Yes, possibly. I have an oldest daughter with Asperger's and two children who do NOT have it, so this diet issue must affect one and not the others? They all have the same diet.
When one child walks around the perimeter of the playground over and over again ... I could go on and on. We started homeschooling after first grade. She's also gifted.
One thing that intrigues me is gut bacteria. My oldest daughter was slammed with Roseola when she was a year old. It made her eyes bug out (I think one is damaged to this day) and caused a high fever spike. She had a round of antibiotics for that and then later two more rounds for ear infections.
I WISH I'd known then what I know now about probiotics. The poor child was never given any. :-( I did give them children's yogurt, but that's about it.
Now, many parents are giving their children probiotics regularly.
Psychologists are starting to treat anxiety, depression, and OCD with probiotics.
> One thing that intrigues me is gut bacteria.
If you browse around on Perlmutter’s site, you’ll see that it also intrigues him. He’s even starting a professional journal just for that topic. (The other thing you’ll see a lot is recommendations for Vitamin D supplementation, which I neglected to mention earlier.)
Gut biome is definitely on the radar in LCHF/paleo/primal circles. And a lot of what’s in standard diet is destructive to beneficial gut bacteria: high glycemic foods, gluten-bearing grains, antibiotics in meats, insecticide residues (and actual insecticide in Bt GMOs), glyphosate uptake in RR crops, etc. Some may not be a big deal, but all are worth avoiding. You can add them back later as a challenge.
The leading edge of gut biome research is FMT, which no one would consider except that it has striking results.
> Yes, possibly. I have an oldest daughter with Asperger’s and two children who do NOT have it, so this diet issue must affect one and not the others?
If it’s a gut biome issue, it could simply be the difference in the mother’s microbiota for each birth, because that’s where the kid gets their starter dose. I’ve also read that Cesarean Section leaves the kid quite deficient, which is not surprising.
It could also be infant antibiotics.
> I WISH I’d known then what I know now about probiotics.
Yep. I recently had a course of antibiotics, and chose to follow that up with a month of PBs, suspecting that the AB would trash my gut, and it appeared to, and it’s returning to normal.
> Psychologists are starting to treat anxiety, depression, and OCD with probiotics.
Anyone doing this on their own needs to know that most retail room-temp PBs are worthless (consumerlab.com tests PBs, if you have a subscription). If it doesn’t come out of the pharmacy fridge, don’t buy it (or just order VSL#3 online, which ships refrigerated).