Re: Understanding Casein (OT, additional comment to Allan's post)

[Guest guest]

Thanks ,

I'm glad to know the research is pushing forward.

(Especially to find out that it is being conducted in

Japan-- we live in Tokyo, and our doctor who diagnosed

our son when we asked her what we can do said that

Japan is 30 years behind the US vis 'the spectrum'.

I thought; If you know that, why aren't you doing

anything to improve it?--- Perhaps this is one of

the bad things about nationalized medicine-- no

motivation to stay current.) We had already just

naturally found that Gen was reacting (verbal stimming)

to soy, so we had to cut it out of his diet.

Thank heavens for food logs-- they really work.

We just made a new discovery-- Gen loves fried

garlic. Its crunchy so he feels like he has his own

variety of 'crackers/chips'. (Just watch out for

'the breath')

Speaking of breath, for a week or

two now, (that is before the garlic discovery...)

I've noticed Gen's breath -not really smelling,

but having a different odor from usually exhaled

air. I can't really describe it, but the word that

comes to mind is 'methane'(?) its like a kind of

gas. (obviously, since its not solid or liquid...but

what I mean is that it seems as though it might

be flammable (?) I know I'm not making sense,

but it strikes me as somewhat odd, and I'm not

sure whether I should be concerned. I've noticed

posts where people have mentioned foul breath.

This may be better described as slightly sweet

even, but heavy or something of different

consistency from his brothers'. I'm not really

worried about it, but then again, was hoping

that someone might have some experience with

this sort of thing.

-Allan. Successfully treating 8yo son with aspergers

SCD/GFCF (and soy free)

[Guest guest]

From Allan's post: " Casein causes a morphene-like reaction in the

brain, and for children of developmental age, this can have

disasterous results for brain/learning development. "

Just wanted to add a note from new research so that people can find

it if they search this yahoo group. It has been theorized for many,

many years that casein and gluten cause a morphine-like reaction in

the brain. New research in Japan shows that soy most likely does this

also. Even more reason to be on soy-free SCD.

The link to the research article:

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bbb/advpub/0/0709280581/_pdf

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April 07