Guest guest Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hi , You're right, Xanthan Gum is technically not SCD-legal. Two years ago, Elaine Gottschall personally approved our Ultra Sensitive Formula vitamins and minerals for use on the SCD, despite the tiny amount of xanthan gum in them. She felt it was an acceptable allowance to make, so kids would have a good liquid vitamin available. To make a liquid formula, you have to use something so the ingredients will stay evenly dispersed. Pretty much all the things used for this are 'gummy' types of substances. We found xanthan gum to be the best of several alternatives, none of which would have been SCD-legal. The reason that our other formulas are not SCD-approved is because there are herbs in them. Part of the intent of these particular herbs is to help the same issues SCD addresses, and we find them helpful. As you probably know, however, all herbs are officially illegal on SCD. Hope this clears things up for you. Terri at Brainchild At 01:07 PM 2/27/2006, you wrote: >Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:25:27 -0800 (PST) > >Subject: Restarting diet after failed attempt/SCD legal supplements > >Hi Members, > > We had our ASD son on the SCD (& GFCF) for about a month without > any big changes. Then our DAN Doctor made us remove all nut flour but > permitted rice, quinoa and potatoes. After two months he had diarrhea > almost every day up to today. After some good advice from members of this > group, we decided to restart the diet (with nut flour, despite our DAN > Doctor's attempts to dissuade us) by doing the intro diet and keeping > strictly legal. Hopefully we will see positive changes we didn't see the > first time because we did things wrong the first month. We reviewed all > 's supplements to make sure they are legal. > > According to the pecanbread.com website, BrainChild Nutritionals > products are not legal, except for a few including Spectrum Support Ultra > Sensitive Formula which contains xanthan gum according to the BrainChild > website (which also says the product is SCD legal). But the pecanbread > website also says that xanthan gum is illegal. What gives? We are > attempting to substitute BrainChild Spetrum Support Minerals Only which > is not SCD legal. > > We also have our son on NeuroScience ProQuil (neurotransmitter support) > which contains SCD illegal rice flour. Does anyone know of a substitute > for this? gets two large capsules of this a day. If we can't find a > substitute and continue with the ProQuil are we doomed to fail on the > SCD? Thanks for your help. > > Bruce-dad of 5yrs ...... Terri Mykland Business Manager Brainchild Nutritionals www.brainchildnutritionals.com Phone 831 465-0104 Fax 831 465-0101 terri@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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