The Healthy Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet for Autism & ADHD

Learn the fundamental principles of what a healthy diet includes and excludes.

Guidelines on how to start cleaning up your child's diet from harmful foods and additives.

Truly the most important part of a child's health-building program is the diet. In this lecture I will outline the reasons why your child's diet should consist of organically grown/raised food as much as possible.

In this lecture I give you tips on how to transition your child to an organic diet in a way that reduces stress on you and is economically viable. I show you which foods you should ideally switch out to organic as soon as possible and which foods may be less of a priority as their levels of pesticides/herbicides are lower than the most sprayed ones.

There are many common foods that are harmful to children, especially if they have a condition such as autism or ADHD. While it is not always feasible or easy to avoid them, I will discuss the common foods that your are best off avoiding to give your child the best chance of thriving.

Review of the most common sweeteners to avoid and some healthier substitutions you can make.

Excitotoxins such as MSG can be especially harmful to children that have other underlying health complication or imbalances. In this lecture you will learn how these are stealthily hidden in foods under various names.

Some of the most common emulsifiers to avoid.

Examples of common preservatives to avoid.

Some artificial food colourants have been shown to cause hyperactivity in children. It is best to err on the side of caution and avoid all of them as much as possible.

It is important to understand the role of the healthy GFCF diet in your child's health-building program. In this lecture we set expectations and discuss some caveats that need to be understood in order to maximise your success with the diet.

Too many doctors and parents are misled to believe that the GFCF diet is entirely ineffective. In this lecture we will  see why some of the studies that have been done have not shown impressive results.

Brief overview of the potential benefits of the GFCF diet. We will delve deeper into these topics in this module.

A look at some of the research that has shown positive results from implementing the GFCF in autism.

A look at the most commonly reported benefits of the GFCF diet by parents with autistic children.

Discussion of the problems that gluten and grains in general can cause.

Overview of some of the most common problem dairy can cause.

In this lecture we discuss opioid peptides, which are morphine-like compounds that are formed when gluten and casein are not properly digested, and can exert strong negative behavioural effects.

In the rest of the module I discuss the potential risks of the GFCF diet and how your can mitigate them when implementing the diet.

In this lecture we go over the basic steps to take to implement the GFCF diet.

Gluten is hidden in many foods under various cryptic names. In this lecture we cover the most common names you will see on food labels that indicate gluten has been added.

Overview of sources of casein to look out for on food labels.

Important food substitutions to make when implementing the GFCF diet.

Discussion of the most common mistakes parents make when implementing the diet. If you do your best to avoid these, you increase your chances of success with the diet.

After at least 3-6 months of trialing the diet, you may want to experiment with expanding your child's diet. This lecture discusses when it is most prudent to expand your child's diet and how to go about it.