THIS is how I've been treating myself w/ miraculous results.

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it might work because you become so obsessed with buying all the special crap you need that you actually forget you're autistic

Because we do not wish to follow your diet means we are not interested in reducing our symptoms????. How did you reach that conclusion?

Many people who try low carb (Atkins included) do in fact feel sick for a span of time. Not necessarily barfing but lethargic and nauseous while the body upregulates the enzymes needed to burn fat rather than carbs as a primary energy source. I am just fine eating low carb, high protein, veggies, herbs and spices and I think it is great however I did have the lethargy and nausea for the first 3 days when I did it. As I read the low carb message boards, 3 days is an unusually short span of time for what is colloquially known as Low Carb Flu. Some people don't adapt for 2 or sometimes even 3 weeks or longer. If you had no adaptation period, you may have been slowly edging towards eating like that for years and therefore didn't have to upregulate any enzymes. But it is something people need to know about going in and it will be a deal-breaker for some people. Those who take longer than 2 weeks to upregulate the enzymes to full capacity could indeed feel worse during this trial period so it's good to warn people going in.

It only took me 3 days to adapt and now I love it but I wasn't loving it for 3 days. I stuck it out only because I had been warned about the adaptation period. If you don't warn people, they will think that the bad feeling that they are likely to have initially means the diet is a failure. So a warning about Low Carb Flu is needed. I personally think it was worth it (probably since mine was only 3 days) but some will not find it worth it- especially if it takes them a much longer span to adapt.

Well, since you put it like that...

I'm *already* on a low carb diet. I already did the ultra-low carb thing, because in the December of 2008 I was clinically diagnosed with insulin resistance syndrome. My *doctor's* response was to put me on an ultra-low carb diet. I was producing ten times the amount of insulin I should be in response to a given sugar load, at last blood test I'd dropped to 3x. Have also lost over 45kgs & kept that off.

I was on it for nine months. It did NOT cure my AS symptoms.

I still eat largely low carb.

I reached that conclusion by the simple fact that I'm telling you that this diet plan and treatment protocol has all but eliminated my ASD symptoms over the last 6 months & no one seems to be interested in even giving it a shot for a couple of weeks or so to see if it benefits them in the same ways.

I'm all ears if you've discovered a different cause of autism & a different treatment plan that effectively alleviates/eliminates symptoms. Feel free to share what you're doing that's reducing your symptoms, I'd be glad to learn it & possibly try it.

That's a great start.

It's not just a low carb diet I'm on. No dairy, no stimulants, no alcohol, no chocolate, no vinegar except for ACV & tons of antifungal herbs + intestinal lining healing supplements & then mass probiotics. And of course, as I've been transparent about, I shaved months if not years off of the healing process by utilizing herbal enemas to get the parasites to vacate vs. doing it much slower via diet alone. One can't expect the same results from eating low carb alone.

You know, this would be the perfect time to get an official ASD assessment. If you're really cured, an expert ought not detect the symptoms of ASD.

Always assuming that he had ASD in the first place of course Though the extremely blinkered and one track obsession with his beliefs certainly do seem to suggest some kind of ASD.

I'm just wondering, if someone does try this 'diet' and becomes ill because of it, does that mean they get to take goldfish to court? can he be sued for malpractice even though he is not an actual practitioner?

It's easy to be blasé about shopping trolley science when there is no comeback if you are proven wrong!

I don't have the funds to do proper research and testing needed to find the cause of autism and then cure or alleviate it. Even before I knew I had Autism I alleviated some of my social skills and eye contact deficits by taking various courses such as how to network etc. Other people have commented on the improvement in those areas. Since my recent diagnoses I have been going Aspergers support groups. Just the going to them means I was doing a social activity instead of staying home. I have only gone to limited amount of support groups but it seems to be getting easier to speak up. No miracles, nothing that I discovered but some alleviation of social skill problems have resulted.

Sorry if I screwed up the quotes.

I am not a lawyer but I seriously doubt there would be a legal remedy. If a person follows his suggestion they would have done so voluntarily after reading numerous objections. He is not manufacturing a product. If he is working for a company manufacturing one of the products used in the diet then a conspiracy would have to be proved. I at first thought he was working for a scamming company but a real scamming company would have pulled out and moved on to the next potential victim a long time ago.

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Like I said, I've played this game before.

Them: "Look, what does it hurt to give it a go?"
[later]
Me: "I did what you said, it hasn't changed anything."
Them: "But you need to do this too" - in your case, I *also* have to take the naturopathic herbs and supplements. Many of which have little or no science to back up the claims made about them, much like "leaky gut *syndrome*"

[later]
Me: "OK, I've been doing that too now. It's not making a difference."
Them: "You haven't been doing it long enough"
[do it for longer]
Me: "Still no difference."
Them: "You must be doing it wrong." OR "Look, it doesn't work if you don't trust the process"

In other words, it's "woo".

I spent most of my twenties being gullible enough to try this stuff over and over again. Not just the stuff you mentioned, but plenty of other stuff.

Given the BS I went through with homeopaths, naturopaths, chiropractors, and to be honest, a couple of faith healers...

ASD naiveté + a string of well-meaning folks and/or fast-talking charlatans means there's a reason I don't buy into stuff without the hard science to back it up - and you literally sound the same as the procession of folks that came before you.

After eight pages, you've still not provided any kind of hard science to back up your claims (either that you have a "miraculous" cure or that there's any actual science to back you up).

What have I got to lose? Money and time. And I've lost plenty of both doing just the kind of things you suggest.

1) As I've said many many times on this forum over the past couple of years, when I read "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome," I was one of those people who's reaction was, "THIS is IT! Finally, an explanation!! !" Because e v e r y t h i n g matched perfectly. I've had damned near every possible symptom throughout my entire life, fluctuating at times, and over the past 3-4 years MUCH more severe than ever. Feel free to go lookup my posting history and read my posts about various symptoms over the last couple years.

2) The physical infection as the root cause explains why my symptoms got worse and worse, and also why they fluctuate in many others. I KNEW that whatever it was I was afflicted with HAD to have a rational explanation for why it got worse and worse because I wasn't always as bad off mentally & neurologically as I was for the last ~4 years before this treatment protocol 6 months ago. There was something that made it worse, and therefore something to diagnose that could be reversed in order to make things better again. Finally got pointed in the right direction 6 months or so back and it's changed my entire life for the better & continues to do so.

3) How is someone going to become ill by eating healthy food?? Some of you guys are acting like I'm suggesting you bust rails of dried unicorn semen cut with ricin or something. I'm saying stop eating foods that fuel candidiasis, eat herbs that kill it, make a pot of chicken soup, eat plenty of green leafy veggies, get enough protein, supplement vitamins/minerals etc to ensure you're not malnourishing yourself.. and get happy & healthy.

There is no such thing as "healthy food", only "healthy diet".

It is easier to eat a balanced diet than it is to eat an unbalanced diet and take supplements, and it is also a lot cheaper.

Finally, in the unlikely event that you have stumbled upon the cause of autism, it would be easier to take antifunal medication than follow your crazy diet.

Um, there certainly are healthy foods and unhealthy foods.. ?? Unless there's some strange grammatical rule about the use of the word??

It's really not that hard to eat this food. You just put it in your mouth, chew, and swallow. Mix a few drinks, swallow some pills.. really not difficult at all compared to eating a food guide balanced diet.

And finally, Nothing worth doing is easy. why look for the easy way out via popping big pharma's pills vs. nature's remedies that are completely safe as well as effective? Doesn't make sense to me. Also, as you say, if I have stumbled upon the cause of Autism.. it doesn't make sense that people wouldn't be willing to try an altered diet for a couple weeks to see if it begins to dramatically improve their symptoms as it has mine. It's as if people here don't want to get better because they're attached to their symptoms as their identities or something. Mind boggling, really.

Suggestion:

1)List specific examples of your autistic traits prior to getting worse

2)List specific examples of how your traits got worse

3) List specific examples of how you have improved.

Any food can be eaten as part of a healthy diet. Every food can be eaten as part of an unhealthy diet. Eating broccoli alone will lead to an early death, and there's nothing wrong with eating greasy chips once in a while.


Well, your diet excludes most people's favourite foods entirely. That alone makes it harder to follow than a normal balanced diet.

Then, you demand eating certain very specific foods. A balanced diet doesn't demand any particular food. If you don't like drinking milk, then eat more cheese or yoghurt. If you don't like rice, eat bread, or potatoes, or pasta. If you don't like broccoli, eat carrots or peas or spinach or lettuce or cauliflower or corn or peppers. There are a wide variety of tastes and textures amongst vegetables, far wider than solely amongst iron-rich leafy green vegetables. You ask people to filter their water, which is not necessary for healthy living

Finally, a lot of the obscure foods you suggest are not part of most people's usual diets. Most people do not eat Grapefruit Seed Extract, flaxseed, bentonite clay, dandelion, slippery elm, or Sauer Kraut. This makes them harder to find, harder to incorporate into your diet, and more expensive than normal foods.

If "nature's remedies" were "completely safe and effective" then they wouldn't be called "nature's remedies". And if you have a life threatening disease, then not treating it is not safe. Many people die because they have their heads turned by quacks and reject medicine in favour of random crap. Two high-profile examples:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/22 ... infection/
http://steelclaws.wordpress.com/2012/04 ... r-matters/


Well, for a start, a lot of people don't think they need to "get better". They just want to be accepted for being the way they are.

An awful lot of people on here have already been subjected to quack treatments in attempts to "cure" their autism. My mum gave me homoeopathic pills (I remember her freaking out once because she bought the wrong ones ). Other users here have already given you their stories, and it seems I got off lightly.

Rather than doing something that won't work, people would rather spend their money on things that can work, like therapy. Alternatively, they would like to be as happy as possible, by eating the food they want to eat- this is probably going to do more good than following a crazy diet, because the positive effects of happiness are well documented.