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Dietary Therapy to Defeat Autism
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Dietary therapy
Dietary therapy
Bad dietary habits are not the cause of autism. This means that dietary therapy alone is unlikely to treat autism. However, bad dietary habits indeed interfere with stable immunity. Stopping the harmful mechanism of autoimmune disease is an important prerequisite to the treatment of autism. Therefore dietary therapy is an essential element of treatment.
The most effective dietary therapies for autism are the gluten-casein and the ketogenic diet. Dr. Tomato’s protocol recommends that these two diets be adopted and gradually progressed over time. In mild cases, moderate dietary therapy will work, but high-intensity, dietary therapies are required in severe cases.
The following four stages of dietary therapy should be followed in sequence. If taking herbal medicine does not work in one or two months, the patient should be put on a higher level of dietary therapy accompanied by herbal decoctions and nutritional therapies. If the parents are willing to endure whatever it takes for instant recovery, the child may be put directly on the highest intensity (stage 4) diet. The most intense dietary therapy will suffice to provide essential nutrition for the child’s growth.
Stage
1
dietary therapy
Gluten casein diet
It is thought that the allergic inflammatory reaction triggered by gluten, the main component of flour, and casein, the main component of milk, inhibits brain development. Stage 1 dietary therapy involves avoiding all foods made from flour or dairy products.
The combination of stage 1 dietary therapy and Korean herbal medicine is applicable to children under 20 months of age. This stage can be more effective for children under 20 months (Korean herbal medicine and dietary therapy).
Children under 20 months of age. After that, children exhibit more severe autoimmune reactions and dysbiosis intensifies, which justifies the strengthening of the dietary therapy.
Stage
2
dietary therapy
Gluten casein diet
allergy-sensitive food elimination
The IgG analysis is understood as a food sensitivity test. In this stage, the aim is to identify food ingredients to which the child exhibits sensitivity, hence inflammation in the gut, and avoid them. The IgG antigens penetrate the blood-brain barrier and intensify inflammation in the central nervous system. Therefore, avoiding IgG-reactive food ingredients is a safe bet for blocking the malignant mechanism of autoimmune responses.
In several cases, children under 30 months of age show improvement when stage 2 dietary therapy and Korean herbal immunotherapy are combined. If the child does not establish an improvement in eye contact in two months, the dietary therapy should proceed to stage 3 or 4.
Even in older ages, most mild Asperger and borderline autism cases can be improved with stage 2 dietary therapy and Korean herbal medicine.
Stage
3
dietary therapy
Gluten casein diet
allergy-sensitive food elimination
carbohydrate restriction
Sugar is food for harmful bacteria in the intestine. Hence a rapid over-proliferation occurs when sugar is consumed. Therefore, regulating dysbiosis of intestinal bacteria requires a ban on monosaccharides and disaccharides, i.e., fruit. In addition, children with autism; may have severe instability in blood sugar control, which results in a rapid increase in inflammatory cytokines during sugar intake and breakdown. Therefore, limiting sugar intake and breakdown creates conditions for improving autism.
Children older than 30 months are already at the age when harmful autistic metabolic mechanisms are fixed. Therefore, starting treatment with stage 3 dietary therapy would be the most effective for this age range. In particular, a stage 3 diet is recommended even for younger ages if language development is significantly delayed. Also, mild Asperger syndrome with extreme attention deficit necessitates carbohydrate restriction.
Stage
4
dietary therapy
Gluten casein diet
allergy-sensitive food elimination
ketogenic diet
The ketogenic diet restricts carbohydrates which can turn into sugar by metabolic turnover to the greatest possible extent and focuses on protein and fat while taking carbohydrates that help control blood sugar and fiber-rich leaf vegetables. This is commonly called a low-carb, high-fat diet.
The ketogenic diet is a high-intensity carbohydrate restriction diet. If Korean herbal medicine with the stage 3 dietary therapy does not produce a remarkable improvement in interactions in two months, it is advisable to opt for the ketogenic diet without delay. The ketogenic diet has very high therapeutic effects, but parents are often reluctant to go for this diet because of concerns over their children’s nutrition. However, it is nutritionally safe. In some cases, children may experience ketosis in the early stages, but they usually recover in 2-3 weeks and return to normal.
Even when the child positively responds to the treatment, the dietary therapy should be maintained until the child returns to normal. It is recommended to stick to it for an extended period of time even after betterment, or at least for two years whatever the circumstances may be. Ending the dietary therapy does not mean instantly returning to a regular diet, but it involves a gradual easement from stage 4 to stage 3, stage 2, stage 1, and regular diet with careful attention paid to see if there are signs of degeneration relapse.
