Join Day 3 of the 21 Day Challenge with a Naturopathic Nutritionist, focusing on a gluten and casein-free diet for optimal health.
Exploring the Benefits of a Gluten and Casein Free Lifestyle
The 21-Day Gluten-Free and Casein-Free (GFCF) Challenge aims to empower parents seeking to enhance their child’s health, particularly for children with autism and other sensitivities. By adopting a GFCF diet, families may observe improvements in various aspects of their child’s life, such as digestion, inflammation reduction, and overall behavior. Many parents have reported significant enhancements in their child’s sleep, mood, communication abilities, and sensory processing, highlighting the potential benefits of this dietary approach.
Setting intentions is a crucial first step in this journey. Participants are encouraged to reflect on what inspired them to join the challenge and to share their experiences with others. This collective effort fosters a sense of community and support, reminding participants that they are not alone in navigating the complexities of dietary changes for their children. It is important to remember that while dietary adjustments can be beneficial, each child is unique, and results may vary, necessitating consultation with healthcare providers before making any significant changes.
Unleashing Vibrant Health: Embrace the Freedom of Gluten and Casein-Free Living!
welcome back to the 21 Day glutenfree Cas and free challenge today we’re going to be looking at why removing gluten is the way forward for the majority of children with autism and why removing Kon one thing that I want you to understand is not all children will be intolerant to uh queson not all children.
Will be intolerant to gluten but it is the majority of the children that have autism that will have an intolerance to gluten and queson but the only way we can find out is for us to try the children of gluten and of qua so today I want us to look at what is gluten where can we find gluten where can we find caser that’s what I.
Want us to look at today but I really want us to to to approach this whole subject with an understanding that this this is not about curing autism this is not that gluten causes autism this is not the subject line the subject line is there are a lot of things that irritate the gut that irritate the brain or two of those things that irritates the gut.
And irritates the brain are gluten and Quine and this is so for the collective it’s not just necessarily that the children with autism it’s only only because children with autism have an array of other metabolic issues that make it so hard for them to tolerate gluten and casin I have kids that are neurotypical that don’t do well on casin.
Dairy but when they get it they react withraw a little bit they keep going to school they probably have an asmatic attack or use their pump and life carries on they don’t necessarily have those aggravation effects of gluten and casin like children with autism so gluten is it’s a group of proteins a group I want you to.
Pay attention to that it’s a group of proteins found in wheat barley Ry camut spell tral icon as well as o o is not organically gluten but it’s because it’s grown in rotation with whe it gets contaminated in that process so unless if you find oat that is written glutenfree then I want you to consider that oat is is gluten contaminated the.
Majority of children with autism are not necessarily allergic to gluten orasin what we see in most cases with children autism is the IGG reaction which is a delayed reaction which is a food sensitivity and in most cases is this tends to irritate the digestive system and that’s why the majority of the symptoms will be in the.
Digestive system and if you were listening to me the other day I was talking about why the gut is going to be our major Focus it’s because of this irritation that is happening in the gut the inflammatory response of the body when it eats gluten or when it eats queson the irritation of the gut lining when.
The child eats the gluten and the casin the tearing of the gut lining driving a Lecky gut is what we are looking at in this case not necessarily an allergic reaction which is a 999 a 111 an emergency room a casualty room a doctor’s immediate call an emergency it is not that we usually see this IG reaction with people that are allergic.
To nuts eggs Etc and what we know is if your child is allergic to something you will know almost immediately but if they intolerant it’s not going to be an immediate reaction it’s going to be a delayed reaction I always give an example of my son going off to the weekend to my sisters and they don’t see any problems they put put him in the car.
They’re excited M mwah see you later JoJo see you next week and then boom JoJo gets home and the storyline changes and they always think that it’s in my head NY it’s in your head you are the one who’s crazy but I’m not crazy it’s because JoJo has a delayed reaction you may not see it today but I will see it because I’m going to be with him in the.
Next 24 hours 48 hours and in most cases it takes Plus minus 3 weeks to calm the system down and to bring it back back to Baseline so this is one of the reasons why we have to be strict and why we are practically removing the gluten and the cas out of our children’s diet some of the symptoms we see when someone is intolerant and I promise you this is a.
Collective with or without the diagnosis of autism some of the symptoms that we see that indicate a possible gluten or Cas intolerance cognitive function decline poor memory anxiety depression hyperactivity brain related symptoms a slow brain joint pains because of the inflammation gut pain because of the irritation to the gut constipation in.
Diarrhea the lack of sensitivity to pain the children do not feel pain when would fall down the next thing I would just see a big bump on his head and nobody knows where it came from it would just be bruised swollen without any indication of him having had an injury with no crying at all didn’t feel any pain at all because of the opioid effect.
Of gluten and casin to the brain the effect of gluten and casing is actually just like the effect of uh drugs too an addict sprin If the child LS that dpp4 enzyme which is required to break down the cas and and gluten what we are going to see is the gut that is supposed to be tight enough not to allow big proteins to go through the blood system.
It’s going to start tearing and it’s those proteins are going to go through the the gut lining and they go into the blood system system and of course they go to The receptors and then they drive opioid activity which then sees the child appearing to be drunk appearing to be addicted appearing to be gazy laughing away steaming mood changes poor.
Eye contact and inability to focus to learn not being able to speak for some children High pain tolerance addiction to that food and I get them parents say my child doesn’t want to eat vegetables of course your child won’t want to eat vegetables because they have a true addiction to to that yogurt so they are not going to want to eat the broccoli.
The butternut squash they’re not going to want that so our challenge today is to prepare ourself to manage the reactions that our children are likely going to have when we start seeing the withdrawal of gluten in it’s going to happen it’s something that we have to prepare for because of that opioid reaction that is caused by gluten.
And Quin and the only way we can support our children to go on the other side is to understand that my child is addicted to gluten and casing so they are going to fight to have it they are going to want to have it they are going to demand to have it they are going to be resistant to trying new foods they are going to be throwing Tantrums they are.
Going to be more AG aggressive they are going to be fighting tooth and nail to get that food so I want us to start preparing ourselves on how we are going to navigate that for some children that really do start having headaches because they are we are taking away that so I want you to think about it if you’ve tried to remove yourself of coffee that.
Element of having headaches is going to happen so I really want us to think about how we are going to navigate that so the first thing that I want you to make sure that you do the child is doing I want you to think about purposefully hydrating your child that’s going to be very very important purposefully hydrating your child hydration is going.
To be very important secondly I need you to make sure that your child is going to be opening their bows every day you must think think about making sure that your child is opening their bows every day remember we spoke about the brist tool chart in the other the the other the other day this is what we are talking about this is what we want to see so go.
Back and look at your Bristo School chart was your bab opening their bows is your baby opening their bows every day if your baby is not opening the bows every day then I need us to activate that I want us to make sure that our babies are opening their BS every day and how are we going to do that increase your vegetables increase your fluids get.
Your babies on the trampoline okay and you may want to consider uh supplements like magnesium citrate to bring those on board so that we can get the babies opening their bowels it’s a good thing it’s important that they do that that’s going to allow things to be flowing uh out of the body without being stagnant so that is our.
Action plan I want you to think about hydration I want you to think about uh your child’s bowels is your child opening their bows beautifully so today is day number three so I really want us to now start thinking about removing the gluten I want you to go back to your glutenfree casin free ebook we focusing on the gluten I want you to make sure.
That you are looking at all the grains make sure these food foods are not in the house really you want to remove these Foods out of your pantry you want to remove anything that is associated with them you’re also going to look at the list again of what is containing gluten and I want you to take that out I also want you to look at the foods that.
Are likely going to have gluten but they don’t appear to be gluten things like french fries if you’re buying the french fries from SSB on Tescos if they’re frozen if they’re not gluten gluten-free I want you to consider them to be uh gluten contaminated because they use that flour to coat french fries so that they can be tasty the gluten is an.
Ingredient that they use because it’s really chewy and it makes things stick together so it’s going to be used even in sauces it’s going to be used even in processed foods for example call it sausages it’s it’s going to be the salad dressings it’s going to be the soy sauce it’s going to be the cheese fings anything that you are going to be.
Looking at I really want you to pay attention to the ingredients you want to look at those ingredients you’re going to flip anything that you buy and and read the ingredients before you bring it back at home you’re going to ask me that say what is my child going to eat there is also quite a lot of foods options that you have in this ebook that are.
Completely not glutenfree things like fruits and vegetables proteins and uh spices you know you also have uh Alternatives those you can use those in the ebook it’s very very um clear and I hope this is going to be very helpful for you if you have any questions feel free to ask mingle in the comments and comment all the difficulties that you.
Have let me know and because we are removing gluton today I want you to make a note on your therapy tracker that this is the day that you have removed gluten out of your child’s diet I hope this helps and I’ll be speaking to you guys soon from my heart te yours bye-bye
