We can provide you with a healthy eating and lifestyle plan to maximise your health. A Nutritional Consultation Programme with Nutrition 4 Life will give you all the information and guidelines you need to set you on the path to optimal health. When my daughter Olivia was 2 years old she was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD); she had minimal eye contact, no speech and was not really in touch with the world. This was devastating news; we felt she had been given a life sentence and were certainly not given any help or advice. Truth was, 20 years ago very little was known within conventional medicine about this terrible condition. So I took to the internet — luckily that was around in those days — and read a lot of research by Paul Shattick from the University of Sunderland. I am also from Sunderland, although I live in Hemel Hempstead now, and so thought it to be a good omen and, as it turned out, it certainly was. His research is based around the opioid (morphine) effect that casein (protein in milk) and gluten (protein in wheat) can have on the brain in unfortunate individuals who have a gut so weak that these proteins can make their way through the gut wall, up the bloodstream and into the brain through the blood brain barrier. When they get there they can have a devastating effect, namely to ‘numb’ the brain!
