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Parents' Theories
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From
Lisa Geng:
There are many possible theories as to why we are seeing the
sudden and in most cases dramatic surges in individuals of all
ages with autism, apraxia and other speech and language delays
or impairments, seizures, TBI and global delays within, sometimes, just
days of starting NutriiVeda. Is it one of the nutrients, a
combination, or perhaps the synergistic blend of whole food
nutrition which is in
essence ayurveda?
Below are some of the original thoughts I have had
together now with input from others in our
nonprofit. Clearly this is a therapeutic method that
should be researched and validated as it can help so
many as it’s benign, simple, and inexpensive.
My theories started with nutrition. In the CHERAB
Foundation we’ve known for over a decade now
the importance of PUFAs (the fish oils) to help
many with communication delays and disorders. Due to
it being a nutritional supplement being suggested to
help a neurological condition, in the early days
there was much skepticism, even criticism and
ridicule as to how could fish oil help a child with
apraxia or autism?! This reaction of course is
normal and due to ignorance.
I like to refer to the ignorance that surrounds
nutrition’s importance on health, including
neurological function, as the “magic orange”
reaction. I’m referring to scurvy and the impact a
simple orange had on sailors years ago. Of course
the orange wasn’t “magic” but if one is ignorant in
the aspect of or importance of the vitamin C in the
orange they could look at the orange as magically
keeping a sailor alive.
Today we have much more knowledge about the
importance of nutrition on health, including the
importance of the PUFAs on neurological function, as well as more research pointing towards the
importance of whole food nutrition.
Our nonprofit is currently in the process of raising
monies to validate the therapeutic effect of PUFAs
on speech which is why we originally got involved
with the company Zrii. As a fundraiser.
Unbeknownst to me or any of us we had no idea that
one of the products that Zrii was going to launch
just 2 days later, NutriiVeda, was going to be
another “magic orange” for us!
After seeing almost immediate remarkable life
changing surges in multiple areas in my own son
Tanner, noticed by all around him including
professionals at his school, I shared NutriiVeda
with a parent of an adult child who had a history of
diagnosis of mental retardation and autism but had
also been diagnosed with apraxia. Like my son Tanner,
this adult too had
remarkable and unexplainable surges within days
after almost 25 years of no progress no matter what
had been tried. It was a few weeks later until I
shared NutriiVeda with our nonprofit group.
Others started trying the NutriiVeda after sharing
it with their child’s doctor and one after another
the same
dramatic surges were reported.
This is unexplainable and just incredible. I clearly
could understand any and all skepticism from those
that didn’t try it as nothing could possibly have a
therapeutic effect on ‘every’ one. But that is what
it appeared like as reports came in from parents of
children of all ages from 2 to 26, with various
conditions, autism, PDD, apraxia as well as
undiagnosed speech delays, TBI and global delays as
well as ADHD. The skepticism started to fade as the
list of testimonies grew, and in addition to the
testimonies, the
curiosity continued to grow within our own
nonprofit….what can be creating the surges in our
children with this product the NutriiVeda?
I say this with all my heart that I believe it will
be validated that something in the NutriiVeda will
be found to be some sort of cure for what we are
seeing today in these children with multifaceted
neurologically based communication impairments. To
me it’s clear there is some sort of neurological
repair that is happening. But how is it happening so
quickly? There are a few theories below.
Why
is it so dosage dependent? Why is hydration so
important for this therapy to work?
And also why does the NutriiVeda appear to support
the metabolism of the PUFAs? I have never been able
to lower Tanner's fish oils prior without a
regression but since on NutriiVeda I've experimented
and cut his dosage in half and have witnessed the
most incredible surges. I would not look to stop
essential fatty acid supplementation as they too are
essential and lacking greatly from our diets today,
but it is possible by supporting the metabolic
system we are able to consume less and digest and
utilize them more.
I started to explore
possible reasons based on the ingredients and shared
some of them with our group, and others in the group
have shared some theories as well. In short Nutriiveda is a 100 percent natural, 100 percent
whole food source for ALL of the essential amino acids, and
nutrients per serving. Nutriiveda is gluten,
casein, fat, sodium and caffeine free and tested
free of any heavy metals, herbicides, or
pesticides. The fact that all the nutrients are
from whole foods which is the purest, most balanced
and easily digestible form of
supplementation and 100 percent water soluble makes
this an easy way to get all of the daily essential nutrients into our
children and ourselves. The fact we are seeing
therapeutic results is the over the moon cherry on
top.
Below we will include some of the research I have
found that may answer some questions as to what we
are seeing, as well as some theories from others in
our group. If you would like to submit a theory or
research that you believe may help answer questions
please email them to
research@pursuitofresearch.org
Whey isolate protein:
There is a recent study that linked a protein
malfunction to autism and retardation (1) Of course
the studies will only mention those conditions that
funded them- so let’s also look to see if this
research can answer questions for other conditions
that may have the monies for research as of yet.
Do essential amino acids play a role in autism and
other conditions as they do for colon cancer? (2)
Essential amino acids: “Humans can produce 10 of
the 20 amino acids. The others must be supplied in
the food. Failure to obtain enough of even 1 of the
10 essential amino acids, those that we cannot make,
results in degradation of the body's proteins—muscle
and so forth—to obtain the one amino acid that is
needed. Unlike fat and starch, the human body does
not store excess amino acids for later use—the amino
acids must be in the food every day.
The essential amino acids (all found in NutriiVeda
per serving from whole food sources) are arginine
(required for the young, but not for adults),
histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine,
phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine.
These amino acids are required in the diet. Plants,
of course, must be able to make all the amino acids.
Humans, on the other hand, do not have all the the
enzymes required for the biosynthesis of all of the
amino acids.”
(3) Based on research of the APC protein and colon
cancer (2) where if the what if there is either an
issue with some today digesting and utilizing one or
more of the essential amino acids daily so the body
is replacing what is needed with another amino acid,
and that is leading to neuro damage? This would
explain why whole food sources may be a solution as
they are balanced and easier to digest then just
supplementing so the body through NutriiVeda is now
able to digest and utilize all of the essential
amino acids daily. All of the essential amino acids
in NutriiVeda are from the whey isolate protein.
All of the essential amino acids in NutriiVeda are
from the whey isolate protein. The whey isolate
protein in the NutriiVeda unlike the majority you
would buy from the store it is gluten and casein
free and is made in a 100 % natural and gentle way
to protect the precious proteins and essential amino
acids and virtually 100% whey.
Whey isolate product in addition to it being the
most easily digestible protein by the body contains
all the essential amino acids which is just one of
the ingredients in NutriiVeda linked in clinical
research to neurological repair and support.
For example, neurology researchers have shown that
feeding amino acids to brain-injured animals
restores their cognitive abilities and may set the
stage for the first effective treatment for
cognitive impairments suffered by people with
traumatic brain injuries.
(1)
In addition the whey isolate protein plays a very
important role of dramatically raising the
antioxidant glutathione. “The antioxidant
glutathione—critical for the body to excrete
metals—typically works by binding to heavy metals,
which the body then knows to eliminate. In 2004,
researcher Jill James, Ph.D., of the Arkansas School
of Medicine, led a pioneering study that showed
autistic kids had significantly less glutathione
than typical kids—which put their bodies in a state
of "constant oxidative stress." In other words,
autistic kids were genetically predisposed to have
low glutathione levels, making them particularly
susceptible to heavy metal toxicity."
(2)
As there is more and more knowledge learned from
Proteomics (3), and the
starting point for novel pharmaceutical, diagnostic,
and biomedical applications of for example whey,
perhaps more light will be shed on the importance of
balance in regards to proteins and essential amino
acids combined with other nutrients and from whole
food sources. “The Human Proteome Project will not
only expand our understanding of the universe of
cellular function and disease but also identify the
foods that rebuild and regenerate the body.” (4)
In regards to reduction and even elimination of
seizures one study found Tryptophan (Trp) an
essential amino acid found naturally in nutriiveda
from a whole food source through the whey protein to
be helpful as an antiepileptic therapy of
drug-resistant epileptic patients. (5)
Outside of the essential amino acids and protein,
there is the ayurvedic component; rich in 5000 years
of medicinal and healing usage, brought to
NutriiVeda by leading medical and ayurvedic doctors
including the Chopra Center for Wellbeing who
formulated and endorse the NutriiVeda.
What is of great interest to me is that the whole
food nutrients from the ayurvedic vegetations in
nutriiveda are all slow growing. This is intriguing
due to the 2004 published study done by Donald
Davis, a biochemist at the University of Texas, who
found 13 major nutrients in fruits and vegetables
tracked by the Agriculture Department from 1950 to
1999, showed noticeable declines in nutritional
value. Davis said “faster-growing plants aren't
able to acquire the nutrients that their
slower-growing cousins can, either by synthesis or
from the soil.” (6) Even
though dramatically reduced nutrients protein,
calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and vitamin C
are familiar to all; what if there are also unknown
trace but essential elements that are missing in
today’s fruits and vegetables that are still found
in slow growing vegetations?
I like to refer to this as a possible “vitamin X”
that may be present in slow growing vegetations that
is today missing from depleted soils. This leads to
research into the “world's so-called blue zones —
places where residents have unusually long life
spans.” (10) These are areas where the soils are
dense with nutrients and people live off the land.
What is interesting to note is that in these blue
zones "they have about 20 percent lower rates of
cancer, 50 percent lower rates of heart disease and
almost no dementia." In addition to exercise, is
there something in the soils in the Blue Zones that
is missing in other parts of the world where soils
are over farmed and depleted of nutrients as Dr.
Davis has found? Is there a vitamin X?
Even without a vitamin X, on their own each ayurvedic botanical has found
praise in both eastern as well as western medicine.
One ingredient for example to take notice of due to
extensive clinical evidence of it’s great importance
in neurological function and repair in the ayurvedic
blend of NutriiVeda is turmeric which contains
curcumin. There is a tremendous amount of research
linking this ayurvedic botanical to the benefit and
treatment of cognitive impairment, traumatic brain
injury, cerebral ischemia, multiple sclerosis,
Alzheimer’s disease, brain tumors, neuropathic pain,
schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy, Parkinson
disease and even autism. Probably today the most
note worthy research is on turmeric/curcumin’s
apparent ability to prevent, slow, even reverse, the
build up of neural plaque which is implicated in
Alzheimer's Disease (7) But
again that is but two of the ingredients in the
synergistic blend of NutriiVeda.
I found that the haritaki (Terminalia chebula) is an
antispasmodic phytochemicals
Anti-spasmodics have proved useful in treating
spinal-cord injuries, multiple sclerosis and
Tourette syndrome amongst other neuro conditions -so
how may that help this group?
And on this same (one) ayurvedic element (Haritaki,
Chebulic myrobalam):
“Terminalia chebula Retz. (Haritaki, Chebulic
myrobalam) In Sanskrit, Haritaki means "carries
away" (all diseases). Haritaki is a safe and
effective purgative, expectorant and tonic. It is a
component of the classic Ayurvedic combination
called "Triphala" (three fruits). Tiphalpha is an
important Ayurvedic medicine, which often promotes
health through successive steps of purification and
detoxification. It is known to have strong
anti-mutagenic activity, because of its very rich
content vitamin C” (8)
One question I have is why are doctors behind autism
experimenting on real children with off label drugs
with dangerous side effects (13), and why is electro
shock therapy coming back into vogue for autism
(14), while in the world of veterinary medicine
whole food sources are being explored for health and
wellness? (15)
What research and time will one day answer is how
one element may be further helping another work. For
now we know that we are seeing remarkable surges
across the board and hearing tremendous testimonies
for NutriiVeda. So I would like to take this
opportunity to personally thank whomever is involved
in the creation of NutriiVeda. It has been a life
changing product for my own family due to my son
Tanner and one that I can’t imagine life without
now. Thank you!
Below are theories and explanations from members of
the Cherab group that have come out since. If you
have a theory or explanation about one or more of
the ingredients in the NutriiVeda please do share!
Sincerely,
Lisa Geng
Founder, President Cherab Foundation
Co-Author "The Late Talker", [St Martin's Press]
1. Researchers connect APC protein to autism and
mental retardation
http://scienceblog.com/37725/researchers-connect-apc-protein-to-autism-and-mental-retardation
2. Genetics page about the APC gene
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/APC 3. The Chemistry
of Amino Acids
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/problem_sets/aa/aa.html
3. The Chemistry of Amino Acids
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/problem_sets/aa/aa.html
4. With Amino Acid Diet, Mice Improve
After Brain Injury Monday, December 7, 2009 Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
http://www.sflorg.com/comm_center/medical/p974_99.html
5.
http://planetthrive.com/2010/01/unravelling-the-mystery-of-autism
6. The effect of curcumin (turmeric) on
Alzheimer's disease: An overview Shrikant Mishra and Kalpana
Palanivelu Department of Neurology, VA/USC 16111, Sepulveda, CA,
USA Copyright © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology Received
November 4, 2007; Revised February 5, 2008; Accepted February
12, 2008.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781139
7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639691
8. Potentiation
of brain serotonin activity may inhibit seizures, especially in
drug-resistant epilepsy
http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877%2807%2900490-2/abstract
9.
http://www.drpasswater.com/nutrition_library/davis_1.html
10. NPR The Island Where People Live
Longer (Blue Zones)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103744881
11. The effect of
curcumin (turmeric) on Alzheimer's disease: An overview Shrikant
Mishra and Kalpana Palanivelu Department of Neurology, VA/USC
16111, Sepulveda, CA, USA Copyright © Annals of Indian Academy
of Neurology Received November 4, 2007; Revised February 5,
2008; Accepted February 12, 2008.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781139
12.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639691
(13) Castration Drug Used As Autism
Therapy
http://www.latimes.com/news/health/sns-health-autism-drug-treatment,0,2393220.story
(14) Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy
in autistic catatonia
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20298732
(15) The benefits of whole food nutrients
in veterinary medicine; Clinical use of whole food nutrients
http://www.myhealthsolution.org/pdf/benefitsvetmed.pdf
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