Our Nutriiveda experience, so far!

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Hello all! We received our canisters of chocolate NV on Monday and began that

afternoon! My 5 yr old son Liam and I are both using it. I've started Liam on

only 1 scoop per day, because I'm having a horrible time getting it in him! I

don't think he objects to the taste as much as texture??? We know he doesn't

like milk shakes or smoothies of any kind, so we're feeling kind of limited.

Hubbie is picking up some coconut milk yogurt from Whole Foods on his way home,

so fingers crossed that will work and we can up his dosage to 2 scoops soon.

For myself, I started with 2 scoops and then upped it to 4 today.

First, because I haven't posted much and you don't know much about Liam - a

brief history. Liam was diagnosed with multiple protein intolerance as a

newborn and cannot tolerate casein or soy. He has a history of sinus, ear, and

respiratory infections and is small for his age. He was diagnosed with verbal

apraxia at 22 mos. We discovered 's book soon afterward and started Pro-EFA

& EPA, experiencing nice surges as we increased it. Over the past few years,

Liam has received additional diagnoses of high functioning autism/PDD-NOS, SPD,

CAPD - well, you get the idea - he's a real head-scratcher! He's hyperlexic, so

the big difference between his verbal and nonverbal/performance skills make him

difficult to evaluate, I'm told. Anyway, he's " apraxic from head to toe " (per

one of his SLPs), mildly sensory-seeking, and has the expressive and receptive

language skills of a <3 yr old, while able to do complex addition and

substraction and read at a second grade level.

Changes in Liam so far: Liam is a much happier child, with much more energy.

His attention has improved - he seems more " on. " Instead of wanting TV all day,

he hasn't even asked for it yesterday or today. Instead, he's reading and wants

to share the books with the rest of us. He is intiating play with us more,

actually creating his own silly games (apparently, they've been imitating trains

in preschool, which is thinks is hilarious, so he runs around the house going

" chuga chuga choo choo! " and then came to me with a variation: " Mommy, when I

say chuga chuga, you say moo moo! Ok, ready? Ok, go! " - he has never done this

before). He didn't cry about going to preschool yesterday or today - this is a

battle we usually endure every morning (he'd even get the calendar and try to

convince me that it's the weekend! lol). As I'm typing this, he has come up to

me twice and physically moved my face so I have to look at him while he tells me

about something. Definitely more engaged. He's considerably less frustrated

and less married to routine. We haven't noticed any change in articulation yet,

but he's requiring less cuing to answer WH questions. After preschool yesterday

and today, two different therapists noted that he was very engaged and followed

directions well (was the only one in his group who followed instructions on an

art project without help). They don't yet know that we're doing anything

different. Liam was still happy and energetic after his mornings at preschool,

which is new. Liam is kind of hyper since beginning NV, which under ordinary

circumstances I might consider to be a bad thing, but if he's feeling better and

more energetic, who can blame him for wanting to climb and jump all over

everything?!!! Oh - and he is drinking a lot more. This might seem like a

little, unimportant thing, but we usually have to bribe him to get him to finish

even one cup of juice at a meal - last night he had 2 1/2! Good hydration makes

us happy!

I'm also feeling much, much more energy. I've already cut my morning coffee

from two mugs to one - just don't want it. I still have energy at the end of

the day, and yet I'm sleeping very well. My head feels clearer and I just plain

feel better. I'm 46 (my oldest child is in grad school and my youngest is 3 -

yes, I'm crazy) and overweight and had given up on being able to lose my extra

weight, but this week I've already lost 4 lbs. It's all water - my ankles are

no longer swollen and my feet don't hurt at the end of the day. I was

underweight - a teeny size zero - until my mid-thirties, and then gained 30

lbs., followed by 30+ more after Liam was born, and doctors haven't been able to

tell me why, and diet and exercise have not helped, so I'm a great candidate, I

think, for this product. If it continues to help me with my health and weight

woes, it is indeed miraculous!

For those who are doing biomed/DAN protocol for their kids - if it helps at all

to know - we started seeing a DAN doc last October. Of course we were already

GFCFSF because of Liam's problems, and we had already added fish oils and

digestive enzymes with great results. We added Vitaspectrum multivitamins, at

our DAN's advice, and increased his calcium and magnesium (because he can't have

milk products) and vitamin D (blood test showed it was very low, by even

mainstream standards, as is common in my family), and added L-Theanine (which we

were happy to see is included in NV). Since beginning NV, we've stopped the

multivitamins and L-Theanine, but kept the other stuff.

Sorry that this ended up being so long! Hope it helps.

Dianne