Reddit reviews Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., Dyslexia, A.D.H.D., Depression, Schizophrenia

Autism means you have a digestive disorder. You can get off the spectrum, the younger the better (less catching up to do). https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Syndrome-D-D-D-H-D-Schizophrenia/dp/0954852028 Interestingly, it requires bone broth.

I had some time, I hope this helps, sorry that it made me pretty mad the farther in I got =)

>A vegan diet never sustained any traditional culture

This is an extremely selective take on the source material. Weston Price reported that several healthy groups of people who were lacto-vegetarian or pisco-vegan. At most this would be an argument for vegetarianism, not the omnivore diet that the author is now advocating. More importantly, the logic is terrible, even setting aside whether or not we should be taking Weston Price and his legacy foundation seriously.

There is no necessary connection between the supposed fact that no ancestral diets were vegan and the idea that a vegan diet is unhealthy. Just as there is no necessary connection between the fact that no traditional culture had a lifespan over 60 years and the fact none of them listened to the radio. Without a solid argument of why a vegan diet is unhealthy this claim only lends the appearance of providing evidence when, in fact, it relies on subsequent claims that should be accepted or dismissed on their own merit. So this ought to be dismissed entirely until the claims are established independently and then only accepted as a tenuously possible interesting explanation of other known facts.

> Vegan diets do not provide fat-soluble vitamins A and D

So she readily admits that you can get enough vitamin A by eating vegan foods, but tries to dismiss this as difficult and undone by various disorders. Well, vegan sources worked for impoverished children in Mozambique well enough. Vitamin A can also be supplemented easy enough, like for these children in Venezuela. As for the disorders, sure, lots of disorders can interfere with proper nutrition. That is why we should all go to the doctor regularly for checkups and tests, regardless of our diet. Personally, I've never even heard of a vegan being deficient in vitamin A, but anything can happen.

As for vitamin D, this is actually more important. Yes, it should concern vegans. However, it should in fact concern most everyone because tons of people in northern climates or who work indoors are deficient. It is extremely easy to supplement with vegan sources and can be readily obtained just by spending enough time in the sun. The "useable" vitamin D bit is a canard. Yes D3 has been shown by some studies to be better absorbed than vegan D2, but D2 is definitely absorbed and the solution when necessary is simply to supplement at a slightly higher level for vegans who are deficient. As above, I recommend visiting a doctor for this, they can test your blood for D levels and give a recommendation based on their findings.

>Vegan diets often rely heavily on soy

Sure, so if you have any problem with it don't eat it. There are a ton of complete sources of protein out there. I'm actually surprised that she mentioned soy protein powder and bars, because other than a couple athletes, none of the vegans I know rely on these to get enough protein.

On the other hand, if you have no problems with soy whatsoever, (and most people do not) then this is another non-issue. The last person I talked to who was having problems with soy was drinking ~2 gallons of soymilk a day. That is probably way to much, don't consume that much.

>Vegan diets do not provide vitamin K2

As someone else pointed out in this thread, the Japanese traditional food natto does provide K2 derived from its creation process. Still, having lived in Japan I wouldn't personally want to eat natto on a regular basis, or ever again. However, from what I've read this also isn't a problem for most vegans, human gut bacteria produces K2 on its own. As the blog linked to above notes, if this were a problem for vegans it would show up in the studies comparing clotting rates, but it doesn't.

> Ethical omnivorism supports a healthy planet

I can't even begin to get into how inane this argument is, which seems focused on this weak claim, "vegan diets ten[d] to demand a higher quantity of cereal grains and soy."

Once we get to the point where 70% of US grain is not going to feed livestock and all the major fisheries are not in the process of being entirely wiped out, then we can talk about the fantasy world in which bison roam freely through the towns of Kansas and all the meat we eat comes from free-range goats locally sourced in New Zealand.

I can't even tell you the number of times I hear this argument from people who I later find eating a hamburger at a local restaurant without a second thought as to where it came from, or putting a picture of sizzling bacon they got from the grocery store on their blog. The simple fact is that eliminating meat from human diet would be such a titanic reduction in environmental carrying cost to the planet that whatever fractional gain might theoretically be had from occasionally supplementing with seasonal and local free range meat to avoid complete reliance on plant matter is quite insignificant in comparison.

> Real Food > Fake Food

This isn't even an argument. It is just superstition and cultural bias wrapped up in the shell of an argument. Who cares what humans have been doing for thousands of years? Are we to bring back slavery cause it was functional much longer than the industrial wage system? For that matter, what the heck makes imprisoning cows, artificially inseminating them, machine milking them, homogenizing the milk, then churning the product until it hardens into a semi-solid state more "natural" than combining a bunch of plant based material to produce something that looks and tastes similar? If she is so worried about this "natural vs artificial" false dichotomy, she can go eat an apple (genetically modified by humans for millenia) and avoid both forms of processed food altogether.

> Vegan isn’t the answer to autoimmune disease

Right... if I only had a nickel for every time someone told me a story of two separate phenomena which they have linked as essentially causal in their mind, but which we don't even have the data yet to establish so much as a correlative link, then I wouldn't have much money cause nickels aren't worthy much. Still, this is seriously going off the deep end. She actually links to a book that claims you can treat Autism and Dyslexia by managing the gut bacteria. I don't even know for a fact that these claims are false, only that no scientist on the planet yet knows that they are true.

> You must take life to have life

Wow. Yes, field mice are killed in harvesting grain. If she is so concerned about this, why doesn't she advocate for methods of driving field mice out of their burrows before harvesting, rather than simply accepting their death? Or no longer ever feeding a single grain to cattle whose conversation to the protein that winds up for dinner is so inefficient that it requires the death of an order of magnitude more mice?

The fact is that veganism isn't about no living thing dying. My skin cells and the bacteria in my stomach are dying as we speak. Who cares? I don't believe in magical plant and amoeba souls that are somehow more important than or equivalent to the thinking, feeling, caring, sentient creatures that meat eaters kill, maim and imprison for luxury food.

Also, just to be clear, plant communication has nothing whatsoever to do with intelligence. They don't have nervous systems, they don't have brains, they don't have anything with which to cognate. The "communication" being referred to by the sourced she cites is an intentional misreading of a scientific term meant to indicate transmission of chemicals. Then again, maybe they think the Earth is intelligent because there is communication between the mantle and the core.

> Vegan diets are deficient in vitamin B12 and iron

Getting bored with her at this point. Yes, these are two vitamins of which vegans should be aware. Both can be tested, both can be supplemented if found short. You almost get the impression from this article that most meat eaters are not deficient in various nutrients. Heck, since less than 1% of people in the US are vegan and B12 is a problem specific to vegans, why are 20% of people over 50 borderline deficient in B12?

> Animal fats offer unique nutrients

Omega 3, yet another nutrient that is low for almost everybody. This is the same argument over again. Everyone in my family takes an Ovega-3 to avoid this EPA and DHA issue altogether. I'm not remotely convinced that it is necessary, the studies certainly are not conclusive. Most likely, bodily conversion of flax seed will do you fine as well as chia seeds, beans, cabbage, mangoes, wild rice, etc.

The whole "saturated fat is great" bit is still a fad not established by science. Yes, there have been a couple exploratory studies suggesting the possibility, but credible institutions like Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical and the American Heart Association still advise against it. And the bit about cholesterol is purposefully obtuse, the human body manufactures more than enough cholesterol on its own. The idea that dietary cholesterol is a "key part of wellness" is based on nothing but hot air.

Wrote this to another person in here too, but i'll write it in case you don't see that.
I have read that many people with Crohn's disease have had a really good experience with following the GAPS diet, you should look into the diet if you don't know about it already, peoples stories of how much it's helped them, seem quite convincing, there's a lot of material online on it, and also a book if you want it in paper form.
Link to a homepage concerning it (there's many): http://www.gapsdiet.com/Home_Page.html
You can also read reviews on e.g. amazon about the book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gut-Psychology-Syndrome-Depression-Schizophrenia/product-reviews/0954852028/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
You don't need to buy the book to follow the diet, but i'd say read about the diet, its definitely worth a shot if it can help your condition on long term.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychology-Syndrome-D-D-D-H-D-Schizophrenia/dp/0954852028


even the title seems wrong, shouldnt it be psychological syndromes?

Yes it is, and I have been reading similar experiences in the phoenix rising forum. They have been strong enough for me but I had to use very large doses, they are natural antibiotics, a test to see if you are one (of the many) with a low level undiagnosed infection. You may want to have a look on this book also, the same logic, but in the gut... https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Syndrome-D-D-D-H-D-Schizophrenia/dp/0954852028

Yes it helped significantly to the point that it is almost unnoticeable. However it is one of the toughest diet to follow.

The "candida diet" is similar but GAPS is superior. Read the book.

here's a couple links. One 'theory' (explained in the links/book) is that autism and many other learning disorders on that spectrum are due to digestive issues. The reason there is a genetic component (i.e. siblings that have it) is that the gut flora that is passed from mother to baby has been damaged, but not to the same degree in all siblings necessarily. This author of the book explains how with certain tests you may be able to determine if your child may have any digestive orders, before the kid has even been born.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0954852028/optimalwellnessc

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/31/dr-natasha-campbell-mcbride-on-gaps-nutritional-program.aspx?e_cid=20110731_SNL_Art_1

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It's well known http://gfcf.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Gut-Psychology-Syndrome-Depression-Schizophrenia/dp/0954852028/ref=sr_1_1

It's well known http://gfcf.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Gut-Psychology-Syndrome-Depression-Schizophrenia/dp/0954852028/ref=sr_1_1

I think you are doing excellent. Even the $40 per month for a gym membership isn't bad since it keeps you healthy.

I think embracing cooking could help you cut the eating out budget if you are able to make more of your own meals and enjoy them.

Do you have a friend who loves to cook and needs money? Perhaps you could have them make you some dishes and freeze them to save money. Or you could get together with friends and do big casseroles, chili, soups etc and share.

I also have eating problems (achalasia - not like yours) so I understand issues around needing to find foods that work.

Here is an interesting book that might assist with some of your food issues. Ignore that it talks about autism - it is a great book about why many of our health problems are based on our unhealth guts.

The GAPS diet is a great resource/starting place. Stands for Gut and Psychology Syndrome.
It's like Paleo on steroids. I have a number of friends who have had great success with this diet, as well as the Candida Diet & Paleo (obviously).

https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Syndrome-D-D-D-H-D-Schizophrenia/dp/0954852028

The lady talks about this book, which is pseudo scientific bullshit and tbh I think in a fair world the author would face charges for criminal negligence or something similar for trying to advise people to do this shit.

So it's safe to say that whatever she's blasting up there probably shouldn't be entering your body in any direction.

Wow, that all sounds super rough. Kudos to you for dealing with it while pregnant!

My story is nowhere near as extreme as yours, but I've had success with the GAPS diet and wanted to tell you about it, in case you hadn't heard of it before. My mother has Crohn's, which puts me at higher risk as well. I've always had a sensitive digestive system, and about a year ago I stopped taking BC after finding out it can trigger or exacerbate Crohn's, especially in people who are already high risk. At this stage I wasn't super sick, but I was having mild issues, and was beginning to get random joint pain. It was obvious to me I was working my way towards having the full blown symptoms my mom has.

Around the same time, I stumbled across a blog talking about the GAPS diet, which is actually very similar to the AIP. The point of GAPS, in a nutshell, is to eat only easy to digest foods and supplement with probiotics - this allows the gut to heal, and re-establishes proper bacteria. The diet is designed to last for 1.5-2 years, after which your system is supposed to be healed and can handle normal foods again. Although, it's expected you won't go back to the standard American diet of tons of sugar and processed foods.

Personally, I've been on it for about a year now. My joint pain cleared up in the first month or two, and other random symptoms have also disappeared. I was somewhat lucky, in that I didn't have an extreme case yet, and that the bacterial imbalance I had happened to be rather well studied. Turns out I have an overbalance of histamine-producing bacteria, which can cause severe allergies, bad PMS, and migraines, among other things. My PMS cleared up in about 3 months after starting, and I've had very few issues with allergies this spring where I typically am completely miserable and end up with sinus infections. And so far, no migraines, although they only came 1-2x per year.

You would have to make the decision for yourself if you think GAPS would work for you. The chance to be healed was a huge motivator for me, and I think your previous success with AIP is a good sign as well. The full GAPS diet is fine for pregnant or breastfeeding women, although you have to be careful to get enough fats/energy. Here's the link for the book on amazon, although I'd recommend getting it from a library first.

I hope you are able to figure out the best way to manage your UC, and let me know if you have any questions!