Another another Tanner update from NV :)

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Just two quick things for Tanner who this month is on NV for one year.

As some here know due to the economy my son Tanner's school closed down so as an

8th grader he had to attend a new school where the workload is tough. This

school has plenty of homework and as I've said before he is unlike prior to NV

extremely independent. He not only doesn't ask for help, but when I say " do you

need any help? " he now says " No I can do it myself "

So I just jumped onto a computer we had that a number of us in the family use

and one that still had one of Tanner's book reports up on it. Well on the

computer he clearly had just put up the Google search " define: theme " The thing

that struck me about this one was that I was in the one room when he was working

on this book report. And instead of just asking me " Mom what is a theme? " he

searched for the answer himself. May not seem like a biggie to some -but

together with the tremendous surges he has had (he too fits the profile here

http://pursuitofresearch.org/pursuit.html ) it was just one more sign that he is

fully independent. An incredible feeling.

The second update -well the background is serious -but it's funny now. Tanner

as some of you know was always large child but as you can see from photos he was

never considered " fat " http://www.debtsmart.net/talk/tanner.html it wasn't

until after he had a massive regression on a high vitamin e product we called

that he seemed to have issue with weight. We eat mainly organic and do not have

" junk food " or soda in our house. Tanner has always loved basketball and

football and again ate less than other children, but no matter what how healthy

he ate and now much he worked out he seemed to just keep putting weight on. He

started to look " fat " He noticed it too and he asked us to buy him a large

trampoline that he loves. Poor little guy would jump on that thing for an hour,

working up a sweat- but he continued to gain weight. It started to look like

there was a metabolic issue. We had put Tanner through all the metabolic

testing prior to the vitamin e product -and was not looking forward to going

through that again. We had spoken to the pediatrician who said that Tanner -who

at 13 was 5 foot 7 and 162 pounds prior to starting NV should lose the unwanted

weight when he went to stage 4 of puberty. We didn't want to put him on a

" diet "

This was exactly when we started Tanner on NV last Fall with the approval of

various medical professionals including his pediatrician. Within a day Tanner

lost a pound and a half. While that may not seem like a big deal to anyone that

was the most excited Tanner and I were because he didn't think NV was going to

work (for weight) and said " yeah right Mom " and back then was prior to me even

knowing I would soon discover way more about what NV is good for above and

beyond weight gain OR loss!! We both jumped up and down and I'll never forget

Tanner's smile as I said " Tanner I can't believe it worked -you actually lost

some weight! " Again- that just didn't happen no matter what before. Within 5

days he lost 6 pounds and within two weeks he lost 9 pounds....and then there

were the calls from the school -the across the board surges in so many areas it

was hard to keep up...and then there was the tremendous and rapid it seemed in

front of my eyes growth spurt in Tanner where he went from 5 foot 7 just about 6

foot tall in months. In fact he passed his 2 years older 16 year old brother

Dakota during this time. It wasn't until Dakota started the NV that he too shot

up (where again both boys are about 6 foot and while Tanner lost about 15 pounds

total and is now about 6 foot 149 pounds -his brother grew about 2 inches and

gained about 17 pounds that he so needed- their pediatrician was incredibly

impressed and we were thrilled to say the least -still are.)

OK here is the second update. When Tanner was in that stage where we watched

everything he ate like a hawk...all he ever wanted was a doughnut. " I want a

doughnut so bad " Tanner would say and I would say " Fried saturated fat and

sugar, I don't think so " If it was at school or a party he may have had one

-but I found healthy snacks to give him instead. OK so yesterday I was driving

him home from school and I don't recall the how of how it came up...but

doughnuts came up in the conversation. I laughed and said " Tanner do you

remember how often you would ask for a doughnut? " And Tanner said " Yes, can I

have a doughnut now that I'm thin? " And I looked at him and said " Sure. Let me

just grab some things at the house and then if you want I'll take you to Dunkin

Doughnuts " (don't know if I spelled that right -honestly NEVER go there) and

Tanner said as he got out of the car " No not today, maybe another day " I waited

to see if " Mr. Memory head would ask me to take him today for a doughnut and he

didn't. So I brought it up to him and all he said was " I know " but he didn't

again want to go get one.

All I can say is once again I'm speechless as to who is this child and what did

you do with my son?!!! Again don't know if any of you can relate to this -but

Tanner turning down a doughnut...twice? No that's just crazy!!! (in the

bestest best very very cool way)

Again this summer will be taking Tanner down from 6 scoops a day to 2 to see if

we can just keep him there as a once a day protein shake as maintenance. I

again don't want to do it during this school year as his workload is so high

-but again I highly suspect there is neuro repair going on based on what I have

seen and the research I have read including; Research links between essential

amino acids and neuro repair

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=15272 & uid=115029735601

I am working on 2 new sites that will better explain what I have here

http://pursuitofresearch.org/science.html from a scientific basis. Will let all

know when they are ready to share!

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