Re: 6 Months on Enzymes: Remember Me? Back again.

[Guest guest]

Hello again,

Someone emailed asking me to clarify about our diet experience before

the enzymes. My son had many significant improvements from the

diet. If anyone was at the Kansas City conference sponsored by Great

Plains Lab and Beth Bowers in March, 2001, you might have picked up

my son's story about our diet success which was made available by

Beth.

We did the diet for a year and had no intentions of stopping it with

enzymes. However, I was getting distraught about the new food

sensitivities my son continued to develop. I felt I was going to run

out of foods eventually. I tried to rotate, but it is difficult to

do that when your child is older and higher functioning and upset

that his treats never quite match what the other kids have at school

and social events.

My plan at first was to only to use the enzymes for infractions.

However, I found myself allowing more and more infractions as my son

got better and better on the enzymes. One day I realized he had been

eating either dairy or gluten with every meal. I didn't even tell

anyone for weeks because I was almost embarrassed to have taken him

off the diet we so strictly followed and preached to others about. I

was also scared to death that the effects would not last, but it has

been over six months, and well, you read my report.

My son still stims at home sometimes and is generally a quiet type,

prefers reading to conversing most of the time, his room is a chaotic

mess, and he is a little naive about the world, so he is

not " perfect " by the neuro-typical standards. But to have these two

teachers insist over and over that all the improvements were from the

enzymes was not something I could keep to myself. In addition, he is

overall so much happier from the minute he gets up till the minute he

goes to bed - that alone is enough for me.

It is hard to know how far to take it when posting things like this.

I know there will be about 15% of the chidren that the enzymes will

probably not help. So, do I keep quiet and then the other 85% never

get any benefits? Some of the 85% will only be helped a little, some

will be helped dramatically. Do you squelch the information and rob

the ones whose lives will be changed forever?

Cindy

[Guest guest]

Hello again,

Someone emailed asking me to clarify about our diet experience before

the enzymes. My son had many significant improvements from the

diet. If anyone was at the Kansas City conference sponsored by Great

Plains Lab and Beth Bowers in March, 2001, you might have picked up

my son's story about our diet success which was made available by

Beth.

We did the diet for a year and had no intentions of stopping it with

enzymes. However, I was getting distraught about the new food

sensitivities my son continued to develop. I felt I was going to run

out of foods eventually. I tried to rotate, but it is difficult to

do that when your child is older and higher functioning and upset

that his treats never quite match what the other kids have at school

and social events.

My plan at first was to only to use the enzymes for infractions.

However, I found myself allowing more and more infractions as my son

got better and better on the enzymes. One day I realized he had been

eating either dairy or gluten with every meal. I didn't even tell

anyone for weeks because I was almost embarrassed to have taken him

off the diet we so strictly followed and preached to others about. I

was also scared to death that the effects would not last, but it has

been over six months, and well, you read my report.

My son still stims at home sometimes and is generally a quiet type,

prefers reading to conversing most of the time, his room is a chaotic

mess, and he is a little naive about the world, so he is

not " perfect " by the neuro-typical standards. But to have these two

teachers insist over and over that all the improvements were from the

enzymes was not something I could keep to myself. In addition, he is

overall so much happier from the minute he gets up till the minute he

goes to bed - that alone is enough for me.

It is hard to know how far to take it when posting things like this.

I know there will be about 15% of the chidren that the enzymes will

probably not help. So, do I keep quiet and then the other 85% never

get any benefits? Some of the 85% will only be helped a little, some

will be helped dramatically. Do you squelch the information and rob

the ones whose lives will be changed forever?

Cindy