sleeplessness

[Guest guest]

My 13 year old son has been GFCF for 3 1/2 years. Over the past

several days he has taken zyme prime, no fenol and AFP before eating

a grilled cheese sandwich on wheat bread, a serving of ice cream and

3 tacos with cheese (one food each evening). Although he takes

melatonin and a small dose of clonidine he has been awake until

midnight 3 nights in a row (he usually goes to sleep around 10). Is

this the food or the enzymes? This is the first time I have given

him a full capsule of all three enzymes at the same time.

[Guest guest]

Caryn...I am just posting this reply to the group even though I sent

it to your privately too.

>>> Do you think the sleeping problems were created by the enzymes or

by the foods?

I see two things in your message. One is that doing this earlier in

the day might help particularly if he is eating foods he isn't used

to. If you decide to give these foods with enzymes again, just plan

on a lunch or afternoon snack and see if that helps. If you do it

night after night, the sleeping will likely re-adjust as he gets used

to these foods again.

If this is the first time at full doses, it could be some additional

adjustment to higher levels of enzymes (cleaning the gut out).

The second item is related to the first...he might have been so

excited about the foods again, that kept him up...just the novelty of

it.

I know if I am looking forward to a particular conference or event

(or a sale at mall, LOL) I can keep myself up a couple extra hours

just because I am pepped up. So if you repeat these foods again and

when they aren't so unique...or give them earlier in the day, that

might help with this aspect as well.

Isn't it cool how such little things can make the kids so happy?!

>>>Do I need to use the Zyme Prime if I?m using the AFP?

Yes. They are really for different foods. The Peptizyde excells at

the proteins particularly for casein and gluten. It won't do anything

for carbs or fats.

The Zyme Prime is a broad-spectrum product for across the board food

breakdowns. It does have some protease in it but not the robust

targeted amount that Peptizyde has. If someone doesn't have a problem

with casein/gluten/soy proteins, then they might want to skip this.

The other thing that Peptizyde can function as is a strong protease

product. Proteases can be taken between meals to help with immune

system support and killing pathogens. Other strong protease products

can do this too. Hope that helps.

.

[Guest guest]

> My 13 year old son has been GFCF for 3 1/2 years. Over the past

> several days he has taken zyme prime, no fenol and AFP before eating

> a grilled cheese sandwich on wheat bread, a serving of ice cream and

> 3 tacos with cheese (one food each evening). Although he takes

> melatonin and a small dose of clonidine he has been awake until

> midnight 3 nights in a row (he usually goes to sleep around 10). Is

> this the food or the enzymes? This is the first time I have given

> him a full capsule of all three enzymes at the same time.

My son did not tolerate cheese culture, even with enzymes. And if the

ice cream contained corn syrup [most do], he did not tolerate that,

even with enzymes.

If you want to challenge things, first I would just give him the

enzymes, without any foods that are known problems. This will let you

know if he needs an adjustment period with the enzymes.

Then, do something with ONLY milk, or ONLY wheat [whatever you want to

introduce]. Something like put wheat flour into a cookie recipe. Or

add a little milk to the recipe. That will tell you what his reaction

is to each new thing.

Dana

[Guest guest]

There's a simple solution: Go to GNC, they have cherry-flavored 1 mg Melatonin.

They're chewable and my kids love them. Before I found out about it, I was only

getting 3-4 hours ofsleep a day because my children would'nt sleep. If my 8 yr

old daughter power-napped for 10 minutes, she could go for another 20 hours.

Both of my cchildren love it. There are no side affects, and everyone gets

restful sleep. Oh, I give my daughter (8) 2-3 of the 1 mg.

Horner <shorner@...> wrote:

Hello Everyone

My 7 yr.old AS son has been having sleep problems for about the past

3 weeks.

Before that he was the best sleeper in the house.

Two weeks ago I started to reduce qluten and milk (not take away

completely just start to do it slowly).

He tends to wake up about 2 a.m. and have trouble falling asleep again.

He says that noises bother him now and " he gets creepy " .

We have let him come into our room when he wakes up to sleep on the

floor.

Of course we have a hard time getting him up for school the next

morning.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

H.