Her sensory perceptions straightened out and her spaciness went away. she has continued to research diet and its connections to anomalies in personality, especially the reported problems with autism and injections when she got pregnant.
She has a whole lot of internet research now that she says points, not to the injections which have pretty much been stripped of toxins like mercury, anyway, but to weed killer that is used heavily in factory farming, specifically to something called 'glysophates' that stay in the soil and are taken up by livestock that eat the grain raised with the crops grown on soils that have been treated with the weed killer. She has a whole collection of charts she from her internet forays, some of which were made by people not concerned with any medical things or political goals and they show a one-to-one correlation with the rise of diagnosed autism. She says the correlations are not proof and they are not so perfect as they look because some part of the autism increase is due to it being diagnosed for increasingly lower levels of the conditions. In other words the kid who a generation ago was just a spacy kid who grew up just fine is now labeled with the Autism Spectrum tag so that the schools can drug him. Given that she says the correlations are still pretty close, just not 100% as they appeared before taking into account more enthusiastic diagnosis.
Nasty stuff. Never heard of the correlation to autism, but not surprised.
GREAT research by your daughter.
Let's be blunt: Organically grown food (i.e., no herbicides, hormones, or antibiotics involved) is just simply better. Tastes better, too.
The sad reality though is that organically grown food is a luxury. Factory and "big farm" grown food is necessary to feed the 7+ billion people who live on this rock.
IOW, the choice is between food with issues (including some nasty side effects) and millions starving to death. I'll take door 1, thanks.
PS I used to think that I was allergic to beef. Did not eat a hamburger or steak for over 15 years because every time I did, my knees hurt and may face exploded with acne. Turns out beef wasn't the problem -- it was the hormones in commercial beef. I now love a good steak, but the ones I can eat without problems are not cheap.
http://www.greenacres.com/gluten-controversy-roundup-chemical-component-continues/
“Last week, we wrote a blog about a recent piece in The Healthy Home Economist that caused the author and us to rethink the problem with gluten. (See Maybe it’s not gluten…but something more sinister lurking in the wheat fields November 14, 2014.)”
“And as luck would have it, we got feedback. We love hearing from anyone and everyone who reads what we post and has affirming or contrary criticism to impart or challenge. We particularly like it when experts weigh in.”
“In this case, it was an email from the son of an expert—a farmer—whose family was objecting to the premise of the Healthy Home Economist article which talked about Monsanto’s Roundup being used to spray wheat fields before harvest.”
“The HHE story said that 97% of wheat farmers sprayed with Roundup, while the email said it was more like 5% in a few states.”
(Read the entire story at the link. )
My daughter has a condition in which a silencing gene did not work. It left her, among other problems, with an excess of glutamate receptors and a sensitivity to gluten.
Starting when she was seven or eight she would cry, her legs would go rigid, and they would start to shake or tremble. This was happening several times a day. At the suggestion of a social worker, who knew of a similar case, we took her off of gluten. Within a short time these problems stopped. So, people can think what they want of it, but it worked for her and is currently part of her doctor approved residential treatment protocol.