WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.919 Does your child get upset too easily? Are they 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:05.500 stuck on fast forward? Are they fine one minute 00:00:05.500 --> 00:00:08.679 and out of control the next? If you've said yes 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:11.019 to one or more of these behaviors, then stay 00:00:11.019 --> 00:00:17.980 tuned. This episode could change your life. Welcome 00:00:17.980 --> 00:00:21.519 back to Keep It Good. I'm your host, Emily. And 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:23.859 I'm your host Carly. So today we're going to 00:00:23.859 --> 00:00:26.699 dive into a topic that I am very passionate about. 00:00:26.980 --> 00:00:30.780 It's the fine gold diet. It helps ADHD kids and 00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:33.859 families. So like we said in the beginning, if 00:00:33.859 --> 00:00:37.460 you had said yes to any of those questions, then 00:00:37.460 --> 00:00:40.119 this episode is right up your alley. So you're 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.119 probably asking, what is the fine gold diet? 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:48.439 What is this all about? So your child could be 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:52.469 potentially intolerant to salicylate acids. And 00:00:52.469 --> 00:00:55.049 this is something I never even thought was an 00:00:55.049 --> 00:00:59.210 option, but it has truly changed our life for 00:00:59.210 --> 00:01:03.549 the past two years. Okay. I've looked this up 00:01:03.549 --> 00:01:06.390 and basically what you're doing is you're eliminating 00:01:06.390 --> 00:01:13.049 these things out of their diet. BHA, BHT, TBHQ, 00:01:13.709 --> 00:01:17.950 and salicylates. Yeah. So basically, yeah, all 00:01:17.950 --> 00:01:21.519 of those included, but I just focus on the salicylic 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.959 acids. They're in foods that you wouldn't even 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.200 realize that they were in. So my son was diagnosed 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:32.379 with ADHD at five. But two, we started seeing 00:01:32.379 --> 00:01:35.819 the difference in behavior. He was the most calmest 00:01:35.819 --> 00:01:39.939 baby you would ever meet and toddler. But we 00:01:39.939 --> 00:01:42.859 didn't really put the correlation together because, 00:01:42.859 --> 00:01:47.500 you know, I had just had my second son. We were 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:50.760 tired. trying to get it all into like a rhythm. 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:54.180 He started daycare. We introduced finger foods 00:01:54.180 --> 00:01:58.760 that I didn't make. I breastfed and I made baby 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:02.959 food, you know, until he was two years old. So 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:07.480 right around two was when we noticed a big difference 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:12.800 and it was a struggle, struggle for many years 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.979 until we figured out what was going on. It was 00:02:16.979 --> 00:02:19.379 horrible. He went on a million different medications 00:02:19.379 --> 00:02:22.719 because, you know, you trust the doctor's opinions 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:26.139 and you trust their guidance. And they put him 00:02:26.139 --> 00:02:29.020 on so many different medications. The poor thing 00:02:29.020 --> 00:02:33.680 was like five years old, hallucinating and terrified 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:38.120 of the grass or night terrors. And I mean, you 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:40.060 name it, the poor thing went through it. And 00:02:40.060 --> 00:02:42.960 it was devastating to watch as a mom. you're 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:47.159 looking for answers or you pray to see if something 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:49.240 will help your kid because you see him struggle 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.919 so much. And finally, me and my husband said, 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.639 enough, enough with this medication. We got to 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.659 look into something else. And I started reading 00:02:58.659 --> 00:03:01.879 a whole bunch of different books about ADHD and 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:04.759 focus. Couple times I read about the fine gold 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.520 diet and I was like, seems like a lot of work. 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.479 I don't know if I could do this, but two or three 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.460 times I read it. So I was like, okay, this might 00:03:11.460 --> 00:03:15.800 be a sign. Then we kind of ditched listening 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.080 to the pediatrician and we went and saw a naturopath 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.439 and she had brought up the fine gold diet again. 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.659 And I said, okay, this is definitely something 00:03:25.659 --> 00:03:28.000 I need to consider because this is many times 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.370 that it's come across my path. So we looked into 00:03:31.370 --> 00:03:34.750 it and we eliminated all the diets. I mean, in 00:03:34.750 --> 00:03:36.289 the beginning of the diet, you really need to 00:03:36.289 --> 00:03:39.750 be strict. So for two weeks, he was just eating 00:03:39.750 --> 00:03:42.909 a few things off of the list. And the fine gold 00:03:42.909 --> 00:03:44.750 diet is really great because it organizes it 00:03:44.750 --> 00:03:48.469 into, you know, low, very low salicyl acids, 00:03:48.949 --> 00:03:52.289 moderate, very high. So you start with the low 00:03:52.289 --> 00:03:57.569 column and you see any type of behavior that 00:03:57.569 --> 00:04:01.469 is changing for the better. And immediately we 00:04:01.469 --> 00:04:06.409 saw the difference. So it was like, finally, 00:04:06.509 --> 00:04:09.110 and he was clean of all drugs. On Christmas vacation, 00:04:09.229 --> 00:04:11.289 we stopped all the medications. We let his whole 00:04:11.289 --> 00:04:14.889 body kind of detox and just normalize and see 00:04:14.889 --> 00:04:17.389 where are you at, at your baseline. Then we started 00:04:17.389 --> 00:04:20.670 the diet and it's been life changing. I mean, 00:04:20.990 --> 00:04:23.470 not to say it's gonna help every single child 00:04:23.470 --> 00:04:26.170 because maybe your child is not intolerant to 00:04:26.170 --> 00:04:29.250 these specific acids, but. Mine definitely was. 00:04:29.509 --> 00:04:33.170 So you started to notice a difference, like what, 00:04:33.430 --> 00:04:36.730 within two days, two weeks, a month? I would 00:04:36.730 --> 00:04:39.410 say about four days. Little by little, four days. 00:04:40.610 --> 00:04:43.910 I mean, his attention was a lot better. Not to 00:04:43.910 --> 00:04:47.310 say he's perfect, he's still a little boy. Of 00:04:47.310 --> 00:04:51.689 course not. I mean, we would have uncontrollable 00:04:51.689 --> 00:04:57.860 meltdowns, more so than the average kid. everything 00:04:57.860 --> 00:05:03.500 is he's very rigid. He is very hyper focused. 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:08.000 He's he's a sweetest little boy but he also has 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:10.560 like if he doesn't get his way he would flip 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.879 and I mean when I say I cried every day for two 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:18.639 years straight during this whole journey of medications 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:23.490 and therapies you name it we tried it and Nothing 00:05:23.490 --> 00:05:26.470 was working and this was kind of our our last 00:05:26.470 --> 00:05:31.230 hope to see if something natural so I didn't 00:05:31.230 --> 00:05:34.230 feel the guilt of trying to get him to take medicine 00:05:34.230 --> 00:05:36.490 in the morning that I knew he he didn't really 00:05:36.490 --> 00:05:39.589 want and I just started listening to him and 00:05:39.589 --> 00:05:43.149 more more so his body telling him this is not 00:05:43.149 --> 00:05:47.069 what I need and I trusted that and you know, 00:05:47.069 --> 00:05:50.110 I think it was the best decision I ever made 00:05:50.110 --> 00:05:53.350 that's truly amazing because I think a lot of 00:05:53.350 --> 00:05:56.529 times the kids are kind of telling us what they 00:05:56.529 --> 00:05:59.050 need. And it's hard because we think we're doing 00:05:59.050 --> 00:06:02.970 good things. Like you were giving them fruits 00:06:02.970 --> 00:06:05.370 and whole foods. What we're talking about with 00:06:05.370 --> 00:06:09.170 these acids are whole foods. But unfortunately, 00:06:09.750 --> 00:06:12.850 some things have a lot of the salicylates in 00:06:12.850 --> 00:06:16.420 them. Yeah, I mean, like I said back to the finger 00:06:16.420 --> 00:06:20.279 foods. What I mean by that is we got very into 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.420 the rhythm of like Goldfish and Cheez -Its and 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:25.860 the little things that they serve at daycares 00:06:25.860 --> 00:06:29.220 because it was easy. And like I said, we had 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:32.759 just had my second son, so we had a newborn and 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:34.639 we're trying to just do all the things. You know, 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.699 it's impossible. You try your best, but I mean, 00:06:38.579 --> 00:06:40.439 you get tired. Survival mode, for sure. Yeah. 00:06:40.779 --> 00:06:43.379 And you're running on no sleep. You can't make 00:06:43.379 --> 00:06:45.980 homemade things all the time. So you kind of 00:06:45.980 --> 00:06:48.259 have to meet yourself where you're at. And that 00:06:48.259 --> 00:06:51.839 was where I was at. So it's eliminating all those 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.879 processed foods for one and all the artificial 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.860 sweeteners, all the dyes. We had started that 00:06:58.860 --> 00:07:02.779 maybe the year prior, you know, eating clean. 00:07:03.139 --> 00:07:05.699 I would make them smoothies with strawberries 00:07:05.699 --> 00:07:08.879 and protein and all these things. But little 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.740 did I know, strawberries are one of the highest 00:07:11.740 --> 00:07:14.709 fruits with salicylic acids. So you're talking 00:07:14.709 --> 00:07:19.009 all berries, just there's a whole list of foods 00:07:19.009 --> 00:07:21.870 that contain these that you would never think. 00:07:21.990 --> 00:07:24.290 There's tomatoes. I mean, certain vegetables 00:07:24.290 --> 00:07:26.910 and fruits that you think are healthy and you 00:07:26.910 --> 00:07:30.290 want to incorporate in your kid's diet are really, 00:07:30.649 --> 00:07:32.829 they're just, they're not tolerating it well. 00:07:33.129 --> 00:07:36.290 And it gets stored up and it causes these types 00:07:36.290 --> 00:07:40.269 of reactions, which it's kind of like if you 00:07:40.269 --> 00:07:43.850 had celiac. or diabetes, you have to look at 00:07:43.850 --> 00:07:47.029 it like any other type of disease that metabolically 00:07:47.029 --> 00:07:50.170 your body can't digest. And I think it helped 00:07:50.170 --> 00:07:52.430 me being a nurse, because I could look at it 00:07:52.430 --> 00:07:55.550 on a cellular level, on a metabolic level, and 00:07:55.550 --> 00:07:59.410 it made a lot of sense to me why something like 00:07:59.410 --> 00:08:02.029 this would work with my son. And I think that's 00:08:02.029 --> 00:08:04.589 why I went with it full force, because I have 00:08:04.589 --> 00:08:06.730 that background in microbiology and everything 00:08:06.730 --> 00:08:10.860 else. So I said, why not? We did it as a family, 00:08:11.100 --> 00:08:13.839 which was, I think, very helpful because you 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:15.740 don't want to single out your child. I don't 00:08:15.740 --> 00:08:18.860 want to be eating something that he would probably 00:08:18.860 --> 00:08:23.560 enjoy in front of him and expect him to be okay 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:26.180 with it. So I think doing it as a family really 00:08:26.180 --> 00:08:28.899 helped incorporate just everybody's on the same 00:08:28.899 --> 00:08:32.049 page. Right. Well, that also helps with just 00:08:32.049 --> 00:08:34.049 keeping things a little simpler as a growing 00:08:34.049 --> 00:08:37.070 family and with events and things after school 00:08:37.070 --> 00:08:39.929 and sports and practices to just, you know, you're 00:08:39.929 --> 00:08:43.350 not making two, three different meals a day per 00:08:43.350 --> 00:08:49.830 family member. So you noticed the results of 00:08:49.830 --> 00:08:53.450 this, we'll call it, within the first week, but... 00:08:53.370 --> 00:08:56.809 Did you reintroduce any foods? You just kept 00:08:56.809 --> 00:08:59.629 him on the low foods for like how long? How did 00:08:59.629 --> 00:09:04.610 that work? So we did the low foods for about 00:09:04.610 --> 00:09:08.870 a year. Wow. About a full year. Just to really 00:09:08.870 --> 00:09:12.110 give it a chance. And then we slowly started, 00:09:12.110 --> 00:09:14.669 you kind of introduced little things at a time 00:09:14.669 --> 00:09:20.009 and we would try a grape or something. And immediately, 00:09:20.409 --> 00:09:22.539 I mean within a half an hour you see it. you 00:09:22.539 --> 00:09:26.679 see what happens. They're very emotional. They're 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:28.940 just not, they're typical. Once you see what 00:09:28.940 --> 00:09:31.960 they can be at baseline with a healthy diet and 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:35.139 all the tools they need to really succeed, once 00:09:35.139 --> 00:09:37.980 you mess with that or introduce something that 00:09:37.980 --> 00:09:41.820 they're not tolerating, you immediately see it. 00:09:42.179 --> 00:09:45.320 So we tried and then... You keep trying different 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:47.679 things. Some things work, like he can eat sweet 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.200 potatoes now or certain things that are on the 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.019 moderate level, but we still stay away from tomatoes, 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:57.779 berries, things that immediately strike as a 00:09:57.779 --> 00:10:00.899 behavior. Okay, we will definitely get into the 00:10:00.899 --> 00:10:03.720 food because I want people to hear some basics 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.440 of, you know, what is high, what's low, but we 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.399 will link all of this in the show notes too so 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:12.179 you guys can check out the diet and see the list 00:10:12.179 --> 00:10:15.750 of what is high and what is low. Do you think 00:10:15.750 --> 00:10:20.070 that introducing this was or reintroducing? Did 00:10:20.070 --> 00:10:23.629 you do it really slow? Like you said, it was 00:10:23.629 --> 00:10:25.710 just kind of one thing at a time. You never tried 00:10:25.710 --> 00:10:28.250 anything high again. Like, did you try the strawberries 00:10:28.250 --> 00:10:31.250 again and kind of see the difference? Oh, yeah. 00:10:31.450 --> 00:10:35.070 Yeah, because it is sad. I mean, they love berries. 00:10:36.190 --> 00:10:39.429 And, you know, part of it is we feel really bad 00:10:39.429 --> 00:10:43.509 that They can't have it, but they're also so 00:10:43.509 --> 00:10:46.690 smart and aware of how it makes their bodies 00:10:46.690 --> 00:10:50.450 feel That honestly now they don't even miss it 00:10:50.450 --> 00:10:53.049 because they understand so much. I mean, they're 00:10:53.049 --> 00:10:56.009 only seven and nine They understand their bodies 00:10:56.009 --> 00:10:58.690 in a whole different level more than I knew my 00:10:58.690 --> 00:11:02.409 body at seven or nine And they can recognize 00:11:02.409 --> 00:11:06.440 how it makes them feel different and more like 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:11.019 I said, just emotional and defiant and just they 00:11:11.019 --> 00:11:13.139 kind of lose a little bit of their control. And 00:11:13.139 --> 00:11:15.759 I think that they like having their good days 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:19.620 versus having a strawberry. Right. I get that. 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:22.419 I love strawberries too, but I understand. Do 00:11:22.419 --> 00:11:25.460 you guys have skip days? Do you let them cheat 00:11:25.460 --> 00:11:28.000 or how does that work? You know, there's birthday 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.779 parties and we... If they do really well, we 00:11:31.779 --> 00:11:34.320 have reward days, like the Goshen Fair, we go 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:36.299 and we just say, you can have whatever you want, 00:11:36.980 --> 00:11:40.679 like, go nuts. And we pay for it, for sure, the 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.899 day after, but we're going into it prepared. 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:47.960 You know, it's one thing to kind of plan those 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.519 days, so you are prepared. Versus, I can tell 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.059 immediately if he gets off the bus and he snuck 00:11:54.059 --> 00:11:56.820 something. from a friend and I ask him in the 00:11:56.820 --> 00:11:59.379 first 10 minutes, he's defending and no, no, 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:02.659 I didn't. And then eventually he says, I gotta 00:12:02.659 --> 00:12:06.279 cheese it. And I mean, and I just sit with him 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:08.360 and I say, do you see how different you feel 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:10.799 and how you're acting and how, you know, the 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:13.240 choices you make are not the best ones. And we're 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.539 kind of, do you see that? And he a hundred percent 00:12:16.539 --> 00:12:19.700 recognizes it. So it's getting easier. Yeah. 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.820 So, what does a typical day look like? What are 00:12:22.820 --> 00:12:25.940 you feeding them for? Breakfast? What are you 00:12:25.940 --> 00:12:28.620 packing for school? Maybe a quick dinner? Just 00:12:28.620 --> 00:12:34.460 a quick example. So, I make everything. I mean, 00:12:34.740 --> 00:12:36.940 don't think this is going to be a walk in the 00:12:36.940 --> 00:12:39.100 park because it is probably one of the hardest 00:12:39.100 --> 00:12:43.460 things I've ever had to do, but it's so worth 00:12:43.460 --> 00:12:46.820 it in the end. So, I try and prep a lot. I make... 00:12:46.730 --> 00:12:50.009 these protein muffins that will last about the, 00:12:50.009 --> 00:12:52.610 you know, half the week to if not the whole week, 00:12:52.809 --> 00:12:54.370 depending on what else I feed them in the morning. 00:12:54.529 --> 00:12:58.049 But I'll make banana oatmeal protein chocolate 00:12:58.049 --> 00:13:01.309 chip muffins, or I make like chocolate pear muffins 00:13:01.309 --> 00:13:03.490 or, you know, there's a whole bunch of different 00:13:03.490 --> 00:13:05.929 varieties that you can dabble into whatever is 00:13:05.929 --> 00:13:09.470 your kid's preference. But high protein, we'll 00:13:09.470 --> 00:13:13.470 do eggs, toast. They can have yogurt, fruit that 00:13:13.470 --> 00:13:17.929 is on the list. Then for school, I refuse to 00:13:17.929 --> 00:13:20.269 school lunch. It's, I mean, that's a whole other 00:13:20.269 --> 00:13:22.850 topic on itself. It's disgusting. Agree what 00:13:22.850 --> 00:13:25.629 our kids are eating at school these days, but 00:13:25.629 --> 00:13:28.090 they, um, they're really good about it. I pack 00:13:28.090 --> 00:13:31.210 them their lunch and it's usually like a peanut 00:13:31.210 --> 00:13:35.370 butter sandwich, yogurt, cheese, crackers, banana, 00:13:35.730 --> 00:13:38.409 apple, you know, it varies. They can have some. 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.659 sort of carrots or two fish sandwich, things 00:13:41.659 --> 00:13:44.299 like that. And then for dinner, we do a lot of 00:13:44.299 --> 00:13:47.580 bowls with quinoa, some roasted vegetables, and 00:13:47.580 --> 00:13:50.200 a high protein on top. And we call it a day. 00:13:50.700 --> 00:13:54.259 Okay. Now, can they have dessert on this? Like, 00:13:54.539 --> 00:13:57.539 could they have a popsicle or an ice cream or 00:13:57.539 --> 00:14:00.039 something? Yep. Well, in the summer, I make my 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.039 own popsicle, which is a lot easier than you 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:04.360 think. It's super easy. I bought these little 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.600 containers off Amazon that were The best things 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:10.039 in the world because you just fill it with three 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.879 ingredients and they love it and it's so refreshing 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:16.200 It's so good and I don't feel that they're lacking 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:19.779 in any way if you go in the fine gold Association 00:14:19.779 --> 00:14:23.940 website. I downloaded the manual the shopping 00:14:23.940 --> 00:14:28.120 list all the things and there's an actual like 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.960 guide that tells you which brands are acceptable, 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:33.860 you know with the lowest amount of ingredients 00:14:33.860 --> 00:14:37.860 and actually Haagen -Dazs is like fantastic because 00:14:37.860 --> 00:14:40.720 they have such little ingredients, you know. 00:14:41.340 --> 00:14:45.320 One thing is you read natural flavors. What the 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.799 hell is natural flavors? No one can define it. 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.899 And the FDA doesn't require you to define what 00:14:50.899 --> 00:14:54.700 your natural flavors include. So that's one red 00:14:54.700 --> 00:14:57.200 flag that I've noticed along this journey is 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.200 I buy things and I'm like, oh, well, this is 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.360 good. And it says natural flavors, so okay. But 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:05.399 there could be hints of strawberry, hints of 00:15:05.389 --> 00:15:08.149 anything that is on the high list that you should 00:15:08.149 --> 00:15:10.929 be avoiding. So I steer clear of that. As soon 00:15:10.929 --> 00:15:13.490 as I see that, that's on the no list for sure. 00:15:14.610 --> 00:15:18.070 That makes sense. What about adults? I mean, 00:15:18.070 --> 00:15:21.669 I think a lot of us babies from the 80s, we got 00:15:21.669 --> 00:15:25.389 skipped through with this whole ADD, ADHD type 00:15:25.389 --> 00:15:28.570 diagnosis and figured it out some way somehow 00:15:28.570 --> 00:15:30.529 and dealing with it maybe in ways that aren't 00:15:30.529 --> 00:15:33.309 good. But do you think that this diet would be 00:15:33.309 --> 00:15:37.230 good for adults as well? Oh, 100%. I mean, now, 00:15:37.490 --> 00:15:42.070 you can, some kids can grow out of this intolerance, 00:15:43.649 --> 00:15:46.629 and some kids won't, but it's kind of just like 00:15:46.629 --> 00:15:49.570 a, you just have to see what happens as the days 00:15:49.570 --> 00:15:51.730 go by. I'm not saying that this is gonna work 00:15:51.730 --> 00:15:54.190 for everybody under the sun. Of course. Maybe 00:15:54.190 --> 00:15:57.970 your child has ADHD and they do require medication, 00:15:58.169 --> 00:16:01.519 you know? I'm not saying anything bad about the 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.820 medications. I'm a nurse. Of course, I understand 00:16:03.820 --> 00:16:06.299 the importance of medication, but it just was 00:16:06.299 --> 00:16:10.899 not, it was doing more harm than good for our 00:16:10.899 --> 00:16:16.840 case. And I think even if you are an adult, right, 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:20.039 and I think a lot of us got skipped as ADHD because 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:22.480 our food back in the day was not as shitty as 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:26.440 it is now. That's true. The dyes that they put 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:29.460 in have, what, increased by 500 % since like 00:16:29.460 --> 00:16:32.500 1983 or something crazy like that. I mean, there's 00:16:32.500 --> 00:16:36.019 no reason. There's dyes in everything. Shampoos, 00:16:36.539 --> 00:16:39.059 moisturizer. I don't need my shampoo to look 00:16:39.059 --> 00:16:42.539 pretty. I need it to wash my hair. So they're 00:16:42.539 --> 00:16:45.440 unnecessary additives that have been additionally 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.639 put into our food, which we're seeing the effects 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.720 of it now with increased diagnoses left and right. 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:55.860 Right. So I'm going to go over a little bit of 00:16:55.860 --> 00:16:59.840 a list that Carly and her family eat. So just 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:02.779 to give people a little idea of some of the things 00:17:02.779 --> 00:17:07.160 that are low and what her family likes. So for 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:10.160 fruits, some things that are low, bananas, golden 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.339 delicious apples, red delicious, and pears. For 00:17:13.339 --> 00:17:16.660 veggies, carrots, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:20.039 onions, green beans, peas, beets, and turnips. 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:23.450 Also leafy greens, right? Oh, absolutely. I can't 00:17:23.450 --> 00:17:27.250 get enough. Grains, quinoa, couscous, and farro. 00:17:27.349 --> 00:17:30.430 For meats, just pretty much everything, just 00:17:30.430 --> 00:17:32.730 as long as it's low nitrate. Obviously grass 00:17:32.730 --> 00:17:36.390 -fed, grass -finished is best, but spices, salt, 00:17:36.390 --> 00:17:38.690 and garlic. How come no pepper? Do we know the 00:17:38.690 --> 00:17:42.269 reason? Pepper is high in salicylate acids. Crazy. 00:17:42.890 --> 00:17:46.250 So it's like oregano, parsley, paprika, like 00:17:46.250 --> 00:17:49.490 literally all the spices. Oh my gosh. And yeah, 00:17:49.509 --> 00:17:52.400 so that's been a... And then like you said, they 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.660 can have dairy because they can have milk and 00:17:54.660 --> 00:18:00.180 yogurt. Yep. We buy Greek yogurt with no extra 00:18:00.180 --> 00:18:02.180 ingredients. We don't need the flavoring or the 00:18:02.180 --> 00:18:05.279 coloring or anything like that. You can naturally 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:09.880 flavor anything. Right. Right. Now let's go back 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:14.460 to the bath, the bath stuff, shampoos, toothpaste, 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.140 mouthwash. What I mean, because like you said, 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.049 there's dyes and preservatives in those things. 00:18:22.470 --> 00:18:26.210 Yeah. Did you have to go through that too? Oh 00:18:26.210 --> 00:18:29.690 yeah but we didn't that didn't hit us until like 00:18:29.690 --> 00:18:32.529 a few months in and we were like what is going 00:18:32.529 --> 00:18:36.890 on like every couple of days we get we're having 00:18:36.890 --> 00:18:39.509 fantastic days and then all of a sudden like 00:18:39.509 --> 00:18:41.730 every other night or every two nights we'd have 00:18:41.730 --> 00:18:45.750 a complete and utter meltdown and it was like 00:18:45.750 --> 00:18:47.950 going back in time and I'm like I don't understand 00:18:47.950 --> 00:18:51.029 and then When it clicked one night and I ran 00:18:51.029 --> 00:18:53.130 upstairs and my husband's like, what are you 00:18:53.130 --> 00:18:55.329 doing? And I'm like, just, I have a thought. 00:18:55.410 --> 00:18:57.769 And I looked at their shampoo and their body 00:18:57.769 --> 00:19:02.230 wash and sure enough, like red 40, yellow five, 00:19:02.490 --> 00:19:06.029 blue seven, like whatever the hell. And there's, 00:19:06.029 --> 00:19:08.309 you know, strawberry extract and all these things. 00:19:08.329 --> 00:19:11.470 And I was like, what? Like I didn't, my mind 00:19:11.470 --> 00:19:16.089 didn't even go other than the kitchen for controlling 00:19:16.089 --> 00:19:20.000 this. The salicylic acids and all these things 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:24.460 and and I never ever realized or even gave myself 00:19:24.460 --> 00:19:28.579 the time to think About what is actually in our 00:19:28.579 --> 00:19:32.140 products right our? Everything even your hair 00:19:32.140 --> 00:19:36.519 stuff like there's dyes in the hair gel You know 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:40.119 and your body is your biggest organ I mean, that's 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:43.259 where you absorb everything and so as soon as 00:19:43.259 --> 00:19:45.900 we switch to all natural products for shampoo 00:19:46.220 --> 00:19:49.680 I mean, laundry detergent, it's everywhere. It's 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.420 everywhere. And it kind of put me down a rabbit 00:19:52.420 --> 00:19:54.980 hole a little bit, but in the best possible way, 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:58.559 because, I mean, we've eliminated so much junk 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:02.680 from our house. We didn't even know we were allowing 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:05.880 in. You know? Right. Now, in the beginning, I 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:08.240 was that crazy lady walking down, looking at 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:11.000 every single label. And, you know, I used to 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:16.099 be like, that'll never be me. It's me. I wear 00:20:16.099 --> 00:20:18.900 it, I wear it proudly. As you should, this is 00:20:18.900 --> 00:20:22.440 incredible. So also, you know, it's in Play -Doh, 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.019 it's in slime, it's in paint, like things that 00:20:26.019 --> 00:20:28.920 kids touch and want to do. My kids are very crafty 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:32.700 like yours. So do you have them wear gloves? 00:20:32.859 --> 00:20:38.259 Have you found alternatives? So this past summer, 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:41.180 I kind of turned our little shed into an art 00:20:41.180 --> 00:20:44.299 barn and We started painting a lot and I noticed 00:20:44.299 --> 00:20:46.240 a big difference when their hands got all covered 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:48.799 in paint. So I was like, ah, okay, here we go. 00:20:48.900 --> 00:20:51.500 This is definitely another sign. And so yeah, 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:55.180 they will use gloves and smocks when we do paint 00:20:55.180 --> 00:20:57.539 and anything like that, Play -Doh. As for like 00:20:57.539 --> 00:21:00.980 coloring Easter eggs, everything is dyes to get 00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:04.440 those bright and beautiful colors. So last year 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.779 we made them with like heat juice, spinach juice. 00:21:08.089 --> 00:21:10.910 you know, there's a whole bunch of natural colors. 00:21:11.029 --> 00:21:13.910 And I think they come out beautiful. Better than 00:21:13.910 --> 00:21:16.730 the, you know, neon green and all the craziness. 00:21:17.009 --> 00:21:20.150 They're just, they're just stunning. The natural 00:21:20.150 --> 00:21:23.589 colors that come from a natural beet or carrot 00:21:23.589 --> 00:21:27.410 or coffee grounds. So there's, you know, you 00:21:27.410 --> 00:21:29.150 don't have to eliminate all the fun. You can 00:21:29.150 --> 00:21:32.710 still make it work just in a better, natural, 00:21:32.849 --> 00:21:37.359 healthy way. I love that. Okay, so during Christmas 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:40.900 or a holiday, we kind of talked about birthdays 00:21:40.900 --> 00:21:43.660 or cheat days, but how does that work? You know, 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:47.819 people are bringing over food and treats or you're 00:21:47.819 --> 00:21:50.220 getting candy for Halloween. How have you guys 00:21:50.220 --> 00:21:54.220 done that in the past few years? So Halloween, 00:21:54.940 --> 00:21:58.000 we absolutely went trick -or -treating. And what 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:02.079 I did this year was I had a swap bag. So I bought 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:05.769 candies that I knew they can have. And they gave 00:22:05.769 --> 00:22:08.630 me all their Halloween candy, and I gave them 00:22:08.630 --> 00:22:10.809 a bag of all the candies that they can have. 00:22:11.150 --> 00:22:13.529 It's basically all the same stuff. It's just 00:22:13.529 --> 00:22:17.569 eliminating all the junk. And then as for parties 00:22:17.569 --> 00:22:20.690 and play dates, those can be really hard, especially 00:22:20.690 --> 00:22:23.009 when all the other kids, you know, we do cheat 00:22:23.009 --> 00:22:25.910 days, but like during Christmas, we can't have 00:22:25.910 --> 00:22:28.710 15 cheat days, you know, because we're way off 00:22:28.710 --> 00:22:31.529 track. So... You got to pick and choose. And 00:22:31.529 --> 00:22:34.730 a lot of times I will pack their own dinner and 00:22:34.730 --> 00:22:38.430 snacks and I make little brownies. I mean, they 00:22:38.430 --> 00:22:40.390 can still have good things. They just have to 00:22:40.390 --> 00:22:43.950 be homemade and just whatever. And they're so 00:22:43.950 --> 00:22:47.049 good about it. I think I feel worse not giving 00:22:47.049 --> 00:22:49.130 them these things than they actually care, you 00:22:49.130 --> 00:22:50.309 know, because when you're on a play date, they 00:22:50.309 --> 00:22:53.549 don't even want to eat half the time. But you 00:22:53.549 --> 00:22:55.589 just bring a little leftovers or a peanut butter 00:22:55.589 --> 00:22:59.680 sandwich, banana, apple, cheese, and They eat 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:03.299 and then they run. So you just have to plan ahead. 00:23:03.460 --> 00:23:05.819 Same with sleepovers. Like our parents are so 00:23:05.819 --> 00:23:08.559 great. They really support what we're doing and 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:11.180 they don't sneak foods or anything like that 00:23:11.180 --> 00:23:13.119 because they know how important it is. And they 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:16.359 have also seen the difference. We have a 504 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:18.599 for him at school. And in the beginning it was 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:21.920 like, oh yeah, I would get a call every single 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:24.059 day from the principal. And I was like, oh my 00:23:24.059 --> 00:23:26.450 God, like, is this going to be my life? literally 00:23:26.450 --> 00:23:28.410 getting a phone call every single day from the 00:23:28.410 --> 00:23:29.990 principal. I never went to the principals when 00:23:29.990 --> 00:23:33.509 I was little. I was terrified of her. It was 00:23:33.509 --> 00:23:37.509 just never ending behaviors at school, lack of 00:23:37.509 --> 00:23:40.869 attention. He just couldn't focus. And then immediately 00:23:40.869 --> 00:23:44.390 after kindergarten is when we initiated this 00:23:44.390 --> 00:23:50.589 diet. And our 504, this past month, I mean, we're 00:23:50.589 --> 00:23:53.849 pretty much like, we don't have to do any special 00:23:53.849 --> 00:23:57.430 ed anymore. We're just kind of talking about 00:23:57.430 --> 00:24:00.230 the fact that we probably won't need a 504 coming 00:24:00.230 --> 00:24:04.109 up next year because he's doing so well. I haven't 00:24:04.109 --> 00:24:06.450 had one phone call from the principal this year. 00:24:06.970 --> 00:24:10.349 That's incredible. That is so huge. I mean, that's 00:24:10.349 --> 00:24:13.890 just positive, you know, reinforcement for us 00:24:13.890 --> 00:24:15.829 as parents that like, okay, I think we found 00:24:15.829 --> 00:24:18.470 the right path. Our kids deserve better, you 00:24:18.470 --> 00:24:21.490 know, we're we want them to succeed, but yet 00:24:21.490 --> 00:24:24.700 we feed them like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and then 00:24:24.700 --> 00:24:26.740 send them to school and expect to sit down and 00:24:26.740 --> 00:24:30.599 behave at seven years old. We're not doing them 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:33.440 any favors saying yes to that stuff. We're really 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:35.460 not. Right. It's definitely hard to wrap your 00:24:35.460 --> 00:24:38.319 brain around, I think at first, but our kids' 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:42.140 health is so important. It's not even just the 00:24:42.140 --> 00:24:46.430 kids. It's like us in general as a... Just as 00:24:46.430 --> 00:24:49.769 a human whole like your body could potentially 00:24:49.769 --> 00:24:51.809 be reacting to certain foods that you're not 00:24:51.809 --> 00:24:54.490 even aware of and yet you're you have constant 00:24:54.490 --> 00:24:57.910 inflammation constant headaches constant IBS 00:24:57.910 --> 00:25:00.769 or Something else and and people are so quick 00:25:00.769 --> 00:25:03.490 to run to medication and it's kind of hypocritical 00:25:03.490 --> 00:25:07.089 me as a nurse I try and get my patients off the 00:25:07.089 --> 00:25:09.410 medications like I'm trying to introduce like 00:25:09.410 --> 00:25:12.029 you can do this naturally, you know, you don't 00:25:12.029 --> 00:25:14.630 need because one medication leads to the next 00:25:14.630 --> 00:25:16.609 medication leads to this and they all have their 00:25:16.609 --> 00:25:18.089 own different side effects and then you need 00:25:18.089 --> 00:25:20.029 a medication for that side effect and this and 00:25:20.029 --> 00:25:23.309 that and I mean it breaks my heart when I go 00:25:23.309 --> 00:25:25.910 to do a morning pass and I'm giving this 83 year 00:25:25.910 --> 00:25:30.049 old woman like 12 pills before eight o 'clock 00:25:30.049 --> 00:25:33.710 in the morning you know I'm like what are we 00:25:33.710 --> 00:25:37.650 doing what are we doing the first medication 00:25:37.650 --> 00:25:42.799 was food that's the that's the OG Back in the 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:44.880 day, they would use certain herbs and spices 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:48.559 and flowers and foods to heal yourself. And I 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:51.019 think we kind of have to take a look back and 00:25:51.019 --> 00:25:54.319 see what we're doing. Totally agreed. I noticed 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:58.220 when I was on Dr. Feingold's website that there 00:25:58.220 --> 00:26:04.059 are plenty apparent, plenty of story of success 00:26:04.059 --> 00:26:07.740 with this. And not just on the ADHD level, there's 00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:09.880 kids who are suffering from other things as well. 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:14.240 I definitely recommend everybody take a look, 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.980 see if it's for you. If not, you have something 00:26:16.980 --> 00:26:19.559 in your back pocket to try all the things to 00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:23.619 help your child or maybe yourself. But I think 00:26:23.619 --> 00:26:27.599 that you should give it a look. 100%. I mean, 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:29.000 really, at the end of the day, you have nothing 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:33.059 to lose. You're only experimenting with food. 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:37.099 Right. And the best possible outcome would be 00:26:37.700 --> 00:26:41.880 he's finally focused, you know? Right. He's in 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.220 his normal body, right? Yeah. And isn't crawling 00:26:45.220 --> 00:26:48.599 in. He's got all the tools he needs to have a 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.160 successful life now and a clear mind, you know? 00:26:52.259 --> 00:26:54.960 And like I said, it's not a fix -all. We still 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:59.099 have our days. We still have our issues that 00:26:59.099 --> 00:27:02.359 we work through. But I mean, compared to where 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:05.079 we were when he was five, it's night and day. 00:27:05.289 --> 00:27:08.670 And a lot of it could be maturity as well, but 00:27:08.670 --> 00:27:12.009 I mean, even as a five -year -old, we were dealing 00:27:12.009 --> 00:27:14.150 with some stuff that a five -year -old typically 00:27:14.150 --> 00:27:18.170 shouldn't be exuberating, you know? Right. That's 00:27:18.170 --> 00:27:20.769 just, it's just an incredible story. So say you 00:27:20.769 --> 00:27:24.170 try this out and you see no difference, right? 00:27:24.529 --> 00:27:27.410 These are just a couple of super foods if your 00:27:27.410 --> 00:27:30.150 child does have ADHD and is on medication and 00:27:30.150 --> 00:27:32.329 you just want to give them an extra boost. Bananas 00:27:32.329 --> 00:27:35.150 are huge. because they have a lot of potassium, 00:27:35.309 --> 00:27:39.150 fiber, magnesium, vitamin B6. It's a superfood 00:27:39.150 --> 00:27:42.869 for ADHD. Leafy greens like kale, spinach. These 00:27:42.869 --> 00:27:45.309 are huge for them. Contains the iron and the 00:27:45.309 --> 00:27:49.470 magnesium. Salmon with the omega -3. Omega -3 00:27:49.470 --> 00:27:52.609 is such a great supplement. And you don't even 00:27:52.609 --> 00:27:54.990 have to supplement. Like I said, you can find 00:27:54.990 --> 00:27:58.269 it in certain foods. That is big for ADHD. Almonds. 00:27:58.650 --> 00:28:00.990 Basically anything high in protein. You want 00:28:00.990 --> 00:28:04.890 to fill your body. with a high protein diet so 00:28:04.890 --> 00:28:08.390 that your brain can function at the best capacity 00:28:08.390 --> 00:28:10.890 it can. So those are just some things that in 00:28:10.890 --> 00:28:13.329 case this fine gold diet did not work out for 00:28:13.329 --> 00:28:15.509 you, these are a few little ingredients you can 00:28:15.509 --> 00:28:18.589 add. Each family goes through their own journey. 00:28:19.190 --> 00:28:21.869 They find what works, what doesn't. This just 00:28:21.869 --> 00:28:25.109 happened to work for us and I had never heard 00:28:25.109 --> 00:28:28.890 about it until I started researching. different 00:28:28.890 --> 00:28:31.170 alternatives. So hopefully by you hearing this, 00:28:31.210 --> 00:28:34.150 it just kind of opens your eyes to a whole other 00:28:34.150 --> 00:28:37.529 option. So I'm going to leave you with a quote 00:28:37.529 --> 00:28:41.470 this week. Since we talked so much about food 00:28:41.470 --> 00:28:46.549 and medicine, this one is a classic by Hippocrates. 00:28:47.710 --> 00:28:51.289 Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy 00:28:51.289 --> 00:28:55.210 food. Alright guys, remember, keep it good.