Moira: >Thanks for the encouragement!!!! Gosh, I can use it!! Have lost 40 pounds >stressing over this child. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to see your child suffer from such a debilitating ailment. >I have my son on the Neanderthin diet, it is working miracles, literally. >Over Thanksgiving weekend my husband and I looked at each other and said, >can this really be happening? Sometimes I had to pinch myself, so much >language, so much eye contact. That such a serious condition can have such a simple remedy never seizes to amaze me. >I have him on Neanderthin, he has mostly been eating beef pemmican, one >small green salad per day, one or two servings of lightly cooked frozen >veggies, and then he absolutely adores pork rinds with almond butter, also a >Neanderthin snack. The pemmican seems to be very easy to digest, leaves >almost no residue in the digestive tract. It seems that his body is craving a lot of fat. As the brain is 60% fat maybe there is a connection? >Do you think I need to rotate proteins? Today I am giving him some cooked >ground turkey and veggies. Variety is always good - how about trying fish which have the EFA's so important for the brain? - still I would as much as possible let his own tastes and instincts be the guide. >Do you think I need to monitor the amount of pork rinds, gosh he loves these. For whatever it is worth, I would trust his instincts. >I also have him on a small amount of soil based organisms, the aim being to >discourage the fungal growth. What do you think of SBOs?? I have heard of these organisms but have not yet looked into them. >I have discontinued all fruit for the time being, even a half of a banana >will send him reeling into weird laughter. I think it is great that he is giving you so clear signals. >Do you think a low carb diet overloads the kidneys, so say my vegetatrian >friends. I believe this is a veggie myth. The only times I would be concerned about getting too much protein would be if the kidneys were weak or if adequate amounts of drinking water were not available. >Sorry for all the questions, but a 5 year old's brain is at stake here, >there is no help on this one from organized medicine except for them to tell >me to "accept" this. Hey, that is what lists like this are for. :-) >I believe he has candida autism. I don't know how much of the brain can be >recovered. I can't even stand to read about candida and acetaldehyde, it >scares me too much. The good news is that Neanderthin seems to really help >clear out the dysbiosis. The ability of the brain to recover is amazing especially in such a young child and from your reports it looks like that the prospects of recovery are looking very bright. Best, Peter [log in to unmask]