Kids? Stress tolerance, sleep disturbance, autism

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Elision

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I haven't heard anyone mention children here so far, but I thought I might put this out there, in case anyone has some input.

My eldest, C, is 8. He was diagnosed with high functioning autism at 3.5 Since he was very small he has had a lot of trouble with sleep, and very low stress tolerance in general. After the diagnosis we experimented with changes in diet. Gluten free (still do this), dairy free (didn't do anything), gaps(high fat/low carb) helped physically but not behaviourally. Finally we found a low salicylate diet and that, combined with gf, definitely works best to help his stress tolerance/anger/frustration etc. The low salicylate thing is pretty hard, considering that it removes a huge amount of what I consider to be 'healthy' food (vegetables, fruits etc)

Supplement wise we have done
Magnesium
Colloidal minerals
Digestive enzymes
Probiotics
Cod liver oil w/ K2
Anti parasitics
Zinc
Vit C

The only medications he has taken were intravenous antibiotics very shortly after birth for 72 hours.

There has definitely been a lot of improvements, but his stress tolerance is still much lower than it should be (he gets extremely upset/angry over small things). He still has trouble falling asleep. He often complains of his legs being sore when walking. He's sensitive to light. I also did the Adrenal Test that Canari posted testing pupil dialation in response to light and his response suggested adrenal issues.

We have just ordered his hair mineral test, so will post that when we receive it.

Thanks!
 
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@gbolduev

Salicylates lower histidine or histamine levels? Are there any of ways to lower this in a more permanent way? Without constant dietary restriction

Thanks for the link, reading now
 
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Elision said:
@gbolduev

Salicylates lower histidine or histamine levels? Are there any of ways to lower this in a more permanent way? Without constant dietary restriction

Thanks for the link, reading now
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Usually people are intolerant to salicylates since there is no bioavailable copper. histidine makes copper available, since copper becomes available when there is histamine production present. IF there is no histidine, copper will become unavailable, since copper breaks down histamine and without histidine , there is no histamine. If copper is not available zinc and b6 are suppressed also since they convert histidine into histamine. When b6 is suppressed( or stays in its inactive form) since there is no copper available , your cant convert glutamate into gaba, thus you get stuck with high glutamate. this causes anxiety. and low stress tolerance.
this is done on purpose since glutamate into gaba conversion makes CO2. and without histidine body cant afford extra copper or Co2 , since histidine makes carbon anhydrase enzyme stay active and utilize Co2. Thus body stays in high glutamate state to substitute for low methylation , since folic acid is not converted into its active form in histidine deficiency, since active folate converts histidine into glutamic acid.
This is why it worked for that woman in the thread that I posted to you. when you feed copper and histidine and selenium. It lowers glutamate and increases conversion of folate into active folate and this starts methylation. When methylation starts you get improvements with learning socializing etc.

I hope this makes sense
 
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gbolduev said:
@Elision

Salicylates usually lower histidine levels. that is why you do better on low salicylate diet.

Here is the interesting thread for you.

https://hackstasis.com/forums/-/list
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"500 mg of histidine and 1 mg of copper. It actually reduced histamine levels"

Reduces or increase histamine? I understood you said that with histidine you can produce histamine:

"histidine makes copper available, since copper becomes available when there is histamine production present."

I will look for the list of salycilate food, as I have low copper and was allergic to aspirine as a child. I have always had good results with taking copper to fight flues/colds.
 
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