After last week’s post about the connection between ADHD and food, a reader emailed me a link to a FoxNews clip about a young girl experiencing a dramatic improvement in her autism in just one year (video below).
What did her family change? Her diet, of course.
But it’s not just any old Real Food diet. It’s a diet specifically designed to heal the gut from dysbiosis. Many parents of children who suffer from ADHD or are on the autism spectrum change their diet to eliminate processed and refined foods. While switching over to Real Food can obviously help, it may not be enough to see noticeable improvement.
You see, if you suffer from gut dysbiosis, even “nourishing” whole grains (even gluten-free ones!) can further irritate the intestinal lining and produce neurological symptoms akin to what we see in children who suffer from ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and mood disorders. So can unfermented dairy, natural or refined sugars, soy in any form, and more!
And even if you eliminated all these gut-irritating foods, you’re still not eating foods that correct the dysbiosis or heal the gut lining. (Foods like bone broth, coconut water kefir, and more!)
The family featured in the video adopted this kind of gut-healing diet, and saw amazing improvements. Watch the video!
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(photo by Bruce Tuten)
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Keep sharing this type of information! Too many people are just ignorant of the truth!!
its amazing how much diet can play into autism. My friends wife wrote a wonderful book on the families journey about Autism and how they were able to reverse it through diet and therapy http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/finding-anthony/4003263
NO NO AND NO. My husband and I are both autistic and our families were both involved in a gut healing diet with it. It did not work. Just because it works for some does not mean it does not work for others. The ones it works for do not truly have autism, plain and simple.
Hi Jennyfer,
Can you please share the type of gut healing diet that you initiated for you and your husband? Did you include a lot of bone broths, fermented foods, and organ meats in your diet? These very foods are what truly heal the gut.
So because it didn’t work for you and your husband other families shouldn’t pursue it for their children. That’s foolish and selfish.
@Jennyfer — However you want to phrase it, the fact remains that autism has gone from being diagnosed in 1 in every 10,000 children to 1 in every 150 in a little more than a decade! Autism is a symptom-cluster disease, meaning that it’s what doctors call a mysterious set of symptoms for which there is no physical marker to test. Many many people receive this diagnosis who CAN BE HELPED by trying a gut-healing diet! Would you keep them from this information if THEY can reverse THEIR symptoms?
“All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self-evident.” ~
Schoepenhouer
We healed the gut, we lost Autism symptoms too. 🙂
Autism has become the new ADHD. That’s the doctor’s fault for misdiagnosing. I do support better food and nutrition but saying that it can cure Autism is going too far. There are the truly autistic and then there are those who have symptoms that mimic it. Also consider this: a lot of “autistic” children do not get enough attention from their parents and are constantly thrown TV and other overstimulating things. Even the act of being more involved in the child’s life by specializing a diet may be enough to reverse some autistic symptoms.
I’ll post a link to the diagnostic criteria for autism- a child or person can be accurately diagnosed with autism, and then later not meet the criteria for diagnosis. http://www.autism-pdd.net/autism-symptoms.html
@Jennyfer – I can agree that “cure” is probably far too strong a word, which is why I avoided it. But, that is the right word for these people’s experience. If you received a diagnosis from a doctor, then completely healed so that no noticeable symptoms of your disease remained, what word would you use to describe your experience? Wouldn’t you feel you’d been cured?
Raising awareness about the microbial balance of the Gi system (gut) and putting that into practice goes far beyond the issue of autism, although of course consideration for that condition is very important…let us remember that many, even most, health conditions may be improved and possibly completely healed and balance through healing diets.
All I know is that when I changed my sons diet, he became a different human being. I can totally relate to this father. I started the gluten free diet when he was 3 and people called me crazy and a bad mother. I love being crazy because I proved to everyone that it DOES help. He may not be curred (curred means to me that he will never have it again) but he sure can live a forward moving life now, where as before… he had no chance.
Also, the younger you start the diet the better the chances of recovery.
This is so cool! It’s definitely pertinent to me personally, as I was diagnosed with ADHD my senior year of high school. Ever since then it’s been a parade of medications trying to control my symptoms. This looks like a way cooler alternative.
The power of food is awesome. It’s so cool the effects a small change in diet can have on you both physically and mentally.
I’m autistic, so this information is helpful to me.
I *must* give this GAPS thing a try.
I have grandkids with autism I want to help. I want to know what to feed them, & what not to feed them. I am going to see them in a lilttle over a week, when I go on vacation. I’m not sure how long I will be staying, but I want my daughter to see some type of notable difference / results / improvement, to help make an impact, so that her present path may be altered or adjusted.
Thanking You in Advance