Clarification needed -GABA dosing question - ANDY

April 9, 2011

As chelation progresses we are seeing that things that were once not tolerated,

are suddenly well tolerated, whether it be a food, or a supplement, whatever.

This has been the case with GABA. When speech was not progressing as I would

have liked or expected after so much chelation (approaching 100 rounds) and

suspecting possible abnormal brain activity, (and facing total spousal

opposition to an EEG), I introduced GABA last year, very low dose between 25 -

50 mg a few times a day. On it my son seemed stoned, sedated, whatever you want

to call it, and it did nothing for him otherwise. So we stopped the GABA.

Recently, I introduced GABA again. And the impact on behavior and speech has

been quite startling. In fact the day that I first gave him the first dose of

GABA, he was acting suddenly very hyper, stimmy and not speaking much at all. I

thought it was just yeast as we were on round and yeast usually looks like

this-but antifungals seemed to make no difference. We had company that day. I

gave him 100 mg of GABA with his multi mineral supplement that evening. I

figured he is approaching 125 rounds, and can tolerate more things, so why not

try it again.

Within a fairly short amount of time, he sat down, stopped stimming, and engaged

our company in conversation. Everyone wanted to know what I did to my son. The

only thing different was the GABA. Thereafter, after reading your posts, Andy,

in the archives, it seems you must give this several times throughout the day,

every so many hours. We have been giving 100 mg of GABA five times a day, which

is from what I could glean the recommended dosing for a child-100 mg several

times a day. My son is soon to be six and weighs 47 lbs.

How high can one dose GABA with a child? Is there an outer limit? I keep reading

posts of yours in the archives Andy, where you mention that adults report

sedative effects with GABA at around 500mg - is this an aggregate, or do you

mean per dose? My son is getting 500mg per day, and is anything but sedated. He

is much calmer, but it does not make him sleepy or anything and it positively

effects expressive language and social interaction especially it seems. I would

like to raise the dose, but I do not know by how much I can or should. I think a

higher dose might help him even more.

From searching the archives I could not get a handle on the answer to this

question and needed some clarification. Thanks.

Irene

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