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Podcast: Naturally Recovering Autism with Karen Thomas
Episode: Causes and Prevention of Worsening Symptoms When Detoxing Your Child With Autism [Podcast Episode #172]
Description: Rapid detoxification
Detoxification, even the initial phase when you’re changing the diet can cause some toxic “backlog” in your child’s body. You may notice some very heightened symptoms in this process. Rapid detoxification or die off can be too much for the body to handle and throw a person into mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS).
Since kids with autism have poor detoxification pathways we need to support them right away. Healing the gut is the beginning phase of everything. The gut controls the brain and 80% of the immune system. We begin with the right diet by removing...