are looking at. With proper amounts of
naturally occurring Vitamin A and D in
cod liver oil, this gaze aversion disappears or is greatly reduced. (Dr. Megson
states strongly that it is important that
synthetic Vitamin A in the form of reti-nyl palmitate not be used.
5)
Interestingly enough, I have found this
also to be the case in the children in my
consultation practice who come to me
with gaze aversion. I have always found
that with the proper amounts of DHA,
for which I use a specific cod liver oil, the
gaze aversion is eliminated or reduced by
85 percent. In fact, at the autism conferences at which I speak, I have “before and
after” pictures of children with autism,
showing the lack of gaze aversion after
giving this vital nutrient. In addition to
affecting gaze aversion, parents report
increased socialization, speech, bladder
control, and sensory processing after
even a short time of implementing this
supplementation. It has also helped many
children who are struggling with ADHD,
dyslexia, and bipolar disorder.
6
Traumatic Brain Injury
Probably the most dramatic healings
reported after the introduction of high
amounts of fish oil have come from the
healing of traumatic brain injuries that
were not responding to other treatments.
The incidence of
depression has
skyrocketed in
children and adults
since World War II.
Dr. Lewis, Founder of the Brain Health
Education and Research Institute, urged
him to talk with his son’s doctors about
using the same protocol that was used
for a young man who had experienced
this same type of traumatic brain injury. In that case the young man, Ran-dal McCloy, was the sole survivor of a
mine disaster in West Virginia. McCloy,
26, had been trapped in the mine for
forty-one hours while the air around
him filled with noxious methane and
carbon monoxide. His brain was riddled
with damage from these potent toxins.
McCloy’s doctors were looking for ways
to stem the tide of inflammation and
cell death occurring in his brain, and
they embarked upon an unorthodox
treatment regimen that included high
doses of fish oil. Dr. Julian Bailes, one
of McCloy’s, doctors said that “the concept was to attempt to rebuild his brain
with what it was made from when he
was an embryo in his mother’s womb.
High doses of Omega- 3 fatty acids (fish
oil), since they mirror what is already
in the brain, would facilitate the brain’s
own natural healing process. These fats
are literally the bricks of the cell wall in
the brain.” Dr. Bailes referred to the National Institutes of Health research that
suggests that Omega- 3 fatty acids may
inhibit cell death and could help in reconnecting damaged neurons.
Worthy of note is that in addition to
massive cell death, the protective sheath
around McCloy’s nerve cells had been
stripped. The sheath, called myelin, allows brain cells to communicate with
