We occasionally get letters or comments from parents that have seen improvements in health with REID. To help provide hope to so many still in the trenches, I’ve decided to make more of an effort to share some these comments (with their permission, of course). Many of us don’t have it all figured out, but we cling to the hope and words of progress. Everyone’s journey is different, diet changes may not reap huge changes for all, but it is absolutely helping some. Like this family, glutamate and the REID diet have been a huge piece to our puzzle. Thank you for giving us hope…
“My son had many vocal stims and had many tics. Some were like Tourette’s and some just classic autism behaviors. We did very strict Reid diet cutting more like eggs, all grains but quinoa and wild rice. We did tons of fresh culinary herbs, several Reid recommended herbs in every dish when we started. We did salt baths every night and we also did advanced trs for heavy metals. In the beginning I was just on TRS and a basic gf/df/sf diet and the tics and stims would change to new tics or lessen all together but nothing perfect. We started Reid and I can’t even recall when he lost all tics and stims because I was amazed at the all over gains for everything. My son is only 2 yrs but the one tic he had since 6 months where he’d fist his face then chew his hand when excited or frustrated was the worst one we could not go a day without him doing several times a day and no more random Chewbacca noises and grunts or eye rolling. I do however believe that the two interventions are what took tics away and not just one. We did TRS for 7 months and have been on strict Reid for a little over 7 months now.”
–Anonymous REID Mom