It All Adds Up: Understanding the Total Load Theory to Transform Lives in Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health with Patricia Lemer (Episode #145)

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Patricia Lemer, co-founder of Developmental Delay Resources, licensed professional counselor, educational diagnostician, author, podcast host and well-known for her Total Load Theory of autism. Patty talks about her 4th book entitled Total Load Theory: Transforming Lives in Autism, ADHD, LD and Mental Health, and provides insight on how our lifestyle issues, unresolved traumas, visual dysfunction, food sensitivities (like gluten) and other factors in our everyday living (like mold) affect autism, learning disorders and mental health. All the load adds up until our body breaks down. Learn about the Everyday Epigenetics Evaluator that shows how our environment tweaks our genes, and how metabolic psychiatry and functional medicine can help where talk therapy and medication cannot. Find out about the dysregulated nervous system and how not feeling safe can be an impediment to healing, then learn simple biohacking techniques to regu-late your vagus nerve, like gargling. Discover Patty’s new book including its AI companion where you can get instant answers to your neurodevelopmental questions. Patty is at the forefront of healthcare, and every bit of information adds up towards your own wellness.

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• How Patty developed her new book Total Load Theory
• How metabolic psychiatry and functional medicine focus on lifestyle issues compared to talk therapy and medication
• What is the Total Load Theory?
• The Everyday Epigenetics Evaluator – how our environment tweaks our genes
• Taking a good history that understands the Total Load factors
• Testing for mold in the body 2700
• Lessening exposure to see if the symptoms are relieved
• Things you can do without the need for a prescription
• The issue of non-insurance coverage for metabolic psychiatry and functional medicine
• Sensitivity to gluten and how it affects children and adults
• How vision integrates with the entire body
• Both dysfunctional vision and gut problem are loads – lessening either will improve the other
• Dysregulated nervous system in patients who had significant, unresolved trauma
• Trauma, the vagus nerve and the Polyvagal Theory
• Simple methods or biohacking to regulate your vagus nerve
• The AI companion of Patty’s Total Load Theory book with multilingual functionality
• The importance of Vitamin D3+K
• Being at the forefront of wellness and healthcare

About Patricia Lemer:

Patricia S. Lemer is a licensed Professional Counselor, and practiced as an educational diagnostician for over 40 years. In 1993, she co-founded Developmental Delay Resources (DDR), an international, 501c3 organization, and served as the Executive Director for 20 years.  In 2013, DDR merged with Epidemic Answers, which she chaired until 2017. She is now Board Chair Emeritus. Ms. Lemer holds a Masters of Education in Counseling and Learning Disabilities from Boston College and a Masters in Business from Johns Hopkins University.

Patricia lectures widely on viewing developmental delays, including autism, PDD, AD(H)D, LD, OCD, NLD and others, as a spectrum of disorders.  She is passionate about determining possible causes, and is known for her“Total Load Theory” of autism. She is especially interested in the role of vision in all disabilities. She has served as a Study Leader at the Osher Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, where she is a popular instructor on autism spectrum disorders. She helped establish a center for adults with autism and other disabilities in Kuwait 2012-2014.

Ms Lemer is a published author with dozens of articles professional journals and parent magazines. Her third book, Outsmarting Autism: Build Healthy Foundations for Communication, Socialization and Behavior at All Ages, (North Atlantic Books, 2019) is an updated and expanded version of the original book published in 2014.  She was the Editor of EnVISIONing a Bright Future:  Interventions that Work for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2008). Her books guide parents through the maze of available treatments to determine which might be appropriate for a family member.

Patricia’s bimonthly show, “The Autism Detective” is a popular podcast broadcast on the second and fourth Tuesday on www.Healthylife.net. Past shows are available on both Spotify and Anchor.

Ms. Lemer lives in Pittsburgh, PA and is the mother of an adult daughter and the grandmother of Penelope, born in August, 2006.

Connect with Patricia Lemer:

Websites: www.PatriciaLemer.com | www.OutsmartingAutism.com

Facebook: Patricia Spear Lemer | Outsmarting Autism

The Autism Detective Podcast: Spotify | Anchor

Check out Patty’s new book: Total Load Theory: Transforming Lives in Autism, ADHD, LD and Mental Health

“Both dysfunctional vision and gut problems are loads. If you can lessen either of those loads, the other will work better. You lessen the visual load and people say, ‘I don’t have tummy aches anymore. My allergies went away.’ We think, ‘How’s that possible? I didn’t do anything with your immune system or digestive system.’ It’s because you lessened the load.” – Patricia Lemer

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