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Date / Time: 3/7/2008 11:32 PM UTC

Autism: All In the Family

Fleur Elmslie shared an incredible story of tragedy, ingenuity, determination, hope, and recovery.  Her family was struck not once, not twice, but three times (out of three kids) with autism spectrum disorders.

Her oldest was diagnosed with Aspergers (with severe anxiety and depression), her middle child with severe autism, and her youngest displayed similar symptoms and behaviors as a very young age.

She did almost three years of exhaustive ABA therapy with her middle child, but he didn't seem to be getting any better.  They say mild improvements, but not the recovery they were hoping for.

Determined to find something to help her children, Fleur did exhaustive research on autism and started with a gluten-free, casein-free (no wheat, no diary) diet.  Her youngest was even more sensitive to food and had additional restrictions (including nothing out of a plastic bottle!).  Next, she discovered Secretin spray.  After researching it and hearing a good recommendation from a friend, she gave it a try.  It seemed to help her severely autistic son, so she soon tried it on all three kids and saw improvements in all of them.  After quite a while, she realized that the Secretin spray was helping symptoms, but not getting to the root cause of their issues - heavy metal toxicity.

To address heavy metals, she researched some more and decided to try PCA-Rx, a homepathic derivative of EDTA. After mediocre results, she looked for further options and discovered (very skeptically at first) detoxing foot pads and clay baths to pull toxins out through the skin.

Finally she discovered Natural Cellular Defense (NCD), researched it, and decided to give it a try.  NCD, or liquid zeolites, a naturally occurring mineral purified and suspended in liquid, are negatively charged honeycomb-like molecules which trap metals in their framework, and are then excreted by the body.  She saw amazing results within days of starting NCD at a relatively low dose (3 drops, 3x/day).  Her middle child's language exploded after starting NCD.  Slowly, she worked up to 7 drops, 3x/day, but noticed increased anxiety and discomfort. 

At the same time, she discovered her own health challenge - a lump in her breast.  Although she had been taking the 7 drops, 3x/day, with her children, she felt she needed to increase her dose in hopes of combatting the lump.  Given the discomfort she experienced at 7 drops, she dreaded what she might feel at 15 drops, 3x/day.  She braced herself and took the plunge with a 15 drop dose.  Amazingly, she noticed no ill effects.  At the appropriate time, she had another one.  The next morning, she actually felt better.  Eventually, she tried the same on her children.  She gave them each 15 drops and waited for a meltdown...but it never came.  With repeated high doses, her children seemed much calmer than before.  Things were starting to improve again.   After about six months, the improvements on NCD plateaued.

She had been reading about frequent low doses of Alpha Lipoic Acid (per Andy Cutler's protocol) and decided to add that to her NCD regimen.  Again, she started seeing improvements. 

Listen to the how to find out more details about her amazing story.


Below is Fleur's parent-to-parent advice for just starting out:

1. GFCF diet, with reduction of sugar, colours preservatives and chemicals. If you have done this already, you can skip onto to step two. I also give a daily dose of 1 of all the following tablets to support the body:

Fish oil 1gm

Evening primrose Oil 1gm

Blackmores Magmin  (not magnesium oxide.)

Citracal Calcium citrate

Zinc amino acid chelate I use zinc citrate 20mg, sent from Secrenase.

Kirkmans Trimethylglycine TMG 175mg, with B12 and folate

Mega B

Vit C 1gm (not chewable)

natural Vit E 500us

Inner health dairy free probiotics

Nutralife Selenium 26mcg

Molybdenum 100mg

I test their hair every 6 months or so to check their levels of essential minerals. It also shows their toxic hair levels, but this does not show how much metals are hidden in their body. Chelation should make the toxic levels rise, then ultimately fall...my kids still show toxic levels, despite their apparent recovery. I get the test kits from Secrenase 07 5500 5610 www.secrenase.com ~$60 for a hair test. Dr David Patterson and Sue his wife who are both naturopaths will give advice if you need it over the phone, saving on visits and consultation fees.

2. Oral Oxycolonic washout, using oxycolonic powder from Michael Sichel. $12 a jar. This flushes out the bowel thoroughly, as many kids have impacted faeces impairing absorption. many parents have seen a big improvement in behaviour from this alone. Takes a weekend, and then once a month thereafter. Give probiotics after washout and daily forever after. Even if your child has a bowel movement every day, there is still probably retained faeces. Doing chelation with retained faeces is bad as it pulls toxic metals into an already blocked up bowel and they sit there causing more problems.

3. Tourmaline Tranquility Footsie footpads from Michael Sichel...he sells this stuff cheaper than anyone I know. $30 for ten nights worth. Use nightly for two weeks to remove toxins from blood stream. Continue using these as long as they are gooey in the morning...this could be a long time. When they are dry in the morning, it is a sign you need a stronger chelating agent, or to increase the dose. They have a minimal chelating effect, mostly they just remove easily accessible toxins from blood through the feet.

4. Start on NCD zeolites from Waiora. About $45 for a bottle with 300 drops. These negatively charged honeycomb like molecules trap metals in their framework, and then the body excretes them. They have a stronger chelating power than footsies, so start low, but work your way up to 15 drops 3 times a day. We found that a mid range dose was very unpleasant, as I believe it was chelating more than it was absorbing. The higher dose gives you a great sense of well being.

5. After a couple of months at the 15 drops 3 times a day, then you are ready to start low frequent dose Alpha Lipoic Acid $50 for 100 capsules…you empty the capsules into water to make a solution only  a few capsules are given each week. This is given for 3 days, 2 to four hrly, even overnight. Then 4 days off. Starting at 1mg per kg. We have done 32 rounds at this dose and I will increase it soon. A hundred rounds will chelate much of the mercury from the brain. You keep giving the high dose NCD all this time, and keep using the footsies too. We use a slow release ALA skin cream, made up by a chemist in NSW Alan Malouf, which lets me sleep for five hours overnight, but you can stretch the oral ALA out to 4 hours overnight.

6. We also have weekly bentonite clay baths, that pull metals from the skin. Anything that can pull the metals out of the body, without it going through the bowel is good. Ionic foot baths would also be good, but are out of my budget, so I cannot personally recommend them.


Read part of Fleur's story online.

For more information on NCD liquid zeolites, review Fleur's Waiora page or Zeolite Wellness.

• Tags:
• autism
• recovery
• GFCF
• PCA-Rx
• ALA