Jenny McCarthy | The 3 Questions You’re NEVER Supposed to Ask

**Jenny McCarthy** (0:00)
I was in the grocery store and I was in line and I saw a magazine cover. It was the cover of Time. And just in the corner, it said, mothers are saying that they're noticing regression into autism after the MMR shot. My son was due for the MMR the following weeks. So when I went to the doctor's appointment, I said, listen, I'm very concerned. I have a gut feeling my son's not going to be able to handle the shot. He was so dismissive. He was so rude. He literally said to me, don't be one of those mothers. And not too far after that, my son had a seizure and went into cardiac arrest. Soon he lost all of his language right after that. And then he got an autism diagnosis. And I was like, oh, hell no. They told me he's going to have to be institutionalized someday.
They might not ever speak. And I went online and I found an organization that said autism is reversible. And I was like, what?

**Dave Asprey** (0:55)
Take out the **** and the ****.

**Jenny McCarthy** (0:57)
Right?

**Dave Asprey** (0:57)
They turn into morphine in their guts.

**Jenny McCarthy** (0:59)
In two weeks, he said like two words. After remove the ****.
After two to three years of doing this, the state comes over to reevaluate you for services. They he no longer qualify.

**Dave Asprey** (1:12)
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This episode of The Human Upgrade is with none other than Jenny McCarthy, who is an actress, comedian, and judge on The Masked Singer for 14 years.

**Jenny McCarthy** (3:43)
Yeah.

**Dave Asprey** (3:44)
And you could say, Dave, why are you interviewing one of these celebrities? What do they know?

**Jenny McCarthy** (3:50)
That's what I usually say about celebrities too. So.

**Dave Asprey** (3:54)
But this is really interesting because we're going to talk about autism.
And we're going to talk about brain function. And yeah, we'll touch on some celebrity topics about like, how do you survive in a studio and just the lifestyle and the things that you do to make your brain work.
But this is really about autism and autism awareness. Jenny is the mother of an autistic son who's doing well. So let's go deep on this. And for context, I guess if you are new to the show, I used to have autism and I don't meet the clinical criteria anymore, but I still don't have a normal brain. And we'll talk about that too. Jenny, welcome.