Dr Mercola:PANDAS&gut health!

[PowPow]

I cannot post a link, as I am on my phone, but Dr.Mercola's newsletter today is " hidden cause of psychiatric symptoms". He starts with NIMH and PANDAS & leads in to a discussion of gut health.

if any well written PANDAS parents could make some comments at the end of his article, I would be eternally grateful. I have a big PANDAS day ahead of me and cannot think straight right now!

 

go to www.mercola.com

[nicklemama]

I was a little disappointed in the article. He states that children can be born w/ damaged gut flora courtesy of a less than ideal lifestyle by the child's mother. Do we really need this kind of additional guilt? Is this REALLY a cause a PANDAS, a mother's lifestyle?

 

It promotes the GAPS diet which appears to emphasize traditionally fermented foods and tells you how you can ferment your own foods.

 

He was on the right track talking about GUT flora and how important the gut is then took a wrong turn, in my estimation.

[dut]

Yeh, I agree that the article was disappointing in that respect but if someone more literate than I can get some good comments in there, it gets such a wide distribution. It's a shame tho' that the topic got hi-jacked.

 

Really pleasing to see how mainstream this is becoming even if the articles aren't all we might hope they would be.....

[Kiera]

Yeah, I too was a little perturbed by the "thanks to the mom's unhealthy lifestyle"!!! I get what he means by the whole unhealthy western diet/toxins etc and all, but he could've worded it better!! Or are we to blame our unhealthy bodies on our Moms??