021: Sidney Baker – The Importance of Medical History and how Identifiying Symptom Clusters can Highlight the Best Treatment Plan for your Child
June 29, 2017
Dr. Sidney Baker received his undergraduate, medical, and medical postgraduate training from Yale University where he served as Chief Resident in Pediatrics on the full time medical faculty as an Assistant Professor of Medical Computer Sciences with appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics from 1969 to 1971. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics. He has practiced in Chad Africa as Peace Corps Volunteer and in family practice for seven years in New Haven. He was Director of the Gesell Institute of Human Development in New Haven for seven years (1978-1985). Currently he is in private practice with a special interest in chronic illness in adults and children.
He was co-founder of Defeat Autism Now!, a national organization devoted to dialog among parents, practitioners and scientists regarding biomedical treatment options and the environmental origins of the current autism epidemic. He is the co-author of two Gesell Institute books on child development. He is the author of Detoxification and Healing (McGraw Hill, 2003) and The Circadian Prescription (Putnam/Penguin, 2000). He is co-author of Autism: Effective Biomedical Treatments. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Integrative Medicine. He was the 1999 recipient of the Linus Pauling Award of the Institute for Functional Medicine for his contributions to the development of Functional Medicine.
- The Autism, ADHD, and Sensory Processing Disorder Summit is from June 19th – 28th, 2017
- How he learned early on in his career to treat the patient, not the disease
- How Dr Baker has taken decades of working with children and his information science background take the years of data collected from his patients and narrow from 30,000 symptoms (from the large patient set) to 500 core symptoms that often are identified in children with ASD
- How symptom clusters can then lead you to identify the imbalance in the child that needs to be addressed
- The symptom clusters often seen is loss of immune tolerance and a resulting loss of sensory tolerance
- How to restore immune tolerance with helminthic therapy
- How to decide what is right for your child using “BROCS”
- And much more…
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