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By
Dr. Joseph Mercola
I have treated many children with autism and developmental delays
over the past 10 years. Most have had excellent responses to the
No-Grain Diet that I advocate for adults.
However, many treatment regimens for autism call for a gluten-
and casein-free diet. Gluten is the major protein found in wheat
and casein is the protein in milk.
Over the last six months I have come to realize that the major
reason why autistic children need to avoid milk is because it is
pasteurized. The pasteurization
process turns casein into a very dangerous molecule that can
further precipitate the brain injury. If the children are fed real
raw milk this will not occur.
I have recently started recommending this to my autistic patients
but have not received any feedback yet. However, I recently received
an e-mail from two independent researchers and parents of autistic
children who have been getting tremendous results with this approach.
The approach involves fermenting raw milk with kefir grains. If
you are interested in fermenting the raw milk with kefir grains
please read this comprehensive
article.
The e-mail mentioned above follows:
"Dr. Mercola,
My colleague, Mary Helen, and myself have been feeding our children
daily raw milk--either the raw cow's milk, or the raw goat's milk.
In addition to raw milk, we also have been fermenting the raw
milk with kefir grains. The changes in our children are incredible!
However, we cannot spark any interest among other parents with
autistic children, because they are deadly afraid of milk's theorized
opioid effect.
In August 2002, we began to research opioids and their behavioral
effects. It is almost a tragedy that this fallacious theory as
the explanation for autism's symptoms had to be challenged by
two mothers and not some research scientist. If autism wasn't
such a serious problem, the opioid theory as provocateur of autism's
symptoms is almost comical.
How parents of autistic children were ever sold on the idea that
opioids caused those symptoms exposes the politics of research
and the rejection of logic.
What should be embarrassing for medical scientists is that the
one thing that probably can explain some of the behaviors seen
in autism is hyperammonia, and in all the literature ever written
on autism, there are only about three doctors who gave it the
attention it deserved.
If you have never tried the real kefir grains, then you are in
for a treat. Actually, the first time we tried them, we all experienced
an elevated temperature and cleansing, presumably due to real
detoxification. In any event, our families have greatly benefited
from raw fermented milk products.
You will have to see for yourself. As mothers, we will always
pursue optimal health and wellness for our families; but to also
improve and possibly recover the cognitive functioning of our
autistic children, that is our heart's desire.
The pasteurization of milk has damaged the gift of life and health.
Even heating milk above 100 degrees to make yogurt causes protein
cross-linking where amino acids become fused together. Poor lysine
really goes through a beating!
You will never heat milk again after studying heat treatments,
nor will you want pasteurized beer, pasteurized soy sauce, pasteurized
fruit juices or pasteurized eggs.
The foundation for this paper is all on the 'autism-challenge;'
a list that was created for autism research. It is where all this
unfolded--one article at a time.
Sincerely,
Linda Carlton and Mary Helen Brauninger"
Please stay tuned for their informative paper on the link between
pasteurized milk and autism in the next
issue.
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