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07 Dec 2014, 5:53 am

Eating healthily is good, but this is really about fighting autism, it about fight negative symptoms.

I'm gluten/casein free. I tend not eat junk food.

I think you should still eat a variety of food. Fad diet with very proscribed item and time, don't work, and are are based on flawed nutrition.

Just becuase something contains something doesn't mean your body with end using it the way you want. you body also syntheses and awful lot of what can't actually reach easily these part form outside. But the body need to be generally health for this to happen.

I think probiotics are really important for me. IBS had a massive impact on my nervous system. Not expensive ones. The probiotic in aplro, is sufficient for me. I used to use and would recommend digestive advantage. Probiotic can be unstable, but there are priobiotc now that have a long self life. Don't think becuase it is some fancy vile, you need to refrigerate and it cost 60 USD it somehow better.

Before people say soya is toxic, so is water (in large quantities) and many thing. The body has a way of dealing with toxins, otherwise moderation. You need to have a healthy body overall. It less about detox diet, which give a mislead picture of how the body deal with toxin, and haw much toxin are actual left in you system.

Some animal such as bird do eat toxic plants, where they need to go to salt lick (salty clay) to deal with that. There is not a whole lot in normal diet that the body can't deal with, and normal if it can't, it take measure like vomit. If you are really poisoned you could take thing like activate charcoal, but you should probably be in hospital.

There a myth about enzymes. You body has enzymes, but eating thing with enzymes doesn't mean you will get enzymes. The PH of stomach acid is high.. Enzymes don't survive this, this is very easy to demonstrate, ask a biologist.



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08 Dec 2014, 9:34 pm

#1 truth is that every body is different, and what works for one may be garbage for another.

I have to avoid gluten and casein, and do lots of gut support, and avoid lots of food allergies, not because it makes my autism less, but because it makes me feel like crap and anything that makes me feel like crap makes me be at my worst. So my sensitivities and such are worse or harder to control, and so on.

My best diet is what's called "Primal lifestyle", modified with no grains, dairy, or eggs, and lots of fresh, whole vegetables and moderate meat and non-industrial oils/fats, sunshine, moderate exercise, and so on.


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