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We just discussed this topic! Great timing as it also indicated in the article what I said about science didn't recognize celiac disease 30 years ago. Gluten sensitivity and intolerance are starting to get some research! Helpful article for those of us who minimize gluten in our (and our kids') diets and can be printed and given to caregivers and teachers, etc.Hope this helps!Sent from my iPhoneBegin forwarded message:From: Austintandt@...Date: March 16, 2011 6:29:38 PM EDTTo: Austintandt@...Subject: WSJ.com - Clues to Gluten Sensitivity

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Hi,However, please note the following quote from the same article:"Could such findings help explain why some parents of autistic children

say their symptoms have improved—sometimes dramatically—when gluten was

eliminated from their diets? To date, no scientific studies have

emerged to back up such reports."Regards,To: sList Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 6:37:29 PMSubject: Fwd: WSJ.com - Clues to Gluten Sensitivity

We just discussed this topic! Great timing as it also indicated in the article what I said about science didn't recognize celiac disease 30 years ago. Gluten sensitivity and intolerance are starting to get some research! Helpful article for those of us who minimize gluten in our (and our kids') diets and can be printed and given to caregivers and teachers, etc.Hope this helps!Sent from my iPhoneBegin forwarded message:From: Austintandt@...Date: March 16, 2011 6:29:38 PM EDTTo: Austintandt@...Subject: WSJ.com - Clues to Gluten Sensitivity

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The studies have only just begun in this area but the findings are pointing to the connection between gluten and casein and autistic behaviors. I have included a link you may want to check out. At the bottom of the page is 13 references to recent studies on gluten and autism. I can tell you that my child has behavior problems anytime he sneaks and gets gluten and or casein. The gluten infractions do not yield as many disastrous side affects as the casein, but the last time he had casein he thrashed around in his bed throwing himself against the walls of his crib the entire night.

I have tried to find many reasons not to do the diet with my child because it makes our lives so difficult, but every time I try to give him "normal" food he has severe behavior issues as a result. In the case of gluten, it takes exactly two days before he starts acting odd whereas the affects from casein are almost immediate or at least occurring within two to three hours of the dietary infraction.

Additionally, my best friend has Celiac's disease and whenever she eats gluten she suffers from autism like behaviors. She starts rocking back and forth, she gets extremely irritable, her stomach gets inflamed, and she becomes constipated. All of these behaviors happen to my child when he is ingests gluten. It would be so much easier for me to dismiss that evidence and keep feeding him pizza (which he loves) but I can't do what is easier for us if it is unhealthy for him. All of our kids are different, and there are some who are lucky enough to be able to eat gluten and casein with no issues, but many of our kids suffer in silence.

I am not one to try anything experimental with my little guy and every time I put him on a new supplement I put myself on it first to make sure it is ok. I also spend countless hours reading medical journals studying the new research out there in autism related therapies. I am extremely skeptical of the medical world and have found often that doctors know very little about many of the drugs they are pushing on us. Recently I got attacked by a dog (I am an animal control officer) and the doctor wanted to start the Rabies vaccinations with me but I refused because I was afraid that the vaccines were loaded with thimerosal or aluminum but the doctor assured me they weren't. I decided to wait on the vaccines and went home and googled the very vaccines the doctor wanted to use and sure enough they were preserved with aluminum. I went back to the doctors office the next day and informed the doctor that he was giving me incorrect information and could have potentially faced a malpractice suit for doing so. He apologized and re-read the box and sure enough, the aluminum was there, but under a name that he was not familiar with. My point is, the medical and scientific community do not always have the right answers and as parents we need things to pass the eyeball test. For my son, gluten and casein foods do not pass the eyeball test. I wish they did. Although, I would not have my kid on milk anyway because I just think it is weird to feed my child milk from other animals. Ironically, humans are the only animals that do so. I am not saying that anyone else is a bad parent because they feed their family cow's milk, that is just a personal decision I made for my family please do not misconstrue my message. Maybe the animals know something we don't? Anywhoo, I digress, here is the link:

http://autism.healingthresholds.com/therapy/gluten-free-diet

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For a year and half now, I suffered from severe bloating, cramps, constipation,

joint aches and fatigue. The Internal medicine doctor not the

gastro-enterologist could find anything wrong with me. Finally, I made the

connection between eating wheat products and my symptoms. I put myself on a GF

diet (as much as possible) and the symptoms subsided. What a difference in the

quality of life!

My son has autism and he has been on the diet for 4years. Before that we tried

having him both on and off the diet and when he was off the diet he was in a

complete fog, regressed in language and banged his head on the wall. So even

though the pediatrician thought I was crazy, I have kept him on the diet and

will not look back again. Now we take him to a DAN doctor that knows we are not

crazy; our bodies are just different! Ida

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article what I said about science didn't recognize celiac disease 30 years ago.

Gluten sensitivity and intolerance are starting to get some research!

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diets and can be printed and given to caregivers and teachers, etc.

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For me, it appears I have a threshold for how much gluten I can tolerate... Prior to putting my son, and subsequently, my whole house, on the gfcf diet, I wasn’t aware I even had an issue with gluten. I’d been off of it for about 2 weeks and had a sub while at a training. I was miserable the rest of the day. It wreaked havoc on my stomach. I’d always complained about feeling bloated and stomach pain. I’ve had joint pain and general body aches since my son was born. Too much gluten on any given evening like say, a pasta dinner, and I am wiped for about 2 days. I’ve also noticed I’m foggy and tired after eating it. I’ve tried it several times to see if I was just associating them. I’ve kept journals and talked about it. It appears my son has similar threshold issues. He can tolerate some gluten. He’d be better off without it altogether but it’s really challenging with all of his activities and an active social life. So, we try to minimize it and plan for times when he will have a binge so-to-speak.

I’ve heard of many parents talk about also learning they, too, have sensitivities/intolerances to gluten and that they learn this when they put their kids on the diet.

Our bodies are not necessarily able to process gluten. It’s only been in our diets for the past 10,000 years. It’s an additive, a thickener, a glue.

Interesting tidbit about casein (dairy). Cow milk was introduced when mom’s were struggling to make their own milk. It’s equally unnatural to drink cow’s milk and many are just as sensitive/intolerant to this as well.

Anyone seen Food, Inc. yet?

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For a year and half now, I suffered from severe bloating, cramps, constipation, joint aches and fatigue. The Internal medicine doctor not the gastro-enterologist could find anything wrong with me. Finally, I made the connection between eating wheat products and my symptoms. I put myself on a GF diet (as much as possible) and the symptoms subsided. What a difference in the quality of life!My son has autism and he has been on the diet for 4years. Before that we tried having him both on and off the diet and when he was off the diet he was in a complete fog, regressed in language and banged his head on the wall. So even though the pediatrician thought I was crazy, I have kept him on the diet and will not look back again. Now we take him to a DAN doctor that knows we are not crazy; our bodies are just different! Ida>> We just discussed this topic! Great timing as it also indicated in the article what I said about science didn't recognize celiac disease 30 years ago. Gluten sensitivity and intolerance are starting to get some research! > > Helpful article for those of us who minimize gluten in our (and our kids') diets and can be printed and given to caregivers and teachers, etc.> > Hope this helps!> > Sent from my iPhone> > Begin forwarded message:> > > > Date: March 16, 2011 6:29:38 PM EDT> > To: Austintandt@...> > Subject: WSJ.com - Clues to Gluten Sensitivity> > > > > > > > > > > > > * Please note, the sender's email address has not been verified.> > > > > > > > You have received the following link from Austintandt@...: > > > > > > > > Click the following to access the sent link:> > > > > > WSJ.com - Clues to Gluten Sensitivity* This article will be available to non-subscribers of the Online Journal for up to seven days after it is e-mailed.> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Get your EMAIL THIS Browser Button and use it to email content from any Web site. Click here for more information.> > > > > > *This article can also be accessed if you copy and paste the entire address below into your web browser.> > http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704893604576200393522456636-lMyQjAxMTAxMDEwNjExNDYyWj.html > >>

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I say the same thing all of the time and people look at me like I am crazy. We are just conditioned from an early age to think that milk does the body good. If the milk is raw then ok, maybe, but the pasteurization process ruins the benefits and changes the protein so that is is extremely hard to digest. If you do any research into the meat and dairy industry you will find that the conditions these animals are housed in are unclean so the animals stay sick. To counter that the industry just gives the animals large doses of antibiotics and hormones to keep them pumping out milk even through the stressful, filthy conditions in which they live. If you must drink milk or eat milk products it is better to use raw milk not pasteurized processed milk. If anyone is interested you can google the Weston Price Foundation and they can tell you where you can get raw milk products in your area from clean organic dairies where the animals are treated humanely and as a result create a superior product to the store bought junk.

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