I went out to dinner with somebody who will remain unnamed, and we were talking about our kids.  Eventually the conversation swung to our kids and what they like to eat, and we talked about how under-weight Nathan is.  In a very nice way she said if I wasn’t such a health nut, Nathan could [...]

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On our way to Chicago for some work meetings I sat next to a high powered businessman and we started talking about our kids, and the conversation rapidly evolved into discussions about our jobs. He works in marketing and is focusing on internet marketing, so we had lots in common to talk about. After a [...]

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This is the formula we’ve been giving to Nathan that has helped him gain weight: 14 ounces of calcium fortified almond milk 2 ounces of unsweetened coconut milk (in a can) 1 scoop metagenics ultra-care 4 kids Typically you need a practitioner ID to buy ultra-care from metagenics, but I did a quick search and [...]

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Nathan is thin. Very thin. Like, I can wrap my hand around his whole thigh thin. Up until now, he’s been thin but he hasn’t looked skeletal. He’s grown a lot though. I don’t know how tall he is, but he’s gotta be at least 40 inches tall. So with this growth spurt, well…he’s starting [...]

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Today I had a phone appointment with Kelly Dorfman, a nutritionist recommended by Kristina, the gorgeous Emma’s mom. It was quite interesting. She explained to me how supplements work to “supercharge” pathways that are dormant or not entirely functional. You target a pathway, figure out what chemicals it needs to function properly, and mega dose [...]

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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 [...]

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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] Dr. M. Strambi Research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2002 shows that when the diets of 2,566 children ages 11-19 were studied, less [...]

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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, [...]

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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 my dreams and to have [...]

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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 can also [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 am sorry. It was not [...]

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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 months I’ve kept [...]

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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 out [...]

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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 the active [...]

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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 blood types 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 I want Nathan [...]

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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. [...]

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