casein & Aspergers

[Guest guest]

I wanted to ask a further question, based on 's discussion of why casein is

eliminated from diets of autistics, including Aspies. I have a 14-yr old aspie.

We had him on gfcf for about a year, and noticed big improvements (no more

raging tantrums! yeah!). After about a year, we tested milk products again, and

did not notice any difference, so we let him drink milk. We are now testing SCD

(just past intro), and I?have not planned to keep it cf, but let him have legal

dairy products, based on our earlier experience. Question: has there been more

research to demonstrate that ALL auties/aspies are casein sensitive? When we

tried gfcf, it was still a question, who was sensitive to what. Could he be

sensitive to casein and I haven't noticed yet? I really don't want to have to

refuse him cheese now, after I've promised he could have it!

Thanks, (in Canada: me, CFS; son Josh, 14, AS; plus hubby and daughter

doing it too for weight loss and to make cooking easier for me!)

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[Guest guest]

I have an aspergers daughter and an autistic son. We are on the SCD diet and my

daughter never had much reaction to casein and my son just had raging tantrums

while on it. We did get my daughter tested and after you have not had it in your

diet for some time your child may not test allergic to it. Also technically in

autism the child is not allergic to it but unable to process the protein as

gluten and casein are among the hardest to digest. Although my daughter does not

test allergic I do see the difference when we avoid it.

Hope this is short enough but I will send this link:

" Casein causes a morphine-like reaction in the

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

disastrous results for brain/learning development. "

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 as the protein is very similar to casein. 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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[Guest guest]

I have an aspergers daughter and an autistic son. We are on the SCD diet and my

daughter never had much reaction to casein and my son just had raging tantrums

while on it. We did get my daughter tested and after you have not had it in your

diet for some time your child may not test allergic to it. Also technically in

autism the child is not allergic to it but unable to process the protein as

gluten and casein are among the hardest to digest. Although my daughter does not

test allergic I do see the difference when we avoid it.

Hope this is short enough but I will send this link:

" Casein causes a morphine-like reaction in the

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

disastrous results for brain/learning development. "

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 as the protein is very similar to casein. 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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