar: I have treated over 180.....all have shown some level of improvement.....over 30 are fully reversed.....the rest are doing very well....but remember, many of these 180 have come to us with in the last year so they haven't been on treatment for a long enough time period yet.
As I noted in that post, Dr. Buttar's testimony to Congress was on May 4, 2004 -- 500 days ago from today. 500 days is roughly 16.6 months. His full protocol takes 18 months.
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