RE: Re: Psychotic episodes/regression?

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And that is approximately what I do, plus probiotics as you say, and it chases the flu/cold away.I did this after a LOT of research though.....xSubject: RE: Re: Psychotic episodes/regression?To: autism-biomedical-europe Date: Saturday, 17 December, 2011, 15:35

Funny you should be chatting about the subject of vitamin D, i started to go down with bronchitis last Saturday, my chest was hurting when coughing and i was left with a nasty taste in my mouth after coughing, these symptoms for me have always ment bronchitis and a trip to doctors for antibiotics. Well i went looking into supplementing instead and came across the following website:-

http://otiswoodardmd.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/stop-infections-with-vitamin-d.html

"Here's how: at the first sign of an infection take vitamin D 1000 IU per pound of body weight each day for three days. If you weigh if you weigh 150 pounds, you take 150,000 units each day for three days. By the third day you'll probably be free of any symptoms or at least they will be much milder than usual".

Also found this website which says the following;-

http://www.lef.org/protocols/respiratory/bronchitis_01.htm

In one study, investigators examined cold and flu symptoms in two groups of students. Individuals in the control group were given conventional pain relievers and decongestants, whereas those in the test group were treated with hourly doses of 1000 mg vitamin C for the first six hours and then three times a day thereafter. Flu and cold symptoms in the test group decreased 85 percent compared with the control group (Gorton HC et al 1999).

So i did 114,000ius of vitamin D3 for 3 days and 1000mg every hour for 6 hours on the first day also and 1000mg 3 times a day for a few subsequent days, i also took 4 primal defence probiotics each night and am feeling completely better.

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To: Autism-Biomedical-Europe From: mysuperteach@...Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:24:55 +0000Subject: Re: Psychotic episodes/regression?

Sara, I've been dosing myself with a lot of vitamin D lately, preparing myself for an experiment that has now started:-) Anyway, I'm much bigger than anyone's kid, but have been taking 18,000-22,000 a day for about two months and feel much better for it. Keep in mind I spent the summer in a place much further south than the UK and had a great tan, so should have been full up with D already. But don't think I was, and this is wierd to me and makes me wonder even more about our kids. Esp as I wouldn't have low cholestrol (eat a WAP diet mostly) and my health, although it has tanked in the last couple years, cannot be nearly as bad as our kids.This is an article I wrote for teh TA newsletter a few years back. There are some links that you might find helpful.AnitaI come from Canada and now live in the UK. The two places have at least one thing in common: a lack of sunshine. And so a recent article about Swedish doctors

pointing to a possible link between Vitamin D deficiency and autism (tinyurl.com/5rjdb7) caught my eye. The Swedish doctors are certainly not the first to point out the significance of vitamin D to our health. More than sixty years ago, Dr. Weston A. Price in his landmark book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, pointed out that the isolated, traditional cultures he studied had more than 10 times the level of dietary fat-soluble vitamins (like A and D) compared to the standard American diet of his time. Even more telling, Price noticed the marked and fairly swift decline in health in people whose traditional diet had been replaced by a more modern diet—this was especially true of the children born to these people. Dr. Cannell, Executive Director of the Vitamin D Council, connects vitamin D deficiency to not only autism, but depression, cancer, mental illness, and a variety of other problems that seem to plague our modern society.

Vitamin D is created by our body as a result of being in the sunshine (specifically, the ultraviolet-B wavelength). In our modern world, we spend very little time outdoors compared to what was normal even twenty years ago. Furthermore, we have been taught to fear the sun, and parents receive dire and repeated warnings about protecting our children from sun exposure. People whose ancestors come from very sunny climates (like the Somali people living in Sweden who are being studied by the doctors mentioned above) are even more at risk for Vitamin D deficiency when they move to less sunny places. The sun shining alone, though, is not enough to produce Vitamin D. Because the amount of ultraviolet-B wavelength can vary as the result of many factors, it is impossible, for example, to create vitamin D for only six months of the year in the city where I was born—Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Something similar may be true for the UK, as there have been

many concerns raised here by experts who study this: maternal vitamin D levels and type 1 diabetes in children; rickets among Asian children living in England; and vitamin D deficiency in the elderly.Because our bodies cannot always get enough vitamin D from the sun, it can also be ingested. As was pointed out in Price's work, unlike traditional diets, modern diets tend not to include vitamin D rich foods. How many of us eat organ meat and oily fish (let alone insects!) on a regular basis? Furthermore, the vitamin D we could get from foods we may find more palatable, like egg yolk or milk, is often lacking because we do things like raise our chickens indoors (where they cannot manufacture the D that would end up in their egg yolk) or pasteurize milk (and replace the natural D3 with synthetic D2, which behaves differently in our body).Many parents of children with ASD have known for a long time that supplementing with cod liver oil proves

beneficial to their children's health. Cod liver oil contains vitamin D, along with vitamin A and omega 3 fatty acids. More recently, a number of parents have seen much success on what many call the Vitamin K protocol, which uses, among other nutritional supplements, extra Vitamin D3. I know of many parents who have seen improvements in their children by adding D3 into their supplementation routine, on top of the D that a child would receive in cod liver oil. My own son is one of these children. In fact, only after adding extra D3 to my son's supplementation was he finally able to tan normally. Because vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, the body can store it. Theoretically, this means that levels of Vitamin D could reach toxicity. For this reason, it is very important to approach supplementation wisely and armed with knowledge. Below, you will find a number of resources that can help you better understand vitamin D and the role it may play in

your child's health.http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnutrition/vitamin-d-safety.html An excellent and comprehensive article on Vitamin D, by Masterjohn of the Weston A Price Foundation.http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/autism/index.html A huge resource where Dr. Cannell and other medical professionals examine Vitamin D, and question traditional medical wisdom on sufficient levels. This website has links to the latest research in Vitamin D.http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/VitaminK/ A support group for parents interested in exploring the use of fat soluble vitamins, including D, as supplements.>> Eileen, please share how much D3 you are giving as a megadose and how > much you will give as maintenance (RDA) (and do you include any from CLO > in that?) Thanks, Sara xxx>