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Reversing Autism Protocols
D.I.R.A.P. Dietary Intervention Reversing Autism Protocol.
The idea of this D.I.R.A.P. is to fix the misconception we have about nutrition and the most adequate dietary intervention for our children's condition.
In my journey with my children, especially my older son, my husband and I, in cooperation with medical doctors, found that based on laboratory analysis ordered by the pediatrician through the insurance company and also by our other medical doctors paid by ourselves, that the laboratory's analysis were consistently showing abnormal gastrointestinal dysfunctions, never seen in neurotypical children.
For example, laboratory tests found undigested food in the stools, greater levels of e-coli, lack of presence of good gastrointestinal flora, excessive tartaric acid and oxalic acid in the urine, also his essential nutrients were out of balance: too much, too little, or nothing. As an example, our son had too much copper, too low zinc, and no vitamin C.
Since the medical western medicine never had encountered this disbyosis in neurotypical children their answer was: “it must be a typical thing for ASD children”. Of course this answer didn't offer us any useful information to help our children, so I had to continue searching for answers.
I contacted several nutritionists and gastroenterologist. I asked them their recommendations and advice, but nothing really came out of it. Only anti-inflamatory Rxs, that didn't convince me as a solution.
I also read web sites dedicated to help autistic children through promoting special diets like Gluten free/ Casein free, SCD, and so on.
I tried all of those "DIETS", and I can say all mildly help him, but were very stressful to the entire family. We lost friends, and we had to stop visiting other people because our beloved son was on so many food restrictions that soon enough he ended up in the FOOD FREE DIET! Also, he was taking tons of supplemental capsules to compensate the nutritional needs of vitamins and minerals he was not receiving from food.(they call this the DAN protocol).
Even so I was not entirely convinced, I had to tried it because some parents claimed online it helped their children. However, when I found out the exaggeration of those parents and the few children that were actually responding ...I keep researching, because my son was in the non-responders side of those protocols.
To me something was absolutely not right, removing foods and then adding an astronomical quantity of vitamins and supplements to compensate the lack of nutritional needs in a child with such gastrointestinal problems that didn't even have the capability of digesting baby foods was just not making any sense.
The more I studied the more I learned. Vitamins and other nutrients in order to be absorbed by our bodies need digestive enzymes of all sorts, For example B12 vitamin needs an enzyme so giving tons of b12 won't solve the deficiency if your child.
My child didn't have them because he was not getting any better on those tons of capsules of all vitamins and minerals and stuff, so I found another parent’s driven support group on internet that promotes the use of digestive enzymes instead of taken too many foods away, I tried that too.
I saw again very little improvement. My son was not reacting to the enzymes very well, and some parents responded to me it was a normal process first to see some regression and then the kid will get better. So I wait for the “better” to show up... but it didn’t.
This approach was not quite right for me neither, after contacting experts on enzymes and the Celiac Foundation people, they told me that after removing the foods that damage their intestinal walls like gluten and introducing digestive enzymes for a few days in a month or so everything goes back to normal, they can not eat wheat or wheat flours anymore but the gastrointestinal issues disappear and they no longer have any problems. Interestingly enough some can eat...sprouted wheat! This would make sense to me later on.
My son was not getting any better with or without the enzymes. It did not made any sense that I was giving him enzymes every day with every food, and he kept needing them more and more. Two questions came to my mind:
WHO WERE KILLING THE ENZYMES?
or
WHERE THE ENZYMES WERE GOING TO?
To me it was clear that after a while my son supposed to produce the enzymes by himself or at least the tons of enzymes I was giving him will re-populate the gastrointestinal track and the digestive problem would get fix, but I was not seeing that. The expected results never happened. There was one clear thing - a never ending supplementation of enzymes was not logical to me, the body has the ability to heal itself if we do things right, at this point I was missing a piece of my puzzle, something else, because son's gastrointestinal problems continue, they were just under control with enzymes and restrictions, but as soon as I changed something he was a mess again. At this time he was eating certain flours permitted in the SCD diet and GF/CF, etc. I was still following the advice from the groups I found online, without much result, so I went back to the pediatrician again for hints but didn’t offer any help.
So... I had to go and study again!
I started by studying how our digestion natural occurs and how enzymes plays a role, where they come from, how the body produces them, etc. For my story about enzymes, what I found and my opinion, please click the link below:
Finally... The most significant help came from the Weston A. Price Foundation Website and their literature, like the book "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon, PhD.
I discovered I didn’t have to remove foods like crazy and be on such restrictive diets. I learned how grains and seeds are bad for digestion if NOT eaten SPROUTED!!! Sprouted grains like wheat do not have GLUTEN, and are literally considered half-digested grains, their fiber becomes like vegetable fiber and easy to digest. The sprouting also releases natural enzymes that pre-digest the wheat freeing the nutrients within the grain that my son needs. Those were the real vitamins in the right way that my son needed. My life finally regained flavor and happiness. Eating became a joyful moment again, more normal to all of us as a family. My children were finally eating the right food in the right way, the stools started to come more normal and they were doing a good digestion.
God says in the Bible: “...With the FAT of the wheat he keeps satisfying you” Psalms 147:14 Also we found instructions on Ezekiel 4:9. God will never offer us something to harm us, there was just we were not doing as he said it to do, in the bible he order us to sprout all grain and seeds before consuming them, those were his orders and we do not obey. Also I found information from Dr. Hoffer, MD and the dangers of flours. So I found science and faith that led me the right path. Let’s see when and how God’s order was altered and how Dr. Hoffer. MD found out it was the wrong thing to do as well. For detail information of my research and findings of how we disappointed our Lord by making FLOURS and how that deteriorates our health, please click the link below:
THE FLOUR and CEREAL BOX DECEPTION
Based on months and months of research I came to the conclusion and made my DIRAP for my son following 10 simple rules: (you can click each rule to expand for explanation).
1. - NO FLOURS OF ANY KIND. 2. - EAT ALL GRAINS AND SEEDS BUT ALL ALWAYS SPROUTED. 3. - EAT ONLY ORGANIC FOOD. 4. - LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF FOOD IF IT IS NOT DESINGNED FOR YOUR CHILD BLOOD TYPE. Like for example A+. 5. - EAT A PORTION OF FERMENTED FOOD WITH EACH MEAL. 6. - PROCURE AT LEAST ONE RAW FOOD IN EACH MEAL. 7. - DO NOT EAT ANIMAL PROTEIN PAST 6 OCLOCK AT NIGHT. 8. - EAT PAPAYA OR PINEAPLE WITH ANY ANIMAL PROTEIN OR SOAK THE MEAT ON YOGURT THE PRIOR DAY. 9. - INCORPORATE RAW BUTTER AND RAW MILK PRODUCTS FROM ORGANIC GRASS FEED COWS ONLY. 10.-EAT TONS OF RAW GREEN LEAFY VEGTABLES MIXED WITH FRESH FRUIT JUICE AND ADD ALTERNATING DAYS A TEASPOON OF RED CLAY AND GREEN CLAY.
Andrea L.
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