Nathan is OFF his PREVACID!  Hooray hooray hallelujah!
A while ago I talked about wanting to take Nathan off prevacid.  So I added a couple of supplements, and told Owen to start giving him the prevacid every other day (he is the official prevacid doser).
Well Owen got mixed up and stopped giving it to him altogether.
Today [...]

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I haven’t talked about Nathan’s supplements in a little while so I figured since little man is still away, today would be a good day to discuss this topic. I’m going to do this as a Q&A format as I think it’ll make things clearer:
How do you know what supplements to give him, and [...]

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Thanks Sally for sending me this link, that I absolutely have to share!
HACRES
I am going to be trying out some of these recipes this week!

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I got this in an email, thought I should share this.
Autistic children and children with other spectrum
disorders had significantly lower plasma
concentrations of Mg than normal subjects.[1]
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) researchers have confirmed that a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, patented as an LMN diet, helps boost the production of the brain’s stem cells -neurogenesis- and strengthens their differentiation in different types of neuron cells.
Polyphenols can be found in tea, beer, grapes, wine, olive oil, cocoa, nuts [...]

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I’ve been thinking of life and luck today. How lucky to be Nathan’s mom and to get to share his life. How lucky to have a little baby girl on the way. Lucky to have the wonderful friends and family that I have. Lucky to have met the man of [...]

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Today I wanted to share Nathan’s menu and medicine schedule to follow up with all of the posts I wrote last week regarding nutrition. It’ll give you some idea of how we incorporate all of the different health principles that we follow. One new thing we’re just trying is puree’ing salads so Nathan [...]

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Today I ate the most delicious veggie stew, recipe courtesy of Whole Foods:
Chipotle Veggie Stew
Really, to die for. I felt the health and wellness flooding my cells!
I guess it doesn’t look as good in the picture but it sure was delicious.

From Menu

This is Nathan’s pureed version, with a bit of rice:

From Menu

Nathan really [...]

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Okay this is the last thing I have to say about this topic, and then I’m moving on!
I did a bit of research and found a couple of articles that I found helpful/interesting:
Neuroscience for kids- Nutrition and the brain

Your brain is like a car. A car needs gasoline, oil, brake fluid and other [...]

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A few people commented on my Yahoo groups about the milk post, or on Facebook, so I wanted to address a few of those comments here:
* If I don’t give my kids milk, then what do I give him/her?
I might be completely off base here, but in my opinion, the best possible liquid to [...]

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Warning: I am not hoping to upset anyone with this post. I am simply hoping to inform. Please do not be offended if you don’t like what I am saying. I am just hoping to raise awareness to an issue that I consider important. If I upset you – I [...]

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This week I witnessed the true power of the GFCF diet. I adopted the diet for Nathan about a year ago simply because it made a lot of sense to me. Even though everyone thought I was crazy, I saw autistic traits in him and decided to try it. For all these [...]

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I found this article fascinating and essential to bring up:
Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering
I’ve long known that water is a huge issue for health. Consequently we only drink alkaline water from a water ionizer. We also have several sets of pre-filters to make sure we are filtering [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do this for a while and today I had the time. I went through all of Nathan’s supplements and compiled descriptions of what each one does. I thought this would give people an idea of what sorts of supplements are available and what they do.
B6
Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate (P5P) is [...]

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I’ve been reading about theories based on eating for your blood type. It’s very interesting. For the longest time I thought all these different eating theories were BS and just a way to get people to spend more money on stuff. I believed that, how could all that stuff about organic and [...]

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I wanted to answer a couple of questions regarding Nathan’s diet, as well as respond to a couple of posts.
Rich kindly mentioned that kids are kids and that I should not be quite so tough on Nathan. I wholeheartedly agree! I had a tough time deciding to implement this diet because [...]

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Lately I’ve been talking a lot about nutrition.  I’ve just finished creating a weekly menu for Nathan’s food and thought I would share it here, along with the recipes we’ll be using.
Here’s the menu:

Click on “week” in the google calendar or on “agenda” so you can see more clearly how it’s spread out.
Here are the [...]

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