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Faulty Sulfation and Methylation
If the biochemistry of sulfation and methylation are too complex or (like calculus in high school) just aren’t relevant or interesting to your daily life, here’s all you need to know about it. To see many details on...
Fat Chance! Saturated Fats vs. Trans Fats
On KQED radio the other day, I heard a discussion about New York’s proposed ban of trans fats from restaurant food. Sheila Cohn Weiss, director of Nutrition Policy, National Restaurant Association perpetuated a common...
Candida / Yeast
Yeast (Candia albicans being the most common) is a pathogen, but it lives in check with the good bacteria in our intestinal tract. When we take antibiotics (anti = against life) to kill the pathogenic bacteria, we are not...
Feingold Diet/Phenols
As we have seen in great detail (in my book, Nourishing Hope), many individuals with ASD and other neurological and immune system disorders appear to have faulty sulfation and cannot process phenols well. This protocol reduces phenols in the diet. The...
Body Ecology Diet
The Body Ecology Diet incorporates excellent principles of proper food combining, acid/alkaline balance with low acid-forming foods, low/no sugars and starches, easily digestible foods, fermented foods, and other solid nutrition...
Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD)
The Specific Carbohydrate Diet was introduced by Dr. Merrill Haas and made popular by Elaine Gottschall in Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet eliminates all disaccharides (two-sugar molecules) and...
Food Sensitivities
Removing all food sensitivities is an important step in the process of cleaning up the diet for anyone with the symptoms described below, an autistic spectrum disorder, or autoimmune conditions. ...
Gluten-free/Casein-free (GFCF)
I recommend most people try GFCF regardless of the IgG and opiate test results. The test results can be incorrect and so many children show some level of improvement that the diet is worth the effort. Some DAN!...
Environmental Toxins
Environment toxins have an effect on all children and adults, especially those on the autistic spectrum. It is not thoroughly known whether environmental toxins are an underlying cause of autism that can change biochemistry (like...