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vital. However in GAPS children and adults, just and amino acid supplements. With the majority Vitamin A is
eating fermented foods is not enough. They have of patients, I don’t give it at all. I just tell them
to have a strong, aggressive, therapeutic-strength to implement the diet fully. Once the diet is fully critical for the
probiotic that eats candida and clostridia, and implemented, the nutritional deficiencies just go autistic child
that eats the old, compacted putrefaction in the away because the body knows what to do with and cod liver
gut and removes it. That kind of probiotic causes vitamins, minerals and amino acids when they
a so-called die-off reaction because when you come as food. When they come as supplements oil is the
introduce the beneficial bacteria, they will kill the majority are synthetic. They don’t come best way to
the pathogens and when these critters die, they with the right kind of cofactors, the right kind receive it.
release toxins, the same toxins that make the child of friends holding hands, so the body doesn’t
autistic, hyperactive or dyslexic. So you have to recognize them. And for most of the common
start a therapeutic-strength probiotic at a tiny supplements on the market today, the absorption
amount and build it up slowly to a therapeutic rate is very low.
level in order to control this die-off reaction. So you have to know what kind of supple-
Unless you start slowly, you can throw the patient ments to prescribe and I prescribe those on an
into such a crisis that they would never touch the individual basis in particularly debilitated cases,
probiotic again. not as a blanket policy at all. Digestive enzymes
can be helpful as well, but these are a temporary
NUTRIENTS crutch, prescribed on an individual basis.
I don’t like supplements. I believe people Finally, detoxification is a very important
should get their nutrition from food, not from part of the process. There are very natural and
pills. However, some food-based supplements good ways to detoxify the child gently without
are essential. causing any detox reactions.
Vitamin A is critical for the autistic child and Autism is a symptom and a sign of our times,
cod liver oil is the best way to receive it, because the final tragic result of a toxic world, an indus-
the vitamin A in cod liver oil comes in combina- trial food system and a medical system that relies
tion with another fat-soluble vitamin—vitamin on antibiotics rather than the legions of friendly
D—and these two vitamins work as a team. helpers that populate the normal gut. Autistic
Many commercially available fat-soluble children have an important lesson to teach us, one
vitamin supplements contain synthetic vitamins. that urges us to temper learning with wisdom and
These do not work the same way as the natural industrial progress with respect for the natural
ones and it is easy to overdose on them. It is best world.
to receive these vitamins in a food form.
Autistic children tend to be severely deficient Practical treatment and dietary plans for the
in essential fatty acids. We have to provide both child with autism, ADD and similar disorders
the parent essential fatty acids which come from can be found in Dr. Campbell-McBride’s book
nut and seed oils and their derivatives, which Gut and Psychology Syndrome, available in the
come from fish, animal fats and some plant oils. U.S. from The Healthy Gut, Inc. (404) 786-7661,
Normally in a healthy body and in a perfect envi- labetter@aol.com. Dr. Campbell-McBride has
ronment, those parent fatty acids can get convert- presented several all-day seminars at our Wise
ed into the derivatives: EPA, DHA, DGLA and Traditions conferences.
arachidonic acid. However GAPS patients are so
toxic and so deficient in nutrients that they cannot
complete these steps of conversion. They have
to receive these essential fatty acids in a ready-
made form. That is why, apart from nut and seed
oils, consuming fish oils, natural animal fats and
a source of DGLA (such as evening primrose oil)
is important for these children.
I am very careful with multi-vitamin, mineral

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