Owens will be at the -Frisco-Plano support group!

[Guest guest]

Hey folks! I ran into Owens at the Dallas Autism Summit

today. For those who don't know , she is a biomedical

researcher who speaks at most of the big autism conferences around

the world. She is the sulfer system guru and she just returned from

Spain where she spoke to groups about the low oxalate diet. She is

so excited about the results families are seeing when they remove

oxalates from their diet that she is just grinning from ear to ear.

The great thing about is, she has no agenda other than helping

families and helping children. She is not selling a book, a practice

or even her " head " - Big smiles.

When I asked her if she would come to our Tuesday (11/14 in , TX

from 7-9 pm at Suncreek United Methodist Church) meeting to help 'us'

parents rummage through all the diets, chelation, lab reports... She

smiled and said " absolutely! "

I know that many of us cannot get to DAN! conferences or to the many

other biomedical conferences on autism where speaks, so this is

our time in Collin County to hear her speak in a small group setting

and for us to ask questions! She is genuine and has a love for GOOD

SOUND RESEARCH. She is coming to our meeting out of the kindness of

her heart, the excitement she has for her research and for the love

she has for our children suffering with autism. What a blessing to

have in TX and willing to share her time with our group.

Much love-

Liz

Any questions let me know tscillian@...

's bio below-

Owens , MAIS, RA

Since completing her masters degree at the University of Texas in

Dallas, Owens has lectured internationally and has also

presented at the Center for Disease Control and the National

Institute of Health. has focused on finding the basic science

that tells us how the sulfur system works: how it is integrated, how

it matures, and how it interacts with other systems and what it does

in neurodevelopment. Oxalates appear to be part of the sulfur system,

but their role outside the well-characterized role of binding to

calcium and incidentally forming kidney stones is little understood.

As a member of the Defeat Autism Now! Thinktank (a project of the

Autism Research Institute), she continually dialogues with physicians

and scientists who treat children with autism. She also consults

with sulfur scientists and other basic scientists who are on the

cutting edge of their field, encouraging them to study autism.

Owens does extensive analysis of labwork, specializing in studying

ratios and their meaning in the plasma amino acid tests. She has

compared the findings and reference ranges from labs all over the

U.S. and world on different tests, including looking at how reference

ranges are calculated for urinary tests on young children.

Owens recently joined Husson Science Research Institute, in Bangor,

Maine as a Research Associate where she will be able to accelerate

research into some new areas in the basic and applied science of

oxalates.

Liz

tscillian@...