Autism Detox And Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Jimmy Scaringi

Hey Laura, thank you so much for having me. It’s an honor and a privilege to be here, and hopefully share some life-changing information for some people out there.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

I know. I’m so happy to have you here. You are an autism expert. You have an incredible practice. You’re actually the owner of Synergy Nutrition & Wellness, and your practice was founded on the goal of changing the healthcare paradigm by teaching people how to not need medication or surgeries by living a proactive lifestyle in mind, body, and spirit. You are a classically trained kinesiologist and an expert in muscle testing. In fact, we’ve been to muscle testing seminars together, and you’re always a sought-after person in the room to support and teach and just demonstrate how this is done. So thank you for that contribution. Amazing. So you ended up being a specialist in autism, even though you started out wanting to change this healthcare paradigm. So we’re gonna get into that today. We’re gonna talk about autism detox and mitochondrial dysfunction and causes of autism. And we’re just gonna go everywhere with this, but tell us a little bit about how you ended up where you’re at right now. How did you go from body building and athletics and kinesiology to owning this practice, and even specializing in autism?

Jimmy Scaringi

It’s truly what I hope to be a story that really shows the power of what God has in store for us when we succumb to what should be purposeful and passionate for us. And this is the exact story that I would share of how I went from being a steroid user and a personal trainer to somebody who’s sitting with you on such a severe and significant topic, such as autism. And it started with my own health and my own body. So in my early 20s, I was the owner of a, or I was the owner of a steroid, I was the owner of a personal training company. And in that time of doing personal training, I became part of the crowd. I became a follower, not a leader. So there were some people that I admired in the flesh, and ultimately, went down a path that was very destructive to me in mind, body, and spirit, but I had a lot of cosmetic and superficial greatness. So I did body building competitions. 

I did fitness modeling. I actually had $100,000 contract on the table going back 10 years ago, so that would’ve been a lot of money back then, to go move to New York City and do exclusive fitness modeling in the city. And that was when things started to not sit right within my heart, in my spirit, in my soul. It just didn’t seem like the correct thing to do. So at 27 years of age is when I finally had my epiphany from God. And he literally told me, I did not put you here to be a science project. You will stop these things immediately. If you ever want, I’ll share the photos with you, so you can show people the before and the after. But I was as big as 285 pounds. I had a 70-inch chest, 24-inch arms. That’s not an exaggeration. I was a massive human being, but God broke me at that mind, body, and spirit level. And I succumbed very quickly. 

Overnight, I stopped taking steroids. It was a very, very hard fall from grace. I, at 27 years of age, was going bald. I had absolutely no libido. And I tell my female patients, as much as I am a man, I really understand a menstrual cycle or menopause without actually experiencing it. Because from a hormonal perspective, I was having hot sweats, night flashes. I was gaining weight like crazy. I couldn’t get it off. And I literally could understand that laugh to cry scenario at the drop of a hat because emotionally, hormonally, I had completely destroyed my innate health that God gave me. So at that juncture of my life, I didn’t know what else to do. I was like, anybody else out there? I called my medical doctor. 

And the ironic thing about this relationship with my medical doctor was that for the almost 10 years of using steroids, he pulled my blood work for me every six months because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t killing myself. But months, this man said, my labs were completely normal. My eyes were turning yellow. My liver was in all kinds of trouble. I was four times the size of him, but he said I was normal because my labs indicated that. I still went back to him and said, “Doc, I have been taking steroids. “This is what I’m experiencing. “I don’t know what to do.” And I appreciated his honesty and his ethics in the moment where he goes, “Jimmy, I’m not a master in endocrinology “and hormones and steroid use. 

“So I want you to go see a specialist.” And as sadly, anybody could probably attest to, the time from your GP referral to seeing your specialist was many moons apart. It was a three-month wait period for me. So for three more months, I went on with agony of having no drive, no libido, no energy, all these factors. The day of my appointment, this doctor’s office was about 45 minutes from my house. So I leave nice and early. I make sure that I’m there, but she was in a massive medical complex, suite 1,000 out of 5,000 units. And I could not find the office in a timely manner. I am not exaggerating, Laura, when I tell you this, I was three minutes late to my appointment. The secretary told me, per the doctor’s policy, I needed to reschedule my appointment.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Oh my gosh.

Jimmy Scaringi

To not a more proud moment of my life, the paperwork that was mailed to me in advance may or may not have gone home with me that day. It may have ended up somewhere else. And that was a clear sign for me. I washed my hands of the medical system in that exact moment.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Wow, so perfect, divine intervention.

Jimmy Scaringi

Still to this day, that was the last medical intervention or office visit I have had. So now, I’m still stuck with all of my health issues and I have no answers. At that time of my life, I walked into my chiropractor’s office to go for a chiropractic adjustment, and he had videos playing in his waiting room of this gentleman that was doing muscle testing. And it’s probably why I’m a practitioner and the owner of a practice now, because I had seen this, Laura, and it was invigorating. I go, “What is that?” Instead of it being weird or strange or crazy, or the cliche, what is this, voodoo witch doctor stuff? It was invigorating. I’m looking at a modality that is dealing strictly with the human body, not using a manmade piece of diagnostic equipment to understand the functional state of the body. Rather, it was the body. 

So I was lit up by it. Long story short, I went in for a consultation not long after that, went through a muscle testing procedure myself, and within about a year’s time, my hair grew back. My sex drive came back. My weight and my body had come back, and then another epiphany happened. God did not make me any different, any more special or pertinent than anybody else. So if I could go through all of this destruction to my body, self-induced destruction, and now have it come back to me with vigor and vitality, how do I teach this to other people? How do I give this gift to other people? Because I am not special. And it set me on a whole different trajectory of purpose and passion to go learn how to do muscle testing, how to apply it, but like you or anybody in the arena of knowledge, we always pursue it. 

So I’ve been gifted with the holistic training that is muscle testing. I was taken under the wing of a former MD PhD, a man named Dr. Roby Mitchell. He was an emergency room physician for 35 years in Amarillo, Texas. He saw what I was into, what I was doing. He had left medical practice, became a strict holistic doctor, but he used his medical mind to do things holistically. He brought me in, he taught me so many things that I would’ve never learned otherwise. So we’ve got a very good, beautiful combination now of what is east and west to truly bring about the betterment of the human body in mind, body, and spirit. So we fight every day to proactively teach about lifestyle, dietary habits, and the specific important need, especially in the world that we live in today, of detoxification. 

I learned this principle from Dr. Roby. Other mentors and predecessors have taught it, but the way he said it to me was the best. “Jimmy, I don’t care what walks into your office, “cancer, autism, autoimmunity, infertility, “sinusitis, or constipation. “There’s only two things “that could ever go wrong with the human body.” That may sound a little bit easy or too simple, but what are the two things? One, something got into that body not native to God’s design. It is our job and our duty to locate it and get it out of there. Or two, something is missing or not in excess to God’s design. We have to put it back in. If we remove the bad and put in the good, the innate of the human body and the intelligence of the nervous system and the body that he gave us, we see miraculous things take place, and it’s never a case that I’m proud to serve, I really am not, Laura. I hate to say that I know a lot about autism. I hate to say that I’ve had successes with autism. I know hate’s a strong word, but I’d much rather never deal or operate with those conditions or components because there’s ways to prevent it. There’s ways to not have that be our reality. But when it is the reality, I’m so thankful and blessed that we have these noninvasive tools and modalities in my practice to do just that, get out what shouldn’t be and put back in what should be.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

That’s so good. I always say, give your body what it needs and take away what she doesn’t need, and you’re gonna fix, everything’s gonna get better. So I’m so glad to hear that you practice on that same concept. I wanna connect autism with mitochondria in this talk. And first, can you talk about the causes of autism, ’cause that’s gonna bring us right around to mitochondria, because the causes of autism are also destructive to mitochondria as well, and link that for us. So for everybody listening, why do we have autism?

Jimmy Scaringi

And I’m not here to ruffle any feathers. I’m not here to turn anybody away. But I think that when we don’t have an ability to confront the truth, everything else is just a lie. I’m not going to say that vaccination is the sole factor of autism, but in the majority of cases, an astronomical number of cases, to me, it is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It is the final blow of toxic overload to the body, to the destruction of the mitochondria, that creates this neurological problem called autism. I think that it starts back when we’re in utero with what knowledge and data are we giving mothers to how they care for their body while their child is growing? I don’t say this disrespectfully or derogatorily. So please, any ladies that are listening to this, please don’t take offense to it, but how many women become pregnant, and it becomes a matter of eat whatever you want, do whatever your heart desires? 

That’s so flagrantly wrong, because now is the time your diet needs to be of the most optimal perfection for getting the correct proteins and fats and vitamins and minerals to that growing fetus. So I think that one is, what environment does a mother keep? What is she putting in her body, or prior to conception, how toxic was she to begin with? So I think the environment becomes key part number one. Two, I know that not all situations allot for this because emergencies happen, breaching happens, but I think the vaginal birth is of the highest importance, because that vaginal birth is going to create the exterior microbiome of a child. The good of the bacteria, fungi, virus that come through the vaginal canal is like a force field to a baby. That’s how I teach it. It’s the shield of armor. So the vaginal birth becomes very important. Does that mean if you should, heaven forbid, have an emergency or a breached child, that having a C-section automatically means autism? No, absolutely not. I was a C-section baby, but these are things that correlate.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yeah, Jimmy, I just wanna talk about this for a second. I know people in my generation, friends and even family members, who had planned C-sections because they didn’t want to experience a vaginal birth. They were afraid of it, or it was inconvenient, or whatever. And I also know of, you always hear the tale of physicians who schedule a C-section because they’re gonna be on vacation or whatever, and they wanna get this baby out. I mean, wow. I just wanna pause there and comment that this is where we’re going wrong. This is really where we’re going wrong.

Jimmy Scaringi

Can’t agree with you more. And that’s why I said, I don’t want any mother or woman to feel bad about a C-section right? Because emergency does happen. Breaching, those are wonderful things. But when they do become, as you said, Laura, the doctor’s got a 4:00 tee time that he wants to get to. So we’re gonna schedule the C-section, that happens, or that push to create more elective C-sections and bypass what could be painful is crazy. And I don’t wanna go too far on it, but to give you an example, my wife’s medically trained. She’s a physician’s assistant. She wouldn’t have done this per her medical training, but coming into our holistic world, we were adamant at delivery, if all went well and we had a vaginal birth, like we did, do not touch my child until my wife gives you permission to take her off her chest, and do not wash or bathe that child. The vernix that covered my child’s body, we didn’t wash her for a whole week, Laura. Every day, my wife continued to massage that into her skin, building up her microbiome. How amazing would it be if we had OB-GYNs or pediatricians, or even just people like us that had a big enough voice to really proclaim and teach women how truly powerful they are, and how great their gift is of childbirth through setting their children’s immune system and defense mechanisms right from delivery.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

100%. Okay, so thank you for that side note and soap box. I think this is really important. And again, if you’ve already had a C-section elective, don’t beat yourself up about it, but Jimmy’s gonna share with us how to support the body. By the end of this talk, you’re gonna feel empowered. So, we learn, we live and learn, and we can do better moving forward. So what else is the cause of autism? So we have a load of toxins is what I’m hearing, a lack of vaginal birth for some. What else?

Jimmy Scaringi

Then you take the next sequence that’s under significant attack, which is a glorious and beautiful act called breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is the most powerful nutrition on the planet. If more women could be empowered to understand that everybody can lactate. This idea that I couldn’t produce or I can’t produce, I’m sorry, it’s not the truth. There’s a reason why you’re not producing, or there’s a reason why you’re not lactating, but in the physical universe of everything being cause and effect, every woman that’s ever brought me difficulty lactating or producing, we’ve 100% corrected. 

So we need to get back to empowering more mothers to understand that they have the single greatest nutrition on the planet, which is their. Does that mean that a cesarean-birthed, formula-fed baby is automatically gonna have autism? Absolutely not. But this goes into the sequencing of it. So how you get to delivery? Why in the world are we giving a vaccination for hepatitis B, a sexually transmitted or intravenous-drug-use-passed disease, but we’re inundating brand new children with one of the most toxic substances on the planet within moments of their existence called a vaccination? Compile that with a vitamin K shot that does have a black box warning, meaning it is highly toxic. You’re compiling the perfect storm to create a medical patient or a lifelong customer. Does it mean that a singular vaccine can’t do it? No, they can. 

I’ve seen it, but where it seems to really hit, Laura, is you go through the sequences that we’ve just mentioned with a sad, uneducated mom and dad on how that child should now be fed or cared for, and you get to 15, 18 months and they wanna introduce now a triple shot called MMR. That really seems to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Again, could somebody become autistic without getting to this point? Absolutely. But what it really comes back to is, what is the toxic load? How many toxins got into the brain and the neurological pathways before the blood brain barrier was developed, or how much of it was ingested via food system that is highly toxic and highly poisonous? 

Give you just a small example. Many pediatricians start to tell their patients, as your child is going on to solids, a great food to give them is Cheerios. Well, we might be able to sit here and say, “Well, Jimmy, I heard sugar is bad. “Carbohydrates are bad. “I go and eat Cheerios. “It tastes like cardboard. “And the sugar content is next to zil, next to zero on it.” Well, when you start to understand the arena of glyphosate and what toxic exposure we receive via the Roundup that is sprayed on commercialized crops, do you know, Laura, that a group of women from California years ago put their own money together, sent out funding for third-party testing. And it was discovered that Cheerios are the most toxic product on the planet by over 1,000 times the legal limit that the EPA says we can be exposed to glyphosate without it harming us.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

That’s unbelievable. And of course, I fed my child Cheerios, and I grew up on Cheerios, and I’m sure you grew up on Cheerios too.

Jimmy Scaringi

Sure did.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yep.

Jimmy Scaringi

And that’s where I’m saying it’s, for me, the culmination of an attack on pregnancy, and then postpartum care for the child. We really need to get back to a foundational education behind, how do we prepare our bodies for conception? How do we care for our bodies during conception? But most importantly, how do we then care for that child once he or she is here? Because yes, C-sections can happen. Complications with lactation could happen. So then, what do we do? That’s where we have to be in the educational arena 24/7, empowering mothers and fathers to know how to care for their bodies, as well as their children. Because if we do this, we don’t see these scenarios of autism and cancer and autoimmunity. Those are the byproducts of our toxic lifestyles or the arenas that we unfortunately live in.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Hey, Jimmy, can you answer, is there a genetic component? We tend to see, at least in families that I know or my family, we tend to see these on-the-spectrum disorders kind of run. We see it in multiple different arms of the family. Is there a genetic component? And can you talk a little bit about the transfer of toxic load from the mother to the child as well?

Jimmy Scaringi

I don’t wanna be offensive to anybody that has a different reality, but for me personally, I hate when I hear that something is genetic or that it’s hereditary. And that doesn’t, for me, just only apply to autism. We talk this way about cancer and blood pressure and all these things. And I think that’s such a limiting belief put on people that can deter us from really looking at the truth of the factors or what is the cause to why this happens. So for me, especially with autism, the idea that it’s genetic, I think is almost criminal because I’m not that old, Laura. And I can think back to when I was in grade school and in junior high and high school, I didn’t have a single person that I was in school with that was getting a special classes of service because they had autism.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

You know what? I’m thinking about this. I’m a little bit older than you. I’m 49. And I can remember the special ed class that had some Down’s syndrome kids in it, but that’s it. There was nobody with autism or on the spectrum at all.

Jimmy Scaringi

Yeah. Yeah. So the idea to say that it’s genetic is mind blowing. There’s nobody that can sit here and tell us that their grandparents or their great grandparents or their great, great grandparents definitively had autism. So when we look at, well, where or how does that correlate to vaccines? It’s looking at the vaccination schedule and what has transpired. So you or I at 49, 38, if our parents, they didn’t know any better, we were vaccinated. But what we would’ve been exposed to in the late 70s, early 80s was maybe a high end of 24 vaccines. Once 1986 happened and the government granted immunity and liability, culpability-free components to the vaccine manufacturers, the schedule went out of control. And that’s part of why we are where we’re at today, even talking about COVID stuff, because this gave them the ability to push as many vaccines as they could, or as they wanted.

So the load that we would’ve had from toxicities was much smaller than what children are getting today, especially when you look at statistically around 1994, the schedule really started to make jumps in what they were adding. So the continued bombardment of birth, two months, four months, six months, eight months, 12 months, 15 months, one year, two year. And now, you compile the yearly flu vaccine that they’re giving to children, as well as adults, you’re looking at astronomical amount of toxic overload that’s bypassing the gut and being placed right into the bloodstream. So for me, I always say that with cancer or autoimmunity, it’s not genetics. It’s not hereditary. It’s your lifestyle. 

With autism, obviously, these children don’t have lifestyles, but now it comes into, what is the lifestyle of mom and dad? Were they programmed to accept vaccination as a means of health? Well, they didn’t do anything wrong then by vaccinating their children. And it’s the hardest thing to tell a mother or father, you did nothing wrong. You did the thing that you thought was best. And you took the advice of somebody that you trusted. The problem lies that the medical system is indoctrinated with their safe and effective. As I said earlier, my wife’s been a PA for now, at this point, almost 15 years. When I met her, Laura, she didn’t know what VAERS was. Imagine, think of this, as a medical provider, she didn’t know that somewhere existed to report vaccine injuries, let alone how to report them or what they were. So it’s that indoctrination of the system that says these things called safe and effective. It’s not heretics or genetity. It is toxic overload.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Toxic overload. And so, that brings me to my other question was, what about transfer of toxic load from the mother to the fetus, and how much of that is at play here?

Jimmy Scaringi

And again, ladies, this is not an attack on the mother. It is not an attack on the unknowing, but again, if we can empower mothers to say, “Hey, we really wanna do some detoxification work “even before conception to ensure the environment “of that uterus, the blood supply “is adequate in providing nutrients, “not just transferring toxins.” Because what we do in my office, and others may do the same. If we were detoxing you, and then you came in one day with the joyous news you were pregnant, we would discontinue that. We are not gonna try to push a detox during pregnancy. So we wanna really get to that educational factor of telling mothers, “Hey, any toxins that have been in your body “or that you were exposed to prior to conception, “you absolutely can pass that “via the placenta to your child. “And they could be born with some toxicity issues.” And the fact of the matter is, Laura, nobody is avoiding it. Our air is toxic. Our water is toxic. Our food is toxic, but the best thing to do is to get with people that truly understand the cellular component, the mitochondrial component of how to detox and cleanse these things from the body to give us the best chance for our body and godly creation to thrive, not merely to survive.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yeah, totally. So can you connect right now, the importance of mitochondrial health in helping your autistic patients regain cognitive function. And I know you have a fantastic case study with a child that either you worked with or you’re working with right now, but can you speak into that a bit?

Jimmy Scaringi

Yeah, I definitely will. The preface to that would be, I’m not proud to say that I’m good at handling these types of cases. I’m not proud that I have the knowledge or the even experience of handling ’em. I wish I’d never seen an autistic case or had the ability to help them because it shouldn’t exist. But the truth is, it does. So we had to learn it. This young boy that I’ve been working with, I got my hands on him very, very early. So I think this is an important part of the story. Mom brought him to me almost immediately after being told he had autism at two, two and a half years of age. In the beginning of our time together, I did metal detox with him, chemical detox with him. I did microbiome support. 

We rebuilt up the good bacteria, pre, probiotics, all those factors. And we watched this young boy start to flourish. His verbal skills came up, his motor function skills came up, his milestones for getting into pre-K, or preschool and then pre-K all came up. So after a year and a half year, year, year and a half of this child being under my care, BC-ATP finally gets released from CellCore. And I never in all my years of clinical experience expected after a year, year and a half of opening up the pathways and detoxifying that I would ever see a Herx reaction from just giving this child BC-ATP. But Laura, this was the most alarming, in a positive way, that I ever learned–

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

So real quick, Jimmy, tell people what a Herx reaction is before you go further, just in case somebody listening doesn’t know what you mean.

Jimmy Scaringi

Yeah, absolutely. So Herx is just a short way of saying, a Herxheimer’s response. In simple terms, what it means is you gave the body some support to detoxify, and it did it at such a quick, rapid rate, where the drainage pathways weren’t open, that we could get irritable, nauseous, vomit, diarrhea, headaches, lethargy, malaise, so things aren’t life, it’s not life-threatening, but it could alter your day-to-day function if your body is not prepared adequately to release the toxic load that it has. That’s simply what.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Right, so you give him BC-ATP, and you weren’t prepared for him to have a Herx reaction because you’d already done so much drainage work and opened his drainage pathways. So, go from there.

Jimmy Scaringi

Yeah, so I had no reserve about when I muscle tested him simply for two BC-ATP, that I was going right in and giving him two BC-ATP. Literally within one minute of his first dose, mom takes a video. And the first emotional reaction is, it broke my heart, but then I had to be a practitioner. He grabbed his ears and he started banging his head. He had not done that since he got his MMR vaccine that created the whole onslaught of his autism. So it brought mom to a dark place. It brought me an initial reaction, especially as a new father, to a dark place, but then my practitioner mind kicked in and I go, I’ve never seen this before with him. I’ve never seen this child react this quickly to any product we’ve given him, positive or negative. And I darn sure have never seen him grab his head and bang it. 

So I told mom, I go, we just peeled back a new layer. We just got to another level of detox that we haven’t even touched yet. And she goes, “But Jimmy, “his speech has been decreased from five days to three days. “He’s making all these milestones. “He’s doing so much better.” I go, “Watch. “We’re gonna have to do a couple things here “for the next 24, 48 hours. “We’re gonna have to clear some more of these pathways. “We’re gonna have to open up “some more of his detox passages, “but after this calms down, “watch the cognition your son will have.” And I didn’t have any other data points or knowledge to think or feel that way, Laura. But for me, innately, I knew this was not a negative. 

Watching her cry and him be in pain, as much as, to the naked eyes, that would be bad, I knew we got to a level of his cells that we never touched before. Three days later, he spoke clearly and spelled his name for the first time in his life. Two days later, he did a cutout of a dinosaur from one of his books. Mom goes, “Jimmy, he’s never touched “a pair of scissors in his life, nor has he used them.” And he cut on the line of a Tyrannosaurus rex and had a cutout for me. It was incredible to watch. It’s one thing to pull the toxin extracellular. It’s another thing to have enough energy at the cellular level, in the mitochondria to push it out. And that’s the analogy that I teach people.

When we use binders, they’re amazing. We need ’em, they’re crucial. But the binder for me is more of a magnet. It’s gonna pull the toxin to it. But as we know, cellular, intracellular stuff is not getting or out unless the cell allows it. So we gotta get stuff out of there. If that mitochondria is so weak and so deficient, that powerhouse isn’t doing its job. Bringing in BC-ATP, which is a very powerful, appropriate mitochondrial support product, it pushed and pushed and pushed. Laura, here now, maybe a month later, the cognition and mental clarity this boy has is unbelievable. I met him screaming, yelling, wouldn’t come near me. He came in last week. He saw me at the end of my hallway when you come into my office and he goes, “Jimmy!” He screamed, ran to me, jumped in my arms and told me he loved me.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Oh my God. I talked to you a couple weeks ago, right after this process began. So I haven’t heard this part of the story yet. And this is remarkable. And BC-ATP is incredible. I use it in all my protocols. We’ve been waiting for this product to come out. It was a replacement for another product called Mito ATP. Jimmy and I are both loving CellCore and what they’re putting out in the world. It’s really remarkable. So, BC-ATP everyone, can be used in adults as well. I’m using it in people with cognitive decline, dementia. I’m using it in people who just have brain fogginess and low energy. And this is a fantastic support.

Jimmy Scaringi

I think that when I teach people in general about the human body, I say that the thyroid is the macro of energy. T4, T3, that’s our macro energy.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yeah.

Jimmy Scaringi

But the micro energy may actually be the macro that is the mitochondria. So for me, not even just in this amazing detox case with autism, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I love it. I tell people the BC stands for brain candy. My cognition, my clarity, my ability to take on all the stresses that I do, when I throw that BC-ATP in, my brain is just firing on all cylinders. So I totally agree. Parkinson’s, dementia, brain fog, migraines, headaches, even just lethargy. All of it is contingent that your cells have an ability to produce energy. And if you don’t support the mitochondria, not that we were dead in the water, but as we’ve seen with this autistic case, he had mountains more of improvement that he could make. And we would’ve never got there without a product that actually truly supported mitochondrial function.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

And didn’t you tell me that his special requirements at school have even shifted? He’s completely not needing support any longer.

Jimmy Scaringi

Yep. So his original diagnosis came from an institute called Robert Warner Institute, as well as here where I’m at in Western New York, University of Rochester Medical Center. They both diagnosed him with a T-score of 50. Now, I’m not gonna sit here and try to lie to you. I’m not as educated on the medical side of things. So I don’t know all the details and data about a T-score, but what mom told was a T-score of 50 is the highest or worse that it can get. Really reign significant autism. So this child that had a T-score of 50, now fast forward, his speech has been cut from five days to three days. His IEP services have been taken away. He is not in a special needs classes. He’s been put in integrated classes to be with other normal children because his cognition, his retention, his speech, all of these things are hitting the correct milestones for now, going into pre-K. So yes, he is not in any kind of special needs classes anymore at this time, when merely a year ago, he was told his T-score was 50.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Amazing, amazing. Really incredible story. I know we have a lot of parents listening right now, and practitioners listening who are working with autistic children. Can you give us some pearls on really how to support? I mean, we’ve talked about this Mito ATP, but there’s a lot more that you do to support mitochondrial health, to support lowering the symptoms of autism. Where do you start with families? What do you do?

Jimmy Scaringi

I think in all cases, autism because we’re talking about it, but in all cases, the first thing that we have to start with is, what’s at the end of our fork? What are we eating? What are we drinking? That is at least the easiest thing to control. So we really have to get away from the toxic white flour, white sugar, heavily pesticide, glyphosate-loaded foods. So we need to start lessening the load of what we’re exposed to on a simple basis. One of the best things you could do is start bringing in distilled water to the home. Drink clean water. The amount of toxicities in water is astronomical.

So start there. Secondly, if you’re just a parent, I don’t say that in a light way, but if you’re just a parent without the knowledge of, what do I do, get with somebody that truly understands the ability to open up the drainage pathways and to exhibit appropriate chemical and metal detox. As you start pulling out the bad, we’ve gotta repair and build up the good. We’ve gotta get the neurotransmitters and the gut firing again. We’ve gotta get the microbiome back on track. So take out the bad stuff that destroys it. Start to get into prebiotic, probiotic use, but do this really with a professional that understands the sequence of first, clearing out the bad, get the garbage out as quickly as you can, reduce the sugar load, reduce the white flour load, bring toxins down.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

So Jimmy, you’re illustrating that whole concept of take away what the body doesn’t need, give the body what it needs and it can restore itself. So I’m gonna play the devil’s advocate for a second. And I’m gonna be the parent who says, but Jimmy, my kid only eats three things and there’s no possible, and I work, and how am I gonna do this? How am I gonna take out flour and sugar? My kid’s gonna starve.

Jimmy Scaringi

So the parent in me and the practitioner in me may answer different ways. The parent in me would say, we’re gonna do it on a gradient. We’re not gonna go from black to white. We’re gonna do it at a level that’s appropriate. We wanna teach you what you can have, not what you can’t have. So we wanna start replacing as many lateral items as we can to not make it as hard on mom or the child. Because the last thing we wanna do is add stress. Practitioner in me would say, this is the black and white answer. This is the black and white thing we need to do. I know it’s not gonna be easy, but it will be worth it. You have to do what is necessary to achieve the result we are after. I do you no service if I lie to you and say, well, that’s okay, or just do this, or just do that. 

It has to be a hard no sit down. And that’s why this little boy that we’re talking about has had the results that he’s had. Mom has figured out ways to get stuff into him that doesn’t taste good. Mom has figured out ways to get stuff into him that changes the color of his water or his yogurt. It’s by whatever means necessary. And I say this with respect and love in my heart, you are the parent. You are the controlling factor. You make the rules. You set the tone. Do not get into societal’s way of saying that kids should just have this, and let them play with this. No, it is your child. It is your duty. It is your responsibility. Hold that at your heart, push all the other naysayers and nonsense away. Give them truly what is of need for their body. And the truth of it is, Ms. Laura, knowing the things that I know, I was very adamant on how my daughter would be raised. 

Does that mean we don’t have fun with her? Now, she’s still young, but at 16 months old, if you gave her a piece of steak or an ice cream cone, she’s not even gonna entertain the ice cream cone. Innately that body knows this ice cream cone is toxic. You find that they don’t even want and favor those things when you pull away the items that are addicting, but respectfully, you can either be cause over your child’s success, or you can be effective the problems that they have. And that same scenario applies to every one of us. So I just elect to always be cause. It’s not easy. It’s not always the smoothest thing, but damn is it worth it when a mother looks at me and says, “My child just told me “he loved me for the first time in his life, “when he couldn’t talk a year and a half ago.” All those hard moments that I put her through or that I helped her through, every single one of ’em was worth it at that moment. So I know it’s not easy. It won’t be easy. Do it on a. You gotta get it done.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yep. And it’s even harder as your kids get older. You can still support, you can still shift things around. I’m sure you work with teenagers. And that’s a whole nother level because their brains are completely addicted to sugar and flour. And then one of the worst things is, there are also a lot of autistic children are really addicted to screens and their phones and their pads and their games. And that’s not helping either. So you wanna talk about that for a second?

Jimmy Scaringi

Well, I don’t wanna open up Pandora’s box just now while we have a little bit of time, but there’s so much data out there that shows the 5g and the radiation that comes off the tablets will actually harbor and hold the aluminum toxicity in the brain. So we wanna also limit it, not just from the radiation and the frequency standpoint, but it has almost a magnet effect at keeping the toxicity, especially the aluminum, up in the brain. So yeah, for many reasons, we wanna limit screen time and all that. And I understand that when the child is yelling and screaming and all that, it’s sometimes just nice to get a break and appease. But if we lessen their toxic load, that symptomology will start to diminish. And there won’t be as much of a need for that mental stimuli that the screen is giving them.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

This has been so good, Jimmy. We do need to wrap up. I know you have patients to see today, and we could talk a long time. Is there any final words you wanna share with your parents here, with practitioners? What would be your pearls of wisdom here?

Jimmy Scaringi

To any of the parents out there, everything I said really comes from the fact that whether I know you or don’t, I love you enough to say to things that are hard. None of this was an attack on you. This was truly designed and meant to be an empowering position for you to have more knowledge and data. To the practitioners, always lead with your heart when dealing with these cases. Let your head be the guide, but lead really with your heart. Have compassion. Know this will be a difficult case. Know it’ll be a hard case. Know it’s gonna have its ups and downs, but if you can be that stability, both emotionally and physically for mom and dad, you can light the way and lead for them. 

And I always tell people, your body’s ability to heal is greater than anyone has permitted you to believe until you meet people like us. Take out the bad, put in the good, amazing things happen. When people like this mother and father come to me and say, “Jimmy, it’s a miracle. “Look at my son.” No, no, no, no, no. Only one person works miracles. That’s the good Lord. It is not me. But when you come to places like mine, what happened with this boy is our expectation, not the exception. I expect anybody and everybody that’s out there with something significant like autism, to be able to reap the benefits that we’re talking about here. But you gotta be willing to go through the fire and get to the other side. Keep your thoughts, your prayers, your heart on top of it. And Lord willing, you will have the exact same results we’re talking about.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Amazing. And at any age, you can help. This is incredible. So Jimmy, how can people find you? How can they get ahold of you? I know you have a wealth of support and information for parents. Tell us where to find you.

Jimmy Scaringi

Our website is 716synergy.com. You can find us on Facebook under Synergy Nutrition & Wellness. We are also on YouTube, soon to be on TikTok and Instagram. I’m trying to get caught up in modern social media. And I think Twitter is on the way for us as well, but we’re really big on our website, as well as Facebook. My personal Facebook is just my name, Jimmy Scaringi. I’m a little bit more intense on that with data and info that I share, but for the politically correctness, Synergy Nutrition & Wellness will give you the appropriate data and information.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Excellent. Thank you so much, Jimmy. This has been a pleasure. I am so glad that we’ve had you here as an expert on this summit, really talking about this really important topic, really touchy, really political topic. And you’ve really shed some light and allowed people to kind of broaden their mind and think. I mean, we’ve all been told one thing, and we do need to be our own investigators and seek information and really just connect the dots. Look at what’s happened over the last 30, 40 years and really pay attention. There’s something going on here. So thank you so much for sharing this, and I will see you in August.

Jimmy Scaringi

I just wanna, Laura, thank you so much for doing this. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to share it, as well as the many other people that you will have present amazing information. You’re truly a light to many parents and practitioners. I hope everybody understands that this is really just to empower you, and I thank you so much for the opportunity.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes, you take good care, Jimmy. Bye now.

Jimmy Scaringi

Thank you, you too. Bye bye.