autism and gluten
 

I know it may seem that I am obsessed with autism but today my suspicion that autism and PD may be linked was confirmed by a nutritional consultant we met with, I'll post separately on that later. It was a three hour consultation and I am still trying to get my head around everything that was said!

At any rate, if there is such a connection, it would help explain why a lot of PDers seem to improve when removing gluten from the diet...here's one protocol that was successfully used for a little boy who was dx'd autistic and now, gluten free and detoxed, has a clean bill of health and the dx of autism is gone. Can anyone imagine? So awesome. (Have to add, I thought boys were four times more likely to have autism than girls, but nope...found out today that it is actually 98% more boys have autism/autistic neurological disorders than girls...horrifying for anyone who has a little boy, but more on that as well later).

Here's the link (the protocol used by the Harvard doc is near the end)(oh, and boy I bet big pharma is hating the press that these natural EFFECTIVE remedies are getting, note that the article says the psychotropic drugs are the fastest growing class of meds, just awful, perhaps cases like this can curb the rush to put little children on drugs for life):

http://www.examiner.com/x-8543-SF-He...other-diseases

I just tested this on myself. Went off of gluten for 3 weeks, felt better then I've felt in a LONG time. Symptoms were minimal, on times longer, over all energy was consistant through out the day instead of the morning high, afternoon crash.

Went back to eating like I did before and the stiffness came on strong then the tremors, though mild, were there all day long. I shuffled and my thinking was very clouded.

I'm taking gluten back out of my diet and sugar is next. I get the worst lower back pain when I eat sugar but I just love cinnamon rolls and ice cream. :)

Thanks for the updated info.
Tina