Beginnings

Since November of this past year we have done a complete overhaul of our families diet. I always cooked whole foods and we ate healthy, but it was the little things that I believe were building up. We may have never noticed it ourselves, but when you have a child with a "lower threshold" everything shows up as an extreme. So rather than medications we chose to initiate a LIFE CHANGE.  We eliminated dairy, food dyes, preservatives (i.e. nitrates, MSG), and reduced our gluten intake. I began making all of our own bread (which I love now!) and we introduced a combination of fish oil, Magnesium, and B vitamins for our son. 

We have seen an incredible response from our son*. Many of his sensory and hyperactivity symptoms drastically decreased. As a pediatric nurse it breaks my heart to see how many kids are comprehensively medicated. But no one has taken the time to educate the parents on the "fuel" they are putting in the child's body and the extreme effect it can have. If you have a child like mine then you know how sensitive they are to external factors... imagine what we are doing internaly with the food they eat?

*Although we choose not to pursue any formal diagnosis, our son exhibits some mild autism and sensory processing sensitivities as well as hyperactivity. The definition of "spectrum" is range, gamut, sweep, extent, scope, span; the definition is truly inclusive of the many children that fall in that rainbow of dispositions.*