Guest guest Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 > > Hello Max and nice to have you on this list > x > Thank you, . It is refreshing to find a list where many different approaches and methods are being discussed side by side. These conditions are complex but unsolvable. We believe underlying the condition is an adaptation of the immune system in successive generations passed on through immunogenetics. The immune system makes a choice or choices based on survival of the individual, and that choice is passed on, or can make a different choice in the next generation. Research has shown immune-related conditions such as Celiac disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes in parents and grandparents, and our experience of meeting thousands of parents justifies this. However we are all a unique individual and how each adapts to the environmental pressures is unique. We can tell so much from looking at the child's unique expression. How are they looking, how are they moving, how are they are feeling, what are they attracted to, what are they avoiding. As humans we should be getting all our essential nutrients from foods. For the autist, this is the biggest dilemma as food is the source of their pain. They have horrible reactions to foods, either through immune response or metabolic deficiency. They begin to avoid and self-select until they are in a state of greater and greater imbalance. Others find a balance, find a diet that they can live with, and stick to it. These often end up as the 'Asperger' child, often highly OCD and high functioning, but socially excluding themselves, believing that nobody understands them. We help the child who is trying to find the cause of his/her pain. We help them identify the problem foods, give meaning to the chaos, find nutrient rich alternatives that make them feel good about food. This is the key. Because it also emotional. The relationship to food and feeding is so basic. The limbic system is the basis of comfort and until we feel comfort, we do not want to co-operate, to participate, to be social, to learn, to talk, to be happy. We aim to change the child's relationship to food and feeding, and then everything changes. Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 > > > > Hello Max and nice to have you on this list > > x > > > Thank you, . It is refreshing to find a list where many different > approaches and methods are being discussed side by side. These > conditions are complex but unsolvable. Of course I meant solvable! Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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