Have you ever changed your mind? I don't mean about what you want to eat for lunch: I mean Changing Your Mind about something that you've believed for an entire lifetime. Back in early April 2010, I unexpectedly embarked on a crazy journey that challenged me to do this. But before I tell you the whole story, I have to say a little bit about my old religion.
http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57941/#ixzz1JFOsr6Bz
Opening a Can of Worms: “A father’s determination to help his son resulted in an experimental treatment for autism that uses roundworms to modulate inflammatory immune responses. Can the worms be used to treat other diseases?”
Three Generations of ASD/Gut Dysbiosis: Healing with Good Food
[I am most appreciative for the chance to post the following interview/essay. To protect their privacy, Polly and Connor are not their real names.]
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Our Story of Healing with GAPS
by Janice
Our family’s story of healing is all about “baby steps.” You won’t find any drastic, sudden change in our family’s eating habits. We eased into different changes over a lengthy period of time and used a variety of diets to get where we are today.
Our family consists of myself, my husband Shawn, our 6 year old son Sam who is on the autism spectrum, our 4 year old daughter Sarah, and our 2 year old son Andrew. We’re expecting baby #4 to arrive sometime in early June.
[I am most appreciative for permission to post the following essay. To protect her privacy, Serephina is not the author's real name.]
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I first came to GAPS because of two particularly worrying problems, but in addition, I had various other things suggesting to me that my body was not really well as a whole.
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[I am most appreciative for the chance to post this essay, which is written by a dedicated GAPS mama. To protect his privacy, Frank is not his real name.]
There are six of us on the GAPS diet and each one of us has our own story. This is Frank's Story.
Frank is our fourth child. Before he was conceived, we changed our diet.
Dear Family,
There's a church near us that just hosted a forum on Supporting Families Dealing With Mental Illness. The announcement read: "Clinical Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and Anxiety Disorders ...one out of five families are affected by these illnesses, and family members need a great deal of support and education in order to help their loved ones. Here in Ithaca, NAMI-FL or the National Alliance on Mental Illness - Finger Lakes Affiliate sponsors a free 12 week Family to Family Course as well as bi-weekly support groups..."
“If you have complex problems, there probably are no simple cost-free solutions to them, because if there were, somebody would have [already] solved them.”
--Michael R. Bloomberg
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http://forum.westonaprice.org/modern-diseases/cancer/1834-a-holistic-ap…
[Tomas Cowan is a controversial guy, with some (to me) questionable anthroposophic beliefs. But his article on cancer treatment has some fascinating passages, excerpted below]
[This is Andrea Fabry's story, in her own words, compiled by me (Sarabeth) from various articles and posts on her website. I am most appreciative that she has given permission for her work to appear here.]